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ROAD TO RIO
O LY M P I A N S ONCE AGAIN
Details released about rape dismissals Prosecutor Bob Miller explains John Enochs’ short probation period By Suzanne Grossman spgrossm@indiana.edu | @suzannepaige6
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Freshman Lilly King works on turns during practice Dec. 7, 2015, in the Counsilman-Bilingsley Aquatic Center.
For the first time in 40 years, IU swimmers made the U.S. Olympic team By Michael Hughes michhugh@indiana.edu @MichaelHughes94
He couldn’t quite describe what he was feeling. That made sense, considering this is the first time Ray Looze produced a swimmer that will swim for the United States in the Olympics. Fourteen years after taking over an IU program known more for what it had accomplished 40 years ago, Looze finally brought what is considered one of the historically great swimming programs back to the pinnacle. “It’s literally been the hardest thing I’ve ever been involved with, but again it just feels really, really good,” Looze said. “I didn’t know if this day would ever come.” That day was Monday, when Cody Miller finished second in the 100-meter breaststroke at the USA Olympic swimming trials in Omaha, Nebraska, which punched his ticket to Rio for the Olympics later this summer. The next day, it happened again, when Lilly King swam the third fastest 100-meter breaststroke an American woman has ever swam. Not only will there be a Hoosier on the U.S. Olympic team for the first time since 1976, there will be two this year. “It’s kind of indescribable,” Looze said. “When I came to IU
More Olympians possible See if other Hoosiers punch their ticket to Rio during the rest of the trials at idsnews.com in 2002 it wasn’t even a desirable job at all. It was a place that had been good a long time ago. I was born in 1967 so I wasn’t even old enough to remember those days myself, I just learned through word of mouth.” High school swimmers today have no recollection of Doc Counsilman, the man who coached what Sports Illustrated called the greatest college sports team of all-time in 1971. They knew Mark Spitz more as the man Michael Phelps surpassed in 2008 to become the greatest swimmer of all time. In 2008, Looze was trying to find and maximize the potential of swimmers no one else wanted. Convincing swimmers to spend their college years in the Midwest isn’t easy considering the sport’s connection with sunshine and warm weather. As a result, the sport is dominated by teams in California, Florida, Georgia and Texas. Since IU’s last national championship in 1973, Michigan has been the only cold-weather school to win a title. The Wolverines managed to win twice, in 1995 and 2013. Looze’s goal was to change that and, even though he knew
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NSF grants IU $525,000 for research From IDS reports
Baby, I’m gonna need a doctor’s care To help me through the night I’ve been told the world outside is so cold.
Two IU chemists have received $525,000 from the National Science Foundation to advance research with applications to the emerging field of carbon recycling, according to an IU press release. IU scientists Steven L. Tait and Kenneth Caulton will combine their knowledge in two distinct fields of chemistry, surface chemistry and metal-organic chemistry, to create new catalysts that guide molecular transformations, according to a press release. An example of this type of change is converting environmentally harmful carbon dioxide molecules into carbon-neutral plastics, building materials and fuel. Carbon dioxide, or CO2, is the product of combustion of gasoline or coal, according to a press release. “The conversion of molecules into new forms, including ‘recycling’ carbon, is a broad challenge in chemistry,” Tait said in a press release. “Our work will advance the field by applying methods pioneered at IU toward the development of reactions not yet attainable outside highly controlled laboratory environments.” The co-agent on the project is Caulton, a distinguished chemistry professor and world-renowned expert in metal-organic chemistry, which employs organic materials to isolate and organize single metal atoms into powerful, complex structures, roughly analogous to enzymes, the molecules of life, according to a press release. Tait and Caulton’s labs began to team up nearly two years ago. Support from the NSF was based in part upon the strength of these early experiments, in which the two teams successfully engineered a new type of surface from highly organized metal atoms that reacted chemically
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IU swimming coach Ray Looze receives the 2009 women’s Big Ten swimming and diving championship trophy. Looze has contributed to five conference championships in his time at IU.
it wasn’t going to happen overnight, he also isn’t someone who likes to wait around, he said. “It’s been a seven day a week job, 365 days a year,” Looze said. “I know people say that, but I’ve
made recruiting calls on Christmas Day, Thanksgiving and I’ve done it for many, many years.” A typical Sunday for Looze SEE LOOZE, PAGE 5
Fitz and the Tantrums returns to Bluebird By Emily Jones emkjones@indiana.edu | @emkkjones
Concertgoers danced shoulder-to-shoulder. LED striplights flashed. From the street Tuesday night, it was evident the Bluebird Nightclub was packed nearly to capacity for the return of LA-based band Fitz and the Tantrums. Opening was indie-pop group Finish Ticket from the San Francisco Bay Area. With two sets of brothers — Brendan and Michael Hoye and Gabe and Nick Stein — the group has been interconnected since banding together in 2012. The band played “Shake a Symphony” from its self-released album and “When Night Becomes Day” from a more recent album released on Elektra Records. “These boys are on the same wavelength,” said audience member Lea Martin of Greencastle, Indiana. “Even their head bobbing
is choreographed.” Finish Ticket lead vocalist Alex DiDonato addressed the audience before the stage was cleared and prepped for Fitz and the Tantrums. “Bloomington ... all the shops, all the restaurants, it’s amazing,” DiDonato said. “We’re so grateful to be here in your neighborhood.” Between acts, people of every age and demographic mingled. IU student Jordan Harris ran a glow-paint booth in which she replicated the cover of the Tantrums’ newest album, “Fitz and The Tantrums,” on audience members’ hands. “I decided to volunteer after my friend took me to see this band,” Harris said. “I’ve liked their music since I saw them at the Bluebird. It’s very groovy.” Excitement was palpable as fans waited for the Tantrums. After the indie-pop-soul group assembled in the dark, its 2010 hit “Don’t Gotta Work it Out” —
Just a few days after former IU student John Enochs was sentenced to one-year probation for battery and had two rape charges dismissed, Monroe County Prosecutor Bob Miller showed frustration regarding the case. He released a statement that expressed the lack of evidence to prove Enochs guilty of both rape charges issued in September 2015. “This turn of events was frustrating for us as prosecutors due to the fact that there were two complaints against the defendant,” Miller said in the statement. “That fact is the reason we continued to pursue accountability on his part which led to this plea agreement.” One of the first problems the prosecutors ran into was the two rape cases were unrelated, which meant they would have to be tried and heard by separate juries. In the older case, from 2013, the alleged victim had no memory of the events because of alcohol consumption and Enochs’ attorney Katharine Liell argued any testimony the alleged victim gave would be hearsay based on stories the complaining witness had been told. Enochs and the alleged victim met each other before the night of the alleged rape. One of the witnesses in the
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Michael Fitzpatrick, left, the singer of Fitz and the Tantrums, performs Tuesday evening at the Bluebird. Bloomington was a stop on its North America tour.
along with electric green strobe lighting — filled the room with energy. The group’s sound was highvoltage, with traces of Motown from the early 1960s and Maroon 5-like electropop.