Freshman Edition 2015

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REGION | RFRA SPORTS | THE GREATEST SPECTACLE IN COLLEGE SPORTS

Pence signs RFRA fix* *Bill to clarify RFRA, but LGBT residents still not a protected class

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(From Left) Maddie Lambert, Liz Lieberman, Evelyn Malcomb and Abby Rogers of Kappa Alpha Theta approach the finish line during the team’s victory lap April 24 in Bill Armstrong Stadium. The win made Theta champion two years in-a-row, as it won the 2014 race as well.

RIDE TO GLORY Theta repeats as Little 500 Champion

Sig Ep beats Bulls on last-lap pass

By Grace Palmieri

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With a group of about 10 riders in the lead pack on lap 99, it looked as though it would be a sprint to the finish.

But a majority of that group was wiped out after a wreck on turn three.

It left just Liz Lieberman of Kappa Alpha Theta and Tabitha Sherwood of Phoenix Cycling.

All the riders who would challenge them for the lead now didn’t have a chance.

“I looked back, and I just saw Tabitha on my right and the rest of the field had crashed,” Lieberman said. “That’s unfortunate, but that’s just bike racing.”

The last thing Nick Torrance wanted to do was celebrate prematurely. Crossing the line wheel-to-wheel with Black Key Bulls’ Spencer Brauchla, Torrance was nearly certain he and his Sigma Phi Epsilon teammates had won the 65th Little 500.

He knew for sure he had won when he saw the Sig Ep fans in the stands. They were erupting with cheers and storming onto the track.

Sig Ep’s margin of victory was just .024 seconds. Less than half a wheel’s length was the difference between first and second.

But the gap didn’t matter. All that mattered was they won.

SEE THETA, PAGE D4

INDIANAPOLIS — In a hurried attempt to reclaim credibility for his state, Gov. Mike Pence signed off on a clarification to the “religious freedom” law April 2.

In the midst of furious debate, Pence said in a statement, he prayed.

Since he signed it last week, Senate Bill 101 has come under attack as anti-gay and brought a firestorm of condemnation on the entire state. The new language — Senate Bill 50 — clarifies that the bill does not condone discrimination.

It comes after Seattle, San Francisco and the states of New York and Connecticut barred official non-essential travel to Indiana; the NCAA Tournament — worth more than $11 billion in contracts — threatened to leave Indianapolis; Wilco canceled a concert; Angie’s List called off a 1,000-job expansion; #boycottindiana and #impeachmikepence.

Stephen King only needed one tweet: “You can frost a dog turd, SEE RFRA FIX, PAGE B2 More local stories, section B

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Charlie Hicks of Sigma Phi Epsilon celebrates after his team won the men’s Little 500 on April 26 at Bill Armstrong Stadium. The team edged out defending champions Black Key Bulls by .024 seconds to win the race.

“I was fairly confident, but I wasn’t super confident (we had won),” Torrance said. “Not confident enough to start celebrating. Then I looked around and saw our fans get really excited after they announced

something I couldn’t hear, so I figured we won.”

Torrance’s last lap was Sig Ep’s fastest of the race. It capped a wild day for Sig Ep after

A dozen Indiana Daily Student reporters went to churches the Sunday after Pence signed RFRA to understand Hoosiers’ responses. Page B1 President Obama came to Indianapolis to talk money, higher education. Page B4 Kruzan leaves his post. Page B9

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CAMPUS | REMEMBERING THOSE WE’VE LOST

Families join together for Student Remembrance Day

By Alyson Malinger afmaling@indiana.edu

Fifteen individual tables were set with pure white tablecloths, a bouquet of bright red flowers displayed in a clear vase and a circular container of tissues aligned evenly next to the flowers.

Families gathered into the room one by one, greeted by a four-string quartet playing calming melodies to set the mood of the afternoon.

In the past year, 15 IU students have died. On March 29, the Division of Student Affairs hosted the Annual Student Remembrance Day to mourn the loss and celebrate the

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lives of the 15 students.

“The daily life of the campus is measurably and permanently altered,” Dean of Students Harold “Pete” Goldsmith said.

David Richard Caulfield, Jill Christine Clay, Christopher Colter, Kelly Ann Hackendahl, Tyler Kabzinski, Karlijn Keijzer, Richard Lawmaster, Amanda Elaine Ludwig, Danielle Lynn, Brian Robert MacLafferty, Jacob Matthew Meyer, Erik Daniel Noonan, Alexander Enrique Ruesta, Sajaad Syed and Anthony James Wilkerson were all recognized.

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assistant dean of students, and then continued with remarks from Goldsmith. Goldsmith talked about how too brief of a time these students had with the community. The event grew to a crowd of more than 60 people.

Following the opening remarks, Robert Meyer, representative from the Division of Student Affairs, discussed what it meant to be a part of the IU family. Meyer posed the age-old question of what a Hoosier truly is in order to understand the IU family. Only Hoosiers truly know who we are, Meyer said. The 15 students did not have the chance to experience all

there is to being a Hoosier.

“We look back in pondering to look forward with purpose,” Pastor Mathew Shockney, president of the Campus Religious Leaders Association, said.

Shockney provided spiritual remarks explaining how a house of mourning is better than a house of feast. Moments like these make us take a step back on the world and think about our faith, Shockney said.

“Even in the midst of your loss, your heart will be made glad,” Shockney said.

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Hannah Wilson’s body was found April 24. Those who loved her gathered at the IMU in her memory. Page A2 Some of our best campus coverage is online at idsnews.com. Page A6

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Celebrating Indian holiday, Holi fest, page A4

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

No more win for Amplify IUSA election winner gets disqualified

By Ashleigh Sherman aesherma@indiana.edu

was pushed open and people began to funnel slowly into Alumni Hall. They were ushered to the front of the room, packing the room to capacity.

People poured into the adjacent Solarium, but hundreds were unable to get in.

Gamma Phi Beta sisters, standing on a stage lined with tissue boxes, held each other closely, arms linked. On the far left side of the stage, women crowded around a portrait of Wilson. In it, she’s smiling.

In the middle of the room, a man in a plaid shirt stood alone. He looked down to wipe his eyes with his palms.

A girl near him hugged everyone around her, eyes glassy and bottom lip quivering.

After an introduction from Panhellenic Association President Margaret Hensley, Wilson’s two best friends approached the podium to speak.

Their words, clear

messages of love and support, were quickly muffled by their sobs.

“I can’t wait until the day I can laugh with my Hannah Banana again,” one says.

Her other friend holds her waist, never letting go. She tells a story about the last picture she and Wilson had taken together, hours before she went missing.

“It was with a man dressed as Captain Morgan,” she said, prompting laughter from the crowd in Alumni Hall. She laughs through her tears. “She was so happy!”

Outside Alumni Hall, people packed into the IMU, lines stretching out every nearby entrance. Upstairs, the line winds back to the Biddle Hotel. It snakes down limestone steps and through the IMU Commons. Nobody outside the hall can hear the speeches. They hush each other and crane their necks,

trying to see. Someone opens the remaining doors to Alumni Hall so people can hear, but it doesn’t help.

Downstairs, the line was still hushed into silence. People didn’t have a stage to look at, so they just stared straight ahead.

Grace Carlson, a member of Phi Mu, said she was at the vigil to support Wilson and her family through the tough time. Several people said they were present because they were in the greek system, and they needed to be.

“Feelings,” Erin Stump, who’s in Alpha Sigma Alpha, said. “I just wanted to be a part of all this.”

Inside, another girl stood at the podium. She was talking about how just days ago, Wilson had been saying she could never understand why anyone wouldn’t live every day like it was their last.

Toward the front of the

room, a girl wailed. More sobs followed.

One friend stepped forward and apologized for not having any appropriate stories to share with the group, which roused another subdued laugh from the crowd. She said she’d moved away last semester and was happy her last goodbye with Wilson was a heartfelt one.

“I’m sorry I can’t make you laugh right now,” she said.

A balloon release followed the vigil, and Gamma Phi sisters led the way through Alumni Hall and out to the IMU’s terrace, where they held dozens of green and purple balloons.

“We lift up the balloons as she lifted up those around her,” a sister said of Wilson.

The crowd followed slowly, ushered by several

Amplify for IUSA has been disqualified from the IU Student Association election.

INtouch for IUSA currently has the most votes following Amplify, but the election commission has not officially determined which ticket has won the election.

Before accounting for infractions, Amplify for IUSA received 3,574 votes, initially winning the election.

INtouch for IUSA came in second with 2,697 votes and UNIFY for IUSA came in third with 1,994 votes.

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were encouraged to stay and gather to remember their loved ones.

As part of Ivey’s closing remarks, she added Lauren Spierer to the list of students. Spierer went missing almost four years ago and has yet to be located.

“We are here today to

come together as a community,” Ivey Lucas said.

There was an overall appreciation and gratitude to IU from friends and families.

“IU was definitely a big part of both of our lives,” said Melissa Horn, IU freshman and friend of Anthony Wilkerson, who

died Nov. 20, 2014. “We were both figuring out the college life together.”

Elizabeth Haviland, IU senior and sister of Wilkerson, expressed how the event was a little strange.

She wished the University did more to include more of the IU family but

was very grateful of all the support IU did give to her and her family.

“Anthony didn’t want to go anywhere else,” Haviland said. “IU was his home before he even got here.”

Residents from one residence hall floor, including a resident assistant showed

up to support the friends and family of Alex Ruesta.

Ruesta was a freshman, and IU would have been a big part of his life, Ruesta’s cousin Erinn Gallagher said.

“As terrible as a process as this was, IU was so helpful and kind in every way,” Gallagher said.

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Mourners prepare to release balloons from the Indiana Memorial Union terrace in memory of Hannah Wilson on April 25. Daniel Messel, 49, was arrested on April 24 on murder charges after police found his cell phone at the scene. Charges were filed against him days later and his jury trial was set for July 22.

IU community remembers Hannah Wilson

By Anicka Slachta aslachta@indiana.edu

Hundreds of people crowded a quiet Indiana Memorial Union on April 25, the silence broken only by the squeaking of wet shoes on stone floors. Groups of people waited, shoulder to shoulder, for the vigil commemorating Gamma Phi Beta senior Hannah Wilson, who was found dead April 24.

The door to Alumni Hall cracked open, just for a moment. A single sob rang out from inside.

The line to Alumni Hall stretches through the IMU, winding past Starbucks and the Tudor Room and trailing off past Whittenberger Auditorium. Women huddle, heads on shoulders. Some cry and some smile weakly.

Ten minutes before the event was scheduled to begin, one heavy wooden door

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The event concluded with the reading of each name by Darrell Ann Stone, a representative from the Division of Student Affairs, and closing remarks from Ivey Lucas.

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Brother Jed protests, students protest back Preacher’s message draws ire

By Alison Graham and Alyson Malinger campus@idsnews.com

A student and an evangelist stood in front of a bed of red tulips at the Woodburn Clock Tower.

Brother Jed, who has been preaching at IU since the 1970s, stood in front of a crowd of about 30 students on April 22.

He shouted at the crowd and those walking by, telling them to avoid homosexuality and sex before marriage. He quoted lines from the Bible and held signs.

Behind him, IU senior Kaleb Crain yelled along with him, contradicting him.

“Whether you wait till marriage or have sex during Little Five, you are enough,” Crain said.

Crain moved back and forth in his electric wheelchair, holding a cardboard sign with the words “You are enough” scribbled across it.

His red T-shirt stated, “Gay? OK with me!”

Crain has been counterprotesting Brother Jed for

years, ever since his freshman year at IU. When he first came to IU with his partner, they heard Brother Jed speaking to students. But Crain said no one was standing up to his message.

Crain and his partner internalized those messages of hate, he said.

Ever since then, Crain has come to spread a message of love to students instead of letting Brother Jed spread his message without opposition.

“IU can’t do anything about Brother Jed being on here because he has the First Amendment right to stand here and say what he needs to say,” Crain said.

“But I also have the First Amendment right to stand here and fight with him and put a message of love out from his message of hate.”

Senior Sara Hutson walked along the ledge in front of Brother Jed, passing out condoms to students who walked by.

Hutson had originally come out to pass out condoms for RAISE, a group that promotes safe sex and consent.

The group was distributing messages with the

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Brother Jed preaches while senior Kaleb Crain protests behind him. Crain’s sign says “You Are Enough - Free Hugs” and his shirt reads “Gay? OK With Me!”

definition of consent on them for Little 500 week when Brother Jed showed up, Hutson said.

They decided to bring in more condoms and teach students that sex is a normal part of a healthy relationship and OK to do outside of one, Hutson said.

Students who gathered in the crowd asked Brother Jed questions about purity.

They argued his ideas and brought up counterpoints.

Freshman Cheyenne Tankersley was walking back from her gender studies class when she stopped to listen to Brother Jed and

The chefs that feed Little 500 A cook feeds a team what it needs.

By Cassie Heeke cnheeke@indiana.edu

Second.

Second.

Second.

Third.

Second.

Phi Delta Theta fraternity members know these numbers well. They are the fraternity’s finishing places in the Little 500 for the past five years. An admirable record, but one that heaps on the pressure this year for one particular podium spot.

Gamma Phi Beta also has an interesting Little 500 history. For the past 35 years, the sorority has alternated back and forth between top20 and top-10 finishes.

This year, the sorority members said they’re working for something better, and it’s not an unreachable goal.

Their team finished second in qualifications this year, and it’s the first time since the sorority’s first-place finish in 1995 that it finished

the students.

“I personally don’t agree with his views, but I find it interesting to see what he has to say,” Tankersley said.

“I think it’s awesome that there’s people coming here and saying the opposite.”

Freshman Tyshaun Jordan said this was his first

Celebrating Holi, students cover selves in color

By Brooke McAfee bemcafee@indiana.edu

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Andrew Bredemeyer is the Campus Cooks chef at the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house. He makes healthy alternatives for the Little 500 team on nights when fried food overtakes the Phi Delt menu.

better than sixth.

But the riders haven’t done it without help.

Behind the scenes, several people and organizations lend support to the bike teams. One of them in particular, Campus Cooks, has taken the athletes’ nutrition into its hands.

In 2004, Bill Reeder

founded a company, Campus Cooks, to place professional chefs inside greek chapters. He had a bad experience with his own fraternity food service in college and wanted to change that for others.

Seven IU chapters, including Phi Delta Theta and Gamma Phi Beta, have

Campus Cooks chefs in their kitchens. The chefs go through a recruiting system and are placed in specific houses based on their personalities.

“Our chefs really become a part of the house,” said Christine Domino, the SEE FEEDING, PAGE A8

time seeing Brother Jed speak on campus.

“I feel like us retaliating and people cursing back at him and yelling at him, I feel like that shouldn’t happen,” Jordan said. “I feel like the best way to deal with it is just to ignore or just laugh it off.”

Clouds of color formed in the air as students simultaneously tossed up powders of purple, green, pink and yellow within the densely packed Collins courtyard.

As they threw powder and smeared it in each other’s faces, people were painted from head to toe in vibrant colors. People laughed and smiled with dappled faces, dancing in their stained clothes as upbeat music played.

On April 17, the Indian Student Association and the Asian Cultural Center hosted a celebration of Holi, a traditional Hindu spring festival. The event was originally scheduled for March 6 but was rescheduled due to weather.

The event was free and

open to everyone. People were required to sign a form to indicate they consented to having the colored powder thrown at them before they could participate in the festivities.

Sushuma Yarlagadda, culture chair of the Indian Student Organization, described Holi as a festival “with both religious and cultural significance.”

“It represents the triumph of good over evil,” she said.

It was her first time attending a celebration of the festival, she said. She was excited to participate in the color-throwing, which is the main part of the event.

The festival only contained a portion of Holi’s traditions, Yarlagadda said.

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Queer fraternity plans to grow chapter membership

By Brett Dworski bdworski@indiana.edu

IU junior Daniel Trent remembers watching the only other gay person from his hometown become ostracized for being gay.

Trent grew up in Lynn, Ind., a town of about 1,000 people, where his high school graduating class was just 27 students. He said watching this discrimination kept him from living his life to the fullest.

“Being an out and proud individual since I was 14, I know what it feels like to not have a support system that accepts you for who you are,” he said in an email. “But here at Indiana University, I found a group of people that knew the struggle.”

