2016 Freshman Edition

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2016 Freshman Edition A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

What you have in your hands now is a special publication of the Indiana Daily Student, IU’s student newspaper.

We’ve compiled the biggest headlines and strongest stories to give you a heads up on what to expect your first year at IU. In these pages you’ll find coverage of IU’s trip to the Sweet 16. You’ll also find hard-hitting pieces on student death and Syrian refugees

SUZANNE GROSSMAN is a recent journalism graduate.

in Indiana.

Not only will these stories get you up-to-date on IU and Bloomington happenings, but they will also be the first pieces you read from IU

student media.

IU student media includes the Indiana Daily Student, INSIDE magazine and the Arbutus as well as several special publications like this one that all offer you something different.

With the IDS you’ll get full coverage of campus, IU sports, the arts and Bloomington along with thoughtprovoking opinion pieces and entertaining pop-culture reviews.

INSIDE magazine will bring you two issues a semester with stories ranging from IU cosplay to firstperson eating-disorder narratives.

The Arbutus yearbook will give you a keepsake of the entire year with not only words, but some of the best photos from the year.

We’ll be with you all four years, working 24/7 to get you the news you need whether in print or online at idsnews.com.

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CAMPUS | ATO

The house without a name ATO closes its doors after an explicit video was made public

By Sarah Gardner gardnese@indiana.edu | @sarahhgardner

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The 2015-16 Indiana Basketball Team gathers at center court before warming up for the Sweet 16 on Friday, March 25 at the Wells Fargo Center. Indiana lost 101-86.

Looking forward Even with loss of Ferrell, Hoosiers might be stronger next year

By Michael Hughes michhugh@indiana.edu | @MichaelHughes94

For the third time in five years, IU reached the Sweet 16. For the third time in five years, IU lost by double digits to end its season.

The Hoosiers lost 101-86 against North Carolina on March 25 without sophomore guard Robert Johnson. IU also reached that game and won its second outright Big Ten title this year without sophomore guard James Blackmon Jr. Both players should be back and healthy for next year, but they will be without the man who

led the Hoosiers to the Big Ten title and Sweet 16. Yogi Ferrell is graduating.

“He’s one of the guys I’ve been with the most,” Johnson said. “Just to see how hard he’s worked, not only personally but to be a leader for this team.”

Ferrell is gone. So is forward Max Bielfeldt and guard Nick Zeisloft. After IU’s loss, both junior forward Troy Williams and freshman center Thomas Bryant deflected questions about their futures at IU, and as of May 15 nothing is certain.

“I feel like in my years here I’ve been getting better,” Williams said.

“I feel like Coach Crean has prepared all of us just in case we want to make that move, but like I said, I don’t know.”

With the new rules in place this year, it’s possible for players to now declare for the draft, go through the combine and workouts but still return to school. So even if both declare, it does not mean both will leave.

Bryant chose not to take advantage of this new rule, announcing his return to Bloomington a short time after the loss. Williams on the SEE BASKETBALL, PAGE A5

More from sports, section D

Indiana has defeated Purdue in football 3 straight years Page D1 Recaps of the 2016 men’s and women’s Little 500 races Page D3 Changes to expect at athletics facilities in the next years Page D6

REGION | MAYORAL ELECTION

John Hamilton elected Bloomington mayor

By Anne Halliwell ahalliwe@indiana.edu | @Anne_Halliwell

Democrat John Hamilton won the Bloomington mayoral election with 77 percent of the vote.

“I’m glad we’re continuing a tradition of progressive Democrat mayors,” Hamilton said in his acceptance speech Nov. 3.

He thanked his family members and staff, as well as Bloomington’s “working men and women,” for their support.

“We have a lot of good work ahead,” Hamilton said. “What we want is ... 50 years from now, for people to look back and say that, together, all the people in this room made good decisions.”

Hamilton and the rest of the Bloomington Democratic candidates and staff gathered and made their speeches in the Players Pub. In his campaign, Hamilton emphasized inclusionary zoning, which make portions of new housing construction more affordable, and increasing sustainability efforts.

He advocated working with the Bloomington tech park to facilitate

new jobs and increasing community policing, especially in the downtown area.

An IU Maurer School of Law graduate, Hamilton served as the secretary of the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, where he oversaw welfare and state aid programs.

He was also the commissioner of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management and focused on preserving the state’s natural resources.

Republican candidate John Turnbull emphasized downtown aesthetics and capitalizing on the construction of Interstate 69 in his campaign.

Turnbull was the first Republican to file for Bloomington mayor in eight years. He said he intended to balance the Democratic Bloomington council and open up discussions with IU about incoming student demographics.

Turnbull had a private party election night. He did not immediately comment on the election results.

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The IU chapter of Alpha Tau Omega has already been shut down following the release of a sexually explicit video on Twitter on Oct. 7, 2015. The letters on the front of the house have been removed. Now, the young men living inside the house have no idea whether they will be allowed to stay.

On the afternoon of Oct. 10, 2015, at least one person had a suggestion for where else they could go. A white sheet of paper was taped to the front door of the former ATO house. It was an advertisement for an apartment.

“2 BR 2 Bath Available Now,” the advertisement read.

The fraternity made national news in 1992 when it was kicked off campus after a freshman pledge was hospitalized with a nearly fatal .48 blood alcohol content. Last April, ATO president Tommy Paslaski told the Indiana Daily Student he was working to improve the reputation of the house. Now, he has no comment.

In the wake of the chapter’s closing, there are many questions left unanswered about what will happen next. University and criminal investigations are not complete. The possibility of the fraternity’s return to IU is unknown.

Another question: what will become of the house where all of these incidents took place?

The house is not owned by the national chapter of the fraternity or IU. It is owned by Delta Alpha of ATO, Inc., the board of alumni directors and housing corporation for the IU chapter of ATO. The decision of whether to evict the students currently living in the house lies with them.

“We don’t understand yet which direction we’re going in regards to the house,” said Kent Miller, president of the board of directors. “We have been having board meetings to discuss this very matter, and as of right now, we feel it is a little premature to be making that decision.”

All chapter activities must cease, according to a statement released by the ATO national office Oct. 8, 2015.

The closing of the fraternity chapter was in response to the leaked video specifically depicting an initiated member of the fraternity performing a sex act upon a hired exotic SEE ATO, PAGE A8 More from Campus, section A

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John Hamilton accepts the position of mayor of Bloomington at Player's Pub on Tuesday, Nov. 3.

More local stories, section B Syrian refugees adjust to life in Indiana Page B4 Former spokesperson and IU alum Jared Fogle is sentenced Page B6 Indiana legislation limits choice in abortion cases Page B1

Indiana was a critical state in the race for the White House Page B1

Bernie Sanders visits Indiana University’s auditorium Page A2 IU Dance Marathon raises $3.8 million in its 25th year Page A2 The blue safety lights across campus go unused Page A4

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IUDM raises $3.8 million in 25th anniversary Sarah Gardner gardnese@indiana.edu @sarahhgardner

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Bernie Sanders fires up students at a rally April 27. The IU auditorium was filled to capacity.

Bernie calls for a revolution Nyssa Kruse nakruse@indiana.edu | @NyssaKruse

Less than a week before the Indiana presidential primary, candidate Bernie Sanders spoke before an enraptured crowd of more than 3,000 people, calling for a revolution.

As three other presidential candidates made appearances throughout the state, Sanders encouraged Hoosiers to vote. He trailed Clinton by 297 delegates and 481 superdelegates nationally at this point.

“Next Tuesday, let us have the highest voter turnout in Indiana history,” Sanders said. “Let the great state of Indiana join the 17 other states that have said it is time for a political revolution.”

Throughout the night, Sanders spouted idealistic one-liners. His followers, who waited hours in the rain to see him, hung on each word.

“Love trumps hatred.”

“How is it that we have trillions of dollars for war, but we don’t have money to rebuild inner cities?”

“Women are tired of earning 79 cents ... Women, appropriately enough, want the whole damn dollar.”

When it came to the in-betweens, the nuts and bolts of policies or numbers, the crowd quieted.

Sanders attributes the fervor for his campaign to young

people defying the stereotype of the self-absorbed millennial.

“Young people understand they are the future of the country,” Sanders said. “And they damn well want to influence that future.”

Not everyone at the rally supported Sanders though. Seven protesters from “Say No to Socialism” attended the rally, and some exchanged shouts with Bernie supporters.

“We’re showing not all college students support Bernie Sanders,” IU junior Brandon Lavy said.

“There’s diversity in millennials.”

Though they were few in number, six managed to circle the rallygoers several times. At times, Sanders supporters shouted insults or told them to leave, and the counter-ralliers hurled their own shouts back.

“I’m not paying for you to major in feminist dance therapy,” a counter-protester said at one point.

More than 10,000 people came to the rally, according to event volunteers, and attendees ranged from infants to senior citizens. The earliest arrivals got in line at 7 a.m.

Vicky Haralovich arrived at 10 a.m. with her mother and two daughters, both under 5 years old.

She brings them along when she

canvasses Bloomington to rally support for Sanders.

Olivia Kenny came to the rally as a high school sophomore, years before she will ever cast a ballot. Her mom had to drive her to the rally.

Sanders spoke before the rally to those outside who did not fit in the 3,100-capacity auditorium.

During his speech inside, Sanders’ statements on climate change, pay inequality, income inequality and rebuilding America received standing ovations.

Sanders railed against the influence of big money in politics — one of his signature points. He said the lack of universal health care and climate change reform can be blamed on special interests controlling politics through campaign donations.

He said his campaign does something radical when discussing these issues.

“We’re telling the truth,” he said to another standing ovation and cheers.

When the rally ended, supporters gushed from the auditorium outdoors into drizzling rain. Many were without umbrellas and most stayed quiet as they walked.

Through the patter of feet on wet pavement and the sound of cars driving through puddles, cheers were still erupting from the auditorium.

Cashie Rohaly had been at the IU Dance Marathon since 8 p.m. Oct. 30, 2015.

By 4 p.m. the next day, her voice was hoarse, and her feet were sore.

As part of the entertainment committee, Rohaly worked at IUDM for the full 36-hours, with a brief break from her committee early the second day of the marathon. She spent her time planning skits, checking sound systems and keeping everyone on schedule. With so much to do, Rohaly put on a pair of rollerblades to move from one place to the next more quickly.

“And I’ve got the knees of a 90-year-old man, so the rollerblades are actually making them feel better, too,” said Rohaly, a junior in Alpha Xi Delta.

After months of preparation by 1,300 committee members and 36 hours of dancing by 2,700 students, the 2015 IU Dance Marathon raised $3.8 million.

More than 50 families from Riley Hospital for Children attended the event.

This year was the 25th annual marathon, and it has grown to include year-round fundraising and partner dance marathons at high schools throughout Indiana.

Rohaly was a dancer in the 2014 marathon with her sorority pledge class, and she enjoyed it so much she decided to apply for a committee this year. The 2015 dance marathon is a culmination of the work she began in February 2015.

A “Riley kid,” child patients of Riley Hospital for Children, where money raised at IUDM is donated, had covered Rohaly with red face paint. Her voice was hoarse from all the cheering and shouting, she said. In a rare moment of free time, she wrote encouraging notes to other members of her committee.

“It’s our job to entertain,” she said. “It’s so important to get everyone excited and keep spirits high during an event like this.”

With all of the work and

effort from students that went into the event, Rohaly said, to her, the most impressive part of IUDM was still the kids from Riley with whom she was able to interact.

“Watching them hang out with college students and listening to them speak in front of thousands of older kids is amazing,” she said.

“They’re all just so interesting. It blows my mind.”

She watched a group of students and children dancing in the middle of the floor for a moment.

Then, with more work to do to keep the marathon running, Rohaly rollerbladed away with her binder in hand. * * * Erik Galloway, a senior in service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega, danced even when he was just walking around.

“The best way to stay awake is to just keep dancing,” he said. “And I love dancing. It’s the best part of this whole thing.”

This was Galloway’s first and only year participating in IUDM. The only regret he had about the experience was that he didn’t try to do it sooner, he said.

He arrived at 8:45 a.m. the second day, and eight hours later, he was still full of energy.

“Every time you finish an activity, you kind of want to calm down,” Galloway said.

“But you know you can’t, because then you’ll just get too tired. You’ve got to stay hyped.”

He was excited about everything, from the dancing to the kids to the fundraising benchmarks reached.

Learning a group line dance was the highlight so far, he said.

“I was in show choir in high school, so learning the choreography and doing that kind of thing is still fun to me,” he said.

He danced away to join a group of his friends from Alpha Phi Omega. A horn suddenly echoed and signaled another hundred dollars raised through the building. Galloway raised his fists in the air, cheered SEE ?K:C, PAGE A5

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INVESTIGATIONS CAMPUS SAFETY

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Former IU Title IX Director Jason Casares was accused of sexual misconduct early in 2016. He has since resigned his position.

IU reviews Casares’ cases Hannah Alani NOBLE GUYON | IDS

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The blue emergency lights which cover campus are often misused and a distraction for IUPD, rather than helpful in emergency situations.

Blue lights rarely used in emergencies Nyssa Kruse nakruse@indiana.edu | @NyssaKruse

Facing the red Woodburn clock, a campus tour guide began his safety spiel. To reassure anxious parents, he described the layers of campus safety measures.

He introduced the various state and local police forces, the Safety Escort program and mentioned city and campus buses as safety features.

“Anything I’m forgetting?” he asked his fellow guide.

“We also have the blue lights,” she said. “But I don’t think they’ve ever been used in an emergency.”

She wasn’t wrong — in the last six months, the IU Police Department responded to seven complaints of suspicious people or vehicles, 88 complaints of harassment or intimidation, 54 assaults, four forcible fondlings and five rapes.

Not once did victims use a blue light emergency phone.

The proper use of a blue light is to hit its red button when in an emergency. This activates a strobe light to draw attention to the area and dials 911 to IUPD. The University spends between $12,000 and $15,000 annually to maintain the lights. A new light costs about $4,200 to purchase, according to cost estimates from the manufacturer.

“If we get a call from one of those phones, whether or not someone was on the other end talking, we send an officer to check on that,” IUPD Captain Andy Stephenson said. “If you hit that emergency button, it’s a serious thing for us.

We treat that as an emergency

situation.”

When blue lights are hit, IUPD patrol officers drive to the location, canvas the area and consistently find nothing.

This happens almost daily.

In this charade, time is wasted on a campus where four to six officers typically share responsibility for more than 48,000 students. Or, at least, the students who live on campus, because IUPD’s main jurisdiction is bounded by 17th Street, Indiana Avenue, Third Street and the bypass.

In the last 10 years, IUPD has received more than 4,600 calls from blue lights. In the collective memory of veteran IUPD officers, there have only been four legitimate calls from the phones in 20 years.

The first blue lights were installed by 1989 at a time when the IU Office of Women’s Affairs wanted more safety features on campus.

Almost 15 years later, IU’s student government questioned the usefulness of the blue lights.

On the day the Crimson ticket took office in 2003, executives passed a resolution asking the IU Commission on Personal Safety to perform a detailed study on the maintenance, response time and overall dependability of the blue emergency lights.

The study was never executed, Jonathan Deck, thenIU Student Association safety director, said. He said he can’t remember why.

Today, students don’t think about them, even when they need them.

Just in the spring 2016 semester, on the east side of the Student Recreational Sports

Center, a student reported he was approached by a 6-foottall black man in the early hours of a February morning.

The man asked the 19-year-old if he had any money and patted him down, according to an IUPD report.

Finding nothing, the man stabbed him in the abdomen and fled.

The student ran. He wasn’t thinking about the cellphone in his pocket or about his surroundings.

He was not thinking about the blue lights.

Instead, the student arrived at his dorm in the central neighborhood and asked a friend for help.

IU’s enrollment website is inaccurate about the number of phones. IUPD dispatchers inconsistently log the calls and sometimes file them as 911 calls, not blue light calls, Stephenson said.

Administrators admit to having little knowledge about the blue lights.

There are no evaluations of which phones are most used, only anecdotal evidence, and there have been no formal comparisons by IU of the phone locations to crime maps.

The only people with detailed knowledge of the phones are those who maintain them once a month and the IUPD officers, such as officer Brandon Koppelmann, who deal with them every day.

One night this semester, Koppelmann stood in the squad room at IUPD’s station.

It was almost midnight. He wasn’t quite halfway through his shift and needed to stop.

During the break, he chatted with other officers.

Related Content Read parts two and three to the Blue Lights story online at idsnews.com/bluelights “Bet you the one on Sixth and Dunn goes off,” an officer perched on a table said.

The others nodded and chuckled in agreement — it’s common knowledge at IUPD that the blue light located there is pressed most. The speculation is that it’s mostly hit by drunk people walking home from bars as a joke.

“I was working days last week, though, and the one behind Simon biology got hit twice,” the same perched officer said. “Both times, I heard people laughing. Wonder who that was.”

Standard procedure dictates an officer must report to any blue light that is pressed.

Most days on the job, officers can sacrifice a few minutes to do this.

Many weekends, officers deal with students binge drinking and drunkenly walking across campus and passing out. They still make time to respond to blue light antics.

However, during Little 500, the danger increases.

As people swarm IU’s campus, dozens of calls come into IUPD dispatch, including ones from blue lights.

One Little 500, while Stephenson was a sergeant, there were just too many calls. He chose to instruct officers that unless someone on the other end of the line actually reports a crime, they should disregard all blue light calls.

That weekend, with a 99.9 percent false-call record, the blue lights were just a distraction.

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The original rulings of 17 campus sexual misconduct hearings overseen by former Director of Student Ethics Jason Casares will stand, IU announced April 4 after a review process that began in mid-February.

Students involved in these cases were not interviewed during the review process. Instead, the review relied on interviews with Casares’ fellow panelists and hearing transcripts and audio recordings, IU spokesperson Mark Land said.

Parties in the 17 cases, all of which were heard during the 2015-2016 school year, have been informed of the review results, according to the release. The cases are now final and “no further action” will be taken by IU. The review began with 18 cases, but during the review, one case had a successful appeal and therefore was not part of the review.

Casares was put on administrative leave in early February after a complaint from a former colleague alleging that he sexually assaulted her.

The University review, opened in early February, was conducted by IU law professor Julia Lamber. Lamber is a “recognized authority” on Title IX issues and “clearly qualified” to lead the review, Land said.

The IU Office of the Provost and IU General Counsel made the decision to have one person lead the review, Land said.

“We were trying to balance the need to be thorough and the desire to not drag this out,” Land said. “People want to know. The more people you get involved, the longer it takes.”

During her review, Lamber found Casares always

sought the opinions of other panelists, and he did not make them feel “pressured into taking a particular position,” followed a “consistent process” and “thoroughly trained” other panelists on the hearing process.

In all cases but one, the hearing panel returned a unanimous decision.

“The University can trust the training [of its hearing officers] and the process,” Lamber wrote in the review, which was based on 17 cases dating back to August 2015, according to the release.

