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DECONSTRUCTING
Kelley lecturer to run for mayor By Neal Earley njearley@indiana.edu
Students, faculty build sculpture for world exhibit By Audrey Perkins audperki@indiana.edu | @AudreyNLP
After months of work, 10 members of the IU community dismantled the United States’ submission into the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space. The group, including students and faculty, are representing the U.S. in the exhibition. After completely deconstructing the 18-foot-tall installation, the work will be left in storage until April. The exhibition takes place in June and celebrates the global art of set design, costume design, lighting design and sound design. Paul Brunner, assistant professor in Theatre Technology in the Theatre, Drama and Contemporary Dance department, led the main creation of the exhibit installation. His selection did not come fast or easy. “The selection process began in November in 2010,” he said. Now, his team is composed of 10 people: eight graduate students, one other IU Theatre staff member and himself. Work started in July, after they received the design concept from Klara Zieglerova, a Czech designer based in New York City. They then worked to transform a design into something real and three-dimensional. “It’s a lot more organized than it looks,” he said with a laugh. The exhibit is a swirling mass of wire and metal piping. The center houses a spiral staircase. Curators came a few days ago to place clusters of props, costumes, photos and iPads in the work. The iPads will play music, show projections and display excess SEE PRAGUE, PAGE 6
PHOTOS BY IKE HAJINAZARIAN | IDS
Top The sculpture’s assistant technical director, Bradley Shaw, tests out a mount to attach to the sculpture that can hold a video screen Thursday afternoon in the Wells-Metz Theatre. Bottom Members of the IU Department of Theatre and Drama have built the national exhibit to display at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space in June.
He spent his formative years stacking produce at Bloomingfoods, driving trucks and burying his head in books as a graduate student at IU. Now Darryl Neher, 48, stands in front of a crowd of more than 300 supporters to announce his candidacy for mayor of Bloomington. “I never intended to enter political life,” Neher said in his candidacy announcement speech. “I didn’t grow up in a political family, and I didn’t set myself up down a political path, but I always found myself engaged in the communities I was a part of.” But by 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Neher filed his paper work and cemented his Democratic candidacy for mayor. Neher, who currently represents district five on the Bloomington City Council, had spent years in the media, first as the host of Interchange on WFHB and then of Morning Edition on WGCL. Current Bloomington Mayor Mark Kruzan, who decided he would not seek a fourth term in November, introduced Neher to the stage at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater on Kirkwood Avenue and pledged his support for Neher’s campaign. “Two months ago I announced I’m not running for a fourth term,” Kruzan said. “But it wasn’t then when I decided I would support Darryl. That was two years ago when I met him.” As he walked toward center stage, Neher was greeted by a roaring standing ovation, cheers and whistling. Neher is now the second candidate to enter the 2015 mayoral race after the first candidate, John Hamilton, announced his candidacy Monday. Neher thanked some of his key supporters who joined him on the stage including Kruzan, Indiana state representative Matt Pierce, DBloomington, and Monroe County Council member Shelli Yoder. Neher, who currently works as a senior lecturer at the Kelley School of Business, had many volunteers on hand for the event, some of whom were his students at IU. Sebastian Wocial, currently a senior majoring in marketing, took Neher’s class in his sophomore year, C205 Honors Business Communication. “Honestly, Darryl Neher is one SEE NEHER, PAGE 6
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
IU faces dominant inside tandem
IU Foundation elects 2 new board members
By Brody Miller brodmill@indiana.edu | @Brody_Miller_
By Ashleigh Sherman aesherma@indiana.edu | @aesherma
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Sophomore guard Larryn Brooks shoots a layup over IPFW defender Haley Seibert on Dec. 10, 2014 at Assembly Hall. The Hoosier won 80-37 and advanced to 8-1.
A consistent theme this season for the IU women’s basketball team has been its lack of depth in the post. Bigger teams such as Purdue and Rutgers have been able to control the game inside and cruise to comfortable victories. IU gives notable minutes to only three players who are taller than 6 feet, and only sophomore Jenn Anderson would be described as a true big. Freshman Amanda Cahill plays a stretch game and has a thin frame, and sophomore Lyndsay Leikem spends a good portion of her time on the perimeter. No. 23 Minnesota (15-2, 4-1), on the other hand, will be trotting out two post players, Amanda Zahui B. and Shae Kelly, 3 p.m. Sunday when IU (12-4, 2-3) travels to Minnesota. Both of these players have IU Coach Teri Moren game-planning around them. “It’s a tall task for a lot of reasons,” Moren said. “Those two, in themselves, they present problems for us defensively.” SEE HOOSIERS, PAGE 6
Scholarships that bring highachieving students and athletes to campus and fund campus landmarks and classroom equipment share a common thread: all are funded by private donors. Two voices have joined the ranks of the IU Foundation, the not-for-profit organization that, according the foundation’s website, works to bring private funding to IU by fostering relationships with private donors. Alisa Hendrix and MaryEllen Bishop were recently elected to the IU Foundation Board of Directors. Hendrix and Bishop will join the governing body of the IU Foundation at a critical time. The final draft of the IU Bicentennial Strategic Plan, approved in December, set the goal of raising $2.5 billion through philanthropic giving by the bicentennial, which IU will celebrate during the 20192020 academic year. “It is an honor to have MaryEllen and Alisa join the foundation board,” IU Foundation President
Dan Smith said in a press release. “In addition to sharing a strong dedication to IU, they each bring exceptional knowledge and expertise to the table. I look forward to working with them as we continue to advance Indiana University.” Hendrix is currently pursuing a master’s degree in philanthropic studies through the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IU-Purdue University Indianapolis. Hendrix graduated with a bachelor’s degree in finance from what is now the Kelley School of Business in 1983. She is a member of the Women’s Philanthropy Council, the IU Colloquium for Women steering committee, the IU Foundation Presidents Circle and the IU Alumni Association. She also serves as the director of the Bloomington Hospital Foundation and as a volunteer for the Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County. Bishop graduated with a bachelor’s degree in SEE IU FOUNDATION, PAGE 6