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IU staff involved in 2014 rape cases From IDS reports
Two rapes were reported Tuesday that happened in January 2014 and March 2014. The victim and the suspect in both reports are the same, IUPD Chief Laury Flint said. Flint also said she has no explanation for why the victim waited to report the crimes at this time as the investigation is still ongoing. The two involved in the incidents are both IU-Bloomington employees, Flint said, and both still remain IU employees, despite the reports. As the investigation continues, Flint said she hopes to be able to release more details of the case. “No students are involved and there is no danger to anyone or an emergency notification/timely warning would have been sent,” Flint said in an email. Suzanne Grossman
FOOTBALL
Sudfeld learns from game’s best
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Julie James, an adviser at SPEA, feeds the chickens on her organic farm in Bloomington. Though she leads a vegan lifestyle, she makes an exception for her chickens’ eggs.
Her tiny corner After learning how to be a leader in the environmentalist movement, Julie James tries to protect what she can of the environment, in ways big and small. By Annie Garau agarau@indiana.edu | @agarau6
When Julie James was eight years old, she pried open an enormous Encyclopedia Britannica and started writing. Aardwolf, African black crake, Agouti. Every animal she came across was added to the organized list scrawled out in her third-grader handwriting. Baleen whale, Banded mongoose, Barking gecko. “I don’t quite understand the logic now, but I think, in my eightyear-old brain, I had this idea that if I wrote down every animal in the world’s name, they would somehow be okay,” James said. “It seems silly now, but I wanted to protect them or keep them.” James, who is now a career coach and instructor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, grew up
By Brody Miller brodmill@indiana.edu | @BrodyMillerIDS
The amount of attention on senior quarterback Nate Sudfeld has been simmering as the summer drags on. It could have begun with him being named to award watch lists for the Maxwell Award and Wuerfell Trophy. Maybe it started to heat up when he was selected to be one of two players speaking at the Big Ten Kickoff Luncheon at the end of the month in Chicago. But in the past week, Sudfeld has worked with Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning at their passing academy in Louisiana and Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck at his Change the Play camp Sunday at IU. The platform on which Sudfeld stands has been rising in prominence as he attempts to return from a season-ending shoulder injury. At the Manning Passing Academy, he did not waste the opportunity to learn from such respected quarterbacks and coaches. “It was incredible,” Sudfeld said. “I just tried to soak up as much information as I could from Peyton and Eli, (Saints) coach Sean Payton.” He asked questions and spoke with the quarterbacks about the game but said watching them work was what stood out. He admired the way they operated and their attention to detail. He was one of 37 college quarterbacks to work as a counselor at the camp. The list was full of high-profile members including TCU’s Trevone Boykin and Penn State’s Christian Hackenberg. In a quarterback challenge between the counselors in which players had to throw at moving targets at different distances, Sudfeld finished second to Seth Russell of Baylor. “That was one of the funnest parts,” Sudfeld said. “I was really looking forward to that and kinda stacking myself up to the premier quarterbacks in college and felt like I did really well.” One of Sudfeld’s old targets and current Denver Broncos receiver Cody Latimer even posted on Instagram Manning spoke well of Sudfeld’s performance at the camp. SEE SUDFELD, PAGE 6
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James holds her chicken named Audrey Hepburn on her organic farm, Blue Farm.
next to a forest in New Albany, Indiana. When she wasn’t poring over her encyclopedia, she was outdoors. “I really just lived and breathed the playground of the woods,” she
said. “I felt very connected to all of the creatures.” During the summers, crawdads SEE ENVIRONMENT, PAGE 6
O-team leaders try to make orientation fun By Bailey Moser bpmoser@indiana.edu | @theedailybailey
Alexis Burr didn’t enjoy her orientation. She said the nature of the activities, combined with her nervousness about being in a new place around new people, meant she didn’t connect well with members of her orientation group. Burr, a junior next year, just finished her first summer as an orientation leader, a job she took because she didn’t want other students to have the same experience she had two years ago. “I wanted to make sure that students felt better about being here, and I was pretty nervous as well, so I wanted to make sure I connected with those students to get them excited about being here, to get them to relax and realize everything’s going to be fine,” Burr said. The O-Team is a select group of students who stay on campus over the summer to lead incoming freshmen through New Student Orientation. Each individual’s skills and talents are given the opportunity to thrive in several leadership positions during NSO, which ended Tuesday. Members can start as orientation leaders or program assistants. This was Brady Koetting’s second year as a member of the O-Team. As a rising junior, Koetting’s performance his sopho-
more year earned him a place on the leadership team. The leadership team decides who moves forward through an application process. The recruitment process begins in late November or early December, Koetting said. While the O-Team targets student groups they think would be interested, all students are welcome to apply, even seniors who graduate but remain in Bloomington during the summer. Once students apply and are given the proper information, a two-step interview process begins. After applying, everyone goes to the group stage, Koetting said. The group interview is to evaluate how applicants work in teams, how they facilitate discussion and more. After the leadership team makes their decisions on who should remain in the candidate pool, the next step is an individual interview with more personalized questions to determine more about the applicants, Koetting said. “A lot of people sort of think of orientation leaders as the uppity, positive, crazy, energetic, cheesy people, but I think I’d go insane if everyone was like that, so yeah, the goal sort of is to have people to represent all different kinds of campus,” Koetting said After students are notified via
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Alexis Burr, a junior studying excercise science at IU, is one of the student leaders of the incoming new student orientation.
email they have been chosen, OTeam members are required to take an eight-week class. Members who are orientation leaders learn about student development theory, such as what students are thinking when they first come to college, team building and how to work with different kinds of people. “Orientation leaders are the people you will see leading the groups around, giving presentation, facilitating,” Burr said. Program assistants are trained how to handle the program’s office work, such as being prepared to answer the NSO’s hotline, 812-855HELP, which can receive any range
of questions. When the summer comes, there is a two-week training period prior to the first NSO in which the leadership team brings together all the resources from across campus mentioned throughout Orientation. “We talk about the messages they would like us to tell the students coming in so anything from UITS, to Library Services, to the IMU library...they all come in and we get that information,” SEE O-TEAM, PAGE6