Trent is a brother of IU’s first and only queer-allied fraternity, Sigma Phi Beta, which he said has brought him closer to others who have felt the same pain from being treated differently.

Chapter President Bryant Hayes said in an email that Sigma Phi Beta began at IU in 2012 when a group of queer men wanted a fraternity where they felt they could be themselves while still being part of the greek community on campus.

“We offer a unique and diverse safe space for individuals who don’t feel that they fit in with other greek organizations,” he said.

Hayes said being a newer fraternity has played to their advantage, as some of the current brothers have been able to join the original brothers from 2012.

“It gives us a unique opportunity to stay in touch with our roots,” he said. “We recently had someone from our chapter’s second class sit in on a chapter and offer advice, which is something hundredyear-old fraternities will never have the opportunity to do.”

Getting involved and taking advantage of the opportunities of a growing fraternity is a core value of Sigma Phi Beta, Hayes said, especially within philanthropic activity.

“Currently, each member of our chapter holds either an executive board position or a chair position,” he said in an email. “Everyone gets a chance to take on leadership roles in various projects. We try our hardest to have a strong presence in the LGBTQ community as well as the IU and Bloomington communities.

“We are always planning our next philanthropy event and are planning to start

doing weeks or weekends of service each month to further impact the community.”

Hayes said the fraternity’s philanthropy events such as “Drag for a Cause” are its most prominent events, as it tries to advertise as much as possible with the effort to show campus what it stands for and what it’s trying to accomplish.

Like most fraternities, Hayes said, Sigma Phi Beta’s goals for the future revolve around chapter growth while still maintaining quality.

“While we do want to gain numbers, we would prefer to attract quality members who really stand for what we believe in,” he said. “We would rather be a small, close-knit organization than a large, disconnected group.”

Trent said it’s important for the campus to take notice of Sigma Phi Beta because there are men who are searching for the same sense of belonging as he was.

“At every party, in every dorm and at the beginning of each new semester, they are out there,” he said.

“The same men just like me, who don’t feel like they belong, who could use a family and who are just looking for acceptance.

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Outside, the crowd filled the terrace, some people standing on tables to get a better look at the release.

“One, two, three,” the sisters outside chanted, and let go of the balloons simultaneously.

Inside the IMU, a group of five men huddled together, arms around each other’s shoulders and heads down.

A student leaned against a wooden pillar, her friend looping an arm around her shoulder. Her green windbreaker was falling off her shoulder, but she didn’t try to fix it. She couldn’t keep up with her tears; she stopped wiping them from her cheeks minutes ago.

Outside, the balloons broke free from each other. All were gone but one purple balloon, which lagged behind, struggling to lift as high as the others. Everybody watched it climb.

At 5:29 p.m., the purple balloon disappeared.

A minute later, at 5:30 p.m., the Student Building clock tower rang.

There was pause, and the crowd was gone.

Kathrine Schulze, Michael Hughes and Brody Miller contributed reporting to this story.

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Three chairs decorated with green garland sat in the center of the makeshift stage.

Corn hole boards were set up in the grass on Teter Quad.

Cans of green hairspray were offered for those not brave enough to shave, senior Hanna Jasemi said.

Senior Joshua Wilkinson was the first to approach the stage when the hair stylist arrived. The music was lowered as Jasemi announced his name, soon followed by the hum of a razor to his head.

Jasemi joked that he was only in it for the free haircut.

Actually, Wilkinson said, he now shaves his head every spring for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. Students gathered in Teter Quad on April 12 to raise funds and awareness for the foundation at the IU St. Baldrick’s Shaving Day. “Since I’m already getting SEE BALDRICK’S, PAGE A7

god Vishnu.

Holi is more than simply a fun, colorful event, he said.

“It’s also a time to remember the mythology that goes behind it,” he said.

Aakriti Gera, next year’s international student liaison for the Indian Student Association, said she was looking forward to the event.

She celebrates Holi every year in India, she said.

“Holi is a really special time for me,” she said. “The best part is spending time out in the sun with friends.”

Arielle Soussan said she learned about the event by keeping up with the events at Collins. She said she was looking forward to the color-throwing and “having

everyone be really confused about her face.” She said she did not intend to wash the color off immediately.

“I want to be colorful for as long as possible,” she said.

Vinayak Vedantam said he liked the unrestrained nature of the event.

“It’s great,” he said.

“Everyone seems to let go of their inhibitions.”

Gabbey Tharp said she enjoyed participating in Holi, and she particularly liked the event’s positive atmosphere.

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“We’re keeping it simple,” she said.

Holi opened with an introduction from Haseeb Mohideen, next year’s copresident of the Indian Student Organization. He briefly explained the history and legends behind the ancient festival and its significance to Hinduism.

Mohideen explained the legend of a demon king who ordered his evil sister, Holika, to kill his devout son, Prahlada. Holika attempted to kill Prahlada by placing him in the fire, but he was protected from harm by the Hindu

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According to the election code, total campaign expenditures may not exceed total campaign contributions and may not exceed $3,000.

When determining the value of a campaign expenditure, tickets must assess the fair market value of the campaign expenditure.

The election code defines a campaign expenditure as “any purchase or donation which is used for promoting any candidate or ticket.”

Amplify for IUSA also failed to list the shirts and pony in its final financial statement.

According to the election code, tickets must submit a final financial statement by 5 p.m. the day after the election.

Because elections occurred April 8-9, tickets must have submitted their final financial statements by 5 p.m. April 10.

The election code defines a financial statement as an itemized list of all campaign contributions, an itemized list of all campaign expenditures and receipts for all campaign expenditures.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE A6 my hair cut anyway, I might as well do it in a venue that’s demonstrating care for people,” Wilkinson said.

The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is an organization devoted to raising money for childhood cancer research.

Head shaving events can be organized through the foundation to promote the cause locally.

As a resident assistant for Teter, Jasemi said it was her second time organizing the event. She was one of the shavees at the first campus St. Baldrick’s Shaving Day. Jasemi said she used to wear her hair long, almost to her hips, until she had it shaved off. After a year, it rests just above her shoulders.

“People shave their heads for solidarity with other people — with children,” she said. “If I didn’t have to get a job, I’d totally do it again.”

Not only do shavees hold campaigns to raise money for the foundation, Jasemi said they also show children losing their own hair from chemotherapy that the definition of beauty is not limited.

“Not only are they fighting one of the worst diseases, they also have to go through the confines of being beautiful,” Jasemi said. “It can be beautiful — it’s something that should be encouraged.”

Jasemi said 11 people were signed up to be shaved.

“If you’re someone saying bald is beautiful, I don’t

The election commission determined the fair market value of the shirts to be $1,023 and the pony to be $350.

Amplify for IUSA received $2,541.20 in campaign donations and, before accounting for the shirts and pony, spent less than the ticket received in campaign contributions.

After accounting for the shirts and pony, however, the ticket spent more than the ticket received in campaign contributions.

The ticket ended up with a budget of $3,959.60, according to the election commission decision.

According to the election code, tickets that spent more money than they received in campaign contributions, or that spent more than $3,000, are eligible for disqualification.

Amplify for IUSA exceeded both limits.

They also exceeded the campaign contribution limit from a single source, which can only be a maximum of $250.

The IUSA Supreme Court ruled on a similar case, The Crimson Elections Ticket and The Fusion Elections Ticket v. The Big Red Elections Ticket, in 2004, setting a precedent for the election commission’s decision.

Aparna Srinath, head of the election commission, said she expects an appeal to the Supreme Court.

“The election commission works to be unbiased and follow standardized and transparent rules,” she said. know, maybe it makes a difference,” she said.

One volunteer, sophomore Michael Michued, said he wanted to contribute to the cause with his shave.

“It’s kind of, like, something wild to do, but it’s also for a cause,” he said. “I don’t think I’ve ever had my hair that short.”

Michued said he was somewhat nervous to be shaved but knew it would grow back quickly, unlike the children he was raising funds for. He said some of his funds sponsored a 4-year-old with cancer, Tyler.

Freshman Michael Gronsky stumbled across the event on the quad and said he came to support and dye his hair green.

He said the event allows students to contribute to a greater cause, even with smaller steps.

“You can do that through really small things,” he said.

“It can be something simple like dying your hair.”

According to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation website, the IU Shaving Day raised $3,416 — a quaint event with a broader effect on people’s lives.

“For me, the opportunity to help people is the best thing you’ll ever be presented with in your life,” Gronsky said.

Toward the end of Wilkinson’s shave, Jasemi prompted the crowd for another cheer.

“I gotta be honest, Josh,” she said into the microphone. “I think you look better bald.”

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Campus Cooks donates money to the housesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; philanthropies and has taken steps in the past three years to increase its involvement in greek Little 500 teams.

Campus Cooks has supplied teams with food, along with jackets and jerseys the teams continue to use for a few years after receiving them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are, yes, a kitchen management and food company, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re much more than that,â&#x20AC;? Domino said.

Domino said she has enjoyed working with the more than 100 chapters Campus Cooks serves across the country. Campus Cooks cares about what students are doing, she said, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why it allocates money to help them succeed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel rewarded that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m able to give them what they need to succeed for training purposes for Little Five,â&#x20AC;? she said. *** Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a dreary Tuesday evening, and Phi Delt has been forced to end its training session at the track prematurely because of threatening thunderstorms.

The training room inside Phi Deltâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;castleâ&#x20AC;? is in high contrast to the bleak landscape outdoors.

Bright blue paint covers the walls, and the small room holds endless evidence of avid preparation with water bottles, T-shirts and towels sprawled about the space.

Phi Delt team captain Ryan Romenesko said the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relationship with Campus Cooks is a two-way street. In exchange for putting Campus Cooksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; logo on its jerseys, the team got race day bibs, groceries during its week of training in Florida and a hearty meal before qualifications.

The pre-qualifications meal was intended for the bikers but instead doubled up as a Founderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day meal, so the whole house was fed.

Andrew Bredemeyer is the chef in Phi Delt this semester, and he knows what kind of food the team needs to consume in preparation for the race.

On nights when fried food overtakes the menu, he makes the bikers healthy alternatives, such as salads. He has a whole race week menu planned that is filled with protein, carbohydrates and â&#x20AC;&#x153;super foods.â&#x20AC;?

Rob Lee, a senior rider, said he always has access to what he needs before, during and after rides, such as milk for recovering and granola bars to take with him on weekend rides. Carbs before rides, protein after. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definitely a big part of it,â&#x20AC;? Lee said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You are what you eat, and you ride how you eat, too.â&#x20AC;? ***

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While Phi Delt cut its practice short, Gamma Phi was just about to begin. Its training room is full of space, with mirrors and lights on the walls and the bikes pushed to one side. Three of the cyclists, Rachel Krauss, Lindsey Givin and Captain Allison Eschbach, sit cross-legged on the floor. A countdown calendar hangs on the wall next to a window. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dwindling down,â&#x20AC;? they say.

But theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re enjoying the time they have together to get the bulk of training finished. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fun to all be together,â&#x20AC;?

Eschbach said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aw, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sisters,â&#x20AC;?

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The Gamma Phi bike team is especially appreciative of the financial help theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve received from Campus Cooks, which included a gift card for groceries during spring break. Eschbach and Krauss have both had executive positions within the chapter, so they know what the budget allocation looks like. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definitely important that we have sponsors,â&#x20AC;?

Eschbach said.

Otherwise, the money would have been taken out of their underwhelming bike team budget.

Eschbach and Givin were in Bloomington during spring break. They were left with an abundance of leftover food, including a jumbo bag of cheese cubes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all looked at it and were like, this is disgusting, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no way weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gonna eat all this,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We ate it all. Like very easily, we ate it all.â&#x20AC;?

Krauss said she ate up to 10 eggs a day in addition to normal meals and snacks when she was in Bloomington during last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spring break.

The Campus Cooks chef for Gamma Phi is Aaron Nowlin, who is in his fourth year with the company. He is also preparing a special pre-race meal for his team: a pasta bar with grilled chicken and roasted mixed vegetables. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know a long race like that, if you eat bad food, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gonna catch up with you,â&#x20AC;? he said.

The Campus Cooks kitchen staff finds amusement in the cyclistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; training attire. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve giggled a lot, snickered because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re constantly dressed like this,â&#x20AC;?

Eschbach said.

The girls snickered. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And constantly in the kitchen,â&#x20AC;? Krauss said. *** Though Campus Cooks has donated a wealth of food and finances, the cyclists are quick to mention other people or companies who have been generous.

For about the past decade, Carlton Arms of Magnolia Valley has provided the Phi Delt team with a condo during its week of training in Florida.

For Gamma Phi, extra support comes from a former Gamma Phi Little 500 cyclist, Sonja Arnesen. Arnesen coaches the team during spring break and visits during the race. The cyclists said sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a hotline for advice.

Both teamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; veteran players are backbones for team improvement, and the rookies know it. Sophomores Luke Ahern and Givin are rookie riders for Phi Delt and Gamma Phi, respectively. They praise their teammatesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hard work and cite them as key motivators. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really these guys, you know,â&#x20AC;? Ahern said of Romenesko and Lee. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is why I bike, is because these guys represent our house so strong.â&#x20AC;?

Ahern continued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;And they represent our bike team so damn strong that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like, you know when you train with them, you train with the best.â&#x20AC;?

Jenna Norgaard is a threeyear veteran of the Gamma Phi team, and Eschbach, Krauss and Givin all say she has been an inspiration for them to work diligently. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a combination of Norgaard, Arnesen and sponsors, such as Campus Cooks, that has built the Gamma Phi program to what it is this year, along with rigorous training.

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Living life in your years Every stage of life, big or small, seems to fly by once you’re at the end looking back.

This year, however, flashed before my eyes, and the startling realization that I am already halfway finished with college has furnished an invaluable flash of insight.

The reason every day felt like an hour this year was that I only had time to pause and take stock of the world around me for about that much time.

When each 18-hour day is packed with classes, meetings and homework, one doesn’t exactly stop to smell this campus’ perfectly-pruned roses, lilacs and pansies that lend it the beauty we take for granted.

By no means am I lamenting my busy schedule — it’s full of things I chose and love.

There’s something truly exhilarating about living life at breakneck speed. But planned doesn’t necessarily mean purposeful, and if I were to identify a single epiphany this year has given me, it’s this: Overscheduling doesn’t give life purpose. Fulfillment cannot be gauged by the number of appointments in your planner or lines on your resume.

Before this year, I misinterpreted the adage, “It’s not the years in your life, it’s the life in your years.” For me and so many of my peers, “life in your years” translated to “events in your day.”

We are a generation replete with ambition and competitiveness — both productive qualities in moderation — but we have forgotten how to say “no.” Or, more likely, we have never learned.

It is harder to be accepted to college now than any other time in our country’s history, and the rapidly inflating price of higher education puts additional pressure on us. This pressure begins in high school, often earlier, and pushes us to overachieve not only for admission but also for a scholarship to make that degree possible. We’re taught from a young age how to join as many extracurriculars as we can handle to appear

Sarah Kissel is a sophomore in English.

enriched and well-rounded on paper. And, in many cases, heavy involvement accomplishes just that, but only if structured mindfully with a big dose of discernment and self-awareness.

As someone with a long list of passions, it’s impossible to turn down a chance to experience something new or contribute to the fields I adore.

But being a serial overcommitter, I’ve realized, hasn’t made me a better student or person; I contribute a tiny bit to a million things rather than becoming utterly immersed in a handful of things that truly have my heart.

While sitting in an endof-year celebration in the religious studies department last week, I was awed by the incredible things my classmates have discovered and accomplished.

Suddenly, I saw my future self turning down these same opportunities for lack of time.

In that moment, my true priorities were thrown into sharp relief. The next morning, I dropped a minor and resolved not to rejoin a few organizations in the fall. I needed to pencil in time to be consumed by what I love.

This problem is a great one: We’re privileged with hundreds of life-changing opportunities so compelling we can’t choose between them.

But thankfully, I’ve come to articulate for myself that I’d rather spend hours pouring over material that fills me up, giving it the time and attention it deserves, than have my energy depleted for the sake of a couple extra lines on my resume. So here’s my humble slice of wisdom: No matter what “life in your years” may look like for you, be purposeful with each moment before they slip away.

Groans over student loans WE SAY: There’s every reason to fret over debt Many would argue college consists of some of the best years of your life, but is that a legitimate reason for some students choosing to stay in college longer?

