2017 Freshman Edition

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2017 FRESHMAN EDITION

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Welcome to IU and to your Freshman Edition of the Indiana Daily Student. Collected in this special copy of IU’s 150-year-old student newspaper are stories from the last year that we, the student editors of the IDS, want to share with you as you prepare to join the IU community. Inside you will find our exten-

sive coverage of the 2016 election season and changes in leadership for two of IU’s biggest athletic programs. You’ll also find examples of our investigative work on campus sexual assault, and a look at the Indiana rescue center that nearly 200 tigers, lions and other big cats call home. While introducing you to

campus and Bloomington, this edition of the IDS is also your introduction to IU Student Media. The IDS will keep you up to date at idsnews.com, in print and on social media with content like you see in these pages, but student media is here for you in more ways as well. INSIDE magazine prints twice a semester, with stories centered

around themes like space and transition. The Arbutus is your yearbook, featuring the stories and photos of the year at IU. And our special publications will be your guides to campus, housing, sports and more. We’re excited to serve as your student paper these next four years. You can always find us in Franklin Hall. Talk to us, write to us, or

better yet, stop by the newsroom and write with us. Next year’s freshmen could be reading your work.

Michael Williams Summer 2017 IDS editor-in-chief

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Miller will lead Hoosiers By Andrew Hussey aphussey@indiana.edu | @thehussnetwork

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Sophomore Frankie Chipparoni shows off her dance moves on Nov. 5, 2016, at the IUDM.

RECORD BREAKER IUDM surpasses 2015 record, raises $4.1 million for Riley hospital

By Regina Mack regmack@indiana.edu | @regmack_

The energy is high nine hours into 2016’s IU Dance Marathon at the IU Tennis Center, but the thousands of people participating don’t yet know that in 27 hours they will have raised $4.1 million for Riley Hospital for Children and broken 2015’s record-setting $3.8 million. IUDM, the second-largest studentrun philanthropy in the world, according to the group’s website, is an annual event in which students stand on their feet and dance for 36 hours to raise money for

the Wells Center for Pediatric Research and clinical support for Riley Hospital for Children. Students in neon tutus and blanket capes with Riley tattoos on their faces throw footballs, dance and jump in the bounce house. One student waves his friend’s arms to the music for her in an effort to keep her awake and lively. A short lull in the energy disappears when “No Diggity” by Blackstreet blares over the speakers, and the dance floor is flooded with students dancing, chatting and laughing excitedly despite the time — 5:30 a.m. “United by passion, powered by hope” is

the motto adorning large banners in the tennis center. IU sophomore Julianne Delaney smiles as she approaches the stage around 5:45 a.m. to share her Riley story. Her enthusiasm is unwavering after nearly 10 hours of standing and dancing. Everyone who participates in IUDM proclaims their dedication to the cause and sets and often surpasses fundraising goals that range from $500 to $20,000. For Delaney, the cause is much more personal. SEE IUDM, PAGE 5

The vision of new IU Coach Archie Miller aligned perfectly with what IU Athletics Director Fred Glass said he wanted in the head of his men’s basketball program. In Miller’s introductory press conference March 27, the former University of Dayton coach embraced the lofty expectations that come with the IU job. “I don’t think you come to Indiana if you don’t want to live in the neighborhood,” Miller said. When Glass began the search for a new coach at a press conference to announce former coach Tom Crean’s firing, he talked about how he saw IU as a program capable of winning championships. Glass said he found what he wanted in Miller, a coach who sees those goals as very achievable. “The vision that we laid out when we started our search 10 days ago or whatever is the opportunity that Archie sees,” Glass said. “He embraces the expectations.” Miller laid out his vision of the program in detail March 27. At the foundation of the program is the history of IU — the 22 Big Ten Championships, and of course, the five National Championship banners that hung behind him during the press conference. “Every player, every former coach, every former manager that laid the groundwork for this place to be what it is today, we owe them a lot, and our effort level and our give-back has to be really unmatched,” Miller said. “They have to feel that they’re a part of everything that we do, and our players have to feel that power.” At the heart of Miller’s vision was his dedication to developing the current players. Despite not being the man who SEE MILLER, PAGE 5

ELECTION 2016

Donald Trump secures electoral college victory By Melanie Metzman mmetzman@indiana.edu | @melanie_metzman

Around 1:30 a.m. on Nov. 9, 2016, Donald Trump had secured Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes, bringing his total to 264. Trump was originally known as a businessman, reality TV star, author and public disbeliever in political correctness. When Trump formally announced his presidential candidacy June 16, 2015, from Trump Tower in New York City, he declared the campaign slogan to be “Make America Great Again.” Now he will have his chance to prove it. Major platforms of the Trump

campaign have included the fight against ISIS, ensuring a conservative Supreme Court, maintaining gun rights, boosting the economy through tax cuts and trade deals and stopping illegal immigration. Under Trump’s Plan to Make America Safe and Respected Again, the country will grow the military and collaborate with Arab allies in the Middle East to fight against ISIS. The United States will defeat “the ideology of radical Islamic terrorism” just as the country won the Cold War, according to Trump’s website. “We will completely rebuild our depleted military, and the countries that we protect, at a massive loss,

will be asked to pay their fair share,” Trump said at the Republican National Convention. Trump said at the first presidential debate that he was “very proud” to be endorsed by the National Rifle Association, and he will work to protect gun rights, including ending gun free zones at school and military bases. Trump also plans to reform policies with a pro-growth tax plan and an America First trade policy. Reducing illegal immigration will start on day one and set the country on the track to putting Americans first, SEE TRUMP, PAGE 5

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Eskenazi Museum of Art to close for renovations until 2019 By Lydia Gerike lgerike@iu.edu | @lydi_yeah

Bloomington art fans will need to use their own creativity to find new galleries and exhibitions while one of IU’s largest sources of art takes a hiatus. The Eskenazi Museum of Art is expected to be closed to the public from May 14 until fall 2019 as part of a $30-million renovation. “The role of museums in the world has changed quite a bit since

our museum building was created, and this renovation will allow us to be a better museum in the modern world,” Abe Morris, manager of public relations and marketing for the museum, said in an email. Half the money is a gift from Sidney and Lois Eskenazi, the museum’s namesakes, and the other half was matched by “For All: The Indiana University Bicentennial Campaign,” Morris said. For the first time since the 1980s, the mechanics used to preserve the

art will be updated, museum director David Brenneman said. Updates in technology in the past 30 years will help preserve the lives of the pieces even longer. There will also be an expansion into the Fine Arts Library, which has always been part of the larger plan. “In the end, I think we’re going to be a much more accessible, much more engaging art museum,” Brenneman said. Brenneman said some of the students who worked at the museum

will be updating the online database and helping with other small projects where they can. The artifacts in the museum will be moved to an undisclosed offsite location, Brenneman said. The area is not meant for art storage, and it may not be possible to move pieces around during the renovation. While community members wait for the museum to reopen, they can find art in many other places around IU and Bloomington, Morris said. Starting this fall, full-time staff

will be working in other locations. First Thursdays on campus and First Fridays in downtown Bloomington also provide new opportunities to discover local talent. Online, patrons can visit a new website called “Highlights of the Eskenazi Art Museum” that displays about 1,000 objects from the collection, Morris said. There will also be news updates on the website for people who want SEE MUSEUM, PAGE 5

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INVESTIGATIONS | SEXUAL ASSAULT EDITOR’S NOTE

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Kendall Locey, now a junior, stands in front of Read Residence Center where she lived freshman year. She was sexually assaulted off campus a few weeks into her first semester at IU, during the Red Zone. This is the time period between late August and Thanksgiving Break when students are most at risk for sexual assault.

Here and on page 4, you will find two parts of the Indiana Daily Student’s 3-part series investigating campus sexual assault, an issue that continues to be discussed at college campuses nationwide. For incoming freshmen and their families, we want to share our work on this subject. The IDS regularly publishes investigative content, and we hope that you will be among our readers when we tackle tough issues in the future. By Grace Palmieri gpalmier@indiana.edu @grace_palmieri

wo years later, she still thinks about that night. It’s all a bit foggy — her assault, the cops showing up at her hospital room, her mom finding out — with several hours missing from her memory. But the lessons, the ones no one should have to learn, remain. Kendall Locey was a freshman, only a few weeks into her first semester at IU, when she was raped. That Thursday night in September 2014, she was heading to an off-campus fraternity party with some male friends she thought she could trust. The party was at a house she’d never been to and was being thrown by people she didn’t know. She pre-gamed before leaving the residence halls. It was enough to make her tipsy but not so much she didn’t know what was going on, she remembers. She and the other freshmen walked to a house near the IU football stadium. When they arrived, everyone was funneled into the basement and then almost immediately to the bar. Kendall remembers taking a shot, but just the one. The next thing she knew it was daylight. She woke up hazy and hungover. She didn’t

The red zone

Students recount lessons learned during their most vulnerable months on campus recognize the man lying next to her. When had she met him? How has she gotten up to his room? When did her clothes come off? Later that morning, she went to the IU Health Center to report her assault. They sent her to IU Health Bloomington hospital, where within hours Kendall was sitting in an exam room begging a detective not to call her mom. She was only 17. What would her mom think? Would she blame her or accuse her of just being irresponsible? Rape had never been something Kendall worried about. Like many other young women, she had trouble thinking of herself as a victim. Looking back now, there’s a list of things she wishes she’d known — things she wishes someone older had told her before that night. * * * Many freshmen don’t realize it, but as soon as they arrive on campus they enter the red zone — a time when vulnerable new students, particularly freshmen women, are most at

risk for sexual assault. Studies nationally have shown a spike in sex crimes between the first week on campus in August to Thanksgiving break in late November. Freshmen enter an entirely new environment and are not sure of how to act or what’s expected of them. They long to fit in and try new things. They no longer have the protection of their parents and are new to living on their own.

“If we really want to start to address the problem of sexual assault in a meaningful way, we need to start educating people much younger about consent and sexual assault,” Skirvin said. According to the 2007 College Sexual Assault Study from the National Institute of Justice, sexual assault was more common among freshmen and sophomores than juniors and seniors. More

“Being a freshman is a whirlwind, ya know — you’re so glad cuz you’re ﬁnally free, ﬁnally on your own, and you feel so independent … to the point that you don’t feel susceptible to the things that could set you back.” Kendall Locey, IU junior

Unaware of some of the risks, freshmen are sometimes easier to manipulate, said Ann Skirvin, a Sexual Assault Crisis Services counselor at IU. They are also often at a disadvantage due to abstinence-only education in lower levels of schooling, particularly in Indiana.

than 50 percent of assaults happen between August and November. Incidents also more commonly occurred from midnight to 6 a.m. Friday and Saturday nights, the study found. This points to one of the main dangers of college life — a party culture that’s con-

stantly churning and nearly impossible to avoid. For many freshmen, it means experimenting with alcohol, drugs and sex for the first time. In 2014, IU’s Office of Student Ethics conducted its own student survey to gauge attitudes and experiences with sexual assault. Among many key findings was alcohol was present in 60 to 83 percent of cases. Another was more assaults occur during a student’s first year on campus. While freshmen admit sexual assault is an issue on college campuses, they rarely expect to become victims. If it hasn’t happened to them or to anyone they know, it’s not yet real. This lack of recognition was clear early this fall when the Indiana Daily Student spoke with freshman women around campus. Many denied feeling unsafe on campus and minimized their chance of being assaulted. “There’s always the possibility that it could happen, but I haven’t been threatened by it,” said one student in McNutt Quad. “It’s not a realistic concern

for me at this point,” said another. “Every time I go to the bathroom I see a poster about a sexual assault campaign, so it must be a thing.” Kendall Locey, now a junior, remembers encountering similar denial among her peers. When she told her story to other freshmen weeks after the assault, some didn’t believe her. Of those who did, some insisted they could have avoided a similar dangerous situation. Kendall knew how wrong they were. “It doesn’t matter how good you are at drinking, or how tough you are, or if you’ve fought a boy before and you won,” she says now. “It doesn’t matter. You don’t know what they’re going to do.” If Kendall could do that night again, she wouldn’t have gone to a party thrown by strangers. She would’ve brought her own alcohol. She definitely would have gone with girlfriends she knew well and who would have made sure she was okay. * * * Other upperclasswomen remember going through similar experiences when they were in the red zone. Like Kendall, they have advice they wish they could give their freshman selves. Many felt too ashamed to talk about their assaults at first. Some blamed themselves and thought if they’d avoided that situation, stayed away from their attacker, not led that guy on, nothing would have happened. SEE ASSAULT, PAGE 9

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Hoosiers share their coming out stories IU and Bloomington celebrated National Coming Out Day on Oct. 11, 2016, through events at both GLBT Student Support Services and the Back Door, a queer bar. Here are the coming out stories of four Hoosiers. By Emily Miles elmiles@iu.edu | @EmilyLenetta

IU graduate Victoria Laskey, home for Thanksgiving break her freshman year, sat on her bed in the middle of the night and cried. The door ajar, her mother heard the sobs and came in. She was the devout Roman Catholic who asked her to keep a figure of the Virgin Mary in her car at all times, the chef of countless Sunday-night roast beef dinners. She asked what was wrong. “I just got dumped,” Laskey said. “By who? What happened?” “Her name’s Kate.” Laskey said silence took over the room as her mother’s stable world shifted.

“Why didn’t you tell me? I thought we were closer than that,” her mother said. “What about grandchildren? Will I ever have grandchildren?” Laskey had barely come out to herself as lesbian and suddenly she had come out to her mother as well. The tears did not stop, but conversation about Laskey’s sexuality did — for about seven months. Then they sat at Buffalo Wild Wings the next June and awaited their food. “Remember that thing that happened back at Thanksgiving?” Laskey’s mother asked, to a nod from her daughter. “I think I’m coming around to it.” Two-and-a-half years later, pacing around her apartment, Laskey called her mother. She wanted

IU graduate Brennan Murphy originally came out as gay his sophomore year of high school, but it didn’t end there. He and his family visited 11 countries in the summer of 2015, and, from Brazil to Japan, he debated countless times whether or not he could safely come out. He could not be out in the actively religious Blue Mosque in Istanbul or on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, where homophobic killings had recently taken place. Granted, it wasn’t so different from the United States. “When I walk down a road late at night and I see headlights coming from behind me, I start breathing heavily,” he said. “Someone could mow me down because they don’t like how I act and who I am.” Murphy’s fear spilled over in an ancient Indian fort. “So, do you have a

girlfriend back in the States?” the family’s tour guide asked Murphy as they walked. “No, I don’t have a girlfriend.” “A young, handsome man your age not having a girlfriend?” the guide said. “Boys your age are getting married here.” Murphy took the compliment and kept walking. He said he never knew how the guide would have reacted if he had come out in that moment. According to Murphy, coming out is a gamble in most places, but the Nichōme region of Tokyo was one exception. He said hundreds of gay bars are in a five-block radius there. Murphy could come out in Ni-chōme, but he could also come in — in to the queer community.

her to meet her first serious girlfriend. Eventually, she did and laughed through the night in the living room. As they left, Laskey’s mother pulled her aside and spoke softly. “I like her.”

