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Joe Taft pets Wedge, one of the Exotic Feline Rescue Center's lions, as Taft makes his early morning rounds at the facility in Center Point, Indiana. Taft, 71, opened the Exotic Feline Rescue Center in 1991 and now is in charge of almost 200 cats. There are more exotic cats living in captivity in the United States than in all of the wild.

Midwestern jungle As the habitats of big cats diminish, nearly 200 live at the Exotic Feline Rescue Center on. With each of his monumental breaths, the blanket draped across his chest rises nearly a foot and descends back down.

In the corner stands Joe Taft, the man in charge. Taft smiles behind his scraggly white beard. He casually eats a bowl of his homemade chili as the dentists operate on 300-pound cats in his home.

“It’s another day in the office,” says the center’s director, “but it’s a pretty amazing office.”

By Brody Miller brodmill@indiana.edu | @byBrodyMiller

CENTER POINT, Ind. — The tiger jumps, assuming harm is coming his way. The first poke with a syringe attached to a pole doesn’t do the trick. It takes three more tries to put him down.

As Bro sleeps, the team opens his enclosure and lugs him onto the bed of a small truck. They throw a blanket over his body and a sling around his head so it doesn’t hit anything. The truck hurries across the complex up to a garage basement turned medical clinic. Ten veterinary dentists rush to the back to unload the tiger onto a gurney, then onto a surgery table.

It’s dentistry weekend at Exotic Feline Rescue Center. Bro is one of four cats — three tigers and a lion — being operated on this rainy Sunday. Four others were operated on the day before.

They pry Bro’s jaw open and stuff a breathing tube down his throat. Four dentists perform four root canals at once on the teeth that could kill them all if Bro were awake. Needles swoosh back and

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Dentists operate on Bro, a 17-year-old tiger, Oct. 16 at the Exotic Feline Rescue Center.

He was one of four big cats operated on that day.

forth inside Bro’s gums. His long tail, the tip touching the floor, hangs off the edge of the gurney.

As one of the dentists fights to pull a tooth from Bro’s mouth, “Let it Go” from “Frozen” plays on a nearby radio. The dentist belts it out without losing concentration and encourages others to join. He

pulls and pulls, and the tooth won’t come out. He compares it to pulling rebar from cement.

“Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, come out, little bugger,” the dentist says.

“Don’t you break on me.”

As the tooth comes out, blood spews from Bro’s gums. The room cheers and claps. Bro slumbers

When Bro wakes up, he won’t know what happened in his sleep.

He might not be aware of the improvements to his health or the years added to his life. Regardless, he will be better off than he was the day before.

Big cats were not born to be poked and prodded by humans while sprawled across a table in a garage in Indiana, but in a world with their habitats disappearing, the Exotic Feline Rescue Center is often the best place for them.

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Black culture center celebrates Kwanzaa with candles, food

By Kate McNeal khmcneal@umail.iu.edu | @katemcneal11

On one side of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center lobby, there is a Christmas tree covered in lights and ornaments. On a desk facing the tree, there is a Kinara, a candle holder with seven candles, each representing a different principle celebrated during Kwanzaa. On Wednesday, four of the candles were lit.

Another candle is lit during each day of the Neal-Marshall Study Breaks: Kwanzaa Celebration. The celebration, which takes place from noon to 2 p.m. every day, started Monday and lasts until Friday.

“It allows for students to come and congregate together and enjoy each other and the meaning of the holiday,” Cross-Harris said. “It’s an opportunity to celebrate African heritage.”

Kwanzaa was founded in 1966 with the goal of uniting the AfricanAmerican community, building stronger families and strengthening the community’s self image through links to strong African role models.

Each day lunch is served and there is a theme, including Books and Bagels and Soup and Study.

The Study Breaks help students understand the purpose of the holiday, Cross-Harris said.

“Every time the kids come up, they’re reminded of the principles,” Cross-Harris said.

Kwanzaa begins the day after Christmas, and some of the principles celebrated include unity, pur-

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

IU back home for Thursday tip against NKU

By Jake Thomer jjthomer@indiana.edu | @jake_the_thomer

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IU students gather for free food and festivities during the week-long Kwanzaa celebration Wednesday afternoon in the Neal Marshall Black Culture Center.

pose, faith and collective work and responsibility. It’s a culture-based holiday, said Tislam Swift, a graduate assistant at Neal-Marshall. The event promotes community and supporting others, Swift said.

Swift said the event also gives students the opportunity to identify with a holiday that is not Christmas and exposes them to something they might not be aware of.

“On the campus where Christmas has been commercialized, it’s important for students to identify with that,” Swift said. “It’s not every day that you come to a campus where Kwanzaa is celebrated.”

Swift attended Morehouse Col-

lege in Atlanta, Georgia, a historically black college, before coming to IU. He said he started celebrating Kwanzaa while he was there.

“As a person of African-American descent, it helps remind me of what my ancestors have gone through,” Swift said.

This is the first year the Study Breaks have served as a Kwanzaa celebration. Monica Johnson, who became the director of Neal-Marshall in March, started the celebration.

Cross-Harris said Johnson has been a breath of fresh air for the center.

“She loves it, and it starts from the top with her and trickles down,” Cross-Harris said.

IU women’s basketball has been plagued with inconsistencies the past few weeks, and it has lost three road games already this season. Turnovers, defense and 3-point shooting have all been occasional points of weakness for the Hoosiers.

The one thing that has been consistent for IU is the play of junior guard Tyra Buss. Her season average of 21 points per game leads the team. However, in the last six games, she has taken her game to the next level by tallying about 24 points and three steals per contest.

Buss’ shooting splits have skyrocketed in recent games as well. In that same six-game span, she has made 17 of 36 3-pointers and 36 of 41 free throws, good for 47 percent from deep and 88 percent from the line. Buss said repeatedly during the preseason she put in extra work to improve her jump shot, and now she says the work is paying off.

“During the preseason I really got a lot of shots up, and during the summer I really got a lot of threes up, so it’s really just paid

off throughout the season so far,” Buss said. “I struggled a little bit my freshman year and last year, but I’m just a lot more comfortable shooting the 3 now, and I’m a lot more confident with it.”

In the Hoosiers’ first home game since the day before Thanksgiving, IU welcomes Northern Kentucky to Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall for a 7 p.m. tipoff on Thursday, where Buss figures to be the catalyst like always. The Hoosiers haven’t lost in Assembly Hall this season, and have a 17-game win streak at home dating back to last season.

IU Coach Teri Moren emphasized the importance of Buss’s strong showings. She noted they have been the only thing keeping IU close in its losses. In a loss against NC State last week, Buss poured in 38 points.

With a road win at North Texas on Tuesday, IU moved to 5-3.

Moren said Buss will need help in the scoring column if IU hopes to keep winning. A three-game home stand will hopefully help that, Moren said.

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College Democrats at IU re-elect leadership

By Lydia Gerike lgerike@umail.iu.edu | @lydi_yeah

After leading the College Democrats at IU through an election season filled with difficult losses for their party, junior Terry Tossman and sophomore Javier FuentesRohwer will retain their positions as organization president and vice president, respectively.

The group voted Wednesday night to pick the students who will lead them through the spring and fall 2017 semesters. It chose to keep the two veteran officers, who said they hope to lead IU Democrats toward advocating for more college-based issues now that elections are over.

“We create the policy now,” Tossman said. “It’s not the candidates that create the policy, and we’re going to create change from the bottom up.”

Tossman said he plans to work with Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton to move both the city and IU toward more environmentally friendly practices. He said he also wants to work prison reform, college affordability, LGBT protection and women’s rights into the group’s agenda.

“This is us speaking out against the issues and against

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The new College Democrats at IU executive board pose for a group photo. Left to right: back, vice president Javier Fuentes-Rohwer, treasurer John Teney, president Terry Tossman, director of outreach Brooke O’Connor. Front, director of communications Courtney Schwerin, director of social events Reagan Davis and director of political affairs Paige Settles.

any injustice,” Tossman said.

In addition, he said, the IU Democrats now have more freedom to protest issues at the state and national level.

Tossman said he hopes the College Democrats at IU will be a watchdog organization for any extreme decisions or political appointees President-elect Donald Trump enacts, especially as his inauguration and confirmation hearings approach.

“We’re not going to sit on

the sidelines and do whatever he wants,” Tossman said.

Since he formerly served as president, Tossman said he has more connections with other Democratic organizations he can use to the group’s advantage. This might include finding more politicians to speak on campus.

The other officers are also experienced, so the IU Democrats will have a strong executive board for the upcoming year, Tossman said.

“We don’t have to start all over,” Tossman said. “We can build on the strengths, the connections we’ve made.”

The board includes junior John Teney as treasurer, graduate student Paige Settles as director of political affairs, freshman Brooke O’Connor as director of outreach, freshman Reagan Davis as director of social events and junior Courtney Schwerin as director of communications.

Fuentes-Rohwer said his

biggest reason for running for reelection was the results from Election Day and Indiana’s Republican-majority win.

“If we don’t begin to push for policy change we can achieve on campus, we’re going to let them control us,” Fuentes-Rohwer said.

Fuentes-Rohwer initially served as director of candidate relations beginning last December, but he was reappointed when the previous

vice president quit last semester.

Since he joined the executive board as a freshman, Fuentes-Rohwer said he has learned to listen to people better and learn how to channel their energy into accomplishing tasks.

“The Democratic Party that made them turn off in the last election is not the Democratic Party of the future,” Fuentes-Rohwer said.

“We are the Democratic Party of the future.”

Fuentes-Rohwer said he wants to work against discriminatory legislation that may possibly be passed in the Statehouse as well as national issues that could hurt college students like unnecessary difficulties with voter registration and possible restricted funding on Pell Grants.

Fuentes-Rohwer said students should stick with the Democratic party even after seeing its candidates lose almost the entire ticket in Indiana because it still exists to address issues young people face. By continuing their involvement with IU Democrats, Fuentes-Rohwer believes they can truly make their voices heard.

“Students should take every anger or sadness they’re feeling and hit back where it hurts,” Fuentes-Rohwer said.

Alliance launches email campaign

By Sarah Verschoor sverscho@iu.edu | @SarahVerschoor

The UndocuHoosiers Alliance attended Tuesday’s Bloomington Faculty Council meeting with plans to have an undocumented student speak, share a letter from the Spanish and Portuguese department supporting the sanctuary campus movement and get a resolution passed.

Instead, BFC bylaws and a busy agenda didn’t permit the alliance to speak.

The alliance’s leader, Willy Palomo, said the group remained for the rest of the meeting for a silent rally.

“We were quite frustrated by it because Provost Robel has known for weeks that faculty and the alliance had been working on a resolution,” Palomo said. “It was an active move to obstruct speaking.”

