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IUPD sends safety alerts Two abduction attempts reported during weekend From IDS reports
Two abduction attempts in one night were being investigated by police after two female students reported that they were almost forced into a vehicle near Memorial Stadium. IU Police Department reports did not indicate the two incidents were related. One student reported that three white men tried to force her into a black Jeep Cherokee early Sunday morning near Gate 7 of Memorial Stadium. She said she was knocked to the ground and injured but managed to escape. The student reported one of the men had dark hair and was wearing a purple sports jersey. No descriptions of the other two suspects were available at press time. Police also investigated a second attempted abduction report after another female student said a man attempted to force her into his vehicle while she was walking along State Road 45/46 Bypass near Bart Kaufman Field at 1873 N.Fee Lane. The student was able to flee before the suspect left the area in an unknown direction. The second student reported the suspect was a black male about 6 feet tall. She said he was wearing a dark gray T-shirt and dark pants while driving a black Toyota Sedan. Police encouraged students to take shelter and call 911 with any information. Sarah Gardner and Christine Fernando
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Ex-rower tells ESPN she was mistreated By TC Malik tcmalik@umail.iu.edu | @TCMalik96
Former IU rower Katlin Beck told ESPN’s Outside the Lines in a report that aired Sunday that IU attempted to cover up her injuries and forced her to practice despite pain. Beck was a part of the IU rowing team during the 2013-14 season; however, her name doesn’t appear on the roster for that particular season on iuhoosiers.com. Beck joined the rowing team in 2013 but she told ESPN that after two months she began to experience severe back pain. “I got to a point where I could not walk anymore,” Beck told ESPN. “If I can’t even walk to class, what does that mean for my life?” Beck also told ESPN that IU Coach Steve Peterson and the staff viewed the injured rowers as “wimps.” She referenced a particular meeting with Peterson when he said he didn’t have room for injured people on his team. Peterson declined to interview with ESPN and declined when asked for comment by the Indiana Daily Student. Beck said she sought medical advice both within and outside the IU program. The first doctor from IU said her injury was only a muscular problem, but it failed to get better after the SEE ROWER, PAGE 5
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Left The Kappa Alpha Theta cycling team holds the first place trophy during the award ceremony after the race. This is Kappa Alpha Theta’s seventh win. Right The Black Key Bulls win the 2017 Little 500 men’s race Saturday afternoon at Bill Armstrong Stadium. This was the 67th running of the race.
BACK ON TOP Kappa Alpha Theta wins 30th running of women’s Little 500 By Patrick Wisdom
Women’s Top 10
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On a cloudy and rainy Friday afternoon at Bill Armstrong Stadium, Kappa Alpha Theta won the women’s Little 500 — again. It got the victory for the third time in four years to make it the sorority’s seventh in 30 editions of the women’s race, which is the most of any women’s team. Alpha Omicron Pi, Delta Gamma, Alpha Chi Omega and SKI rounded out the top five in that order. When the race kicked off at about 4:30 p.m., the riders at the front of the pack pushed the pace and caused about 10 teams
‘People’s Champs’ rise again as Black Key Bulls win Little 500 By Tyler Sorg
Men’s Top 10
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1. Kappa Alpha Theta 2. Alpha Omicron Pi 3. Delta Gamma 4. Alpha Chi Omega 5. SKI 6. Melanzana 7. Kappa Delta 8. Teter 9. Phi Mu 10. Alpha Gamma Delta
to fall off the lead pack by lap 15. At the start of lap 35 there was an eight-team crash right before turn one that brought SEE WOMEN’S, PAGE 5
With about 30 laps to go Saturday, the Black Key Bulls pulled ahead of the pack and never looked back. After two previous years of finishing within a second of the victor, the Black Key Bulls came out on top in the 67th running of the men’s Little 500 to take their second title in four years. Rounding out the top five were Gray Goat, Cutters, Beta Theta Pi and Sigma Alpha Epsilon in that order. Throughout the race the Black Key Bulls team of senior Charlie Hammon, juniors Kevin
1. Black Key Bulls 2. Gray Goat 3. Cutters 4. Beta Theta Pi 5. Sigma Alpha Epsilon 6. Bears 7. Sigma Chi 8. Sigma Phi Epsilon 9. Phi Gamma Delta 10. 3PH
Mangel and Noah Voyles, and sophomore Xavier Martinez hung with the lead pack of about 15 teams. SEE MEN’S, PAGE 5
Protesters march on Earth Day in Indy By Alexa Chryssovergis aachryss@indiana.edu | @achryssovergis
INDIANAPOLIS — Theodore Williamson, 4, held the multicolored binoculars against his small, wire-framed glasses and peered intently into the distance from his high perch atop his dad’s shoulder. He uses the binoculars “to make things look better when they’re so far away,” Theodore explained. On Saturday, he used the binoculars to get a closer look at the science-lovers all around him. He and his parents, Brent and Kori Williamson, joined an estimated 10,000 people in Indianapolis for one of many Marches for Science taking place across the nation on Earth Day. Theodore already knows he wants to be a paleontologist because of his interest in dinosaurs. He loves science, particularly shows like Bill Nye and “The Magic School Bus,” Brent said. Theodore said he is especially interested in the science of dinosaurs and science “that can save the world from flooding so much.” At the march Saturday, which began at Bicentennial Plaza on the west side of the Statehouse, there were all kinds of science-lovers present. There were other parents, some walking slowly beside their ambling children, like the Williamsons, who expalained to them how things like global warming work. There were also entrepreneurs of technology startup companies, professors, scientists and attorneys, said Rufus Cochran, one of three event co-chairs for March for Science Indianapolis. Cochran said he wanted to
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Carey and Keith Gaskill, Indianapolis residents, hold up their signs before the March for Science began Saturday morning. Keith is a local geochemist.
make sure everyone knew the march wasn’t just for Ph.D. students in lab coats. “Science touches so many more people than that,” he said. Cochran said he began mentally planning the march in the middle of the night a few months ago when he was scrolling through Reddit and saw ideas beginning to pop up for the other marches around the country. Cochran, his wife and the third co-chair, Sarah McAmis, just set up a platform for people to start their stories, and everything sort of spiraled from there, Cochran said. The recent political climate has
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caused tension in science communities around the country because President Trump has proposed to make huge cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency and encouraged censorship among its employees. “We see all of the benefits that science gives us, and that comes from an open and free dissemination of information,” Cochran said. “We decided we can’t sit by anymore.” Before the march began, eight speakers stood elevated on the Statehouse steps and rallied the crowd. First up was Sheral Anderson, who spoke on behalf of Sen. Joe
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Donnelly, D-Indiana. She read a statement from the senator to the enthusiastic crowd to thank them for attending. Among the speakers was also Jesse Kharbanda, executive director of the Hoosier Environmental Council. At the federal level there has been an unprecedented assault on science, Kharbanda said. Proposed EPA cuts would do damage to areas such as water quality, environmental justice and climate protection, among other things, he said. Kharbanda said at the state SEE SCIENCE, PAGE 5