Serial stalker hits student apartments

A "peeping tom" has struck at least seven times in a six-block area near the Lincoln Hill Apartments, according to officials at the Bloomington Police Department. \nBPD spokesman Capt. Joe Qualters said police are having difficulty catching the man responsible because they don't know when and where he is going to strike next.\nJami Bennett and Maria Long are IU students and roommates living in the apartment complex. \nBennett said the serial peeper began appearing last September wearing a trench coat and exposing himself. Since, the peeper has begun making obscene gestures and shouting obscene remarks to the two students, she said.\n"I'm scared for my life, maybe not physically but emotionally. The next step up from this is rape," Bennett said.\nThe peeper, who began watching his victims while masturbating, has escalated to stalking Bennett and Long, since he now knows their routine well enough to strike when Bennett returns from parties, Bennett said. \nBennett said the women keep their blinds and curtains closed and bought outdoor lights for the apartment complex that were installed Friday.\nBennett said she feels like she's always on guard in an area she said she thought was so safe. \nBennett said from the little she's seen of the man, he's in his mid-forties, he "has a gut" and his body hair is dark.\nIU Police Department Lt. Laury Flint said this vague description for such a case is common.\n"I think a lot of times the victim concentrates on the area of exposure and not on identifying characteristics," Flint said.\nThe incidents haven't crossed onto the IU campus, IUPD spokesman Lt. Jerry Minger said.\nThis summer several cases of indecent exposure were reported and the IUPD began to deal with the issue by putting an officer undercover in the Arboretum and using bike cops. The cases occurred at ground floor campus apartments such as Evermann, University East and University West apartments.\nWhile "peeping toms" are a nuisance, Minger said it is usually flashers who are just in it for the shock effect.\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.

Trustees extend summer camp lease

IU President Adam Herbert announced Thursday he would create a task force to look into the future of Camp Brosius, a summer camp managed by the IU Alumni Association.\nThe IUAA and the IU Board of Trustees agreed to the one-year lease proposed by the IUAA that extends through Oct. 2004 and are also discussing turning Camp Brosius over to IU-Purdue University Indianapolis' School of Physical Education and Tourism Management due to financial and staffing issues which have caused IUAA to cut its involvement with the camp.\n"Without contributions from campers and friends, the camp would have operated with a negative cash flow six of the past seven years," IUAA President Ken Beckley said. \nThe IUAA also absorbed salaries and benefits of $51,000 in the last year for the portion of IUAA permanent staff involved in the camp's operation.\nAnnually, about 900 people attend Camp Brosius, located at Lake Elkhart in Wisconsin, during its eight one-week sessions. The IUAA has operated the facility since 1974. \nBeckley said he feared many would be upset for fear the camp would no longer continue what Beckley called "wonderful family camping opportunities for parents, children, grandparents...for decades."\nThe IUAA's Board of Managers decided earlier this year that it would not seek renewal of its lease to manage the camp when the lease expires Oct. 31, 2003. They decided to extend its management until 2004 to keep the camp afloat during the transition to a new manager. \nBeckley sent an e-mail to IUAA staff members early Thursday afternoon and said no action was taken by the trustees this summer and he feared the camp would cease to exist in 2004 if the IUAA didn't step in.\nAnother reason IUAA discontinued its involvement was a recent inspection of the camp that revealed several hundred thousand dollars of needed repairs and improvements. Beckley said IUAA feels the costs should be the University's responsibility because it owns the property.\nDuring Spring 2002, Beckley met with Nick Kellum, Dean of the School of Physical Education and Tourism Management at IUPUI, about that school taking over the Brosius' operation if the trustees would approve of the plan. Beckley said Kellum's interest in the project remains. \nThe IUAA proposal did have stipulations including 2004 fee increases and a one-month window in which representatives from the IUAA, the trustees, University administration, and the IU School of Physical Education and Tourism Management must develop a transition plan. Beckley also recommended Herbert appoint a task force to look into the future of Camp Brosius.\nThe President's Office will create the task force to conduct a comprehensive study of all aspects of the camp including operating costs, staffing, capital needs, revenue and other considerations according to a statement released by IU spokeswoman Jane Jankowski.\nThe future of the camp still seems unclear, but answers may be available in the near future.\n"I don't know if it would be better to keep the camp or sell it, but we should study it," said trustee Peter Obremskey.\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.