At the meeting, one faculty member mentioned changing IU’s diversity policy to include the concept of a sanctuary campus, committing to not assisting with deportation. A more detailed resolution may be presented in the future, the faculty member said.

In light of what took place at the meeting, the UndocuHoosier Alliance started a campaign Wednesday to get alliance members and supporters to email Provost Lauren Robel a letter that details their disappointment of not being allowed to speak the meeting and how her actions compromised the “values of diversity and inclusivity so precious to our university community.”

This is not the first time the alliance has tried speak at a BFC meeting. The group also attended a November meeting with hopes of introducing a sanctuary campus resolution.

The alliance has also added to its demands for the IU administration. These additions include training admissions officers on working with undocumented students, adding a graduate assistant for undocumented students in the Office of International Student Services and creating a special recruitment program through the Office of International Student Services and La Casa Latino Cultural Center for undocumented students.

These issues are also included in the resolution the

alliance would like to see the BFC pass.

“They are transforming because these are a conversation,” Palomo said. “We do what works best for the community.”

In addition to beginning their email campaign, the alliance also issued a response to their meeting with Robel on Nov. 28.

The statement discussed a number of positive takeaways, including promises

by Robel to improve the admissions process for undocumented students and connect the alliance to scholarship resources.

But, the group still expressed frustration with Robel’s response to becoming a sanctuary campus. The statement also called out Robel and the administration for what the alliance describes as the University’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on immigration.

“This policy has led to the invisibility of undocumented students, a severe lack of resources, and institutional inaction in the face of tyranny,” the UndocuHoosier’s statement said.

Anni Liu, a graduate student in the Deferred Action

for Childhood Arrivals program, planned to speak at the BFC meeting and issue a message about her experience with DACA. She also planned to read a statement authored by her and other UndocuHoosier members.

“It makes you feel like you are excluded in the general conversation in campus diversity and acceptance of each other,” Liu said. “It seems like there’s a don’t ask, don’t tell policy where this is a burden we shoulder ourselves. This is what undocumented people have to do deal with everywhere.”

Despite lack of support from the IU administration for a sanctuary campus, Liu said she feels the student community is very supportive of the alliance’s work and undocumented students because people are aware that Donald Trump has made promises to remove DACA. Liu said she is hopeful about the possibility of speaking at the next BFC meeting and gaining the faculty’s support.

“There are people that they know and care about who will be affected and not able to continue school,” Liu said.

Analogies and word choice shape discourse

By Hussain Ather sather@umail.iu.edu | @SHussainAther

Cognitive science professor Douglas Hofstadter pointed to an ornament of an elephant on his fireplace and asked, “What actually is this? You might say it’s an elephant. I might say it’s an ornament.”

When people give names to things, it depends on how they perceive them, Hofstadter said.

Researchers on analogies and cognition explained how word choice in political discourse shapes society’s perceptions and reveals important methods on how people learn.

“If you look at Trump, I’m sure when he labeled certain things in certain ways they were probably very effective in reaching people,” Hofstadter said.

Anytime people use words, they use analogies, Hofstadter said. When Trump made the clever use of “locker room talk,” he demonstrated this analogy creation.

“He managed to find a label for what he was saying that trivialized it,” Hofstadter said. “Things come with labels as we give them labels.”

This comparison and Hillary Clinton’s deplorable comment, Hofstadter said, are analogies reproduced millions of times in people’s minds, and through these as-

sociations, they shape political discourse.

The similarities between these analogies reveal the fundamental brain mechanisms that govern thinking aren’t different, Hofstadter said.

“I don’t think it’s true that liberals have values and conservatives don’t, but they’re coming from a different place,” said Robert Goldstone, Chancellor’s professor of psychology.

These pivotal experiences in how people view the world, Goldstone said, form concrete cognitive anchor points for understanding.

“There’s a sense in which liberals’ noses may be rubbed, another analogy into issues of fairness of tolerance,” Goldstone said.

These values differ from those in rural areas, and as people bring up those experiences, they can understand how to make sense of media and discourse, such as Trump’s idea of a “wall.”

“We’ve been looking to see whether people can gain benefits of explorations in one situations to understanding other situations,” Goldstone said on his research in psychology.

Using a combination of experimental lab procedures in psychology and mathematical modeling on computers, Goldstone studies how people make connec-

tions in the ways they learn.

Education needs greater emphasis on cognitive models so students can make these cross-disciplinary connections as they are learning, Goldstone said.

“There should be more emphasis put on the underlying processes,” Goldstone said. “Oftentimes it’s dynamic. It has a temporal dynamic and a spatial dynamic to explain whats going on.”

These processes of understanding change through concrete representations, such as Jesus speaking in parables or representing evolution as “just a theory.”

“They understand the grand narrative of situation but strip away detail,” Goldstone said. “And by stripping away detail, they understand how to better apply this knowledge to new situations.”

Goldstone gave the example of teaching genetics through patterns, rather than just transfer of traits from parents to offspring, of this “concreteness baiting.”

Artificial intelligence research in the ‘80s on teaching computers to take tests would reveal concept maps with relationships between ideas, such as animals and ecosystems.

Forcing students to become teachers for computers, this work would reveal common patterns in natural language and processing,

Goldstone said.

Using Copycat, a computer program to explore analogies, Hofstadter can describe how puzzles can be solved and how concepts are related.

“The concepts are still very subtle, very blurry, very hard to pin-down even though they are in a tiny micro-domain,” Hofstadter said.

They reveal subconscious processes people use to label, Hofstadter said, as people form abstract categories of concepts, even before words activate.

In discourse, abstraction and categorization form the way people think, Hofstadter said.

Warning about effects of today’s communication, Hofstadter said, finding labels people like is often rewarded — even in detrimental ways.

“In this day and age, tweeting and things like that seem to be very vogue-ish,” Hofstadter said. “It seems to me that tweeting as a good way of communicating is profoundly mistaken.”

One person trying to fight this would be like putting a finger in a dike to stop a flood, Hofstadter said.

“When the consequences of these trivial ways in which thinking is being degraded by the pressure to little tweetsized things, we’re gonna pay for it sooner or later,” Hofstadter said. “Stupidity has a price.”

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Sugar & Spice created gingerbread houses that are on display at the Indiana Memorial Union welcoming guests for the holiday season.

Winter display expanded in IMU

By Rebecca Ellis rebellis@umail.iu.edu | rebeccae_97

The Sugar & Spice bakery in the Indiana Memorial Union is not just baking cookies to spice up the holiday season but rather taking their gingerbread to new heights.

Made by the hands at Sugar & Spice, a giant gingerbread house is showcased in the middle of the Biddle Hotel lobby to share a bit of the bakery’s holiday cheer with the public and get them involved.

Last year was Ashley Baughman’s first year as a pastry chef for Sugar & Spice, and it was through her that the tradition took flight.

“We decided it was a project we could get the community around and would get everyone in the holiday spirit,” Baughman said.

Baughman said the process for this year’s display started in the beginning of October when she came up with a design for the house and began to plan out the candy, the dimensions, and the hours to work on it. However, this one was set out to be even better than last year’s original.

“This year we decided to do two,” Baughman said.

“We decided to make it a project — how can we go bigger?”

Displayed in the Tudor Room two levels up lies the accompanying gingerbread village elaborately displaying

six houses, a church and tiny people, all made of edible ingredients.

Construction on the project began Nov. 3 and lasted seven days. From the hours of 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. every day, Baughman and her six crew members worked to make the design come to life.

Baughman said she really enjoyed getting to communicate with the people this year while the project was taking shape, which was possible because they worked on the project at its current locations.

“Last year there was less excitement because we did the whole thing in the back,” Baughman said.

However, Baughman said, the displays are not the only things that she and her crew have been working on lately.

“There are currently 150 gingerbread houses being built in the back,” Baughman said.

During the Gingerbread Workshop, children from the community can join in on the creativity and decorate one of the 150 gingerbread houses the bakery constructed for the event, allowing them to take home their own smaller versions of the current displays.

Both the giant gingerbread house and the gingerbread village will be displayed in the IMU until Jan. 1, 2017, leaving plenty of time for people to pay them a visit.

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[CASS]ING THE VOTE

Stay interested, remain vigilant For my last column of the semester, I’d like to give a bit of advice to readers of all political ideologies: question everything.

As we enter a new fouryear term, don’t lose your interest in politics. Keep reading the news, keep forming your own opinions and know that politicians say and do everything for a reason. Nothing is done without some sort of ulterior motive, and knowing those motives can help us better understand how the government is working for — or against — us.

Read articles from sources that challenge your own viewpoint. Try to find data to back up statements, and if you can’t find any, don’t let a passionate claim persuade you.

Democrats need to stay just as alert in the future as they have been during the

campaign. Painful though it may be to watch Trump take over the White House, he should have our attention and scrutiny every step of the way. Don’t stop protesting. Even after the post-election chaos has died down, keep fighting for your beliefs, especially when the policy making process begins.

In one of my previous columns, I contrasted this loss with a World Series defeat — it’s not something we can get over in a few days.

It’s also not something the country will recover from in the next four years, or maybe longer. Don’t forget the reasons you were upset Nov. 9 because they will continue to create issues with our governance, and we need to pay attention.

And Republicans, don’t take Trump’s words at face value. Even if you agree with

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some of his views, refuse to internalize all of them without evaluating how they align with your own values first. Take a closer look at his cabinet choices; look into their backgrounds, their finances and their ulterior motives, along with the conflicts of interest that may arise because of those motives.

In my first column, I emphasized the importance of paying attention and holding our government accountable. It’ll be more important now than ever to watch how our state representatives vote and listen to what they say. So, have a great holiday season, enjoy 2017 and please, stay awake. cnheeke@indiana.edu @cnheeke

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Brayden Whitaker, 4, is about to go into kindergarten through the Head Start program. He picked out a red monster truck with a motorcycle.

Pacers, police hand out Christmas toys REBECCA MEHLING | IDS

Bloomington community members participate in a Sexual Violence Prevention Across Gender and Sexuality workshop in the Downtown Bloomington Transit Center Wednesday afternoon. The event was hosted by Multicultural Efforts to End Sexual Assault and the Middle Way House.

Sexual violence workshop aims to engage, educate

By Christine Fernando ctfernan@iu.edu | @christinetfernan

Two people began wrapping one another in paper towels, transforming into what Skye Kantola referred to as a powerful image of the dichotomy between survivor and perpetrator.

The scene was a part of an allegorical skit — an exercise Kantola, program coordinator of Multicultural Efforts to End Sexual Assault, used to represent the facets of sexual assault and its relationship to underserved communities, especially the LGBTQ community.

The exercise comprised the final portion of the Sexual Violence Prevention Across Gender and Sexuality Workshop. This portion was organized by MESA and the Middle Way House on Wednesday.

