THIS IS YOUR STUDENT MEDIA
IDS FRESHMEN EDITION 2012
INDIANA DAILY STUDENT | IDSNEWS.COM
The 2012
FRESHMEN EDITION
is a special edition of the Indiana Daily Student (IDS) compiling the top stories from last year. This edition gives you a taste of IU Student Media, an organization that has served as a student learning lab since 1867. IU Student Media includes the IDS, INSIDE magazine, Arbutus Yearbook, IU Student Television and IU Student Radio. During your stay at IU, we will bring you news from the IU campus and across the state.
INSIDE this issue CAMPUS A2 Marching to the Superbowl | Marching Hundred plays at Lucas Oil OPINION A9 Weed | Columnist Nick Jacobs explains the “dangers” of marijuana ARTS Celebrating David Baker| The Jazz legend turns 80
B1
REGION C1 Occupied | The Occupy Wall Street movement comes to Bloomington SPORTS Not so sweet | Men’s basketball loses to Kentucky in rematch
D1
WE ARE IU COURTNEY DECKARD | IDS
Fans rush from the stands and fill the court of Assembly Hall after junior forward Christian Watford made a field goal in the final seconds of the game to give the Hoosiers a 1-point win against the Kentucky Wildcats.
Hoosiers stun No. 1 Kentucky Wildcats, win 73-72 BY STEPHANIE KUZYDYM skuzydym@indiana.edu
The final shot arced toward the basket, and time stopped. As he watched the ball, junior forward Christian Watford kept his right hand in the air. The fans stood with their hands raised, holding their breath. The five red banners softly swayed. Then, the sound of pure swish echoed. The golden numbers lit 0.0. Across Assembly Hall, the wave of emotion released. A decade of pent up frustration was freed onto Branch McCracken court. Since 2001, after former IU Coach Bob Knight was fired, Indiana has been roaming a desert in search of respectability. IU Coach Tom Crean’s first three years brought the worst season records to Assembly Hall in its history. On Dec. 10, the Hoosiers found paradise. An uproar filled the rafters. The IU men’s basketball team celebrated in a pile. The faithful stormed
the court. “This is Indiana. This is Indiana,” fans shouted as they swarmed past black-shirted security guards. A guard threw both his hands up like stop signs toward the rushing crowd. They couldn’t even be slowed. Fans sprinted. Some tripped and fell. Some were even trampled. Members of the Big Red Basketball Band’s first instinct was to protect their instruments from the chaos. They lifted their trombones and trumpets above their heads before dropping them to their mouths to play the fight song. “We’re No. 1,” a fan shouted. “No. 1, baby.” Fans in the general admission seats became restless to join the party at center court. They began jumping over the cinder block walls, using the scoreboard as a ladder rung. More fans spilled over the edge. Policemen stood on the wood bleachers with their hands extended, catching fans as they jumped and sprinted the second their foot
touched the wood. “Careful,” one officer said. “Here you go.” Once they hit the court, they slammed into one another in jubilation. Fans poured across all avenues of the hall. A mother stood protecting her two young children, their eyes wide at the sight of what college basketball means to Bloomington.Gray-haired men shouted. Friends hugged. Fans high-fived. “We did it,” a Hoosier alumna cheered before kissing her husband. “We’re back.” The victory brought back an old feeling. Saturday night brought back the faith that Butler basketball isn’t what the state of Indiana should be known for. This is Indiana basketball. It’s the five banners. It’s Martha the Mop Lady. It’s the costumes and the candy stripes. It’s the tradition. After inheriting a program in shambles, Crean had now become the shepherd. At the edge of the court, the coach watched as the floor disappeared beneath a red sea.
Remy Abell drives the ball against University of Kentucky. CHET STRANGE | IDS
Community searches for Provost Hanson leaves IU for Minnesota missing IU sophomore BY KOURTNEY LIEPELT kliepelt@indiana.edu
BY CJ LOTZ cjlotz@indiana.edu
Lauren Spierer, a 20-year-old IU student, has been missing since Friday, June 3, 2011. The Bloomington Police Department, family, friends and local residents continue to search for her. Spierer is 4 feet 11 inches tall, weighs between 90 and 100 pounds and has blue eyes and blonde hair just below the shoulder, according to fliers posted throughout Bloomington. She is from Westchester County near Scarsdale, N.Y. and just finished her sophomore year at IU. Spierer studies fashion merchandising and is a University Division scholar. She planned to stay in Bloomington for part of last summer to take a course at Ivy Tech Community College before starting an internship at the clothing store Anthropologie in New York City. Her parents and older sister live in New York. Spierer was last seen walking south on College Avenue. She had been hanging out with friends at Kilroy’s Sports Bar. The bar features a sand and beach area, which may explain why she was seen walking away with no shoes, her mother Charlene Spierer said. She was wearing a white tank top, a loose, light-colored button shirt and full-length black stretch pants. Spierer’s apartment is only a block and a half away from Kilroy’s Sports, and the last place she was seen, the
CHAZ MOTTINGER | IDS
Charlene Spierer made a statement during the 12th press briefing on missing IU student Lauren Spierer to "“say to the person who has that info: We all come to a crossroads in our life where we can take the high road or the low road. I’m begging and pleading with you to define yourself as a person that’s going to help with this. Our only goal is to find Lauren. Please take the high road.”
intersection of 11th Street and College Avenue, is another two and a half blocks away. Her known locations are all within a three-block radius of her apartment. Video footage at the Smallwood apartment complex shows that she never made it home. Robert and Charlene Spierer, SEE MISSING, PAGE A6
RABI ABONOUR | IDS
IU Bloomington Provost and Executive Vice President Karen Hanson delivers a speech at a farewell event Jan. 12 in the IU Auditorium. Hanson is leaving IU to take a job as vice president for academic affairs and provost of the University of Minnesota.
Karen Hanson, IU-Bloomington’s provost and executive vice president, left IU on Feb. 1 for a position at the University of Minnesota. On Oct. 10, 2011, U of M President Eric Kaler named Hanson as the university’s new senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. “We know she’ll be a loss for Indiana, but we’re just very happy she saw an opportunity to come to Minnesota and contribute on our journey to excellence,” said Tim Mulcahy, U of M’s vice president for research and the chairman of the provost search committee. The search for U of M’s new provost began in the summer, after current Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Tom Sullivan announced his plan to retire at the end of the 2011 calendar year. Since Hanson and many of her family members attended U of M, she said she found the opportunity to apply too interesting to overlook. “It was the campus I grew up on,” she said. “It’s my home state, and it’s a great university with an enormous array of resources and a lot of interesting opportunities, so it was too interesting to pass by.” After the search committee reviewed materials of and compared their information to the goals, traditions and aspirations of U of M, the group interviewed 16 individuals, Mulcahy said. In September, the search for a SEE PROVOST, PAGE A7