Lamber’s process was based on reading the entire case files and listening to the full audio recordings of each hearing.

Every IU sexual misconduct hearing has a total of three panelists. Lamber interviewed the two people who worked with Casares to determine the “responsibility” of alleged suspects of misconduct, who are referred to as “respondents,” according to the release.

Lamber’s “thorough review” focused on Casares’ conduct in the hearings as well as his “interaction with the parties involved in each case” and his fellow panelists.

IU is “gratified,” Land said, because Lamber’s review validated the current sexual misconduct hearing system.

“A couple of the points that Julia made in her review was that our process was a good one, and that we were following the process,” Land said.

IU probably won’t alter its hearing process following this review, Land said.

However, he said he doesn’t “want to speculate longterm.”

“We’re always looking for ways to strengthen what we do,” Land said.

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the other hand, chose to participate in the NBA combine and hired an agent afterwards, meaning he won’t be in cream and crimson next season.

Freshman forward OG Anunoby said he is definitely returning for his sophomore season despite some NBA scouts saying he could be drafted in this year’s draft after his performance in the NCAA Tournament.

The Hoosiers are replacing Williams with Freddie McSwain Jr., a junior college transfer who projects to be a player in the similar vein as Williams.

What the Hoosiers will have returning is experience.

Ferrell and Bielfeldt were the only two players on this year’s team who had won an NCAA Tournament game.

So even with the losses, Bielfeldt said he expects the Hoosiers to return stronger next year.

“Coach is going to do what he does and really bring this team together,” Bielfeldt said. “This team is really something to go off of. We had a really productive year.

Guys got better, and next year you can only go up.”

The Hoosiers also won these games without Blackmon Jr. and a limited

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and kept dancing. * * * When January Bowen first brought her daughter Mara to IUDM, Mara was only 2 years old.

“She didn’t even know what it was,” Bowen said.

“She’s just starting to comprehend what it’s really about now. She used to always say, ‘What’s all of this money?’ Now she realizes, and she says, ‘Well, I’m not sick anymore, so this money goes to the kids who are still in the hospital, doesn’t it?’”

Mara, now 6 years old, was a patient for E. coli in

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Junior guard Troy Williams drives through a North Carolina defender towards the net on March 25 at the Wells Fargo Center. Indiana lost 101-86.

Johnson. They made it this far even after the criticism following the offensive struggles at the Maui Invitational and the defensive breakdown at Duke a week later.

All this adversity, and the winning that followed, will make IU a stronger team next season.

“The guys next year are going to know that whenever they get hit in the mouth to bounce back because we accomplished a lot despite everyone having written us off at that point,” Zeisloft said.

“We stuck with it every single day and got better.”

The Hoosiers also learned how to lead, mostly from the player they’ll miss most next year — Ferrell. The only player who could’t quite put into words what IU might learn

from Ferrell next year was his roommate, junior forward Collin Hartman.

Hartman couldn’t get past the feeling of losing to look forward to next season.

Bryant was able to look forward. Even after staying noncommittal on his future, he remembered what Ferrell and the rest of the seniors taught him.

He also said he can’t wait to do the same for next year’s freshmen class.

“All the stuff he taught me I’m going to bring to the incoming freshmen,” Bryant said. “I got to be ready to take that role. I wish I had that work ethic as much as he did each and every day.

He had that passion of work.

It rubbed off on me, and I’m going to continue to do it.”

Riley Hospital for Children.

Bowen has brought her to IUDM every year for the last four years.

“What I like the most is all of the role models for her,” Bowen said. “What more could you ask for other than 3,000 students showing her how to help other people?”

The attitude of IUDM mimics the way Mara was treated at the hospital, Bowen said. Every effort was focused on creating a positive experience for Mara and her family.

Mara insisted everything about the dance marathon is “just fun.” She learned a line dance, joined a group of students jumping rope and painted the faces of students and volunteers.

“This year I’ve painted the most faces,” Mara said. “So far I’ve done cats, rainbows, sunshines and lions. Probably mostly cats.”

The first year the Bowens attended, they didn’t come to the opening ceremony and some of the big events. Now, Bowen said, they make sure not to miss anything. Everything about the dance marathon is too exciting to skip, Bowen said.

“You want your child to grow up to do something great,” Bowen said. “What better way to find great than through something like this?”

When Mara grows up, she said she wants to be a gymnastics instructor, a teacher or a nurse. She wants to try to help other people.

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STUDENTS REMEMBERED

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The IU community raises candles in memory of Yaolin Wang and Joseph Smedley during a vigil Oct. 7 in Dunn Meadow. Both Smedley and Wang were found dead the previous week. The vigil was organized by Indiana University Student Association.

Friends remember Smedley as goofy and genuine

By Carley Lanich clanich@indiana.edu | @carleylanich

He loved music. He sang along to Billy Joel and Frank Sinatra, and argued there was no way to pick just one favorite Michael Jackson song. He played the trombone in his high school Jazz Band, as well as the piano for fun.

Friends and family remember Joseph Smedley II as a genuine, goofy friend and a kind soul.

Smedley’s body was found Oct. 2 after he had been reported missing Sept. 28.

At IU, he was a brother of the Sigma Pi fraternity, and he was studying biochemistry. He graduated from Lawrence Central High School in Indianapolis where he wrestled for the school team.

“Joseph was simultaneously a great ‘little brother’ to his older sister and older brother, great ‘big brother’ to his young sister

who looks up to him and adores him. We will always love and miss him,” family spokesperson LaMar Holliday said on behalf Joseph of Smedley’s father, Smedley Joseph Smedley I, in a statement.

Elle Krauter, who was studying abroad in Vienna, Austria, said hearing the news was a numbing experience.

“He was strong and driven, and wasn’t the type to back down from a challenge,” Krauter said via text message. “All in all, he was the best kind of friend that anyone could ever ask to have and will be sorely missed.”

Krauter first got to know Smedley in high school. She said she could talk to him about SEE SMEDLEY, PAGE A7

Yaolin Wang remembered as proud, diligent

By Alyson Malinger afmaling@indiana.edu | @aly_mali

Yaolin Wang was a proud young woman, very proud, her father, Mr. Wang said.

The 21-year-old IU junior died Sept. 30, from multiple stab wounds purportedly inflicted by her boyfriend, Chaunlin Xiao.

Yaolin was born and raised in a province of central China and traveled to the United States to pursue her undergraduate studies in business. She graduated from North Seattle Community College with an associate’s degree in business. She then transferred to IU this fall to pursue a degree from the Kelley School of Business.

Yaolin had one older sister who Wang said she was close with and one younger brother who is 13 years old. Every time she

would visit China, she would bring something special for her brother. All her time visiting would be devoted to playing and tak- Yaolin Wang ing care of him, Wang said.

“If she had a problem or issue, she didn’t want to bother others with her problems and issues,” Wang said. “She consistently made the other people in her life the priority. When any family member texted her from China, she would immediately say ‘I’m very good, I’m fine.’”

Wang said one of the most recent exciting things to happen to Yaolin in her life was getting accepted to IU. “She was so excited to have this opportunity,” Wang said.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE A6 everything and he brought out the best in everyone.

“I’d ask him for advice,” Krauter said. “We’d laugh about stupid puns that we both loved to make, just everything. He was truly my best guy friend.”

She said her favorite thing to do with Smedley was meeting for breakfast. The two would share hash browns in Wright Food Court and talk for hours.

Friends remember Smedley for his great sense of humor.

“We could say one joke and keep laughing and adding on to the same joke for like 10 minutes straight,” Krauter said. “I don’t think there was ever a time I was with Joe where I didn’t laugh.”

“There were some times when we were goofing around, and I almost couldn’t tell if he was serious or not be-

cause he was so good at holding it together,” Krauter said.

“Eventually he would break, and we’d all have a laugh.”

Johnny Specker, a friend since middle school, said that even in the most serious situations, Smedley found ways to make people smile.

Specker recalled a time when Smedley and a friend prank called The Jerry Springer Show. They were offered travel accommodations and a hotel stay to come out to the filming.

“So many people were there for him,” Specker said.

“No matter what he went through, he stayed confident and wanted to be someone who everyone would be proud of.”

Coleman LaBarr, Smedley’s freshman year roommate, said the two shared a similar taste in music. LaBarr said the last time the two talked was when he called Smedley from the concert of one of their favorite bands, BadBad-

NotGood.

“He just cared about everyone more than he cared about himself,” LaBarr said.

“He always put everyone in front of him. He was a gentleman.”

In addition to loving music, Smedley loved to cook, was very studious and had a strong interest in social issues like affirmative action.

“He did everything right,” junior Layla Ramirez said.

“There was not one part of his life that he neglected and everything that he had going on for him was because he worked for it, and it was never given to him. He studied so much because he loved it. He really genuinely wanted to learn.”

Ramirez said she knew Smedley in high school, but became close in college.

“He was so wonderful to me and to everyone around him,” Ramirez said. “He just had so much to offer, as a person and as a student.”

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE A6 Only at IU for a short amount of time, Yaolin had a small group of friends within the Hoosier community.

“Yaolin was very quiet, but a very sweet girl,” said Wanlin He, an IU sophomore and friend of Yaolin.

Three weeks ago, Wang visited Yaolin at IU to celebrate her 21st birthday.

“When I saw her, I couldn’t be more than happy,” Wang said.

On this visit, Yaolin brought her father around campus and the school to show off IU. At one point during the tour, they passed famous alumni statues. Wang told her she should treat these as role models and work hard toward this goal.

“Yaolin said, ‘I promise to study hard, make good friends and to learn from my professors,’” Wang said. “She said, ‘I will make you proud.’”

Yaolin’s father also recalled from his visit noticing that Yaolin didn’t have a television. He offered to get one for her but she responded she had such a busy sched-

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Yaolin Wang's father speaks to the audience about Wang at the vigil for her and Joseph Smedley on Oct. 7 in Dunn Meadow. Both Smedley and Wang were found dead the previous week. The vigil was organized by Indiana University Student Association.

ule and didn’t have time for television. He then inquired about an international calling card to call home and speak with her family. Yaolin again responded “no” and said it was too expensive and it was easier just to communicate through apps.

“Yaolin was so thoughtful and so good with money and didn’t want to waste anything,” Wang said.

Wang said he wanted to use the story of Yaolin to help others in the same situation.

“As a parent I want to convey, especially for the

international students and then especially for the daughters, don’t keep everything inside,” Wang said. “Communicate with your parents. Use the legal resources that you have around you. I encourage the international students to call home more often and tell your family you are safe so that it prevents the hurt that a parent experiences in any tragic situation.”

Wang said his daughter was diligent and hardworking.

“She was always trying to improve herself,” Wang said.

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All of the Democratic candidates for Bloomington’s common council also made their acceptance speeches election night.

Nicole Bolden, who was announced as the new City Clerk, said she looks forward to working with the new mayor.

Bolden said she anticipated Hamilton will increase government transparency and outreach in the community, as he said during his campaign.

She said she also hoped he would institute citywide broadband and continue “being dedicated to making Bloomington the best it can be for all.�

Mark Fraley, the Democratic Party chair for Monroe County, said the widespread Democratic victory indicated Bloomington voters liked their leadership. “Obviously, we’re thrilled with the results we have gotten today,� Fraley said. “I think the voters of Bloomington have reaffirmed their commitment to Democratic values.�

Petitions were passed around Players Pub to gain support for future state election candidates.

Fraley said the goal was to win support at the local level so potential candidates could compete at the state level. “We’re already looking toward 2016,� Fraley said.

dancer in the presence of about half of the fraternity’s 140 members. “We have no idea who leaked it,� IU Spokesperson Mark Land said.

By the next morning, fliers had been placed in front of nearly every seat in Ballantine Hall Room 013. The fliers read “BAN ATO� and listed the Twitter account where the video had been initially posted. The video and the account have since been removed. “As we began our investigation, the national office was doing the same thing,�

Land said. “They essentially have the authority to step in and pull a fraternity whenever they want.�

The IU investigation, separate from the ATO investigation, is ongoing and run by the Office of Student Life and Learning and the Office of Student Ethics, Assistant Dean of Students Steve Veldkamp said.

The investigation is now focused on whether the actions of those involved in the incident are violations of the student code of conduct, Land said. “There cannot be an investigation of the fraternity because there is no fraternity now,� Land said.

Though the ATO investigation concluded the stu-

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dent performing the sexual act was a 21-year-old initiated member, hazing activities are still being considered in the IU investigation, Veldkamp said. “Given ATO’s track record, the campus, headquarters and even the rest of the fraternities and sororities not only condemn their actions but are making a statement that this is not acceptable Hoosier behavior,�

Veldkamp said.

The University stood by the decision from the nationals of ATO. The large Greek letters on the front of the house were taken down as former fraternity brothers watched.

The sign in the yard bearing Alpha Tau Omega’s name was covered by a tarp, then later replaced by a large wooden box shielding the sign. After the letters were gone, students in the house hung an ATO flag from an upper window.

The rest of the greek community at IU has taken steps to remove themselves from the circumstances surrounding ATO. The Interfraternity Council’s website has removed the page for ATO. “The Indiana Fraternity and Sorority Community is extremely disappointed by the behaviors exhibited by the former Alpha Tau Omega chapter,� a statement from the Indiana Fraternity and Sorority Community

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The letters of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity hours are taken down after the chapter was revoked by the fraternity’s national office. ATO and select individuals were accused of hazing, endangering a student, possessing and consuming alcohol and lying to University officials.

said. “It is our duty to be leaders and not only educate our members, but work to solve our most pressing problems.�

Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault, an organization affiliated with the IFC, has spent the last week organizing their BannerUp campaign, meant to raise awareness of IU’s sexual assault initiatives. This campaign

included large banners hung on fraternity chapter houses that read “real men respect women� and other variations within the theme of respect.

ATO was a member of MARS, and its banner for the campaign has since been removed. “The events surrounding the now former chapter of Alpha Tau Omega

are extremely unfortunate, embarrassing and are completely counter to the values of MARS,� Jesse Scheinman, who oversees the MARS program, said.

Three days after the video was released, students driving around campus leaned out their windows, yelling “ATO party tonight!� But the house was silent.

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When the hardest thing is

waking up After wrestling with depression for two years Anicka Slatcha shares her story.

The sky was gray the day I thought about jumping off the Smithfield Street Bridge.

Everything was gray, really, in Pittsburgh that summer. The sky, layered with clouds. The sidewalk.

The water. The cars. My mind was blank as I crossed the bridge, a path I’d followed dozens of times before between my parking space and my apartment.

My eyes glazed over. I couldn’t hear the music in my headphones. I stopped on the pavement and leaned against the cold railing of the bridge, gazing down at the choppy water. The air around me felt too heavy.

Would anyone try to stop me?

Was it a far enough drop to kill me? How cold was the water in July?

Would I really want to die?

Under that blue arch I thought about how easy the motions would be: one leg over, then the other. Then just let go.

I closed my eyes. I breathed in the thick air, drawing deep into my lungs, but it choked me.

In that moment, when my time stood still, people kept talking, laughing, listening to music, flirting, fighting, feeling. It seemed like I hadn’t felt anything in a hundred years.

I looked back down. I thought about the pain that grasped at me every day. It would be a way out.

It would be so easy. * * * I was never formally diagnosed with depression until I was 20 years old and halfway through my college career, but that was far from the first time I felt it.

When I finally did seek professional help, my therapist suggested I was dealing with “double depression” — a term I’d never heard before that describes a condition of major depression overlying years of dysthymia, or a more minor, steady low mood.

On top of this, I started having trouble breathing, sleeping, slowing my mind. We added anxiety to my list. Physically and mentally, I obsessed over everything that happened in my life: OCD. I’d been blessed with a trifecta of mental problems during what people call the “best four years of your life.”

Depression doesn’t really have a definition in our modern social climate. It’s become such a commonplace word, meaning little more than “kind of sad” and used so dramatically in colloquial speech that its usage as a label for a serious mental disease has become more or less obsolete.

But the world — and this campus — is full of people who hurt when they hear that word, “depression,” used like it means nothing. I wish I felt the kind of disappointment people refer to when they comment that something is “so depressing.” That kind of depression doesn’t leave your body aching.

Depression is not the flu or a broken arm. You can’t see it, and for that reason, it often goes unnoticed. But, while it trails slightly behind anxiety in many medical studies, an American Psychological Association study found in recent years, up to 30 percent of college students have seriously considered suicide.

Psych Central has reported that close to half of all college students have admitted to feeling depressive symptoms throughout their years at university.

The condition is not, as a Google image search suggests, exclusively people wearing dark

clothes, curled against a wall in a lightless room with their knees to their chests.

Is that depression?

Yes. Sometimes. For some people. Sometimes it’s me, but depression looks different for everyone.

More often than not, it is invisible or well-disguised. And it’s everywhere. And people aren’t talking about it. * * * The first thing I learned about mental illness is that it’s inconsiderate.

As depression and anxiety came into my life full force as an upperclassman in college, it was pretty clear they didn’t care at all I was trying to execute a circus act of balancing work, school, me time and a social life.

I’d already perfected my everything-is-great face, so nobody noticed as it creeped in and started to steal parts of me. Sometimes I didn’t notice, between my polished posts on social media and the forced smiles in pictures. I’d make a bet you couldn’t find one picture of me frowning during the worst of it.

Working through college while battling depression feels nearly impossible to me at times. A term paper just stops seeming important when you don’t care if you live or die.

But my depression takes what it wants, when it wants it. It might take all of my energy one day, my motivation the other. For a time it stole the entirety of my passion for my career, all of my drive to write. It steals my hunger, then my ability to cook and clean and sleep and go outside and be around other people.

All the while, as depression locked away pieces of myself that seemed to have left me entirely, it yelled at me. My depression has a voice, and it’s loud. And persistent.

One day, I somehow found the energy during a bad depressive episode to write down everything that voice in my head wouldn’t stop screaming.

Helpless, I scrawled. Hopeless.

Guilty. Bad girlfriend. Unappreciative. I don’t try hard enough. I could be better, but I choose not to be. Confused. Aimless. Irrational. Isolated.

And I believed every single one of those things in that moment. My depression consumed my thoughts, my head, my whole body. I felt like I couldn’t breathe.

I can’t remember what triggered the episode, but it never really mattered — it was almost always something seemingly insignificant. A flat tire, a broken pen, no free seats at Barnes and Noble.

I started to drop my IU classes because even one class’s worth of assignments already seemed like too much for me to wrap my head around. What I couldn’t drop, I skipped as much as I could.

I needed people to stop asking me about my future. Didn’t they know I was just trying to get through the next hour?

The hectic atmosphere at a university like IU has been wonderful for me at times, and I’ve loved college. But my last two years weren’t what I thought they’d be.

Campus made me panic because I wanted to be alone with my thoughts. Classes made me anxious. Work was a responsibility and I didn’t feel like I could commit to anything because my mood changes were so sporadic. I was often too depressive to want to be in any social

situations.

I don’t try hard enough, I’d written in that blue notebook in my bathroom. I can never give people what they deserve.