The event focused on teaching sexual violence prevention in a more engaging and collaborative way.

“Unfortunately, education often happens in a way that the educator brings the knowledge and the students receives it,” Kantola said.

“Education needs to be free of oppression in order to combat oppression. In order to do this, we need to have interaction rather than passively receiving information.”

Kantola said this collaborative process is representative

of her strategy in educating counselors, social workers, social service and medical professionals and advocates about the experiences of members of the LGBTQ community, especially those who are survivors of sexual assault.

The six-hour workshop included other interactive elements, including monologues, dialogues and discussions about heteronormative systems that may make it more difficult for the queer community to receive the help they need both in everyday life and in dealing with sexual assault.

“No individual created this system, but we all exist in it,” Kantola said. “We need to be aware of the effect of this system and work to overcome it.”

Myke Luurtsema, prevention educator at the Middle Way House, said it is the responsibility of every individual to contribute toward overcoming this system.

Awareness of whether our language reinforces gender and sexuality norms is vital to overcoming them, Luurtsema said.

Kantola said she hopes the collaborative aspect of the workshop would benefit attendees in a unique way.

“I hope that they learned things from the content of the discussion and collaboration because then you get the ability to learn from so many

people and sources at once,” Kantola said. “I also hope that they met people that can help them in any capacity in their own work.”

Sam Harrell, county services specialist from the Middle Way House, said the unique learning format helps form new understanding by presenting individual experiences.

“I think events like this can really help social workers and other professionals to really understand the struggles the queer community may face, especially when looking for sexual assault prevention and support programs,” Harrell said.

Harrell said he felt reliance on emotional and cultural stories made the event a more engaging experience.

Kantola said she agrees these individualized experiences have a greater impact than the more common lecture techniques often used in sexual assault prevention workshops.

“I’m always amazed at how much I learn from the participants as well, because the participants are so different in their identities and their experiences, so they all bring something different to the table,” Kantola said.

“These different experiences make the workshop more impactful and engaging and more capable of creating change.”

By Dominick Jean drjean@indiana.edu | @Domino_Jean

Indiana Pacers basketball mascots, Freddy Fever and Boomer, handed out toys to more than 30 children at City Hall on Wednesday. Brayden Whitaker, 4, smiled and lifted his brand new red monster truck for all to see. This event was just the beginning of a joint toy giveaway between the Pacers and the Bloomington Police Department The BPD and the Indiana Pacers joined together this year to donate 3,000 toys to Bloomington area children.

BPD Chief of Police Michael Diekhoff said he was happy to have the toy giveaway, adding it allowed police officers to interact with children and parents in a different way. Diekhoff said the event was a win-win for both BPD and the Pacers.

“We’ll be busy for a few weeks passing stuff out,” Diekhoff said.

Heather Whitaker, Brayden’s mom, said he was going to start kindergarten next year. She said she was surprised with the event and happy her child could have a new toy.

“I didn’t expect all this,” Whitaker said. “It’s really nice.”

Bill Benner, the senior vice president of corporate, community and public relations for the Pacers, said this is the seventh year of operation, and this was the first year the Pacers had taken their toy giveaway beyond

Mayor John Hamilton and Bloomington Police Department Chief of Police Michael Diekhoff exchanged smiles before Bloomington children chose their presents. This is the first time this event has taken place outside of Central Indiana.

Central Indiana.

Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton, wearing a red Santa hat on his head, also spoke to the children and thanked the Pacers for their generosity.

“The gift of these 3,000 toys will no doubt be a blessing,” Hamilton said. “The Pacers organization has given a gift today.”

The 3,000 toys are only a part of the Pacers’ giveaway.

JAKKS Pacific Inc. Chairman and CEO Stephen Berman reached out to the owner of Pacers Sports and Entertainment, Herb Simon, and the giveaway will be statewide and involve six additional communities outside Indianapolis.

“This is the first year we’ve gone beyond central Indianapolis,” Benner said. “I hope to keep doing this.”

Benner said the giveaway is taking place in Blooming-

ton, Terre Haute, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Lafayette and Muncie. The Pacers will donate to 50 non-profit organizations in those cities in honor of the Pacers fiftieth season.

Hamilton thanked both the Pacers and BPD and called it a “special day” for the children and families of Bloomington. He said there has been a long history of sharing between Bloomington and the Pacers, as IU alums have gone on to work and play for the team.

Benner said the toy giveaway is a great way for the Pacers to give back to Bloomington and to the state after receiving support for 50 seasons of basketball. He said the important moment for him is when the children get to hold their gifts for the first time.

“This is the best part,” Benner said.

Man arrested on felony charges of strangulation, intimidation after fight From IDS reports

A Bloomington man was arrested Tuesday morning after allegedly strangling his ex-girlfriend during a fight.

Davonte L. Ragland, 21, of West Sycks Court, was charged with felony strangulation, two counts of felony intimidation and two misdemeanors — battery and criminal mischief.

Bloomington Police Department Capt. Steve Kellams said Ragland showed up at the woman’s South Walnut Street apartment Sunday to visit his child. The woman refused to let him in because she believed him to be intoxi-

cated, at which point Ragland kicked the door repeatedly.

Police responded at 10:45 p.m. Monday to a call from the woman after Ragland returned to the apartment. The woman told police Ragland appeared to have an object behind his back and threatened to kill her. Police were unable to locate Ragland.

They were called again to the apartment at about 1 a.m. Tuesday after neighbors complained about a loud argument.

When officers arrived at the apartment, they immediately encountered Ragland, who yelled at the officers.

When they tried to enter the apartment, Ragland tried to block their entry and prevent them from talking to the woman.

Kellams said witnesses told police Ragland, again intoxicated, had returned to the apartment that night.

This time his ex-girlfriend let him into the apartment. They fought, and when she tried to leave, he would not let her.

During the argument, Kellams said Ragland grabbed the woman’s throat.

Police arrested Ragland at 2 a.m. and took him to Monroe County Jail.

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OPINION

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Editors Jessica Karl & Daniel Kilcullen opinion@idsnews.com

MULLING IT OVER WITH MERM

Mental illness should not be seen as a fad

TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

Solving student debt Immigration policy could pose a threat to international students As President Obama’s term comes to a close, he’s making lots of decisions that will leave his legacy on a high note. One such decision occurred in late November when he announced his plan to expand the student loan repayment program.

According to Quartz, this program is in place to aid former college students whose debt collectively amounts to a whopping $1.26 trillion. The Obama administration created income-driven repayment plans, and the number of individuals enrolled in the program has nearly tripled in the last three years.

Due to this discrepancy, the government has essentially been forced to spend more. For once, former students across the country that are drowning in debt have an excuse to smile. The Government Accountability Office released a detailed report that forgives $108 billion in debt for those who’ve joined the repayment plan.

Although this is good news for some, we still have a long ways to go in terms of rectifying the student debt crisis. Toss our new president-elect Donald Trump into the mix and things look a lot

grimmer.

Trump, who founded a for-profit university, doesn’t seem like the kind of person that would keep a relief program like Obama’s.

Aside from that ominous red flag, the Editorial Board has mixed feelings for Trump’s stance on educational policies. Specifically, many are weary that his threatening attitude towards immigration will block international students across the globe from attending college.

Not only will this impact the diversity on campus that we warmly regard, it will significantly lower the money that universities have to subsidize tuition.

Trump will effectively be able to empty the coffers of colleges across the nation with one fell swoop.

What does this mean for us?

College is ridiculously expensive.

Our population of international students helps local students pay less.

2016’s incoming freshman class is composed of 8.57 percent international students, and there are more than 125 countries represented in IU’s student body.

In our classes, individuals from different backgrounds sur-

round us, which is something the Editorial Board both enjoys and values. Unfortunately, Trump’s plan to tighten immigration standards inherently threatens crosscultural experience.

That being said, we do question the immediacy of this threat.

While we recognize that many prospective international students may be turned away from an American education because of our political climate, we find it hard to believe that Trump’s plans will immediately impact IU’s diversity.

Not only that, but if Trump really were to bar these students from learning in our country, he would lose an awful lot of international business — both for our country and for his own selfish interests.

As the IU Office of Admissions states, “IU celebrates and seeks diversity in all its forms: ethnicity, ability, age, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, race, religious beliefs, place of origin, political persuasion, values — the list goes on. Because little separates us, and there’s a lot we can learn from each other.”

IU prides itself on being unique, and our conglomeration of cultures makes us who we are: Hoosiers.

GETTING IN THE GROOVE

To 2016, I say goodbye and good riddance At the end of fifth grade, my classmates and I were issued IDs in preparation for our transition to middle school. On them was a seven-digit student ID number. Everyone’s ID number started with the same four numbers, though: 2016. Our high school graduation year.

Back then in 2009, 2016 was an almost unimaginable mile marker in my life.

I could hardly formulate an idea of what my life would be like in 2016. I can remember one thing, though: I was strongly convinced that 2016 was going to be a great year.

I have one thing to say about that former belief of mine: LOL. In 2016, we mourned the deaths of many icons, from David Bowie to Prince, Alan Rickman to Muhammed Ali and Harper Lee. We dealt with incredibly divisive questions of religion, national security and immigration in the wake of

more ISIS attacks, the one perhaps most notable to those in the West (but not the most deadly of the year) being the driving of a truck through a crowd of people in Nice on Bastille Day. Britain shockingly voted to exit the European Union.

In America, we had a presidential election – and a bitter, ugly one at that. There’s a deep chasm in our public consciousness; before the election even took place, 62% of American voters said they were less proud of America because of the election.

The issue of police brutality remained forefront throughout the year, and climate change is still an imminent threat, and it was for the most part ignored during the election.

And, of course, the most distressing event of all: the death of Cincinnati Zoo gorilla Harambe.

I jest with the last one.

Somewhat.

Really, though, I think we can all agree that 2016 has been, to say the least, painful for most of us. In the final weeks of the discouraging horror that is 2016, it’s hard to face 2017 – which will be here in a little more than three weeks –with any sliver of hope or optimism.

So how do we move forward from this? How do we keep going when it seems that we have lost faith in ourselves as a country and perhaps as a people?

Well, we can take a leaf out of the books of our forebears by simply picking ourselves up off the ground, taking a deep breath and continuing on our way.

I am forever oscillating between the notions that midnight on January 1 is something to celebrate and something to cynically scoff at as sentimental nonsense.

On the one hand, it seems ridiculous to believe that one day out of the year should be singled out as

ANNA GROOVER is a freshman in English and political science.

somehow more significant than the rest, as somehow possessing powers to transform and cleanse us and our lives.

In those same ways, though, the concept of a new year is extraordinarily appealing. Even though I often believe that January 1 is nothing more than an arbitrary date on the calendar, there’s always a tiny piece of me deep down that has faith in the metaphorical wiping of a slate. A tiny piece of me that has optimism for the uncertainty of it all, for the seemingly endless possibility of it all.