IU graduate student Don Dumayas was in elementary school when he came out to himself as gay. It was while watching Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic that he knew he was attracted to men. By sixth grade, Dumayas had heard derisive comments for exhibiting stereotypically feminine mannerisms, so he tried to suppress his homosexuality. However, he said he had to know what his mother, the most important person in his life, would do. He posed the question hypothetically, and she shouted that her son could not be gay. “It blew my mind,” Dumayas said. “I was telling her, ‘No, no, I’m just kidding.’” About a year later, Dumayas marked in his planner the day he had

begun liking a classmate, the same planner page another classmate would notice in art class shortly after. “Oh my God, you like him,” the classmate said. “Like, you’re gay.” Initially, Dumayas denied the label. However, when he realized his classmates would accept him, he embraced his sexuality. Years passed before he broached the topic with his family again. He packed a box of souvenirs from his latest travels and slid a coming-out letter into the bottom. He handed it to a postal worker, tracked the package, and when it arrived at his mother’s door, he turned off his phone. He feared his mother’s response. When he turned his

He said the queer community often feels like outsiders, so its members band together. “We disregard all the things that seem to make us separate, and we welcome the things we have in common,” he said. “We create one refuge from, in some ways, a harsh, hostile world.”

Before IU junior Andy Canada knew he was transgender, he said he knew he was gay. “I thought that I was gay, but I was still interested in men, even when I was a woman,” he said. “So it was like, how can this be? How can I be gay but be straight?” It was freshman year of high school, in a class of just more than a dozen people at a rural North Carolina school, when everything clicked. He was a gay man. “It was pretty soon after that that I really wanted to get moving, that I wanted to become the person in public that I felt I was in my private life,” he said. He and another transgender student asked one of their teachers if they could present a 30-minute slideshow presentation about what it means to be

transgender and gay. “Some of the students were pretty supportive and accepting after we taught them what it was all about,” Canada said. “The teachers were less so because I think they had already gotten their viewpoint of what they thought the community was all about.” It was sophomore year when Canada told his mother, and she told his father. They decided it was a phase and still don’t use his preferred name and pronouns. However, his brother was a different story, Canada said. “He was the most accepting of anyone in the family, which was great because he and I are really close,” Canada said. “And I think that has helped a lot, having my brother on my side.”

phone back on, there it was, a message of acceptance and love from his mother. The same sort would come from his sister. “It was a lot of burden off my shoulders that the most important people in my life know who I am and accept who I am,” he said.

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INVESTIGATIONS | SEXUAL ASSAULT

A question of consent One night, two IU students and the thin line between a hook-up and a rape. By Taylor Telford | ttelford@indiana.edu | @ttelford1883

heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been up all night. She hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t changed her underwear or brushed her teeth. Now she stood, naked and trembling, in an exam room in the IU Health Center as a nurse and a medical technician shined a flashlight on her body. They took photographs, swabbed her cheeks and measured her scrapes and bruises. The night before, Marion Zerfoss had gotten drunk at a party at her house on Dunn Street. She was throwing up, and her roommates were worried she might choke on her vomit. They asked a neighbor, Aaron Farrer, to take care of her. Both Zerfoss and Farrer were 20. She was a junior. He was sophomore. She was studying management in SPEA. He was an IU Police Department cadet. Her roommates thought heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be responsible, trustworthy. Zerfoss blacked out during the encounter, she said later, but she remembered fragments. She described how Farrer had come into her bedroom and hoisted her on top of him, and how he asked if she was on birth control. How she ran to the bathroom to vomit afterward and screamed at him to leave. In the many times Zerfoss retold her version of the night, she stressed that she had not wanted to have sex. Each time he told his version, Farrer insisted she had. The only reason they had ended up in bed together, he said, was because she talked him into it. Days later, after Zerfoss reported the incident to the

Bloomington Police Department, an officer showed up at Farrerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house asking questions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mr. Farrer did not seem to understand fully what consent was in our interview,â&#x20AC;? the officer reported later. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He also did not seem to fully understand the definition of rape.â&#x20AC;? The officer asked Farrer if he thought heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d done anything wrong. Farrer said he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to answer. Then he was led away in handcuffs. * * * Consent is such a crucial and confounding question that IU makes sure students learn about it before they take their first class. During New Student Orientation, IU freshmen are required to watch a musical that ends with a catchy song detailing the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s consent policy. The lyrics make it sound simple. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Consent is unmistakable,â&#x20AC;? the performers sing, while they clap and mockkiss. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s often verbal. It canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be given by someone who is intoxicated.â&#x20AC;? The bouncy melody imprints the definition so firmly in studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; brains that many can quote it until the day they graduate. But that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean they apply it in the heat of the moment. As students stumbled down 10th Street one Saturday night in September, the Indiana Daily Student asked them how they defined consent. One large group of students was headed toward an off-campus party. They took a moment to think about

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This group of four could be just four of many students embarking on a night of out among friends. Every group has their â&#x20AC;&#x153;scene,â&#x20AC;? be it certain bars or house shows.

their answers, the girls whispering to each other and giggling while some of the boys fiddled with their baseball caps. They spat out variations of lines from the consent song. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a verbal yes.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s freely given.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;It canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be given by someone who is drunk.â&#x20AC;? Students had a tougher time defining consent for encounters where both parties had been drinking. One student stood thinking and ran his hand through his hair. Behind him, drunk girls in tank tops tried to do push-ups while waiting for the night bus. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Consent is not necessarily a verbal expression of

saying yes,â&#x20AC;? he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but a general openness to the act itself.â&#x20AC;? * * * On Oct. 3, 2015, Marion Zerfoss told a detective what little she remembered from the night in question. Her friends had helped her fill in some of the gaps in her memory, she said. Other parts had stuck with her. But in the blank spots, she admitted, anything could have happened. Court documents detail what Zerfoss told the detective. Nine days earlier, she said, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d had eight to 10 shots of Fireball whiskey in less than an hour. She was

EDITORS NOTE This story is based on three months of reporting. Reporters Taylor Telford, Michael Williams and Izzy Osmundsen sifted through court documents and interviewed Marian Zerfoss. They spoke with prosecutors and consent experts and read half a dozen studies on the issue of consent. Typically, Indiana Daily Student reporters cannot access records from the Office of Student Ethics. But the reporters working on this story accompanied Zerfoss to the office, where Zerfoss allowed them to listen to the audio from the disciplinary hearing and review documents from the case file. celebrating her roommateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 21st birthday. Her friends would later testify that Zerfoss hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been able to walk without tripping and falling. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d vomited four or five times. She couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hold a glass of water.

Farrer had only had a few drinks. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d offered to stay and watch over Zerfoss, but her roommates said no at first. After they had changed Zerfoss out of her clothes and put SEE CONSENT, PAGE 6

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» IUDM CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 * * * The summer after her sophomore year of high school ended, Delaney came home after undergoing routine blood tests to 10 missed phone calls from a franticsounding nurse. When she returned to the doctor’s office, she was told her blood had a low count of platelets. Delaney’s dad quickly Googled the possible causes of low platelets, but Delaney said she knew from the experience of a fellow student at Lafayette Central Catholic what it might mean — leukemia. During the spring of Delaney’s sophomore year of high school, a close friend of a close friend named Patrick Mackey was diagnosed with leukemia after he too was found to have low platelets. Patrick’s younger sister Claire had died not even two years earlier after a battle with leukemia. Delaney was eventually diagnosed with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, a blood disorder that causes platelet levels to plunge and puts patients at risk of easy bruising and internal bleeding if not treated. Though she didn’t have cancer, Delaney spent the next two years in and out of Riley to receive treatment. Despite the poking and

prodding and painful side effects of the disorder, Delaney said she found comfort in the people around her at Riley. Before their diagnoses, Delaney and Mackey had done musicals and mock trial together, but they grew much closer when they formed a sort of support group for each other during many overlapping stays at Riley Hospital. “Patrick always gave everything to me straight,” Delaney said. “If a doctor told me the spinal tap I was about to get wouldn’t hurt that bad, he would tell me if it actually would.” Delaney called Mackey her rock during her initial treatment, but he died six months after her diagnosis. Cancer touched Delaney’s life again when her best friend, Anna Marlatt, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma and began treatment at Riley Hospital, too. Marlatt was placed in the room next to Delaney for treatments so they could be near each other. These are the instances, along with the bright and bubbly nurses who always made sure to stay with her after clocking out until the next nurse came, that made Riley feel like a family to Delaney. * * * As of this weekend, Delaney’s platelet counts have been up for two years and her friend Anna is in

remission. At IUDM, Delaney danced for Mackey, for Claire and for the people she hopes to inspire the way Riley children have inspired her. “When you’re a 17- or 18-year-old lying in a hospital bed, it’s really easy to feel sorry for yourself, but then you see a 5-year-old kid at the door waving and realize how much they’ve gone through at such a young age,” Delaney said. Delaney said she has enjoyed her first year as a part of the Riley Development Committee. She pairs with a Riley child to do activities like Easter egg hunts and meet-ups for dinner. She wants them to know that people care about them, that college students care about them, and some, like herself, have glimpsed what they’ve experienced. As anticipation builds for the moment the fundraising total for 2016 is revealed in the final hour of the marathon, IUDM president Ryan Cason takes the stage. “There are no limits to what the IUDM family can accomplish, and we will continue to achieve the impossible and create miracles for the kids at Riley every day until there are no more sick children at Riley Hospital,” Cason said. “We Are The Champions” by Queen plays to an ecstatic crowd after it is announced that IUDM 2016 raised a record-breaking $4.1 million.

» TRUMP CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 according to Trump’s website. “We will begin working on an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful beautiful southern border wall,” Trump said during a speech in Arizona in August 2016. Mexico will pay for the wall, he said.

» MUSEUM CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 to follow the renovation. Museum staff will also visit classrooms around the community and work on programs for when the museum reopens in 2019, Morris said.

» MILLER CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 recruited any current Hoosiers to Bloomington, Miller emphasized they’re his players now. “We invest in everything, and they all matter right now, and I think that there is value to every single individual on our team,” Miller said. Another side of the program Miller focused on was recruiting. Miller used the term “inside-out” when describing his strategy to bring new players to Bloomington. He said he plans to recruit from the state of Indiana first

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His running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, is the most conservative vicepresidential candidate in the last 40 years, according to a FiveThirtyEight rating of candidates’ ideologies. Pence said in July he was “absolutely” in sync with Trump’s Mexican wall proposal, and that Mexico was “absolutely” going to pay for it. Pence and Trump are

both strong supporters of the pro-life movement and have come out against Planned Parenthood. In March, Trump said women who seek abortions should be subjected to “some sort of punishment.” However, he later recanted the statement, although he still remains pro-life. Only time will tell what the next four years hold.

In addition, new walking tours of art around IU and architecture tours will also be implemented to expand the programming despite the closure, Brenneman said. Although Brenneman said he knows the two-year closure is not ideal, he thinks

it will be best for the University and its art fans in the long run. “We can hopefully bring attention to the wonderful things that are not only in this museum but all around campus,” Brenneman said. “I think there really is art everywhere.”

and foremost, and will put a significant effort in getting Indiana players to stay instate. However, he was quick to point out that they would still look outside the state to find difference makers. Miller also said he preaches aggressive, physical and disciplined defense. “Defensively, it’s something to take great pride in,” Miller said. “We have to become a tough, nasty team on defense.” On the other side of the ball, Miller’s teams at Dayton have tended to push the tempo. “Style of play for me is

always on the run offensively,” Miller said. “I think the more we’re on the run in the full court and the half court, which means a lot of movement and a lot of pace.” At Dayton, Miller crafted a successful program. In the past four seasons, the Flyers have made four consecutive NCAA Tournaments and made it to the Elite Eight in 2014. Now, he hopes he can translate that success to IU. “What we were able to accomplish at Dayton, with some tweaks, can work here, with that blueprint,” Miller said.