I felt sick rereading that list for the first time in months, but in the moment, it seemed so clear those words were the truth.

It’s still how I feel sometimes.

There are days I lay in bed and contort my body to try and ease the physical pain that comes with the mental anguish. Days I go from feeling burning to numbness to exhaustion to anxiety.

Days I pray to a god I don’t even believe in because it hurts so much.

My stomach drops when I reread the last four words on the page.

It will never end. * * * At first glance, I probably don’t seem like a prime candidate for major depression. Ask anyone who’s known me for the past four years, and they would probably say it seems impossible for someone who smiles so much and wears as many bows in her hair as I do to hurt like that.

But it hit me, and it hit hard. At the beginning, it was chaos.

I stopped looking both ways when I crossed busy streets. I didn’t worry about walking alone in a city at night anymore. I drove too fast in thunderstorms, almost hoping for an accident.

My personal relationships suffered. My mom admitted she was nervous to see me for the first time in five months when we reunited in the summer, unsure of how dealing with my depression might have changed me.

I didn’t know how to talk to people, and people didn’t know how to talk to me. It was difficult at times to continue conversations with people who didn’t understand, because there’s a laundry list of things you can’t really say to a depressed person.

When I had to miss school or work, telling my boss or professor why I’d been absent resulted in awkward moments.

A boss once told me that he hadn’t needed to hear so much information, just that I’d been out sick. A teacher avoided eye contact with me for two weeks in class.

Would they have been so uncomfortable if I’d been out with a case of mono?

Friends didn’t know how to react when they found out what was going on, and many of them fell away. Twice, my boyfriend and I broke up.

I screwed my eyes shut and tried, hard, not to think about what I’d written in my little blue notebook, what I felt about every relationship I had, even with my family.

I tried to not let my depression be right.

But there it was, in tiny lowercase letters squeezed between lines of messy writing.

I’ll push them away. * * * On June 24, 2015, I sank against the bathroom cabinet in my Pittsburgh apartment and let my body slump against the cold tile floor.

I was exhausted.

For days, I had seen nothing but black. I was taking twohour lunch breaks in the middle of my job every day because I was constantly being triggered

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I’d have to spend an hour in my bathroom every afternoon and wait for my breath to stop hitching on every inhale. Then I’d take a shower, wash all of the runny makeup off my face and begin again.

Sometimes I made it back to work. Sometimes I slipped back under my covers, fell asleep at 2 p.m. and told my boss I wasn’t coming back to the office.

It had been weeks of this pattern, and I was frustrated. I was angry with myself for not being able to beat this more quickly.

I was angry with my therapist for not fixing me faster. I was angry at the drugs I’d just started taking, because I had to wait six weeks for them to help me at all and I needed help now.

I dug my long fingernails across my forearms until the skin broke and breathed with the relief of transferring my mental hurt into physical pain. My depression was screaming at me again, telling me how worthless I was, how I’d never get better.

And, like usual, I was listening.

The next day, I woke up sore, with my eyes swollen half-shut from crying. It took me too long to get out of bed, and I had to force myself to eat.

But I woke up. * * * When I stood on the Smithfield Street Bridge that day, I kept waiting for it to rain.

The clouds were dark, and it was the only conceivable way, in my mind, things could get even worse at that moment. It seemed appropriate.

But it didn’t rain. And my feet walked me away from the railing, following that path they’d memorized, over the bridge and through two traffic lights and around the corner and up the elevator to the fourth floor.

I didn’t feel good — not at all.

But I was alive.

I’ve made it through 10 months since that day, and every hour still feels like an accomplishment. But every hour also feels like progress.

Dealing with depression and anxiety is a process that takes an immense amount of patience and a willingness to learn with an open mind. It will always be there, but my first serious encounter with depression happened within the inconvenient boundaries of my college career, and that’s the reality for thousands of other college students.

Now, I take two antidepressants and one anti-anxiety drug every day, and I don’t feel like they’re a crutch anymore. I exercise all the time for the natural high. I laugh. I smile with all of my teeth and both of my dimples, and most of the time, I mean it.

I pull myself off of my bathroom floor. I keep my nails cut short. I cross bridges. I go to class. I get through work.

But, most importantly: I wake up.

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Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the Douglass Park Gymnasium in Indianapolis on May 1 ahead of the May 3 Primary Elections in Indiana. Clinton spoke about a slew of topics including healthcare, foreign policy and drug addiction.

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ALL EYES ON INDIANA Ted Cruz makes retail stop in Bloomington on eve of campaign

By Suzanne Grossman spgrossm@indiana.edu @suzannepaige6

Ted Cruz made no speeches or any statements to the media May 2 while at a retail stop at Wagon Wheel Country Market and Deli in Bloomington. Instead, he made his way through the crowd, posing for photos and taking questions from as many attendees as possible.

“Excuse me, I’m here for the people tonight,” Cruz said, refusing a media question.

The event was one of many meet-and-greet type events Cruz made on his campaign trail for the Indiana primary election May 3. Wagon Wheel filled up around 4 p.m., forcing people into a line that continued around the building for about a quarter mile.

As Cruz and his security vehicles approached the store the crowd began to chant his name but let out excited screams when Glenn Beck appeared first.

Beck showed up to endorse Cruz as a constitutional scholar. He said Cruz doesn’t just believe in the Constitution but fights to enforce it.

He gave an example of a conversation he and Cruz had about the right to try experimental drugs if severely sick. Beck said he expected Cruz to be against suicide and the right to die but was surprised when he got a different response.

“Cruz said the exact opposite: that ‘people have a right to their body,’” Beck said.

The talk show host also said he heard Bloomington was a “Bernie” town and that it was refreshing to hear. He said he believes Cruz and Sanders are the most honest candidates and the others are just playing the political party game.

“Ted and Bernie represent two different philosophies,” Beck said. “Ted constitutionalist, and Bernie socialist. That’s the debate we should be having, but we’re seeing parties play games.”

Before Cruz made his way inside the market he stopped just outside at a sample stand to try various pulled pork and beef samples. After a reporter recommended he try the Jamaican pepper steak, Cruz said he enjoyed it so much he took back everything negative he has said about the media because of the recommendation.

However, Cruz made no more remarks to media directly and instead spent several minutes listening and answering the questions and concerns of people around him. One woman apologized to him for Bloomington being a liberal community, but Cruz remained positive.

“That’s OK,” Cruz said.

“That means us conservatives have hearty souls.”

Many people thanked Cruz for running and told him they had already voted for him in the primary, but not all in attendance were happy Cruz made a stop in Bloomington.

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Hillary Clinton makes general election promises in Indianapolis

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INDIANAPOLIS — In her first campaign rally in central Indiana on May 1, Hillary Clinton promised to promote manufacturing, unify communities and support Indiana women in defending their rights to their governor.

In the hot, crowded Douglass Park Gymnasium on 25th Street in Indianapolis, the Democratic front-runner signaled a confident focus beyond Indiana’s primaries and into the general election.

“There is no more consequential election facing our country than this 2016 presidential election,” Clinton said to the audience of about 750 people.

The crowd reflected the nearby diverse, workingclass neighborhood with a substantial African-American community.

A man wearing a Jewish yamaka stood in the audience near a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. Senior citizens, IU students and children alike waved American flags behind Clinton on the stage, chanting “I’m with her,” before she came on stage.

This is the second time Clinton has visited Indiana during the campaign. She toured steel mills in Hammond and Mishawaka in the northeast part of the state on April 26. Her husband, Bill, campaigned in multiple Indiana cities on April 30, and her daughter, Chelsea, visited Indianapolis just the day before.

Former Indiana Gov. Evan Bayh, Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett and Democratic Rep. André Carson, D-7th, all pro-

vided introductions prior to Clinton’s speech.

“You’re looking at history in the making,” Carson said to a roaring applause.

After dominating several East Coast primaries, Clinton’s delegate count has climbed to 2,165, with Bernie Sanders at 1,357, according to the Associated Press.

With her current count, Clinton is only 218 delegates away from winning the Democratic nomination.

Ninety-two delegates are up for grabs in Indiana.

Sanders has invested $1.6 million into paid advertising in Indiana, while Clinton has not spent any money on paid media, according to the Associated Press.

In her speech, Clinton touted Indiana’s economy, where nearly one in five jobs are in the manufacturing industry, the highest proportion in the country, she said.

She emphasized the need to tackle the opioid and heroin crisis — an issue of particular importance in Indiana.

Clinton said she and her husband have lost three friends’ children to opioidrelated deaths.

“It is ripping the heart out of families and communities,” Clinton said.

“You got that right!” one woman yelled from the stage.

She mentioned her plans to create debt-free college tuition.

“If you can refinance your mortgage, refinance your car payment, you ought to be able to refinance your student debt,” Clinton said.

She noted this concept was of equal importance to Bernie Sanders.

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Trump reacts to Cruz’s VP pick with endorsement of Bob Knight

By Hannah Alani halani@indiana.edu | @hannahalani

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Donald Trump promised a big announcement on April 28 in Evansville, Indiana, but he delivered a repetition of show from earlier in the week: a rally about winning, featuring former IU basketball coach Bobby Knight.

Knight and Trump recycled their talking points.

Knight compared Trump to President Harry Truman and thanked Indiana for his years of basketball coaching. He placed emphasis on Trump’s knowing what it takes to win.

And win he has. Trump gave a breakdown of the 21 states’ primaries he had won up until his speech.

“If we win in Indiana, it’s over,” Trump said.

Trump and Knight addressed the Hoosier crowd with fervor.

“We need to start winning again,” Trump said.

“Bobby knows about winning.”

Fellow Republican candidate Ted Cruz announced in Indianapolis on April 27 that he would run for president with Carly Fiorina as his running mate.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich suspended his Indiana campaign to give Cruz a chance at stopping Trump from reaching the delegate count.

Trump said the Fiorina choice was futile because Fiorina’s only successful political experience was at the “children’s debate” that occured before she debated Trump.

“She’s a nice woman,” Trump said. “But she’s not

going to help him.”

Trump called the Kasich-Cruz pact “pathetic” and an example of the “evil” in the political world.

“Lyin’ Ted is gonna get clobbered,” he said.

Harrison High School senior Justin Lewis and his stepbrother lined up at 8 a.m. to get into the rally.

Lewis said he was excited to see Trump and Knight speak, even though he’s a North Carolina basketball fan.

Lewis said he hoped Trump would specifically address how he would improve Evansville employment and veteran benefits.

Some of his friends’ parents lost their jobs during Whirlpool’s 2009 move from Evansville to Mexico, he said.

Lewis and his friends also wanted to hear about the wall.

Trump didn’t get too into the specifics of jobs, but he did deliver on immigration.

“We will build a wall, believe me,” he said. “If we don’t have borders, we’re not a country.”

Cruz discussed his vision for bringing jobs back to Indiana just a day before Trump’s rally.

But Trump said “Lyin’ Cruz” stole the Carrier talking point from him. Carrier, the former Indiana-based company that laid off 1,400 Hoosiers after moving to Mexico, has become a political focal point this week.

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Customers line up to order at Chocolate Moose on South Walnut Street. The store is at risk of being demolished for future developments.

Ice cream store set to close

By Melanie Metzman mmetzman@indiana.edu @melanie_metzman

The Bloomington Historical Preservation Commission voted March 31 not to make The Chocolate Moose, located at 401 S. Walnut St., a historical landmark. Thus, the building will be demolished to make way for a four-story building.

The Chocolate Moose would reopen in the new space, Justin Loveless, owner and operator of the Chocolate Moose, said.

However, there is controversy around the development. The Chocolate Moose, which was previously known as the Penguin, was built in the 1950s and reopened in 1983, could be considered historic based on the building’s history in the town.

Loveless rents the building from landowner Doran May, who opened the Penguin.

Despite the iconic location, past operational challenges with the building forced Loveless to consider alternate locations for the business, he said in a letter to the Bloomington Historic Preservation Commission. “This building, to be honest, is falling apart,� May said. “It’s served its purpose and it’s done well, but its time has come.�

Loveless said he is in support of the development.

“The moose isn’t going anywhere,� Loveless said. “We’ll be part of the new space. I’m in support.�

Construction would take place from December 2016 to April 2017, during the time the Chocolate Moose is already closed for winter, Loveless said.

Cailey Doering, 20, has lived in Bloomington her entire life and worked at the store for three years. She said she is torn because she loves the Chocolate Moose, but understands why they want to develop the land.

Doering said many customers have had a strong reaction to the news. “We’ve had a lot of people call in today asking if it’s really happening or not,�

Doering said. “A lot of people I’ve talked to are really shocked.�

Ariel Adams said she has only lived in Bloomington for one and a half years, but she has seen how much the Chocolate Moose means to everyone who lives here, and she said it makes her sad to possibly see development happen.

Bloomington resident Jessica Giem said she thinks knocking down the building is unacceptable. “No, no, no, no, no, no, no,� Giem said. “That’s not allowed. They can’t do that.�

Giem said this upsets her because the Chocolate Moose makes her life better on bad days, and said they

Brian Allen, left ,serves an ice cream to a customer at Chocolate Moose March 31 on South Walnut Street. The store is at risk of being demolished for future developments.

have the best ice cream she has ever tasted.

Relocation of Chocolate Moose in the new building would be acceptable to Giem as long as there was no disruption in service, she said.

Tyler Reeves, a manager at Chocolate Moose, has worked at the business since 2009 and has a picture of the restaurant tattooed on the back of his left calf last year.

Reeves said he had joked about getting the tattoo for years with his boss, Loveless.

Reeves finally went through with it when Chocolate Moose partnered with Evil By the Needle for an event and was offered a discounted price. He said he wanted to get the Chocolate Moose tattoo because the business has been a big part

“We’ve had a lot of people call in today asking if it’s really happening or not. A lot of people I’ve talked to are really shocked.

Cailey Doering, Chocolate Moose employee

of his life. “The construction is kind of crazy,� Reeves said. “I didn’t expect it to happen.�

Nevertheless, Reeves and Loveless said customers should know it’s not the end for the Chocolate Moose. “Regardless of whether the building changes, I think the biggest thing people are in support of is they want to go to the Chocolate Moose and get Chocolate Moose ice cream,� Loveless said.

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Kristina Houston, 24, was arrested after allegedly crashing her car into Bloomington Bagel Company at about 8:45 p.m. Oct. 28.

Police were notified by a female witness who said a gray Ford station wagon hit the restaurant at 113 N. Dunn St., Bloomington Police Department Capt.

Joe Qualters said.

Four children, ages 6 years old, 4 years old, 2 years old and 5 months old, were riding in the car.

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One girl, age 6, was bleeding from the mouth. She told officers her head had hit the seat in front of her.

In the midst of all the commotion and before officers had arrived, Houston’s husband arrived at the scene.

It was reported the couple attempted to flee the scene down a nearby alley with the daughter.

Qualters said the crowd

at the scene did not allow the woman to leave and helped corral all of the children.

After an officer arrived at the scene, he was directed to Houston, who was then leaning against a telephone pole.

Houston was reportedly slurring her speech and could barely keep her eyes open. The officer did not see signs of alcohol, so he suspected drugs were involved.

Upon searching the vehicle, he found a green metallic smoking device under the driver’s seat he said smelled strongly of drugs.

The woman and the children were taken by an ambulance to the hospital.

Child Protective Services had been notified ahead of time by officers and met them at the hospital.

Houston, whose residence was listed as Middle Way House, received six charges including failing to secure a child, driving while intoxicated, driving without insurance, possession of paraphernalia and attempting to leave the scene of the crime.

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Bloomingfoods location to close From IDS reports

The Bloomingfoods cooperative board of directors and general manager announced in April the Elm Heights location at Second Street and Fess Avenue will close in May 2016.

The Elm Heights store opened in May 2013. After several years of market research, however, the store has underperformed, according to a press release.

The co-op will move commissary kitchen operations located on South Washington Street to the remaining

east side and near-west side locations.

Bloomingfoods has 190 employees, 50 of which work at the affected locations.

Bloomingfoods cannot guarantee there will be no layoffs due to consolidation, according to a press release. “This was a tough decision, but we think it will do the most good for the most people,� Board President Caroline Beebe said. “It’s better to right size the business than to remain overextended and risk closing altogether.�

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The Batman family fled war-torn Syria in 2012 and eventually settled in Indianapolis about a year ago. Marwan, the father, works in a Middle Eastern store and restaurant, earning $8.30 an hour to provide for his wife and four children (wife and oldest daughter not pictured). In 2015, after the attacks in Paris, Gov. Mike Pence suspended the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the state.

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Gov. Mike Pence signed a bill on March 22, 2016 that will eliminate ISTEP by mid-2017.

The standardized test, which measures math skills, reading and writing in thirdthrough eighth-grade students, will be phased out by July 1 of that year, according to a press release from the Governor’s Office.

HEA 1395 also establishes a 23-member panel which will look at alternatives to ISTEP. According to the bill, this panel will look into reducing testing time and costs and increasing test transparency and fairness to students, teachers and schools.

Tim Pritchett, the public relations and information officer for the Monroe County school system, said in an email that faster grading could apprise schools of their strengths and weaknesses within the same class year.

“I think our hopes match many other corporations wanting to find an assessment to inform our teachers’ instruction,” Pritchett said.

“A formative assessment with a quick turnaround for results could monitor progress and inform instruction for a current year classroom teacher rather than a summative assessment like the current ISTEP that does not show results until the following year.”

The panel will include the superintendent of public instruction, as well as Senate and House education committee chairs and members of state school systems who have yet to be appointed to the panel, according to the Indiana Senate Committee on Education and Career Development’s recommendations.

Pence’s office and the State Board of Education did not respond to requests for more information.

Mark Lotter, the director of external relations at the SBOE, said the state’s new accountability system, final-

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Glenda Ritz, Indiana superindendent of public instruction, speaks at a rally held by the IU College Democrats for Democratic candidates at the Indiana Memorial Union on Oct. 28, 2014.

ized in March, will change the way the ISTEP affects school grades for the next two years.

For grades 3-8, the A-F grades will weigh individual student progress and the overall pass-fail rates equally.

The focus on yearlong progress was one educators indicated they wanted from the state board, he said.

The panel looking at new test options will also revise the accountability system, Lotter said.

But with a new president and secretary of education yet to be appointed, Indiana’s testing requirements for 2018 are still vague.

“There are a lot of questions out there,” Lotter said.

Federal law still requires annual testing that cumulatively measures everything a student learns in a given year, Lotter said.

But other requirements won’t be set until after the election.

In the meantime, the state’s accountability system and students’ adjustment to the new, more rigorous ISTEP should even out school scores, Lotter said.

Glenda Ritz, the state superintendent, spoke out against ISTEP and A-F school grading system in January.

On her website, she denounced the “expensive, lengthy, high stakes, pass/fail approach” of the No Child Left Behind test.

The Indiana Department of Education directed media requests to a March 14 op-ed

by Ritz that ran in the Journal Gazette.

