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12 GAMES STRONG IU won its 12th straight game against Northwestern. It was the team’s third straight home win of at least 25 points. By Michael Hughes michhugh@indiana.edu | @MichaelHughes94

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or the 12th straight time, the Hoosiers won. They are still undefeated at home. They have now won three Big Ten home games in a row by at least 25 points for the first time since the 1987-88 season and have won the last two Big Ten home games by at least 30 points. And with No. 25 IU’s 89-57 win against Northwestern on Saturday, the Hoosiers improved to 7-0 in the Big Ten for the first time since 1993. “When we can get a stop and get the game going it’s really, really good for us,” IU Coach Tom Crean said. “The ball movement is strong because the body movement is strong, meaning that we’re getting a lot of cutting and movement and the more that ball can move the better we are.” IU (17-3, 7-0) was helped to another blowout win by almost everyone on the team. Senior guard Yogi Ferrell led the Hoosiers in scoring with 17 points, 12 of those coming in the second half to go along with six assists. He had a stretch early in the second half when he scored

NO. 25 IU 89, NORTHWESTERN 57 Points Ferrell, 17 Rebounds Williams, 7 Assists Ferrell, 6 seven straight points, including two fade-away jumpers with a hand in his face. But IU also got 13 points from senior forward Max Bielfeldt off the bench and 11 points from junior forward Collin Hartman, including eight of the Hoosiers’ first 13 of the game. The fast start by Hartman was part of an early game run that entailed the Hoosiers jumping out to a 10-0 lead, capped off by an emphatic dunk from freshman center Thomas Bryant. “It’s all mindset,” Hartman said. “You have to come in being aggressive. The Big Ten’s a tough league on any given night. If you don’t come in ready to play, you’re going to get beat.” Bryant would finish the game with seven points on perfect 3-of3 shooting. In total, 11 different SEE BASKETBALL, PAGE 6

Big Ten Conference standings IU improved to 7-0 in the Big Ten, its best conference start since 1993. IU is tied with Iowa atop the Big Ten standings and the Hoosiers still have to play the Hawkeyes twice this season. 1. IU, 7-0

8. Michigan State, 4-4

2. Iowa, 7-0

9. Wisconsin, 3-4

3. Maryland, 6-2

10. Northwestern, 3-5

4. Michigan, 5-2

11. Penn State, 2-5

5. Purdue, 5-3

12. Illinois, 2-5

6. Ohio State, 4-3

13. Rutgers, 0-7

7. Nebraska, 4-4

14. Minnesota, 0-8 SOURCE: BIGTEN.ORG

ABOVE PHOTO BY HALEY WARD | IDS

Freshman center Thomas Bryant celebrates during a game against Northwestern on Saturday at Assembly Hall. Bryant scored seven points in the 89-57 win.

A Bloomington man was arrested and charged with the rape of a 25-year-old woman after photos and videos of passed-out, nude women were found on his phone. Robert E. Childers, 26, was booked into the Monroe County Jail on Friday on a warrant for rape after a weekslong investigation into the case. He posted bond shortly after. The 25-year-old woman told officials that on the night before Thanksgiving of 2015, Childers came to her house with a bottle of Jim Beam at about 8 or 9 p.m. They had decided to drink together and hang out, Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Shane Rasche said. After heavy drinking, the woman blacked out. The last thing she remembers was standing in her kitchen. She woke up the next morning noticing that her genital area was wet, but she didn’t know whether or not anything had happened the night before, according to the police report. Childers and the woman had previously been in a brief relationship in the early summer of 2015, but the woman said the sex they had during that time was consensual. She told Childers soon after that she didn’t want to continue having sex because she didn’t want to jeopardize their friendship, Rasche said. BPD detectives began investigating the case earlier this month when a different woman told police she had seen photos and videos on her ex-boyfriend Childers’ phone that were disturbing to her. In May, she saw a video of a woman passed out on a couch, facedown, wearing no pants. She noticed a man’s hands inserting objects into the woman’s genital area, Rasche said. In December, while she was drinking with her then-boyfriend, Childers, she was able to look at his phone while he was passed out. She noticed more photos and videos of nude women, who appeared to be unconscious, in photo albums categorized by the name of each woman. She saw in one of these videos that Childers’ hand appeared to have penetrated a woman’s genital area. Childers contacted the 25-yearold woman Jan. 13, telling her that he wanted to harm himself and that police were investigating him, according to the report. Childers asked her to speak with his attorney and SEE RAPE, PAGE 6