So yes, 2016 was pretty terrible. But let’s give 2017 a chance before we hurl it into the trash bin just yet. acgroove@indiana.edu

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Depression is the new craze, right?

I couldn’t believe when I read several tweets discussing how depression is the new fad.

These series of tweets came after the recent news of Kanye West being hospitalized due to his extreme depression and paranoia causing situational psychosis.

Kanye is not the first celebrity to admit to suffering from a mental illness this year.

Many mixed responses, including support, confusion and even blatant disrespect for Kanye and his illness, have come since his hospitalization.

Lady Gaga recently revealed she has been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder during an interview with the Today Show.

Celebrities, now more than ever, feel they can share with the public what is going on in their lives. Yes, we have seen their personal lives for years and years, but this is a new form of personal.

There has always been a stigma against mental illness, and it is obviously not going away any time soon.

Despite this, people are trying to bring awareness to mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety.

Fans, especially, have been supportive of celebrities. They often are able to relate to their idols who suffer from the same or similar illnesses.

The popular response to people opening up about their depression or anxiety is saying “Go outside,” “Don’t be sad,” or “It’s not that bad.” Most of the people who respond this way have probably never suffered from depression, or if they have, they received the same responses.

People wonder why the youth today are so sad or dramatic but refuse to ask what causes them to feel this way or acknowledge that they may have a part of it.

It’s almost shocking to read about different traumas that affect young teenag-

MIRANDA GARBACIAK is a junior in English.

ers and lead to the crippling combination of anxiety and depression.

A combination of environment, heritability and life choices affects how susceptible teenagers and young adults are to mental illnesses like depression and anxiety.

Seventy-five percent of people who have suffered from anxiety say they had their first experience with the mental illness by the age of 22.

I don’t want to say every college student deals with anxiety on a daily basis, but a vast majority deal with it frequently.

Depression and anxiety may be the most common ones to occur among young adults, but more disorders and mental illnesses can result if they are left untreated or if more stress is added.

Of course, some illnesses are biological and hereditary, but they are typically triggered by one event or another.

Because of this, it is important to keep an eye out on the people we love.

We tweet about how we support Kanye West, Kid Cudi and sexual assault survivors like Ke$ha, yet we don’t recognize these same things happening to our loved ones.

I appreciate celebrities coming out and not being afraid to share their need for help with the public. It’s incredibly brave and a great step toward becoming mentally healthy or the best they can be.

Reading up on mental illnesses and how they manifest certainly doesn’t make you an expert or a therapist, but it is helpful so you can understand why your friend may act the way they do.

Let’s not make fun of celebrities or call depression a trend.

Let’s help each other move forward. mmgarbac@indiana.edu

THE COFFEE CHRONICLES

The problem with undoing Obamacare The Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare,” was enacted in 2010. Since then, there have been a series of successes and failures.

While there are many different ways to look at the law, every person, whether conservative or liberal, can agree the Republican party’s claim to repeal Obamacare will cause multiple problems.

While we do not yet know what the next law will be to address the state of health care in our country, I think we have to be careful in repealing this law in particular.

There are multiple facets to the ACA. Several key features include having children stay on their parents’ health care until they are 26, preventing companies from denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions, prohibiting companies from rescinding coverage because of technical errors, and the individual mandate that requires that Americans who opt out of health insurance must pay a penalty.

The most contentious of these is the individual mandate. I understand not wanting the individual mandate in theory. When people tell me I need to do things, I usually want to do the opposite.

I also understand the issue of the personal freedom and that if you don’t want to buy health insurance you shouldn’t have to. But I don’t agree with it.

If you show up to a emergency room without health insurance, you get treated regardless. However, if you don’t have insurance, then the hospital still has to make money at the end of the day.

This means the hospital has to raise prices on everything

NEETA PATWARI is a junior in biology and Spanish.

in order to help pay for the person who cannot pay their bill. That’s just a fact of life.

Ignoring that, though, let’s focus on Donald Trump’s words.

President-elect Trump says he would keep the preexisting conditions section of the bill. He has said this since the campaign trail, and it gained little to no traction.

This is a consistent belief of his, and it should be seen as an important look into his further decision-making for health care reform. The problem with this is how to convince insurance companies to back a law that requires them to insure sick people without providing them a large number of healthy consumers.

As much as people hate it, health care and insurance are businesses, and they have to hedge their bets.

It’s going to be an uphill struggle for lawmakers to find a way that offers protection for pre-existing conditions while restricting a source of income for these companies.

I don’t know much about what the Republicans will propose in the newest health care bill. As someone who wants to enter the healthcare profession, I am interested to see what they propose. However, I am also concerned for the 22 million people who are struggling to find out whether or not they will be covered or not. npatwari@indiana.edu

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Morgan fills in well during Anunoby’s absence

By Andrew Hussey aphussey@indiana.edu @thehussnetwork

Late in IU’s victory over North Carolina, the air quickly left Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.

Down, crumpled on the floor was sophomore forward OG Anunoby after twisting his ankle on another thunderous dunk.

Anunoby would be diagnosed with a high ankle sprain and has been out the past two games for IU. Sophomore forward Juwan Morgan would become his replacement in the Hoosiers’ starting lineup.

Morgan is the “other” sophomore – the one who didn’t spend the summer garnering heaps of praise from NBA draft pundits like Anunoby and Thomas Bryant did.

But in his two games this season as a starter, he hasn’t missed a single shot and has filled in admirably for Anunoby.

“It’s hard to go 12 for 12 over two games,” IU Coach Tom Crean said. “But he led the way with defense and rebounding.”

Morgan has been highly efficient, along with being able to be nearly everything on the court.

He’s a capable ball-handler and at times has actually played the point and run pick-and-rolls.

In the games he’s started, he’s scored 29 points after failing to break double digits in any game prior.

Besides his scoring

prowess from anywhere on the floor, Morgan is a rabid defender and adept at nabbing rebounds.

This season, Morgan is third on the team in rebounds — averaging 6.3 per game — and Crean noted Morgan was rebounding for two guys after the SIU-Edwardsville game.

After that victory, Morgan talked about how he’s returning to the way he played last season when he played a key role for the Hoosiers off the bench.

“I think just mentally I’ve been thinking too much about shooting, things like that,” Morgan said. “I just got back to what I was at last year and things that helped the team and I didn’t have to make plays or anything. And if I ran hard and set a screen, I knew my teammates would find me and things like that.”

Crean said he noticed how earlier Morgan was thinking too much, but is coming into his own as a player with Anunoby out.

“But you can go through shifts in that where guys are really becoming complete players,” Crean said. “Remember now we started — he’s played point guard for us at different times even as a starter. So we’re throwing a lot at him.”

But, he’s handled everything he has been asked to do.

It wasn’t just imperative that he step up without Anunoby, IU needed him badly because the Hoosiers were playing a grueling stretch of four games in eight days.

Minutes needed to be spread out more and he’s taken up the mantle.

“He was locked in,” freshman forward De’ron Davis said after the SIU-Edwardsville game. “He’s been focusing all week really being on the boards and just being locked into everything we’re doing, being the great leader he was, he came out and led us today as you can see.

He was all over the boards (Friday). It was a big accomplishment.”

While last week was critical and helped the Hoosiers notch four wins, they also came out of that stretch with an answer to a question that had been hounding the team ever since Yogi Ferrell departed Bloomington: who would become a leader?

It didn’t necessarily need to be the point guard, nor did it have to be an upperclassman. It could be someone like Morgan.

Not only has Morgan showed what he’s capable of as a player, he’s also taken leadership out on the court.

Being perfect from the floor isn’t sustainable, but when Anunoby returns, Morgan can be a perfect sixth man who also doubles as one of IU’s emerging leaders.

“I would say, Juwan and Thomas out in this category,” Crean said. “They have been on point and on attack and on a mission since a week ago when it comes to really taking more responsibility for their teammates FUAD PONJEVIC | IDS and setting the tone with Sophomore forward Juwan Morgan gets to the basket during Friday, Dec. 2, 83-60 victory over SIUtheir energy every day.”

Edwardsville at Assembly Hall.

SWIMMING

Freshman swimmer Kucharczyk beats odds

By Ben Portnoy bportnoy15@gmail.com @bportnoy15

When freshman swimmer Jack Kucharczyk signed with IU late in his senior year of high school, he focused his attention on demonstrating his talent to his coaches.

Kucharczyk, an IM and breaststroker, has already Jack shown Kucharczyk flashes of his potential this year for the No. 4-ranked men’s swim team.

However, getting to this point was anything but simple for the freshman.

Kucharczyk, a native of Shelby Township, Michigan, was nothing short of spectacular as a high school swimmer.

He was an All-American in the 200 medley relay his senior year, a three-time NCSA Junior National Medalist, eight-time all-state and two-time conference swimmer of the year.

But despite his vast success in high school, Kucharczyk struggled to get the

offers he wanted.

In Michigan many kids want to swim for the University of Michigan, but the university tends to find their recruits from out of state or out of the country, Warren De La Salle Collegiate High School head swim coach Jim Singelyn said.

Kucharczyk said he watched kids he felt were as good or worse than him get their Division I offers, but his weren’t coming.

“I had convinced myself that I was good enough to go to all these schools that I was looking at,” Kucharczyk said. “You know, when it got kind of later on I still had faith and stuff... I mean starts to come into your mind. And, you know, you start to get weary and stuff but I just kept doing what I was doing all along. And I knew what I worked for would eventually come.”

Singelyn, a 1990 graduate of De La Salle and Kucharczyk’s coach for his final two years of high school, experienced a very similar situation to Kucharczyk’s.

When he was competing for a college offer, the threetime high school All-American had to wait until late in the cycle to receive his

chance at the University of Kansas, where he swam for a year before transferring to Eastern Michigan and ultimately became an All-MAC selection.

“I told him ‘just hang on ... Come spring, when the coaches come back around, like spring signing period, they’re going to come after you,” Singelyn said. “But, you know, you’ve got to

mean Jack kind of recruited us in a way.”

Looze said Kucharczyk stressed wanting to be a part of the team and to get a chance to swim at the toptier Division I level.

Ultimately the offer did come, Kucharczyk signed with IU in the spring of his senior season — a moment he described as one of the most special of his life.

“I’ve got to make sure that I stay humble and realize what the long term goal is and not let the early success go to my head.”

Jack Kucharczyk, IU swimmer

have faith. Don’t get down on yourself.’ And I knew it would happen cause the same thing happened to me.”

However, getting that offer from IU was a tall task for Kucharczyk, as he had to work to get head swim coach Ray Looze and his staff to take a look at him.

Looze himself acknowledged that IU wasn’t exactly begging Kucharczyk to come to Bloomington.