In the piece, Ritz further criticizes the legislative session’s measures, which she said “appears to be drawn up around a political agenda rather than an education one.”

On Jan. 21, Pence signed two other ISTEP reprieves into law, affecting the results of the 2015 test.

Senate Bill 200 provided the results of the 2015 ISTEP couldn’t negatively affect a school’s grade from the 20132014 school year, meaning many schools kept the same accountability score as the previous year.

House Bill 1003 allowed a teacher to either use the 2014 or 2015 ISTEP scores — whichever was higher — to calculate a personal evaluation for 2016.

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It went back to the House of Representatives to resolve changes and passed 77-19 in early March before moving to Pence’s desk.

“I’m also grateful to sign into law bills that will help ensure students in Indiana receive an excellent education in a safe and nurturing environment, and that working teachers who take in additional responsibilities may receive recognition and compensation for their efforts,” Pence said in a state press release.

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Jared Fogle sentenced to 15 years 8 months Lindsay Moore liramoor@indiana.edu @_lindsaymoore

“Pathetic,� “despicable,� “diabolical� and “inexcusable.� This is how Jared Fogle’s own defense team described his actions during his 4 3/4-hour sentencing hearing.

The former Subway spokesman and IU alumnus was sentenced to 15 years and eight months imprisonment and lifetime supervision on two federal counts.

He was also fined $175,000 in addition to the $1.4 million already paid as restitution to the 14 victims in his case. If any other victims are identified Fogle must pay the same $100,000 restitution to them as well.

On Aug. 19., Fogle pleaded guilty to charges of possessing child pornography and traveling across state lines to engage in sex with a minor. Though the federal maximum for two federal felonies is 50 years, the prosecutors settled on a plea deal of 12 1/2 years. Fogle’s attorney’s bargained for five years.

Ultimately the decision was Judge Tanya Walton Pratt’s. “The level of perversion and lawlessness exhibited by Mr. Fogle is extreme,� Pratt said.

Fogle’s illegal activity took place throughout the course of eight years, beginning in 2007 until June 2015.

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Jared Fogle leaves the federal courthouse in Indianapolis after his hearing Nov. 18. Fogle pleadFE guilty to charges of distributing child pornography and paying for and engaging in sex acts with minors.

Indiana. “Although I realize that I can never change my deplorable past choices, I so regret that I let so many of you down,� Fogle said. “I take full and absolute responsibility for what I’ve done and, more importantly, the harm I’ve caused the victims and their families.�

Pratt interrupted Fogle’s tearful apology to his family, when he stated his remorse for subjecting his wife to being a single mother. “You gave your wife almost $7 million, though,�

Pratt said. “I think she’ll be OK.�

Fogle also apologized to those who looked up to him

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Forensic psychiatrist John Bradford was called as a witness after he diagnosed Fogle with hypersexuality and “mild� pedophilia. Bradford linked Fogle’s notorious weight loss to his sexual deviance. Fogle’s defense attorney Jeremy Margolis used this as part of his argument for a minimum sentence. “The reality is that Jared Fogle traded a horrible food addiction for a horrible sex addiction,� Margolis said.

However, neither prosecutor Steven DeBrota nor Judge Pratt considered this

diagnosis legitimate. “In this country there’s no such thing as being a mild pedophile,� Pratt said.

Fogle was also prosecuted for engaging in commercial sex with minors. Fogle solicited two underage escorts in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New York City in November 2012. Fogle was aware that both girls were underage, according to court documents.

During the hearing, DeBrota called Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and FBI Detective Darin Odier as a witness. The two read aloud text exchanges between Fogle and the underage prostitutes.

On numerous occasions

Fogle would solicit prostitutes and request they find him a friend, “the younger the girl, the better� and that if they did so he would “really make it worth her while.�

Fogle also repeatedly sent text messages to several escorts asking them to find girls as young as 14 to 15 years old, according to court records.

DeBrota told the court Fogle spent $12,000 a year on prostitutes, often paying for hotel rooms and offering free flights.

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“Although I realize that I can never change my deplorable past choices, I so regret that I let so many of you down.�

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Fogle was immediately taken into custody after the hearing.

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Former Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight endorses Donald Trump at his rally at the Indiana Farmers Coliseum in Indianapolis. The two mentioned they admire each other’s drive to win.

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demonstrate his wife, Hillary’s, plan to incentivize an even distribution of profits.

Trump said in his America, companies such as Carrier would have to pay a 35-percent import tax if they want their product in the United States.

In general, the attacks on the competition were swift, vicious and met with loud cheering. Trump threw around his signature nicknames, “Lyin’ Ted” and “Crooked Hillary Clinton.”

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A group of about 40 Sanders and Trump supporters showed up with signs to speak out against Cruz’s visit.

Protestor Eric César Morales shouted, “Why do you hate us?” and “Raphael,say your real name,” to Cruz in reference to the Latino community. Morales said he believes Cruz assimilates to specific audiences that would not be pleased with what Morales claims is Cruz’s true name.

“This assimilative practice is very concerning for Latinos,” Morales said. “It asks, ‘Could Cruz get a real audience if he didn’t distance himself from Cuban roots?’”

One Sanders supporter, Rob Depport, got into a debate about the separation of church and state while standing in line.

Depport expressed he is against Cruz because Cruz doesn’t respect the constitutional principle of the separation of church and state.

One woman who refused to give her name told him separation of church and state wasn’t even in the constitution. Another who also wished to remain anonymous asked him why religion is a part of so many government buildings and currency if separation was an important principle.

The debate ended when Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller stepped in to shake hands with all participants. Zoeller said he finds it important to campaign

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Two IU seniors, Mohammad Issa and former IU Student Association President Andy Braden, made the drive from Bloomington to attend the rally.

“It’s a really good time to be involved in politics in Indiana,” Braden said.

Clinton also promised to defend Planned Parenthood and the people in Indiana facing what she called an assault on their rights.

“I will support the women across this state standing up against this governor and this legislature,” Clinton said.

She criticized the “reckless, dangerous talk” from Republican candidates, such as Donald Trump’s comments about banning Muslims from the country and Ted Cruz’s desire to patrol majority Muslim communities.

“Enough! Enough!” Clinton said. “It’s not only offensive, it’s dangerous.”

Among the rally attendees were a number of people who said they have been supporting Clinton since the 2008 election or even since she was first lady.

Indianapolis resident Deborah Jackson walked into the gymnasium with a framed letter and photograph from Bill and Hillary

stop “stuffing his face” and learn to eat with his mouth closed. He addressed the media as “big, big, big liars.”

Knight seemed confident Trump would get the nomination, even though he doesn’t care about the party association.

“I don’t give a damn about the Republican Party,” Knight said. “I don’t give a damn about the Democrats either.”

Both Trump and Knight harped on Trump’s ability to win if elected president.

“I like people who are in charge,” Knight said. “This man is in charge.” in Bloomington despite it being a largely liberal town because it is still one of the biggest cities in Indiana and is important during primary season, but he wasn’t at the event to ask for votes.

“Nobody elected me for attorney general to vote for someone,” Zoeller said.

“Though I am on the record for voting for Cruz I don’t tell people what to do.”

Cruz was asked many political and personal questions from the audience and one about basketball.

After calling a basketball hoop a basketball ring last week, Cruz was asked where the jump shot was created. For the first time, Cruz paused and had to ask the man to clarify what he meant by “jump shot.”

The crowd around him began to giggle at the man’s trick question with an answer of Wyoming. But Cruz recovered and claimed the real jump shot had to have been invented by Indiana’s own Larry Bird.

After the hourlong event, Cruz had made his way through the entire crowd that again chanted his name and cheered as he waved goodbye and took off for his next retail stop.

Supporter Tiffany Gardner said Cruz’s visit made her feel less alone in Bloomington and was surprised by how peacefully the event started. She stood in line with Spencer, Indiana, resident Beth Jones who said Cruz is exactly what America needs.

“He stands up to Republicans and Democrats,” she said. “And he has such Hoosier hospitality, too.” from 1998.

Delores Smith, a 76-yearold Indianapolis resident, has been an active volunteer in the Clinton campaign and waited outside the gymnasium wearing a pink hat with more than a dozen pins for the Clintons and other previous Democratic candidates.

She stood in line with her daughter and 2-year-old granddaughter, Bianca, who was jumping up and down with red, white and blue bows in her hair.

“I’m here for her,” Smith said, gesturing at her granddaughter.

Closing her speech, Clinton said America’s best years are still ahead.

“If you go out and vote for me I will stand up and fight for you, through this campaign and into the White House,” Clinton said.

The intro music to “Fight Song” played as she walked off the stage and through the crowd.

One of the rally attendees who got to shake hands with Clinton was 11-year-old Indianapolis resident Alasha Kyner.

“I was so happy,” Kyner said. “She is my hero and shows me not only a man can become president.”

She hugged her dad as she left the gymnasium, thanking him for bringing her to the rally.

“I’m never washing this hand again,” Kyner said.

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Bloomington senior police officer William Abram was awarded March 4 with the Congressional Badge of Bravery for risking his life while responding to a home invasion and sexual assault of two IU students in November 2014.

This is the first time a Bloomington Police Department officer has received the national award, and it is only the second time for an officer from Indiana.

Established in 2008, the Law Enforcement Congressional Badge of Bravery honors remarkable acts of courage in the line of duty by federal, state and local law enforcement officers.

Senators Joe Donnelly, DInd., and Dan Coats, R-Ind., attended the award ceremony Friday at City Hall, along with U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of Indiana Josh Minkler, Bloomington mayor John Hamilton and BPD Chief Mike Diekhoff.

On Nov. 9, 2014, Abram responded to a 4:30 a.m. call regarding a possible sexual assault in progress. When he entered the Bloomington apartment, he saw a man inside pulling on his pants, and backed away from the doorway. A shot was fired in his direction from inside the apartment and once he stepped inside, he was fired at a second time, but not

wounded.

As the two men attempted to escape through a window, Abram ordered them to put their hands up.

They turned and fired at him again.

Abram then fired two rounds in return, hitting one of them in the leg and the other in the arm. Both suspects were taken into custody shortly after with the help of assisting officers.

Abram immediately began to administer first aid to one of the suspect’s gunshot wounds while waiting for other medical responders to arrive.

Officials later determined that the men had forced entry into the apartment where two female IU students lived, raping them at gunpoint before Abram arrived.

In Friday’s ceremony, Donnelly called Abram’s performance that night an “extraordinary act of courage.”

“On behalf of our entire state we want to thank you for saving these girls’ lives, for protecting the people of Bloomington and for protecting all of us,” Donnelly said.

Donnelly also commended Abram’s wife, Suzie, and their four children for their bravery when they received the call that Abram was going to be a bit late that night.

“When they go off to duty that day you expect them to come home but there’s never any guarantees,” Donnelly

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Bloomington senior police officer William Abram accepts the Congressional Badge of Bravery award from Senators Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., and Dan Coats, R-Ind. as well as BPD Chief Mike Diekhoff at City Hall.

said.

Three days after Abram put a stop to the home invasion, his wife gave birth to their youngest son, Abram said.

“I really appreciate how it was all handled,” Abram said, thanking his family and the BPD personnel who helped in the process of responding to the call that night.

“Every day we obviously think and worry about the females that were in that house,” Abram said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with them.”

Diekhoff said Abram’s award is a big deal for the entire department and city, and he was proud of the way Abram took control of the situation that night.

“He was just extremely professional,” Diekhoff said. “He did everything he

should have done.”

Coats said Abram’s award was a great tribute to the department’s training and shed positive light on the role of police officers in the community.

“There’s been a lot of back and forth politically, unfortunately, relative to our law enforcement officials,” Coats said. “You are setting examples that all of us can follow.”

The suspects arrested for the November 2014 home invasion, Michael W.L. Deweese and Vaylen Keishaun Glazebrook, are both charged with 15 felonies: attempted murder, seven counts of rape, two counts of armed robbery, burglary while armed, three counts of criminal confinement with injury and resisting law enforcement with a deadly weapon.

Gov. Mike Pence signed a bill into law that imposes additional restrictions on abortions on March 24, 2016.

House Enrolled Act 1337 prohibits women from seeking abortions based on race, gender and possible fetal abnormalities. Indiana is the second state in the nation after North Dakota to impose such restrictions.

The new law also requires a woman to view an ultrasound of the fetus and hear its heartbeat 18 hours before she can obtain the procedure.

“By enacting this legislation, we take an important step in protecting the unborn, while still providing an exception for the life of the mother,” Pence said in a press release. “I sign this legislation with a prayer that God would continue to bless these precious children, mothers and families.”

While supporters of the measure say the bill will be used to prevent abortions based on disabilities like Down syndrome, pro-abortion rights advocates say the bill’s language is vague enough to prohibit abortions of fetuses that cannot survive past birth.

“By enacting this legislation, we take an important step in protecting the unborn, while still providing an exception for the life of the mother.”

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“Throughout my public career, I have stood for the sanctity of life,” Pence said in a press release. “HEA 1337 is a comprehensive pro-life measure that affirms the value of all human life, which is why I signed it into law today.”

In addition to limiting the reasons for which women can seek abortions, the new law criminalizes the transfer of fetal tissue and requires abortion providers to bury or cremate all fetal remains.

Before the law’s passage, fetal tissue disposal was regulated by the same laws as other types of medical waste.

“I believe that a society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable — the aged, the infirm, the disabled and the unborn,” Pence said in a press release.

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The Batmans are among a handful of Syrian families who have fled civil war and settled in Indiana, joining about 2,000 Syrian refugees living across the United States.

Since the terrorist attacks in Paris, they have been swept up in a national wave of paranoia and hatred.

In Chicago, two men were asked not to board a plane after they were overheard speaking Arabic. Human feces and pages ripped from a Quran were thrown at the door of a Texas mosque. A few hours’ drive from that mosque, protesters outside an Islamic center carried picket signs and 12-gauge shotguns.

As outrage grew, an Indianapolis refugee volunteer told the city’s small community of Syrians to stay in their homes.

“People are angry,” she warned them. “I don’t know what’s going to happen.”

Citing concerns of terrorism, more than half the country’s governors announced plans to block Syrian refugees from settling in their states.

Pence was one of the first.

“Indiana has a long tradition of opening our arms and homes to refugees from around the world,” Pence said in a statement. “But, as governor, my first responsibility is to ensure the safety and security of all Hoosiers.”

When Pence made his an-

nouncement, a new family of Syrian refugees was scheduled to fly into Indianapolis the next day. They never made it. The couple and their small child were rerouted to Connecticut, where the governor publicly welcomed them and bashed Pence’s decision.

“This is the same guy who signed a homophobic bill in the spring, surrounded by homophobes,” Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said. “So I’m not surprised by anything the governor does.”

As masses of Syrians huddled outside European borders and in cramped refugee camps, they became the central figures in a debate over the soul of America. Would a nation founded by refugees now turn them away?

Politicians labeled them terrorists-in-wait, saying the United States’ intensive screening process couldn’t catch everything.

“Highly concerning,” said Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker.

“It is clear that the influx of Syrian refugees poses a threat,” said Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

“I will do everything humanly possible to stop any plans… to put Syrian refugees in Mississippi,” said Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump suggested the refugees could be a “Trojan horse” for terrorism and proposed barring

all Muslims from entering the country.

President Obama condemned the blockade, calling it “shameful” and “not American.” He declared the United States would continue to accept refugees.

As America argued, the flood of people trying to escape Syria continued. Ten million Syrians have been forced out of their homes as casualties of civil war. Of those, more than 4 million have fled the country and registered as refugees. * * * This summer, President Barack Obama pledged to take in at least 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year.

The country had made little progress on that plan.

The United Nations has recommended more than 22,000 Syrian refugees for resettlement in the United States since 2013. After a screening process that can take as long as two years, about 2,000 have been accepted.

The Batmans were among the first Syrian refugees to settle in Indiana. Since their arrival in November 2014, they had been navigating a world they barely understood: learning English, starting school and paying bills while the country decides what to do with them.

When they arrived, everything was new. Rakan knew

his last name — Batman — was famous in America, but not much else.

The family had mapped out their future: apply for green cards, send Rama and Rakan to college, become American citizens, get the rest of their family out of Syria. Go back only after the war.

After American leaders turned their backs on refugees like them, that future felt uncertain. * * * Marwan worked in the back of Al-Rayan Restaurant, a Middle Eastern diner on the west side of Indianapolis. Slicing another piece of fat off a chicken kebab, he wiped away a line of sweat on his forehead. His thoughts traveled 6,000 miles away to his own restaurant in Syria, where he stood at the front, never hidden in a corner.

He was 47, a short man with gray hair and fingers scarred from an accident with a meat grinder. He smiled more often than not. He knew just a few words of English, but laughed at almost everything he heard anyway.

For now, he was making just enough to keep his family going. But he swore he would be friends with President Obama before the year was out.

In Syria, he was owner, operator, host and head chef. In America, he was an $8.30-anhour laborer, an inglorious

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step down that gnawed at him.

As he sliced off another piece of fat, Marwan sighed and started to sing, filling the empty restaurant with the off-key warbles of “Ebatly Gawab,” an old Syrian love song.

I have a God, who knows me…

From the pain he shields me…

I will be patient all the time, and endure my pain.

Marwan’s songs were his connection home. As he sang, the chaos around him faded away. He was back in Homs, the ancient city where life was “like a dream,” he said. He saw the small arenas where he once played soccer, his mother’s house, his own restaurant.

“Syria, Arabic restaurant, chef,” he said. His eyes flitted back and forth as he tried to

find the words in English. He wanted to join Lona at her weekly English classes, but couldn’t afford the time away from work. For now, the restaurant would have to be his classroom. “Work good, money good,” he said, smiling at the memory. “And then…” He made a fist, lifted it high above his head and brought it crashing down on the cold metal table. The table wobbled.

An explosion. His restaurant destroyed, blown to rubble with the rest of the city. A comfortable life ripped off its foundations.

“And then…”

Then, he started over.

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Music duo, Flosstradamus, performs the song Prison Riot for Little 500 participants April 15 at Memorial Stadium. This is the first time the Little 500 concert took place at Memorial Stadium.

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The bass pounding out of the speakers caused the turf to vibrate under the crowd’s feet as it danced wildly along to the music. Those who secured a spot at the front of the stage could feel the vibrations through the metal gates they were pressed against.

Fog poured off the stage into the crowd as pink and white lights spun over their heads in time to the music.

As the sun began to set, Memorial Stadium looked drastically different than it did during the spring football game earlier April 15.

Flosstradamus, an electronic dance music DJ duo, took over the south end zone as the headliner for the annual Little 500 concert.

A caution symbol — Flosstradamus’ logo — lit up the entirety of the scoreboard’s screen as the DJs riled up the crowd.

“We’re turning Hoosier Nation into HDYNA-

TION,” yelled DJ J2K, half of the Flosstradamus duo, as he jumped down from the table where DJ Autobot was playing.

Both DJs sported IU basketball jerseys.