IUPUI student arrested at IU

The IU Police Department arrested an IU-Purdue University at Indianapolis sophomore for intent to deal marijuana early Sunday morning after an IUPD officer said he thought he smelled smoke coming from the student.\nAccording to police reports, Eric L. Stewart, 23, had a large amount of cash and at least 10 grams of marijuana, a scale for measuring and weapons, including a shotgun, in his car.\nIUPD Officer Tim Roberts was patrolling the 10th Street parking lot at about 12:40 a.m. Sunday when he saw Stewart step out of a white Cadillac and proceed to light what appeared to be a cigarette. Roberts said he noticed the smell of marijuana and approached Stewart. \nWhen officers suggested to Roberts they search Stewart, he became agitated and refused to sit down. He was then searched and found to have over $2,000 in small denominations he said was for school, according to Lt. Jerry Minger.\nStewart was transported to the Monroe County Jail while Roberts phoned Judge David Welch and requested a verbal search warrant for Stewart's car.\nAfter the search warrant was issued, officers searched the car and found several things, including a 9mm semi-automatic handgun with two extra magazines under the driver seat. Also in the trunk was a 12-gauge shotgun loaded with six rounds of ammunition as well as an additional seven rounds, Minger said. \nStewart had a permit for the handgun, but Minger said Stewart was in violation of campus regulations regarding firearms on campus.\nCurrently, Stewart has been charged with intent to deal and maintaining a common nuisance, a Class D Felony.\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.

IUPD tries to win award for violations

The IU Police Department might receive a new squad car from the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute by the end of the year in a contest with other police departments. \nThe Institute will give the department with the most seat belt violations in each of 15 categories a key to the car. The department with the correct key will then win the new police cruiser.\nLast year, IUPD won $2,000 in the same program by issuing 632 seatbelt violations under Operation Pullover -- an initiative to stop drivers and passengers not wearing their seat belts. \nThis year IUPD issued 587 violations during the program's four phases.\nBut critics of the program say they think this selective enforcement is biased and special money dedicated to patrolling for seat belt violations is a waste. \nSophomore Adam Wissing said he feels money was wasted on selective enforcement when there are drug dealers and rapists running around free. He said money would be better spent on making people aware of the hazards of not wearing a seat belt through public relations messages and not penalizing people for not wearing a seat belt with a traffic citation.\nIUPD spokesman Lt. Jerry Minger said traffic officers don't go hunting down drug dealers anyway, and they would be remiss in not issuing citations for blatant and visible offenses like speeding and seat belt violations because they are so easily spotted. \n"Every veteran officer has been at the scene of an accident where a child or adult has either been thrown against or through a windshield or into a dash board," Minger said. "The more serious accidents sometimes result in people being thrown completely out of a vehicle. It should be so obvious that everyone should buckle up. Its just one more piece of the vehicle's safety equipment that should be used."\nThe IUPD received a $5,000 grant from the ICJI to pay for overtime from officers who worked on Operation Pullover. Even if IUPD wanted to spend the money on other things, it would not be allowed.\n"All of the police departments that receive the grants are mandated by the state of Indiana to use this money specifically for catching violators of the safety restraint laws," Minger said. "The state of Indiana awards the money and the police departments have no latitude to use the grant for anything else."\nThe department must schedule an extra officer on duty during a shift to run this operation, which means the officer's payroll goes up to almost $50 per hour.\nIUPD Officer Joe Amandola normally works from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m., but he picked up many of the seat belt patrol shifts.\nDuring two days last week, Amandola worked 16 hours of overtime, made 52 stops and issued 42 citations for seat belt violations.\n"75 percent of the people I pulled over knew they weren't wearing their seat belt and said 'Yeah, I know, I should have it on,'" Amandola said.\nStill, some say those who are being pulled over don't deserve to be tracked down like criminals.\n"In my view, the government has no right to tell people to wear a seat belt," Wissing said. "It's a matter of personal safety, and I think people are smart enough to make that decision on their own."\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.