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, argued college students are taking longer than four years to graduate because college loans are too easy to achieve, and “college is a lot of fun,” according to the Hill.

While discussing the rising cost of college education with constituents, Johnson, a GOP senator next year, debated that federal student loan programs are allowing students to take on overbearing loads of debt.

He continued his standpoint by saying students who receive loans have less drive to graduate within four years with a degree that could get them a good job.

The borrowing of student loans in American culture is an unsettling and often vicious process that leaves many graduates struggling to recover. Analysis from the Atlantic shows that 34 percent of students with just $5,000 of outstanding debt, which is not considered a high number, default on their student loans.

Rising social concern about the increase for greater access to IBR plans — the standards that set repayment of student loans at 15 percent of the loan-borrower’s income after graduation — is causing debates regarding whether or not students will be able to pay off their loans successfully while still being able to feed themselves and provide for their families.

In that same debate about the cost of education, Johnson also argued America has “enticed our children by subsidizing loans, we’ve enticed them to incur about $1.3 trillion in debt,” according to the Hill. The GOP fears unless we lower the cap for student loans, we will not be able to properly provide for the next generation.

Selfish child denial?

Madison Hogan is a sophomore in journalism.

I know everyone says you can legally cut them off at 18, but as someone whose college is paid for by their parents, I see that as highly unlikely.

Admitting I want to be childless is harder than the actual decision. I’m constantly met with comments, as if people think they can convince me otherwise. “You’ve never had someone who loves you ask you to make a child together.” “You’ll like your own kids.”

When I defend my points and stand with my decision, I can almost feel people picking apart my words to establish a perception of what type of woman I am. Apparently, that means I must be cold-hearted, insincere and emotionally starved. I must not want a child because I’m incapable of loving one. This is simply untrue. I know that if I were to have a child, I would love it unconditionally. But I would dive headfirst into motherhood.

I’m a Type-A person, and I know deep down that all my energy, my time and my attention would focus on the child. I would lose myself in raising a family. My other desires and motivations would be put on hold indefinitely, laid aside to be resentfully regretted.

So don’t feel like you can comment on people’s life decisions when they don’t concern you. It’s rude, invasive and honestly, it feels awful. Is choosing to be childless selfish? Maybe. But it’s my choice, and I’m sticking with it. maehogan@indiana.edu

What is glaringly absent, however, is the issue that if we don’t provide affordable means of education for this generation, there will be even less of a chance for that future.

The movement called #RaidOnStudentAid showed support for students and allies alike who want to stop the Republican Party’s cuts of $150 billion to student aid and subsidized loan programs in order to provide public higher education for little or no cost.

They argue if students are unable to continue taking out loans to afford college — a crucial educational step that is taking longer and longer to be completed — soon, people are not going to be able to afford higher education at all.

Loans are a tremendous factor as to why a large percentage of students are getting an education today in hopes they will achieve a degree and get a steady job to pay those off in the future.

With the potential for the maximum cap for loans to get smaller, this would ultimately rob students with less fortunate financial situations of acquiring a degree and making a living. It is unrealistic to assume most students can attend classes full-time while maintaining a part-time job or two to pay for tuition and still find time to complete coursework and have a social life. If the GOP decides to place a lower limit on the amount of student loans that can be borrowed,

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“You’ll change your mind,” they said.

No, it’s not what Chipotle employees say to me when I skip on the guacamole. It’s what every single person says to me when I reveal I wish to remain childless.

A collection of essays was published in the new book “Selfish, Shallow and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids” by Meghan Daum May 31.

I learned about the book after reading a column on Bitch Magazine’s website. As someone who’s often met with conflict about my choices on childbearing, I was immediately interested. I downloaded the book on my iPad for a light Easter read. As expected, I felt a connection with the 13 female and three male writers who wrote about their experience of choosing not to have children.

I have no beef with children. Yes, they’re annoying, they break everything they touch and, for some reason, they’re always sticky. But I understand that’s how children are. I was that way myself. I’m not holding their childish nature against them. I don’t want children because I want to do other things with my life. It’s the same reason I wouldn’t want a dog in my twenties.

Sure, dogs are great companions — they provide an abundance of love and they’re a ball of fun. But they’re also a huge responsibility and time commitment. I can’t own one when I’m trying to make my way in life as a journalist. I imagine one child alone would be more than 10 times the responsibility of a four-legged friend. Raising a child would likely consist of teaching and supporting them well into their twenties.

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Gay men across the state of Indiana are trembling as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act inches closer and closer into existence now that Gov. Pence has officially signed the bill to become law.

This legislation means businesses will be able to legally turn away gay men and gay couples from their establishments. Personally, I don’t know what all the fuss is about. My gay brethren seem to be oblivious to a major loophole. The solution is staring you right in the face, especially if you’re looking into a mirror, and — let’s face it — you probably are.

You can only be discriminated against if you give people reason to think you’re gay. Just don’t look so gay and then you’re good to go, duh! Come on, Hoosier homosexuals! I already know you’ve got it in you.

We’ve all been through middle school, a time when everyone had to act the same or face the shameful consequences. It’ll be just like when you were scared and closeted.

You’re part of the crowd that got through it without ending their lives. Now just do it all over again as a grown man.

I mean, it is well known that we’re a theatrical bunch. So, my flamboyant fellas, just imagine you’ve been assigned a new role by the government to play a straight man. Sure, it’s a role you’ll have to play whenever you’re interacting with a business, but hey, we live for the performance, right?

And to be fair, there are those among us who are over-advertising our gayness. You know who you sissies are: walking, standing and talking a certain way and wearing bright colors to call attention to your campiness. No man ever died from not wearing florals. Just

be less of a dandy and you’ll be dandy! Wear cargo shorts and flip flops year-round, and you’ll feel freedom from the indignation that is being publicly homosexual.

The application of this law is just about profiling. We’ve already had chances to practice for this. Yeah, I’m talking about blood donations, but instead of being turned away by suspicious Red Cross volunteers, it’s anyone who finds you spiritually unworthy of decent treatment. It’s slightly different, but still totally manageable.

When it comes down to it, this isn’t a national law. Just move — I mean, make sure you don’t relocate to one of the 19 other states with similar laws or the ones who will soon be passing similar laws — but relocating is always an option. Based off all the gay characters I see on television, gay men are always financially comfortable and are therefore mobile.

Griffin Leeds is a senior in communication and culture.

You see, America is less a melting pot and more a strip mall of separate restaurants.

If you don’t like what’s being served, or if they’re refusing to serve you, just uproot yourself and your family and try another restaurant.

What this comes down to is the fact that you are inconveniencing people by giving them any reason to think you might be gay. You are being inconsiderate for selfishly reminding these kind, simple, god-fearing people that you’re part of an identity whose version of sex is more incredible than their version of sex.

Fall in line and you’ll be fine! And if they ask, just don’t tell! gmleeds@indiana.edu

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The dating game has got to change Popular culture is obsessed with dating and relationships.

Smartphone and online dating applications, the everpresent hookup culture and increasing complications of commitment in a global employment network are constant variables in the personal lives of young professionals and university students.

As a result of this technological overload, today’s dating scene seems to have become a game of who can care and contribute the least. When it comes to actually confronting potential feelings we might have for another person, most of us cannot face our fears and will bow out when push comes to shove.

There is a possibility we might show a bit of vulnerability to someone. However, as soon as they attempt to reciprocate, we act as though

we never meant anything by our actions. Thus, we insinuate they are the ones that should feel embarrassed and shut down.

It’s time for our generation to be mature about our feelings and to stop hiding behind pathetic excuses or pointing fingers in the other direction. The endless cycle of vague answers and misleading hints should have been gladly abandoned in the teenage years. Often, it seems people like to maintain multiple possible options and lead each one to believe they could potentially share something important.

But, as soon as one of these misguided souls tries to make a move that even slightly resembles commitment, the other acts as if it had simply been a casual interest all along.

Logically speaking, it

is caused by a variety of issues. We feel too young and immature to commit to someone. We want to see what else is out there.

And, of course, we are concerned about our careers and futures. This is a logical concern for all college students who don’t know what the future has in store. However, this may be the root of the problem.

Good relationships aren’t founded entirely upon logic but also with a bit of trust and a veritable leap of faith. We just have to become willing enough to take that leap.

Amidst all of our ambitions and career competitions, perhaps it’s difficult for us to shift gears and actually let our guard down.

For most of us, our work does not allow us to expose our true personalities and emotions. If we come to let these roles define us, then

Sam Dickman is a junior in social work

we also risk losing touch with our ability to show others our true selves.

If we have developed feelings for someone, it’s time to stop playing the victim.

There’s only so long we can fool ourselves. Continuing these shallow connections predisposes us to attract other emotion-phobic interests.

I believe our generation is more than capable of forming genuine and dynamic relationships. In fact, our passion for living life to the fullest could form the basis for an incredible connection.

If we could actually let it happen, that is. sjdickma@indiana.edu

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Reverend Mary Ann Macklin holds up a sign made by the organization “Freedom Indiana” to show her opposition to Governor Mike Pence’s recent decision to sign the Religious Freedom Reformation Act during the 9:15 a.m. church service at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Bloomington, March 29, the Sunday after the bill was signed.

The Sunday after In Indiana and across the nation, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act incited uproar. Thousands protested on the steps of the Statehouse while dozens marched around the Bloomington downtown square.

On the Sunday after, voices rose from the pews — support and protest.

And, in some churches, silence.

Editor’s note: On the first Sunday after March 26, when the Religious Freedom Restoration Act passed, the Indiana Daily Student sent 11 reporters to six churches across southern Indiana.

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top a hill in the countryside of Bedford, Ind., Dive Christian Church radiates Evangelical tradition.

There are no flashing lights here, no band and no strangers.

This is the world of state Sen. Brent Steele, R-Bedford. To Indiana, and to the nation, he is a coauthor of a reviled piece of legislation. Here, on Palm Sunday, he is family.

This is where Senate Bill 101 was born — in the church pews.

Light streams through the yellow, blue and red stained glass. A microphone points to the pulpit.

Pastor Johnny Johnson doesn’t need it. He preaches from the

Book of John with large hand gestures, bold inflection and a southern drawl.

“The gates of hell shall not be able to prevail against the fact that he is the Christ, the son of the living God,” Johnny says. “If you don’t believe it, look what’s happening in our society. Samesex marriage and all of these things. Have you paid any attention to the news this past week?” *** Away from the protests and rallies and politicians on morning talk shows, churchgoers at Community Church of Greenwood take their seats. But on Sunday, the church’s most famous parishioner, Gov. Mike Pence, is not in attendance.

“He goes here?” a woman asks.

“I’ve never met him,” says another.

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During the service, Pence is on “This Week,” dodging questions from George Stephanopoulos.

This is a church where sweater-adorned children walk alongside parents who clutch bulletins and Bibles. This is a church that offers gluten-free communion wafers and belts praise hymns with a rock band. “Real church for real people,” a worship leader says.

The church’s website has videos of sermons past, ranging from prayer to faith and friendship to sexuality.

On the Sunday after Pence signed the RFRA into law, igniting a visceral response around the country, there will be no mention of politics in the sermon.

Not today. It is Palm Sunday, Pastor Bill Turner says, and “that trumps all.” ***

In Bloomington, little boys and girls chase each other with their palm branches as they wait to enter the sanctuary at First United Methodist Church.

“Please wave your branch from side to side, not into each other,” says Alex Lamb, director of the children’s ministries.

A curly-haired 9-year-old scoffs at the children using the miniature slide.

Holding their palm branches, a girl and her mother walk into the sanctuary together. The girl’s other mother is not at the service. “‘Hosanna, loud hosanna,’ the little children sing.”

The curly-haired girl plays with her palm branch during the hymns. She braids the smaller leaves, and her mom helps her fold the larger ones into crosses.

The Rev. Mark Fenstermacher welcomes the congregation by briefly addressing the RFRA.

“Open hearts, open minds, open doors,” Fenstermacher says.

“We are an open, welcoming community.” The congregation members nod. *** Brent Steele sits at the head of a table, arms crossed, staring off into space. He’s teaching Sunday School today. He is 68, and his legislative session ends Friday.

After that, it’s back to practicing law in Bedford and performing his duties as an elder at Dive Christian Church.

Behind him, a white board says in bright green ink: “RFRA — Senate Bill 101: If you’re going to object, you owe yourself the intellectual honesty to be logical and consistent.”

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name while discussing Palm Sunday with the adults around the table. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m brain-dead. ...

Someone help me out here.â&#x20AC;?

One of the men offers a name. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ah, yes,â&#x20AC;? Steele says with a nod. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pontius Pilate.â&#x20AC;?

Here, the senator is with family. He need not explain his politics, but he does anyway.

He believes in SB 101. So does his family. *** Back in Bloomington, the Universalist Rev. Mary Ann Macklin begins with a metaphor about how jazz, in its improvisation and inclusiveness, is similar to church and life. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Right now, the state of Indiana is struggling a little bit about what it means to be inclusive rather than exclusive,â&#x20AC;? Macklin says.

The audience chuckles knowingly and nods sadly.

Macklin mentions the RFRA by name and calls on the congregation to be, as Hoosiers, strong in their cores â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to know what they can do to make a difference.

As she calls upon guest Phil Cooper to explain the bill in further detail, she holds up a sign for everyone to see.

On one side, in bright white letters against a blue background, it says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Liberty for all Hoosiers.â&#x20AC;? On the other, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Freedom Indiana.â&#x20AC;?

She keeps it raised, a smile across her face, her arms strong. *** Across town, Pastor Tom Ellsworth preaches at Sherwood Oaks Christian Church about Jesus and the disciples in the garden of Gethsemane.

Peter sliced off the ear of

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One petition called for the governor to be recalled.

Another called upon IU to confer him with an honorary doctorate in interpretive dance after he avoided answers to yes-no questions on television.

The Indianapolis Star, the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest newspaper, devoted an entire front page to its editorial boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stance: â&#x20AC;&#x153;FIX THIS NOW.â&#x20AC;?

It was repeatedly called the most embarrassing moment in recent Indiana history.

Opponents of the original legislation pushed for

a Roman soldier and Jesus healed him. The last miracle he performed before crucifixion was for an enemy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter who the person is, what they believe, or what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done,â&#x20AC;?

Ellsworth says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Compassion, mercy and kindness is always appropriate. Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that what Jesus wants?â&#x20AC;? *** The Bethel African Methodist Episcopal church in Bloomington is no place for politics on Palm Sunday. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too soon, the Rev. Dennis Laffoon says.

Many members of the congregation are still trying to make sense of it. He is concerned the bill will turn businesses away from Indiana.

He wants the state to be a place where everyone who comes feels welcome. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where the rubber meets the road is what people actually do with it,â&#x20AC;? Laffoon says of the bill. *** Back in Bedford, Steele leads a Bible study of 14 men and women.

Two of Steeleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sons join him at the table.

Opening the class, Steele calls for prayer requests, adding one of his own. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am praying for our governor and legislators, who are under pressure right now,â&#x20AC;? Steele says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is a lot of misinformation out there and intellectual inconsistencies.â&#x20AC;?

Here, in Steeleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world, church and state coexist. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Head of NCAA concerned? Really?â&#x20AC;? the board behind him reads. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Did he mention the other 19 states, some of whom are hosting NCAA games? NO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The truth didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fit his agenda.â&#x20AC;? ***

sweeping non-discrimination measures that would have allowed LGBT individuals class protection.

During earlier committee discussions, one transgendered youth asked lawmakers for full protection for LGBT and gender non conforming individuals. A clean start.

House Republicans and Senate leadership met somewhere in the middle.

While the result, SB 50, protects LGBT Hoosiers from discrimination by business operators and employers, it does not afford them the status of a protected class. Religious institutions and nonprofits are, however, exempt from the

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Reverend Mary Ann Macklin holds up a sign that reads â&#x20AC;&#x153;Liberty for All Hoosiers,â&#x20AC;? while the choir sings the closing hymnal, â&#x20AC;&#x153;When the Spirit Says Do,â&#x20AC;? to show her and the churches opposition to Governor Mike Penceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent decision to sign the Religious Freedom Reformation Act.

At Sherwood Oaks, U.S. Rep. Todd Young, R-Bloomington, takes the stage.

