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What to do during IU Family Weekend By Metta Thomas mehthoma@iu.edu | @mettathomas
IU Family Weekend will begin Friday and go through the end of the weekend. With many students’ relatives coming onto campus, here’s a list of things visiting families can do to take advantage of all IU has to offer.
IDS 10 points for IU Quidditch IU’s club quidditch team prepares to kick off new season with tournament By Julia Locanto jlocanto@iu.edu
You probably know quidditch as a sport from the magical world of Harry Potter, where wizards fly around on broomsticks throwing bludgers and attempting to catch the golden snitch. The IU quidditch team, however, takes the sport out of the fantasy series and onto the field. IU’s quidditch team is welcoming a new coach this year, Traeger Duratti. Duratti got involved with quidditch when he attended a summer camp that played the game, and he fell in love with the sport. He created his own team to play, and coached at several universities for five years before coming to IU this fall. The team is kicking off its 2018 season with its first tournament from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sept. 22 at 1200 N. Fee Lane. Quidditch only became an official club sport at IU in Septem-
ber 2014. The team already has 30 players this semester, double the number of players from last year. The game of quidditch has evolved since it first became popular. “Three to four years ago, it shifted from Harry Potter superfans to a legitimate athletic sport,” Duratti said.
“Three or four years ago, it shifted from Harry Potter superfans to legitimate athletic sport.” Traeger Duratti, IU quidditch coach
IU’s team is registered with U.S. Quidditch and is an affiliate of the International Quidditch Association. “Overall, quidditch is on the verge of becoming a varsity sport,” Duratti said. “My job is to build a foundation here so the team can grow and continue
coming up with their own ideas for the sport.” The game is a mixture of dodgeball and rugby, according to sophomore Lexi Lee, a member of the quidditch team. “The main idea is that each team has six players on the field all working together to either score in or defend the hoops,” she said. Each player has a job, either as a chaser, beater, seeker, keeper or as the golden snitch. The seekers attempt to catch and tag the person playing the snitch; if they do, the game ends. In the Harry Potter series, the snitch is a ball with wings, but in this game it is another player. The keepers act like goalies at the three hoops, chasers score and beaters defend their team by eliminating chasers with a dodgeball, which is referred to as a bludger. Each player must also have a “broom stick” — a PVC pipe — between their legs to make the game more difficult.
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Chaser Adam Bailey tosses the quaffle into the goal during a scrimmage. Quidditch is a game based on the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. The game is a mixture of dodgeball and rugby in practice, and seven players on the field from a given team work together to either score or defend.
The team practices on Woodlawn Field, and will be participating in several other tournaments after the season kicks off Sept. 22. With its growing popularity, not only at IU but across the country, quidditch has expanded to 85 registered teams in the U.S. for the 2018-19 season as of Sept. 18. According to Duratti, the team is accepting of all people and is a co-ed team, creating a welcoming environment. “It’s unlike anything else,” Duratti said. “With quidditch, at any given time you have two to three different games going on at once that make up a bigger game.”
Kellams to retire after 38 years on bench By Sydney Tomlinson sydtomli@iu.edu | @sydpt
At first glance, faith and law may not seem to mix. Faith, on one hand, requires one to be gentle and forgiving. Law, on the other, requires strength and firmness. Yet both deal heavily in questions of morality — in deciding what is right and wrong. Judge Marc Kellams, 69, has explored that mix of faith and law throughout his life and career as a judge on the Monroe County Circuit Court and a deacon through the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. “My church would tell me that my goal in life is to love God and to help others,” Kellams said. “I’m not sure there’s really any difference when I’m out on the bench. My job is to help others in one way or another.” Now, after 38 years, Kellams will retire from the court. Kellams was appointed by then-Gov. Otis Bowen to his seat Jan. 1, 1981 at only 31 years old. He had graduated from the IU Maurer School of Law three years prior. While he had hoped to have a judicial career, Kellams never expected it to begin as early as it did. His undergraduate degree, also from IU, was in religious studies. His interest in moral ethics and desire to help people drove him to law school. Kellams’ dedication to helping others and serving his community is at the core of everything he does, from his judicial career, to his deaconship, to volunteer work. Growing up, Kellams’ family was active in their Baptist church, but he converted to Catholicism at 17. He became an ordained deacon through the Archdiocese of Indianapolis in June 2008. He ministers through St. Charles Borromeo Church in Bloomington, mostly visiting and comforting the elderly, sick and dying as well as their families. While he keeps his two vocations separate in practice, he said he thinks the two are similar as