'Blue lights' not so special?

They dot the campus. But do they help?\nMore than 25 emergency telephones -- commonly called "blue lights" -- were installed in the early '90s around campus in an effort to increase personal safety.\nSince then, they've never been used to stop an attack.\nFrom 1996 until 2001, IU has had 39 forcible rapes committed against women on campus, according to the Clery Report, a listing of crimes on all campuses nationwide. Eighteen cases of aggravated assault also were reported. \nBut Dean of Students Richard McKaig said in none of these instances has a blue light been activated.\nIU Police Department Detective Sgt. Leslie Slone said the placement of the emergency lights doesn't provide a safe environment. Slone's expertise in law enforcement is on architecture that promotes safety.\nShe said the blue lights are placed in highly trafficked areas where streetlights already keep pedestrian pathways lit. Slone said her experience shows attacks against women usually occur in darker areas away from pedestrian traffic.\nIn fact, in some instances she said she feels they may actually cause people to be less safe. \n"My personal concern is that blue light phones allow a student to drop their guard rather than enhance their awareness," she said.\nBut Cindy Stone, who served on the IU Commission on Personal Safety that had the lights installed, said the potential to prevent assaults is reason enough to keep the blue lights shining.\nHowever, Debora Jones, a continuing studies student, said she thinks trying to find an emergency phone in the middle of a pursuit is illogical.\n"If somebody were after me, would they give me time to call on one? I assume they wouldn't," she said. "I can't imagine how I would use it if I were being pursued. If someone were having a heart attack, you could use one. But not in terms of my personal safety."\nSophomore Christina Mosely said she questions the effectiveness of blue lights. \n"The Blue Light phones really have no significance on campus, because every time anyone is in trouble, their is no way a cop will come and help someone," Mosely said. "Some friends of mine have pressed them in an emergency and didn't receive any help."\nThe blue lights have a history on campus dating back to 1990 when there were strong requests from the date rape programming groups who thought IU needed a more broad-based program for personal safety.\nThe campus emergency phones came out of that movement, said Stone, IU Physical Plant training coordinator and former trustee from 1993-96. Stone was on the commission from 1988 until 2000.\n"Our commission's purpose was to address education, facilities and communications issues all related to personal safety," Stone said. "We initially worked on topics such as preventing sexual assaults, improving outdoor lighting and exploring night-time safety escort and ride services."\nThe Commission explored the idea and eventually the Physical Plant installed two emergency phones on the south side of Ballantine Hall and between Forest Quad and University East Apartments, Stone said.\nThe units cost about $2,000 for each installation, but they don't require much upkeep, Stone said.\nOver time those emergency phones evolved from a box with a phone line that rang directly to the IUPD to the multi-function ones that are on campus now. \nPoles bought from an outside vendor are serviced by SBC and serve as a typical telephone. \nThe red emergency button sets off a flashing blue light and contacts the IUPD, which can trace the call and immediately send an officer to investigate the area for emergencies. \nStone said the service has deviated from what it was originally.\n"I could use it as a free phone to call a family member if I'm locked out of my car or have a flat tire," Stone said. "In a worst-case situation -- say I fell on the ice and broke my leg or some intoxicated person is harassing me -- I can press the emergency button to reach IU police for help."\nLt. Steven R. Fiscus, a veteran of the IUPD who now serves as the Lieutenant of Investigations, said the blue light phones would be best suited for situations of blitz attacks or blitz rapes -- situations Fiscus said he can't remember happening on the Bloomington campus since he joined the IUPD almost 30 years ago.\nBut McKaig said he feels the positioning of the blue lights in highly visible areas is a strength.\n"There is a deterrent effect that is hard to measure," McKaig said. "We still have the deterrent and the message about the University influencing safety, and they have the potential to be used."\nStone also said the blue lights serve as a reminder to everyone on campus to think about safety -- to stay in well lit areas and be aware of their surroundings. \nBut she doesn't agree about the deterrent factor.\n"Do our criminals think like that? I don't think they're that smart," she said.\nMcKaig, Slone, Fiscus and Stone all agree on one thing, though.\nIf the blue lights save one life or prevent one case of rape or assault against a woman -- no matter what the cost -- they were worth it.\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.