“There wasn’t a lot of contact there from us,” Looze said. “Obviously more than anywhere else but, I

But before Kucharczyk could move on to IU he had one more special high school moment.

In the spring of his senior year, he broke Singelyn’s De La Salle record in the 100-yard breaststroke.

“I thought it was really cool that, you know, it was like an old, old record, and that the guy who set that record ended up coaching the person who beat that record,” Kucharczyk said.

“That just seems really cool.

Like, it couldn’t have been any better honestly.”

In his time since

joining the IU swim program, Kucharczyk has been phenomenal.

His early season results include a tie for third in the 200-yard breaststroke against perennial powers Texas and Florida and a second-place finish against top-25 teams Kentucky and Tennessee in the same event.

“I’ve got to make sure that I stay humble and realize what the long term goal is and not let the early success go my head,” Kucharczyk said.

Kucharczyk was diagnosed with mononucleosis, which can cause intense fatigue, a few weeks ago.

The illness has forced him to train even harder to regain his early season form, but it looks as if he’ll be back to face Michigan, his home-state school and one of many programs who passed on him during the recruiting process.

“That’s my biggest goal right now, is getting back in shape for Michigan, cause that’s the next meet coming around,” Kucharczyk said.

“I’ll be damned if I don’t go to that meet and show them why they should’ve picked me and why they messed up.”

King and Pieroni find success in Canada From IDS reports

IU swimmers junior Blake Pieroni and sophomore Lilly King continued their success in Windsor, Canada, at the 2016 FINA Short Course Meter World Championships.

Pieroni won a bronze Tuesday night with Team USA, anchoring the 400 freestyle relay that tied for third with a time of 3:07.76. Pieroni’s split of 46.02 in the race was the third-fastest of anyone in the event.

King broke the American record for the 50-meter breaststroke semifinal with a time of 29.17.

IU alum Cody Miller and Hoosier post-grad swimmer Zane Grothe posted impressive results. Miller finished 5th in qualifying for the 100-meter breaststroke final. Grothe finished seventh in the 400-meter freestyle final.

Miller and King will swim the finals of the 100-meter breaststroke and 50-meter breaststroke, respectively, tonight.

Ben Portnoy

WRESTLING

Weaver returns from injury

By Ryan Schuld rschuld@indiana.edu | @RSCHULD

Late last season, sophomore Cole Weaver sustained an injury against Ohio State’s Micah Jordan, one that’s odd even for wrestling.

In that match, Weaver suffered an orbital floor fracture, an eye socket injury, which he called a freak accident.

“Cole has been through a ton of adversity,” IU Coach Duane Goldman said. “His eye injury was just a fluke, even within wrestling. Injuries are common but not that kind of injury.”

To add to an already tough recovery, Weaver was later involved in a car accident over the summer that resulted in a broken femur and another long recovery with the season a few months away.

Goldman said the accident was unfortunate for ev-

eryone involved but that it is great to have him back in the lineup, making progress and, most importantly, doing well.

Getting healthy again was one thing, but getting back into wrestling was entirely different. Weaver praised assistant coach Nick Simmons for getting him back on the mat.

“I have a rod in my leg,” Weaver said. “All of those motions were hard to get back into and get my leg to move how I want it to move. He has helped me a lot in getting my full range of motion back.”

He got back on the mat against George Mason on Nov. 17, a match he lost.

Just a couple weeks later, however, Weaver came through and won two matches that gave the Hoosiers the lead heading into the final match of the dual.

Against North Dakota State, Weaver defeated Taylor

Nein 5-0 to give the Hoosiers a 17-14 lead, a dual meet that IU would go on to win 18-14.

Just an hour later, Weaver did it again. This time defeating Trevor Feagans of Southern Illinois — Edwardsville 7-4 to give the Hoosiers an 1816 lead in a match IU would win 21-16.

Weaver said it felt great to get back onto the mat and get two important wins for his team. The last few weeks have allowed him the opportunity to knock off a lot of rust.

Now that his arm has been raised a few times and his leg continues to get stronger, Weaver heads home to Michigan to wrestle in front of friends and family in IU’s third double dual of the season against Eastern Michigan and Cleveland State.

“I have a lot of fans who will be there to watch,” Weaver said.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 world’s wild. They’re stuffed in tiny cages and left in circuses, barns and basements.

They’re often malnourished and abused. They’re poorly socialized and neurologically impaired.

The World Wildlife Foundation estimates there are about 5,000 tigers in captivity in the U.S. Compare that to only 3,890 tigers in the wild as of April. Less than 400 of those captive tigers are in accredited zoos. That leaves more than 90 percent of them privately owned.

Boxer Mike Tyson kept tigers on a leash inside his home. In another case, a 500-pound tiger was found in a Harlem, New York, apartment in 2003.

Private ownership of these animals is dangerous for both sides. There was Dennis Hill from Flatrock, Indiana, who faced legal action for having big cats in dog-run style cages with a foot or more of piled up feces. There was Lorenza Pearson, whose 2-year-old son was mauled to death by a 300-pound Bengal tiger Pearson kept in his home, in northern Ohio. The worst might have been Terry Thompson, who released all of the animals, including tigers and lions, in his sanctuary and killed himself, in Zanesville, Ohio. Fortynine animals — tigers, lions, bears, monkeys — were killed by law enforcement.

Humans have been attracted to the idea of owning wild animals as far back as Ramses II in Egypt. Some want a lion because it makes them feel powerful. Some buy a tiger out of a romantic ideal. Some — well, some just purchase tigers or lions to make money off them.

Federal agencies do their best to ensure these exotic animals are out of these awful situations. However, they have to go somewhere, so Bro and roughly 200 others live in Taft’s care at the Exotic Feline Rescue Center some 65 miles southwest of Indianapolis.

“The world has changed,” Taft said. “And they, as a species, are not facing a very bright future.”

Since 1991, Taft has been rescuing and providing a home for these animals at the rescue center. He takes them from abusive homes, and he and his team attempt to give them the best quality of life possible.

“No matter what you think of whether these animals should be kept in captivity or not, the fact is that the individuals who are here have been born into a captive environment and will spend the rest of their life in a captive environment,” Taft said.

The center is off in the woods and is far from residential homes. It takes a few turns away from civilization and a drive down some rocky roads for people to find the place. It’s in a remote-enough area that the 108 acre property allows big cats to live in large enclosures with some room to roam. Public tours are available for $10.

Some animals live in the home with Taft, who bottlefeeds them when they’re young. He still enters the cage and interacts with at least one tiger, Suma, and used to go in with as many as 20.

Taft is a gruff man. It can be tough to tell when the 71-year-old is joking, and he’s sometimes rude. He’s 5-foot-5 but commands the attention of humans and tigers. One keeper who’s worked with him for years said she wouldn’t call him a friend; they just work together. Others will admit he can be hilarious.

The rescue center has had its share of issues. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which licenses the facility, has fined the center for violations such as not securing enclosures and leaving visitors unsupervised. A cougar escaped in 2007, and a worker was attacked by a tiger in 2013.

Taft said he believes the USDA often looks for issues

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that aren’t there. In the past four inspections, the lone violations have been things such as trees too close to fences and pieces of tornup enrichment barrels lying around that would be harmful if eaten.

In Taft’s eyes, the agencies can nitpick issues all they want, but the animals still have to go somewhere.

“They don’t know what to do with them,” he said.

“When people have these animals in violation of the law. In order for law enforcement to go in and enforce those laws, they have to have something to do with the animals.” * * * They still talk at the center about the day 17 years ago when two keepers traveled to Pennsylvania to rescue two or three lions from a man shut down by the USDA. The cats were supposed to be a year and a half old.

A woman took them down to the basement, and the sight they saw was the type the rescue center sees far too often. Eight cats had been left in the basement in 5-foot square area cages.

Three lions were crammed in one of the tiny cages.

Three tigers were in another. Another two tigers were alone in two other cages.

A healthy year-anda-half-old tiger should weigh between 200 and 250 pounds. These were all between 50 and 89 pounds.

Assuming none of these were the cats they were supposed to take, Exotic Feline Rescue Center assistant director Jean Herrberg asked the woman, “What’s going to happen to these cats?”

“These are the ones,” the woman said. “You’re supposed to pick two.”

Herrberg was floored.

They were so malnourished, so poorly cared for. She called Taft.

“I’m bringing them all or none. I can’t pick two,” Herrberg told Taft.

Taft agreed. The center always goes in prepared to take more cats than intended.

What sticks with Herrberg, what makes her eyes drift off as she retells it, was what happened when she and Rebecca tried to bring in

eventually discovered home and love.

Sometimes a cat can be too far gone. They are so damaged that they never develop a relationship with the staff and don’t communicate the care they need. They live, but that quality of life may not be that great.

It’s the cats that are too far gone that make the successes so powerful.

Christina McCrea is a young keeper who’s been at the Rescue Center for three years. It isn’t just the cool factor that makes this job great to her. It’s the personalities.

The tigers are the class clowns. The lions play around a bit, too. The leopards are stingy with who they like. The staff has to earn their approval. The servals are hyper, ferocious eaters that sound like little demons.

The keepers don’t get paid very much. They work tough hours. McCrea says it can take time for the cats to warm up to the keepers, if at all, so those moments of affection serve as a payment.

“That’s the reason we do this,” she said. “They’re scared. They don’t know if it’s going to be different than their last place. So to see them open up and be comfortable, that’s what makes it

“They don’t know what to do with them when people have these animals in violation of the law.

In order for law enforcement to go in and enforce those laws, they have to have something to do with the animals.”

Joe Taft, Exotic Feline Rescue Center director

one of the tigers, Raja, who was alone in a cage.

Raja was older than the others. He had been in the basement for at least a year.

He hadn’t seen the sun in all that time. He was scared and skeptical. They put his cage next to the transport cage so he could go into the truck.

He wouldn’t move. They called to him and baited him with food. He still wouldn’t move.

He looked at Rebecca.

Then he looked at Jean. Then Rebecca. Then Jean. After making eye contact with both and truly seeing them, he walked right into the transport cage.

Herrberg was a fifth grade teacher in Columbus, Indiana, before beginning to volunteer at the rescue center in 1993. This moment with Raja took her back to the classroom.

“It was like when you teach school and that light comes on and you know a kid gets it,” Herrberg said. “It was like, ‘I get it. You’re taking me out of this hellhole.’”

Four of the five tigers turned out to be blind in both eyes. Raja went on to become a member of the public tour. He developed a reputation for spraying guests with urine, and the staff tends to smile whenever discussing him.

Raja’s is the kind of success story at the rescue center that Taft, Herrberg and the other keepers live for — a big cat that was lost and

all worth it.”