They invited the audience to join their fan base HDYNATION. “It’s good vibes everywhere,” Mercedes Tamayl, 21, said. “I just love them. I love their mu sic. I love their vibes.”

Autobot remixed popular modern songs like Drake’s “Hotline Bling” and the White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army.” He also threw it back with songs such as Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” which the crowd sung their own renditions of.

Some fans of Flosstradamus weren’t so happy, however. Sophomores Madison Gavin and Alex Stone said the duo didn’t stick to their true EDM genre and instead played remixed radio hits to please the crowd.

The atmosphere felt like being at a fraternity or

house party, Gavin said.

She expected more of a rave environment.

She said she wanted to feel like she was at a concert, especially because she paid for VIP tickets.

Stone and Gavin left the show early.

VIPs were closest to the stage and received pizza and a Little 500 Flosstradamus Tshirt as they walked through the gates.

Other audience members were unfamiliar with Flosstradamus and the opener, Gent & Jawns, but came for the tradition.

“I had never heard of them before, but it’s Little 5,” sophomore Mandan Langley said.

The concert should be at the stadium every year, she said.

Even those who didn’t want to pay could go this year. After the spring football game ended, fans were invited to the field to meet the players and could stay for the concert and avoid the $40-$70 concert

“It’s good vibes everywhere. I just love them. I love their music.”

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ticket fee.

Not just the football fans, either. Soon, the football team rushed into the audience, the players still dressed in red and white uniforms, pads and some in helmets. They jumped and fist-pumped along to Gent & Jawns before they headed back to the locker room.

As Gent & Jawns continued their set, more students streamed down the bleachers and onto the field.

Some remained sitting in the stadium, while others sprawled out on turf at the back of the field. It was a warm, clear night over the stadium as the 2016 Little 500 concert was underway.

“IU did everything perfect, but the act could have been better,” Stone said.

As students streamed through checkpoints and ticket gates at a parking lot on 13th Street and Fee Lane at 6:45 p.m. Aug. 22, 2015, the skies above IU’s second Welcome Week Block Party were holding clear.

“We’ve got a lot better weather, knock on wood,” IU student Tom Kondash said.“Last year, we had torrential downpours, which I was driving through picking up food.”

Last year, Kondash was a runner for the Block Party, running errands like picking up chicken Caesar salads for B.o.B, the Atlanta rapper who replaced original headliner Chance the Rapper after he dropped out. This year, Kondash is the Union Board’s head of hospitality.

He said the event was running much more smoothly with no inclement weather or lineup changes.

“I think we have an awesome lineup,” he said. “Plus, the different genres and different types of music, it attracts everyone.”

Inside the venue area, a crowd gathered while rap and electronic dance music blared from the stage speakers. The students wore summer music festival attire: tank tops, jean shorts, colorful sunglasses, a plethora of retro basketball jerseys.

Around 7 p.m., Rob Sherrell, IU’s first stand-up comedy major and the evening’s emcee, took to the stage, telling a story about a Union Board-presented show that “changed everything” for him.

“It was in that moment I realized college is the time to chase your dream, the time to step outside your comfort zone,” he said.

After a few minutes of stories, jokes and encouragements for students to tweet about the Block Party,

Sherrell ceded the stage to Phoebe Ryan, an electropop singer-songwriter who released her EP in June 2015 after finding some internet-bred success with a mashup-cover of R. Kelly’s “Ignition” and Miguel’s “Do You ... ” and an original single called “Mine.”

Backed by a live drummer and synth player, plus green lights that matched her dyed-green hair, Ryan played a short opening set, closing with “Mine.”

After the set, Sherrell returned to the stage, reading tweets he deemed the best with the #iubp15 hashtag. A few tweets, such as one making fun of Sherrell’s camouflage pants, elicited some crowd feedback.

A few minutes later, Action Bronson, a rapper from Queens, New York, emerged to the opening strains of Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” and ordered students to put their middle fingers in the air. He launched into a set filled with cuts from “Mr. Wonderful,” his major-label debut, which was released earlier this year, as well as an unreleased track.

While the weather stayed clear all night, some audience members were still rained on: halfway through Bronson’s set, someone threw a still-full water bottle, and others followed suit, resulting in a hail of water bottles that arced, grenade-like, over the crowd for 2 1/2 songs, soaking some.

Once Bronson finished, the packed crowd momentarily loosened up as students jockeyed for position for the final two acts. On one edge of the audience, near a line of yellow PortaPotties, a circle formed and people took turns dancing in the center — except for one participant, who instead lead a “fuck Purdue” SEE PARTY, PAGE C9

Lil Wayne takes the stage at IU for first time since 2011

By Kennedy Coopwood kacoopwo@indiana.edu @_Coopwood

Rap artist Lil Wayne took center stage March 3 at Assembly Hall.

His concert was a part of the Dedication Tour, a personal thank you from Lil Wayne dedicated to all of his fans in cities he has rarely visited on his past tour runs, according to an IU Auditorium press release.

The concert featured special guest rap duo Rae Sremmurd.

Bloomington was his second-to-last stop on the tour — No. 18 of 19 tour cities.

This is the first time Lil Wayne has performed at IU since 2011 when he

headlined the Little 500 concert with rapper Nicki Minaj.

Assembly Hall was packed with fans. There was floor seating and three jumbo screens to project the concert to those in upperlevel and faraway seating.

Rae Sremmurd, a rap group composed of brothers Khalif “Swae Lee” Brown and Aaquil “Slim Jimmy” Brown, were the opening act.

Austin Spahr, a senior and member of IU club hockey, attended the concert with his teammates.

His hockey team designed the jerseys Rae Sremmurd and their DJ, DJ Sremm, wore in the performance.

They have also designed jerseys for performers in the

past, including YG’s at last year’s Little 500 concert.

“Right now, Rae Sremmurd is huge,” he said.

“When you hear their songs on the radio, you don’t want to change it.”

Freshmen Ashley Eisler and Elaine Johnson came together and said they have been Lil Wayne fans for a long time.

“I’ve been obsessed with Lil Wayne since the eighth grade,” Eisler said.

For Spahr, he said, part of Lil Wayne’s appeal is his familiarity.

“One thing that’s cool about Lil Wayne is that he’s a household name,” Spahr said. “We all grew up with him, and even if you don’t listen to rap, you know who he is.”

As Lil Wayne took the stage, the area went black.

Everything from his sun glasses to his shoes were black and white.

He was also smoking during his introduction and said he planned to have a good time.

He opened by saying, “My name is Mr. Carter” and performed “Mr. Carter” from his album “Tha Carter III.” He then performed “Sorry for the Wait” and “I’m Goin In” before he stopped all music and said he was honored to be performing at IU. The rapper’s set was about 45 songs from the past and present, each of which lasted around one and a half minutes.

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Rap artist Lil Wayne performs at Assembly Hall on March 3 night.

His forthcoming album “Tha Carter V” still has no release date but is set to come out in 2016.

During an MTV interview in 2015, Lil Wayne said “Tha Carter V” will be his

last Carter album and last solo album released.

He plans to retire at 35.

“I feel like he’ll never really retire,” Eisler said. “It’s something that you can never really retire from.”

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Violette Verdy wore the same red dancing shoes with a small heel every day.

Several times a week for 20 years, a taxi or a friend drove Verdy, who died Feb. 8 at the age of 82, from her condo in Bloomington to IU’s campus. She had never learned to drive.

With her red shoes, tights that showed off legs still lithe in her 70s and 80s, and often a shawl around her shoulders, Verdy would spend the day working as a coach for ballet students at the Jacobs School of Music.

She was the kind of person who lived her life for others, said Robin Allen, her assistant of more than 10 years. She brought out the best in other people, exuded optimism and had a genuine wish for others’ success.

Everyone felt like they were someone special when they were with Verdy, especially her students, Allen said.

“She empowered you to go do it, and she always knew you could do it,” Allen said. “She gave them love and then they loved themselves. You wanted to work for it because she helped you love life.”

Junior Cara Hansvick, who performed the role of the Sugarplum Fairy in “The Nutcracker,” was one of Verdy’s students.

“Sometimes studios are freezing, and if someone is standing on the side in the second cast not dancing, she would go and give them her shawl if they looked cold,” Hansvick said. “That was the kind of person she was.”

Verdy’s love for life and dance was apparent to anyone who saw her, Hansvick said.

“You could even see it in the way she taught,” she said. “She was just this ray of sunshine that spread out through the whole room.”

In “Violette Verdy: The Artist Teacher,” a 2009 film about her time teaching at the Chautauqua Institution in New York, Verdy said her first awareness of movement was through music. She was mad about it, and had to move to it.

Born Nelly Armande Guillerm in 1933 in Pontl’Abbé in Brittany, France, Verdy’s ballet studies began at the age of eight. Her stage career began in 1945 and lasted until she retired in 1976.

In the film, under curled hair gone white, Verdy has the same big, open eyes and charming smile as in the pictures that flash across the video screen from her performing days.

“I might not have any children of my own, but oh, did I have a lot of little dancing children,” Verdy said in the film. “I love them, I do.”

She loved people who loved to dance, Michael Vernon, Jacobs’ ballet department chair, said. Even in her 80s, she related to young students, and he could tell she was very happy at IU. Verdy’s legacy will be carried on by the many dancers that learned from her, Vernon said.

She taught around the world, directed and coached at the Paris Opera Ballet and the Boston Ballet, and scouted talent for George Balanchine’s New York City Ballet after being one of his prized dancers for 20 years.

“I think that her tricks and corrections and lessons will live on through the teachers that we have here and through us,” Hansvick said. “And as we go on, we’ll pass those on to other people. I don’t think she’ll ever be gone. We have a piece of her now.”

When Hansvick, Allison Perhach and Raffaella Stroik were being coached by Verdy to be the Sugarplum SEE VERDY, PAGE C9

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IU Jacobs School of Music Professor David Baker directs a jazz band performance in Spring 2005. Baker died March 26 at the age of 84.

Jazz teacher Baker dies at 84

By Maia Rabenold mrabenol@indiana.edu | @maialyra

David Baker changed the common perception jazz could not be taught.

The Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-nominated composer, performer and teacher died March 26 at age 84, but his revolutionary methods that taught students to improvise will be used long into the future, his colleagues and students said.

Baker created a degree program for jazz music at IU at the request of the dean of the School of Music in 1966 after a performance career on the trombone and cello.

“The IU jazz program is David Baker,” author and musician Monika Herzig said. “He started it, he created it and he made it one of the best-known and highest quality programs nationally.

That’s him and only him and nobody else.”

Herzig, now a senior lecturer at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs,

got her doctorate at the music school in 1997. She said she considered Baker to be her mentor in becoming a jazz pianist and took many of his classes.

She then became his colleague and friend. In 2011, Baker’s 80th birthday was coming up and she said she decided to take on the task of writing a book, “David Baker: A Legacy in Music,” about his life.

“I realized that we have a treasure here,” Herzig said.

He always challenged students, Herzig said, but in an environment that made them feel like they were at home.

Baker had his own challenges to overcome, Herzig said. She said he originally wanted to be a classical trombone player, but his only option as a black man was jazz.

When he auditioned for the Indianapolis Symphony, the conductor told him even though he was better than the other players, he couldn’t employ him because he was black.

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Baker started the jazz program at the Jacobs School of Music.

His personal struggles did not make him bitter, senior Matthew Riggen said. Riggen was inspired to add jazz studies as a double major after he met Baker, because he saw how much Baker enjoyed playing, he said.

Riggen said during the last conversations he had with Baker, Baker said he had been lucky to have accomplished what he did. He said he was proud of it and he was

content.

“For someone to have gone through what he went through and to still decide to be the kind of person he was, it’s inspiring,” Riggen said.

Baker had a very individualized teaching style, Herzig said. As soon as someone came into his studio, he would be able to pinpoint that person’s skill level and SEE BAKER, PAGE C9

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In honor of the IU Art Museum's 75th birthday April 12, people line up to take photos for the museum's facebook. The photo booth along with the pizza stand were popular choices for the celebration.

Top Joe Porowski talks to the crowd surrounding his bicycle about his rescue bird, Charlie, April 12 at the IU Art Museum’s 75th birthday celebration. Charlie has been around the IU campus for about 8-10 years and has become a celebrity around town.

Bottom The 75th celebration of the IU Art Museum attracts people from all around the town April 12. Many people gathered around or joined in on the swing dance lesson from the IU Swing Dance Club.

IU art museum celebrates its 75th year

By Maia Rabenold mrabenol@indiana.edu | @maialyra

Guests grabbed free multicolored cupcakes, drinks and Chocolate Moose ice cream at the recently renamed Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art 75th Anniversary Big Birthday Bash on April 12.

Every floor of the museum was used for special programming during the fourhour event.

Guests walked from floor to floor to music from the IU Swing Dance Club, which performed and gave dance lessons in the atrium. In the galleries, the Bloomington Writer’s Guild performed poetry on demand, African storytelling took place and Jacobs School of Music student

Shuang Liu played the harp.

The Hutton Honors College provided craft activities like origami and Chinese calligraphy, and the Art Museum Student Organization set up a photo booth complete with props. Guided tours led

by IUAM staff took place every hour.

“We wanted a variety of programming,” said Laura Scheper, the museum’s manager of special programs and events. “This is an experiment. We thought it would be fun to have live programming in all four galleries. This is the biggest event we’ve done since I started here a year ago.”

Before the doors opened, Scheper printed 600 programs to hand out to guests.

They were almost gone 45

minutes into the celebration.

She did most of the organizing for the event and spent the evening busily ensuring every table, sign and person were in place by 5 p.m.

Though guests may have come for the free cupcakes and ice cream, Scheper said she hopes they took away more than that. The art museum strives to have the best possible collections, and it is always coming up with new ways to connect people with the museum.

Just last year, almost 10,000 IU students and more than 4,500 K-12 students from across central Indiana toured the museum, said Abe Morris, manager of public relations and marketing for the museum, she said.

Few universities can

match the museum in quality, Morris said. They hope to continue using the museum to further the educational mission of IU. “The IU art museum’s collection is world-class,” Morris said. “It’s an extremely rare thing to have an art museum of our caliber in a town the size of Bloomington.”

Morris said he credits the excellence of the museum to former president Herman B Wells and Henry R. Hope, the museum’s inaugural director.

Later directors up to current director David Brenneman have kept the museum’s spirit alive, Morris said.

The museum’s 75th birthday celebrations didn’t end that night, Morris said.

A new online guide will

be launched featuring more than 750 of the museum collections’ greatest hits, many of which have never been available online before. A new printed guide will also be released.

Rainworks, a new project consisting of rain-activated artwork in front of the museum, around campus and around town, will be installed to welcome students back to school in the fall. The museum is also starting First Thursdays, which entails extended hours and special programming the first Thursday of every month.

The event’s goal was to encourage people to look at how far the museum has come since its opening in 1941 and at what is yet to come, Scheper said.

“The IU Art Museum’s collection is worldclass. It’s an extremely rare thing to have an art museum of our caliber in a town the size of Bloomington.”

Abe Morris, manager of public relations and marketing for the museum

“It’s been very exciting to work here just in the past year with having our new director David Brenneman come on board,” Scheper said. “It’s a massive infusion of energy.

It’s a great time for the museum, and I really look forward to the years ahead. There’s so much energy here tonight, you can feel it.”

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Culture Shock 2016 attracts all types

By TJ Jaeger tjaeger@indiana.edu | @tj_jaeger

What was meant to be an open-air music festival turned into an indoor, all-day concert.

At risk of subjecting hundreds of music-lovers to unseasonably cold weather, WIUX moved its 30th annual Culture Shock to Rhino’s Youth Center, the largest allages venue in town.

However, even Rhino’s wasn’t big enough to hold WIUX’s largest event of the year, which is typically in Dunn Meadow and is host to many vendors, programs and, of course, bands and fans.

Toward the end of the evening, fans lined up down the block due to a full 400-capacity venue.

Hundreds of people means hundreds of backgrounds, stories and experiences. Here’s a look at some of the many different roles at Culture Shock.

The volunteer Rhino’s opened its doors an hour later than the advertised 1 p.m., but it wasn’t due to negligence.

Volunteers arrived early in the day to set up tables, tents and audio equipment of all sorts.

Due to the size of Rhino’s, most of the tables were set up in the parking lot, which required a team of volunteers to sport windbreakers.

One of those volunteers was Mike Higgins, a sophomore WIUX member.

Higgins arrived early with several other volunteers to do grunt work.

As a member of WIUX’s blog team, he was put in charge of conducting video interviews at the back of Rhino’s, where it was quieter.

He and other blog members scouted for enthusiastic festival-goers who would tell them about their experiences

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and hopes for future Culture Shock festivals.

With camera and tripod ready, Higgins spent hours hearing everyone’s hopes for Kanye West, Radiohead and other superstars to headline next year.

However, working for the blog wasn’t the only reason Higgins wanted to do these interviews, he said.

After this semester, Higgins will be replacing WIUX special events director Ben Wittkugel and will be in charge of booking and running the 2017 Culture Shock.

“We’re just making sure nothing burns to the ground,” he said.

The first-timer Dozens of early-arrivers wandered around the Rhino’s parking lot and impatiently waited.

Sitting in a circle with one of his many groups of friends was Elijah Heath, a sophomore who had never experienced Culture Shock.

“I am freaking excited,” he said while being filmed

by Higgins. “Last year I couldn’t make it because I was invited to a girl’s formal, and I didn’t notice the day. I regret it.”

Describing his black Doc Martens as his dancing

shoes, Heath expressed his interest in seeing several local bands.

However, he said he was most excited to see Whitney, an indie-folk group featuring former members of Smith Westerns.

With a less burdensome schedule than Higgins, Heath was free to wander.

His time was often spent in the middle of the crowd, bobbing his head, frequently wearing a smile.

The band members Culture Shock wouldn’t exist without the bands.

With 11 bands on the bill, six were locals and three were touring from out of town, including headliner Neon Indian, an electronicpop act from Texas.

However, Dasher was an anomaly — a punk local band using Culture Shock as its tour-kickoff show.

Before they played, Garcia and Magilla danced by their merchandise table as the Underhills pleased the crowd with their soft acoustic-folk melodies.

Dasher was scheduled to play next.

“I can’t wait to play right after them,” Magilla said. “I wonder how the crowd will react.”

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Pride Film Festival raises LGBT awareness

By TJ Jaeger tjaeger@indiana.edu | @tj_jaeger

Jan. 28 was the opening night for the Bloomington Pride Film Festival, a threeday event of films, live performances and celebrations.

The festival is screened 32 films that contain themes pertinent to the LGBT community and beyond.

2016 marks the 13th year of the Bloomington Pride Film Festival. Executive Director Sarah Perfetti said that over the years, the festival has grown and positively affected both the LGBT community and the wider Bloomington community.

Perfetti said the festival helps highlight the town as a progressive community that is accepting of many different cultures.

“With the stuff that’s going on right now in the statehouse with the new RFRA bill, it makes Indiana look really bad to people who might identify as LGBTQ or might just be allies,” she said. “So having a big festival like this makes Bloomington, and Indiana as a whole, look better.”