Experience in fighting crime

The IU Police Academy is unique to IU because it allows students with an interest in law enforcement the opportunity to gain valuable, hands-on experience.\nUnlike other campus police forces, the IUPD also lets students police other students.\nThis difference is the reason some federal officials have their eye on the program.\n"I think the IUPD program is outstanding and am frankly surprised that it hasn't been adopted by other schools," said James Davis, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's Indianapolis Bureau. "It is a tremendous opportunity for students to receive their certification and some initial experience, and it gives the IUPD resources to draw upon in order to accomplish their mission."\nIn the academy, the cadets receive all of the law enforcement training required by the State of Indiana and can then return to work as full-fledged police officers at their respective IU campuses until the time of their graduation.\nThe program then increases the officers' marketability in the job field because they already have experience in police work.\nThe academy program benefits the department, because it gives them the ability to gather part-time officers into service anytime they need. \n"No one in this country has students as actual police officers," Butler said. "We can rely on our own resources for our activities and events."\nStudent police also come in handy in the overall effectiveness of the IUPD because students policing students breaks down some of the barriers of an "us versus them" mentality, Butler said. That barrier is broken by part-time officers living in the dorms and socializing with other students.\nEvery year the IUPA receives between 70-80 applications from IU students who want to enter the IUPD's Cadet Program.\n"I do not feel that it was too hard being accepted into the IUPA program," said officer and senior Dan Keeler, who graduated from this year's academy Aug. 16. "The application was very straight forward. However the interview was fairly intimidating, with a lieutenant and two sergeants sitting across from me with a video camera drilling me with questions."\nOfficer and junior Will Keaton said he thinks the IU's program has given him a broader outlook on life.\n"Just being in situations where you can see all the different types of people on campus in all different settings that you normally would not be in gives so much insight to you about the world around you," he said. "I think I have also grown up quite a bit since getting in the academy.\n"I think the key words are discipline and pride, which IUPD does its best to instill in us."\nButler said these "higher standards" are the basis for all the academy teaches the cadets.\n"Not everyone can do what they're being asked to do," Butler said. "The standards help them develop the attitude that they 'can-do' whatever they're called upon to do."\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.

