WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2016
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Police arrest 14-year-old girl for prostitution From IDS reports
A 14-year-old Bloomington girl was charged with prostitution Tuesday morning after police discovered she had been offering to perform sex acts with several individuals in return for money. The girl faces a misdemeanor charge and has been referred to juvenile probation, said Bloomington Police Department Capt. Steve Kellams. Police arrested the girl at about 9:20 a.m. on West Gourley Pike. Detectives have been investigating the case since the end of January, Kellams said. They began looking into the case after a woman reported she had seen text messages on her husband’s phone that were “sexual in nature” from the girl. Authorities interviewed both parties and read the girl’s text messages and Facebook account through a series of search warrants. It became clear through the in-
vestigation the girl had been knowingly offering to have sex with several individuals for money this year, Kellams said. The girl had represented herself as a 17-year-old on at least one occasion, Kellams said. She had a long history of family problems, and her female guardian told police she had been having a difficult time controlling the girl. Kellams could not discuss possible incentives or motives for the girl to offer to have sex for money. He said it was still possible authorities might be looking into additional aspects of and individuals involved in the girl’s case. “This is a very troubling case,” Kellams said, stating he doesn’t recall any other recent cases such as this one. “Our goal is to ensure that this teen gets all of the help available, and by putting them in the system we can ensure that happens.”
In his last year as director,
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sexual misconduct cases were reported at IU Bloomington. Now, Jason Casares has resigned amidst sexual assault allegations.
Eighteen IU students will have a second chance to have their cases heard.
Samantha Schmidt By Carley Lanich clanich@indiana.edu | @carleylanich
TRACK AND FIELD
IU coach back with team after kidney surgery during break By Seth Tow stow@indiana.edu | @Ready_Seth_Go
The team left for winter break knowing the work they needed to do at home. They had just heard their coach, Ron Helmer, who they knew had been sick, reveal to them his time had come to an end. The team panicked. But Helmer was going to be fine. He wasn’t saying his time as their coach was over, but only his time without a functioning kidney. He was getting a transplant from his daughter. “They’re looking at me, and I said ‘No, no. I’m not going to die,’” Helmer said. “It was, ‘I’m going to get a transplant.’” In July 2013, Helmer was diagnosed with multiple myeloma and light chain deposition disease. Doctors told him it wasn’t able to be cured, but was treatable. IU’s coach had to make adjustments. He had to have a stem cell transplant shortly after his diagnosis. He went through chemotherapy. His athletes would have to help him carry his supplies off the bus whenever they had a road meet, and he had to undergo dialysis. It all began to wear on him. “You get really sick and tired of being sick and tired,” Helmer said. “When you have all those things going on, you’re always just not quite at full speed, even on a good day.” The doctors told Helmer his cancer would need to be in remission for an extended period of time. Then he would be eligible for a kidney transplant, and life would become more normal. He described the transplant as the tiny speck of light at the end of a dark tunnel. In December 2015, Helmer revealed the news in a team meeting with his athletes. Helmer explained to his team his daughter was going to be the donor and the transplant would happen during winter break. The stem cell procedure was for the multiple myeloma, and this kidney transplant was to treat the light chain deposition disease. “He said he had those two weeks to recover and he would hopefully be back for training and we’d have that last week together until he had the transplant,” sophomore Kendell Wiles said. “We were really excited for him, but also it’s a scary process so we were just hoping for the best.” Helmer underwent his kidney transplant surgery Dec. 18, 2015. Through the process of his surgery and recovery, the athletes