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» CONSENT CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 her to bed, leaving her with water and crackers, they reconsidered and called Farrer back. He returned with a textbook and his dog in tow. The two had only met a handful of times — Farrer borrowed their lawnmower occasionally. He’d come over to hang out after a recent football game. Once, they had kissed goodbye — a peck on the lips, nothing more. She and her friends agreed that Farrer was into her, but Zerfoss told the detective she’d always thought he was creepy. He would Snapchat her and ask her to come over. She had never spent time alone with him and usually ignored his messages. She didn’t find him attractive, she told police, and she never intended to hook up with him. Her description of the encounter was detailed. She told the detective there were cracker crumbs in her bed and that Farrer’s dog had knocked her hamster’s food all over the floor. The sex was quick, she said — at most, it took five minutes. Then he redressed her, putting her underwear back on inside out. “Did we just have sex?” Zerfoss asked once it was over. “Yes,” she remembered Farrer saying. “And next time, I’ll bring my handcuffs.” Afterward, she said, she sat up trembling, alone in her room while she waited for her roommates to get home. When the roommates spoke with Farrer later, both women told him he’d abused their trust and taken advantage of Zerfoss. One advised him to text an apology in the morning. At 7 a.m. the next day Zerfoss got the text. She still has it saved on her phone. “I totally fucked up,” Farrer wrote. “I knew it was wrong and I did it anyways. Please don’t hold yourself accountable for anything that happened after you started drinking last night.” That morning, Zerfoss went to the IU Health Center and allowed the staff to perform the rape exam. Nine days later, she filed her report

with the police. When Farrer found out he might face criminal charges, he sought help from Mary Higdon, a Bloomington defense attorney. Farrer wanted to approach the police with his side of the story, so Higdon helped him compile a detailed timeline of his every interaction with Zerfoss. In the written statement he delivered to BPD, Farrer said Zerfoss beckoned him into her bedroom, where she was lying in bed, dressed only in a T-shirt and a red thong. Then, Farrer said she’d asked him over and over, “Do you want to fuck me?” Farrer said he resisted, questioning his own judgment since he had also been drinking. But after Zerfoss continued her advances, Farrer decided to have sex with her. One of the few details they agree on is that afterward, Zerfoss asked if they’d had sex. “Yes,” Farrer said. “Is that OK?” “Yes,” he recalled her telling him. “And we can do it again.” * * * IU’s policy defines consent as “agreement or permission expressed through affirmative, voluntary words or actions” to engage in a sexual act.” The definition comes with a laundry list of qualifications: that consent can be withdrawn at any point, cannot be coerced or assumed and cannot be given by someone who is intoxicated. Kristen Jozkowski, a consent expert at the University of Arkansas, published a study in 2014 on how consent varies between genders in heterosexual college students in the Midwest. Most students, she learned, define consent the same way. More than 60 percent of students defined consent as an agreement between two people to have sex or someone giving permission. But most male students said they use body language or non-verbal signals when giving or seeking consent. Most women, on the other

hand, use words to give consent and expect the same in return. If students are struggling to express consent, Jozkowski said, it might be an extension of their struggles to communicate about sex in general. “Students don’t have the language to talk to about sex,” Jozkowski said. Each year, IU surveys students about sexual assault. In last year’s survey, 25 percent of undergraduate men and 11 percent of undergraduate women agreed that, “as a general rule, alcohol makes sexual situations easier and more enjoyable” for both genders. The fact that college hookups are often preceded by Dixie cup shots of Peach Taaka or a tower of Keystones has nothing to do with alcohol acting as an aphrodisiac, Jozkowski said. Alcohol dampens sexual ability in both men and women. Any increased urges while drinking have to do with lowering of inhibitions. “Alcohol acts as a social lubricant,” Jozkowski said. “People think they can be more explicit about their desires when they’re drinking.” While alcohol allows some students to feel more at ease seeking sex, the pressure to hook up can eclipse their better judgment. Again and again, students ask Jozkowski the same question. “Are we raping each other when we get drunk and have sex?” * * * Jozkowski’s data, useful as it is, can’t begin to measure the confusion and pain that comes from two 20-year-olds getting consent wrong. When Zerfoss spoke with Bloomington police, she conceded she may have said some of the provocative things that Farrer attributed to her. She was blacked out, so she had no way of knowing what she did or didn’t do. She told the police it shouldn’t matter. “I was way too drunk, and everyone knows that he was sober,” Zerfoss told the detective. “You can’t have sex with a drunk girl like that.”

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A group of alumni come back to town for Homecoming and visit Kilroy’s Sports Bar. Current students feel confident in themselves and in identifying consent, especially in the company of their friends.

After posting the $2,500 bond, Farrer was released from jail. He was charged with one count of rape and pleaded not guilty. Now he faced the criminal charges in court and disciplinary action from IU’s Office of Student Ethics. Farrer filed a formal complaint of sexual harassment with the University, saying Zerfoss had touched him inappropriately and made suggestive statements to him while he worked an IUPD shift at a football game. Although his roommate corroborated Farrer’s account, the Office of Student Ethics dismissed his complaint, noting that no other witnesses saw anything unusual in Zerfoss’ behavior. The day before Thanksgiving break in 2015, a student ethics panel conducted a hearing to consider Zerfoss’ complaint. In her opening statement Zerfoss was calm. “We are here today because Aaron Farrer raped me,” Zerfoss said. “I ask this panel to please hold him accountable for his actions.” Farrer was a mess. He repeated himself and cried. He sounded desperate. “Marion painted a picture of a man anxiously waiting on the sofa for her friends to leave, at which time he en-

ters her bedroom, rapes her lifeless and blacked-out body and leaves,” Farrer said. “This is a disgusting accusation, and it is completely false.” The student ethics panelists questioned Farrer’s judgment and his interpretations of the night. As a police officer, hadn’t he been trained to recognize alcohol poisoning? Didn’t he understand someone in danger of choking on their own vomit couldn’t provide reliable consent? Farrer said no to all of these. The panel questioned him extensively on his motives for staying with Zerfoss. Farrer went back and forth. He said he’d stayed just to keep her company, as “a friendly courtesy.” He said he knew he’d been asked to watch Zerfoss so that “she didn’t throw up and kill herself.” He argued that he was a man of moral standards and that Zerfoss had forced him to break them. She’d come onto him so aggressively, he said, that he felt she had not only consented but also absolved him of responsibility. “A switch flipped in my head and said, ‘There’s no way there’s an issue here,’” Farrer told the panelists. “Because

if anything, she has assaulted me.” When asked about the text he had sent to Zerfoss the morning after — in which he said she shouldn’t hold herself accountable for what had happened — Farrer said he had only sent it so she wouldn’t feel embarrassed and because he felt guilty about sleeping with someone he considered a friend. “In reality, it was every bit her fault as mine,” Farrer said. Farrer talked about what that night had cost him. He’d been stripped of his status as an IUPD cadet. He said he felt his good record and reputation had been smeared. He said that, although he had made poor decisions, he had already been punished more than he deserved. “I think it is grossly unfair to compare the ambiguous situation I was put in to actual rape.” When it was her turn to speak again, Zerfoss said she had lost her sense of security. “This is something I will have to carry with me for the rest of my life. This is not something that heals.” In the end, the panel sided with Zerfoss. SEE CONSENT, PAGE 8

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The IU Delta Omicron chapter of Delta Delta Delta was revoked March 4, 2017, after the groupsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national organization said the IU membersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;activitiesâ&#x20AC;? clashed with Tri Deltaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;high standardsâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;purpose.â&#x20AC;? President Kimberlee Di Fede Sullivan wrote in a statement that the decision was based on an investigation into IU membersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;activitiesâ&#x20AC;? that â&#x20AC;&#x153;violated the chapterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s previous probation terms, though the statement did not specify the activities or the probation terms. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are deeply disappointed in the choices made by members of our chapter at Indiana,â&#x20AC;? Sullivan wrote

in the statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The decision to withdraw Delta Omicronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charter was made by the Executive Board, in concert with chapter volunteers, and with heavy hearts for all involved. We will work closely with our collegiate members, loyal alumnae and Indiana University through this challenging situation.â&#x20AC;? On March 29, the sorority was notified that it had until 5 p.m. the following Sunday to vacate its home on East Third Street. The eviction was postponed after Tri Delt parents hired an Indianapolis attorney and law firm to represent the chapter in court March 29. The Tri Delt chapter sued its national organization and housing corporations. The chapter went to

court in hopes of receiving a restraining order on its nationals, which would overturn the IU chapterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eviction. The case was overseen by Judge Frances G. Hill in Bloomington who ruled in favor of the chapter on March 30. Hill ruled the Tri Delt national organization had to stand down and refrain from any and all efforts to evict the chapter members from the property at 818 E. 3rd St. for a period of no less than 14 days. After this period the parties have to return to court for further arguments regarding eviction. The IU chapterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lawyer, Peter French, could not be reached for comment. Tri Delt members wish to remain in the house until

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the end of the semester. Its membersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; parents have said their ultimate goal is to reinstate the chapter at IU. They created two petitions that have combined support of about 7,000 people, who, like the parents, have been pressuring nationals in support of the chapter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My heart goes out to those girls who are trying to succeed in school while

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The Delta Delta Delta house sits on Third Street. The IU Delta Omicron chapter of Delta Delta Delta was revoked on March 4, 2017, after the group's national organization said the IU members' activities clashed with Tri Delt's standards and purpose.

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ing such abrupt action.â&#x20AC;? The chapter declined to comment on the case or the ongoing dispute with its national organization

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» CONSENT CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 Farrer was expelled. Mary Higdon, Farrer’s lawyer, was stunned. She has defended several male students in situations like Farrer’s. She’d seen plenty of suspensions, but never an expulsion. “I personally think it had something to do with the fact that he was a cadet,” Higdon said. “They thought he should have known better.” * * *

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The case wasn’t over yet. Farrer still faced the rape charge in criminal court. What happened next shows the complexity of consent, especially in Indiana. Farrer was kicked out of IU after violating University policy, which says consent cannot be given by someone who may not be able to understand their situation due to intoxication. Zerfoss had shown signs of such intoxication, as listed by the policy—stumbling, vomiting, slurred speech. The state has a different standard. Indiana law says that valid consent cannot be given when “the other person is unaware that the sexual intercourse or other sexual conduct is occurring, or the other person is so mentally disabled or deficient that consent to sexual intercourse or other sexual conduct cannot be given.” Robert Miller, chief deputy prosecutor for Monroe County, said in an interview the standard is stringent. Just being drunk usually isn’t enough to prove a lack of consent. “Case law suggests they

“I think you would agree with me that it was these kids doing dumb things that led them to the situation they are in. What happened between Aaron and Marion that night has destroyed Aaron’s life, and it is destroying his family too,” Farrer’s father wrote. “All over a drunken college hookup.” Zerfoss found the letter patronizing. She couldn’t believe Farrer’s father wrote to her father rather than addressing her directly. What happened between her and Farrer, she said, wasn’t a hook-up. It was rape. * * * Since the criminal charge was dropped, Farrer has tried to get on with his life. He moved back home and is working with his father. With his lawyer’s help, he’s gotten the arrest and criminal charge expunged from court records. He has been readmitted to ROTC. He hopes to be readmitted to IU. According to Higdon, IUPD is considering allowing him to rejoin its program. As of December 20, Farrer is suing IU and Zerfoss for gender discrimination, claiming that IU’s investigation was unfairly biased toward Zerfoss. “IU violated Title IX by creating a gender biased, hostile environment against males, like Farrer, based in part on IU’s pattern and practice of disciplining male students who accept physical contact initiated by female students, but failing to discipline female students who engage in the same conduct,” Farrer’s attorneys wrote in the complaint.

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must be unconscious,” Miller said. Higdon filed a motion to dismiss the criminal charge in February 2016, arguing that under Indiana law, Zerfoss had clearly given consent. She had initiated the sex, the defense attorney said, and was aware and in control of her actions that night. She answered Farrer’s questions about birth control and spoke lucidly. In her interview with the detective, she had recalled many details from the encounter, including the cracker crumbs in her bed and the hamster food spilled on her floor. “To insist that such a person cannot consent to sex is to redefine the concept,” Higdon wrote in her motion. According to IU policy, Zerfoss had not been in any condition to give consent. But according to Indiana law, she had. Prosecutors dropped the charge against Farrer. Zerfoss said she felt betrayed. Sexual assault cases are often difficult to prove in criminal court, especially if alcohol was involved and the victim can’t remember what happened. “It’s not uncommon to have women say they were blacked out, but they might have appeared to be in control to those around them,” Miller explained. “This makes prosecution problematic or impossible.” To Higdon, the state’s legal standards for consent are more reasonable than IU’s. In a college town where students are constantly drinking and hooking up, Higdon said it’s unrealistic to have a policy that says intoxicated people cannot give consent. “I’ve seen this ruin a lot of young men’s lives,” Higdon said. While their case was still tangled in the systems, Farrer’s father sent a letter to Zerfoss’ father, hoping as adults they could see past the mess their children made.

Farrer is seeking $75,000, demanding a jury trial and is asking to be reinstated as a student at IU. Farrer declined to be interviewed for this story. But in a written statement, he said he feels like irrevocable damage has been done to him and his family. “When the accusation was made, I lost everything,” Farrer wrote. “I have been punished emotionally and financially more than I could have ever planned for.” In a few weeks, Zerfoss will graduate from IU. She’s eager to leave. Angry and unsettled, she has moved out of the house where the incident happened and has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. She got a rescue dog named Cleo to help ease her fears. She still has nightmares where she is trapped back inside that night. The thought of Fireball makes her gag. The fog of consent has left both of them feeling damaged. She believes Farrer got to hurt her and walk away. Farrer believes she ruined his life. Their fractured story is repeated often on this campus and others across the country — between students in bars, at house parties, in dorms and fraternity houses. Late at night on Nov. 25, 2016, two young men passed Zerfoss’ old house on Dunn Street, walking toward Memorial Stadium. One was talking about a fight he’d nearly gotten into at a party. He told the other boy he’d been so angry that he’d broken his phone and punched a hole in a wall. “So he’s like, ‘Bro, I only told you because I thought we’d be cool,’” the boy said. “And I was like, ‘How are we cool? You made out with my girlfriend while she was passed out in the back of the car!’” The boy’s friend laughed as they walked off into the night.

