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Man found dead in mobile home

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seasons of love

‘Rent’ returns to the IU Auditorium as start of country-wide tour in honor of 20th anniversary, page 7

By Dominick Jean drjean@indiana.edu | @domino_jean

Donald Gentry, 66, was found dead Monday morning by his girlfriend in his home. He lived at 4537 S. Walnut St. in a rental trailer. The investigation is still ongoing and no suspects are known at this time. Preliminary reports say Gentry’s head may have been bashed in. His daughter, Angela Walker, was at the scene while Monroe County sheriffs investigated. She had received a call from her friend Amanda Harding earlier in the day telling her that her father had been killed. Walker said she remembers talking to him as early as 1 a.m. Monday. “One minute I’m talking to him and the next he’s dead.” Walker said. Walker said Gentry had been a disabled factory worker. He was also a diabetic, which his daughter and neighbors said made it hard for him to move around. His neighbor, Kathy Mobley, said Gentry had trouble getting around, but he went out of his way to be kind. “He was a very nice man,” Mobley said. “He’d do anything for anybody.” Mobley said she still remembers when she and her family moved in a year ago, they did not have a pot to make spaghetti, so Gentry let her come over anytime to borrow his pot. Gentry also would often drive by Mobley if he saw her walking to Kroger and tell her to get in the car because it was too far to walk. Gentry also let Mobley borrow his lawn mower to keep their lawn trimmed. “He’d give you the shirt off his back,” Mobley said. “It’s just how he was.” Mobley said she remembers seeing Gentry talking with someone outside his trailer at approximately 8 p.m. Sunday. That was the last she saw of him. Mobley’s brother, Carl, stopped by the crime scene to talk with

REBECCA MEHLING | IDS

Angel Schunard, played by David Merino, sings “Today 4 U,” to the three gentlemen Monday during opening night of “Rent”’s 20th anniversary tour at the IU Auditorium.

Fighting the epidemic

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Woman arrested with snake at Upstairs

EMILY MILES | IDS

From IDS reports

By Emily Miles | elmiles@iu.edu | @EmilyLenetta

A woman allegedly carrying a snake in her purse attempted to enter Upstairs Pub on Saturday. Liberty Flora, 21, was later arrested and charged with public intoxication, disorderly conduct, battery and resisting arrest. At about 9 p.m. Saturday, Flora reportedly began fighting with security at Upstairs when they refused to let her in after noticing the snake. Bloomington police officers arrived on scene and located Flora in a nearby alley. Bloomington Police Department Capt. Steve Kellams said the officers saw the snake in Flora’s purse, and when they asked her to leave, she refused to cooperate. Officers eventually were forced to arrest her after attempting to convince her to leave quietly. As officers were arresting her and putting handcuffs on her, she spat on at least one officer. Animal control was called in to take care of the snake, and Flora was booked in Monroe County Jail.

tudents will soon be able to go to the IU Health Center Pharmacy and receive a naloxone kit, which reverses the symptoms of an opioid overdose. The IU Police Department also has a supply, which has already saved a life.

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The pilot stock of 20 free kits, which would ordinarily cost about $100 each, is part of OASIS’s newest program, Drug Overdose Prevention Education. It began as the result of years of research and planning spearheaded by OASIS Director Jackie Daniels. DOPE also includes workshops, which the office is piloting with social work classes. OASIS is a department of the IU Health Center that provides drug and alcohol harm reduction, intervention and

recovery support. Planning for the program began a couple of years ago, when Daniels and others on campus began losing friends to the nationwide opioid epidemic, Daniels said. “It just became very personal for myself and my staff and students that I was having conversations with,” she said. “It was like people were just dying, and there was no opportunity for prevention or even intervention to get people help.” By examining data and

speaking with staff and students, Daniels discovered students were not using heroin, but were experimenting with opioids in the form of prescription drugs. “If they’re using this lethal combination of alcohol, Xanax, stimulants and opioids all at the same time, it’s the perfect storm for a fatal overdose,” she said. Around that time, Daniels noticed the media talking about naloxone, saw it pop up on her Facebook feed and fielded questions from students doing projects on harm reduction. So she began attending trainings held by the then-new Indiana Recovery Alliance. That was when Daniels first approached IUPD about obtaining naloxone, which the department would go on to distribute in April with the help of a grant.

What is Naloxone? Naloxone is a nonaddictive opiate overdosereversal drug. It can be used through a syringe or nose spray. It counteracts the depression of the nervous system during overdoses. In 2015, IUPD first received naloxone kits to carry with them in cars. In July 2016, sites registered with the Indiana State Department of Health could sell naloxone without prescriptions. In August, the IU Health Center Pharmacy registered to provide 2-dose naloxone kits to students.

SEE NALOXONE, PAGE 5

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‘Dark Side of Beauty’ Themester talk addresses beauty standards By Mallory Haag mjhaag@umail.iu.edu | @malloryhaag

Local experts tackled ideas surrounding beauty and how it is represented in mass media Monday during “Dark Side of Beauty,” a documentary screening and panel discussion event regarding unattainable beauty standards. The film, “The Illusionists,” addressed what unattainable beauty standards look like all around the world and how people interact

with them. How people view their bodies and how commercial culture embraces and exploits these feelings was discussed. Though the film did acknowledge the development of media messages addressing a male standard of beauty, it focused mainly on women and their role in beauty media. The film ended with a call to action, asking viewers to invest in products associated with values they believe in and to boy-

cott products that are not. Viewers were encouraged to question media messages and to reject the negative ones. The documentary was followed by a discussion with journalism professor Radhika Parameswaran, gender studies lecturer Jennifer Maher and Nancy Rudd, chair person of the Body Image Health Task Force at Ohio State University, as part of the College of Arts and Sciences Themester. “We live in a media-centered

“We live in a media-centered world today. Panels like this can rid people’s consciousness about not taking for granted the kinds of images we are exposed to on a daily basis.” Radhika Parameswaran, IU journalism professor

world today,” Parameswaran said. “Panels like this can rid people’s consciousness about not taking for granted the kinds of images we are exposed to on a daily basis.” Students were encouraged to question the movie and consider

both the points it missed and the points it made. Involvement was important as university students are prone to the insecurities media often utiSEE BEAUTY, PAGE 5


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