Hit all the iconic spots on campus The Indiana Geological & Water Survey will lead a campus tour from 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, detailing the styles, techniques and artistry of architecture around campus. The tour starts at the Sample Gates. Before Saturday’s game, you can also get an up-close look at IU football’s playing grounds with a free tour of Memorial Stadium at 8 p.m. Friday. Visitors will get a behind-the-scenes look at the facility, training rooms and will even be able to walk on the field. Entertainment Comedians Steve Martin and Martin Short will perform live at 8 p.m. Saturday at the IU Auditorium in their show “An Evening You Will Forget For The Rest Of Your Life.” Emo Phillip will perform at the Comedy Attic at 8 p.m. Thursday and 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. He has been performing since 1976, has appeared in film and television shows and has several comedy albums. Tickets are $25. “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs,” an opera about Steve Jobs, is showing at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Musical Arts Center. John Ondrasik from Five for Fighting will perform with a string quartet at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. Sports IU women’s volleyball takes on the Northwestern at 7 p.m. Friday at University Gym. Students get in free with a valid student ID. Tickets SEE FAMILY, PAGE 6
Officials want local hunters at Griffy Lake By Emily Isaacman eisaacma@iu.edu | @emilyisaacman
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Judge Marc Kellams sits in the courtroom at the Justice Building. Kellams joined the Monroe County Circuit Court in 1981.
they both deal with the sometimes difficult realities and failures of the human experience. Tending to people’s spiritual needs and issues as a deacon often isn’t much different from handling people’s personal needs and issues in courtroom, he said. “People think of judges as decision makers,” he said. “I think of judges as solution finders, which sometimes means making a decision, but I like to involve people in the resolution of their own problems as often as I can.” Kellams has handled a range of criminal cases for the last 15 years, including traffic violations and murder trials. Currently, he also handles all sex crimes. Most people have the wrong idea of criminal court and just think of it as punishment, he said. But at its best, it’s a blend of holding people accountable in one way or another and finding solutions to better their lives.
“When they’re better off, we’re all better off,” he said. When he retires from the bench at the start of 2019, Kellams will take on the role of coordinator of prison ministries for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, combining his skills in the law and ministry.
“I’m not a very judgemental person, and I never have been. You can be a judge and not be judgmental.” Marc Kellams, judge on the Monroe County Circuit Court
“He’s an incredible human being,” said Inge Van der Cruysse, a lecturer at IU Maurer School of Law. “He’s the kind of person everybody wants on the bench.”
Van der Cruysse was a student in Kellams’ trial advocacy class when she attended Maurer, where he’s taught since 1983. She also knows him as a colleague on the committee for the Indiana Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program, or JLAP. JLAP is a program through the Indiana State Bar Association and Indiana Supreme Court that organizes volunteers to help judges, attorneys and law students struggling with mental health problems, such as addiction or depression. Kellams was a volunteer before he was appointed to the committee, which acts as the program’s oversight board, by Chief Justice Brent Dickson of the Indiana Supreme Court in 2013. Terry Harrell, executive director of Indiana JLAP, said Kellams has continued to be dedicated to doing interpersonal volunteer work with SEE KELLAMS, PAGE 6
Griffy Lake has a deer problem. White-tailed deer have overpopulated the Griffy Lake Nature Preserve for years, damaging forest ecology by feeding on plants. City officials say a hunt is the best solution. The Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department first requested an ordinance change for sharpshooting at Griffy Lake in 2014, to great resistance from the community. Two attempted culls later, it is now proposing an amendment that would allow local hunters to participate in a regulated hunt over three weekends in November and December. City council discussed the amendment Wednesday night but did not vote as of press time. A cull will proceed regardless of the council’s vote, whether by sharp shooter or local hunters. Researchers and city officials have never been able to quantify the total deer population at the preserve, preventing them from setting a target for the hunts. The first cull in 2014 was completely unsuccessful — not one deer was killed. In the second cull December 2017, the sharpshooter killed 62. “They didn’t get all of them, we know that,” said Steve Cotter, natural resource manager for the city. The 2017 sharpshooter cost the city approximately $43,500. Drawing on local hunters would enable the city to receive a $32,500 reimbursement from the Community Hunting Access Program through the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. The city would need to contribute an additional $15,000 for the hunt. The CHAP program’s goals are twofold. Financial assistance helps under-resourced communities manage their deer populations, ofSEE HUNT, PAGE 6