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(08/24/12 3:16pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Indiana University is the alma mater of many iconic and influential students. But two of the most important people to walk this campus left their legacy a century ago.Indiana removed a prohibition from its Constitution in the 1870s, allowing African Americans the right to an education. Not long after, they began to attend college.Marcellus Neal and Frances Marshall were the first African Americans to receive a degree from IU. The pair faced a major struggle with the issue of housing. At the time, they were forbidden from living and eating on campus or going into the Indiana Memorial Union.“They had to find housing in the community with people in the black churches,” said Sachiko Higgins-Kante, administrative assistant of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center.Neal and Marshall faced many hardships students today take for granted.“They had to find a community within themselves, support themselves, uplift each other and encourage each other to even go on and finish school,” Higgins-Kante said. “Even with study sessions, they would give each other tips on how to do things and how to let each other know that they could make it.”Neal graduated from IU in 1895 with a B.A. in math. He later held careers as a teacher and school administrator. For 25 years, Neal was the head of the science department at Washington High School in Dallas, Texas, until he was killed in a hit-and-run car accident.Marshall graduated from IU with a B.A. in English in 1919. She also became a teacher and an educational administrator.She married Wilson Eagleson, another IU graduate. Eagleson’s father, Preston, was the first African American to play football and baseball and receive a master’s degree from IU.Neal’s and Marshall’s legacy lives on through the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center.Created in 1968, it was originally named the Black House. Several name changes - and location changes - were made along the way, but it came to garner Neal’s and Marshall’s names in 2002 when the center was moved to its final location at 275 N. Jordan Ave., adjacent to the Department of Theatre and Drama.“Their legacy showed other students that they made it, so others could, too,” Higgins-Kante said. “The sacrifice is worth the time. In order to achieve and excel, you have to go forward to get your dreams fulfilled. I think the fact that they stood as examples to others, they’re like the shoulders that others come and can stand on.”The Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center gives black students the sense of community that Neal and Marshall could only dream of during their tenure at IU. The pair influenced not only the black students that came after them, but the University as a whole.
(06/28/12 12:49am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Three-time Track and Field All-American Andy Bayer was named one of IU’s Athletes of the Year on Monday. Bayer had a stand-out year as he led the Hoosiers to their first Big Ten team title since 1992 at the Big Ten Indoor Track and Field Championships in February. There, he took two individual titles in the mile and 3,000-meter races. As for the outdoor season, he won the 1,500-meter Big Ten title at the Big Ten Outdoor Track and Field Championships, which helped IU place third behind University of Wisconsin and University of Nebraska.His accomplishments ceased to end there as he fought off Brigham Young University defending champion Miles Batty by .01 of a second to win the NCAA 1,500-meter title on June 9. Bayer is continuing in Eugene, Ore., competing Thursday in the Olympic trials. Bayer is joined by three teammates at the trials. Kind Butler held down the spot as number eight of 16 qualifying runners in the 400-meter dash with a time of 45.67. Molly Beckwith, a 2010 IU graduate, finished the 800-meter race in 2:00.61, giving her the fastest time in the preliminary round. And 2003 graduate Danielle Carruthers ran the 100-meter hurdles, finishing fourth. Bayer is set to run in the 1,500-meter qualifying race at 4:20 p.m. Thursday. The Indiana Daily Student got in touch with Bayer to talk about his season. IDS How does it feel to be an NCAA Champion and Athlete of the Year?Bayer It was cool, definitely a great honor for Athlete of the Year. I mean, IU’s athletic department is so strong, and