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Hoosiers trying to reverse start IU (1-5) Snowbird Classic Thursday-Sunday, Port Charlotte, Florida By Zain Pyarali zpyarali@indiana.edu | @ZainPyarali
IUB FACULTY Provost Lauren Robel and faculty discussed the results of a recent diversity assessment Wednesday. Faculty is defined as a full-time, instructional staff member. Minority status is self-reported race or ethnicity as African American, Native American, Hispanic, Asian/ Pacific Islander or “Two or More Races”. SOURCE IU UNIVERSITY INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH AND REPORTING 2014
IU POLICE DEPARTMENT Panelists discussed the steps that need to be taken to ensure justice in policing, within IUPD and police departments nationwide. SOURCE ASSURANCE COMMUNICATION MANAGER TRACY JAMES GRAPHICS BY EMILY ABSHIRE
Provost’s office heightens diversity and inclusion efforts Eman Mozaffar emozaffa@indiana.edu @emanmozaffar
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rovost Lauren Robel initiated a series of open discussions about race and policing as a concrete step toward making the campus a safer, more inclusive environment. After making promises to work toward inclusion, analyzing the findings of University diversity assessments and listening to the concerns of faculty and students, Robel said she hopes her panel series enlightens participants. “The Halualani assessments, which told the University about its strengths and weaknesses in diversity, have outlined our campus’s commitments,” Robel said. “I am confident that this
series about national issues that bring the most heat will shed some light.” The University hired Halualani & Associates, a leading research and consulting organization, to conduct a diversity mapping project of the campus. Findings of the surveys assigned IU as an institution that has put effort into diversity and inclusion, although it has significant work to do before achieving high levels of equality and understanding. Robel said this discussion was a necessary step to improve race relations and talk about issues in a forward-thinking manner. The panel, moderated by Sandra Shapshay, director of the Political and Civic Engagement Program, and SEE FACULTY, PAGE 6
Students, faculty, administrators discuss policing improvements By Sarah Gardner gardnese@indiana.edu @sarahhhgardner
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U Police Department Chief Laury Flint asked the audience to take their notebooks and draw three lines, a circle on each line and a line connecting the first three. The final drawings looked a little different on each person’s sheet of paper. The point Flint said she was trying to make was that people with different experiences interpret the same instructions differently. “We don’t see things as they are,” Flint said. “We see things as we are.” Flint used this example to talk about the need for police officers and citizens, particularly black citizens, to communicate more clearly during each interaction at
a panel discussion on the Black Lives Matter movement and policing Wednesday evening at the Maurer School of Law. Even among panelists and audience members at the discussion, communication was often tense. “While the relationship between police and black students doesn’t strike me as glaringly flawed, there are still proactive steps that police and IU should take to make sure things stay that way,” law student Richard Benson said. “The panelists speaking to us disagreed on a lot of the ways these changes should happen.” Recognizing the disproportionate number of negative interactions between black citizens and police officers is the first step that SEE POLICE, PAGE 6
Just six games into the season the Hoosiers find themselves in an unfamiliar situation. With one win, IU is off to its worst start since 2006 when the team finished 10 games below .500. After being swept last weekend by Cal State Fullerton, IU will head to Florida to play in the Snowbird Classic during its final tune up before the home opener next week. The Hoosiers seek to snap their fivegame losing skid against Seton Hall Thursday. “It’s been a tough few weekends, it’s never fun to start the season off 1-5 and I’ve never been there on the teams I’ve been on,” senior infielder Brian Wilhite said. “Nobody is really feeling great right now. We’ve just got to come in, play loose and find a way to get a few solid practices in before this weekend.” With IU playing its first four game set of the season, IU Coach Chris Lemonis will keep his same starting rotation for the weekend, and junior right-handed pitcher Luke Stephenson will get the start on the mound Thursday. Stephenson is playing his first season of collegiate baseball after redshirting his freshman year at Vanderbilt before sitting out the following two seasons due to injury. With 2.1 innings under his belt, Stephenson has an ERA of 7.71 to start the season and is hoping to trim that number down after his start Thursday. “Luke is a transfer kid who came in who’s got really good stuff,” Lemonis said. “He’ll have to matchup against a really good arm for Seton Hall and then we’ll lineup for the rest of the weekend.” Seton Hall (3-5) will continue its Florida road trip. The Pirates started in Ft. Meyers, Florida, then played in Miami and will now play in Port Charlotte, Florida, to begin the season. The Pirate offense has been somewhat similar to the Hoosiers this year, failing to find their identity and averaging a little more than one run per game in losses but scoring over six runs a game in wins. Sophomore outfielder Ryan Ramiz leads the Pirates in average, hits and on-base percentage but has been batting in the middle of the order not allowing Seton Hall to turn his singles into runs. The Hoosiers will most likely face sophomore right-hander Shane McCarthy on Thursday, who has lessthan-stellar numbers on the season. In two starts McCarthy carries a record of 0-2 with a 7.71 ERA in just 9.1 innings pitched. McCarthy may have one less offensive Hoosier weapon to face with sophomore outfielder Logan Sowers questionable to play Thursday with a wrist injury. Sowers left game two of the series against Fullerton after his second at-bat and has not played since. Lemonis said sophomore outfielder Laren Eustace will start in right field if Sowers isn’t ready to go come game time. “We’re hoping to get him back SEE BASEBALL, PAGE 6
Professor communicates culture through dance By Abigail Gipson apgipson@indiana.edu | @apgipson
A crowd of dancers tried to keep up as an instructor demonstrated Senegalese sabar. The movements were rapid and precise. The dancers’ feet didn’t stay on the floor for long, they were propelled by a drumbeat that never stopped. “You don’t have to know how to do it,” Elhadji Dieng said from the front of the class. “You just have to have the attitude.” In the middle of the group was professor Iris Rosa, the director of the African American Dance Company. The dancers, members of the company, were learning sabar techniques during Thursday’s rehearsal for part of the AADC’s upcoming show April 9. The company also prepared for its annual dance workshop, which will take place Friday and Saturday at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center. Rosa has been the director of the AADC since its inception in 1974. She identifies as a storyteller and said dance is a fluid way to
communicate history and culture of communities of the African diaspora. “The difference in dance is that it’s ephemeral — you do it once, and it’s gone,” Rosa said. “It’s the experience in the moment of the dance that’s really important.” Dance is constantly evolving, Rosa said. Each time a piece is performed, though it may be the same choreography and the same music, it’s a different interpretation. She said dance is a living art, which leads to stories being continued and changed over time. Rosa said honoring dance traditions is important, too, especially for those who are further from their cultural history. “You gotta know where you come from to know where you’re going,” she said. Rosa said her own Puerto Rican heritage provides a historical and cultural basis for her to interact with other cultures. “I’ve been able to expand and learn about other cultures,” she said. “How does that connect with where I’m from and who I am as an Afro-
Latina?” Rosa began dancing in high school. She cited her mentor, Mildred Ball, as the one who introduced her to modern dance. Now, Rosa acts as a mentor to many of her students. “Her class definitely opened my eyes to a whole new world,” said Amelia Smith, an African American and African Diaspora Studies graduate student. “Not even just in dance, but in the way I go about my daily life.” Smith, who works as Rosa’s assistant, was part of the dance company for two semesters at the end of her undergraduate career. She said her time working with Rosa fundamentally changed how she thought about people. She said she recalled working on a historical narrative piece during her first semester in the company. The class discussed a scene where the dancers sat in a clump, alluding to slaves on a ship in the Middle Passage. YULIN YU | IDS
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Iris Rosa, director of the IU African American Dance Company, presents forms of African American dance in her office at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center.