Bullets, cars and handcuffs

Sitting in class, senior Brian Sharp does his best to remain awake. Dull lectures are like sleeping pills to him. One look at him during class and you can see Sharp feeling one of those moments. He quickly falls asleep and slams his head onto his desk.\nBut this classroom is not like most classrooms. Although these students must endure lectures and videotapes, they also learn how to drive fast, shoot straight and fight criminals.\nTo train to be an IU police officer, students have to go through comprehensive training at their annual police academy to master several skills they feel are needed to work effectively as a police officer.\nTraining includes at least 600 hours of classroom work. Sixteen tests incorporating physical fitness standards, practicums and academic paperwork must be passed before they can obtain their certifications to work as police officers in Indiana.\n"The scope of classes they receive is huge and is reflective of what Indiana Law Enforcement Academy and IUPD feels they need to have to interact fairly and competently to deal with the public," said IUPD Sergeant David Rhodes, who serves as second in command of the IUPD Academy. \nThe first hands-on training the students receive involves the skills needed to out-drive criminals in a car chase in the part of training called emergency vehicle operations.\nFirst, cadets must complete eight hours of classroom training. After hitting the books, the students get to hit the roads. Each cadet spends 16 hours in a Ford Crown Victoria dodging and weaving parking cones on an obstacle course set up in the purple lot of the Memorial Stadium.\nCadets learn how to drive in a pursuit, avoid other cars with evasive maneuvers and drive much faster than normal.\n"The cadets learn all the skills they need to drive with due regard for the rest of the population in any situations," said emergency vehicle operations instructor Lt. Jerry Minger.\nIn the next segment of training, cadets get to know their guns inside and out.\nIn preparation for the firearms training, cadets receive 12 hours of classroom work where they learn the circumstances required for the use of deadly force. \nAfter the classroom training, they spend 40 hours at the ILEA's outdoor range at Plainfield, Ind.\nIUPD's handgun training uses their standard issue Glock 9mm semi-automatic. Each cadet will fire this gun over 1,000 times learning how do be an accurate shot.\nRhodes said the cadets must shoot an 80 percent score from certain distances within certain time limits.\nAfter qualifications comes the combat shooting section where cadets learn in an environment that recreates the stresses and scenarios that could lead up to a police officer getting into a shootout. Officer-involved shootings statistically happen within distances of 3 to 5 feet and usually last 10 seconds or less.\nRhodes said combat shooting is "trying to teach more realistically incorporating speed, movement, concealment, and stress."\nIn this training segment, the Cadets had to crouch behind a window and fire at a target. They moved to a mailbox and fired from behind that. The cadets then ducked behind some tires and fired off two rounds in what is called a "double-tap."\n"We're training them under stress so if they ever get in an actual fight they have the 'been there done that' mentality, so they will be able to function against the chemical change in your body because of stress," Rhodes said.\nRhodes said range week is not about gripping a cold steel and spraying bullets everywhere, it's about reacting to adrenaline and being able to know when and when not to fire.\nWhen the cadets were finished with weapons training, most cadets felt more comfortable with using a firearm. \n"All the instructors did a fantastic job in teaching us how to use our weapon. I had never shot before and I came out as Top Gun," said recently graduated Officer Chad Oehme, a junior who earned recognition at the Aug. 16 ceremony as being the No. 1 shot of his entire class.\nIn the final segment of training, called physical tactics, the cadets are taught how to take control of a situation with reaching for your holster.\n"Physical tactics is your ability to perceive and react to a situation which may include taking control of a situation, escorting someone away from a scene, fighting, stopping fights, and calming situations," Rhodes said. "No one wants to fight. The officer can get hurt, the subject can get hurt. Whenever you can talk yourself out of a situation, it's 100 percent better." \nIn this part of the training, Lt. John G. Butler, who heads up the IUPD's training section, teaches something called "Verbal Judo." This communication theory teaches officers conversation techniques which should help them talk themselves out of those situations and persuade people to do things voluntarily they may not have wanted to do at first.\nJunior and recent graduate Joe Henry said the experience taught him important life skills.\n"The instructors push us to our limits and see how well we can handle it," Henry said. "I gained a greater respect not only for the various instructors and what they do but also for my classmates. We've come together as a group which needed to happen. In the beginning, everyone was a little timid and skeptical of each other. But as the weeks go by, everyone is slowly putting their guards down and creating more of a team."\nFor more information about the IUPD Academy, contact the IUPD at 855-0760.\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu

IUPD welcomes cadets to the force

Finally, it was over.\nAfter 16 weeks of endless push-ups, junior Brett Rorem was ready to graduate.\nRorem forgot to put his name on a test one day; his superior officer helped him count out 20 push-ups.\nHe had to do 20 push-ups if he fell behind in the weekly run and 10 at the end of every day, along with the rest of the cadets.\nAnd if any of the cadets forgot to call someone "sir," 20 more push-ups were coming their way. \nIt wasn't uncommon for the cadets to do over 100 push-ups a day, and when graduation from the IU Police Academy rolled around Aug. 16, Rorem was finally able to smile.\nHe was an officer of the IU Police Department. He had fulfilled his dream.\nAnd he was done doing push-ups.