Uetrecht, who averages 9.6 points per game, average more than 30 minutes per game. Senior forward Rebecca Lyttle is the team’s leading rebounder with 7.7 boards per game.

Northern Kentucky is led by first-year coach Camryn

Whitaker, so Moren said the team’s struggles this season are understandable.

“The first year’s always difficult, and she’s trying to get them to play the way she wants them to play, so I think there’s been some peaks and valleys with that,”

* * * In June 2013, a 23-yearold employee named Marissa Dub was cleaning Raja’s cage. The 18-year-old tiger was drawn into his shift cage. It was routine.

Taft said in 2013 that Raja was not one of the more aggressive tigers at the rescue center. He was part of the public tour of the facility.

Dub apparently forgot to secure the interior gate that separated the two cages.

Raja attacked her. Workers heard her scream from a distance. Raja didn’t kill Dub, but she suffered a shattered jaw, severe gashes and a punctured airway. Reports say by the time Taft and others made it to her, Raja was resting, holding Dub’s head in his mouth.

When Raja was sprayed with a hose, he released his grip and workers used meat to distract him.

Taft doesn’t comment on the incident anymore.

A report from the USDA said there was a 4- to 6-inch gap on the gate Dub reportedly didn’t close. Workers said the gap had been there for weeks. Taft didn’t fix it. In the report, there was frustration from employees of a consistent lack of regard from Taft about repairs to facilities.

Taft denied this at the time, saying he and his staff address issues as soon as they are aware of them.

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Top A meal’s remnants sit on a crate in Oti’s cage at the Exotic Feline Rescue Center in Center Point, Indiana.

Bottom Henry, left, walks around his shared enclosure as Ginger lies in one of the crates in the area at the Exotic Feline Rescue Center in Center Point, Indiana.

When keepers were cleaning cages this October, there was always a shift supervisor checking to ensure each cage was safe before a keeper entered.

Regardless of what led to the attack of Dub, the love for animals remained.

Dub told reporters after the incident that Raja was just doing what tigers are supposed to do. Her biggest fear afterward was whether Raja would be killed because of this.

The USDA investigation decided, because of Dub’s apparent error, that Raja could live. He is still on the public tour. Even now, when asked which animal’s story means the most to her, Herrberg brings up Raja right away.

Two months after the attack, Dub returned to work.

“I love the cats. I love my job. It’s my dream job, so even this wouldn’t set me back doing what I do,” Dub told reporters in August 2013. “If I wasn’t here, the cats would suffer.”

Ozzie, as a philosophy student at Indiana State University because he thought it would be cool to drive a sports car with an ocelot riding shotgun.

Taft’s path led to a career in caring for these animals. What happens most of the time is these animals they bought as cute pets grow into dangerous, full-sized threats, and people panic.

Taft said there are those with no sympathy or compassion or love for the animals.

“They have them to exploit them, and they want to exploit them as efficiently as possible,” he said.

Taft isn’t one of the exploiters. The rescue center makes just enough to get by, he said.

He brags about his clean track record that he claims includes only two major incidents.

Dr. Barron Hall, the dentist singing as he operated on Bro, talked about how the rescue center is one of the best places he visits in the country. Most of Taft’s violations are minor, and the fines are often reduced to $0.

Regardless of any legal fights, the rescue center focuses on the cats every day.

McCrea is cleaning cages of feces and old bones from food. Rebecca Rizzo is making sure each cage is secure before a keeper enters it. Taft

Exotic Feline Rescue center.

It isn’t the wild. It isn’t where they should be. But it might just be the best possible situation. * * *

fice complex with domestic cats resting in plastic bins of paperwork on the floor, Taft talks about the differences between humans and animals.

He doesn’t make the judgments of animals that he does of people.

“Well, I think that’s because I’m a lot more accepting of animals than I am of people,” he jokes.

When it comes to the owners he has to rescue these animals from, Taft becomes angry at the different types of culprits.

There are those who enter with some romantic ideal about owning an exotic animal. Taft began as one of those people.

He bought his first ocelot,

is attending to a sick tiger.

Another keeper, Brialle Nickel, is playfully joking with the tigers. She smacks two chickens together and says, “See where I put them?” Because sometimes they only see the one chicken and fight over it.

The tigers jump on their stomachs with the chickens in their paws and their legs pressed forward, as if still ready to pounce. Their teeth rip apart the chicken violently, occasionally scaring themselves because they think their tail is another cat trying to steal food. The cats go through about 4,000 pounds a day of animal meat donated by local farms.

This is every day at the

Taft plans on doing this until he dies. He’s 71 years old and has no idea what else he would do. The Exotic Feline Rescue Center started as him alone with three tigers. Now he has a staff that can keep the place going once he’s gone.

Ozzie the ocelot was Taft’s first love, maybe his truest love, but the lessons learned from her are what have him here, dedicating his life to big cats.

Taft lost Ozzie when he let some friends watch her, and she was hit by a car when they let her out. Taft’s eyes water whenever he discusses her death. He quickly bought a leopard, and his large collection began shortly after.

“A lot of this is making up for all the mistakes I made with cats before,” Taft says.

He learned to keep building better environments.

He learned when he should euthanize a cat sooner. He learned when he did it too soon. When he thinks of these mistakes, his eyes drift off as if thinking of each tiger, each mistake, each opportunity for love given and love given back.

“You feel regret, you feel guilt, you feel sorrow,” he said. “You feel resolve to not let anything like that happen again.”

However, Taft’s mistakes aren’t lost causes.

“They taught me how to do this.”

Inside one of the center’s buildings on a cabinet is the skeleton of a heron.

It came from one day when the bird flew into the cage of several tigers. The tigers mauled it and ripped it apart and cleaned off all the meat.

When the keepers went in later to clean up the enclosure, they discovered the bones of the heron still completely together. No damage had been done to the skeleton.

So they decided to hang it in the facility. A reminder that sometimes, despite the awful happenings of the world and life picking them apart, things can stay intact.

Moren said. “They’re not scoring a lot of points, but they have players with potential to get hot if you allow it.”

Moren said her team has been honing in on defense in practice. The Hoosiers allowed more than 80

points in two of their losses.

Northern Kentucky averages fewer than 50 points per game and shoots about 33 percent from the field, so the matchup should present a good opportunity for the IU defense to capitalize.

“We’re just happy to be

home, because it’s been a long couple weeks,” Moren said. “We had two very difficult defeats on the road against two great teams in Auburn and NC State. It’s always challenging on the road, but we’re super excited to be back.”

* * * There are bad people but he doesn’t believe in bad tigers, Taft says.

In his untidy trailer of-

“That’s the reason we do this. They’re scared.

They don’t know if it’s going to be different than their last place. So to see them open up and be comfortable, that’s what makes it all worth it.”

Christina McCrea, Exotic Feline Rescue Center

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2016

THE BAD Everyone No matter what side you were on, this election season D+ was the messiest in years THE GOOD Everyone’s fear of clowns Life gave Beyoncé a cheating reached new heights thanks husband and some lemons, to a few terrifying ones.

Brangelina broke up and and she blessed us with proved once and for all that “Lemonade.”

LOVE IS DEAD. Frank Ocean gifted us Hospital visits and hotel “Blond” AND “Endless.” robberies made for a rough Leo finally won his 2016 for Kim and Kanye. long-awaited Oscar.

David Bowie died.

Lady Gaga finally released Prince died. her new album after her seemingly endless hiatus.

Alan Rickman died.

After a 108-year drought, the Muhammad Ali died.

Chicago Cubs finally won Gene Wilder died. the World Series with an 8-7 victory against the Cleveland Leonard Cohen died.

Anton Yelchin died.

Indians.

Twitter announced Kim Kardashian and Taylor Swift took to social media to everyone’s favorite looping feud it out in public — and video app — Vine — will be no longer. what a glorious feud it was.

“Fantastic Beasts and Where From Rio scandal to “Dancing with the Stars,” to Find Them” returned us ‘twas the year we could not to our beloved wizarding escape Ryan Lochte. world.

RIP Hodor.

“Hamilton” fever struck the nation, proving that diverse RIP Abraham. casts, history class and dope RIP Glenn. rhymes can go a long way.

RIP Richard Gilmore.

Samantha Bee put her male Hollywood’s obsession with counterparts to shame with reboots took an ugly turn biting, hilarious coverage of with “Independence Day: the election.

Resurgence” and many Jon Snow lives! more.

“Pokemon Go” made DC’s attempt to replicate everyone stare at their Marvel’s superhero success phones for something more failed impressively with exciting than Instagram “Suicide Squad.”

Stories.

Brexit served as the UK’s Girls ruled at the Rio de attempt to out-stupid Janeiro Olympics, from the United States (Alas, we were Final Five to actual fishnot to be upstaged). person Katie Ledecky. Don’t Poor Leslie Jones could not forget IU student Lilly King! get rid of online haters.

Disney gave us “Moana,” “Good Girls Revolt,” a series which was another step about female revolution in forward in less frightened journalism, wasn’t picked for princesses and more brave a second season by Amazon. women.

“Gilmore Girls: A Year in the “Gilmore Girls” came back.

Life” sucked.

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‘Final Fantasy XV’ worth wait ‘FINAL FANTASY XV’ Square Enix

A Gamers, a notoriously fickle bunch, have come to loathe the Long Delayed Game. Look at Silicon Knights’ action RPG “Too Human” or Maxis’ god game “Spore.” They promised to revolutionize not just their respective genres, but the entirety of electronic entertainment, before budget cuts and missed deadlines hobbled their 2008 launches.

“Final Fantasy XV,” the latest in Square’s flagship RPG series, is a game 10 years in the making. Though it’s impossible to say how many iterations of the game Square Enix had to make and scrap before arriving on the current version, the road-tripping, action role-playing game set in an open world that’s equal parts modern and magical is worth the wait.

Like many extensivelydelayed games, it has some issues. Yet these barely detract from the fact that “Final Fantasy XV” is one of the most ambitious, creative and flat-out fun Japanese role-playing games in recent memory.

It’s been a rough road.

For the last decade, the series has slipped away from its inherent strengths of slick combat, likeable characters and goofy anime melodrama toward increasingly-convoluted gameplay mechanics, grandiose but near-incomprehensible plots and angstier plots.

“Final Fantasy XV” doesn’t completely pull out of that vortex. The combat is flashy and challenging. But the shift from turn-based to real-time battles has lost some of the strategy and nuance of past versions, and introduced a problematic camera.

The story features the strongest characters yet by focusing on its four central characters, without the extraneous goofballs present in previous games. But the big story beats don’t track and plot points are borrowed from everything from “The Lord of the Rings” to “Star Wars.”

Where “Final Fantasy XV” really succeeds is in its open-world structure.

The world of Eos absolutely sprawls — its design a unique mix of modern cities, sports cars and smart phones mashed up against Godzilla monsters, evil empires and ancient magic.