INVESTIGATIONS This story was the first of three in the sexual assault series. The second part of this series can be found on page 2 of this section. The third installment can be found at specials.idsnews. com/titleixinvestigation/

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arcia Lewis, a junior, was assaulted twice as a freshman. At one party her first semester, she remembers a guy pulled down her pants because “he wanted to know if I was actually a girl.” She tried to laugh it off, but later wished she’d said something. Another time, she was sitting on a couch with a guy she barely knew in a room full of friends. He began moving closer to her and touching her leg because he “wanted to feel my muscles.” Marcia, who played on IU’s field hockey team her freshman year, always had a lot of guy friends in high school. She never felt uncomfortable around them until her two assaults. Those incidents made her want to stay away. “I alienated myself,” she says. Casey Behling, a 2016 graduate, felt the same way. She had only been on campus for three days when she was assaulted inside a fraternity house. That Friday night she met a cute guy at a party. He kept telling her to take a shot, then another and another, but she was the only one drinking. That’s normal, she told herself. That’s just what college is like. She remembers taking at least 15 shots of tequila and by then could no longer walk. Casey remembers the stranger helping her stand up and taking her back to his dorm room. They started making out, but she didn’t want to go any further. However, her speech was so slurred, she couldn’t form the word “no.” As he raped her, she threw up in the trashcan next to the bed. For a long time, only a few people knew about what happened — only the ones who helped her that night. Casey didn’t blame herself or feel ashamed but now wishes she had cared more about herself when it came to boys and alcohol. She wishes she had spoken out about her experience and been more involved throughout college in helping other young women who were assaulted too. Jordan Smith was assaulted during her first semester on campus. It happened her third week of college, and she didn’t think it was a big deal at the time. It wasn’t until the end of her sophomore year that she realized the incident was even considered sexual assault. She is now a senior and one of the directors of Safe Sisters, a student group helping to spread awareness about sexual assault to members of greek life. Safe Sisters was founded eight years ago, at a

Top Freshman girls walk past Briscoe Quad down North Fee Ln. Left Brothers at Sigma Chi host a sexual assault awareness event during homecoming week. This event emphasized the importance of consent. Right Students pose at Brothers Bar and Grill in Bloomington at midnight on Oct. 7.

time when less attention purple flashing lights, thump- high school a year early, KenLauren is aware of how sewas paid to this issue, Jor- ing music, and a few people in dall started at IU younger than rious sexual assault is on camdan says. Even four or five the center of dance floor and most students. Her mom was pus. Anyone can get invited to years ago, the first part of others along the wall, Kendall already wary of her being a party, she said. Even if you their training process was remembers. away from home so young barely know someone, word Then she took the one when she found out about the gets around. Sometimes she convincing students they shot. The rest of the night is assault. should care. takes it upon herself to defend “The first time they did missing. It was 10:30 p.m. Friday young women who can’t deWhen she woke the next when Kendall returned to her fend themselves. this training it was like a foreign concept to the women,” morning, the walls around her room. She shared a bottle of “I’ve been in situations Jordan said. “Nobody was were unrecognizable, the face wine with a close friend while where I’ve gone into a room comfortable even remotely next to her without a name. trying to process the last 24 and stopped a guy from asShe jolted out of bed, hours. talking about it.” saulting a girl,” she said. Though students now scrambled to find her clothes, It’s common for freshmen That’s when she got the are more aware, discusstried to remember if she wore call from her mom. to attend parties off campus ing sexual assault still isn’t underwear the night before, rather than those at an onShe was upset and wanted easy, she said. Processing but trod lightly to avoid wak- Kendall to come home. campus fraternity. Because it and understanding it and ing whomever it was lying in formal sorority rush isn’t until reporting January, it all take by rule time and they aren’t “I’ve changed some of the behaviors that a lot of women don’t emotional allowed struggle to enter really think about when they come to college. But still, when the some fraternities topic of sexual assault comes up, it’s deﬁnitely more painful.” survivors that are Kendall Locey, IU junior don’t part of the want IU greek to go system. through. Emily Rotundo and Emry the bed. * * * Sometimes, it’s easier Schnell, freshmen living in As soon as she gathered to just pretend it never her clothes off the floor, KenThis fall, thousands of new Foster Quad, said it’s not happened. dall hurried out of the house. IU freshmen have been navi- unusual for a guy to grab at them when they’re dancing She needed to get back to gating the red zone. * * * At every party, freshman at a party. Read but had no clue where Because rates of sexual to turn first. She was in a new Lauren Schmitt is the sober Kendall didn’t want to town and unsure of how to get friend. She doesn’t drink al- assault are higher in college pretend. She feels lucky to back to campus. cohol, but one night a week compared to high school, have only a vague memory “That’s something scary all her friends go out. It’s a way the aggressive environment of her assault, but she knows about being a freshman — for them to relieve the stress of of college parties came as a enough. you physically don’t know the week, unwind and forget shock to Rotundo. When it happened, she where you are,” she said. “I’ll give them a dirty look, about everything else, Lauren was living in Read Center. but I never actually say anyThe day was as much of a said. That Thursday night freshmen blur as the night before. Once Because it’s only one night, thing,” she said. knocked on the doors of floor she found her way back to there are often no limits. “I just kind of walk away,” mates they’d just met. It was her residence hall, Kendall’s “It’s just kind of that one Schnell said. only a few weeks into first se- roommate told her to go to night a week people get crazy, For freshman Amanda mester, and friendships were the IU Health Center. She and that’s when a lot of acci- Stelman, adjusting to the size just forming. Seventeen- and went to the hospital, where dents happen,” she said. of IU’s campus was the hard18-year-olds, in their cramped the police showed up to While Lauren plays the est part. Being from a small dorm rooms, took shots of ask her the same questions role of designated driver by town, sexual assault was never cheap vodka as they pre- she’d answered several times taking care of her friends and something she worried about. gamed for the first parties of that day. She would walk at night making sure they get home the weekend. Kendall couldn’t help but okay, she watches. As an out- in the dark by herself and still A guy from her dorm invit- blame herself for what hap- sider, she notices things other feel safe. ed Kendall to the off-campus pened. She was the kind of might not — as other freshShe wasn’t educated much frat party. She wishes she’d person who always gave the men women at the party get at all on sexual assault in high told her roommate — or any- other person the benefit of the more and more drunk, she school. one she knew better — where doubt. “Out of everything we get sees the men watching, waitshe was going that night. educated on I think that’s the “It felt like I was going to ing. At the party in the base- be socially exiled for this be“I can see guys wait for least,” Stelman said. “Because ment of the fraternity house, it havior,” she said. “I felt like I them to get drunk and then they always talk about drugs was dark. try to pull them off into and alcohol and sex, but sexfucked up.” There were green and ual assault has never been a Because she graduated rooms,” she said.

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big topic.” Freshman Katrina Nickell had a friend and classmate who was assaulted during high school, so she’s always conscious of the possibility of that happening to her, too. When guys at parties grab her from behind and want to dance with her, Nickell feels uncomfortable. Over the summer, Nickell’s parents and her new roommate’s parents met for the first time. They worried about their daughters’ safety on a campus sometimes known for women going missing. So, the first thing they warned their daughters was to never leave each other alone. * * * After the assault, Kendall never went to another fraternity party. She couldn’t fully focus on anything else in her life in the following weeks. She felt the emotions of that morning lingering in the back of her mind. “It’s just something you can’t help thinking about,” she said. She would still hang out and drink with close friends in those weeks, but she stayed in the dorms. Spending time with them was more of a way to distract herself than anything else. Kendall, now a senior, lives in a house with five other women. They look after each other, make sure they get home okay every night, only go to parties thrown by people they know and hold each other accountable. She feels the safety she only wishes existed that fall when everything was new. “I’ve changed some of the behaviors that a lot of women don’t really think about when they come to college,” Kendall said. “But still, when the topic of sexual assault comes up, it’s definitely more painful.”

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On Sept. 16, 2016, festival-goers gathered under the flashing lights of the Old National Bank Tent to hear the sounds of Israeli band A-Wa. The annual Lotus World Music and Arts Festival had drawn in crowds from much farther than Bloomington with its 35 musical acts from all over the world. Lotus Director Sunni Fass said she was excited to see the band, which is composed of three sisters – Tair, Liron and Tagel Haim. Their musical style is a mixture of Yemenite folk music, electric tunes, reggae and hip-hop. “It’s our first time here in Bloomington,” Tair Haim said at the beginning of the show. “We’re excited. Let’s celebrate.” “I just love Lotus Fest,” volunteer Cynthia Port said. “It’s awesome to be involved and feel like you’re part of making it happen. I love the music, but I love the community aspect too.” Since the audience could not understand the lyrics of the music being sung, the Haim sisters explained the meanings of some songs to the crowd. One was a love song about jealousy. “It means, if you aren’t going to be my man, you ain’t going to be with any other woman,” Tair said. Later in the show, Tair explained the sisters’ heritage. “Our grandparents came from Yemen, and we just fell in love with the Yeminite music and groove as little girls,” she said.

While A-Wa’s show was high energy, concertgoers had the opportunity to experience tranquil music as well. One of the venues used, the First Presbyterian Church, showcased English folk duo Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker, who played two shows there on Sept. 16. Clarke and Walker’s setlist placed the old alongside the new and included songs from their new album “Overnight.” “It’s pretty special for us to so early on in our career in the states to play a festival that’s that established and that has that many people coming to it,” she said. “We’re very lucky.” In between songs, Clarke paused to address the crowd and often made dry jokes. However, the humor disappeared when she sang. “I think feelings of joy, you go out and experience those and they’re not ones that necessarily need working through,” she said. “And I think the artistic process is quite cathartic in that it’s like a way of people working through some of the more difficult things in life.” Concertgoer Sandy Martin said she was moved by Clarke’s performance. “I loved it,” she said. “It was wonderful. I had tears in my eyes at the end.” While the festival generally ran smoothly, Scandinavian folk duo My Bubba experienced technical difficulties during their show Sept. 17, 2016. However, the group was able to play for a second time the next afternoon. The names of members Guðbjörg Tómasdóttir, also known as Bubba, and

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Top Grammy nominee Rocky Dawuni served as the main attraction with his Afro Roots and Reggae sound at this year’s Lotus World Music & Arts Festival held this weekend throughout downtown Bloomington. The festival contained eight venues, more than 30 International Artists, and as the headline states “1 Unforgettable Experience”. Bottom Bloomington residents Ashley Mohler and Felicity Young hang out with their dog Lily and chalk the streets of Bloomington during this year’s Lotus World Music & Arts Festival held this weekend throughout downtown Bloomington.

Swede My Larsdotter combine to form the duo’s name, My Bubba. The group has previously played at other world music festivals, but their show Saturday night marked their first performance at Lotus Festival. My said the experience has been a positive one. “We are very interested in history

“I think feelings of joy, you go out and experience those and they’re not ones that necessarily need working through.” Josienne Clarke, English folk performer

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“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” — May 5 The star system’s favorite heroic outlaws are back. The humor and eccentric music choices seem to be as specific and fun as they were in the first film. The action sequences look larger and more spectacular than ever. The cast boasts some impressive new additions. In particular, Kurt Russell looks fantastic as Peter Quill’s father. This movie will satisfy your Marvel craving until “Spider-Man: Homecoming” swings into theaters. “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” — May 26 Captain Jack Sparrow returns in the fifth installment of this franchise. The last film was a little lackluster, but Wonder Woman goes back to basics, which looks more promising. Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley return as Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, respectively, and Javier Bardem is bound to give an enjoyably over-the-top performance as the dastardly Captain Salazar. Hopefully it can send the franchise off with a bang.

“WONDER WOMAN” — JUNE 2 One of the most famous female superheroes arrives on the big screen for the first time. Gal Gadot’s performance as Wonder Woman was a highlight of “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.” The World War I setting and great cast make this movie look intriguing. It might help Warner Bros. get its mojo back before “Justice League” comes out. “The Bad Batch” — June 23 Ana Lily Amirpour’s film was idiosyncratic and awesome when it screened at the IU Cinema earlier this semester. The action-packed drama is set in a post-apocalyptic world filled with cannibals and cults. With an eclectic cast that includes Jim Carrey and Keanu Reeves, “The Bad Batch” promises to be a strange delight. “The Big Sick” — June 23 This movie was one of the biggest hits at the Sundance Film Festival. This film has a great cast led by comedian Kumail Nanjiani, who co-wrote it with his wife Emily V. Gordon. It is a romantic comedy about the relationship between Nanjiani and Gordon, which is complicated by cultural differences and a massive health scare. There is a good chance this film could be the sleeper hit of the summer season. SEE SUMMER, PAGE 3

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“Master of None” — May 12 The first season of Aziz Ansari’s original comedy was a smash hit for Netflix, bringing in various awards and plenty of acclaim. The second season finds main character Dev in Italy, where he moved to attend pasta school. Aziz said in an interview this season will explore differences between Italian and American cultures. “Twin Peaks” — May 21 In an era of reboot fatigue, few can complain about the upcoming revival of David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks.” The famously weird drama made waves in the early nineties, and it stands to turn the TV industry on its head again this year with a premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. “Orange is the New Black” — June 9 At the end of the fourth season of “Orange is the New Black,” Litchfield was in a state of chaos. Poussey had just died, inmates had taken over the prison, and Daya stood holding a gun pointed at a prison guard with a mob of inmates surrounding her. The fifth season reportedly picks up right where we

» SUMMER CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 “Baby Driver” — June 28 This movie looks like it will be a big hit for beloved writer-director Edgar Wright. It is about a getaway driver who overcomes his tinnitus by drowning it out with music. He tries to go straight when he falls in love and gets roped into one last heist. The excellent cast

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geous Ladies of Wrestling, is based on a syndicated professional wrestling circuit in 1980s Los Angeles. “Game of Thrones” — July 16 Winter is here. The seventh season of “Game of Thrones” finally premieres in July, and it can’t come stars such as Holland and Zendaya with established actors such as Michael Keaton and Marisa Tomei. “Spider-Man: Homecoming” will satisfy your Marvel craving until “Thor: Ragnarok” blows your mind. “A Ghost Story” — July 7 David Lowery follows up his crowd-pleasing Disney film “Pete’s Dragon” with this distinctive ghost story. It is about a dead man who

fast enough. It’s Starks versus Lannisters versus Targaryens versus White Walkers, and with only thirteen episodes left in the series, you can bet things will be moving fast. “Insecure” — July 23 Issa Rae’s HBO comedy drew praise in its first season for its nuanced and

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Potpourri of the Arts celebrates 23rd year, same values By Jesse Naranjo jlnaranj@indiana.edu | @jesselnaranjo

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The African American Choral Ensemble, African American Dance Company, and the IU Soul Revue perform the opening number “Fanga Alafia” during the Potpourri of the Arts performance Nov. 5, 2016 in the IU Auditorium.

pieces varying from Etta James’ “At Last” to Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September” as clips from the show Soul Train played in the background. Professor Crystal Taliefero stood in the center of it all, directing vocalists and instrumentalists alike. When a musician’s turn for a solo came, Taliefero responded with dance moves, a sort of conversation between artists. As songs progressed, she ad-libbed into a microphone, energizing the

crowd. The African American Dance Company performed pieces about liberation and freedom. It featured a spoken word piece about Christopher Columbus, slavery and the colonization of the Americas. At one point, a poem by Langston Hughes played in the background. The poem talked about America’s identity and the true meaning of freedom. The final group to take

the stage was the African American Choral Ensemble. Directed by Raymond Wise, a professor of practice in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, the group sang religious tunes, some of which were composed by the director himself. Wise asked people to turn to the person sitting next to them and tell them something could not discover just by looking at them. This, Wise said, was a

message he wanted people to take away from the performance. “We might realize we all need love, acceptance and forgiveness,” Wise said. As the chorus swung in tandem, Wise encouraged the audience members to get out of their seats and participate. He playfully reminded the not-so-musically talented audience members that swaying happens on beats one and three, and clapping is reserved for beats two

and four. Wise said he wanted people to know regardless of current events, his music should show them there is hope. He said at its core, African American music has always been about hope. He said he spent the summer pondering what he could do to mend the cracks he saw forming in society and the division our country was experiencing. “And then it came to me: ‘Do what you do’,” Wise said.