Rain dampens first day of class for IU students

Labor Day, torrential rains and the jitters of the first day of classes.\nThose were the subject of grumblings heard from students huddled in door frames and doubled up under umbrellas Monday while 1.5 inches of rain fell on Bloomington, interrupting classes and forcing students to run for cover.\nSenior Amy Fischer, who was leaving the Indiana Memorial Union during spurts of rainfall, said she thought the rain was refreshing.\n"I think it cleansed a lot of frustration on the first day of class," Fischer said.\nBut others said they didn't appreciate the soaked clothing.\n"I think it sucks we had to go on a day everyone else got off," sophomore Mike Dean said. "And then we got rained on."\nDean was eating lunch wearing a damp T-shirt and staring out a window in the IMU at the gloomy day. He said he only got a little wet because he was in class all day.\nBut not all students were victims of the sporadic torrential downpours.\n"It doesn't surprise me it rained because last year it rained at least once a week," sophomore Alicia Gehlhausen said.\nNot only did the rain affect students' moods, it affected road conditions for many campus and Bloomington drivers.\n"There was a slight increase in traffic accidents and a small increase in flooding," Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Anthony Pope said. \nBPD reported at least two traffic accidents -- one on north Walnut Street and another on south State Road 46 which sent victims to Bloomington Hospital.\nTwo traffic accidents kept the IU Police Department busy as well, according to Sgt. Tim Lewis, who said the IUPD worked at least three accidents by 8 p.m.\nTwo accidents -- at Atwater and Hawthorne streets as well as 10th and Woodlawn Streets -- involved only property damage and no injuries. At 11th and Woodlawn streets, two cars were involved in an accident where one of the drivers complained of neck pain, but refused an ambluance.\nLewis advised drivers to slow down in difficult weather.\n"Particularly in this weather because the rain makes things more slick," he said. "There's more traffic and pedestrians now (that school has started again) and people need to slow down and take into account all these factors."\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.

Arrests do not rely on ranking, IUPD says

Since IU earned the reputation in the eyes of the Princeton Review as the No. 1 party school in August 2002, members of the campus community seem to wonder what effect that title has had on the way the IU Police Department enforces alcohol laws on campus.\nWith arrests on the rise in 2002, IUPD Lt. Jerry Minger said the "tough-on-alcohol-crime" message pushed by the IU administration may have had an effect on the rise in arrests.\nIn 2001, the IUPD reported making 93 drunk driving arrests, 29 arrests for public intoxication and 363 arrests for illegal possession, according to IUPD statistics.\nIn 2002, drunk driving arrests fell to 53, public intoxication increased to 57 and the number of arrests for illegal posession soared to 594. \nTo date in 2003, drunk driving arrests total 26, while public intoxication numbers 30 and illegal possession is lower than usual at 29. All of the numbers, however, reflect only cases of confirmed IU students being charged with an alcohol-related offense.\nSome people say the number of alcohol arrests made after the 2002 ranking reflects IUPD's desire to help reduce the image of the reputation by making more arrests. \nBut Minger said the numbers have no link to the party school reputation, whether they are lower or higher.\nMinger said the higher numbers may be a result of specific patrols for alcohol-related offenses. \n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.