The festival began in 2003 when two School of Public and Environmental Affairs graduate students proposed

the festival as part of a class project.

Doug Bauder, coordinator of GLBT Student Support Services office, said when the students came to their office asking for help with the project, they were referred to Danielle McClelland, executive director of the BuskirkChumley Theater.

“She worked with them and developed a little evening program that was pretty small scale,” Bauder said.

“More and more people got interested in supporting this event.”

More days, screenings and activities have been added over the years. This year, Perfetti said they removed the traditional dance party in order to add a sixth screening.

This year’s festival also features the Prism Youth Community, Bloomington Pride’s outreach group for LGBTQ, allied and questioning youth.

“Our youth are going to lead a public discussion about queer representation in the media,” Perfetti said.

Films in the program include directors from the United States, Colombia, Israel, South Africa, the United Kingdom and more.

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Shawn Smith (left) and Jim Woodward (right) look through the program before the start of the film screening.

“Election Night,” a short film from Los Angelesbased director Tessa Blake, screened Jan. 30. The film revolves around the family of a campaign candidate as they

desperately try to view the results of an election.

“The family goes a little crazy, things are revealed, and there are twists and there are turns,” Blake said.

Blake’s film has screened at several LGBT festivals. She said these festivals are an integral part of the culture.

“I think it’s important for there to be gay and lesbian

pride festivals and films, because they still lack so much in terms of representation in mainstream media,” she said.

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Melania Trump’s style failed its one job in campaign Chenille suit precisely tailored, hair coiffed in a modest curl and campaign button pinned to the lapel: this is the carefully vetted costume of a political spouse.

She — because it’s normally a she — is a wellunderstood campaign tool.

Every kiss for the cameras, princess wave to the crowd and polite golf clap from her seat is used to drive her husband’s image.

Respectful, supportive, modest and unthreatening, she’s the perfect package, but there is one thing she is not.

She’s not Melania Trump.

After Republican candidate Donald Trump’s recent belligerence toward women in April, his campaign hoisted Mrs. Trump onto the Wisconsin Primary stage.

But in an attempted effort to win back the female vote, the peculiarity of both Mrs. Trump’s presentation and mere presence at the event was what resonated.

A pastel cocktail dress sported two ruffled sleeves, a flirty hemline — not a campaign button in sight.

Brunette locks parted and flowed past her shoulders to frame the face in proportion.

As the Milwaukee crowd

chanted her husband’s name, Mrs. Trump stood behind the podium and stared back at the voters who had turned a 5-foot-11 model into the potential first lady of the United States.

Her rare appearance on the campaign trail was duly noted, as Mr. Trump has been known to attend rallies with his daughter Ivanka more often than with his wife.

So when Mrs. Trump was clearly summoned in the campaign’s time of need, it is only right to look at the political message and implications of her appearance.

Her remarks, read off of a prepared script, were vague but loyal.

Her posed demeanor could have doubled as a still photograph, as she spent most of her time in a singular model pout.

In summary, Mrs. Trump acted more like she was attending a magazine shoot than a political convention.

Normally, a candidate’s spouse finds a mix of both to represent herself as a unit with her husband.

A first lady’s suit, professional yet feminine, mirrors his own to establish an image of shared business.

Her campaign button is always pinned to the lapel to signify that even when she’s silent, she is supporting the cause all the way.

But Melania has never been the political spouse, and she didn’t become one in Milwaukee. She wasn’t the dutiful partner. She was the stand-in fashion model.

Of course, fashion is part of a campaign because it plays one of the most influential elements of image.

Fashion can tell voters if a campaigner is confident, traditional, inventive or strong.

Tie colors, heel heights, flag pins and tailoring are

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Melania was fashionable, yes, but her fashion was silent — it offered no message or image. She wasn’t the partner, she wasn’t the spouse. She obviously wasn’t helpful to the female vote — Ted Cruz went on to win Wisconsin.

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Jonathan Banks describes his experience in IU during an interview March 11 in the IMU.

Actor Banks visits campus, gives speech

By TJ Jaeger tjaeger@indiana.edu | @tj_jaeger

In the mid-1960s, Jonathan Banks stepped onto IU’s campus. Having grown up on the northeast side of Washington D.C., he said coming to school felt like paradise.

“I thought I’d come to a resort,” he said. “I thought this was the most beautiful place I’d ever seen.”

Nearly 50 years later, Banks was invited back to his alma mater to receive an honorary doctoral degree.

Banks’ acting career has spanned the past five decades.

Recently, he received recognition playing Mike Ehrmantraut in “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul.”

On March 11 he is spoke at the IU Cinema as part of the annual IU Day celebrations.

However, his schooling at IU almost never happened.

His grandfather highly valued education, he said.

“He was forced to drop out of school in the sixth grade, while his itinerant preacher father went out and saved souls and made him run the farm,” he said.

“Education was everything to him.”

Eventually, his grandfather began working in the limestone quarries and helped lay Franklin Hall, he said.

With the money earned, he said his grandfather paid for all of his kids to go to college, except for his youngest, Banks’ mother.

After trying to put herself through IU, Banks said his mother became anemic.

“It was basically shorthand for that she was starving,” he said.

Eventually, the University found a job for his mother with the Department of the Navy, he said.

Growing up in the home of a single mother who was going to school, he said he spent most of his time on the streets of D.C. Banks said he wasn’t a bad kid, but the streets taught him a lot.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE C6 Despite being unable to attend the festival, Blake said she’s proud to be included in Bloomington Pride.

“There’s wonderful leadership at the festival,” she said. “I’ve had wonderful interactions with everyone.”

Another film screen Jan. 30 is “Stella Walsh,” a documentary short by Akron, Ohio, filmmaker Rob Lucas. The film follows Walsh, an intersexual Olympic runner from the 1930s.

“At one time, she was the fastest woman in the world,” Lucas said. “And Stella always considered herself as a woman.”

Lucas said pride festivals like Bloomington Pride Film Festival build an infrastructure for discussion through gathering and viewing films.

Lucas said because of Walsh’s inspirational story, he hopes the audience walks away with a positive outlook.

“Even though she lived in an era of extreme discrimination, she didn’t let it hold her back in achieving her goals,” he said.

Though the festival screens films from all over the world, Bauder said the festival has also had a longstanding effect on the local

After graduating high school in 1966, he was prepared to join the service with his friends, he said.

However, after his mom begged him to try going to college, he was convinced to come to IU to study theater.

“I wouldn’t have come to school at all if theater hadn’t been in my life,” he said.

Because of his upbringing, Banks said moving to IU was not as frightening as students played it up to be.

“Was I confused about where I was going?” he said.

“Yeah, but I was a kid that used to get on the buses when I was eight years old in Washington D.C., and travel all over and meet my mother after she finished work.”

Outside of his class work, Banks said he would go swimming, play intramural sports and chase girls for fun.

He said exploring campus was his favorite activity.

“Everything was here,” he said. “I used to love to just walk around. I never got tired of the Jordan.”

Beyond campus, Banks said he would spend his weekends at McCormick’s Creek State Park, Brown County State Park and Turkey Run State Park.

Going to school during the Vietnam War, Banks said campus was often host to protests.

“That war became so odious to me that, yeah, I protested that war,” he said. “It was just a total abuse, in my opinion, of young men’s patriotism. We were the sons of guys who fought in World War II.” From his freshman year until today, Banks said he cannot believe the kindness he has received from the school.

Although he doesn’t remember the names of many of his old professors, he said several of them gave him acting advice he will never forget.

“I had a theater professor who was working on her doctorate,” he said. “She looked at me one time, and she said, ‘Less. Less.’ And that ‘less’ has served me in my career for the last 50 years.”

LGBT community by motivating its members to become involved in politics.

“We are a significant part of this community,” he said.

Bauder said the Bloomington Pride Film Festival has positively affected IU students over the years.

“For some people, it’s the first event that they’ve ever attended that honors queer people,” he said. “For students who grew up in small-town Indiana, that’s a huge thing.

They recognize that Bloomington is indeed the friendly place that we say it is.”

Looking ahead, Perfetti said she hopes to see an even wider diversity of films in future years of the festival.

“I would really like to see more diverse perspectives from filmmakers,” she said. “I really hope to see that there are more stories that positively represent non-binary people.”

Perfetti said she also hopes to see more films involving LGBT people of color.

Like Perfetti, Bauder said he is optimistic about Bloomington being a positive example for the rest of the state.

“Bloomington, I hope, is impacting the state and hoping to lead the state forward with a more progressive attitude,” he said. “Many people could learn from how this community deals with diversity.”

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TWO-WAY STREET Human actors in the University Playersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; production of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Avenue Qâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; have bonded with the real stars of the show: the puppets

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The puppets live in two giant black boxes. When the boxes are opened, they peer out from their plastic coverings from where they lie side by side.

They canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t touch the ground, so a chair is flipped upside down and one puppet is impaled on each leg, four to a chair. The position makes their necks eerily long, with their mouths hanging open and eyes staring at the ceiling.

Fifteen puppets, cast members of University Playersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; production of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Avenue Q,â&#x20AC;? are unwrapped and dressed at rehearsal. The process takes about half an hour.

Max Fowler and Julia Thorn practice during a rehearsal of Avenue â&#x20AC;&#x153;Qâ&#x20AC;? on April 21 at the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center. Avenue Q is a musical about humans and puppets. The show will opened April 24.

Max Fowler, the human actor who works with lead puppet Princeton, crouches to look one of the Princeton puppets in the eye.

Puppets with the most stage time have duplicates to ease costume changes from scene to scene. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re essentially identical, but because each puppet is handmade, they have their quirks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes are not right,â&#x20AC;? Fowler says. He looks at Princetonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clone hanging next to him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fine, but this one ... heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not right.â&#x20AC;?

Fowler thinks Princeton is ugly, but he sees him as his comrade, his high-maintenance best friend.

He feels close to the character, he said. Like Princeton, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s excited about the world, a little naĂŻve, looking for where he belongs. Fowler is a fresh-

man from Washington D.C., and he said feels like the new kid in a completely different place.

His first song is â&#x20AC;&#x153;What Do You Do with A B.A. in English,â&#x20AC;? which laments an anxiety Fowler, as a musical theatre major, can relate to. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The musical theatre program, they pound into your brain that this is not easy, you need to be prepared for some hard things, and this has been another reminder about it all,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definitely scary, and I feel his fear and uncertainty.â&#x20AC;?

In the beginning of the rehearsal process, Fowler said he was overwhelmed by the role and its responsibilities.

Then Kaitlyn Smith, one of the directors, told him to let the show happen to him and he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to feel like itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something he has to carry.

So now, he thinks of it as a journey that he goes on. Him and Princeton. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I look at my puppet and we start,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We get on the train, and the train will go, and we go on it together.â&#x20AC;? * * * â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a hot mess over here.â&#x20AC;?

Jes Harris, the stage manager, dresses the puppets while the cast goes over notes.

She and two other stage crew members are trying to put a sweater vest and dress shirt on one of them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all one piece,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Son of a bitch.â&#x20AC;?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tricky to get the clothes on, especially since the puppets have rods attached to their hands, which allow the actors to move them. Harrisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s method is putting the shirt on the body first, and then feeding the arms through.

Each puppet has at least one costume change dur-

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Maia Katz performs during a rehearsal of Avenue Q at the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center.

ing the show, which is about twenty changes. Smith said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like putting clothes on a temperamental toddler. But, if you try to put the clothes over the puppetsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; heads like youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d dress a child, their eyeballs pop off.

The puppet clothes have brand names, like Hanes and Faded Glory, and come on little plastic hangers.

One puppet, named Lucy the Slut, is accentuated with red nail polish and a Marilyn Monroe-like beauty mark.

During rehearsal, she wears a hairnet to protect her blonde curls. You can see her nipples through her white and leopard print shirt.

One puppet has five oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock shadow. Anotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perpetually flipping everyone off.

Harris sends all the actors who will be handling puppets to go wash their hands.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of the agreement the actors signed before working with the puppets â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they mustnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t touch them with dirty hands, mustnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t put them on the ground and must pay a fee if they get damaged.

The puppets cost $2,000 to rent, Smith said. University Players rented from Music Theatre International, the same company that provides the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rights.

Kevin Renn, the other codirector, said they sprang for the high-quality puppets to provide the best show possible. They also saw how bad low-budget puppets could be on a Tumblr blog called Bad Avenue Q Puppets. The puppets on the site are horrendous and sad and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not what they wanted for their show, Renn said.

The total budget for the show exceeds $10,000. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s by far one of the most expensive shows University Players has staged.

Each week of rental after the first eight weeks costs an additional $350, which means limited rehearsal time.

The first week having the puppets, the cast participated in a puppet workshop. Renn said they spent the time getting to know them as friends and people. They focused on hand-mouth synchronization between human and puppet during singing and speaking.

When the puppets first arrived in their black boxes, Julia Thorn was on the fence about them. Thorn plays Kate Monster, the other lead and Princetonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love interest.

The puppets made her a little nervous, she said, and she felt working with the puppets was either going to be incredible or a complete failure.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;But once they came out of their little coffins â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like a person being born, but it was just like wow, now I know what this is about,â&#x20AC;? she said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I felt an instant connection.â&#x20AC;? * * * The cast sits in a semi-circle around the two directors, Renn and Smith. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re discussing how the actors need to put the puppets in the forefront.

If they fail to do that, Smith tells them, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the audience will stop looking at your puppet and start looking at your big fat ass.â&#x20AC;?

The actors need to disappear. They need to make their puppet so compelling the audience forgets thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a person on stage controlling it.

In order for the puppets to come to life, the actors have to pay attention to the little details of movement. A nod, a twitch, a sniffle â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they all add up to creating a realistic character. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not reacting, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re dead,â&#x20AC;? Renn said.

Being so in sync with a hunk of foam and fabric isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so easy, Thorn said.

Before running a scene, Thorn puts her puppet at eye level and does mirroring exercises to establish a

connection.

But the connection has to go beyond the small stuff, like during a sex scene between Princeton and Kate Monster. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re losing our virginities through our puppets,â&#x20AC;?

Thorn joked to Fowler during rehearsal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So, are we virgins anymore?â&#x20AC;?

Acting with the puppets for a long time can be physically uncomfortable. After a while, Fowler said, his arm and back start to ache.

When he steps off stage, he takes the puppet off and blows cold air into it.

Working with a puppet is double the work for the actor, Fowler said. Remembering choreography for both himself and Princeton. Making sure Princeton is earning the credit for his work. Ignoring his cramping thumb.

But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still going to be hard for him to let Princeton go. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Especially because heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be shipped away,â&#x20AC;? Fowler said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have him, I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see him again. Once itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s over, he will be gone.â&#x20AC;?

At the end of rehearsal, the actors put the puppets back into their clear plastic bags, back into the black boxes. Then they heft them to a storage room and lock them away.

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IU ballet professor Violette Verdy died Feb. 8 at the age of 82. Verdy was the principal dancer for New York City Ballet for 20 years and the former artistic director of the Paris Opera Ballet and Boston Ballet.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE C2 Fairies, she explained to them the Sugarplum’s role in the story in relation to the main character Clara. They all still remember her words.

“The Sugarplum is the ideal woman for Clara — it’s exactly what Clara is aspiring to be,” Perhach said.

“She told us we need to embody that in the way that we dance. That’s so perfect because that’s exactly what she was to everyone else. She is the ideal woman and the ideal Sugarplum, not only as a dancer but as a person in the way she interacted with us.”

The ballet department will be honoring Verdy’s legacy by performing La Source, a ballet George Balanchine choreographed specifically for her, in the fall, Vernon said.

“She was famous for her fast footwork, her precision, her personality and her musicality.” Vernon said. “Balanchine choreographed for certain women, and even when they retire you can still see the personality and the technique of that particular person. Violette’s is much like Violette — it’s very bub-

bly and very musical and fast. It’s sort of effervescent.”

Verdy’s collection of ballet archives, including her old costumes, film, photographs, texts and notes will most likely be stored at Harvard University, Allen said.

Fifty boxes, about half of her collection, are already there, and the rest is being catalogued now.

Vernon said walking into her garage was like walking into the Smithsonian, with boxes upon boxes of her collection, and her house was neat but overflowing with papers.

Her collection of ballet history, her unrivaled knowledge and her ability to connect with people were what made her so special, Vernon said. She was a treasure that was invaluable to the University and the ballet world alike.

In “The Artist Teacher,” Verdy said she wanted to be a resource to young students for as long as she could.

“The mission of ballet is the same as for all the arts,” Verdy said in the film. “The mission is to elevate humanity. I feel that I have given myself completely to this form of work.”

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE C2 what he or she needed. He would always remember students’ names.

The fact Baker taught about things he had actually experienced made him a respected jazz authority, Herzig said. He had played with jazz greats and lived what he taught his students.

“When you put music in an academic setting, sometimes it can get separated from the actual music scene, but he was one of those guys where you knew that he was the real deal,” senior in jazz studies Quinn Sternberg said. “It was humbling just to be around someone with that wealth of knowledge and experience.”

Sternberg never thought he would be composing his own music, he said. Then Baker invited him to participate in the Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute’s summer program for jazz musicians.

The weeklong program required Sternberg and the other participants to compose music for every rehearsal. Now, Sternberg is going to record music that would not have existed if not for Baker’s encouragement, he said.

“He was always really supportive, saying that he

believed I was capable of really succeeding in the music industry,” Sternberg said.

“He talked that way to everyone.”

Baker will be one of the first class of IU alumni to be inducted into the music school’s new Jazz Alumni Hall of Fame on April 23 during the annual Jazz Celebration concert.

Thomas Walsh, chair of the jazz studies department and saxophone professor, said Baker’s encouragement as an educator is the legacy he will leave behind.

Baker was the first person to codify the language of jazz, Walsh said.

Baker created methods of teaching bebop, which he believed to be the universal language of jazz, that are now employed around the world and will continue to benefit students for generations to come.

“In the end, what characterized David more than anything was his brilliance as a person and an educator, his care for his students and how encouraging he was,” Walsh said. “‘Encouraging’ is a word that I use over and over again when I talk about David because he was someone who had a profound impact on people.

He made people feel like they could do great things.”

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Philosophy is an inquiry into the nature of knowledge, good reasoning, and human values, both moral and aesthetic. It aims at systematic answers to fundamental questions: What should we do? How should we live? (ethics, social and political philosophy) What kind of world do we live in? What kinds of things are we? (metaphysics) How do we know these and other things? (epistemology, logic) Philosophy majors are trained to reason clearly, carefully, and creatively and to see issues from multiple viewpoints.

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In the grass near the portable toilets, freshman Kirsten Hartman searched for a pair of misplaced RayBans. Despite the missing sunglasses, she said she thought the Block Party was a good way to end Welcome Week.

At the end of the between-set break, Sherrell announced Capital Cities would go on next, surprising some audience members who expected the headliners to close the show.

Flashing, colorful lights accompanied the Los Angeles-based synth-pop duo, which appeared with a bass player and trumpet player in tow.