Not as a politician, but as a churchgoer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every day beautiful, miraculous things happen across this country, really across the world,â&#x20AC;? Young says regarding the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent lifting of its debt. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen on account of directives or dictates coming from men and women. Instead they come from godly people.â&#x20AC;?

Nine elders, one fireman and one pastor take the stage to burn the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mortgage papers. The smell of smoke and scorched paper follows Young out after the doxology and the final amen.

The sanctuary is mostly emptied. Someone asks Young about SB 101.

He is kind but clear.

This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the place law entirely.

Perhaps oblivious to history in the making, schoolchildren on field trips and elderly citizens on Statehouse tours almost didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t flinch as they walked through the sea of reporters and cameras and lobbyists.

Steve Sanders, an associate professor of law at IU, studies issues constitutional law as applied to same-sex couples. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The whole political controversy has been worth having,â&#x20AC;? Sanders said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has really crystallized where the mainstream is right now for gay and lesbian rights.â&#x20AC;?

The great service that controversies like this provide, he added, is the

to talk about it. *** Steeleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grandchildren enter the basement as he wraps up his Sunday school lesson.

Steele greets his grandchild. An adult asks how often this law will even be applied.

A sigh. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t imagine itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be used a lot,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All it does is set a standard.â&#x20AC;?

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Courage, courage, courage,â&#x20AC;? hum the Universalists in a harmonizing chorus.

Voices add the words â&#x20AC;&#x153;freedomâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;respect.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Courage, freedom, respect,â&#x20AC;? Macklin says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope this song will sing in your hearts as you go forward this week.â&#x20AC;?

As the Greenwood church crowd disperses, one woman turns to another, Bible in hand. She says her friends had been â&#x20AC;&#x153;Christian-bashingâ&#x20AC;? because of RFRA. Nearby, 24-year-old Becca Piquard says the new divisive law has not been openly discussed in their church community, but she had thought about it herself.

She was mulling the logistics in her head. It seemed to make sense.

opportunity to begin a conversation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Indiana has this odd way of backing into doing the right thing,â&#x20AC;? Sanders said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It ends up doing the right thing even when it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t set out to do that.â&#x20AC;?

Indiana Senate President Pro Tempore David Long called the weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s events a calamity, but said the takeaway is that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Religious and individual rights can coexist in harmony.â&#x20AC;?

Religious leaders â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a very visible part of last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s private bill signing last week â&#x20AC;&#x201D; were nowhere to be seen in the Statehouse on Thursday as the clarifications to the new law were discussed.

Neither was Pence. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can unequivocally say RFRA cannot be used to discriminate against anyone,â&#x20AC;? Brian Bosma, Republican House Speaker, said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;RFRA will not be used for that purpose. It was misinterpreted. We are sorry the misinterpretation hurt so many people.â&#x20AC;?

Olympic diving legend Greg Louganis, who is gay, spent an hour with lawmakers before the language was rolled out.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sorry, Bosma recalled telling Louganis, that you perceived this to be something it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

At a press conference announcing the new language, Bosma begged the question

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Citing religious beliefs, it is a reasonable objection for a wedding cake baker, she says, to refuse services to gay couples. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of good.â&#x20AC;? *** The curly-haired girl at United Methodist in Bloomington â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the one with two moms â&#x20AC;&#x201D; finishes folding the palm leaf. She holds it up to the light filtering in through the enormous stained glass window. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a heart,â&#x20AC;? she says, smiling.

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By Emily Ernsberger emelerns@indiana.edu

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President Obama speaks February 6 at Ivy Tech Community College’s Indianapolis campus, where he addressed components of his new budget, including a proposal for two free years of community college. This was the president’s second visit to Indiana in five months, as he visited Millennium Steel in Princeton, Ind. as part of National Manufacturing Day in October.

President Obama discusses money, college in Indianapolis

By Daniel Metz and Hannah Alani region@idsnews.com

INDIANAPOLIS — President Barack Obama entered the Ivy Tech Community College auditorium Feb. 6 with a big, bold “Go Hoosiers!”

The President visited the state capital’s Ivy Tech campus to discuss middle-class economics days after his new federal budget proposal went to Congress.

The budget includes breaks for the middle class in areas of healthcare, childcare, paid leave, home buying and retirement.

Before taking audience questions in an casual, town hall-style conversation, Obama addressed a prominent component of his new budget: two free years of community college.

“Here in America, it shouldn’t matter how much your folks make. And

students shouldn’t have hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt,” Obama said. “We can afford to pay for all of this if we fix a tax code that is filled up with special interest loopholes for folks who don’t need them.”

The free community college aspect of the budget could help dissolve the socioeconomic polarization in America, Obama said.

“Are we going to be a nation where a few of us do spectacularly well and a few of us are struggling to get by?”

The President credited the State of Indiana and Gov. Mike Pence for its dedication to providing community college to students.

The day was a very special experience for the 80 Ivy Tech students sitting in the audience and behind the podium, Ivy Tech Senior Vice President for communications and marketing Jeff

Fanter said.

“Indiana is unique in that we’re one of the few states with one statewide community college, and it’s the largest statewide community college in the country,” he said before Obama’s arrival. “The changing workforce is beginning to dictate the tracks people are choosing to take to go into in college.”

These 80 students had the opportunity to ask the President questions following his speech. They were joined by a high school student, an Indiana University student representing IU College Democrats, a veteran and others.

“So that’s what’s on my mind,” Obama said. “I want to know what’s on your mind.”

Isabel Keller, a local high school student, asked the President for advice on how best to get her peers engaged in the political

“Here in America, it shouldn’t matter how much your folks make.

And students shouldn’t have hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.”

Maybe it was because of the rain. Maybe it was because there were so few big-ticket items on the ballot. Maybe it was apathy.

Voter turnout for November’s midterm election was at an all-time low.

In total, 25,657 voters in Monroe County cast ballots on Election Day and during early voting.

That represents 25 percent of total registered voters.

It is also the lowest number of voters in a midterm election since 1990, according to data from the Indiana Secretary of State’s office.

When more than 23,000 voters cast ballots in 1990, that comprised 50 percent of registered voters.

Nationally, voter turnout during midterm elections has been stagnant at about 40 percent for the past 66 years, according to data from the Untied States Census Bureau.

Midterm election turnout in Monroe County has ranged from 23,462 in 1990 to 36,333 in 2010, according to data from the Indiana Secretary of State’s website.

Every 12 years, such as this one, elections in Indiana will not have races that typically draw large voter turnout, such as elections for presidential and gubernatorial

offices.

In 2002, the last time an election without big-ticket races took place in Indiana, 27,422 people voted in Monroe County, which is 30 percent of registered voters.

Indiana voter turnout in midterm elections has been between 39 and 56 percent in the last three decades.

Bloomington had a reported 5,057 voters in its 23 precincts.

Those encompassing parts of the IU campus had among the lowest percentage of turnout.

Bloomington 1, which includes the downtown area between Ninth and Third streets down to Walnut Avenue, had a collective 9.7 percent results rate.

Bloomington 7, made up of the northern part of IU’s campus from 10th Street to the 45/46 bypass and between Jordan Avenue and Fee Lane, had a 2.4 percent turnout rate.

Bloomington 18, made up of the southern edge of campus from Indiana Avenue to Union Street, had a 2.4 percent turnout rate.

Bloomington 23, from Fee Lane to College Avenue between 17th street, had a four percent turnout rate.

In total, 246 people living in student-populated areas and parts of campus voted Tuesday, where 2,430 people are registered to vote.

President Barack Obama, Feb. 6

system. Obama acknowledged her inquiry as one of the core issues in America.

“One of the big challenges we have in this country is the lack of civic engagement,” Obama said, adding that roughly 30 percent of registered voters voted in the last American election, while Ukraine had a 60 percent voter turnout rate despite being at war.

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Van Buren Township Fire Department Deputy Chief Ed Terrell (left) and Ellettsville Fire Department Chief Mike Cornman investigate the scene of a plane crash near Monroe County Airport on Sept. 18, 2014.

Police: no survivors in plane crash

By Anicka Slachta aslachta@indiana.edu

On the almost cloudless Thursday afternoon, seven miles from the Monroe County Airport, the pilot of the single-engine plane reported a low fuel indicator.

The airport didn’t hear from the pilot again.

In the aftermath of the crash, investigators determined the plane went down sometime shortly before 1 p.m. on Sept. 18, 2014.

As first responders arrived, Indiana State Police officials confirmed at least two fatalities and later determined there were no survivors.

Residents who live on North Oard Road near the crash site tried to make sense of the explosive sound and the black smoke.

Tearing through a shed behind a residence in a nearby wooded area, the charred remains of the plane were scattered.

Bruce Payton, airport director at Monroe County Airport, and others responded to the call — an “alert 3.”

Although Federal Aviation Administration Aviation Specialist Steve Burnham couldn’t say whether the plane caught flames in the air or on the ground, fire destroyed most of the aircraft and burned the passengers’ bodies beyond recognition, Monroe County Coroner Nicole Meyer said.

The individuals were both later identified as male, Meyer said.

To identify them further, officials will conduct DNA tests and compare them with dental records.

The plane, which was believed to be en route to the airport, went down in a heavily wooded area on private property off of Oard Road.

The plane was cleared for landing at the Monroe County Airport, according to the Indiana State Police.

By 12:58 p.m., Public Investigations Officer Joe Watts said 15 firefighters responded to the emergency call.

Before officials can investigate further and determine whether or not there were other people aboard, they will have to move the remaining pieces of the aircraft. * * * At the scene of the wreckage, a bright orange hose snakes from an Ellettsville fire truck.

It winds down the slippery hill behind the house near the crash site, into the woods and through the wreckage.

The nozzle, thrown halfheartedly over a charred tree branch, rests next to a piece of the plane’s wing.

Tania Daffron, an Ellettsville firefighter on the scene, said when she arrived there was “a column of black smoke, going straight up (to the sky).”

She arrived with the

“I heard the boom. I looked up, and I just saw the big, black smoke moving in.”

Wanda Bennet, witness to Sept. 18, 2014 plane crash

Ellettsville Fire Department, directly behind Van Buren Township Fire Department.

The men’s bodies lay out at the crash site, just behind a thick fallen tree and next to a chunk of wreckage that Watts guesses might have once been a seat.

To the left, the exhaust pipe of the plane’s engine stuck straight up, parallel to a blackened branch.

The pieces of the metal that remained looked as if they’d bend as easily as construction paper.

“I heard the boom,” said Wanda Bennett, a neighbor from two doors down. “I looked up, and I just saw the big black smoke rolling in.”

Bennett’s house is tidy on the outside. A decorative heart reading “Bless this home” hangs on the front door.

Wanda’s husband James was mowing the front lawn when the plane fell.

Looking up from the perfect, straight lines in the grass, he watched as smoke billowed from the woods.

They were both outside when the plane crashed, but Wanda was the one who heard the boom.

“I never even seen the plane,” James said.

“And you’re used to seeing planes go over you,” the Bennett’s son, David, said.

“But not going down over there,” James interrupts him, nodding toward the crash site.

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Daffron said the tub is filled by another vehicle directly behind it, which has made four trips already.

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Proposed State Senate bills could raise minimum wage to $10 per hour

By Daniel Metz dsmetz@indiana.edu

This story was originally published in the IDS on Feb. 4.

Can you support yourself with a minimum-wage job?

At Nick’s English Hut on Kirkwood Avenue, employee Hayden Frasier sat eating a sandwich and some fries.

Frasier, 25, is a lifelong resident of Bloomington — where his parents still live — but now he’s renting a house in Ellettsville, Ind. He owns and pays for his car, which he uses to commute to and from work.

He started at Nick’s working for $7.50 an hour, but his wage has been increased to $8.50 an hour. He still needs some help from his parents in order to get by.

New proposed legislation, Senate Bills 41 and 160, has been introduced in the Indiana General Assembly this year that addresses the state’s current minimum wage laws.

SB 41, which was authored

by Sen. Karen Tallian, D-Portage, would increase the state minimum wage to $10.10, effective July 1.

SB 160, which was authored by Sen. Frank Mrvan, D-Hammond, would use a longer timeline.

Effective June 30, SB 160 would increase the minimum wage to $8.50 an hour and would increase it to $10.00 per hour effective June 30, 2016.

“I hate to say that Indiana is not in the forefront of helping our workers,” Mrvan said. “I think it’s our duty to keep up with the rest of the country. I think it’s good for the economy, and I think it’s good for the people.”

Indiana’s minimum wage has been set at $7.25 since it was raised in July 2009. The

federal minimum wage is also $7.25 per hour.

Linda Gales, president of the Communications Workers of America union chapter based out of IU, offered comments on the proposed increase of the minimum wage.

“My opinion is that it should be raised, but not by almost $3 per hour,” Gales said. “Having said that, between minimum wage jobs out of necessity becoming full-time jobs for some and the definition of full-time having been decreased by several hours, without consistent overtime it would be very difficult for anyone to be able to support themselves working a minimum wage hourly job.”

There is a different minimum wage for tipped employees in Indiana, which are defined as any employees that make more than $30 per month from tips, or $2.13 per hour. Indiana has the lowest minimum wage for tipped employees in the country, a ranking it shares with 16 other states.

Dani Graf works at Mother Bear’s Pizza and lives off her income as a server.

“I think the minimum wage should be $10,” Graf said. “It’s impossible to live on minimum wage to support yourself.”

She said some people have to get roommates or are forced to break the law in order to be able to afford living.

Bronti McClellan, another server who works at Cafe Pizzeria and who supports herself with a tipped employee wage, simultaneously attends IU and Ivy Tech parttime.

“It’s extremely hard,” McClellan said. “It’s hard to buy food from (any place) other than work. If it’s not in the budget, then I can’t buy it.

Rent before food.”

According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are approximately 3,301,000 people in the United States who earn the federal minimum wage.

In Indiana, of the 1,731,000 people working at an hourly rate, 108,000 of them are paid the state minimum wage or less.

This equates to about 6.2 percent of the Indiana workers being paid an hourly wage who are paid minimum wage.

The general manager at Penn Station on Indiana Avenue, Billy Banard, said it is difficult to live in Bloomington with the high cost of living.

“You can’t get anything on minimum wage,” Banard said. “You work a full 40 hours, you still won’t have enough to cover rent.” He added that half the money earned is typically applied to rent.

A sales clerk at the Village Pantry at the intersection of Third Street and Jordan Avenue gave a statement on the feasibility to live on minimum wage in Indiana.

“Impossible. You cannot do it,” he said. “Even if you have food stamps, it would be extremely difficult to live on minimum wage, especially in Bloomington.”

Kentucky, Tennessee and Wisconsin all also have $7.25 per hour as their minimum wages.

In Michigan it is $8.15 an hour, and in Illinois it is $8.25 an hour.

The Ohio minimum wage is $8.10 an hour, but for businesses that earn less than $297,000 per year, the minimum wage is $7.25 per hour.

“I would probably have to work about 50 hours a week to make ends meet,” Fraier said.

Fire reported at Village Deli, damages kitchen

By Emily Ernsberger emelerns@indiana.edu

It was a classic Bloomington Sunday. IU senior Sarah Rodriguez was eating with three friends at the Village Deli.

People were eating and waiting to be seated like any other weekend at the restaurant, she said. The four friends were seated near the kitchen.

Waitress Madelyn Nahas was putting in an order.

It was just like normal, until she walked into the back of the restaurant.

Toward the end of their meal they started to smell smoke, Rodriguez said.

Then, Nahas saw it billowing out of the walk-in area of the restaurant.

Later in the day, it was confirmed the fire started around noon on Jan. 25.

No one was injured, but the Village Deli will be closed for an unknown amount of time.

“We didn’t think it

was that big of a deal,” Rodriguez said.

But then Rodriguez and her friends looked into the kitchen windows to look at the smoke. Lights in the dining room flickered on and off until they stayed off. Patrons were calmly told to evacuate.

“I’m glad it happened so quick and that we were able to move everyone,” Nahas said. “But it’s insane.”

Responders arrived on the scene immediately after. Staff and customers evacuated quickly, Nahas said.

Authorities and owners of the Village Deli did not respond to various attempts to verify how the fire started, though the staff confirmed it was located in the kitchen area.

“It hit electrical lines,” Nahas said.

Kirkwood Avenue was cleared later in the day, but remnants of Sunday’s brunch lingered. Halfempty coffee cups and

“I’m glad it happened so quick and that we were able to move everyone. But it’s insane.”

