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Friends remember former IU student By Sarah Gardner gardnese@indiana.edu | @sarahhhgardner

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IU School of Music Professor David Baker directs a jazz band performance at the MAC in Spring 2005. The decorated composer and performer died March 26 at age 84.

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By Maia Rabenold mrabenol@indiana.edu | @maialyra

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avid Baker changed the common perception jazz could not be taught. The Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-nominated composer, performer and teacher died March 26 at age 84, but his revolutionary methods that taught students to improvise will be used long into the future, his colleagues and students said. Baker created a degree program for jazz music at IU at the request of the dean of the School of Music in 1966 after a performance career on the trombone and cello. “The IU jazz program is David Baker,” author and musician Monika Herzig said. “He started it, he created it and he made it one of the bestknown and highest quality programs nationally. That’s him and only him and nobody else.” Herzig, now a senior lecturer at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, got her doctorate at the music school in 1997. She said she considered Baker to be her mentor in becoming a jazz pianist and

“When I teach music, I’m teaching people how the world works. At the same time, there’s music, there are wars, there are pestilences, there are illnesses, there are new inventions, old inventions, cellphones, new things. And what I teach is all of that because I’ve lived all of that. So I teach those things that are part of my life experience.”

took many of his classes. She then became his colleague and friend. In 2011, Baker’s 80th birthday was coming up, and she said she decided to take on the task of writing a book, “David Baker: A Legacy in Music,” about his life. “I realized that we have a treasure here,” Herzig said. He always challenged students, Herzig said, but in an environment that made them feel like they were at home. Baker had his own challenges to overcome, Herzig said. She said he originally wanted to be a classical trombone player, but his only option as a black man was jazz. When he auditioned for the Indianapolis Symphony, the conductor told him even though he was better than the other players, he couldn’t employ him because he was black. His personal struggles did not make him bitter, senior Matthew Riggen said. Riggen was inspired to add jazz studies as a double major after he met Baker because he saw how much Baker enjoyed playing, he said. Riggen said during the last

David Baker, Jacobs School of Music professor, 2012

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By Michael Hughes michhugh@indiana.edu | @MichaelHughes94

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Freshman forward OG Anunoby looks for an opening in the North Carolina defense during the Sweet 16 game Friday at the Wells Fargo Center. IU lost 101-86. After the game, Anunoby said he was returning for his sophomore season.

sophomore season despite some NBA scouts saying he could be drafted in this year’s draft after his NCAA Tournament performance. If both Williams and Bryant come back and no players transfer, the Hoosiers have a full team for next season. If any players leave,

Pro-choice activists try to stop restrictive abortion law

however, IU has scholarship offers open to five different players. What the Hoosiers will have returning is experience. Ferrell and Bielfeldt were the only two players on this year’s team who had won an

Hoosiers may be stronger for next season

year, it’s possible for players to now declare for the draft, go through the combine and workouts but still return to school. So even if both declare, it does not mean both will leave. Freshman forward OG Anunoby said he is definitely returning for his

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Indiana pro-choice activists said they hope to stop the state’s new abortion law before it takes effect in July. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky is partnering with the American Civil Liberties Union to challenge the controversial measure in court, according to a press release. The organizations are seeking judicial review and requesting a preliminary injunction. Gov. Mike Pence signed HEA 1337 into law March 24. Several opponents of the law, including Planned Parenthood and the ACLU, claim its new restrictions on abortion are unconstitutional. “It is clear that the governor is more comfortable practicing medicine without a license than behaving as a responsible lawyer, as he picks and chooses which constitutional rights are appropriate,” PPINK CEO Betty Cockrum said in a press release. Under the law, doctors who perform abortions must have admitting privileges at hospitals, fetal remains must be buried or cremated and women must wait 18 hours after a mandatory ultrasound before they can obtain the procedure. The measure also outlaws abortions sought because of the fetus’s sex, race or possible genetic abnormality. North Dakota is the only other state in the nation with a similar restriction. Cockrum said Pence’s policy is pro-birth, not pro-life. “Pence fails to grasp basic facts when it comes to reproductive health,” Cockrum said in a press release. “Education, coupled with access to all reproductive health services, is the most effective method of protecting Hoosiers.”

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For the third time in five years, IU reached the Sweet 16. For the third time in five years, IU lost by double digits to end its season. The Hoosiers lost 101-86 against North Carolina on Friday without sophomore guard Robert Johnson. IU also reached that game and won its second outright Big Ten title this year without sophomore guard James Blackmon Jr. Both players should be healthy for next year, but they will be without the man who led the Hoosiers to a Big Ten title and Sweet 16. Senior guard Yogi Ferrell is graduating. “He’s one of the guys I’ve been with the most,” Johnson said. “Just to see how hard he’s worked, not only personally but to be a leader for this team.” Ferrell is gone. So is senior forward Max Bielfeldt and senior guard Nick Zeisloft. After IU’s loss Friday, both junior forward Troy Williams and freshman center Thomas Bryant deflected questions about their futures at IU and whether they will declare for the NBA Draft. “I feel like in my years here I’ve been getting better,” Williams said. “I feel like Coach Crean has prepared all of us just in case we want to make that move, but like I said, I don’t know.” With new rules in place this

When Joe Einterz was on the wrestling team in high school, Jack Banks, then a middle school wrestler, came to watch a match. Within minutes, Einterz sat down next to Banks and started explaining the matches and the decisions the wrestlers were making. Sharing the things he was passionate about was one of Einterz’s biggest characteristics, Banks said. That moment when they sat together at the wrestling match and many other moments like it are what Banks said he remembers most about Einterz. On March 15, Einterz, 21, a recent IU student, died unexpectedly. His friends remember him as hardworking, fun-loving and devoted to his friends. Einterz graduated from Zionsville Community High School and attended IU from 2013 through 2015. He was one of eight siblings. “He made me and a lot of the other wrestlers feel like we were just more of his younger brothers,” Banks said. “He was always joking around and trying to help us with everything, even trying to give me tips on how to talk to girls.” In Bloomington, Einterz worked as a barback at Kilroy’s on Kirkwood, Kilroy’s employee Nick Wells, 24, said. Barbacks take care of stocking the bar and running most of the behind-the-scenes work, and Einterz was one of the best barbacks who worked there, Wells said. “It seemed like he was naturally gifted at barbacking,” Wells said. “But he was such a socialite, and so he wanted to be a bartender up


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