I know we have a lot of good athletes just on the track team that I can think of that work so hard. I mean it’s just a cool honor to win. And NCAA is really special. I’ve been pretty close the last couple years in a few events. I got second a couple times, so it’s nice to finally win one.IDS You’ve run the 3,000-meter and the mile, so how is it that you decided to focus on the 1,500-meter?Bayer Well, outdoor is a little bit different events than indoor. Indoor has the mile, the 3k and the 5k, but outdoor just has the 1,500 and the 5k and then something called the steeplechase, and I ran the steeplechase. So, I only had the option between the 15 and the 5k. Just the way the schedule was set up at the NCAA meet, it was going to be hard to double in the 15 and the 5k just because they’re close together. It would’ve made it harder to win a title in the 15, and we decided that’s what we kind of wanted to go for. We decided to settle on that. We thought that was my best chance to win and help out the team.IDS How are you preparing for the Olympic trials?Bayer Kind of just going into it like the NCAA meet. I mean, the competition will be even better than the NCAA meet, but I don’t want to get too warmed up just because it’s a bigger meet. I’m just going to race like I have been. I think if I race as well as I have been at NCAA’s and Big Ten’s it should go pretty well.IDS What’s your routine?Bayer I did a harder workout today. Right now we kind of taper for the bigger meets at the end of the season. Today, I did a mini workout, I guess you would say to get my legs going and my heart rate up. The day before my race I’ll do just a little pre-meet, five- or six-mile run and some strides. Then the day of the race, I normally just get up and do a 10-minute exercise in the morning and warm up for the race, and that’s it.IDS What goes through your head during a race?Bayer I mean, mostly you try to focus on the guys ahead of you and make sure you’re in a good position. The 1,500’s not as bad because it’s shorter, but in longer races you try to keep your mind off the fact that you have a long way to go or hurting at the time. So, I just try to relax and stay as comfortable as possible and keep myself in a good position. And then as you get closer toward the end, I just think about when I think I want to make my move to give me my best shot. You don’t want to go too early because lots of times it’s harder to lead than it is to follow. If you go too early, a lot of guys can kind of feed off you. I just try to focus on when I think it’s the best time that I can go and make sure the last move I make can pull me through to the finish and win, I guess.IDS Are you glad to have a fellow Hoosier at the trials with you?Bayer Yeah, it’s nice to have kind of a big group. We have a lot of both current athletes and alumni. There’s one other distance guy here with me, (recent IU graduate) DeSean Turner, who ran the steeplechase. Kind Butler is running the two and the four. It’s nice to have a big group. It’s not fun to go to meets and be all by yourself the whole time. I mean, I’m here for like eight days, and it’s not that fun to hang out at a hotel by yourself.IDS How’s the support system between all of you? Do you feed off of each other’s energy?Bayer Oh, for sure. I mean, it definitely helps to see other people doing well. Even more so at Big Ten’s and Nationals, where they’re scored team wise. The Olympic trials is more individual. Big Ten’s and things like that, you’re focused on your team and what they do encourages you, and then you try to encourage your teammates with what you do and give your team the best chance to win.IDS How did it feel to carry IU to its first Big Ten team title since 1992?Bayer It was definitely exciting. We’ve been working at it for quite a few years. My freshman year, the first Big Ten meet I was at, we were last in the Big Ten at the outdoor meet. We’ve come a long way, and it took the whole team’s effort. I think we won by four points. Everybody did their part, and across the board everyone performed really well. I don’t think we had a bad performance the whole meet, really. That’s what it takes every time to win a Big Ten Championship. It was really exciting.I think that was one of the biggest highlights of the year of anything. Winning the NCAA as an individual was definitely really cool, but the Big Ten title was one of the most exciting things, in my mind.