Madelyn Nahas, waitress at Village Deli

nibbled biscuits remained in place while employees cleared produce from the back of the building through the evening.

Bloomington Fire Department Battalion Chief Rick Petermichael said Sunday afternoon on the site that the building remains sturdy.

Staff members were taken in one at a time in the afternoon to gather belongings.

“It was really sad,” Rodriguez said. “We were just thinking about all of the servers. It was hard to think about that.”

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Isobel Casey (left) and Adele Novak made butterflies to be displayed at the "Save the Monarchs" exhibit in Indianapolis.

Students take action to save the butterflies

By Annie Garau agarau@indiana.edu

Isobel Casey and Adele Novak love monarch butterflies.

A lot.

“They’re really just smaller versions but a bit different of humans,” Casey said. “I think they’re really beautiful.”

Novak emphatically nodded in agreement.

“I’ve always been amazed at how the butterfly barely rests and then flies 3,000 miles to Mexico,” she added, referring to the monarch’s impressive yearly migration

from the United States down to more temperate forests in Mexico. “They’re so small, and they still survive all of the wind and the rain. Well, some of them survive.”

The girls are fourth graders at Harmony School, and they’ve just completed a mini-elective class called “Save the Monarchs.” During the course, they read books and watched videos about the famous orange and black butterflies.

Students also crafted their own monarch models, which will be featured in the “Save the Monarchs” exhibit at the

Indianapolis Artsgarden.

“It was actually perfect because I’d already had a couple of students who had brought up monarchs and wanted to help,” said Lana Cruce, the girls’ teacher. “We made the butterflies out of recycled number six plastic that we colored, baked and then wired together.”

The exhibit, which will run April 13-May 17, is put on by Earth Charter Indiana and the Arts Council of Indianapolis among others to raise awareness about the decline in the monarch butterfly population.

The monarch, which was included in the Endangered Species Coalition’s newest list of “Ten American Species Our Children May Never See,” has experienced a 90-percent drop in population in recent years, caused by climate change, increased use of herbicide-based agriculture and deforestation in Mexico.

“I hate illegal logging,” Casey said, slamming her small fist. “I’m going to write a letter to the mayor about this and maybe ask them to send police to Mexico to stop people from cutting

down trees.”

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced the beginning of a yearlong review process to officially classify monarchs as endangered species.

This classification would likely result in agricultural restrictions on farmers who use herbicides that are harmful to the monarch’s habitat.

“In my experience of working with kids in schools, when a young person finds out about a problem, like the decline of monarchs, they don’t get caught up in feelings of futility, they just

want to solve it,” said Jim Poyser, the executive director of Earth Charter Indiana.

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Server Morgan Anderson was working in the backhouse when the fire happened.

He said his first thought was “new job,” adding that many people who work at the restaurant are unable to wait until the Village Deli

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“They need to understand that politics is not some side show in Washington,” he said. “It’s how we work together as a community to make decisions about our priorities.”

Ivy Tech’s student government president inquired about free tax credits for textbooks and access to more academic advisors.

The President acknowledged both items as issues in higher education.

“When Michelle and I first got married, we had the bonds of love and the bonds of debt,” Obama said, adding that for the first 10 years of his marriage, he and his wife’s monthly student loan payments were higher than

opens up again.

A portion of Kirkwood Avenue was blocked off during the response to the fire.

Customers hoping to eat at Village Deli were still approaching the scene in the early afternoon, as no damage was done to the front.

Though many walked away with a free meal, Rodriguez and her friends found their waitress outside and gave her money for her service.

their home’s mortgage.

The President did not provide a solution to the issue of student loan debt and rising textbook prices but offered his pledge to help find ways to lower the supplementary costs of attending college for both community college and traditional university students.

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But that’s like 18 gazillion, 966 schools.”

“I think college should teach a class about monarchs,” Casey agreed. “And I think it would be better if the class wasn’t optional.”

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Attempting perfection Senior ballerina Ellie Edwards juggles academics and hours of ballet rehearsals as she prepares to dance the lead in Swan Lake.

By Alison Graham akgraham@indiana.edu

This story was originally published in the IDS on March 25, 2015.

Amid the chaos, Ellie Edwards quietly repeats the steps she has practiced for weeks.

In four days, she will perform these steps in front of hundreds. Edwards is dancing the lead in Swan Lake. She’s perfecting the routine with her partner, Colin Ellis.

She has spent upwards of six hours per day on this single performance while also trying to balance biology homework with finding a job after graduation.

Most ballerinas have coaches barking instructions at them throughout the rehearsal.

Stand up straighter.

Point your toes.

Go slower.

But for Edwards, it’s different.

Her natural talent and the hours she spends in the studio set her apart. Coaches critique less often. Underclassmen watch with wide eyes.

“She looks so good,” a ballerina says from the audience. “She looks so beautiful.”

The young ballerinas have been holding their breaths throughout her performance. They watch her take a few steps and hold her final pose.

They finally exhale. *** Onlookers are common when Edwards dances.

Three weeks before rehearsals began, she was practicing in the studio. A younger dancer walked in, asking to watch Edwards’ rehearsal.

“You inspire me so much,” the dancer said. “I love watching you dance.”

In a room more industrial than artistic — cinder block walls and a high ceiling with exposed beams — Edwards floated elegantly through her steps with Ellis.

Ballet coach Violette Verdy worked with them on their technique. She stopped them mid-routine to offer pointers.

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angle her back and adjust her shoulder blades.

Edwards picks up on the tip quickly. It hardly ever took her a second time to get it right, but she does the steps again and again.

“Sometimes even thinking of something differently, it will change everything,” Edwards said.

Verdy and Edwards worked on the incline of her head for five minutes. In another pose, her hips were not aligned correctly.

When she practices a routine, Edwards works until each step feels right. She performs again and again until the routine becomes natural.

Establishing muscle memory helps with nerves before performing onstage.

“You want it to be a habit,” she said. “You want to program that in and make sure it doesn’t leave.”

When she first starts with a new routine, she focuses on the counts and the choreography. Those first steps usually take a few hours before they become subconscious.

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“You’re like a ballet cook,” she said. “How do you put all of these things in one moment and stay in that moment?” *** For many, injury can be a serious problem in ballet. Edwards said every dancer is hurting.

Edwards struggles with a tight hamstring in her left leg. The injury requires her to stretch and strengthen the muscle everyday.

“Your body is your instrument,” she said.

Regular stretching, eating the right foods, getting enough sleep and drinking a lot of water are all requirements for ballet dancers.

But balancing the physical requirements gets more difficult with academics mixed in. Each ballerina is required to have a second area of study outside of the Jacobs School of Music.

Edwards chose biology after falling in love with the subject during her junior year of high school.

When she first came to IU, she wanted to study biochemistry. But the department’s classes only met during her rehearsal times.

Ballet dancers can’t take any classes between 11:30 a.m. and 5:45 p.m. They’re required to be in the studio training during those times.

Biology was a flexible major that would work with her schedule, Edwards said.

This May, she’ll graduate with both a ballet and biology background. That same month, she’ll hear back from about 25 different ballet companies she applied to.

Her goal is to dance professionally for a few years before graduate school. She intends to pursue something biology-related.

Edwards will work through the academic stress, the hyper-tight hamstring and the long hours of ballet rehearsal.

But this weekend, she has to put all of that aside. At 8 p.m. Friday, the curtain will open and Edwards will step out in a white tutu and pink tights.

Hundreds of eyes will watch her attempt perfection.

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Lead singer Damian Kulash of OK GO sings as confetti comes down around him on Sept. 14 at the Bluebird Nightclub.

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This story was originally published in the IDS on Sept.

15, 2014.

The stage is set, and the crowd can barely contain itself.

The audience sways back and forth to the DJ’s beat, and a mash up of Rihanna’s “Diamonds” and M83’s “Midnight City” plays. The anticipation is

set, and the energy is alive.

Soon the lights darkened, and the crowd cheered as they raised one by one on their toes aiming for a higher view. Then, the four emerge.

Damian Kulash, the lead. Tim Nordwind, the bassist. Andy Ross, the guitarist. Dan Konopka, the drummer.

Claps, whistles and hollers fill the Bluebird Nightclub’s brick room, lights flash and confetti blows.

OK Go is on.

However, the music, the camaraderie and the relationships started between OK Go’s Kulash and Nordwind, as they met at a summer camp when they were 11.

Kulash said that by process of elimination he became the guitarist because he was the only one that played a string instrument, even if it was the violin.

“I was a terrible violinist,

but a worse guitarist,” Kulash said. “I played all six strings at once. I held down one note, so it was the same chord over and over.”

To some, OK Go brings back old memories from childhood, but to others, it’s a new band altogether.

Lisa Locey, 28, came with Thay Pham, 21, for their first viewing of OK Go live.

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Wielding a guitar and plainly dressed in a plaid shirt and jeans, Nick Offerman filled IU Auditorium with laughter on April 1.

“Tonight I will consider myself an honorary Hoosier,” Offerman said.

The multi-talented actor, humorist, writer and woodworker performed to a receptive audience.

Offerman is best known for his character on NBC’s comedy show “Parks & Recreation,” which had its series finale in February.

On the show, he played Ron Swanson, a meat-loving, outdoorsy Libertarian with a dry sense of humor and a knack for woodwork, a role that won him the Television Critics Award for Individual Achievement in Comedy.

Though Offerman said he is a fan of Indiana, he also said he is not in favor of Indiana’s government.

He recently announced via Twitter he and his wife, actress Megan Mullally, will cancel the Indianapolis tour stop of “Summer of 69: No Apostrophe” due to the controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Before the performance, people were wound around Showalter Fountain,forming a line to see the miniature horse dubbed “Lil’ Sebastian,” an animal character beloved on “Parks & Recreation.”

An eager family of four waited in line to get a picture with the horse before entering the auditorium.

Jim Lynch, a lecturer at IU, said the moment he heard Nick Offerman was coming to Bloomington he

bought tickets for his two daughters and wife.

The Lynch family said they supported Offerman’s decision to boycott Indianapolis but were happy to hear he would still come to Bloomington and donate the show’s proceeds to the Human Rights Campaign.

“When we heard that he was still going to show up here and donate his money, we all high-fived,” Lynch said.

The “Full Bush” set included humorous songs played on classic guitar, a diss on Carrie Underwood’s “Jesus Take the Wheel” hit, an extensive talk on the political climate, his distinctive giggle and life and love advice.

Offerman explained “Full Bush” has a few meanings. Throughout the show, he compared the tour title to a lifestyle choice. When a person gets up early and gets going, when a person crafts with their hands and lives life in full, that is the way to live full bush, he said.

“Full bush is a great way of life no matter where you live,” he said.

During the show, Offerman said he was new to being a humorist.

He talked about his passions and how he’s found work that makes him love to get up in the morning — entertaining and woodworking.

He said he has mellowed with age and realized he just wants people to be decent with one another.

“Everybody’s OK,” Offerman said. “Everybody is trying their best.”

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Nate Braga plays Song Liling in a dress rehearsal for M. Butterfly at the Wells-Metz Theatre.

Living a dream The cast and crew of “M. Butterfly” prepare for an adventurous performance.

By Alison Graham akgraham@indiana.edu

This story was originally published in the IDS on Oct. 21, 2014.

When audiences enter the Wells-Metz Theatre opening night, they’ll see a completely empty stage.

The set design is surprisingly minimal for a play set in 28 different locations, but the cast, crew and director of “M. Butterfly” wanted to keep things simple.

“When you walk in, you just see a bare floor,” Director Murray McGibbon said. “When you leave you think, ‘Wow. I’ve been transported.’”

Audiences can journey to France and China during “M. Butterfly,” which opens at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

Performances will also be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Oct. 28-31 and at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Nov. 1 at the Wells-Metz Theatre.

“M. Butterfly” tells the story of French diplomat Rene Gallimard, who falls in love with Chinese opera star

Song Liling.

“It’s really a desperately tragic love story, but there’s a lot of humor in the play as well,” McGibbon said.

The play begins in Gallimard’s prison cell and starts at the end of the story, working its way through the main character’s memories, McGibbon said. “M. Butterfly” is set in the imagination and memory of Gallimard.

“It becomes a fascinating yet difficult story to tell,” McGibbon said. “It’s not linear.

That’s what appeals to me about it. How do you stage a man’s thoughts and what’s going on in his brain physically onstage for an audience?”

Actor Nate Braga plays one of the main characters, Song Liling, in IU’s production.

Braga was asked to perform in the play at IU after Jonathan Michaelsen, director of the Department of Theatre, Drama and Contemporary Dance, saw the same performance at the Court Theater in Chicago.

“I initially didn’t want to do it again,” Braga said. “But my manager said it would be an opportunity for a great

acting challenge, and she was right.”

Braga said that working with a new cast and new set has given him even more experience.

“I had a set way of doing things before, but it’s a completely new show,” he said.

Braga said that adjusting to his new coworkers and reacting to what his costar, Chris Handley, does on stage is a rewarding part of the performance.

Although he has performed “M. Butterfly” many times before, Braga continues to work to make sure the piece is different and fresh each time, he said.

Performing the play in a new and exciting way hasn’t been the only challenge for the cast and crew.

Scenic designer Bridgette Dreher has worked to design a set in an “in-the-round” fashion.

“In-the-round” means audience members are seated around the entire stage.

“There’s no place to hide,” McGibbon said. “The action is very close to the audience.

The stage and the auditorium

almost become one.”

With central staging, actors and designers were forced to get creative with theatrics.

Dreher said the biggest challenge is to allow for dynamic action on a stage with no platforms or levels. This required all of the design elements to be in the air and fly in and out of the stage area.

The Wells-Metz Theatre is not set up for flying elements in an in-the-round setting, so designers had to create their own system to fly the set pieces in and out.

In addition, the designers had to pay specific attention to sightlines which required them to move around the auditorium and see the show from every perspective.

The flying elements could not obstruct audience members’ views, and with two balconies it was difficult to make sure the view from every side was the same.

Dreher researched Chinese architecture and design before embarking on the design process. She noticed the heavy use of screens and geometric patterns in Chinese culture.

To incorporate those cultural decorations, Dreher used a screen as part of the prison cell. It can fly up and down to be used whenever the scene reverts to the present day.

“It’s like a jigsaw puzzle,” McGibbon said. “We give 80 percent of the pieces to the audience, and they need to use their imaginations to fill in the rest.”

The prison cell is largely Dreher’s favorite part of the show.

In the final scene, a light bulb comes down from the ceiling and then the cage is lowered down to the stage.

As the cage is lowered, a shadow is put on the ceiling and then moves over the audience in a dramatic motion, Dreher said.

“It’s very pretty and incredibly moving,” she said.

The beauty of the entire piece is what originally attracted Dreher to about “M. Butterfly.”

As part of her scenic design MFA program, she is assigned one to two shows per year.

However, Dreher

requested to work on this particular play because she had read it years ago in an introductory theater class.

“I thought it was beautiful,” she said. “I liked the questions that it brought up about culture and identity. It was a chance to work on something impactful.”

“M. Butterfly” explores a variety of themes, including gender and racial identity and the Western perspective of Asian cultures.

“One of the good things about theater is that it presents stories that influence how we see other people,” Dreher said. “It shows how we view others and how we perceive people from other cultures and other races.”

Braga said the play is anything but normal and requires audience members to be completely engaged with the challenging subject matter.

“I hope the audience relates with these characters,” Braga said. “They’re so human. You get to see these flawed characters and feel for them. That’s what’s so brilliant about it.”

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Lotus brings music, culture to downtown

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Half an hour before the first act took the stage at the Old National Bank/Soma Tent on the evening of Sept.

20, technical crews tested the lights and sound board.

At the tent near the intersection of Fourth and Grant streets during the Lotus World Music and Arts Festival, the air was already buzzing with anticipation.

Before the night was over, people would get to enjoy the

music of bands from Louisiana, Honduras and Sweden.

“It’s a great draw,” tent volunteer Alan Simmerman said.

He said he has friends from Indianapolis and Terre Haute who come down every year.

“It’s such a great opportunity to see music,” he said as people began to file into the tent to prepare for the first act, the Revelers.

Simmerman said he has volunteered at Lotus Festival since 2007 but that there were some veterans of the event that have worked for 15 or

even 20 years.

“It really is a town event,” he said.