were kept in the loop about their coach’s status via email and group messages. Everyone on the team signed a card and had it sent to the hospital for Helmer. Many athletes went home and told their parents about the procedure, and the parents sent their well wishes too. Helmer said the communication he got from everyone saying how much they cared was important to him. The transplant made Helmer’s life better, he said. He explained while dialysis helps keep many people alive, it pales in comparison to having a functioning kidney. Helmer said he feels better than he had felt for four or five years, especially for the last few weeks. His appetite returned and he’s able to enjoy eating again. His body was, once again, working the way it was supposed to. Helmer said during this difficult period, something that motivated him was returning to living a more normal life. He said he looked forward to getting back to coaching and felt he still had the ability to do it well. He added something he feels is important for dealing with the later stages of life is finding something where he can be productive and have things to look forward to. However, Helmer wasn’t advised to do what he did following the procedure. He was at the last practice before winter break, and he was at the first practice after winter break. The last practice before the transplant, and the first practice after the transplant. This was a much quicker return to work than the doctors advised. “I tried very hard to live my life as normally as possible, coach as normally as possible and work as normally as possible,” Helmer said. “That was a world that kept me excited and positive. Maybe because I was active, or because it reminded me I was still able to be relevant or make a contribution.” But his team wasn’t expecting him to be back so quickly after his procedure. Wiles said she was surprised when she saw him back so soon and it was as if nothing had happened. She said the team drew inspiration from their coach’s fighting spirit all season, especially given how positive he was SEE HELMER, PAGE 8
A freshman filed a federal complaint this week against IU in which she alleged the University improperly handled her report of a sexual assault occurring at a fraternity party in September. Hailey Rial, who filed the complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, said she felt the IU Office of Student Ethics failed her throughout the hearing process. “They put in the most minimal amount of effort that they possibly could,” Rial said. “This is supposed to be a process that is both quick and efficient and fair, and I don’t think it was quick, efficient or fair.” Jason Casares, former director of IU’s Office of Student Ethics, led Rial’s hearing. Less than three weeks later, Jill Creighton, an assistant director for global community standards at New York University, posted an open letter on Twitter claiming Casares took advantage of her after having too much to drink at a convention in Fort Worth, Texas, last December.
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Former IU Title IX Director Jason Casares was accused of sexual misconduct early this 2016 semester. He has since resigned from his position.
Rial said it was Casares who called after her Jan. 16 hearing to tell her no blame was placed in the case and the board believed something happened but there was not enough evidence to prove it. Her attacker would continue taking classes at the same
University on the same campus. “When Jason told me over the phone that they found him not guilty, I was literally shocked,” Rial said. “My jaw dropped open.” Rial’s case is one of 18 being SEE CASARES, PAGE 8
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Mike Adams At His Honest Weight is a local indie band. The band has one of the largest followings in Bloomington and is currently touring Indiana.
Artist performs music, comedy By James Freeborn jrfreebo@indiana.edu | @J_Freeborn
Mike Adams has been getting reprimanded for giggling on the job since he worked at Dairy Queen as a teenager. His comedic personality influences a lot of what he does, he said. He’s the frontman for local band Mike Adams At His Honest Weight and is the host of his own talk show. “The Mike Adams Show” will be a featured act at this year’s Limestone Comedy Festival. The festival is a local comedy showcase running from June 2 to June 4. The Limestone Comedy
Festival will feature headliners such as the Legendary Bobcat Goldthwait, Roy Wood, Jr., Justin Willman and Doug Benson. “I like to laugh at everything all the time,” Adams said. His experience with the comedy show and band has amplified his knowledge of good entertainment, he said. “It’s been interesting, having been in pretty serious bands for so long but also being kind of a cut up, to sort of see those things blend together and blur the line a little bit,” he said. There’s no absence of comedy in Mike Adams at His Honest Weight, he said. His first album title,
“Oscillate Wisely,” was a pun on the song “Oscillate Wildly” by the Smiths. The band’s second album was called “Best of Boiler Room Classics.” The album was released in 2014, along with a promotional video that saw Adams performing short clips of each track like a greatest hits TV commercial. He started the band as a solo project in 2010 and recorded all of the first album in his home studio. When the time came to play live shows, he grabbed a few friends. Since then, the band’s lineup has solidified, but Adams said the music SEE ADAMS, PAGE 8