Your very own sports car,

the Regalia, rarely makes it a chore to move between all the game’s locales.

If you’re not interested in cruising through the lengthy main quest, you can hunt monsters from “wanted” posters hanging in road-side diners. You can camp with your companions. You can waste hours fishing. You can explore the game’s vast deserts, rolling plains and beautiful cities and listen to your party banter about it all.

The final product isn’t perfect.

For how much it gets right - innovative and stylish combat and engaging content with AI party members - there’s often a dropped frame, uncooperative camera or wonky plot twist to soften the magic somewhat.

But taken as the sum of its parts, “Final Fantasy XV” is a rare game that, despite a decade in development, has emerged to make good on its promises.

The opening credits call it a “Final Fantasy for fans and first-timers,” and with its charming characters and genre-changing design, “Final Fantasy XV” has reestablished its franchise as one of gaming’s most important series.

Bryan Brussee bbrussee@umail.iu.edu

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Start your own journey This semester we toured Bloomington together and discovered its hidden gems.

Within these discoveries, there was one underlying theme.

No matter where you’re from or where you go, Bloomington is a home with so many places you may never find anywhere else.

Whether you are a student here for a short snippet in time, a newcomer who plans to stay or even a longtime resident, these places in Bloomington can be discovered and rediscovered time and time again.

What makes this town so special is its combination of big-city and small-town vibes. With all the comforts of a large city located in a smaller area with friendly faces and passionate entrepreneurs, you don’t have to go far to dive into something new or enjoy something old.

There’s character and his-

tory in just about every corner, and all of it is vital to the heartbeat of Bloomington.

This column barely scraped the surface, and I know my readers know more places than I could ever discover in the four years I’ve lived here.

So, in the spirit of this column, share, spread and invite others to explore the places you love. This could be the one table where you always study or that one place you go whenever you’re having a bad day.

Before the end of the semester, I challenge you to see something new. Go catch a film at the IU Cinema, try sushi for the first time at Ami, have a new beer at the Tap, laugh at the Comedy Attic, or try a new coffee at Soma.

These places and so many more are begging you to discover and indulge.

Bloomington has a place in the hearts of those who

come and go. It’s a distant memory for some, but the minute you go back and see all these places, those memories come flooding back.

You see, it’s not about food you eat or show you see, it’s about who you were with when you tried that sushi for the first time or saw your first comedy show. It’s about the conversations and laughter you shared and the experience you had. These places offer the opportunity to make those memories, but it’s up to you to take advantage.

Whether you’re ordering in or going out, surround yourself with the people you wish to remember, and go make those memories. That way, when you smell the inside of a coffee shop, you just may remember that one time in Bloomington.

Allison Wagner allmwagn@umail.iu.edu

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Casey Affleck rewarded despite his accusations It’s December, and awards season is finally and fully upon us.

In the last few weeks, critics associations have begun to recognize the best performances and films of the year with a flurry of awards, fueling preliminary Oscar buzz and beginning endless speculations that will lead up to the day of the show.

While results have varied, one name in particular has garnered strong frontrunner status in the Best Actor race.

Casey Affleck secured awards for “Manchester by the Sea” from multiple critics’ groups and has been the subject of various magazine profiles and rave reviews. At this point, he’s Hollywood’s golden boy, and it’s his race to lose.

Let’s rewind for a moment to another Hollywood golden boy, who began the year with similar coverage thanks to the debut of his film “The Birth of a Nation” at 2016’s Sundance Film Festival. Back then, actor/director Nate Parker seemed poised for Oscar gold as well, until his history of alleged sexual assault came to light.

When the news broke of Parker’s alleged rape of a female college student - and the student’s eventual suicide - he was booted from the frontrunner pedestal with astonishing speed.

Critics, audiences and Hollywood bigwigs boycotted the film and spoke out against him in droves. It seemed like a long-overdue reaction to the kind of person whose sins the entertainment industry tends to forgive and forget.

It seemed clear, thanks to Parker’s case, that the industry refused to separate the art from the artist any longer. They would no longer overlook similar crimes and mistreatment of women in favor of rewarding a talented male actor or director. Finally,

it appeared, a precedent had been set.

Then, this fall, rumors began to spread about Casey Affleck’s past conduct with women. A cover story about the actor in Variety magazine mentioned briefly that he had a history of alleged sexual harassment. Other sites, like the Daily Beast, did extensive research into the claims and discovered that Affleck had been accused of sexual harassment against coworkers while on the set of his film “I’m Still Here.”

Complaints ranged from physical intimidation to verbal abuse to an incident where Affleck allegedly broke into a female cinematographer’s hotel room and snuck into her bed. (For more detailed information on the complaints filed against Affleck, the Daily Beast has published an in-depth account of the events.)

Both women ended up settling lawsuits against Affleck, and the entire incident had little-to-no public impact — until now.

It should be no surprise that members of the industry are hesitant to condemn Affleck for his alleged past abuse of women, considering the list of popular actors and directors in Hollywood with similar histories of suspected abuse and mistreatment.

Some of them are so well known that they have become punch lines, like Woody Allen and Sean Penn. Others fly far more under the radar, thanks to quietly handled issues of domestic abuse or accounts of general mistreatment: Michael Fassbender, Gary Oldman, Sean Bean and Nicolas Cage, to name a few.

Just look at Johnny Depp.

In the span of a year, he went from being accused of violent domestic abuse to landing a huge role in the “Harry Potter” cinematic universe. Is this

how Hollywood rewards men who are accused of violence toward women?

Yes it is.

That’s why the swift condemnation of Nate Parker was so surprising. Granted, being accused of rape is a far cry from domestic abuse or sexual misconduct on set, but where does Hollywood draw the line?

If Parker’s alleged victim hadn’t killed herself, or if he hadn’t publicly drawn so many parallels between his own life and his passion project, would Hollywood have overlooked his past? What made his crimes so very different from those of other successful men in the industry?

An obvious answer to that question would be to point to his race. Nate Parker is a black director who made a film about a violent black uprising in early American history.

How much did his race play into the fact that he has been shunned by Hollywood? If Affleck wasn’t a famous white man, would his own case be playing out differently?

Parker’s career is, by all accounts, over. If Hollywood has decided that it is going to treat all alleged rapists and sexual predators in the same way, then Parker’s treatment was absolutely just.

But if Casey Affleck walks onto that stage in February and accepts his Oscar for Best Actor, despite general knowledge of the accusations against him, the entertainment industry will yet again have rewarded an alleged sexual predator with the highest honor they can give.

And the audiences and media who propel him to the top will be just as complicit as the voters who hand him the prize.

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Kanye West performs Sept. 5 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. West has recently been hospitalized due to extreme exhaustion and sleep deprivation.

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Kanye West’s 2016 breakdowns shed light on mental illness issues KATHERINE FRANKE | IDS

Federico Cortese conducts The Miraculous Mandarin Suite by Béla Bartók during the Philharmonic Orchestra’s final concert of the semester.

Guest conductor leads show

By Jesse Naranjo jlnaranj@indiana.edu | @jesselnaranjo

The Jacobs School of Music’s Philharmonic Orchestra had its final performance of the year Wednesday at the Musical Arts Center.

The philharmonic is the music school’s premier orchestra, according to its website, meaning it is the largest and most difficult to join. Wednesday’s concert featured violin soloist and graduate student Sofia Kim as well as visiting world-renowned conductor Federico Cortese.

Cortese, who teaches full-time at Harvard University, said fitting the trip to Bloomington into his academic calendar was difficult, but eventually it worked out in his favor.

“I think they are doing something very difficult and very intense,” Cortese said about the featured musicians. “There is a good degree of generosity and hard work in making music, and making music is designed to talk to others, so it’s nice when others pay attention.”

He said there are brand new challenges when working with every orchestra, be the challenges interpretive or mechanical. The pieces performed Wednesday are part of a conductor’s standard repertoire, so there was nothing too unusual about working on them with students, Cortese said.

While the selections, by composers György Ligeti, Felix Mendelssohn and Béla Bartók, may be commonplace in the repertoires of conductors and musicians, Cortese said this does not

necessarily make them easy.

“They’re very tricky for an orchestra and quite tricky for a conductor,” Cortese said. “It’s easy to screw up.”

Kim said the featured violin concerto was something most violinists learn early in their careers. She said it was nice to revisit the piece with this orchestra after practicing it in the past.

“The thing about IU that I’m always impressed about is the amount of music and the amount of performances that are always going on,” Kim said. “I feel like students here always deliver, regardless of how challenging the music is.”

Kim is a native of Southern California and completed her undergraduate studies at Northwestern University. She said the biggest difference for her in playing with this orchestra was being able to look behind herself and see her fellow musicians were friends and colleagues.

Kim said she had a difficult semester. She said pacing herself around a violin performance degree recital, auditions and working with the philharmonic was challenging but not impossible.

“I really wouldn’t have had this semester turn out any other way, because this is the perfect culmination for all my events,” Kim said.

She said her fellow philharmonic members collaborate well. They are hard workers and still provide good quality music despite a difficult program, Kim said.

Cortese said while IU may be a big university, the

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Violin soloist Sofia Kim plays “Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor” during the Philharmonic Orchestra concert Wednesday.

music school is above average and the Philharmonic Orchestra is no amateur orchestra.

He said a conductor’s job is to channel each musician’s energy and abilities into one body of music. If the orchestra a conductor is tasked with has poor sound or inexperienced musicians, the conductor cannot direct effectively.

“You can argue that there can be an orchestra without a conductor, but definitely there is no conduc-

Diversity welcomed after beauty Themester ends

By Mallory Haag mjhaag@indiana.edu | @MalloryHaag

The art, productions, lectures and exhibits throughout IU’s campus will be changing as Themester comes to an end.

The topic of beauty will no longer apply to the events created by the College of Arts and Sciences, but they will continue to follow a theme of diversity, said Ellen MacKay, director of Graduate Studies at IU. MacKay said Themester is a good way to bring IU’s large campus together behind a topic in order to create a dialogue about art in different contexts.

“I’m a big fan of anything that makes the college more intimate,” MacKay said. “That creates connections where often, particularly at a larger institution, we are more inclined to see differences.”

Jason Baird Jackson, the director of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, said while working on Themester he came to realize just how much the professors and students of the College of Arts and Sciences are involved on an individual level.

“I was struck by the way that Themester really does

bubble up from the students and faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences,” Jackson said. “The committee really can bring forward a compelling idea, but the Themester is born out of the volunteer enthusiasm of a lot of different people.”

The most recent Themester has invited people in a variety of fields to consider the shapes that beauty takes, MacKay said.

“For me, beauty is what makes us stop and think stop and wonder, and it’s lovely to see how that works across different disciplines,” MacKay said. “I was just very excited that the broad, big-tent nature of the topic was taken up across such a diverse set of faculty members in the college.”