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» LOTUS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 and heritage and the anthropological part, even though our music can be categorized in many ways,” Bubba said. “It’s not specifically world music, but we do like that angle of it.” My said one thing she particularly enjoyed about the festival was the inclusion of other female duos. “Normally festivals, if they have a female duo, that’s like a box that they check off,” she said. Between songs, My made jokes to keep the tone of the show playful. “I think this show is going to be more of a standup comedy act,” she said as audience members laughed. Reggae artist Rocky Dawuni also provided an atmosphere of happiness during his shows Sept. 16 and 17. “Last night was crazy too, good vibe and good energy,” Dawuni said. “For me, the people, the audience here everybody’s paying attention, everybody’s into the music, everybody’s having a great time. People are here for

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Alsarah & The Nubatones perform East African Retro-Pop at Buskirk-Chumley Theater during this year’s Lotus World Music & Arts Festival held throughout downtown Bloomington.

the experience, and I love that.” Dawuni said he tries to include optimism in his lyrics, even if the subject matter is heavy.

“The lyrics come from having the opportunity to experience moments,” he said. “It’s just a matter of distilling the positive aspects of life. People’s sto-

ries, observations, headlines, things that move me within my heart.” Throughout the concert, Dawuni asked festivalgoers to sing along with

his lyrics. “During the concerts, I try to use the medium to make people connect with each other, uplift people,” he said. “We all

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The IU Opera presents Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" in a dress rehearsal Nov. 1, 2016 in the Musical Arts Center. The italian opera follows the tragic love story of a geisha who must fight for her child after her husband returns from the Navy with an American wife.

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IU audiences journeyed to turn-of-the-20th-century Japan in IU Opera’s production of “Madama Butterfly,” which opened Nov. 4, 2016 through Nov. 6, at the Musical Arts Center. The opera, composed by famed Italian Giacomo Puccini, details the emotional journey of Cio-Cio-

san, a geisha in Nagasaki, Japan, and her marriage to an American naval officer. Cio-Cio-san roughly translates to “Madame Butterfly.” According to Operabase, an opera statistics website, it is the fifth most performed show in the world. Puccini ranks second on the list of most performed composers on the same site. Second-year master’s

student Liz Culpepper, who sings the part of Suzuki in the Nov. 4 cast, said the incongruent level of devotion between Butterfly and her husband, Pinkerton, plays a huge role in character development throughout the show. Culpepper said her character acts as a caretaker for Butterfly when Pinkerton leaves and is not heard from again. Suzuki protects the show’s lead from exte-

rior threats, be they emotional or of another nature. At first, Pinkerton displays good intentions to Butterfly, which turn out to be deception. While Butterfly believes the marriage is based on permanent love, Pinkerton merely takes advantage of Japan’s loose divorce laws and leaves. “Butterfly gets really upset when Suzuki makes any sort of mention of ‘I’m

not so sure he’s coming back,’” Culpepper said. “She doesn’t want to believe it.” Culpepper said there is a delicate balance when trying not to disrespect another culture, but what she likes about stage director Lesley Koenig’s creative choices is her focus on characters as individuals, regardless of culture. SEE BUTTERFLY, PAGE 7

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Top The IU Opera presents Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" in a dress rehearsal in the Musical Arts Center. Bottom The IU Opera rehearses Giacomo Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly, an Italian opera that follows the tragic love story of a geisha who must fight for her child after her husband returns from the Navy with an American wife.

» BUTTERFLY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 Third-year doctoral student Mathilda Edge, who sings the lead role of Butterfly, said it was a fun but challenging experience to learn more about Japanese and geisha culture. She said at the time the opera takes place, geisha were seen as the ultimate polite and proper women, with calculated hand and body gestures. She said it was interesting to portray this collected quality and observing when her character deviates from it as the opera progresses.

Edge said when Pinkerton first leaves, her character tries to lure him back by losing her geisha tendencies and adopting new habits to “Americanize” herself, such as keeping her fingers together and having what Western culture would regard as stiff movements. Butterfly remains devoted to Pinkerton, even after a long wait. Edge said when someone finally asks her character about what she might do if her husband does not return, it finally hits her. “That’s where we hear the whole orchestra fall out, more or less,” Edge said. “It’s the

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IUSA faces sad voter turnout Our student government will need to improve for students to care The student government election is over and, while the election cycle winds down and complaints are being heard, we do know how many IU students voted in the election. Out of almost 40,000 eligible students, only about 6,000 voted. Total turnout rated only 12 percent of the student body. To put it another way, barely one out of 10 students took the time to have a voice in the election of their student government. The IU Student Association, our student government, has the potential to be a place where students come together. IUSA should

be a forum trusted and respected as an equal place for students to voice their concerns and, after weighing the options, taking action on campus problems. IUSA receives eight-percent of our student fee money, so it has a responsibility to help the students it represents. IUSA still has a way to go before it becomes such a forum. IUSA has faced challenges in activity levels, student involvement and elections surrounded by controversy. Rather than assigning blame, the Editorial Board hopes to offer several concrete actions that could be taken toward our common goal — building a better student government.

Indiana’s largest public university should demand a student government it can be proud of. To do that, our elections need to represent a broader portion of the University’s student body. More buy-in from students, and a broader debate over the role of IUSA in student life, can do nothing but benefit us and the next generation of students for whom we leave a legacy. There is no silver bullet to boosting turnout, but there are several common sense steps we can take to increase student participation in elections. First, many tickets, including the preliminary

victor Empower IU, proposed a student government that reaches out to student organizations, rather than waiting for students and student groups to come to them with problems. Administration after administration of the IUSA has promised a more active and involved student government, and we hope Empower IU or the eventual victor lives up to its promises. An IUSA that actively let students know the resources that were available to them, the change that an active student government can effect and simple knowledge that IU has a student government would lead to increased participation and turnout.

Second, despite past attempts at election code reform, there needs to be a further re-examination of the IUSA election code. Tickets spend more time worrying about violations and trying to get votes deducted from other tickets than they do trying to get votes for themselves. Perversely, our stringent election code that was passed and intended to allow students of all backgrounds to participate in IUSA has led to lower turnout and incentives for tickets to campaign less for fear of losing votes. Any new election code should seriously consider dropping the “vote deduction” penalty as an undemo-

cratic punishment for tickets and should create incentives for tickets to do more outreach, not less. Finally, as students and citizens we need to look at ourselves and ask why only 12 percent of us feel IUSA is worth the time to vote for. An unengaged and apathetic student body leads to a less fulfilling campus life and a poorer legacy for the next generation of Hoosiers. It’s time for all of us, not just the 12 percent, to start taking responsibility for our campus. Former Opinion Editor Zack Chambers was involved on an IUSA ticket and had no input on the Editorial.

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Saying goodbye to Barack Obama Looking back on two terms of policy and poise under Obama’s presidency On Jan. 20, 2017, we said goodbye to the 44th president of the United States. President Obama and his family packed their bags and moved out of the White House to make room for the incoming president. With Obama’s departure, we lost a professional, reasonable and polished man. Though the Editorial Board doesn’t agree with much of the policy enacted during Obama’s two terms, we admire the grace and professionalism with which he led our country. In short we feel the policies passed during Obama’s time in office were lacking. Marijuana is still a Schedule I drug, the U.S. dropped more than 26,000 bombs in 2016 alone, and Obama’s health care law harms the lower middle class more than anyone else.

“Obamacare” has not been a smooth ride. According to the Miami Herald, Consumers who were told they could keep their health care provider found that to be untrue, and the cost of insurance is going to continue to increase in 2017. People with pre-existing conditions could more easily find coverage, but it’s still cheaper for poor families to pay the fine for not having coverage than to insure themselves. Under Obama we also expected a presidency that would foster peace in conflict-riddled areas of the world. He even said he would end the war in Iraq on his first day in office. Though we have far fewer troops stationed there than we did during Bush’s presi-

dency, the majority of those 26,000 bombs dropped in 2016 targeted Iraq and Syria. The Obama presidency was not as peaceful as we hoped it would be. Despite the problems in policy during Obama’s terms we unquestioningly admire his professionalism and poise. The Editorial Board fears this air of civility will be lost on our next president. In the 2016 presidential election we saw some truly nasty remarks and actions from both the Republicans and the Democrats. President-elect Donald Trump won his primary by bullying his peers and talking over everyone who disagreed with him, and Hillary Clinton’s laughable attempts to be relatable made everyone cringe. Think back to the 2008

and 2012 elections. They may seem comparatively boring when you pit them against our most recent presidential race, but the candidates involved showed much more respect for one another than we saw this past year. Obama didn’t win his elections based on ad-hominem attacks or deception. He won with civil debate and respect for the office. No one can argue with that. Throughout his entire presidency, Obama was a funny, smooth, relatable and respectable figure. When he gave a speech, people earnestly wanted to listen. The U.S. is headed for a period of uncertainty. We aren’t sure what we are going to get during

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Trump’s presidency, and that frightens us, so we look at the professional attitude Obama had during his time in office, and we admire how he’s carried himself for the past eight years. Though much of his pol-

icy left something to be desired, Obama loves the U.S. and wanted to steer us in the right direction during his time as president. He respected the office and his peers, and for that we are grateful.

come to our campus and what ideas we should foster. We often don’t even agree about how free speech should be. But this week I saw an administration stand up for expression and a group of students non-violently, albeit loudly, disagree with the speaker who came to campus. I know a lot of police officers were there, but no one was officially arrested throughout the night — most interactions I saw between the cops and the protesters were completely respectful.

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IU does free speech right Controversial social scientist Charles Murray spoke in Franklin Hall on April 11, 2017, despite loud protests. Many students and faculty members were insulted IU gave Murray a platform to spread what they believed to be white-supremacist rhetoric. As an observer who did not attend the event but watched the protests from the Indiana Daily Student offices, I want to commend everyone involved for voicing their opinions non-violently and honestly. IU and its students handled free speech almost per-

fectly Tuesday. Let me start with the administration. It is certainly a risk to allow a controversial speaker to give a lecture at the University. With destructive protests at schools like University of California, Berkley and Middlebury College, I understand why a college would be wary of being host to someone with a controversial reputation. Despite hundreds of faculty members and students urging our administration to shut the event down, Murray was still

allowed to speak. I’m honored to attend a university where the administration will not back down from providing a platform for hotly-debated ideas and their free expression. Now, let’s move on to the protesters. Free speech is not always neat or pretty, and in this case it certainly wasn’t. I heard students chant expletives in unison and a wide array of signs with varying degrees of vulgarity. I saw a Bloomington local banging a pan with a tire

iron while he casually carried on conversation with law enforcement and students. I saw indignant students reading handwritten rants into a megaphone. All of it passionate, all of it nonviolent. The protest was a dull roar marked by a makeshift, off-time drummer from my position in the IDS offices. It was a roar that kept a constant little smile on my face as I finished my shift. This is what freedom of speech sounds like. We don’t always have to agree about who gets to

We had a battle in the arena of ideas that day, and it was an honest one. Though this was a step in the right direction for free speech on campus, we can always do more to spread awareness for First Amendment rights. We can’t fall victim to censorship, and this week has made me deeply, deeply proud to call myself a Hoosier. dylmoore@umail.iu.edu

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Todd Young was projected as Indiana’s next senator, defeating Democratic candidate Evan Bayh with 51.6 percent of the vote against Bayh’s 42.9 percent, according to the Indiana Daily Student’s results as of press time on election night 2016. “Thank you, Indiana,” Young said. “Tonight Indiana voted for change in Washington. They voted to send in the Marine.” Young grew up in Indiana and served in the U.S. Navy and the Marines before working as an adjunct professor of public affairs in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and earning his J.D. from IU-Purdue University Indianapolis’s Robert H. McKinney School of Law at night. He was elected Indiana’s District 9 representative in

2011 and has held the position since. Young gave up the opportunity to run again for the position so he could run for Senate. Young is a self-described “Marine unafraid to stand for conservative principles.” Among these principles is the right to bear arms and the abolishment of abortion. Brian Gamache, IU senior and president of College Republicans, said Young’s projected win is the result of thousands of hours of work. “He’s the reason I got involved in politics and IU College Republicans,” Gamache said. “He’s my guy. He’s the boss.” This isn’t the reaction from everyone in the state, however. “I stand to help in the years to come to help my fellow citizens in any capacity to serve,” Bayh said in his SEE YOUNG, PAGE 3

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Audience members tried to climb onto the stage for hugs and handshakes and to get a closer look at their new governor, Eric Holcomb. Holcomb won the race to become the 51st governor of Indiana with 50.5 percent of votes, defeating Democratic candidate John Gregg and Libertarian candidate Rex Bell, according to the Indiana Daily Student’s results as of press time the morning of Nov. 9, 2016. “If you are still up watching, I can’t wait to be in your neighborhood soon

and you know I will be,” Holcomb said. “I want to personally thank each and every one of you who poured your heart out over these last hundred days.” Holcomb was born and raised in Indianapolis and previously served in the United States Navy for six years, stationed in Florida and Portugal. He started his political career in 1997 when he worked for Congressman John Hostettler. Holcomb is currently the lieutenant governor under Mike Pence. He was an adviser to Gov. Mitch Daniels, R-Indiana, beginning in 2003 and Chief of Staff to Sen. Dan Coats, R-Indiana. “Do not give up, we fought the

good fight, we got into the arena,” Gregg said. “I’d rather be in the arena and know we gave it our best shot than have not gotten off the couch.” Holcomb said at the gubernatorial debate at the University of Indianapolis in October that his economic plan would build off the momentum from Pence’s governorship. “We need to continue what we’ve been doing on steroids,” Holcomb said at the debate. Under Holcomb’s economic plan, which is focused on retaining, retraining and recruiting the best and brightest in the state, he hopes Indiana will continue to grow annual wage increases.