As 7 p.m. approached, people began gathering in large groups under the tent, talking, drinking and preparing themselves for a long night of music.

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Students at Wild Orchid defy pole dancing stigma

By Sanya Ali siali@indiana.edu

The sun streamed into Wild Orchid Aerial Fitness & Dance from the many windows around the studio as students began making their way into the studio. Five or six poles decorated the light wood floor.

The room smelled of aromatics. A humidifier buzzed, releasing steam by one of the windows. Everyone grabbed a mat and began wiping down their respective poles as the clock struck 6 p.m.

The level two class began with an announcement from instructor Jerad Kendall.

The usual background music, a YouTube compilation of dub step, wasn’t loading properly.

This time, Kendall would have to draw from his own music collection.

“Things are going to get weird,” he said, laughing.

The group began with a few common stretches: toetouches, the butterfly position, anything to loosen their muscles and prepare them to learn the day’s moves.

Sean MacLennan, senior in the School of Public Health, walked in 10 minutes after six.

Kendall greeted her, asking how she was.

“Good,” MacLennan said.

“Late,” Kendall replied.

MacLennan said she came straight from her job; she works as a desk monitor and trainer at the Briscoe Fitness and Wellness Center.

She smiled and made her way around the poles, taking her place near one of the pre-set mats and trying to catch up as the group worked through downward dog.

Wild Orchid opened last fall under the ownership of Anita DeCastro. Some of its overarching goals are to combat the negative connotations

of pole dancing, celebrate aerial arts and help clients get fit.

Pole dancing, according to students and instructors alike, is both an artistic and fitness movement. The objective is not training for a career but bettering a lifestyle.

“Every day we are told how to act and what’s appropriate to do when and where,” MacLennan said. “It feels good to be able to let loose sometimes and do something completely for yourself. To lose yourself in any form of expression is a practice that more people should give a chance.”

The term “pole dancing” is being re-appropriated in studios like Wild Orchid. It is not about sexuality for public consumption as much as free expression and self-appreciation. * * * During the next phase of the class, students lay on mats or on the hardwood floor, holding the pole from over their shoulder.

Using their core muscles, they propelled their pelvises upward. This is a form of conditioning and a common start to the class. Each time the students moved their legs back down from the pole, they remembered to point their toes so that their bodies were completely erect.

The student-to-pole ratio is around 2-1, so students partner up for each class.

As one partner conditions, the other will do pushups or squats.

After warming up by practicing spins learned in previous classes, the students moved on to the lesson of the day: a bicep grip.

“Remember: pointed toes, straight legs, hips in front,” Kendall said, demonstrating the move on a pole in the front

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Sean MacLennan, senior, practices during a pole dance class at Wild Orchid Aerial Fitness & Dance.

of the class.

Holding the pole with her upper arm, MacLennan hopped up, moved her hips to the front and spun until she reached the ground. She then repeated, trying with her weaker arm.

A classmate told MacLennan she did a good job, and she smiled a thank you as she held a high part of the pole and attempted the move once more for good measure.

“How is it?” Kendall asked the class. “Feel like you’re flying? This is nothing. The real flying comes later.” * * * MacLennan’s journey to Wild Orchid started on a bus ride.

One day while riding through downtown, MacLennan noticed a studio opening up on College Avenue.

Curiosity piqued, and she went online to see what the space was all about. What she found was an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign asking for donations that

would go toward opening up the nontraditional exercise studio. In exchange for her contribution, MacLennan received a 10-class pass.

MacLennan cast away inhibitions and expectations and signed up for the pole dancing class.

“There’s a lot of stigma that comes with it, so I had no idea what I was walking in to, but I had heard pole classes were really fun, and I just wanted to give it a shot,” MacLennan said.

She described her first level one class as “nerve-wracking” and noted there was a definite learning curve, even though she has a background in fitness and frequents the gym.

The class quickly moved from basics to spins, which MacLennan said came easily after a few tries. The moves might look easy, but they take effort to perfect.

That illusion, MacLennan said, is the greatest challenge students face.

“It’s intense,” MacLennan said. “It hurts when you’re do-

ing it, but it’s a lot of fun and worth it. The hardest part is the mind-over-matter thing, knowing what you want to do and having the willpower to do it even though it’s not the easiest thing in the world.”

Each class inevitably ends with a few bruises. The backs of MacLennan’s legs are often splotched with purple and blue circles that she seldom remembers getting.

“The pain and bruises are unavoidable when practicing pole, but I proudly wear them like badges,” MacLennan said.

“It shows my dedication to something and the hard work that I have put in to be able to do what I do.”

Fitness is important to MacLennan, who said she hopes to join the world of health coaching after graduation.

Pole dancing provides a different type exercise regimen that may appeal to a wider audience than traditional gym memberships.

In high school, MacLennan danced competitively as part of her school’s team, “The Devilettes.” She primar-

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By practicing traditional dance, MacLennan gained a strengthened connection with her body and a constant awareness of where it is in space.

That awareness is key to mastering moves in pole dancing, as well. Only when a person knows where they are in relation to the pole can they adequately adjust when they make a mistake.

“Since pole is very expressive and performance-based, my dance background allows me to keep the small details in mind, like pointing my toes and keeping my hands delicate, which makes my spins look more polished and professional,” MacLennan said. * * * Stephanie

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sive statement from Michael Schur, co-creator of “Parks & Recreation,” in relation to the RFRA. In the statement, Schur commented on how characters Ron Swanson and Leslie Knope would have reacted to the new law.

Neither would have liked it, according to Schur’s statement.

Neither does Offerman, which he made clear by calling Gov. Mike Pence’s signing of the bill a mistake and donating the money from the show to HRC, or what Offerman jokingly called the “Ham Reclamation Corps.”

“I hope that I’m very much preaching to the choir,” Offerman said.

Offerman said he hopes people who are fans of his work would not be fans

of the RFRA, which Offerman said he finds discriminatory.

IU’s Union Board organized the event, working with Offerman’s agent to arrange the appearance.

Union Board Films Director Trevor Smith said he and the rest of the board especially wanted to bring Offerman to IU because “Parks & Recreation” is set in Indiana.

“We all love him a lot and are excited to have him here, especially because the show takes place in Indiana,” Smith said.

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The studio attracted her because its form of fitness seemed to have more of an edge than lifting weights, her normal workout routine, Lochbihler said.

“It requires a lot of upper arm strength,” Lochbihler said. “I worked out all the time at the gym, I thought I totally had strength for it. I was really excited thinking I was going to be really good at it, and I was not right off the bat. It’s really hard.”

She started out getting a lot of questions from people about whether or not her taking this class meant she was training to be a stripper.

Now, even her parents are comfortable explaining the difference between what she does versus the stigma.

“Even though they still have to explain, a lot of people have come to realize that it’s more than just a stripper activity,” Lochbihler said. “That it’s

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After the announcer stepped down, the Revelers, a Cajun swamp pop band from Lafayette, La., brought the stage to life. Bright bursts of Cajun swamp pop music filled the tent, and the audience began to bob their heads and tap their toes along with the band.

As the set went on, the choreographed dance moves and songs in both English and French became part of the experience, causing people to dance in pairs and rows just like the Revelers.

“I’m having a wonderful time,” sophomore Michael Wilson said after stepping outside the tent following

a good exercise, and it’s impressed a lot of people some of the things that I have gotten to learn.”

pointed out MacLennan.

“Bam! You even got the hair flip,” he said, flipping his own short hair. * * *

* * * After the first new move of the week, Kendall called students’ attention once more.

There would be one more flying move on the lesson plan this week: “The Juliet.”

This one would prove to be more of a challenge, but not because of the complexity of the move itself. In addition to the spin, an offshoot of a previously-learned move, Kendall expected a smooth finish, even a pose if possible.

“Use the pole,” Kendall advised. “The pole is your friend.”

As it turned out, the toughest part of the move was the ending pose, as MacLennan and her classmates soon figured out they did not have enough space below them to execute it.

After a few tries on each side, MacLennan managed to dip backward, adding in an embellished flip of her shoulder-length hair for showmanship.

Kendall clapped and

MacLennan said her life has changed as a result of her time at Wild Orchid.

She lost 20 pounds from pole dancing for just a few months.

“I have learned to love myself inside and out regardless of my weight,” MacLennan said. “I love my body for its ability to do such amazing things and am surrounded by like-minded people.”

More than anything, the class is a cathartic experience supplemented by the emotional power of art.

Though there are times when her foot won’t point as far as it needs to or when her arms slip down too soon so she does not have time for the pose, MacLennan knows she will have the satisfaction of trying.

“My classes aren’t just a workout, they are an emotional release for me,” MacLennan said. “It’s an outlet that allows me to express myself in new ways.”

some intense dancing.

Though he said he had never heard of the Revelers, the idea of swamp pop drew him to the tent at his first Lotus Festival.

“There’s obviously a very tangible energy,” Wilson said, looking around at the people still moving to the Revelers’ music.

When the Revelers played what they referred to as “old style Cajun music,” incorporating only two fiddles and a triangle played by drummer Glen Fields, people reached for dance partners and kept the tent alive.

Near the end of its set, the band played some songs it has yet recorded and asked the crowd to sing along.

“Ain’t no party like a Louisiana party ‘cause a Louisiana party don’t stop,” said Blake Miller, an accordion and fiddle player for the group.

As the Revelers left the

stage, the audience erupted with cheers. The group took its instruments and walked over to its van, discussing the performance.

“It’s a lot of fun to play for people having a good time,” Miller said.

Revelers guitarist Chas Justus said Lotus Festival was worth coming out for, and bassist Eric Frey agreed, commenting on the stage and professionalism of the festival.

Saxophonist Chris Miller said he loves to watch the audience while he is onstage.

“Kids are really cool because they are uninhibited,” he said.

While the Revelers finished packing up, Aurelio Martinez and his band took to the stage, creating a new atmosphere.

This was his first time at Lotus fest, and he and his group of drummers, maraca shaker, guitarist and bassist

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played Afro-Latina and Garifuna music, drawing the audience closer to the stage.

“It’s my music and your music,” he said to a roaring crowd.

From volunteers at their posts to audience members squeezing through the crowd to get closer, most people under the tent gave in to the urge to dance.

Martinez taught the audience lyrics to his songs and told them they were his “most special crowd in the United States in his entire life.”

He took the time to dedicate a song to children starving around the world, talking about how all people are part of the same world and community.

“We need peace all around the world,” Martinez said.

After the concert, Martinez said he loved the connection he made with the audience, especially the young people

who will bring Garifuna music to the next generation.

As the last few people leaving after Martinez’ set filed out of the tent, dozens more filed past newly stationed security guards into the tent that would soon be taken over by Movits!, a Swedish group that blends hip-hop and swing.

As Movits! took the stage, it stormed the tent with sampling equipment, a saxophone, trombone, bass and vocals that instantly enveloped the audience.

Movits! rarely stood still, bouncing and dancing around on the stage, much like the audience, which extended all the way out the back of the tent and into the Pourhouse Café parking lot.

Lead vocalist Johan Rensfeldt flew from one side of the stage to the other, reaching down into the audience to slap high-fives and sing to the cameras of fans.

“This place is one of our favorite places in the whole world,” saxophonist Joakim Nilsson said to the audience.

“It’s an amazing time we’re having right now.”

A plain white T-shirt was tossed onto the stage. Rensfeldt and Nilsson joked that they were glad they could make use of it, unlike the bras they had received the same way in the past.

Senior Ashley Nyongani said her friends encouraged her and her sister to stay, and she couldn’t be happier that she did.

“They’re amazing,” she said.

Sing-alongs in Swedish and wild dancing kept the tent alive all the way through the final song.

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“I remember their treadmill video,” Pham said. “The first time I saw it was five months ago, but I loved it, and I can’t wait to see them live.”

OK Go’s treadmill video sparked widespread attention, but it wasn’t the type of label that they were looking to be associated with.

“It’s a careful balance to have goals and things you want to do but to also remain open enough to things that you never thought of in advance,” Kulash said. “We hit a watershed moment when the treadmill video exploded. We had to decide. We thought, ‘Alright, this is not where we thought we were going.’”

Soon, OK Go became known as the “men on the treadmills.” “‘Are we going to run from this?’ we thought,” Kulash said. “We wanted to be a rock band. We thought, ‘Should we embrace this and make it part of what we do?’ Instead of trying to out-cool it, we wanted to think of new ways to make videos that would be that much fun and work the same way.”

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*** OK Go’s musical background came from several bands they had started separately in high school and college, but none of them were very good, Kulash said.

“Bands, especially in high school or college, are social clubs,” Kulash said. “You play music, but you also hang out and drink. Hopefully chicks will think you’re cool and that sort of thing. It was nice to be with like-minded people who thought this was for fun, but they knew, we’re not here to joke around. We’re gonna play this song 40 times and actually be good at it.”

However, there was never a defining moment in their lives, a drastic shift, from

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Bassist Tim Nordwind performs as part of the band OK GO on September 14 at the Bluebird Nightclub.

friends playing in a band together to actually thinking of music as a career.

“I don’t know if there was ever a time,” Kulash said. “I never thought this would actually work. When I got out of college, I worked as a graphic designer and a radio engineer, and I figured that I would do those things.”

OK Go started in an old warehouse in Chicago.

“It was a school or a hospital,” Kulash said. “It was a big industrial building that caught fire once a year or so.”

Kulash said they practiced six hours a day for three or four days a week for a year.

“We’ve been on tour for most of the last 15 years,” Kulash said. “That’s the one thing we don’t have to practice anymore. We can play together. If you watch Tim and me on stage, watch our feet. We don’t feel the beat in the same place, but watch our hands, and they’re the exact same way. We’ve played so long together that it’s not conscious. We all play the music the same way, but we feel it differently.”

“We also have the same menstrual cycle,” Nordwind said.

“It’s true,” Kulash said.

“Our hearts are beating at the same time.”

The easy-going relationship between Kulash and Nordwind is easy to recognize, on stage and off.

“On stage we’re really friendly towards one other,” Kulash said. “In real life, Tim is not often looked at. We were friends for a long time,

but you know, things change.”

“Yeah,” Nordwind said.

“We’ve scripted it so that we’re quite friendly.” *** As OK Go opens with its song “The Writing’s On the Wall,” the crowd hangs on every beat.

Kulash is no longer playing one chord at a time. His smoky voice fills the room as the thrilling beat pounces throughout and intensifies the energy. He described the magnetic connection that occurs between the band and the crowd.

“You get this collective emotion that everyone is feeling at the same time,” Kulash said. “Even if you have the loud drunk dude, the spaced out dancer or the mopey goth kid, people who feel in different ways, they all manage to feel the same thing. It’s really hard to describe, but it’s super intoxicating.”

Nordwind said they design the show to have an emotional arc.

“We start out on a pretty high note, but then we take it down a bit,” he said. “Then we will start a song with the audience, go out with them and then end on a high note.

It’s nice to go on an emotional journey with the audience.”

“He wants to get the whole crowd on his menstrual cycle,” Kulash said.

“Yeah, but by the end, when we’re on the same menstrual cycle, I know we’ve done something right,” Nordwind said. “It’s a real journey.”

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Where it belongs IU defeats Purdue in game’s closing seconds to retain the Bucket

By Sam Beishuizen sbeishui@indiana.edu

It only covered one yard, but it was the biggest run of Zander Diamont’s IU career.

The freshman quarterback faked a handoff to his right, saw a Purdue defensive end bite on a run up the middle, took off past the right edge and high-stepped in the end zone for what proved to be a game-winning score with just 27 seconds remaining in IU’s 23-16 win.

After celebrating, Diamont said he closed his eyes as he stood on the sidelines. He couldn’t watch Purdue’s final drive.

Ultimately, his fears were unwarranted. Twenty-seven seconds

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was too little time for Purdue to string together a response.

Diamont led IU 65 yards on eight plays to help IU defeat Purdue 23-16 in the 117th playing of the in-state rivalry.

For the second consecutive year, the Old Oaken Bucket will stay in Bloomington.

“It’s hard to describe a moment like that,” Diamont said. “It’s something you dream about. Getting to score and just kind of having this moment with my teammates to celebrate, it means the world. Especially after the season, it hasn’t been easy for us.”

The win is the Hoosiers’ first Big Ten victory of the season and snapped a six-game losing streak.

