MONDAY, FEB. 8, 2016
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IU reviews allegations of sexual assault By Carley Lanich clanich@indiana.edu | @carleylanich
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Junior gaurd Alexis Gassion pushes through a Nebraska player in an attempt to score a basket. Gassion helped the Hoosiers power through to beat Nebraska 59-47, scoring 15 points and getting three rebounds.
MOVING ON
IU uses defense to defeat Nebraska, 59-47 for fifth win in six games Taylor Lehman
UP 59-47 IU 59, NEBRASKA 47 Points Buss, 17 Rebounds Cahill, 13 Assists Buss, 6 More IUWBB coverage, page 6 IU’s frontcourt of Jenn Anderson and Amanda Cahill forced Nebraska’s star freshman Jessica Shepard to commit 11 turnovers.
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As the IU players stood across the court Sunday and faced the band with arms around each other’s waists, they sang the IU alma mater while Nebraska became the fifth Big Ten team of a higher standing to walk in defeat to the locker room. Nebraska entered with a one-game lead on IU in the Big Ten standings, joined four schools that faced IU with a better conference record and failed to leave the court with a victory. Dominating the Cornhuskers 59-47 not only pushed the Hoosiers’ record to 11-0 in Assembly Hall this season, but it also improved their conference record to 7-5. IU is now tied with Nebraska for fifth place in the Big Ten. “It’s something that’s definitely a goal for us: to compete with everyone in the Big Ten and be a team that has a little bit of say,” sophomore forward Amanda Cahill said. “I think we’re on our way there, but we’re just trying to stay focused, stay together and take it one game at a time.” Nebraska 6-foot-4 freshman Jessica Shepard entered the game averaging 20 points and eight rebounds per game and came off a 35-point, 20-rebound outburst against
Michigan. Thanks to Cahill and Anderson in the post, though, the freshman put up a double-double — 18 points and 13 rebounds — but did not hurt the Hoosiers as much as she did the Wolverines. Aside from Shepard, 6-foot-5 Nebraska junior center Allie Havers had 10 points but just 6 rebounds, and both players committed four personal fouls. “I thought Jenn Anderson did a really good job of making her uncomfortable,” IU Coach Teri Moren said. “She had 18, but it was a wellearned 18 because of Jenn’s focus and what she had to do to keep her at bay.” After shooting 48.3 percent from the field in a victory at home against the Iowa Hawkeyes, the team continued its homestand against Nebraska converting just 26.3 percent of its first-half shots. Junior guard Alexis Gassion led the way with 11 points on 15 shot attempts. But where the shooting was lacking, the Hoosiers’ ball movement and defense made up for it. Opening shot attempts on the inside penetrated guards to make passes and provided opportunities for more offensive possessions. The shots just weren’t going down. SEE IUWBB, PAGE 5
IU will conduct a review of fewer than 20 sexual assault hearings dating back to the beginning of the school year following accusations that Jason Casares, IU associate dean of students, sexually assaulted a colleague at an Association for Student Conduct Administration conference in December, according to IU spokesperson Mark Land. Casares, who also serves as the University’s Title IX director, sat on a three-member panel that reviews IU students’ reports of Jason sexual misconduct in Casares the hearing stage. Casares was hired in 2011 as the associate dean of students and director of student ethics, according to a 2011 IU press release. Before coming to IU, Casares worked as an assistant dean of students at the University of Arizona. He has since been placed on paid administrative leave while the University investigates the allegations, which came last week via an open letter posted on Twitter by Jill Creighton, an assistant director for global community standards at New York University. “The University found out about this Wednesday evening when the accuser’s letter to her fellow members of the Association for Student Conduct Administration became public,” Land said in an email. “He has been placed on paid administrative leave by the University while we investigate the claims made against him.” Creighton tweeted the letter after learning Casares would be allowed to attend an ASCA conference last week in St. Petersburg, Florida. In her letter, Creighton said Casares, the former ASCA president-elect, took advantage of her after she had too much to drink at the December convention in Fort Worth, Texas. Creighton, claiming she felt unsafe in the ASCA, said she then filed a criminal complaint with police in Texas. Fort Worth Police Department officer Daniel Segura confirmed a sexual assault investigation case is open in the department, and contact was made with Creighton at around 9:30 p.m. Dec. 9, 2015. “I also could not stand the SEE CASARES, PAGE 5
Local gun proponents discuss their right to bear arms By Hannah Fleace hfleace@indiana.edu | @Hfleace
When Steve Bartlett was just a kid, he used to pack a lunch and take his gun to the quarries nearby. He’d spend all afternoon unloading rounds into a tin can, the bangs and pings echoing off limestone. “It’s called plinking,” Bartlett said. “And back then, that’s just what you did.” The next morning, 7-year-old Bartlett would take his 22 mm rifle and a box of ammunition to school. The teacher told the boys to put their guns in the clip closet, and everybody went about their day. “After school we’d go to these big trash piles out back,” Bartlett said. “We’d shoot at rats and dig for treasure.” Today Bartlett and his wife Kim own Precision Shooting Range. It’s a far cry from piles of garbage or tin cans and isn’t even a year old yet. “I’m a range owner, not a politician,” Bartlett said. “But I believe people should have the choice to carry concealed and have something in the home to protect them.” The debate over gun control is a hot issue across the country. Early in January, President Obama announced executive action on gun control. Indiana Rep. Jim Lucas,
R-Seymour, introduced two gun bills in response. House Bill 1055 would allow people to carry firearms on state property, including universities. The second bill, HB 1056, would allow Hoosiers to carry a weapon concealed or otherwise without a permit. Currently, the bills are in their first readings in the Committee on Public Policy. On a Saturday afternoon, the Bartletts’ range is packed with people exercising their Second Amendment right loudly and with several rapid bangs. In a building up the hill, about 40 women packed into a room, purses on the tables, guns at the hip. The Well Armed Women shooting chapter for Monroe County was having its monthly meeting. Grandmas, mothers, wives and sisters listened to a police officer talk about gun safety and the law. Is it illegal to bring your gun on property that has a sign posted, “no firearms allowed,” the officer repeated an often-asked question. Not illegal, but you could be in trouble for trespassing if they ask you to leave and you stay. Keep your purse with you. Keep your keys in your hand so you have something to fight back with. Diane Brinson is a mother of five. She didn’t grow up shooting or hunting, but her father had firearms. Now her husband hunts and
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Demarcus Stewart loads a magazine for his handgun at Precision Shooting Range Saturday in Spencer, Indiana.
teaches hunting safety with the Department of Natural Resources. It was pretty common for lots of families to have guns, she said. It was fine because firearms were respected.
“You learned to use them, to respect them properly, to take care of them — the good and the bad of the tool,” she said. “People aren’t instructed that way anymore, and so it’s either for violence or for
their own reasons.” The purpose of TWAW organization is to educate women on firearms and gun safety and SEE GUNS, PAGE 5