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Chicago based rapper Noname performs at Culture Shock in Dunn Meadow on Saturday night. Noname was the headliner of the day-long music festival WIUX was host to.
SHOCK VALUE Culture Shock delivers live music, variety of activities throughout Saturday By Kathryn Jankowski kjankows@umail.iu.edu | @KathrynJanko56
People lay on their blankets in the center of Dunn Meadow as they listened to music and enjoyed the sun. A few young women set up a slackline between two trees near the Jordan River. Kids of all ages were bouncing in the bouncy house. This was the scene at this year’s Culture Shock, an annual outdoor music festival put on by IU student radio station WIUX. Every year, local and touring bands come to Dunn Meadow for an end-of-the-year music bash with food trucks and merchandise. This year’s festival was headlined by Chicago rapper Noname. Hundreds of people, including college students, locals and people from out of town, came out to enjoy the vendors, bouncy house and music. Bill Boyles, a semi-retired Bloomington resident, said he had been to every single Culture Shock for the past 30 years, even if he didn’t know who was playing. Around 1 p.m., High Fiber, a local band, kicked off the festival. Its set was followed by other locals House Olympics and Amy O. “I’m not originally from Bloomington,
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Junior Katie Kleimola paints on WIUX’s canvas during WIUX’s 2017 Culture Shock Music Festival on Saturday afternoon in Dunn Meadow. The event featured artists such as Noname and Post Animal.
but I like the area,” Amy O vocalist Amy Oelsner said. “Culture Shock is a great opportunity to get your name out there to college kids and do something with buzz around it, but is still a local show.” Those bands were followed by
rappers Draco McCoy, Mathaius Young and FLACO and local indie songwriter Kevin Krauter, who also plays bass for Hoops, before the first headliner, Post Animal. “I am most excited to see Post Animal,”
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Senate bill pushes for mental health counseling for law enforcement
Paid parental leave for IU staff The average pregnancy lasts 40 weeks, the wait to adopt a child is years, and even when people make it through these periods, they do not have the assurance of paid parental leave. The United States is one of only a few countries not to mandate paid parental leave in contrast with the Eastern European country Estonia, which mandates up to 87 weeks of paid parental leave, according to Pew Research Center. IU President Michael McRobbie announced Friday that the University will offer fully paid parental leave for up to six weeks for all staff employees of IU. “This major new policy underscores the value Indiana University places on the well-being of its employees, and it is one that will help IU continue to attract and retain outstanding staff employees as the university prepares to enter its third century of service to the state, nation and world,” McRobbie said in the press release. The program was endorsed by IU’s Board of Trustees at its April 14 meeting and will take effect July 1 and will be available for mothers and fathers who have a child, regardless of whether they are married. IU already had paid parental leave in cases of childbirth and adoption for full-time faculty but the new policy
said Maddie Holmes, a senior from Purdue University. “When I saw the lineup for Culture Shock, I was happy to see them on it.” Post Animal is a six-member band based in Chicago. It’s been together since 2014. “My favorite thing about performing is seeing all the guys in front of me and seeing them bobbing their heads,” drummer Wesley Toledo said. “It’s a beautiful picture.” After the band’s set, a crowd of people went behind the stage for selfies with Post Animal frontman Joe Keery, who is known for playing Steve Harrington in Netflix’s hit series “Stranger Things.” He and other Post Animal band member Dalton Allison talked about the importance of the arts. They both participated student radio in college, and Keery said he thinks fests like Culture Shock help spark interest in the arts. “Events like this are important to the community because it’s free, inspiring and open to the public,” Allison said. After Post Animal was the band Flasher, a punk band from Washington, D.C., followed by SALES, a guitar-based pop band
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Sophomore pitcher Jonathan Stiever pitches against Minnesota at Bart Kaufman Field on Friday. IU lost, 11-0.
Hoosiers overcome conference leaders By Spencer Davis @spencer_davis16 | spjdavis@umail.iu.edu
Fans looking for consistency at Bart Kaufman Field this weekend were in the wrong place. Three games wound up with three completely different outcomes. The weekend started bleak for the home team, and IU was shut out 11-0 Friday night by Big Tenleading Minnesota in the Golden Gophers’ 12th consecutive victory. Saturday afternoon’s game brought with it the reemergence of IU’s bats in the Hoosiers’ 13-12 win that ended Minnesota’s unbeaten start to the conference schedule. IU raised its hit total from two Friday to 18 Saturday, and Minnesota, now 21-10 and 7-2 in the conference, improved on its 20-hit game Friday with a 21-hit performance Saturday. It was IU’s turn to control the
ballgame Sunday. The Hoosiers, now 19-14-2 overall and 6-5-1 in the Big Ten, shut the Golden Gophers out 4-0. “If you’ve watched Minnesota play for the past three days, they’re one of the top teams in our league, and we had to make up some ground,” IU Coach Chris Lemonis said. “We’ve let a couple go by so this was huge for our guys.” Sophomore pitcher Pauly Milto got the start for the Hoosiers in the rubber match and took advantage of his team’s opportunity to win an important series with help from Coach Kyle Bunn. “I’ve made a couple mechanical adjustments that Coach Bunn has been working with me with and just the confidence level,” Milto said about his improvement. “Getting in there, making SEE BASEBALL, PAGE 8
In the 35 years Bill Owensby spent as a police officer in Indianapolis, certain images nested in his mind. There are things people aren’t supposed to see, he said. A nine-year-old dying after a bullet to the head. A teenager taking his last breath after a car wreck. Owensby spent much of his career in patrol and K-9 work. The horrific sights were technically part of what he signed up for. “It was my job, and you just do it,” said the 61-year-old, now president of the state Fraternal Order of Police. He sought counseling after traumatic experiences and encouraged other officers to do the same, but he’s also noticed psychiatric help has a stigma in what he called a traditionally “macho” line of work, he said. Meanwhile, studies show law enforcement officers face high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder and suicidal thoughts. A new piece of U.S. Senate legislation backed by a bipartisan group that includes both senators from Indiana seeks to expand on the mental health resources available to law enforcement officers. The bill, introduced earlier this month by Sens. Joe Donnelly, D-Indiana, and Todd Young, RIndiana, and supported by other senators from both parties, would create the Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act, which would put grant funding toward the creation of mental health
programs. Funding would facilitate the creation of peer counseling programs and help mental health care providers build programs specifically for officers, among other functions, according to a press release from Donnelly and Young’s offices. The bill has drawn support from law enforcement agencies across the country, which includes the FOP and the National Association of Police Organizations. Beyond its potential practical effects, Owensby said he sees it as a symbolic step toward the de-stigmatization of mental health care within law enforcement. “The psychology of a police officer, male or female, is independent, self-relying,” he said. “They’re trained to take control of any situation they encounter and to do it instantly.” That mindset can extend to unwillingness to accept help in confronting mental health challenges, he said. Though he believes the stigma has subsided somewhat over the past decade or so, he still sees it as an uphill battle. Bloomington Police Department Capt. Steve Kellams said BPD has hoped to remove some of that stigma by putting standards in place for when officers should seek counseling. Officers involved in shootings, for example, are offered peer-to-peer counseling through an Indiana State Police program, and they’re required to speak to a psychiatrist SEE MENTAL HEALTH, PAGE 8