Also, through a $1 billion investment in innovation and entrepreneurship, Indiana’s job growth would expand by making investments in startups, high-growth companies, co-working spaces and university partnerships, which would encourage high school students to become involved in the entrepreneur community in the state. Under the plan, the state will also lead the nation with infrastructure investment by continuing to fund state and local road construction — in particular, completing Interstate-69 between Evansville, Indiana, and SEE HOLCOMB, PAGE 3

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WASHINGTON D.C.— President Trump was sworn in at noon. The rain started back up at 12:01. That did not seem to bother any of the thousands of people witnessing Trump becoming the 45th president of the United States on Jan. 20, 2017. He was, after all, there to say the power of democracy was in their

hands. “We are not merely transferring power from one administration to another, or from one party to another, but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it back to you, the American people,” he said. Like he had throughout his campaign, Trump spoke about an “American carnage” of extreme poverty, poor infrastructure, depleting military force, corrupt

educational system and a dangerous crime culture. He continued to blame these problems on an inconsiderate federal government and promised to make America great again. “I will fight for you with every breath in my body, and I will never ever let you down,” he said. He described a nation depending solely on American workers, infrastructure revitalization and a stronger

military focused on domestic defense. “This is how you win,” a person in the crowd said. Thousands of people gathered from the Capitol building down the National Mall to witness the historic event. Many supporters and spectators arrived in the wee hours of Friday morning. Former Democratic nominee for president and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was present at the

inauguration not completely hiding her discomfort watching her vanquisher. She was accompanying her husband, former President Bill Clinton. Presidents Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush and Barack Obama were also present with their respective wives. Trump did not hesitate to throw indirect punches at his predecessors. He suggested they did not care about Americans and do not

act on their words. “He isn’t a politician,” someone in the crowd said. “He’s a true statesman,” a stranger responded. Trump cited the Bible to say that good happens with unity and concluded by saying his promise to bring power back to the citizenry can only be achieved with cooperation. “When America is united, America is totally unstoppable,” Trump said.

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consession speech. “I also hope more than anything that together we can find a better kind of politics one that emphasizes hope not fear, doesn’t divide us.” Bayh ended his concession speech by singing his twin sons, Beau and Nick, a happy 21st birthday. “I think that Todd Young ran a really negative campaign,” Andrew Hanna, 25, said. “I think Evan Bayh simply didn’t go as negative as Todd Young.” Young said at the senatorial debate in October that he is a better fit for senator than Bayh when it comes to foreign policy and combating the Islamic State because of his real-world experience in the military. “I haven’t just sat in committee rooms and monitored this situation,” Young said in the debate. “I actually understand what a Marine on the ground goes through. I’ve seen generals and admirals struggle with different situations.” On the economy, Young said too many Americans don’t have jobs, and Washington is not concerned, according to his website. He wants to change this through his work on the budget com-

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Indianapolis. Holcomb’s education and workforce development plan is devoted to ensuring every child in Indiana has access to “exceptional” early education and a safe learning environment, according to Holcomb’s website. Holcomb hopes every high schooler will be ready to enter the workforce or obtain a higher education to develop the skills necessary to compete in the job market. Under the plan, the state’s priority should be to improve graduation rates and expand Indiana’s first state-funded pre-K program to students with the greatest financial need. However, Holcomb said at the gubernatorial debate that the program is not yet ready to be enforced statewide because of financial costs.

mittee in Congress and work with Chairman Paul Ryan to build the budget. He also voted for three fair trade agreements, which created an expanded marketplace for Indiana farmers and manufacturers, in particular. The national debt is “the single greatest threat to our nation’s future,” according to Young’s website. Young has previously voted in favor of adding a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. He also was a co-sponsor of the Cut, Cap and Balance debt limit legislation, which would decrease federal spending for two years and enforce spending caps. Washington is dead set on controlling education decision and budgets, according to Young’s website. As the father of four children, Young said in an address to the IU College Republicans in October that he supports a family’s right to make the decision to put their child in the best position to succeed. “‘Obamacare’ is nothing short of a government takeover of your healthcare,” according to Young’s website. He believes healthcare decisions should be between a patient and their doctor, not a patient and the government. Serena Gannon, Greenfield, Indiana, resident, said

she was excited by the projected Young win. “I’m always happy to see any success on the Republican ticket,” Gannon said. “I wasn’t sure, he was up some stiff competition.” Gannon said she thinks the Republicans have a great message, but fears it’s looked upon as “your dad’s party.” “When I see young people in this audience, especially college age people, it’s exciting,” Gannon said. Gamache said Young inspires loyalty as a leader, not just a politician. “He inspires people to get behind causes,” Gamache said. “It’s the simple things executed daily, he does these things so well.” Young thanked his family for the win, in addition to the help from god. “I’m overwhelmed by the history of this moment,” Young said. “Tonight, we Hoosiers have once again proven that democracy works.” Tonight’s victory belongs to those of us who believe that Indiana and America are bigger than its problems, Young said. “Starting tonight, you’ve sent in a Marine to solve problems,” Young said. “So I pledge to you I’ll always do what’s right for Hoosiers.”

The Holcomb plan also supports a family’s right to choose their type of school, whether it be a public school, charter school, private school or home schooling program. By controlling tuition growth, higher education will become affordable to the masses. “Tonight, we have to acknowledge we did not get our message out,” said Christina Hale, Gregg’s lieutenant gubernatorial candidate. “We were not clear enough, but I’ll tell you we love the people of Indiana and John Gregg and I are determined that these things must be put forward.” Gregg had tears in his eyes as he addressed the Indiana Democratic Party Election Night Watch Party in his concession speech. The crowd cheered when he walked onstage, despite the loss. Charles Montgomery, New Palestine, Indiana, resi-

dent and campaign coordinator for the Holcomb campaign in Hancock County, said he was worried because Gregg is a popular guy in his eyes. “I don’t start celebrating until the fat lady sings, and clearly she sang tonight,” Montgomery said. “Eric is the real deal.” Holcomb thanked Daniels and Pence in his acceptance. “Mike Pence built the foundation, Mike Pence added a few stories,” Holcomb said. “And Suzanne Crouch and I are going to add story after story after story as we take Indiana to the next level.” Holcomb said no corner of the state nor no Hoosier will be ignored. “We’re not just going to keep Indiana on the right track, we’re going to keep it on the right trajectory because, folks, you ain’t seen nothing yet,” Holcomb said.

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CENTER POINT, Ind. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The tiger jumps, assuming harm is coming his way. The first poke with a syringe attached to a pole doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do the trick. It takes three more tries to put him down. As Bro sleeps, the team opens his enclosure and lugs him onto the bed of a small truck. They throw a blanket over his body and a sling around his head so it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hit anything. The truck hurries across the complex up to a garage basement turned medical clinic. Ten veterinary dentists rush to the back to unload the tiger onto a gurney, then onto a surgery table. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dentistry weekend at Exotic Feline Rescue Center. Bro is one of four cats â&#x20AC;&#x201D; three tigers and a lion â&#x20AC;&#x201D; being operated on this rainy Sunday. Four others were operated on the day before. They pry Broâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s jaw open and stuff a breathing tube down his throat. Four dentists perform four root canals at once on the teeth that could kill them all if Bro were awake. Needles swoosh back and forth inside Broâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gums. His long tail, the tip touching the floor, hangs off the edge of the gurney. As one of the dentists fights to pull a tooth from Broâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mouth, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let it Goâ&#x20AC;? from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Frozenâ&#x20AC;? plays on a nearby radio. The dentist belts it out without losing concentration and encourages others to join. He pulls and pulls, and the tooth wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come out. He compares it to pulling rebar from cement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, come out, little bugger,â&#x20AC;? the dentist says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you break on me.â&#x20AC;? As the tooth comes out, blood spews from Broâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gums. The room cheers and claps. Bro slumbers on. With each of his monumental breaths, the blanket draped across his chest rises nearly a foot and descends back down. In the corner stands Joe Taft, the man in charge. Taft smiles behind his scraggly white beard. He casually eats a bowl of his homemade chili as the dentists operate on 300-pound cats in his home. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s another day in the office,â&#x20AC;? says the centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pretty amazing office.â&#x20AC;? * * * When Bro wakes up, he wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what happened in his sleep. He might not be aware of the improvements to his health or the years added to his life. Regardless, he will be better off than he was the day before. Big cats were not born to be poked and prodded by humans while sprawled across a table in a garage in Indiana, but in a world with their habitats disappearing, the Exotic Feline Rescue Center is often the best place for them. More big cats live in captivity in the United States than in the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wild. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re stuffed in tiny cages and left in circuses, barns and basements. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re often malnourished

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animals as far back as Ramses II in Egypt. Some want a lion because it makes them feel powerful. Some buy a tiger out of a romantic ideal. Some â&#x20AC;&#x201D; well, some just purchase tigers or lions to make money off them. Federal agencies do their best to ensure these exotic animals are out of these awful situations. However, they have to go somewhere, so Bro and roughly 200 others live in Taftâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s care at the Exotic Feline Rescue Center some 65 miles southwest of Indianapolis. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The world has changed,â&#x20AC;? Taft said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And they, as a species, are not facing a very bright future.â&#x20AC;? Since 1991, Taft has been rescuing and providing a home for these animals at the rescue center. He takes them from SEE JUNGLE, PAGE 5

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from abusive homes, and he and his team attempt to give them the best quality of life possible. “No matter what you think of whether these animals should be kept in captivity or not, the fact is that the individuals who are here have been born into a captive environment and will spend the rest of their life in a captive environment,” Taft said. The center is off in the woods and is far from residential homes. It takes a few turns away from civilization and a drive down some rocky roads for people to find the place. It’s in a remote-enough area that the 108 acre property allows big cats to live in large enclosures with some room to roam. Public tours are available for $10. Some animals live in the home with Taft, who bottlefeeds them when they’re young. He still enters the cage and interacts with at least one tiger, Suma, and used to go in with as many as 20. Taft is a gruff man. It can be tough to tell when the 71-yearold is joking, and he’s sometimes rude. He’s 5-foot-5 but commands the attention of humans and tigers. One keeper who’s worked with him for years said she wouldn’t call him a friend; they just work together. Others will admit he

can be hilarious. The rescue center has had its share of issues. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which licenses the facility, has fined the center for violations such as not securing enclosures and leaving visitors unsupervised. A cougar escaped in 2007, and a worker was attacked by a tiger in 2013. Taft said he believes the USDA often looks for issues that aren’t there. In the past four inspections, the lone violations have been things such as trees too close to fences and pieces of torn-up enrichment barrels lying around that would be harmful if eaten. In Taft’s eyes, the agencies can nitpick issues all they want, but the animals still have to go somewhere. “They don’t know what to do with them,” he said. “When people have these animals in violation of the law. In order for law enforcement to go in and enforce those laws, they have to have something to do with the animals.” * * * They still talk at the center about the day 17 years ago when two keepers traveled to Pennsylvania to rescue two or three lions from a man shut down by the USDA. The cats were supposed to be a year and a half old. A woman took them down to the basement, and the sight

they saw was the type the rescue center sees far too often. Eight cats had been left in the basement in 5-foot square area cages. Three lions were crammed in one of the tiny cages. Three tigers were in another. Another two tigers were alone in two other cages. A healthy year-and-a-halfold tiger should weigh between 200 and 250 pounds. These were all between 50 and 89 pounds. Assuming none of these were the cats they were supposed to take, Exotic Feline Rescue Center assistant director Jean Herrberg asked the woman, “What’s going to happen to these cats?” “These are the ones,” the woman said. “You’re supposed to pick two.” Herrberg was floored. They were so malnourished, so poorly cared for. She called Taft. “I’m bringing them all or none. I can’t pick two,” Herrberg told Taft. Taft agreed. The center always goes in prepared to take more cats than intended. What sticks with Herrberg, what makes her eyes drift off as she retells it, was what happened when she and Rebecca tried to bring in one of the tigers, Raja, who was alone in a cage. Raja was older than the others. He had been in the basement for at least a year. He hadn’t seen the sun in all

that time. He was scared and skeptical. They put his cage next to the transport cage so he could go into the truck. He wouldn’t move. They called to him and baited him with food. He still wouldn’t move. He looked at Rebecca. Then he looked at Jean. Then Rebecca. Then Jean. After making eye contact with both and truly seeing them, he walked right into the transport cage. Herrberg was a fifth grade teacher in Columbus, Indiana, before beginning to volunteer at the rescue center in 1993. This moment with Raja took her back to the classroom. “It was like when you teach school and that light comes on and you know a kid gets it,” Herrberg said. “It was like, ‘I get it. You’re taking me out of this hellhole.’” Four of the five tigers turned out to be blind in both eyes. Raja went on to become a member of the public tour. He developed a reputation for spraying guests with urine, and the staff tends to smile whenever discussing him. Raja’s is the kind of success story at the rescue center that Taft, Herrberg and the other keepers live for — a big cat that was lost and eventually discovered home and love. Sometimes a cat can be too far gone. They are so damaged that they never develop a

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relationship with the staff and don’t communicate the care they need. They live, but that quality of life may not be that great. It’s the cats that are too far gone that make the successes so powerful. Like when Taft goes up to the fence of Ginger, one of Bro’s offspring. She struts to the edge as Taft approaches. Her neck craned, and she seeks some attention. Taft puts both of his arms up high with his hands touching the fence and says “Give me a kiss.” Ginger does just that. She jumps up on her hind legs and connects her arms with his. She chuffs — a sharp puffing sound tigers make instead of purring — and kisses Taft. Christina McCrea is a young keeper who’s been at the Rescue Center for three years. It isn’t just the cool factor that makes this job great to her. It’s the personalities. The tigers are the class clowns. The lions play around a bit, too. The leopards are stingy with who they like. The staff has to earn their approval. The servals are hyper, ferocious eaters that sound like little demons. The keepers don’t get paid very much. They work tough hours. McCrea says it can take time for the cats to warm up to the keepers, if at all, so those moments of affection serve as a payment.

