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FOOTBALL
Hoosier receives Big Ten award By Grace Palmieri gpalmier@indiana.edu | @grace_palmieri
Sophomore linebacker TJ Simmons said Tegray Scales just has a knack for football. He saw it during preseason camp. Without already being familiar with the defensive schemes and formations, the freshman linebacker was still making big plays, Simmons said. “Some kind of way he always got interceptions, fumbles and stuff,” Simmons said. “His work ethic, his preparedness on the field, it’s all gold. I love Scales playing beside him.” As Simmons’ backup at the middle linebacker position this year, Scales has 17 tackles in three games. He was named the Big Ten coFreshman of the Week after IU defeated then-No. 18 Missouri, the conference announced Monday. Scales made five tackles, including one for a 10-yard loss, in a 31-27 IU win. Simmons said the Cincinnati native has had no trouble making the transition from high school to collegelevel football. “He’s a great athlete and he listens to Coach (William) Inge,” Simmons said. “He can do it all. Plus he’s got a great coach behind him. He just works.” Scales said the commitment that Inge and the other coaches made to him during recruiting was essential to him choosing IU over offers from Oklahoma, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Simmons said he also took Scales under his wing because he was in the same position as Scales as a freshman last season. “Sometimes it feels like it’s going 1,000 miles per hour, but I tell him ‘You just have to slow down and work on your fundamentals, just fall back on that because that’s really what’s going to show,’” Simmons said. As a defense, IU recorded four sacks and 11 tackles for a loss against the Tigers. The Hoosiers had 12 tackles for loss in their previous two games combined.
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Reem Alturki listens to stories of lives lost during the summer violence between Israel and Palestine during the J Street at IU’s vigil Monday night at Showalter Fountain.
‘A call to empathy’ Students commemorate Israeli, Palestinian lives lost in conflict By Anicka Slachta aslachta@indiana.edu | @ajslachta
Diana Nabulsi took two steps forward, into the circle of lights. “I speak my words unto God, O Gaza,” she said, reciting the words of poet Manal Miqdad. The poem is one he wrote after a sleepless night of violence in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian region, and has been translated from Arabic. Nabulsi spoke clearly and slowly: “Creator of the world, are you receiving my letters? ... Why won’t you believe me when I lay down my plea before you: I do not want war, I do not want my life to end.” Two students stepped into the circle and relinquished their lights, setting the single-wick tea lights in the center of the circle. Surrounding the flames were Palestinian and Israeli students alike, standing shoulder-to-shoulder and listening
Candles are lit in memory of lives lost during the summer violence in Israel and Palestine.
to the stories of violence. The candlelight vigil, hosted by J Street at IU, brought a group of students to Showalter Fountain on Monday night to reflect upon the lives lost in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, particularly in the bursts of violence this summer. Nabulsi had been there. She was in Jerusalem, though, out of harm’s way, before she left. “I am full-blooded Palestinian, and what happened this summer not only
See it for yourself. Hear from the student coordinators in a video of the vigil at idsnews.com. greatly affected my family, but also my people,” she said. In one hand, she still held the copy of the poem she had read, folded neatly in three sections. “People don’t understand (why I’m SEE VIGIL, PAGE 5
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ELECTIONS 2014
Orchestra to perform District 6 candidates talk wages at Jacobs Wednesday Indiana’s gender gap 6000 0
By Emily Ernsberger
emelerns@indiana.edu | @emilyernsberger
Women in the U.S. earned 78 percent of what men made in 2013, up from 77 percent in 2012. The United States Census Bureau released data last week regarding income distribution, including the wage gap between men and women working full-time jobs. Indiana is ranked 45 out of the 50 states and Washington, D.C., when it comes to income inequality. In Indiana, women earn 74 percent of what men make, according to the Census Bureau. Last week, the Senate voted on the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill designed to close the pay gap between men and women. The vote was split along party lines. SEE DISTRICT 6, PAGE 5
From IDS reports
Indiana was ranked 45 out of 50 in the nation in pay equality between men and women. The state had an earnings ratio of 74 percent, compared to the national 78 percent. 5000 0
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The Jacobs School of Music Symphony Orchestra will perform 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Musical Arts Center. The Symphony Orchestra is a group of music school students who perform regularly at the school. This concert is one of three that are scheduled for this semester. This October and November, the orchestra will once again take the stage. Wednesday the musicians are scheduled to perform three different pieces: “Weber: Overture to ‘Euryanthe,’” “Siberius: Tapiola Op. 112” and “Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95.” At Wednesday’s concert, they
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SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 8 p.m. Wednesday Musical Arts Center will be conducted by music professor David Effron. Effron was the conductor of the Grammy Award-winning recording of Copland’s Lincoln Portrait narrated by William Warfield, according to the music school. He was also involved in a Pantheon recording with soprano Benita Valente, which won the German Record Critics’ Award. Effron has conducted 105 operas around the world, working in New York, Los Angeles and Germany.
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