In 2013, the group released its debut album, “In a Tidal Wave of Mystery,”and scored a top-ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with the single “Safe and Sound.”

It opened with a cover of Pink Floyd’s “Breathe” and saved “Safe and Sound” until near the end of its set. When it did play the song, the bulk of the audience jumped collectively, singing along and waving their hands while people on the fringes danced with more space.

After another song, the band put down its instruments and stayed on the stage as a remix of “Safe and Sound” blared over the speakers.

“Here’s one last dance,” frontman Ryan Merchant said before urging crowd members to take off their shirts and jackets and wave them in the air.

After Capital Cities exited the stage, much of the crowd exited the venue, leaving the parking lot covered in crushed water bottles, broken sunglasses and torn-off wristbands.

Sherrell returned to the stage, with the remaining crowd — now only waiting for Adventure Club — still packed together for about 50 feet in front of the stage.

“The night is not over,” Sherrell said. “This is IU — do we turn down for anything?”

The response from the crowd: an emphatic “no.”

The crowd buzzed as it waited for Adventure Club to arrive. When the Canadian electronic dance music duo took the stage, they set off a dubstep build-up, lasting only a short time before a sampled voice signaled the drop.

“Everybody fuckin’ jump,” the voice said.

And everybody jumped.

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With 10 ensembles to keep you humming, IU leads the way in a huge variety of choral performances, from the exquisite voices of the University Singers to the Contemporary Vocal Ensemble to the famous Singing Hoosiers and much more.

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Enjoy ballet productions in the fall and spring semesters, including the annual production of The Nutcracker.

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Orchestra (FREE!) With the Philharmonic, Symphony, Chamber, University, and Baroque orchestras, directed by a surprisingly large group of conductors, you’ll always find something to grab your attention.

Jazz Bands & Combos (FREE!) The IU tradition of performances in the Musical Arts Center (MAC) on Monday night continues with leadership from jazz masters Brent Wallarab, Wayne Wallace, and Michael Spiro. And don’t miss the jazz combos!

Symphonic Bands(FREE!) Director of Bands Stephen W. Pratt leads us into this season with a collection of amazing Wind Ensemble performances, many in the MAC on Tuesday nights.

Chamber Music (FREE!) Always a treat! World-renowned faculty members and students alike shine throughout the year.

Perform in an Ensemble If you played an instrument or sang in choir in high school and want to continue performing, there are many possibilities, including the highly visible Marching Hundred and Singing Hoosiers. Visit music.indiana.edu/ music-for-non-majors.

Enroll in a Music Course Round out your life with great nonmajor music courses in the Jacobs School of Music. Visit music.indiana. edu/generalstudies.

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Offensive lineman Dan Feeney lifts wide receiver Mitchell Paige after Paige scored against Purdue on Nov. 28, 2015, at Ross-Ade Stadium. The Hoosiers won 54-36 to keep the Old Oaken Bucket in Bloomington for the third straight season.

IU clinches bowl berth in Bucket victory

By Taylor Lehman trlehman@indiana.edu | @trlehmanIDS

As the clock was running down to its last second in West Lafayette, Indiana, reality began to settle in for IU football and its fans.

The time rolled to double-zeroes while IU players began to jump up and down and smile, families lined up along the sidelines to run onto the field and Twitter displayed tweets of fans cheering for IU Coach Kevin Wilson to be voted president and celebrating the Hoosiers going bowling.

IU had defeated Purdue, 54-36, claiming the Old Oaken Bucket for the third consecutive year — a feat that hadn’t been accomplished since 1947 — and clinched a berth to a bowl game for the first time since 2007.

“At 12 o’clock we don’t have the bucket anymore,” Wilson said. “That bucket’s off the dock and someone’s going to get it.”

Coming into the game against the Boilermakers, the Hoosiers boasted a 5-6 record, picking up their first win in seven weeks against Maryland. A win against Purdue was mandatory for IU’s bowl hopes.

But with junior running back Jordan Howard injured and sophomore safety Chase Dutra — who has been called the leader of the secondary — out with an injury, the chances for IU to win the game were decreased.

The absence of Dutra was evident, as Purdue quarterback Austin Appleby threw for 332 yards, the most he has thrown all season.

But the secondary was an issue for the Hoosiers all sea-

son, as the it allowed six of the 12 quarterbacks it faced to have season-high yardage totals.

The subtraction from Howard in the running game was the biggest fear, but the running back by-committee IU learned to employ in Howard’s absence this season found success.

Sophomore running back Devine Redding ran for a career-high 144 yards and one touchdown, junior Andrew Wilson ran the ball 15 times for 52 yards and a touchdown and freshman Ricky Brookins ran for 64 yards and a near-touchdown that he fumbled short of the goal line.

“We feel really good about the guys that run the ball for us,” quarterback Nate Sudfeld said. “We missed Jordan.

He’s a heck of a player, but those guys did a great job.”

The Hoosiers had built a lead as large as 17 in the third quarter, but the Boilermakers scored two quick touchdowns with drives lasting less than two minutes to pull within one score, 44-36.

Where IU would usually surrender the ball on a punt or a turnover to give the opposition an opportunity to tie, Sudfeld found receiver Andre Booker along the right sideline for a 72-yard touchdown to pull IU ahead, 51-36 — a lead the Hoosiers would maintain through the final 10:15.

Sudfeld claimed the top spot on the all-time IU passing yardage list with that touchdown pass, but he would only talk about Booker when asked about the play.

“I’m so proud of him,” he said. “To be on scholarship

Sudfeld cements himself in history

Three straight Bucket wins

By Brody Miller

2013 56-36 win in Bloomington 2014 23-16 win in Bloomington 2015 54-36 win in West Lafayette, Indiana

An IU football fan fought through the crowd surrounding the line of players walking into the locker room and called for the attention of quarterback Nate Sudfeld.

“Thank you,” he said with awe in his eyes and a phone to take a picture. “Thank you.”

He was thanking Sudfeld for leading IU to a 54-36 victory against rival Purdue, for clinching bowl eligibility for a program that hasn’t been there since 2007 and for helping turn a team around that went 1-11 in the season before he arrived.

Nov. 26, 2015, was the day Sudfeld cemented himself in IU history with passing records and an Old Oaken Bucket victory. He said he was happy to do it for the Hoosier nation that welcomed the Modesto, California, prospect in.

“At the same time, we were really thinking, ‘Do it for ourselves, for each other, our teammates, our coaches,’” Sudfeld said.

Sudfeld’s game-sealing, record-breaking pass was fitting to the legacy he might leave at IU. It was a floating 72-yard heave down the sideline to receiver Andre Booker that left plenty of room for Booker to make his way into the endzone. It gave IU a 15-point lead in the fourth quarter and pushed Sudfeld ahead of Antwaan Randle El as IU’s all-time leader in career passing yardage with 7,490.

Sudfeld is now No. 1

and then to not be. He’s what this program’s about — guys who don’t get as much recognition but still fight and play as hard as they can.”

When Sudfeld and junior receiver Mitchell Paige were asked how it feels to clinch a bowl berth, they both said that there’s one more game to win. Paige even said that it’s still not good enough to get to a bowl game — the Hoosiers need to win it.

When Wilson was asked what bowl he thinks IU will be selected for, he looked at his watch and said there are still games to be played to help determine the answer, but he hopes for a marquee opponent and the players and coaches can represent IU the right way.

Regardless of the bowl IU is invited to, the players grouped together for their third straight picture with the Old Oaken Bucket after the game and IU fans are cheering for the football team once again, and Wilson said he likes it.

“We want those kids to taste some of the rewards for their time and energy,” Wilson said. “They always have high esteem in my world — win, lose or draw. I’m just glad to spend a few more weeks with them and practice into the holidays.”

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all-time at IU in both passing yardage and passing touchdowns, with 58.

With these honors, he said he has been able to reflect on all the players he has thrown touchdowns to, all the players who have blocked for him and all of the coaches who have helped him.

“I mean, it is a big honor, but I’m just standing on the shoulders of guys around me,” Sudfeld said.

IU Coach Kevin Wilson also made sure to state how Sudfeld has played well thanks to the pieces around him.

But he still had high praise for the quarterback who has played in games across four seasons for Wilson.

“Nate played good,” he said. “I’m proud of him. He’s awesome. Got a chance to be the best quarterback in this league.”

Junior receiver Mitchell Paige echoed these thoughts by saying he believes he plays with the best quarterback in the Big Ten. Sudfeld often talks about how this is the reason he and his classmates came to IU — to be a part of the team that turned IU football around.

Now that he has accomplished the goal of taking IU to a bowl game, he said he doesn’t look back or have regrets despite the earlier years of losing.

He spoke of all the things he has had to fight through at IU, like stepping in as a true freshman when Tre Roberson went down with an injury.

Or like competing and sharing time with Roberson during his sophomore season.

Sudfeld’s career Passing yards 7879 Touchdowns 61 Interceptions 20 Completion percentage 60% Games played 37 Old Oaken Bucket wins 2* *Sudfeld did not play in 2014 Purdue game due to injury

He spoke of all of the ups and downs, like earning the starting job as Nate a junior only to go out with Sudfeld a seasonending shoulder injury during the sixth game of the season.

Sudfeld stopped and tried to refocus his thoughts.

“You know, I’ve been so happy to be a part of this team,” he said. “I’ve believed in everything the coaches have said. I’ve taken coaching. Coach Wilson has done a great job with me, Coach Johns, those two, especially.”

They treated him like a son but still coached him to never be comfortable and to never accept less than what he is capable of, he said.

So before he can truly revel in all of his passing records and the Hoosiers’ first bowl berth in eight years, Sudfeld knows those coaches will still want him to improve.

“I’m sure come Monday they are going to critique me on what I could have done better, and I love that about them,” Sudfeld said.

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Clara Butler from Phoenix cries after the competition while her mother, Linda Butler celebrates April 15 at Bill Armstrong Stadium. Phoenix won its first ever Little 500 this year.

Delta Tau Delta rider senior Luke Tormoehlen celebrates after crossing the finish line first at Bill Armstrong Stadium on April 16 to secure Delta Tau Delta’s second Little 500 victory in history.

SPRINT FINISHES Phoenix wins its first Little 500 behind Sherwood

By Hailey Hernandez hmhernandez@indiana.edu @hmhernandez10

Although it was heading into just its second year as a team, Phoenix Cycling had two advantages.

First, whenever Tabitha Sherwood was on the bike, Phoenix didn’t have to worry.

Second, Sherwood wasn’t going to settle for a secondplace finish.

Sherwood finished 0.051 seconds ahead of Delta Gamma’s Kristen Bignal on the last straightaway to give Phoenix the title of the women’s Little 500 champion. The last lap was blurry for Sherwood, and she didn’t have the opportunity to make the moves she wanted, but it was enough to get the job done.

“We knew that no one would win a sprint against me,” Sherwood said. “And they didn’t. Yeah, it hurt a lot, but I’m so proud of my team.”

Starting off strong, Sherwood rode the first 27 laps for Phoenix before its first exchange. After her performance, Sherwood erased all doubts she is the best rider in the field, teammate Lauren Brand said.

“I never doubted that Tabitha wouldn’t get first because she’s the most strongwilled and dedicated person,” Brand said. “There’s no way

she was going to let someone beat her.”

Sherwood also took home wins this year in Individual Time Trials and Miss N Outs to cap off her final Spring Series.

But when the time came for Sherwood to join Phoenix on stage to hoist the trophy, she hung back by the track for a few moments and threw up.

“She was so exhausted,” Brand said. “Tabitha literally left every single ounce of whatever was in her on the track.”

Bignal felt the same way, exhausted, but willing to give it all for her team. Bignal had a slight lead toward the end, but someone started to creep up on her.

“I figured it was Tabitha because, to be honest, I didn’t think anyone else could catch me,” Bignal said. “But once I saw her right around turn four I knew it was going to be close. I thought I could hold her off, and I couldn’t, but she deserves every bit of the win.”

Behind Phoenix and DG, Teter finished third, managing to edge out two-time defending champ Kappa Alpha Theta. Theta, which was fighting to be the only women’s team in history to win three consecutive titles, fell short in fourth place.

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the line with its best performance in program history to round out the top-five finishers. Sherwood said she has respect for Theta and what they’ve been able to do the past few years.

“They’ve put a lot of hard work into it,” Sherwood said.

“I have respect for pretty much everyone else out here too. We all know what it takes.”

Aside from Sherwood and Brand, Phoenix riders Melissa Ragatz and Clara Butler are also seniors. The future of the Phoenix team is left with a lot of unknowns, but that makes this victory all the more memorable, Brand said.

“It honestly means everything,” Brand said. “We worked so hard for it. Phoenix is probably not going to even be a thing next year so, for us seniors to go out with a bang, it’s been cool to do some awesome things.”

Sherwood, who started the team two years ago with money out of her own pocket, can’t describe how difficult it was, and she said she doesn’t want to dwell on the hardships. But if she could do it all over again, she would.

“To win with them means everything,” Sherwood said.

“I can’t put into words how much I love my team. They did great today, absolutely great.”

Delts win men’s Little 500 after late sprint to finish

By Andrew Hussey aphussey@indiana.edu @thehussnetwork

Luke Tormoehlen had dirt in his teeth.

Delta Tau Delta’s senior captain had just kissed the finish line after winning his first Little 500.

Minutes prior, he earned the Borg-Warner trophy after his sprint to the finish put the young Delts team in the winner’s circle.

“I can’t even put it into words,” Tormoehlen said.

“This is how I wanted it to happen. All of my hard work and dedication paid off.”

Tormoehlen’s sprint was just how the team said it wanted the end of the race to be set up.

“Crazy as it sounds, I compared it to a World War II bomb run,” Delts Coach Courtney Bishop said. “Everyone else but Luke were the fighter pilots just trying to get the bomber to the end.”

Tormoehlen was the bomber, sprinting away with the Delts’ second ever Little 500 victory.

The Delts hung close with the pack throughout the race in what was a backand-forth affair. Late in the race, the Delts were right there when the lead pack started to shrink.

The Cutters at one point looked like they could break open the race, but Delts, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and the Black Key Bulls were able to close the gap.

On the final lap, the race was down to those three teams after Cutters fell back.

Turn two was when Tormoehlen made his mark.

“I just wanted to make a move depending on the pace coming out of turn two,” Tormoehlen said. “I wasn’t that fatigued going into the last lap thanks to my teammates. I knew if I accelerated out of there, I knew there was a good chance I could hold them off.”

In the previous two races, the Delts had been in position to win but came up short.

Tormoehlen said that fueled the team’s hunger this year.

The Delts were not the most experienced team in the field of 33.

The other teammates — freshman Griffin Casey and sophomores William Lussenhop and Jack Moore — had no race experience.

It didn’t show — each avoided getting involved in any crashes, and Casey put up a stellar performance by bridging the gap before Tormoehlen took over.

“Given that this team is young, excluding myself, we weren’t going to try to break away. We were going to ride a smart race, and my teammates really responded.”

Luke Tormoehlen, Delta Tau Delta senior captain

“Given that this team is young, excluding myself, we weren’t going to try to break away,” Tormoehlen said. “We were going to ride a smart race, and my teammates really responded. I’m proud of them because we wouldn’t be here without them.”

The rest of the team said they wouldn’t have been there without Tormoehlen.

“He was such a great leader throughout the entire year,” Casey said. “Everything he puts into it and how much he cares makes us work that much harder every day.”

The program, even after losing Tormoehlen, is on solid ground moving forward.

“The win is a continuation of the program’s sustainability,” Tormoehlen said.

“A win solves everything.”

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MEN’S BASKETBALL | HEAR ME OUT

Five seniors, five stories on senior night Forward Max Bielfeldt had never won a game at Assembly Hall during his career at Michigan. He knew from experience just how difficult it is to come in and play there.

But March 6, standing on Branch McCracken Court in a building he couldn’t conquer wearing maize and blue, Bielfeldt ended his career undefeated in Assembly Hall as an IU player.

“I’ll tell you,” Bielfeldt said during his senior night speech. “It’s pretty fun to be a Hoosier.”

Bielfeldt is the guy who was nudged out going into his final year at Michigan and found a new home at IU. In eight months in Bloomington, he transformed from a solid role player into one of the most valuable guys on the team.

IU Coach Tom Crean said IU brought Bielfeldt in because the team was in need of a leader and veteran. Bielfeldt provided just that.

Crean also said Bielfeldt needed a group of guys who believed in him and how he could improve. Bielfeldt was provided just that.

And as fans in Assembly Hall waited for the seniors to come out for their speeches, forward Troy Williams jumped on the microphone.

He said he knows Bielfeldt has won Big Ten titles as a member of the Wolverines and all that.

“But ours means the most,” Bielfeldt said. * * * A fan yelled that he needed no introduction. Tom Crean disagreed.

Crean wanted to talk about the guy he won two Big Ten titles with. He wanted to talk about the player that has gone from great talent to absolute superstar in their four years together.

He said he has spoke with people who consider this player to be one of the most underappreciated in all of

college basketball. Crean doesn’t underappreciate him.

“I wouldn’t trade him for anyone in the country,” Crean said. “Kevin Yogi Ferrell.”

And on his big night, Ferrell did just what he has for four years at IU. He got the ball to everybody but still left as the star.

He worked his way to everyone during his speech.

There were stories about arguing with teammates like Williams and freshman forward OG Anunoby but loving them anyway. He mentioned the time his mother texted him to get his butt back in the gym after an off shooting night. He thanked his coach in detail.

The best of the night may have been when he made his girlfriend, a cheerleader, come up and hug him. Ferrell spoke about how he loved her and oddly thanked her for all of the “late-night massages.”

And all joking aside, Ferrell made his way through just about everybody he could thank. Ferrell was a star recruit. He won a Big Ten title at both the start and end of his career and dealt with two years of drama in between. He thought this was the most fun, though.

Ferrell will go down as one of the greatest Hoosiers of all time. He has records for assists and games played.

Now, he is a legend here in almost every sense.

“I’ve had a very fun four years, and I feel like if I could leave Indiana, I never would,” Ferrell said.

Ryan Burton

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seasons of basketball at Bellarmine and decided to transfer to IU, except it wasn’t to play basketball.

Academics and going to the Kelley School of Business were his biggest priorities, he said.

He spent a year at IU strictly as a student and joined the program as a walk-on in the summer of 2014. During those two years, he averaged just over three minutes per game.

Sunday, Crean went out of his way to call a timeout with 14 seconds left despite an 18-point lead because he wanted to get Burton and forward Jackson Tharp on the floor. Teammates celebrated Burton and Tharp getting on the floor like they would a crucial play going into a timeout.

Burton might not have ever become some star player at IU, but his future is apparently bright.

“You’d be happy to hire him in your company one day,” Crean said. “Trust me.” * * *

* * * “I’ll keep this short,” forward Ryan Burton said.

Burton wasn’t going to overdo anything. He didn’t play a ton at IU and wasn’t going to speak a ton on his senior night.

