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MEN’S SOCCER

After being tagged with hateful graffiti, a local church decided to leave it.

Hoosiers prepare to take on Zips By Josh Eastern jeastern@iu.edu | @JoshEastern

The Hoosiers have drawn seven times, posted 10 clean sheets and gone 4-1-2 against teams in the RPI top 25. Now they find themselves in a position to make a run in the NCAA Tournament as the No. 7 overall seed. IU now will get ready to face the Akron Zips on Sunday in Bloomington in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. IU Coach Todd Yeagley said he doesn’t know a whole lot about his opposition. “Akron, we’ve played them in the past,” Yeagley said. “They play a possession-oriented style, they get numbers forward, and they build through the different phases through the game.” Akron earned a 2-0 win against Villanova on Thursday to punch its ticket to the second round. The last time the Hoosiers played the Zips was in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in 2013 in Akron, Ohio. The Zips came away with a 3-2 win. The only current player to have played in that game was IU goalkeeper Colin Webb. Both teams came into the season with high expectations. The Zips started the season in the top 10 but have since fallen out SEE SOCCER, PAGE 6

By Katelyn Haas | haask@indiana.edu | @khaas96

BEAN BLOSSOM, IND. --n Episcopal church stands quiet on the corner of Gatesville Road and State Road 135, but the words on the sides of the church speak. On Nov. 13, church members arriving for services were greeted by a spraypainted swastika, a gay slur and the phrase “Heil Trump” on the sides of the church. The church has decided to let the symbols remain on the side of the church until Nov. 30. The priest, Rev. Kelsey Hutto, at St. David’s Episcopal Church sifted through letters of support she had just received in the mail. “These are the first letters I have gotten. Calls and emails have been incredible,” Hutto said, tearing the seal off of another letter. “We have been getting an amazing amount of support from the community.” Hutto received a call Sunday morning from the church organist, usually the first to arrive on Sundays

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IU (11-1-7) vs. Akron Zips (13-5-3) 1 p.m., Sunday, Bill Armstrong Stadium

to practice, saying the church had been vandalized. Hutto lives 10 minutes away from the church and drove over as quickly as she could. “I’ll tell you that was the longest 10 minutes I had ever driven,” Hutto said. “I didn’t really know what I was coming up to.” She said her first thought was about how disheartening it was to see. Her second thought was that they were targeted for a reason. “I know it sounds weird, but these are almost badges of honor at this point,” Hutto said. She said the church is inclusive and has forgiven the vandals, though the Brown County sheriff ’s office has not identified any suspects. She said there is no reason to make these perpetrators the scapegoats for everything happening in the nation, though there is a sense of taking ownership for what they have done. “My assumption is that this person probably

Ivy Tech to honor city arts supporters

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By Mallory Haag mjhaag@indiana.edu | @MalloryHaag

cial media has contributed to an increasingly polarized political landscape. It could simply be a reflection of a polarized society or a result of personalization technologies on social media. “Social media tends to personalize what we are interested in,” Ciampaglia said. “This creates what are called echo chambers, where people are exposed to information that tends to confirm what they already believe and isolates them from ideologically diverse opinions and news.”

Ivy Tech will be celebrating the arts this weekend as many students go home to celebrate the holidays. The Community Arts Awards will be at 5:30 p.m. Friday in the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center. The event was created to thank and recognize those in Bloomington who have made the city a center for the arts, according to the Ivy Tech website. Paul Daily, the Ivy Tech Waldron artistic director, said supporting those who appreciate the arts benefits the community as a whole. “It’s important to recognize artists and arts supporters in our community for a number of reasons,” Daily said. “Specifically, in Bloomington the arts are a $72.3 million economic driver, so a large part of our success economically as a community is through the arts.” The event will last two hours and will have 15-minute art workshops on ceramic tile glazing, stage makeup, paper book-making and creative flag making; art galleries; and an excerpt from Ivy Tech Student Productions’ “Sweeney Todd.” Following the performance, a ceremony in which awards will be presented to art patrons and businesses that have made strides to support creativity in the area will begin. Amy Brier, who will be leading the paper book-making workshop, said it is important to celebrate the arts in this way because of the economic and cultural significance of creativity. “The arts bring a quality of life,” Brier said. “The arts attend to the intellectual and spiritual or

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Top The words “Heil Trump” were spray painted next to the entrance at St David’s Episcopal Church in Bean Blossom, Indiana. Above left The words “Fag Church” were spray painted on the side of the church. Above right Another side was graffitied with a swastika.

Experts assess negative effects of fake news By Regina Mack regmack@indiana.edu | @regmack_

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently denied claims that the spread of fake news on Facebook could have had an effect on the presidential election and said fake news makes up a small amount of news content on the website. IU faculty and students in media-related fields said they think regulation of fake news by social media outlets and increased media literacy education among social media users are impor-

tant in combating the effects of fake news. Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, an assistant research scientist at the IU Network Science Institute, studies misinformation and the diffusion of viral memes on social media, said Facebook’s claims have been met with skepticism by many and the point is not how much fake news is on the website but how much exposure it gets. “Facebook relies on the community to flag fake news, but to be flagged it must first be presented to people,” Ciampaglia said. Ciampaglia said fake news

stories that are intended to mislead people tend to get hundreds of thousands of shares while accurate information sources lag behind. The ability of fake news outlets to create websites that look professional is what he said makes spread of misinformation easy. “Most of what we’ve seen in the industry of fake news is based on the idea that people really want to get information from a diverse set of sources, but they can get deceived in the process,” Ciampaglia said. Ciampaglia said the jury is still out on whether or not so-


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