GPSG talks structural Ryder Film Series to screen changes and elections ‘The Optimists’ documentary By Laurel Demkovich lfdemkov@indiana.edu | @laureldemkovich

The Graduate and Professional Student Government discussed changes in the executive committee structure and upcoming elections at its first meeting of the semester Friday. GPSG President Ben Verdi led a full assembly discussion on the current committee structure and if it should be changed. As it stands now, the GPSG vice president is also the chair of the student health and wellness committee. Many members agreed the setup needs to be changed for organization, future assemblies and workload of the vice president. Members then discussed how they could address these issues. Many said they would like to see the positions split apart in the future, an idea that raised issues about stipends. “Ultimately, there would need to be more money allotted for that person for that stipend if they were to be separate from the vice president,” Verdi said. One way to solve this issue would be to combine two preexisting positions. GPSG Vice President Skyler Hutto suggested combining the vice president and the parliamentarian positions. “Then you have the additional funding freed up to have a new appointed position that would cover the health and wellness,” Hutto said.

The vice president’s duties take place mainly in the beginning of the term, whereas the parliamentarian’s main duties occur at the end of the spring semester. “They’re complimentary in that the timelines work out together,” Hutto said. Other ideas for changing these positions include lowering stipends for executive committee members and combining committees. Questions were raised over what would happen if the vice president ever needed to take over for the president. Members discussed whether or not the vice president would also stay the committee head of the student health and wellness committee if he needed to take over for the president. The assembly discussed splitting up the duties of the president among two or three executive committee members. Although no changes were made at Friday’s meeting, Verdi said this discussion was intended to make sure everyone in the assembly was on the same page about this issue. “This is something that we’ve been talking about a lot, and I wanted to make sure that everybody had a chance to sort of hear where we’re at internally with this discussion,” Verdi said. Moving forward, Communications Coordinator Jessie Mroz shared the hiring process and timeline with the assembly. SEE GPSG, PAGE 6

By TJ Jaeger tjaeger@indiana.edu | @tj_jaeger

When Jacky Comforty’s parents pushed him to tell the story of Holocaust survivors, he turned away from his background in comedy. The resulting project was “The Optimists,” a 2001 documentary about the rescue of 50,000 Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust. The film will be screened Saturday at the Ryder Film Series at the IU Fine Arts Theater. “One day they said, ‘You know, there’s really one story you must tell, and that’s how we survived the Holocaust,’” Comforty said. “And that opened a whole new path.” Following the film’s screening, Comforty, the film’s director, will host a Q&A with the audience. Comforty, who comes from a family of Holocaust survivors and grew up in Tel Aviv, Israel, said the Q&A is intended to start a conversation because film should not give final answers. “Film is a trigger,” he said. “It should be a beginning of discussion and conversation.” The film, which Comforty said was groundbreaking in its organic storytelling, has won several awards, including a CINE Golden Eagle and the Peace Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival. “My expertise is to go and make a film without a script, and create it in an organic process of collection and sorting and sieving and distilling a movie out of what I collect,” he said. “I love the

TAE-GYUN KIM | IDS

Jacky Comforty is an award-winning local filmmaker and documentarian. His movie “The Optimists” is the story of how the entire Jewish population of Bulgaria was saved by civilians during World War II.

uncertainty.” Comforty, who is based in Bloomington, said “The Optimists” brings history alive through both political and personal accounts of the Holocaust. “You need to be exposed to it so

you can relive it,” he said. “That’s what the film does. It gives you a combination of experiences and feelings.” The documentary includes SEE FILM, PAGE 6


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