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IDS WOMEN’S SOCCER
IUWS posts top GPA for fall By Cameron Drummond cpdrummo@iu.edu | @cdrummond97
IU women’s soccer head coach Amy Berbary has created an academic dynasty. Since her arrival to IU in 2013, Berbary has worked hard to create a culture that encourages academic success. Wednesday saw her squad win its fourth Herbert Cup, an honor given to the IU Athletics team with the highest average team GPA in a semester. The team earned the distinction thanks to a 3.6 combined GPA during the fall 2016 semester — the second-highest team GPA in the program’s history. “It’s kind of our standard now, not just to get good grades but to win the Herbert Cup,” Berbary said. “This is something that I said is a standard from the first day I got here, our players are students first and athletes second.” Capturing the award for the fall 2016 semester means women’s soccer has now won the last three Herbert Cups: fall 2016, spring 2016 and fall 2015. Overall, four of the last five Herbert Cups have been given to Berbary’s squads. Berbary, a former studentathlete herself at the University of Georgia, values dedicating time to class despite the often packed schedules experienced by collegiate athletes. “If you are fortunate enough to get an education because of the sport you love, you owe it to yourself and your teammates to make sure you’re keeping your standards high,” Berbary said. High standards have now become an expectation in the classroom for the women’s soccer program after it posted an all-time high team GPA of more than 3.6 during the spring 2016 semester.
POWER SWAP Bloomington residents respond to Obama farewell and Trump hello By Sarah Gardner and Melanie Metzman gardnese@indiana.edu | @sarahhhgardner mmetzman@indiana.edu | @melanie_metzman
In eight days the presidency will pass from the hands of President Barack Obama to President-elect Donald Trump, both of whom have spoken to the country at large this week. Each speech incited reactions from locals who either applauded Obama for his comments on solidarity or criticized Trump for overreacting to the “golden showers” accusations. In his farewell address Tuesday night, Obama emphasized unity and political cooperation. “Democracy does not require uniformity, but democracy does require a basic sense of solidarity,” Obama said. “The idea that for all our outward differences, we’re all in this together, that we rise and fall as one.” IU senior A’Niyah Birdsong said she has watched every speech delivered by Obama and thought it was sad to think he wouldn’t
“For all our outward differences, we’re all in this together.” Barack Obama, President
“I think it’s a disgrace that information that was false and fake and never happened got released to the public.” Donald Trump, President-elect
address the nation as a whole again. “Seeing our first black president in office for eight years changed a lot about what it means to me to be an African American,” Birdsong said. “Watching that last speech made me recall just how wellspoken of a president we’ve had, too.” Less than 24 hours later, in his first press conference since the election, President-elect Donald Trump addressed the alleged golden showers incident published by Buzzfeed on Jan. 10 from Trump Tower in New York City. In the golden showers incident, Trump alledgedly paid to watch prostitutes urinate in a bed the Obamas had slept in during their official trips to Russia. “I feel like people really responded to Obama’s speech in a positive way and the opposite for Donald Trump’s,” IU junior Cera Cissna said. “That’s been the whole theme of this election year, I think.” The Buzzfeed article details a 32page dossier, which claims the Russian SEE SPEECHES, PAGE 6
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Indy artist to perform for Musical Family Tree By Sierra Vandervort svanderv@indiana.edu | @the_whimsical
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The African American Dance Company spent nearly a week in China over winter break. While there, AADC put on a performance and worked with students from the China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing.
African American dance group returns to campus from China by Sarah Verschoor sverscho@iu.edu | @SarahVerschoor
Professor and director of the African American Dance Company Iris Rosa is strict about how her dancers wear their hair. Black-, white- and short-haired dancers alike get their hair braided in cornrows. So when the dance company traveled to Beijing during winter break to explore China and perform and dance with students from the China University of Mining and Technology Beijing, one dancer from the AADC sat with some of the Chinese students and cornrowed their hair. “That was such a beautiful moment of a cross-cultural experience,” Rosa said. The AADC spent nearly a week in China from Dec. 16 to Dec. 23. This was the company’s first time
abroad as a group in Rosa’s 43 years directing the them. “To see my students actually perform in China at formal concert and the way they were accepted and to hear the applause was really very exciting,” Rosa said. A visiting scholar, Yingli Zhou, who saw Rosa’s group dance last spring, was instrumental in organizing the trip. Rosa said she was very excited about what they were doing. Zhou helped with the orientation sessions by letting the dancers know about culture, history and other travel-related issues. Rosa taught a master class for all the students, and the AADC students participated in a traditional Chinese dance class. “When you talk about dance, dance is a discipline that cultures have been doing for years,” Rosa said. “I think that these Chinese
students somehow can relate to not only their own type of traditional movement but are very accepting of other type of movement. They know about hip-hop, contemporary dance and different styles, so this just put it into practice ” The AADC dancers were matched with students from the Chinese university to be shown around Beijing. Amelia Smith, an associate director for the AADC who also performs with the group, was with Parhatjan, a 20-year-old student from a northwestern province of China. Smith said, as an older student, she was apprehensive about having a young partner. However, one night she and Parhatjan were out together walking down a hallway and passed a group SEE DANCE, PAGE 6
Indianapolis artist Carrington Clinton said he is normally used to making art that is more subtle than his recent release, “Nappy Head.” The drummer and hip-hop producer has been releasing music under the moniker Clint Breeze since 2014. His 2015 release, “Maisha,” became a cult classic in local hip-hop, but the socio-political themes of his most recent release make it one of the most significant Indianapolis albums of 2016, according to NUVO, Indianapolis’ alternative magazine. Breeze will be performing “Nappy Head” live with his band, the Groove, for the first time at the Musical Family Tree grand opening Friday in Fountain Square. Fellow Indianapolis native Jacob Gardner created the album’s cover, an inky black-and-white image of a seated man clutching his knees and sitting on top of the American flag with a broken noose hanging above his head. The images are meant to symbolize the state of oppression black people experience on a dayto-day basis, Breeze said. “This is something that’s been burning in my heart for some time now,” Breeze said. “I had been bothered by the constant news about what was going on and how the justice system had been treating people of color, and I felt like, through my art, I could express my opinion on these issues that have come full circle in the last couple of years.” He explores these themes of systematic tyranny and racial oppression with overt, direct language but layers it between meticulously detailed production and surprisingly joyous musical finesse. He spent
MUSICAL FAMILY TREE GRAND OPENING Tickets $5-15 8 p.m. Friday, Murphy Arts Center most of 2016 working on the album and said it’s his best-sounding piece yet. “Nappy Head” opens with a menagerie of vocal clips and samples before switching to the full big-band jazz number, “Razor Blades,” which features Breeze’s backing band of Indianapolis jazz musicians, the Groove. A self-proclaimed jazz head and lifelong drummer, Breeze incorporates elements of classic soul and funk alongside expertly produced, intricate hip-hop beats. The candor carries on throughout the entire album, and Breeze doesn’t shy away from the outspoken or the brash. In one of the album’s closers, “Blood Splatter,” a spoken poem plays over the rhythm of chains clattering in the background: “Let’s paint red, white and blue stripes on the back of these savage Africans. Let’s paint the world in blood splatter.” These blunt soundbites are scattered among samples from “Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” and “Chappelle’s Show” and extended saxophone solos. As a producer Breeze said he doesn’t lend his own voice to the album but throughout the 20 tracks of “Nappy Head,” Breeze features a variety of notable names in Indianapolis hip-hop. Oreo Jones, Sirius Blvck, Flaco and Drayco McCoy all lend their voices to the album. SEE HIP-HOP, PAGE 6