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In June 2013, a 23-yearold employee named Marissa Dub was cleaning Raja’s cage. The 18-year-old tiger was drawn into his shift cage. It was routine. Taft said in 2013 that Raja was not one of the more aggressive tigers at the rescue center. He was part of the public tour of the facility. Dub apparently forgot to secure the interior gate that separated the two cages. Raja attacked her. Workers heard her scream from a distance. Raja didn’t kill Dub, but she suffered a shattered jaw, severe gashes and a punctured airway. Reports say by the time Taft and others made it to her, Raja was resting, holding Dub’s head in his mouth. When Raja was sprayed with a hose, he released his grip and workers used meat to distract him. Taft doesn’t comment on the incident anymore. A report from the USDA said there was a 4- to 6-inch gap on the gate Dub reportedly didn’t close. Workers said the gap had been there for weeks. Taft didn’t fix it. In the report, there was a frustration from employees of a consistent lack of regard from Taft about repairs to facilities. Taft denied this at the time, saying he and his staff address issues as soon as they are aware of them. When keepers were cleaning cages this October, there was always a shift supervisor checking to ensure each cage was safe before a keeper entered. Regardless of what led to the attack of Dub, the love for animals remained. Dub told reporters after the incident that Raja was just doing what tigers are supposed to do. Her biggest fear afterward was whether Raja would be killed because of this. The USDA investigation decided, because of Dub’s apparent error, that Raja could live. He is still on the public tour. Even now, when asked which animal’s story means the most to her, Herrberg brings up Raja right away. Two months after the attack, Dub returned to work. “I love the cats. I love my job. It’s my dream job, so even this wouldn’t set me back doing what I do,” Dub told reporters in August 2013. “If I wasn’t here, the cats would suffer.” * * * There are bad people but he doesn’t believe in bad tigers, Taft says. In his untidy trailer office complex with domestic cats resting in plastic bins of paperwork on the floor, Taft talks about the differences between humans and animals. He doesn’t make the judgments of animals that he does of people. “Well, I think that’s because I’m a lot more accepting of animals than I am of people,” he jokes. When it comes to the owners he has to rescue these animals from, Taft becomes angry at the different types of culprits. There are those who enter with some romantic ideal about owning an exotic animal. Taft began as one of those people. He bought his first ocelot, Ozzie, as a philosophy student at Indiana

State University because he thought it would be cool to drive a sports car with an ocelot riding shotgun. Taft’s path led to a career in caring for these animals. What happens most of the time is these animals they bought as cute pets grow into dangerous, full-sized threats, and people panic. Taft said there are those with no sympathy or compassion or love for the animals. “They have them to exploit them, and they want to exploit them as efficiently as possible,” he said. Taft isn’t one of the exploiters. The rescue center makes just enough to get by, he said. He brags about his clean track record that he claims includes only two major incidents. Dr. Barron Hall, the dentist singing as he operated on Bro, talked about how the rescue center is one of the best places he visits in the country. Most of Taft’s violations are minor, and the fines are often reduced to $0. Regardless of any legal fights, the rescue center focuses on the cats every day. McCrea is cleaning cages of feces and old bones from food. Rebecca Rizzo is making sure each cage is secure before a keeper enters it. Taft is attending to a sick tiger. Another keeper, Brialle Nickel, is playfully joking with the tigers. She smacks two chickens together and says, “See where I put them?” Because sometimes they only see the one chicken and fight over it. The tigers jump on their stomachs with the chickens in their paws and their legs pressed forward, as if still ready to pounce. Their teeth rip apart the chicken violently, occasionally scaring themselves because they think their tail is another cat trying to steal food. The cats go through about 4,000 pounds a day of animal meat donated by local farms. This is every day at the Exotic Feline Rescue center. It isn’t the wild. It isn’t where they should be. But it might just be the best possible situation. * * * Taft plans on doing this until he dies. He’s 71 years old and has no idea what else he would do. The Exotic Feline Rescue Center started as him alone with three tigers. Now he has a staff that can keep the place going once he’s gone. “Now, if I put a finger in a glass of water and pull my finger out, I don’t leave a hole in the water,” Taft said. Ozzie the ocelot was Taft’s first love, maybe his truest love, but the lessons learned from her are what have him here, dedicating his life to big cats. Taft lost Ozzie when he let some friends watch her, and she was hit by a car when they let her out. Taft’s eyes water whenever he discusses her death. He quickly bought a leopard, and his large collection began shortly after. “A lot of this is making up for all the mistakes I made with cats before,” Taft says. He learned to keep building better environments. He learned when he should euthanize a cat sooner. He learned when he did it too soon. When he thinks of these mistakes, his eyes drift off as if thinking of each tiger, each mistake, each opportunity for love given and love given back. “You feel regret, you feel guilt, you feel sorrow,” he said. “You feel resolve to not let anything like that happen again.” However, Taft’s mistakes aren’t lost causes. “They taught me how to do this.” Inside one of the center’s buildings on a cabinet is the skeleton of a heron. It came from one day when the bird flew into the cage of several tigers. The tigers mauled it and ripped it apart and cleaned off all the meat. When the keepers went in later to clean up the enclosure, they discovered the bones of the heron still completely together. No damage had been done to the skeleton. So they decided to hang it in the facility. A reminder that sometimes, despite the awful happenings of the world and life picking them apart, things can stay intact.

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INDIANAPOLIS — More than 7,500 demonstrators gathered on the Statehouse lawn in Indianapolis on Jan. 21, 2017, to protest President Trump’s inauguration and to hear activists and community organizers from across the state speak. Many wore pink hats with ears to show solidarity with women’s rights movements. People sang “We Will Overcome” and “We Are One” in unison. They came bearing signs and T-shirts supporting women’s rights, Black Lives Matter, LGBT rights and environmental justice. The rally was just one of more than six hundred rallies and demonstrations for women’s rights worldwide. “It’s a big deal for us to be able to represent ourselves and to be able to show that we’re not going to stand by while other people tell us what we need to do,” said Mariam Ali from Indianapolis. For Mariam, motivation to attend the Women’s March rally comes not only from her gender, but also from her religion, she said. “As a Muslim I believe that everything happens for a reason, and whether it’s good or bad it’s good because God knows what’s best for us,” Ali said. “Hopefully this reason will be that it is allowing us to unite together and work together.” Other attendees were not so optimistic about the next four years, and many expressed a fear of losing many of their civil rights. “I think he’s going to try to take away our rights—some of our rights that we’ve already fought for,” said Ayana Stanley Jones, an organizer for Indy10 Black Lives Matter. Jones’ own experiences with racism and misogyny have shaped her views and support of black liberation and rights for women of color. “As a black woman I have

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On a cloudy and rainy afternoon at Bill Armstrong Stadium, Kappa Alpha Theta won the women’s Little 500 — again. It got the victory for the third time in four years March 21 to make it the sorority’s seventh in 30 editions of the women’s race, which is the most of any women’s team. Alpha Omicron Pi, Delta Gamma, Alpha Chi Omega and SKI rounded out the top five in that order. When the race kicked off at about 4:30 p.m., the riders at the front of the pack pushed the pace and caused about 10 teams to fall off the lead pack by lap 15. At the start of lap 35 there was an eight-team crash right before turn one that brought down Teter, Cru and Alpha Phi. After the crash, Theta kicked into an extra gear and began distancing itself from the rest of the field. By the midway point, the team had nearly a half-lap, roughly 15 second, lead on the next closest team. Junior rider Sydney Keaton of Theta said her team wasn’t planning on taking the huge lead — and having to face a draft alone — but the team’s coach, Ryan Knapp, pushed them to maintain it. “We were waiting for an opportunity and one presented itself, so we jumped,” Keaton said. “We went for it. Our coach was just like, ‘Just go. Go give everything. This is it. This is our chance,’ and we trusted him.” As the race wore on, Theta’s lead began to diminish slowly. DG, AOPi

and SKI began working together and brought the gap down to seven seconds. With just eight laps to go, AOPi began making considerable ground and eventually overtook Theta. However, AOPi exchanged on the last lap, which allowed Theta to pull ahead and cross the finish line first. Senior rider Evelyn Malcomb of Theta said she became worried when her team’s lead began to shrink but she and her teammates continued to remain confident. She said they knew they had it within themselves to finish the race strong and cross the line first. “I was scared that it wouldn’t hold,” Malcomb said about the lead. “I was scared that we wouldn’t make it stick, but we did, and that was one of the hardest things to do.” Malcomb has now won the women’s Little 500 twice, as she was a member of the 2015 championship team. Malcomb and Keaton were joined on the 2017 team by senior Grace Bennett and junior Rachel Brown. “To have it twice, I just feel like the luckiest person in the world,” Malcomb said. “This is the best feeling. I have the best team, the best support.” Keaton said she was in shock after the race and will probably still be for a little while. “It’s incredible,” Keaton said. “It’s amazing. It’s shocking. It’s not that I thought we couldn’t do it, but the way we did it and that it happened for real, you never expect it to be as incredible as it is.”

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The ‘People’s Champs’ rise again as Black Key Bulls win Little 500 By Tyler Sorg tjsorg@indiana.edu | @T_Sorg

With about 30 laps to go, the Black Key Bulls pulled ahead of the pack and never looked back. After two years of finishing within a second of the victor, the Black Key Bulls came out on top in the 67th running of the men’s Little 500 to take their second title in four years March 22. Rounding out the top five were Gray Goat, Cutters, Beta Theta Pi and Sigma Alpha Epsilon in that order. Throughout the race the Black Key Bulls team of senior Charlie Hammon, juniors Kevin Mangel and Noah Voyles, and sophomore Xavier Martinez hung with the lead pack of about 15 teams. The teams kept within a few seconds of one another for a majority of the race. As Black Key Bulls approached the end of the race, Martinez said the team employed coach Ryan Knapp’s strategy that also helped Knapp lead Kappa Alpha Theta to victory in the women’s Little 500 on Friday – pull ahead and stay there. With about 15 laps to go, the team had a sizable lead and began exchanging riders every three to five laps to stay fresh throughout the final push. Heading into lap 199, it appeared that the team was going to exchange one last time. Martinez, the winner of individual time trials, said they decided to keep Mangel on the bike because they knew the win was clinched. “It was a big order for him in his first race, but we’ve seen Kevin put in the work all year,” Martinez said. “I think a lot of people expected it to be me since I won ITTs, but on a team like this, we’re lucky enough whether it’s an ITT champ or someone in their first race to finish it

for us.” Black Key Bulls founder David Choinacky credited the victory to the riders’ ability to stick to their plan and believe in one another. The win is the team’s first since 2014 and second in its 12-year history. “We kind of had it drawn up a little bit differently in terms of the finishing order but everybody performed their role like they were supposed to,” Choinacky said. Mangel echoed Choinacky and said although he did not expect to be the one crossing the finish line for the team, he was proud to clinch the victory. “It just meant the whole year’s worth of hard work paying off for all of us,” Mangel said. “It was just an incredible feeling seeing how happy everyone was.” Martinez said he used the memory of standing on the stage last year after a disappointing third place finish to motivate himself this year. He said he imagined the Borg Warner trophy, the championship bike and standing on the stage with his teammates as a champion. “Grinding out hours on hours on the bike in the crap weather just for this one moment and having it pay off is indescribable,” Martinez said. “We’re representing a name that we’re lucky enough to wear today but has been worn by fantastic people in the past.” For Hammon, this victory was the ultimate conclusion to his riding career after being on the cusp of winning for the past two years. Now he leaves ‘The People’s Champs,’ a nickname Choinacky said was coined by a former BKB rider, as a champion. “It’s incredible,” Hammon said. “All year for this one day. It’s this day that’s always in the future until it’s here.”

FINAL MEN’S RACE RESULTS 1. Black Key Bulls 2. Gray Goat 3. Cutters 4. Beta Theta Pi 5. Sigma Alpha Epsilon 6. Bears 7. Sigma Chi 8. Sigma Phi Epsilon 9. Phi Gamma Delta 10. 3PH 11. Forest Cycling 12. Delta Chi 13. Lambda Chi Alpha 14. CSF Cycling 15. Pi Kappa Alpha 16. Kappa Sigma 17. JETBLACH

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Kevin Wilson resigns as head football coach By Jordan Guskey and Brody Miller sports@idsnews.com | @ids_sports

IU Coach Kevin Wilson is out as IU football coach after six seasons, the program confirmed December 1, 2016. Defensive Coordinator Tom Allen was named his permanent replacement. IU Athletics Director Fred Glass said at a press conference the decision was not due to on-field performance or NCAA compliance issues. Glass accepted Wilson’s resignation after a meeting at 8:30 a.m. December 1, where philosophical differences about the leadership of the program led to an agreement to part ways. “There is no smoking gun or single precipitating event that led to where we are today,” Glass said. “I think it’s really a realization by myself and Kevin that we’re just not on the same page about some of what I view as key ways of how the program needs to be led.” As news broke of Wilson’s departure, former IU players spoke to the Indiana Daily Student claiming Wilson was abusive. Several players said Wilson forced athletes to play through injuries and created a culture of fear in trainers and players to report injuries. Laray Smith, who played at IU from 2013-

“There is no smoking gun or single precipitating event that led to where we are today. I think it’s really a realization by myself and Kevin that we’re just not on the same page about some of what I view as key ways of how the program needs to be led.” Fred Glass, IU Athletics Director

15, said Wilson pressured players to play through injuries. He said he had an injury to his back during his freshman year. The team told him it was just a bruise, but doctors told Smith he had a blood clot. Wilson still pressured Smith to play. “Once you were hurt, he didn’t care about you,” Smith said. He went on to say Wilson was mentally abusive to players by putting them down more than just to motivate them. Former IU walk-on Kyle Loechel defended Wilson and said Wilson left it up to the medical staff if a player could play or not. “I mean they wouldn’t let

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Head coach Kevin Wilson watches from the sidelines as IU loses to Penn State, 13-7, on Saturday at Memorial Stadium.

you sit out for a petty injury, but I never saw anyone truly get pressured to play injured,” Loechel said. “It’s true that if you couldn’t physically play then all the coaches kind of forget about you, not just Wilson.” Plenty more current and former players took to Twitter to defend Wilson, too. Former IU kicker Mitch Ewald posted a note saying Wilson never forced anyone to play injured and went out

of his way to make sure Ewald got rest at times. He said Wilson didn’t allow drugs and enforced going to class. “He built a winning program,” Ewald wrote. “He’s the best coach I ever had.” Senior receiver Isaac Griffith tweeted thanking Wilson for helping him become a better man. Still, one former IU player went as far as to say every player injured during his time under Wilson was forced to

play earlier than they would have liked. He said when a player was injured in practice, trainers would be scared to tell Wilson because Wilson would cuss the trainers out in his office and then storm to the trainer’s room to cuss out the player. Players, coaches, tutors and counselors walked on eggshells around Wilson with the fear he could snap at any moment.

A current IU player said he was unaware of any of this. He said he first heard about it Thursday via Twitter. Wilson, who signed a sixyear extension in January, was set to make $2.15 million in 2016. As part of his resignation he will receive a one year salary of $542,000. Andrew Hussey and Taylor Lehman contributed reporting to this story.