MacKay said some of the motivation behind the fall Themester was how it could play a part in the way the election and political dynamics were considered.

“I thought Themester ought to be capacious enough to engage with whatever is pressing,” MacKay said. “I strongly believe that beauty is important to thinking about our political moment and our politics in general.”

The Mathers Museum is

“Themester is born out of the volunteer enthusiasm of a lot of different people.”

Jason Baird Jackson, Mathers Museum of World Cultures director

prepared to take on the upcoming theme of diversity and otherness, Jackson said.

He said the museum has taken steps to create exhibits, including an exhibit on Syrian arts and another on Native American culture, about the topic.

“For us, that exhibit about Syrian arts and culture will fit into the context of the refugee story, which is one mode that works well with the next theme,” Jackson said. “Issues of diversity and difference show up in that project as well.”

Jackson said he was happy so many people across academic platforms contributed to Themester and made it inclusive.

“The Themester is actually like a potluck dinner,” Jackson said.” The organizers set the table, but it’s to be determined every year what the students and faculty and the college will bring to the dinner.”

tor without an orchestra,” Cortese said.

Contrary to what others might think, conducting is not a position of absolute power in the traditional sense but one of responsibility and exposure, Cortese said. As a conductor, he said he serves a function just as any principal instrumentalist would, but his job requires him to bring out the best from the musicians.

“If it’s the chicken or the egg, overall, the orchestra comes first,” Cortese said.

As one of the absolute worst years in world history comes to a close and we hope to forget it through eggnog and hot cocoa hangovers, we know there’s at least one man on this planet who has suffered far more than we have.

If 2016 were to have a subtitle to its name, it would probably be something along the lines of “The Year Everybody Hated Kanye West.”

Many awful things happened to this man in the past year, and it only continues to get worse.

West went from being allegedly $53 million in debt based on several of his own tweets to engaging in multiple feuds to being runner-up to the king of Twitter rants, Donald Trump. To top it off, he had to hear news of his wife being held hostage and robbed at gunpoint in Paris.

West completely stopped a concert Nov. 19 in Sacramento, California, to express his delusional paranoia revolving around what he believed to be several hitmen hired by JayZ to kill West. Of course, I’m sure this news is just as much of a surprise to Jay-Z as it was to West’s fans.

Only a couple of days later, West was hospitalized in Los Angeles due to an extreme level of sleep deprivation and exhaustion. Last Wednesday, he was released, which seems too unthinkably soon.

If you are so sleep-deprived and exhausted to the point of murderous hallucinations and needing to be handcuffed and sent to the hospital, a week in in-patient treatment isn’t going to cut it. He continued out-patient treatment, though.

For those who have been following West’s career for any amount of time now, there is obviously more going on in his psyche than just tiredness.

Pop-culture has deemed him as a narcissistic egomaniac with a God complex.

He’s obviously a deeply, deeply complicated and troubled man whose problems go

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beyond his large ego. There’s much going on in his mind that we have been merely brushing off as selfishness for far too long.

West has never presented himself as a potential threat to anyone, despite how frightening he may sometimes sound.

But the issue of mental illness is always still grave. We have seen it countless times in the past with musicians.

Brian Wilson quit touring with the Beach Boys after his bipolar disorder became out of control and affected his performances. It eventually took over his songwriting and creativity until he sought medical help.

Syd Barrett, a founding member of Pink Floyd, left his band in the late 1960s because of what was perceived to be either schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. His illnesses had a profound impact on the band’s later albums.

Most famously of all, Kurt Cobain suffered from bipolar disorder his entire life. His depression was most apparent in his songwriting and interviews, but nothing was done to truly help him and he ultimately committed suicide in 1994.

Not all of these stories have to end as a tragedy, however. Other major celebrities like Neil Young and Demi Lovato found ways around the mental hindrances that once overpowered them and came back more extraordinary than ever.

The end to West’s story is one we cannot so easily predict, but if we know anything about Yeezy, it’s that he never gives up. And neither should anyone suffering under these conditions. West said it best himself in “Only One.” “No, you’re not perfect / But you’re not your mistakes.”

You are not your disorder.

You are not your depression.

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W | PASTERNACK ON THE PAST Once a week, Jesse Pasternack reviews a film made before 1980. He hopes to expose readers to classics they might not normally watch.

‘Rope’ is a technological marvel “Rope” is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s lesser known films. It is mostly only remembered for being Hitchcock’s first color film and for using many long, elaborately choreographed shots. But this tightly structured and wellacted film remains more than just something for movie lovers to know for trivia night.

“Rope” tells the story of two roommates, Brandon and Phillip. They murder an old friend named David in their New York City apartment out of the belief that they are superior to him.

Afterward, Brandon and Phillip host a dinner party for David’s family and friends.

Things go well until their old teacher starts to sense that something is wrong.

This movie is often cited as an excellent example of the “long take.” A long take is a shot in a film that goes on for a noticeably long time.

There are static long takes, such as one from “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.” But more often than not, the camera moves around during a long take, like most of the shots in “Birdman.”

The long takes in “Rope” are very well designed. The camera effortlessly tracks with the characters for great distances. The shifting positions of the actors and the camera create interesting new shot compositions that are fascinating to watch.

These well-choreographed camera movements aren’t just for show. The length of

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the takes makes the viewer share in Brandon and Phillip’s anxiety. The suspense of whether Brandon and Phillip will be caught is amplified by the suspense of when the filmmakers will use a conventional cut. This makes “Rope,” which Hitchcock once referred to as a stunt, a good reflection of the practi-

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cal principle that form should reflect content.

“Rope” is a very efficient film. It thoroughly tells its main story and several subplots in just 80 minutes. It is a great demonstration of the economy that Hitchcock brought to his filmmaking.

This movie is dark, but it also features some humor-

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 7 — Love is the bottom line today and tomorrow. Avoid silly arguments. Talk about your enthusiasms and passions. Play games together.

Get artistic. Set mood lighting.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 7 — Study or travel engages you today and tomorrow. Investigate and explore.

Write down your discoveries.

Document them with photos and video. Keep it simple.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 7 — Enjoy a two-day homebody phase.

Clean, beautify and decorate your place. Gentle music and tea can soothe frayed tempers.

Share your love generously.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 9 — Tap another source of revenue. The next two days are good for business. Your ideas are attracting attention. Market, buy and sell.

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Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 9 — You’re getting stronger today and tomorrow, empowered with high energy.

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ous moments. Brandon in particular has a lot of darkly comedic lines about the situation he has helped create.

The general atmosphere of wealth and wit makes it feel like a macabre episode of “Frasier.”

The performances in “Rope” are excellent. John

Dall has a lot of fun as the gleefully unhinged Brandon.

James Stewart’s performance as the teacher investigating Phillip and Brandon gets better with every minute.

“Rope” is outstanding from a technical point of view.

The witty dialogue and ex-

ceptional performances help make it more than an experiment in shot length.

More importantly, its 80-minute length makes it perfect to watch before studying for finals.

cially sensitive and intuitive.

Minimize risks. You don’t have to go along. Rest and pamper yourself.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is an 8 — A thirst for exploration entices you from your comfort zone today and tomorrow. Don’t rely on an unstable source. Make future plans.

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Adjust to outside demands.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is an 8 — Hold meetings, social events and parties over the next two days. Develop strategies with teammates. Talk over any concerns. Others can see where you’re blind.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 9 — Professional opportunities become available over the next few days. Consider your decisions well. Others may demand quick action.

Help them see the big picture.

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 9 — Collaborate on financial matters over the next few days. Negotiate for a win-win situation. Stand for a possibility that inspires you both. Listen carefully.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 7 — Be receptive.

Listen to your partner and share your views today and

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Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 9 — The excellent work you’ve been doing reflects well on you over the next two days. Don’t push yourself too hard physically. Balance activity with peaceful rest.

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60 Odor 61 First or last quarter... and, literally, what can be found on either end of 18, 22, 38/40 and 49 Across 63 Action scenes 64 Get-out-of-jail card?

65 Museum guide 66 32-Down contents 67 Fruity coolers 68 “Nothing to it!”

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‘Awaken, My Love!’ is a throwback ‘AWAKEN, MY LOVE!’ Childish Gambino

B+ While the term “Renaissance man” is thrown around too often, I cannot think of a man alive today who better embodies such a title than Donald Glover.

The man has written for three successful TV shows, starred in two of them, worked as a popular comedian, deejayed under the name mc DJ and wrote and produced three major records as Childish Gambino.

And then he turned 33.

Who was the last man to accomplish so much in so little time? Isaac Newton?

Leonardo da Vinci? Mozart?

Let’s also not forget the coolest part – he’s going to be the new Lando Calrissian in the upcoming Han Solo film.

What is there not to love about Glover?

His most recent accomplishment is the release of his LP “Awaken, My Love!”

A departure from his signature hip-hop sound, this album replaces rap with funky, psychedelic mixes and a seemingly endless variety of vocal styles.

On this record, Glover appears to channel everyone from Prince to James Brown, from Al Green to Steven Tyler.

He can go from a chaotic madman on “Me and Your Mama” and “Riot” to sexy falsetto on “Baby Boy” and “Redbone.”

But it’s not just the vocals that are diverse. The entire foundation of this record’s sound seems to have been crafted through the lens of 1970s funk.

The bizarre character featured on the cover of the LP even looks like something from George Clinton’s P-Funk mythology.

It’s a very niche record.

While I enjoyed it, those

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who loved Childish Gambino for his hip-hop style may be disappointed in this album.

If you don’t like soul, funk or psychedelic music, either, then you will especially hate “Awaken, My Love!”

While Glover and Swedish composer Ludwig Göransson produced a beautiful-sounding record,

the production isn’t perfect.

“Stand Tall” does not work as the album’s final track, and both that song and “Me and Your Mama” featured abrupt changes in sound that would have worked better as two separate songs. Instead,they sound like Pink Floyd rip-offs.

Despite this, the album still has much to offer. The

entire LP seems to be one long message to Glover’s newborn child.

The album’s themes of love, happiness, sorrow, hardships, sex and betrayal are necessary components for understanding how to navigate through one’s life.

While many artists choose to use their studio time to write and create an album centered around a

breakup or personal trauma, Glover instead chose to make his subject the new center of his universe – his child.

No track better embodies these feelings better than “Baby Boy,” which directly addresses his child.

“Though these bodies are not our own / Walk tall, little one, walk tall.”

Whether you are going

into finals week, your final semester, an unwanted or unexpected position after both, or facing the newlyelected government with trepidation, Glover is saying you should not be scared to take the next step forward.

Walk tall, friend. Walk tall.

Austin Faulds afaulds@indiana.edu @a_faulds9615