Burton didn’t even come to IU for basketball, so this was all just a bonus.

He played his first two

Trying to put this play into words won’t do it justice, but I’ll try.

Nick Zeisloft chased a ball about to go into the corner by the Maryland bench. He grabbed it with one hand and, without even looking, heaved the ball as hard as he could across his body and over his head.

Somehow, the ball went

halfway down the court and hit freshman forward Juwan Morgan perfectly as he ran in transition and scored a fastbreak layup.

Zeisloft is known to the masses for one thing — 3-point shooting. He has taken 279 3-pointers in two seasons and attempted only 32 from inside the arc.

When Crean considered bringing him in two years ago from Illinois State, the belief was he was a pretty situational player.

“We were wrong,” Crean said. “He could do a lot more than one or two more things.”

And the aforementioned nonsensical play showed that as well. Zeisloft is the stoic Hoosier who gets on other players as much as anyone. He is one of the toughest players, Crean said.

During his speech, he told an anecdote about how angry Crean was after losing two of three games at the Maui Invitational back in November.

Crean asked if they play at Indiana or for Indiana. He said there were a lot of guys who only played at Indiana.

Now, the Hoosiers are Big

Ten champs.

“I can honestly say every one of our players, coaches, staff, everybody plays for Indiana.” * * * Everybody wanted him to have a senior night moment.

He knew better.

Team manager-turnedroster member forward Jackson Tharp got the ball at the 3-point line with nobody around him. IU was leading by 18 points and there were a few seconds left in the game.

The IU student section started screaming, “Shoot it.”

Tharp had played a total of four minutes on the floor since Crean added him to the roster Jan. 15.

In the senior video, the majority of the clips of Tharp were him sitting on the bench. He had never even taken a shot.

And as the crowd yelled for him to take that shot and have that senior moment, Tharp knew better.

He passed the ball back to freshman guard Harrison Niego.

Tharp is the senior who Crean asked to join

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the team because IU needed another body after sophomore guard James Blackmon Jr. went down.

Three and a half years were spent making Gatorade and hauling luggage.

So in his final game in Assembly Hall, he made sure to give his fellow managers a shout out.

“They’re some of the hardest working people you’ll never know,” Tharp said.

In his speech, Tharp talked about how his father instilled three things to him: God, family and hard work.

He said he believes this IU team possesses all three of those values.

And when it was all said and done, it was a player with the least time on the court who was making the most confident statement.

“We’re going to get another banner this year,” he said.

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IU athletics announced a capital campaign that will include new and renovated facilities throughout the department.

The fundraising goal of $170 million is part of the For All Bicentennial Campaign in honor of the anniversary of IU in 2020. The Universitywide campaign has a goal of $2.5 billion, the largest in IU history.

IU Athletic Director Fred Glass said IU has already raised $124 million of the athletic department’s goal.

In addition to the renovations already in progress at Assembly Hall and the Mark Cuban Center for Sports Media and Technology, changes will include enclosing the south end zone of Memorial Stadium, a new indoor arena for volleyball and wrestling, and renovations to the IU golf course and Armstrong Stadium.

“Also unprecedented in its ambition and scope, the Bicentennial Campaign for Indiana Athletics will help establish this as a new Golden Age of Indiana Athletics,” Glass said.

The estimated $50 million south end zone Excel-

lence Academy at Memorial Stadium will include the Institute for Sports Medicine and Technology, Institute for Leadership and Life Skills, premium seating, a terrace, new video boards at both end zones and a new entrance way.

Glass said it should be ready for the 2018 football season.

The $40 million Assembly Hall renovations donated

by Cindy Simon Skjodt have been underway since April 2015, but will include a new South Lobby and atrium in addition to a new video board and up-to-date restrooms and concession stands. It is expected to be completed by the 2016-2017 basketball season.

The Mark Cuban Center will be located in Assembly Hall and will provide access to innovative technologies for students and the athletic department to utilize.

It is a product of a $5 million donation from famed IU alumnus and businessman Mark Cuban.

A new indoor arena will be home for IU volleyball and wrestling. It will be a 3,000seat, indoor, multi-purpose venue and is expected to cost $15 million and be ready before the 2019-2020 school

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IU will also be renovating the golf course if it can establish $11 million in donations. Its completion date comes down to when the money is raised. The renovations will include an updated clubhouse.

The other proposed renovation dependent upon a lead gift would be at Bill Armstrong Stadium, where both soccer teams play. The estimated cost is $6 million.

The project goal of $170 million is comprised of an $85 million scholarship goal and a Capital Projects goal of $85 million.

The project includes several former IU athletes as cochairs of the Campaign Steering Committee, including Quinn Buckner and Wayne Radford. There is also a list of honorary co-chairs such as Victor Oladipo, Cody Zeller, Trent Green, Antwaan Randle El, Derek Drouin and Ashley Benson.

“The bold goals of the Bicentennial Campaign, which are the most ambitious in Indiana University’s history and among the largest ever by a public university, will set Indiana University on the course for greatness in its third century,” IU President Michael A. McRobbie said.

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The No. 1 diver in the country stands on the pool deck, waiting to hear her name called. She’s made it to the national finals and leads the pack heading into the last five dives.

Amy Cozad walks around the deck of her home pool, where she first learned to dive and where her college coach at IU recruited her years ago. Only this time, the stakes are much higher — Rio is months away, and she doesn’t want to fall one spot short of the Olympic team like she did four years ago.

Before making the 10-meter climb up, she thinks about the dive she’s performed a million times before.

Aggressive takeoff. Tight tuck. Streamline entry. Tiny splash.

Lyrics by her favorite rapper echo over the loudspeakers, muffled but audible.

I fly with the stars in the skies I am no longer trying to survive I believe that life is a prize But to live doesn’t mean you’re alive.

She’s about to fly. * * * Standing a few yards away from Amy on the pool deck is the second-ranked diver in the country — her teammate and IU sophomore Jessica Parratto.

Every day, Amy and Jess walk into the same pool, practice the same dives, take instruction from the same coach with the same goal in mind. There are

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exactly two spots on the U.S. Olympic team in their event, and they both want one.

Amy is an eight-time national champion, while Jess has seven national titles to her name.

But the rankings offer no advantage on the long road to this summer’s Olympic Games in Rio. Amy and Jess are just two of six Olympic hopefuls training in Bloomington under IU Diving Coach Drew Johansen, who coached the U.S. team in London four years ago.

Jess was recruited to IU by former diving coach Jeff Huber but stayed for Johansen, while Amy returned to Bloomington a couple years after graduation to train for the Olympics.

From performing up to 100 dives a day, to technique training at the dry-land facility, to weight training and conditioning, diving is a full-time job for the two. This season Jess decided to take an Olympic year, similar to a redshirt season, so she could put all her

time into training.

Whether or not she makes it, though, will unfold in a matter of seconds.

Each time they step onto the 10-meter platform, the goal is to make this dive better than the last. It’s making the judges believe what they just saw was perfect, even if, in reality, there were 10 little mistakes.

But perfection isn’t possible.

“We don’t even say that word,” Jess said.

Instead of evaluating the divers with a score of 1-10, Johansen uses a golf scoring system. Par is good.

Birdie is above average and eagle is nearly perfect, a rare mark.

Bogey and double bogey signal a miss.

The idea is each diver is being judged versus themselves and no one else. But when your biggest competitor is standing next to you, it’s hard for the two not to break that rule. When Jess watches Amy nail a dive, or vice versa, it’s motivation to be better.

“It’s real as a heart attack,” Johansen said. * * * Amy can’t get through a meet without Nicki Minaj, and today is no different.

“She’s my idol,” Amy says. “She was like, ‘I’m not just trying to be the best female rapper. I’m trying to be the best rapper of all time.’ That’s what I’m trying to do. I’m trying to break records. I want to be the best.”

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3 Hoosiers chosen in draft, more sign as free agents

By Brody Miller brodmill@indiana.edu | @byBrodyMiller

One thing IU Coach Kevin Wilson has received credit for in his five seasons at the helm has been raising the recruiting standard at IU. Now, the development of that recruiting is becoming more apparent.

Three Hoosiers were selected in the 2016 NFL Draft, the most IU has had since 2010.

First was left tackle Jason Spriggs. The four-year starter at IU was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the second round with the No. 48 overall pick.

Some mock drafts had Spriggs going as high as the first round, but he wasn’t too disappointed with the result.

“There’s no words to explain the excitement I felt,” Spriggs said in a conference call. “I was trying not to hold any expectations as to where I was playing. I’m just happy to be part of the organization.”

Spriggs will go to a wellestablished offensive line in Green Bay that is looking for some depth.

The Packers scrambled to find a replacement last season when starting left tackle David Bakhtiari missed time.

Packers Director of Player Personnel Brian Gutekunst said he believes Spriggs can play anywhere on the line, but he gives some depth to back up Bakhtiari and right tackle Bryan Bulaga.

Spriggs came to IU as a tight end and started as a freshman at left tackle.

“He got stronger,” Gutekunst said. “He was able to add some weight.

The athleticism was always there, the ability to cover speed on the edge. The strength is the thing that

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The next Hoosier to be drafted was running back Jordan Howard, who was selected at No. 150 by the Chicago Bears in the fifth round Saturday.

Howard came to IU for one season after leaving UAB because the program was disbanded.

He rushed for 1,213 yards in 2015 in only nine games in his only season in Bloomington.

ESPN analyst Mel Kiper Jr. said good things about Howard’s ability as a runner, but noted Howard’s durability as his biggest issue.

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Historic turnaround

By Teddy Bailey eebailey@iu.edu | @TheTeddyBailey

A year ago, IU Coach Teri Moren was trying to establish the identity of her new program. Now, Moren is the consensus Big Ten Coach of the Year following a turnaround that gave its first trip to the NCAA Tournament since 2007.

Last season, despite a 10-1 nonconference record, the Hoosiers finished as the 12-seed in the Big Ten with a 5-15 record in conference play.

In 2015-16, though, IU (20-10, 12-6) finished fourth in the conference and earned a double-bye in the conference tournament. It also qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2002.

Moren becomes the second coach in IU history to receive the conference’s highest coaching honor.

Maryalyce Jeremiah won the award in 1983.

“This is way bigger than me,” Moren told Big Ten Network after receiving the news. “It’s a team award, it’s a staff award.

The thing I’ve managed to do is surround myself with terrific people. We’re going to accept this on behalf of our team and the incredible amount of work we’ve

done thus far.”

In her second year, Moren’s Hoosiers were not expected to go undefeated at home.

They also weren’t expected to upset multiple ranked opponents and win numerous games on the road in Big Ten play.

Those expectations were set after IU lost three players to transfer and lost seven of its last eight games last season.

Regardless, Moren said she is not shocked with what the Hoosiers have done in her second year.

“This is honest-to-goodness truth, I don’t think we ever put a number on what we could do with this group,” Moren said. “We had no idea. I don’t want to say that I’m shocked because I think that takes away from our kids. I’m not surprised by it. They’ve believed it from the beginning.”

Part of Moren’s lack of surprise is due to the sophomore combination of point guard Tyra Buss and forward Amanda Cahill.

Buss, who was named a first team All-Big Ten selection, slid into the point guard spot after the departure of point guard Larryn Brooks.

This season, Buss averaged 19 points, 5.1 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game.

The duo of Buss and Cahill has carried the Hoosiers through almost every game this season.

Cahill, a second team All-Big Ten selection, nearly averaged a double-double with 14.6 points and 8.5 rebounds per game.

“I think we know what it’s like to play in the Big Ten,” Buss said. “Whenever we need to make plays, I think Coach relies on me and Amanda to make the smarter play and take over.”

The two not only work well off the court, but away from Assembly Hall as well.

As roommates, Buss said she and Cahill talk basketball constantly.

“Even when we’re at home sitting around the apartment, we’re always talking about basketball,” Buss said. “I think it helps that we’re really good friends and I feel like I’ve been playing with Amanda for so long. Our chemistry is just really good.”

After a rocky first year for Moren, Buss and Cahill, the trio has bounced back in a way that placed the program into the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2002.

“That’s something that obviously has been a goal of ours,” Cahill said of the double-bye. “To be a team in this league that’s actually making a difference. It’s a cool experience, I’m really looking forward to it.”

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Top IU Coach Teri Moren takes a knee at the edge of the court during the fourth quarter of play on Feb. 4, at Assembly Hall.

Middle IU junior guard Karlee McBride drives around a defender during IU’s loss to Notre Dame in the second round of the 2016 NCAA Tournament.

Bottom Freshman forward Kym Royster attacks the basket against the Fighting Irish.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE D6 the 10-meter platform. Amy was one spot away from the Olympic team in 2012; she is competing for one of the spots for the 2016 Olympics during Olympic Trials in June.

I wish I could have this moment for life, for life, for life Cause in this moment, I just feel so alive, alive, alive Amy performs a back 2 ½ somersault, 1 ½ twist first. She earns 5’s and 6’s from the seven judges — not as successful as she’d hoped.

When Jess begins her climb to the top of the 10-meter tower, she moves quickly up the stairs to loosen her nerves, the steps of the dive running through her head.

The nerves don’t come from fear, though. She likes the fear factor of free falling — it’s why she started diving in the first place.

She needs to finish in the top two at Nationals today, just like she will need to at the Olympic Trials this June.

Rather than get ahead of herself — World Cup is a couple months away, followed by the trials and possibly the Olympics — she stays in the moment.

“I kind of want to think about it,” she says, “but I can’t.”

Jess walks to the end of the platform. One, two, three, four steps forward. Then she turns with her heels hanging off the edge, turning away from the podium that sits right across the pool.

She raises her arms, as if to make a “T,” and counts down to herself.

Deep breath, knees bent, explode. And she’s falling.

Seconds later, her fingertips break the water’s surface.

7’s and 8’s flash onto the screen. * * * She used to follow her mom to practice every day.

It didn’t matter that she was too young to dive – Jess was always hanging out at the pool where her mother, Amy, coached at a diving club in New Hampshire.

When she started swimming lessons, Jess’s eyes would drift to the other side of the natatorium.

She wanted to jump off one of those boards.

“She was a little bit of a daredevil,” her mom said.

At age eight, Jess competed in her first diving competition, with her mom as her coach.

Being coached by mom had its drawbacks – when all the other kids didn’t show up to practice, Jess still had to.

When she was tempted to talk back to her coach, there were consequences.

“I got kicked out of practice a lot,” Jess says.

Jess holds a straight position as she dives from the 10-meter platform. She competed for the first time when she was seven-years-old.

But diving never came home with them. In the house, her mom was her mom mom.

At the pool, she was her coach.

She didn’t want to force either of her daughters into anything they didn’t want – the minute they stopped loving it, it wasn’t worth it.

“Sometimes I’d come home and say, ‘I’m gonna quit,’” Jess says.

“OK,” her mom would reply.

“Then I’d always come back.”

Jess was 14 years old when she was invited to train at the National Training Center in Indianapolis. One year of high school down, she moved nearly a thousand miles away from her family.

She trained seven hours a day. She didn’t have the opportunity to attend a normal high school – she missed out on senior prom, homecoming, Friday night football games.

She didn’t even have time to get her driver’s license.

The city where Jess spent time missing home is the place Amy called home, though at times it hardly felt like it. With her parents divorced, she switched off living with her mom, dad, aunt and grandparents, moving to a different house every time she became too frustrated.

For a good while, she and her mom didn’t see eye-toeye.

“I was kind of a bad kid,” Amy admits, half-smiling.

But she was fearless and competitive too – the most competitive Jess says she’s ever met. Diving, for Amy, was different and exciting and a positive outlet for all of her energy.

In 2012, she was one spot away from making the Olympic team.

Amy finished third, while just the top two qualify.

It wasn’t until that moment she realized the Olympics was an attainable goal for her, and now everything she has goes toward reaching it.

“Amy will perform dive after dive after dive after dive and that’s how she builds confidence,” Johansen said. “It’s all about consistent training and repetition, doing it until it’s the best it can be.” * * * A little more than a year ago, Amy and Jess became synchro partners. Now, they’re the No. 1 synchro duo in the United States.

Amy and Jess jump into pike position as they dive off

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Amy Cozad comes out of pike position as she dives from the 10-meter platform. Cozad was one spot away from the Olympic team in 2012; she is competing for one of the spots for the 2016 Olympics during Olympic Trials in June.

of the five-meter platform.

Some synchro duos have been competing together for 10 or 15 years, but these two have been competing against each other four times as long as they’ve been teammates. Finding the balance between competing against and competing with each other is still an adjustment.

Amy describes it as having to wear two hats.

“I’m still working on it,” she said. “In everything, I find something to compete about – I’ll get here earlier than you if I can.”

Johansen said it’s a mental battle his divers deal with every day, but it makes them even better. Very few, if any, divers in the country have the advantage of watching their competition day in and day out.

There is only one spot on the Olympic team in the synchronized event.

Practicing as a duo isn’t much different than practicing alone. You’re trying to perform that dive as perfectly as possible, as always – just with someone standing next to you.

Head Diving Coach Drew Johansen takes detailed notes on every dive his six Olympic hopefuls make during practice. Johansen came to IU in 2013 after coaching the 2012 Olympic diving team in London.

At the back of the platform, Jess will line up next to Amy. “Ready?” she’ll say.

“One, two, three, go.”

They’ll take a running start before jumping off both feet, all four touching in unison. As soon as they’re in the air, it’s each diver for herself.

“Ultimately, in synchro, you say ‘1, 2, 3, go’ and after you say ‘3,’ it’s only you,” Amy says.

One front tuck somersault. Then another. And another.

“That’s a birdie for Amy,” Johansen says. “Par for Jess.”

* * * Amy paces the pool deck, stopping for instructions from her coach, preparing for her final dive. Her headphones are back on, more Nicki Minaj lyrics blasting in her ears.

This is my moment I waited all my life Jess has just finished her set – more 8’s on her final dive and good enough for second place. She hurries over to hug her coach and then waits to see if she’ll be celebrating with her teammate.

“Amy Cozad,” echoes through the natatorium.

“407C.” Jess wipes excess water off of her face as she watches another diver get critiqued

by Coach Drew Johansen.

Her aunt, her fiancé, her mother and father, her grandmother and so many others have come out to watch her dive. Her former coach – the coach who told Amy after just a week of practice that she would be an Olympic diver – is watching.

Ten meters up, before diving Amy reminds herself how many times before she’s nailed this dive.

Just do it like your last rep, she thinks. Just do it right.

Three and a half somersaults later, Amy is the national champion. She gets out of the pool and jogs cautiously across the slippery pool deck toward the crowd.

She wants to hug her fiancé and talk to her family.

Fans whistle and applaud, and Amy shyly smiles up at them, giving a small wave.

She knows this is just the beginning of accomplishing what she couldn’t four years ago. After only a week off for Christmas, she’ll be back in the pool. And she doesn’t mind.

“Never,” she said. In 13 years, there hasn’t been a morning when she’s woken up and not wanted to dive.

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