IU (4-8, 1-7) moved into a tie

with Purdue (3-9, 1-7) in the conference standings, but the headto-head tiebreaker moved the Hoosiers to 13th place, while the Boilermakers finished last for the second consecutive season.

IU Coach Kevin Wilson became the second consecutive coach to win the Old Oaken Bucket twice in four seasons. It’s the first time IU has beaten Purdue two straight years since 1993-94.

“We’re excited that we won the Bucket, we’re excited we beat our rival, we’re excited that our seniors leave the right way,” Wilson said.

“A year ago, we put up every passing stat in the school’s history, and by the end of today, I think we got

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Final drive of the season wins the Bucket

By Grace Palmieri gpalmier@indiana.edu

In its seventh straight losing season, all IU had left to play for came down to 65 yards.

The Hoosiers got the ball back with 3:19 on the clock, the game tied at 16 in a battle against Purdue for the Old Oaken Bucket.

The last time IU needed a scoring drive in the final minutes, junior quarterback Nate Sudfeld was leading the offense. It was week four. Sudfeld marched the Hoosiers 75 yards down the field to go ahead of, and eventually beat, then-No. 18 Missouri 31-27.

On Nov. 29, it was a different quarterback but the same result.

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Freshman quarterback Zander Diamont led an IU scoring drive, capped off with a touchdown himself, and the Hoosiers beat the Boilermakers 23-16 at Memorial Stadium.

It’s the first time in 20 years that IU has won the Bucket in back-toback seasons.

“Especially after this season, it hasn’t been easy for us,” Diamont said. “We’ve overcome a lot of adversity. Just kind of having this moment with my teammates to celebrate, it means the world. It felt good.”

It was a redemption of sorts for Diamont.

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Coach Tom Crean greets students after a win against Michigan State on Feb. 28, 2012, at Assembly Hall.

The brink and back This fall, IU basketball was in a tailspin before appearing to have righted itself.

That leaves just one question – what happened?

By Alden Woods aldwoods@indiana.edu

This story was originally published in the IDS on Jan. 26, 2015.

The police were called to the scene after midnight on Halloween, red and blue lights bouncing off the trees. A Jeep Liberty had hit a pedestrian and was now stopped on 17th Street, next to Memorial Stadium’s Gate 6. In the distance, Assembly Hall loomed.

Next to the Jeep, on the passenger side, a 19-year-old IU student lay on the pavement. A single streetlight shined down on him. From it hung a faded IU Athletics banner.

Three students who had been in the vehicle gave their names to the Bloomington

police. One, 18 years old and 6-foot-7, took the blame. He said he had been driving and that the injured man was a friend. But there was another complication.

Both students — the one on the ground and the one who said he hit him — were IU basketball players. *** In the days that followed the accident, details emerged of how a freshman forward could have struck one of his own teammates with a Jeep and fractured his skull.

Emmitt Holt told police he’d driven Devin Davis to the stadium parking lot and dropped him off. He was driving away on 17th Street with the other passengers, young women, when Davis suddenly jumped in front of

the car.

Davis was rushed to IU Health Bloomington Hospital. Holt, only 18, was cited for underage drinking and for driving with a blood alcohol content of more than 0.02.

“Devin is not only a teammate but a great friend,” he said in a statement, “and it pains me to know that I have caused him harm.”

The accident was the strangest, and most devastating, setback in a series of troubles that plagued IU basketball in the last year. Taken together, the incidents raised questions about the stability of the team — and IU Coach Tom Crean’s ability to lead the program.

Last February, backup center Hanner MosqueraPerea was arrested and charged with drunken

driving. Four days later, an 8-foot-long piece of metal framing fell from the ceiling in an empty Assembly Hall and destroyed four seats in the lower bowl, forcing the postponement of that night’s game against Iowa. It was fitting — the sky was starting to fall.

A month later, the Hoosiers were knocked out in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament and missed the NCAA Tournament. They weren’t invited to the NIT, either. Then came the exodus — eight players left the team before their graduation. In April, guards Yogi Ferrell and Stanford Robinson were arrested after they were caught using fake IDs to try to enter Kilroy’s Sports Bar. Then came Halloween weekend, with the accident and an ESPN report that Robinson

and Troy Williams had failed drug tests and been suspended.

Nine months. Three arrests and multiple charges.

Two suspensions. One lost season.

It had become an offseason on the brink. Six days before the new season began, the program was spinning out of control.

IU fans, notoriously demanding, grew restless. Calls for Crean’s job had been rising since the wins dried up, and the off-court issues only catalyzed those cries.

Then the Hoosiers took the court, and the unexpected happened. They won. And they kept winning, entering the national rankings for the first time in more than a year. In a nationally televised game, IU blew out then-No. 13 Maryland before a loss at

Ohio State.

A program once on the verge of falling apart appears to have steadied itself. But the questions remain. How did the program tumble so disastrously and then regain its footing so quickly? What went wrong, and then what went right? And is the recovery sustainable? *** Even before 2014’s issues, it has been a tumultuous 40 years for IU basketball.

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Top Left Sigma Phi Epsilon rider Nick Torrance gestures at how close the margin of victory was as the riders cross the finish line.

Bottom Left Fans celebrate after Sigma Phi Epsilon won.

Top Right The sisters of Kappa Alpha Theta scream as their cycling team wins. It was the second year in a row Kappa Alpha Theta won the women’s title.

Bottom Right Women from the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority cycling team getting into a team huddle before the race’s start.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE A1 The yellow flag was waved, and with just one lap to go, the race ended on a caution lap.

Sherwood never got a chance to catch Lieberman.

Theta Cycling became Little 500 Champion for the second consecutive year.

The win gives Theta the most titles in women’s Little 500 history. They have six crowns since the race began in 1988, including back-to-back wins in 1994-95. Theta was champion in 2000, 2003 and most recently in 2014. Going into the race, Theta wanted to tire out the other riders and have Lieberman in at the end for a sprint to the finish.

The Lieberman-Sherwood 1-2 finish mimicked that of both the Individual Time Trial and Miss-N-Out Spring Series events. Lieberman just edged out Sherwood in both. While the other three Theta riders, Abby Rogers, Evelyn Malcomb and Maddie Lambert, will race next year, this was Lieberman’s last.

“It is such a phenom-

enal feeling to top off my senior year,” Lieberman said.

“I worked really hard to get myself in this position to repeat.

I couldn’t be happier.”

Lap 100 wasn’t the only caution lap of the day. A wreck early on, just three laps in, caused several riders to go down. One minor crash put Melanzana, who qualified first last month, down two laps. Ski Club Cycling, Delta Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta and Alpha Chi Omega maintained a spot in the lead pack for the majority of the race but were all involved in the wreck at the end. Delta Gamma finished third officially, with Cru in fourth and CSF fifth.

Theta knew going into the race that they’d have a target on their back that comes with wearing the yellow jersey. Rogers said it was important they push the pace till the end. It worked.

“We tried to kind of pull forward and make everyone else hurt,” Rogers said. “From that point on, we just knew we had the fastest girl on the track.”

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needing to recover from an early crash to win their third Little 500.

Black Key Bulls finished in second with Beta Theta Pi rounding out the podium.

“There really wasn’t anything I could change,” Brauchla said after coming up just shy of repeating as Little 500 champions.

“If there was any way to lose, for it to be that close and knowing there was nothing else that could be done, I can hang my head up.”

A rider victimized by the late crash in Black Key Bulls’ 2014 win, Torrance took advantage of his opportunity at a sprint Sunday. He took the lead from Beta’s Chris Craig on the inside of the track coming out of Turn 2 on the final lap.

He was able to hold the gutter on the inside line the rest of the way, pulling away from Craig and

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holding off a late surge from Brauchla.

Sig Ep was nearly out of the race 160 laps earlier when Chris Turi crashed on the front stretch.

The team was able to keep their composure even after the crash left them with half a lap to make up on the field without the help of the draft.

Together, Turi and Torrance combined with teammates Sam Anderson and Charlie Hicks to bridge the gap on the rest of the field.

Not wanting to risk another mistake, Torrance rode the final 15 laps on the bike, conserving just enough energy to outlast Brauchla in the sprint.

“I thought we were done, I really thought we were done,” Torrance said.

“Our strategy completely blew up.”

But as is often the case with the Little 500, strategies were constantly changing.

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“There really wasn’t anything I could change.

If there was any way to lose, for it to be that close and knowing there was nothing else that could be done, I can hang my head up.”

Spencer Brauchla, Black Key Bulls rider, after coming in close-second

the lead teams their biggest challenge when it nearly ran away with the race on lap 178. It opened an almost 15-second lead before a group of riders, led by Craig, drafted together to reel in Delts to set up the late sprint.

Delts’ charge may have cost Craig and his Beta teammates the race. Craig said he drained most of his energy pulling the field back within striking distance of Delts and didn’t have enough in the tank to fend off Torrance on the last lap.

“I got up there, I bridged them,” Craig said. “I just didn’t have enough.”

Looking back on his four years of riding, Torrance described the race win as

a process.

Torrance was with Sig Ep when they finished 12th in 2012. They moved up to sixth in 2013 before finishing fourth last year.

Slowly, Sig Ep was becoming a regular contender, and Turi said Torrance was one of the main men responsible for turning Sig Ep from a middle-of-thepack team to a Little 500 champion.

That’s why, when asked what the race win meant to him, Torrance was reflective, remembering the process.

“Four years of hard work, that’s what it means,” Torrance said. “I’m happy for the house, I’m happy for our guys. I’m glad I could deliver.”

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This story was originally published in the IDS on March 13.

In July 2014, the IU women’s basketball team lost its coach. Throughout three days in March, the remnants of the Curt Miller era all but faded.

Three players have decided to leave the program since Tuesday: a second team All-Big Ten selection, a former full-time starter and the 2014 Miss Indiana Basketball runner-up.

It began March 10, when Twitter rumblings surfaced that sophomore guard Taylor Agler would be leaving.

She confirmed it herself later that night on Instagram with a long post announcing her decision.

That same night, similar rumors spread that freshman guard Maura Muensterman would be leaving. Her former Evansville Basketball Academy coach Phil Kessler confirmed it the morning of March 11.

The disarray continued March 12 when sophomore point guard Larryn Brooks’ high school coach Robert Cooksey said the former Big Ten All-Freshman team member would not return to IU. After two days of silence,

IU Coach Teri Moren made a statement once it became public that Brooks would be leaving.

“I want to thank Larryn, Maura and Taylor for their work and dedication in our first year at Indiana,” Moren said. “We wish them nothing but the best. We are committed to signing tremendous student athletes who will earn a degree from one of the finest institutions in the country while working to lead us to a Big Ten championship. We know we will experience some growing pains as we build this program to compete at a national level.

Indiana University is a special place, and we are excited about the future.”

Back in October at Big Ten Media Day, the IDS asked Moren along with IU men’s Coach Tom Crean and Purdue men’s Coach Matt Painter about the transfer problem in college basketball.

The following are the comments Moren had to say about transfers in October.

“I think it’s a parent problem, too,” she said. “Back in the day growing up, I think parents were part of a blue collar family, both parents worked. I went through this in my college experience. Not every day is going to be great.

There is going to be challenges, especially when there’s expectations there. And they

are not what you thought they were gonna be. It’s easy to go, ‘Well it’s not easy here. I’m going to leave.’ ... I think there are way too many transfers in our game but not enough parents that are gonna be real with their sons or daughters and say, ‘No, you’re gonna suck it up, and you’re gonna get through it.’”

Agler’s and Muensterman’s departures made sense. Agler started the first 49 games of her IU career and saw her minutes drop to 13.2 a game in the Big Ten. Muensterman was a highly touted guard that Miller foresaw being an impact player, but she played 60 minutes all season under Moren.

Brooks, on the other hand, was handed the keys to the kingdom when Moren took over. Moren often talked about how they have a bond as fellow point guards and leaders of the team.

Brooks ran the offense, and at times Moren gave her full freedom to do what she pleased with the ball. In January, she seemed pleased with the transition.

“I do like her coaching style,” Brooks said. “She does let me just kind of play free. I know other coaches you probably have to worry about, ‘Can I take this shot?

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Then came Mike Davis, who almost won a national championship, but didn’t. Then came Kelvin Sampson, who resigned after major NCAA recruiting violations. A former player later said Sampson had

allowed drug use to divide the locker room.

In April 2008, Crean was handed the reins of a program wrecked by sanctions and probations. A decimated program slogged through three years of losing before it leapt back to relevance with one shot.

Christian Watford’s gamewinning 3-pointer against No. 1 Kentucky brought IU to its highest mark of the Crean era. When ball met the net that night, it shocked the fan base out of hibernation.

It woke up hungry for the team’s first championship in more than 20 years.

The pressure came back to IU — it was time to win.

Sports Illustrated covers and nationally televised games soon followed.

That tension built with each of the next two seasons, which had promise but ended without a title, and reached a boiling point when the team underperformed

last season. It wasn’t enough — not when five national championship banners hung from the ceiling.

“Indiana fans don’t just want to win, they want to win a certain way,” said Dustin Dopirak, who spent five seasons covering IU basketball for the Bloomington HeraldTimes.

“Winning the right way, there’s a lot of parameters to that according to Indiana fans ... they want to play like Bobby did. There’s a lot of pressure to deal with, and there’s a lot of pressure to do it exactly the way it’s been done before.”

Even more so, IU fans want that tradition extended.

It’s why the Hoosiers wear candy-striped pants, why there was such an outrage at adding the Big Ten logo to Assembly Hall’s court and why players’ last names have stayed off the jerseys. It’s the very reason Tom Crean took the job.

“It’s Indiana,” he said at his first IU press conference.

“I feel it’s the pinnacle, the absolute pinnacle, of college basketball.”

Bob Knight took IU to that pinnacle. Fifteen years later, his legacy still looms.

That expectation creates a disconnect between fans and players. IU’s fans might want the team to win like Knight did, but its players just want to play.

That’s how Jerry Meyer, director of basketball scouting for 247 Sports and one of the country’s top recruiting analysts, views it. Knight’s shadow might hang over the program, he said, but the players probably don’t feel the same pressure. They were still in grade school when Knight was fired.

“They don’t go to Indiana because Bobby Knight coached there and they won in the ‘80s,” Meyer said. “I would imagine there are a lot of kids that Indiana recruits

that don’t even know who Bobby Knight is.”

IU fans seemed content with that disconnect when the Hoosiers were winning and staying out of trouble.

When the wins came less frequently and the off-court issues piled up, it became a problem.

Since Knight’s firing, IU fans haven’t been shy about calling for change. Davis was chased out of Bloomington less than four years after taking IU to the national championship game, but the questions were different this time.

IU fans weren’t just seeing losses. They were seeing arrests, suspensions and a 19-year-old player in serious condition.

The anger mounted — a Google search of “Fire Tom Crean” brings up more than 300,000 results, including at least seven Twitter accounts created solely to call for his job. Fans dialed into Crean’s weekly radio show

to question the program’s leadership and his job security. When he was introduced before the season’s first game at Assembly Hall, boos from the crowd rose above the cheers.

The program was nearing rock bottom, and there seemed to be only one way out: winning.

If IU found success, Meyer said, it could weather a couple off-court missteps.

“That’s all anyone cares about,” he said. “They care about winning.” *** The latest string of offcourt troubles started last February. A light snow was falling over Bloomington just before 5 a.m. when a police officer noticed a black Acura driving erratically. According to an IU Police Department report, the officer watched SEE BASKETBALL, PAGE D8

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Throughout his 18 seasons coaching IU water polo, Barry King has always struggled. But not in the pool.

Where King has struggled is in terms of respect. IU and water polo aren’t a pair people typically associate with one another, King said.

A look around IU’s facility will tell you that. Water polo is a sport typically played outside, making it more popular in states like California.

But because of Indiana’s climate, the Hoosiers are forced inside.

Not many kids grow up playing water polo in Indiana. Of the 21 players on IU’s roster, King none are from Indiana.

IU pulls most of its players from California, including nine on this year’s team.

This means trying to draw players away from the many options they have in California to play in the Midwest, which isn’t as hard as it may seem, King said.

“The California kids haven’t ever seen anything like Indiana before,” King said. “By that I mean the campus and IU because no college towns exist anymore in California.”

King said once he gets players on campus, the rest takes care of itself, as he sees their eyes grow wide with possibilities of what may come in the next four years.