(06/10/12 11:58pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Andy Bayer won the 1,500-meter race at the NCAA Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday, giving him his first NCAA title and making him the first outdoor champion from Indiana University since 1993. Bayer finished the race in 3:43.82, crowning him the champion against Brigham Young University’s Miles Batty by just .01 seconds. “This is what I’m going for at every NCAA meet,” Bayer said. “I was set up well with 200 meters to go and I thought, ‘I’m not going to let this go, I’m going to fight to the end,’ and it worked out.”Bayer’s total of 44 points at NCAA meets ranks fifth in IU history.De’Sean Turner took seventh place in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 8:46.04 to become the only Hoosier to earn three First Team All-American honors in the event. Turner missed placing in the top six by just .03 seconds. For his career, Turner has earned First Team All-American honors six times. The two athletes helped IU place 11th with 20 points, the Hoosier men’s best outdoor finish since 1993. Adrien Dannemiller took ninth place in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a finish of 8:47.86, and Andrew Poore took 14th with 9:25.95. Both athletes received Second Team All-American honors.Day 3: Two Hoosiers named All-Americans in first appearance at NCAA Championships.The third day of the NCAA Track and Field Championships ended with four Hoosiers claiming All-American honors. Kyla Buckley was named Second Team All-American for her ninth-place finish in the women’s shot put and joins Emma Kimoto (high jump) and Rex Parker and Olu Olamigoke (triple jump) on the Second Team. Buckley recorded a career-best shot put throw of 16.98 meters to earn the recognition in her first appearance at the NCAA Championships. Kimoto cleared 1.79 meters for 13th in the high jump. The junior had just one miss as the bar moved up to 1.79 meter. She was on her way to set a new IU record but was unable to clear 1.83 meters in her first appearance at the NCAA Championships. The Hoosier men, meanwhile, claimed 13th and 14th in the triple jump. Parker jumped 15.67 meters, and Olamigoke jumped 15.64 meters. In the men’s 5,000-meter race, Ben Hubers placed 19th with a time of 14:13.80. He finished just five seconds behind 16th place and earning All-America honors.At the end of the third day, IU’s men found themselves in 25th place with eight points. Day 2 — Olympic qualifier Drouin takes second in high jumpDerek Drouin put IU on the board with his second-place finish in the high jump. The junior cleared 2.31 meters without a miss and left IU tied for 11th with eight points at the end of day two. Drouin now has five top-two finishes at NCAA meets in his career. In 2009, Drouin was the national indoor runner-up and won three straight NCAA titles from 2010-11. Bayer qualified for the 1,500-meter final, while Poore, Dannemiller and Turner secured their spots in the 3,000-meter steeplechase final. Bayer finished with a career-best time of 3:39.95 for second in his heat and eighth fastest in IU history. “I felt so relaxed, really good, just made sure I was in the top five that last hundred,” Bayer said. “I was kind of boxed in, so I just made sure that I could kind of sneak through. But I felt good. “I felt like I could’ve won the race if I needed to, and I’m feeling really good going into the final.” Poore automatically advanced to the finals by finishing fifth in the first heat with a time of 8:42.17. Dannemiller placed seventh in the second heat with a time of 8:42.17, and Turner placed ninth at 8:44.99 to clinch the last spot in the final. It is the second straight year three Hoosier steeplechase runners have advanced to the national final. Kind Butler ran the 200-meter race in 20.57 seconds in the third heat but did not qualify, even though his time was faster than three runners who automatically qualified in earlier heats. Butler’s time would have won the second heat. Ameer Webb (Texas A&M) and Horatio Williams (Florida State) qualified for the final with times of 20.59 and 20.69 seconds, respectively. The Hoosier men’s 4x400-meter relay team took 18th place in preliminary action with a time of 3:06.98. Butler, anchor of the relay, had a split of 44.58.Day 1 — Mayhew earns first All-American honorsRedshirt junior distance runner Zach Mayhew placed 14th in the 10,000-meter run with a time of 29:43.79 Wednesday.With the finish, Mayhew earned Second Team All-American honors, the first All-American honors of his career, and shaved off nearly a minute from his preliminary qualifying time.His first appearance at the NCAA Championships was grueling, as he fought to stay with the pack. Mayhew was only 22 seconds off a top-10 finish.Fifteen other Hoosiers (13 men and two women) joined Mayhew in competition at the championships.