Defensive coordinator Tom Allen replaces Wilson By Taylor Lehman trlehman@indiana.edu @TaylorRLehman

Tom Allen believes IU football can win championships. That’s what the former IU defensive coordinator said after he shook Athletic Director Fred Glass’ hand and accepted the permanent — not interim — head coaching position. But the coordinator that oversaw the most-improved defense in the nation said his first reaction to Glass’ request was heartbreak for former IU Coach Kevin Wilson. “Transitions in the profession are hard,” Allen said. “Let alone this. My heart breaks for him. I never expected this to happen.” After signing a six-year extension in January 2016, Wilson submitted his resignation from IU due to what Glass cited as “philosophical differences” regarding the leadership within the

program. “Once I concluded that I thought a parting of ways made sense, then I don’t think you wait,” Glass said. “I think you move out, and that’s what I did.” Glass didn’t talk to Allen until after he had talked to Wilson, but he said he knew he was going to hire from within. He and Wilson had a conversation about hiring from within, and Glass came to the conclusion that it should be Allen. Glass said he sees a coach in Allen that can lead the program in a direction he sees fit. “He is demanding and has a very high standard for his players,” Glass said about Allen. “But he is not demeaning. I’ve seen the way the kids react to him. Yeah, it’s about scheme and all that, but it’s really about relationships. He is a leader of men.” Allen, who was competing for the defensive coordinator position at Auburn a

year ago, took the IU defensive coordinator position in Bloomington and made an immediate impact. He established “LEO” — Love Each Other — on the defensive side of the ball, and the Hoosiers improved their defense more than any other team in the country, with a 127.3 yards-per-game improvement. He quizzed every defensive player and made sure they all understood each other’s responsibilities. That’s something junior linebacker Marcus Oliver said helped him the most between the 2015-16 season and 2016-17. Wilson said before the season one of the qualities that makes Allen such a good coach is that he’s energetic and positive. He gets his players to buy into what he says and believes. When junior linebacker Tegray Scales intercepted a pass in Miami against Florida International for a touchdown, Allen emphati-

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IU Coach Tom Allen speaks to the media on Dec. 1, 2016, after being named the new IU head football coach.

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IU overcomes slow start and makes history By Taylor Lehman trlehman@indiana.edu @TaylorRLehman

IU scored zero points in the first half. The Hoosiers had seven penalties for 60 yards on Oct. 1, 2016, and junior quarterback Richard Lagow had thrown one interception in the endzone and no touchdowns. It appeared IU had learned nothing from its loss to Wake Forest and No. 17 Michigan State was going to waltz through Bloomington unscathed. IU failed to score on its first seven drives. But it put together a 24-point second half, only scoring on its last four drives, to defeat the Spartans in overtime, 24-21, in it’s first ranked Big Ten upset since 2006. IU didn’t commit a penalty, didn’t turn the ball over and didn’t allow a sack in the second half. “We were going to do anything we could to get it into the fourth quarter,” IU Coach Kevin Wilson said. “We didn’t know if we could. The defense hung in there. The kids hung in there. I’m proud of them.” After the dismal first half that featured a total of just 120 yards, IU was down 14-7 with 3:03 left in the third quarter on Michigan State’s 22-yard line. That’s when IU looked to junior backup quarterback Zander Diamont. He had been telling Wilson and the coaching staff he had a play drawn up that could work for the Michigan State game. Wilson disregarded the suggestion. But in the huddle, Diamont nudged Lagow, and before Diamont could say anything about his idea to tie the game, Wilson halted him and agreed to run it. Senior receiver Ricky Jones used a block on the outside and was left wide open for a Lagow pass and the tying score on the left

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Members of the Indiana football team raise the Brass Spitoon after defeating Michigan State 24-21 in overtime Oct. 1, 2016.

side of the endzone. The Hoosiers had overcome a 14-point deficit in a matter of eight minutes. “He ran over to me, jumped on top of me and said, ‘I told you it would work. I told you’,” Jones said. On their very next drive, the Hoosiers waltzed 70 yards on the shoulders of a 36-yard fake reverse by junior running back Devine Redding and a 15-yard touchdown reception by senior receiver Mitchell Paige to take the lead 21-14. And after a long 13-play drive, Michigan State found itself tying the game on a 4th-and-goal pass to the corner of the endzone. The Hoosiers were taking another top-ranked

program to overtime in Memorial Stadium. This time it was on the backs of Lagow, a committee of running backs and a new defense. And the Spartans had the ball first. Defensive coordinator Tom Allen wanted it that way. He wanted his defense on the field first and told them a stop would give them a great chance to win, junior defensive lineman Patrick Dougherty said. “He is full of confidence all the time,” Dougherty said about Allen. “It truly shows because it reflects in everybody. It’s unbelievable how positive he is all the time.” The IU defense hadn’t sacked a quarterback since

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“We were going to do anything we could to get it into the fourth quarter. We didn’t know if we could. The defense hung in there. The kids hung in there. I’m proud of them.” Kevin Wilson, former IU Coach

the Ball State victory three weeks ago, but it got two in overtime. Dougherty, who had blocked a field goal earlier in the game, got to senior quarterback Tyler O’Connor first. Then junior defensive tackle Nate Hoff brought O’Connor down. Both were the juniors’ first sacks of the year. The sacks forced Michigan State kicker Michael Geiger to attempt a 49-yard field goal, which he missed, and the Hoosiers battled to the 3-yard line to put junior

kicker Griffin Oakes in position to hit the game-winning 20-yard field goal. Fans rushed the field, players passed around the spittoon trophy and the goalposts came down in the North endzone. Jones — who had a teamhigh five catches for 124 yards and a touchdown — said he had only seen scenes like that on TV and that he came to IU wanting to beat programs like MSU. He said he and Paige shared a moment after the

game when the two fifthyear seniors nearly cried on the field. Paige said he and his teammates will celebrate, but knowing Ohio State awaits the Hoosiers next week, will keep them from celebrating too much. “Guys were like, ‘Yeah, this is fun, but it’d be a lot more fun if we could do it again’,” Paige said. “We’ll enjoy tonight, but I’m ready right now. I wish we could start watching film on Ohio State tonight.”

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Former Delta Tau Delta riders race under new name By Tyler Sorg tjsorg@indiana.edu | @T_Sorg

In the 2017 Little 500 no men’s team donned the yellow jersey that is traditionally worn by the previous race’s winner. Delta Tau Delta, which won its second Little 500 since 2012 in 2016, had its fraternity charter revoked earlier in the year and can no longer ride under the Delta Tau Delta name. Although the name went away, the riders did not. The former members of Delta Tau Delta still planned on riding in Little 500. Some were contacted by independent teams looking to bring a member of the reigning champions to their team, but all five returning Delta Tau Delta riders decided to stick together. Senior Aaron Zollman said he returned early from winter break for training not knowing Delta Tau Delta was in trouble. After the charter was revoked, Zollman said he was contacted by seven teams to see if he would be interested in riding for them. The riders insisted on staying together as one team. But one issue remained: They needed a name. “We had a huge meeting in the bike room and discussed possible names,” Zollman said. “We chose JETBLACH to keep support within the house and with alumni.” Each letter in JETBLACH comes from the names of the national founding fathers of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. Junior Jack Moore said it was important to keep a connection to the team’s past when deciding on the new name. He said he wasn’t too worried about the name though because it is the people that matter. Despite the

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Luke Tormoehlen of then-Delta Tau Delta kisses a trophy after winning the 2016 Little 500 Men's Race at Bill Armstrong Stadium. Delta Tau Delta won its last title in 2012.

new name, Moore said the team’s attitude is the same. “I don’t think our team identity has changed at all,” Moore said. “It’s definitely tough when you literally get evicted from a house, but we roll with the punches and do what we have to do.” Although the transition of moving out of the house has been difficult, Moore credited the team’s chemistry for making it easier. “We get along really well and that’s definitely helped our transition,” Moore said. “I love this team so much. They’re all great guys, great friends, and great bikers too.” As for the future of the team, Moore said things are still up in the air, but the team will return four riders next year. He said he hopes the house wins its appeal but the team will continue under the name JETBLACH until Delta Tau Delta returns to campus. “If you get new members to the team it can lose the fraternity aspect,” Moore said. “It would just be a bike team with acknowledgment that we were formerly Delta Tau Delta. It would run how any independent team operates.”

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Senior guard Alexis Gassion (left), senior guard Karlee McBride and junior guard Tyra Buss shed tears as they sing the IU fight song for the final time in the 2016-17 season. The Hoosiers lost to the Wildcats 69-57 in the Elite Eight of the Women's National Invitational Tournament and set a single season record for wins with 23.

IU falls to Villanova in WNIT, 69-57 By Jake Thomer jjthomer@indiana.edu @jake_the_thomer

IU Coach Teri Moren said she won’t let one game define the season for her IU women’s basketball team. Despite a 69-57 loss to Villanova in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament quarterfinals March 26, Moren remained relatively upbeat after the game and was eager to reflect on the season as much as the loss. IU trailed throughout, but with 4,770 fans in attendance at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, each run that cut into Villanova’s lead got the fans fired up. Moren said she thinks her squad’s run to the quarterfinals has introduced many Hoosier fans to the women’s basketball team. “We’re sorry that we couldn’t allow this run to go

another few weeks but really, really grateful for the support,” Moren said. A scorching start to the game had Villanova up early, while IU had to fight to keep the game close. The Wildcats made seven 3-pointers in the first quarter, but 56.3-percent shooting from the Hoosiers kept the score at 25-21. From the second quarter on, IU struggled to hit shots, however. IU entered halftime trailing 41-30. In the Hoosiers’ fourth WNIT game in 11 days, their shots fell flat, and the team finished the game with just a 38.1-percent shooting performance. Moren said there wasn’t really one thing in particular that limited her team’s offense. She said the Hoosiers knew the Wildcats would present a challenge defensively, but added that she was generally happy with the looks

IU was able to get throughout the game. The shots just didn’t fall, she said. “I don’t think that had anything to do with Villanova,” Moren said. “It just, to me, offensively wasn’t our day. That’s what’s so disappointing because, I thought in the second half we had an opportunity there to climb back in it.” Senior guard Amber Deane, who transferred from Dayton after graduating early last year, stepped up to lead IU’s second-half charge in her best performance of the season. She scored a season-high 12 points, including 10 in the second half. She started the second half on the court and played the first seven minutes of the third quarter. In the fourth, she remained a contributor for the Hoosiers and hit a 3-pointer with five minutes remaining to cut the Wildcats’ lead to six.

Deane said every one of her teammates and coaches were encouraging her throughout the game. “I think that’s honestly why some of those shots were able to go in,” Deane said. “The faith from my teammates, the faith from my coaches, and I just rode that as much as I could. I wish I could have hit more shots. I wish I could have done more, honestly.” With just under three minutes remaining, junior guard Tyra Buss, who scored a game-high 21 points, hit a shot to cut Villanova’s lead to 56-52. But a subsequent free throw parade for the Wildcats only extended the lead from there. By the time the game had reached its final minute, it was all but over. The only three fourth-year seniors on the IU women’s basketball team walked off the court with 14 seconds

remaining. Tears ran down the face of guard Karlee McBride as center Jenn Anderson and guard Alexis Gassion joined her in a procession of hugs with each coach and member of the Hoosier bench. The veteran group is the winningest senior class in the history of IU women’s basketball with 80 victories. Moren didn’t recruit Gassion, McBride or Anderson to Bloomington, but she got them to stay when she took over the program for the 2014-15 season. For that, Moren is thankful, she said. “Really grateful for the opportunity that we got to coach those guys,” Moren said. “We’re trending in the right direction. We’re building something really special here, but it had to start with a group of young ladies, a group of seniors.”

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In the past few months life has changed for sophomore swimmer Lilly King. From being a little-known student-athlete, to a star in Rio and campus celebrity, King’s life is far from normal. However, one thing remains constant: wins. Since the 2016 United States Olympic trials, where she became the first person since 2004 to win both the 100 and 200-meter breaststroke, King’s success has thrust her into the national and global spotlight. She won gold in the 100-meter breaststroke and 4x100-meter medley relay at the Rio Olympics and rekindled for a moment the Cold War-era fervor of Russian and American competition. “It’s been a wild ride,” IU Coach Ray Looze said. “When we had our first goal talk she goes, ‘I want to make the Olympic team and I want to win a gold medal.’ A lot of people do that though and you’re just like, ‘OK, yeah, yeah, yeah, right,’ but she did it.” King came to Bloomington as the No. 9 high school recruit according to Swim Swam’s 2015 rankings. As a freshman she captured the 100 and 200-yard breaststroke titles at the 2015-16 NCAA Championships, earning her the CSCAA Swimmer of the Year and Big Ten Swimmer of the Year nods before heading off to Rio to compete with Team USA. “It’s been awesome just to have that success on both sides, short course and long course, between collegiate and professional swimming,” King said. “I think it’s definitely setting me up well for the future. I’m excited to see

what it holds.” King accredits her success to a new level of training and competition, day-in and day-out, that she’s devoted herself to since arriving in Bloomington. King said she knew she would get faster over the course of her freshman year because college swimming allows swimmers to battle in practice against high-caliber teammates and provides them with better weight-training than their high schools did. King has won nearly all breaststroke events since returning from Rio, including wins against collegiate competition and those swimming for Team USA at the USA College Challenge. Her presence, though, is seen in more than just her individual results. “To us she’s like what Michael Phelps is to the Olympic Team,” Looze said. “He was suspended last summer so he wasn’t at world championships, and we were kind of pedestrian as a country. And with Lilly we went from 10th to seventh in the rankings without Jessica Parratto and Brooklynn [Snodgrass]. So, you would’ve thought we would’ve not done any better, we would’ve dropped off last year. But with her we took a step forward.” King is also a leader in and out of the pool for the Hoosiers, despite only being a sophomore. Her confidence, Looze said, radiates throughout the locker room. “That helps people,” Looze said. “They get to hang out with that. You are the people that you hang out with in life.” Still, with the newfound role and fame, her daily routine and practices in Bloomington have provided King with some comfort. “When you’ve been away

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United States swimmer Lilly King reacts after her gold medal finish in the 100-meter breaststroke final on Monday, Aug. 8, 2016 at the Rio Olympic Games.

from your home pool and your team, and all of your coaches for a couple months, it gets kind of difficult, just being out of your normal routine,” King said. “But now

I’m back and practice-wise everything is going great.” Her focus is on hitting her personal time goals and guiding her team to a fourthplace finish at the NCAA

Championships, a mark set by the team prior to this season. Of course, she’s not unaware of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

“I don’t want anyone to doubt that I’m the best,” said King. “So I think just becoming the greatest of all-time is, I guess, my goal between now and Tokyo.”

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