When King first started the program nearly two decades ago, it wasn’t always easy to get players to visit IU.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE D5 doesn’t really worry about that as long as everyone is working hard, and I really like that about her.”

She finished the season shooting just under 39.9 percent from the field, two percent better than her freshman year, but her scoring went down by 4.4 points a game.

“I think a fresh start was needed,” Cooksey said.

“Sometimes when there is a coaching change, it’s a difficult transition for some kids.”

Moren and Brooks seemed to bicker at times, but trust was put in Brooks’ hands.

Moren wanted Brooks in her office to discuss strategy and the team. She wanted Brooks to be the leader of a young team in need of guidance, yet Moren publicly said the team had yet to find that leader.

Agler’s situation differs from Brooks’. She averaged 32.6 minutes per game as a freshman and scored under eight points a game. Then, her time drastically dipped after sophomore guard Alexis Gassion started while Agler had a minor ankle injury. When Agler became healthy again, Gassion continued to start.

“Deciding to leave IU was the hardest decision I have made in my entire life,”

Oftentimes he was looked at funny by recruits when he said he wanted them to travel to the Midwest to play water polo.

The perception has changed some through the years. IU has become recognizable in the water polo community as a successful program, he said.

Two players King successfully recruited from California are senior utility Rebecca Gerrity and attacker Colleen McNaught. They both recognize the way IU is viewed in the national landscape.

Gerrity said IU will remain an underdog in the eyes of more esteemed programs on the West Coast no matter how successful they may be. Winning’s more fun that way, she said.

McNaught said IU will eternally be the underdog. It’s the nature of being a Hoosier and is not something she has a problem with. It’s something she accepts.

“It’s nice to be the underdog because there’s always something to prove,” McNaught said. “So every time we beat a team that doesn’t expect us to beat them, it makes it that much sweeter.”

It’s not as if IU doesn’t have the success to garner respect.

In the pool, IU has appeared in six national championships, including a seventh-place finish last year.

On Sunday, King earned his 400th career win, all with the Hoosiers.

King said the milestone meant he was old more than anything else. His players view it differently.

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She was the first to be granted a release, despite her adamantly saying five days earlier she would not leave.

“No, no,” she said. “That’s not it. I’m here. These are my best friends, so I couldn’t leave them.”

In Muensterman’s case, she was a highly recruited player that led Mater Dei High School to two consecutive state championships.

She notably had a close bond with her freshman class. They coined themselves “The Folk Four.”

The other three freshmen, guards Tyra Buss and Jess Walter and forward Amanda Cahill, had major roles with the team. Buss and Cahill were full-time starters, and Walter was one of the first players off the bench.

Muensterman was the odd one out in a guard-oriented lineup. She only appeared in 14 games and averaged minimal minutes. With all of the departures, there are now four open scholarship spots.

After IU lost in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament on March 5, Moren seemed optimistic about the future. It is not known whether or not she was aware of the transfers at the time, but she said it confidently.

“Without question, the future is bright.”

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE D1 the most running stats. The real stat is the W.â&#x20AC;?

Although Diamontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s run inevitably proved to be the celebrated, game-winning score, it was mostly the Hoosier defense that kept IU in the game as the offense largely struggled to move the ball throughout the day.

Purdueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lone touchdown was an 82-yard rushing score by Akeem Hunt in the third quarter that, at the time, put the Boilermakers ahead 13-3. From there, IU outscored Purdue 20-3.

But it could have easily turned out otherwise for IU had it not been for defensive holds near the red zone, a defensive category in which the team has ranked near the bottom in the nation throughout the season.

Turnovers and poor special teams play allowed Purdue to start offensive possessions in IU territory three times, but IU only allowed a pair of field goals on those trips. Two of those drives started within the 22-yard line. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Earlier in the year, when teams got in the red zone, they kept scoring,â&#x20AC;? sophomore linebacker TJ Simmons said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As the year went on, we kept saying, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Just because they get in the red zone, it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re excited that we won the Bucket, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re excited we beat our rival, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re excited that our seniors leave the right way.â&#x20AC;?

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theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to score. We can get a turnover or force them into a field goal.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

That was exactly what the Hoosier defense managed to do.

IU had three interceptions as a team by junior cornerback Michael Hunter, freshman linebacker Tegray Scales and freshman safety Chase Dutra, all of which proved to end drives.

And as the final whistle blew, Diamont could open his eyes and rush the field.

Players immediately began passing the Bucket around and taking pictures with it in the locker room.

IUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2014 season will go down in the record books as a losing year, but for at least one weekend, there was reason to celebrate.

So when Dutra was asked what it meant to beat Purdue, he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hesitate with his answer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything,â&#x20AC;? Dutra said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s who owns the state for a whole year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We came out here, and we got a win.â&#x20AC;?

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The Hoosiers then lost second-string quarterback Chris Covington to an injury the following week, and the leadership of the offense was left in Diamontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hands.

He was first thrown into action against Michigan State. A quarterback who was expected to redshirt this season, Diamont was taking his first college snaps against the then-No. 8 team in the country.

No one knew exactly what to expect from the true freshman, but the expectations were low. It was no longer an offense that had the dual-threat of Nate Sudfeldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arm and Tevin Colemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legs.

Diamont was scrutinized as IU went from the 3-2 team with bowl potential to a 3-8 team fans have become all too familiar with.

But that day, the Hoosiersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; six-game losing streak came to an end.

And for the first time since becoming the starter, Diamont helped give IU fans a reason to cheer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got some grit,â&#x20AC;? IU Coach Kevin Wilson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s competitive. He gave us a chance to

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win that game today.â&#x20AC;?

With 27 seconds left in the game, Diamont scored the gameâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s final touchdown from one yard out.

That came at the end of a nearly seamless drive that began with two rushes by Tevin Coleman. Coleman finished with 130 yards on his way to becoming the 18th player in FBS history to eclipse the 2,000-yard mark in a single season.

Then, on third down, Diamont completed a pass to Nick Stoner for six yards.

Stoner was kept out the last two weeks with a hamstring injury but had four big

receptions for 40 yards on Saturday.

After one final 9-yard run from Coleman, senior running back Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Angelo Roberts came into the game. And he brought just the energy IU needed.

Playing in the final game of his career, Roberts had 14- and 15-yard rushes to take the Hoosiers to the 1-yard line. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a special player and, aside from that, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a great dude off the field,â&#x20AC;? Diamont said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really one of the leaders on this team, so to drive down the field with him was

special for me.â&#x20AC;?

With Diamontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s touchdown and the extra point, IU took a 7-point lead. That completed a 20-3 run by the Hoosiers to bring them back from being down 13-3 in the third quarter.

Purdue couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do anything with its final possession, and the game was over.

The win was IUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first in conference play this season, but it was the win that meant the most to a group of seniors who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get to play in a bowl game during their IU careers.

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as the car drove south down Dunn Street, past Siam House and 420 smoke shop, before bouncing off one curb, then another.

The officer pulled the Acura over near Ballantine Road. Inside was IU basketball player Hanner Mosquera-Perea, his 0.15 blood alcohol content almost twice the legal limit. The officer arrested Mosquera-Perea and took him to Monroe County Jail, where he was charged with two counts of operating while intoxicated.

Tom Crean took to Twitter to announce that MosqueraPerea had been suspended indefinitely.

“We are disappointed in him but also disappointed for him,” Crean wrote in a series of tweets. “He knows he made some terrible choices which have turned into big mistakes. Hanner has let his family, loved ones and our program down and knows that with choices come consequences.”

Mosquera-Perea missed just two games before returning to the court. He was scheduled to miss three, but Crean dropped it to two after the metal framing fell from Assembly Hall’s ceiling and postponed a game.

“The fact that Hanner’s suspension was initially three games and taken down to two — basically because the pile fell, he said that he shouldn’t be punished because the pile fell and the game had to be moved back — that took a little of the fear of God out,” Dopirak said.

The Hoosiers made it just 10 weeks before finding trouble again. Two more players, Yogi Ferrell and Stanford Robinson — both underage — were caught trying to enter Kilroy’s Sports Bar with fake IDs. They were turned away and arrested, each later charged with underage drinking and possession of false identification.

“We are aware of the two infractions with a couple of the guys on our team,” Crean said in a statement. “This is about poor judgment, selfishness of actions and disrespect for what this program stands for.”

Ferrell and Robinson were arrested in the offseason, so neither player missed a game. Crean didn’t reveal how they were disciplined.

Then came Halloween night, with Holt giving his statement to police and Davis lying on the pavement, below the IU Athletics banner.

When the break ended, Crean’s composure returned.

He sat up straighter, hands punctuating each word. Problems within a team weren’t unique to IU, he said. What made this situation different was it had reached the public.

“There’s things that go on with a team,” he said, the words flowing more freely. “It

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Junior forward Hanner Mosquera-Perea reacts after a foul called against him during the game against Northwestern on Feb. 25 at Welsh-Ryan Arena. The Hoosiers were defeated 72-65.

In the hospital that weekend, Davis was surrounded by his family and Coach Crean. They celebrated when Davis was able to put together a sentence. His prognosis was improving. The future of the team was still uncertain.

That Monday, ESPN’s Jeff Goodman reported that Troy Williams and Stanford Robinson had failed drug tests and had been suspended.

At his weekly radio show, Crean fought to hold back the tears as he talked about how parents entrust him to watch over their sons. He acknowledged that Holt had made a mistake but said he still cared about him.

“You don’t like the decision making, you don’t like how it gets there, you don’t like the action,” he said. “But you don’t stop loving the person.”

When the show went to commercial break, Crean squeezed shut his eyes and slumped back in his chair. The crowd didn’t seem to notice.

Neither did a group of reporters in the corner. Crean ran a hand through his long black hair and sighed at the ceiling.

happened long before I got here, and it’ll happen long after I’m gone. It’s part of it. It’s part of college sports.”

He announced a fourgame suspension for Holt and addressed the ESPN report.

“Stanford Robinson and Troy Williams — I was going to announce it in a couple days, but I’ll do it tonight — they’re going to sit for four games as well.”

His hands tapped on the table in front of him.

Crean said he didn’t know when the problems would stop.

“Am I saying that’s the last one? No. I wish I was,” he said. “I wish I was. I don’t know if it’s the last one.

Nobody knows.”

Then came the call-in portion of the show. The show’s host welcomed a caller to the program and put him on the line. J.T. has a question about the team’s 3-point shooting, he said.

Except it wasn’t J.T. on the phone. Instead it was Tyler, a former manager under Crean.

His question was simple.

“Why does Coach Crean still deserve his job?”

Crean froze. The room went silent.

The show moved on. *** The opening tipoff of the new season was three days away, but IU was already losing.

Fans panicked. The team wasn’t projected highly in preseason rankings, and the players certainly weren’t acting like they had under Knight. His players didn’t get into trouble, fans cried, so why were Crean’s?

Dan Dakich, a former IU player under Knight, acted as the team’s interim coach between Sampson and Crean and now hosts a three-hour daily radio show in Indianapolis. In his first show after the accident — even before the reports of failed drug tests — Dakich said he was embarrassed by the rash of problems.

“Indiana players, you’re getting ready to get your coach fired,” Dakich said on the air. “I love Indiana basketball down to my core. It’s who I am. But not this crap — don’t tell me boys will be boys.

That’s crap. This is the new Indiana basketball.”

Dakich didn’t want Crean fired. He argued that Crean deserved to keep coaching.

And the season, he said, was not a lost cause.

“They win, the stain goes away. They lose, the stain gets bigger.” *** After a disappointing early season home loss to Eastern Washington, the questions got even louder. An up-and-down nonconference run did little to quiet them.

IU beat a physical Pittsburgh team, then was blown out by Louisville in New York City. It took in-state supremacy with a win against Butler in Indianapolis, then lost in overtime to Georgetown, again in New York City. The Hoosiers opened the Big Ten season with a narrow win at Nebraska, then sleepwalked through a blowout loss at Michigan State.

Then IU put together its best stretch of basketball this season to win four Big Ten games in a row, knocking off

two ranked opponents and winning a tough road game at Illinois.

The players that came under fire for off-court incidents were key to the turnaround.

Halfway through the season, Yogi Ferrell was among the Big Ten’s best players.

Troy Williams was having a breakout season, drawing talk of his NBA potential, and Stanford Robinson and Emmitt Holt became valuable rotation players. Hanner Mosquera-Perea started every game before injuring his knee.

Devin Davis went back to Indianapolis to recover and rehabilitate. His teammates draped his No. 15 jersey over a chair while they practiced.

Crean’s coaching performance was now earning him praise as his best in his time at IU. He took a team picked to finish ninth in Big Ten preseason polls — a team that had no post presence and often played four guards at a time — to a 15-5 record in January.

He did so in style, with IU scoring more points than any team in the Big Ten and relying heavily on 3-point shooting to overcome a lack of size.

The Hoosiers beat four ranked teams in five tries. IU entered the rankings itself, slotting in at No. 23 in last week’s polls, and backed up that ranking with a 19-point thumping of then-No. 13 Maryland.

It all goes back to Crean.

The Hoosiers entered every game with a natural disadvantage — they’re small, and size can’t be taught — but found ways to win anyway.

Crean said he couldn’t pin down how his team made it through but deflected credit to his players. The adversity bonded them closer together, he said, and they controlled only what they could.

Troy Williams put it more simply.

“We just stayed together through everything,” he said.

“Throughout all that’s happened, we just know that at the end of the day, it’s still us, the only ones that’s in the gym.” ***

Hoosier fans are still holding their breath in waiting to see whether the turnaround is for real. Until then, IU is doing all it can to keep the focus on the court. Three months after IU basketball almost came crashing down, the storyline has shifted.

Now, at least on the surface, things are looking up.

The Hoosiers are winning, and they’ve stayed out of trouble — at least publicly.

What truly goes on inside IU basketball and the Department of Athletics remains unknown. There are always issues within a program, Crean said, whether the public knows about them or not.

The team has steadied itself. It’s almost like nothing happened, like 2014 was a bad dream in Bloomington.

The questions remain, even if nobody wants to talk about them. After the Maryland win, Crean wouldn’t say the off-court issues were completely a thing of the past.

“No one’s sitting here thinking that,” Crean said.

“Something could change tonight, right? You just have to deal with it. That’s all part of helping your guys grow up.”

The No. 15 practice jersey that once was draped over a chair in the IU locker room isn’t there anymore.

Devin Davis has returned to Bloomington.

Though his recovery hasn’t allowed him back on the court yet, he’s been at practice and watched games from behind the bench. He’s challenging teammates to games of oneon-one.

For his part in the accident — and the chaos that followed — Emmitt Holt has moved on.

It took less than a month.

After a breakout performance against Pittsburgh on Dec. 2, Holt sat at the press table, ready to answer questions.

He talked about Davis’ family forgiving him, leaning on his teammates and growing as a man.

Then came the question, point-blank.

“Have you forgiven yourself yet?”

Holt didn’t hesitate.

“Yeah.”

Next question.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE D6 “I think that’s pretty exciting because he’s been here with the program since it’s began and that’s pretty great that we could be here in our senior year and help him get to that milestone,” Gerrity said.

This season, IU has been inconsistent, Gerrity said.

After winning its last eight games of the season, IU will end the season in a threeway tie for first place but will be the third seed in the Collegiate Water Polo Association tournament due to goal differential.

IU has beaten both the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds, Princeton and Michigan, this season. The Hoosiers won

twice at Princeton and lost once against Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., by a goal in overtime.

McNaught said IU is better than both teams. Winning is just a matter of playing like the Hoosiers know they’re capable of. King agrees.

“I think if we play our best we’re better than they are,” King said. “It’s just a matter of bringing that when we have to.”

The Hoosiers will need to win the conference tournament to qualify for the national tournament. It’s always been this way, another sign of how much respect water polo is given in the Midwest. No matter how many talented teams are in the conference, the CWPA will only get one team in the

tournament.

For comparison, of the eight teams in the NCAA tournament last year, five were from the Pac-12. The other two were from the Big West.

IU was one of two schools not from California in the tournament. The other was Arizona State.

But still, IU continues to remain among the country’s elite. Despite the disadvantages and despite the continuous disrespect, the Hoosiers continue to compete.

“It’s the expectation,” King said. “It’s why we do this, it’s why train the way we do. It’s the reason we want to compete because we want to be as good as we can possibly be against the best people we have to compete against.”

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