Officers injured in car chase

Two IU Police Department officers were injured Saturday in a car and foot pursuit across campus that finally ended in the backyard of an off-campus house.\nOfficers chased non-student Armando Gutierrez after he fled in his car during a traffic stop, police said. Officers Shannon Bunger and Randall Frye suffered minor injuries and were released from Bloomington Hospital Saturday night.\nGutierrez, wanted in Evansville for burglary and failing to appear in court, was taken into custody and is being held at the Monroe County Jail.\nAt 8:38 p.m. Saturday, IUPD officer Brice Boembeke pulled over a Maroon Ford Crown Victoria driven by Gutierrez in front of 801 N. Jordan Ave. Boembeke said he pulled him over for going 50 mph in a 25 mph zone.\nThe license plate came back not matching the car driven by Gutierrez, IUPD Shift Commander Sgt. Don Schmuhl said. Gutierrez refused to let Boembeke see his identification and fled the scene, prompting Boembeke and other IUPD units to give chase.\n"It was just like, I can't believe he's actually running," Boembeke said.\nGutierrez, 19, proceeded north on Jordan Avenue and turned west on 17th Street at speeds exceeding 70 mph, Schmuhl said.\nIUPD said while Officer Frye attempted to deploy stop sticks -- a device used to deflate the tires of cars in a pursuit -- to stop the car, Gutierrez rammed Frye's squad car on the passenger side, injuring Frye's back.\n"I had no time to think," Frye said. "And after he it me, all I thought was, 'We have to stop him.'"\nFollowing the collision, Gutierrez moved his car around Frye's squad car and traveled down 17th Street, where he turned on Fee Lane and into the Briscoe Quad circle drive. Gutierrez then fled his car on foot. \nAccording to police reports, Gutierrez was pursued by IUPD officers as he ran west between Briscoe and McNutt Quads. \nAfter running about 100 yards, Gutierrez hid in a dumpster in the back lot of McNutt.\nRemaining in Gutierrez's car were two unidentified women -- one an IU student -- who were questioned and released. One of the women revealed Gutierrez had a friend who lived in the 600 block of North College Avenue. \nIUPD notified the Bloomington Police Department, who then proceeded to the address to apprehend Gutierrez. When BPD arrived, Gutierrez fled through the back door of the residence and began another foot chase that ended when IUPD Sgt. Tim Lewis and a BPD officer found him hiding in the backyard of a house in the 200 block of West 12th Street. \nSchmuhl said IUPD will charge Gutierrez with resisting law enforcement with a vehicle, battery resulting in injury and leaving the scene of an accident.\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.

'Angel Street' brings people to Nasvhille, Ind.

"Angel Street," written by Patrick Hamilton with its debut at the John Golden Theatre in New York City, comes to the Brown County Playhouse as part of its 55th season at 8 p.m. Thursday and runs until Aug. 30.\n"Angel Street" is a thriller that takes place in London, set in the day when Victoria reigned and the British Empire was at its highest pinnacle of colonial richness. Mr. Manningham attempts to drive his wife insane. Hidden under a veil of insidious kindness, the family patriarch torments the matriarch with little domestic mysteries leaving the audience to wonder what he's hiding. Suspense is built through the partnership of Mrs. Manningham and a stranger named Rough, who try to unravel the tangled web of the question, "What is he hiding?" And they have to do it before Mr. Manningham knows he's suspected -- of something.\nPlaying Mr. Manningham is Jonathan Molitor, a third-year IU MFA student who is a veteran performer at the Brown County Playhouse. Molitor appeared earlier this summer in "My Three Angels," and most notably as Freddy in "Picasso at the Lapin Agile." \nPlaying the distressed lady-of-the-house is Allison Batty, who recently played Emilie Ducotel in "My Three Angels," and was Stella in the recent production of Tennessee Williams' "Streetcar Named Desire" at IU. Batty, a second-year MFA student at IU has also trained at the Portland Actors Conservatory in Portland, Ore. \n"She married Jack Manningham despite the fact that her family disapproved and disowned her," said Batty of her character's mindset. "She longs to see her family and is very isolated in her current surroundings. Except for her maid Elizabeth, she has no friends. Her husband tells Bella she might be going mad because items around the house go missing. She insists she has not taken them but this makes her husband angry, he leaves her alone after fights regarding such issues."\nTaking hold of the directorial reins of the show The New Yorker magazine called "a masterpiece of modern suspense" is Bill Kincaid, an associate professor and head of acting at Western Illinois University, who is returning to the BCP after also having directed "I Hate Hamlet," as well as several other shows. \nThe script itself was written in 1938 and blends traditions of popular theater from the Victorian era because of the setting, but the author's time period is evident by bits and pieces of naturalism. \n"It was a unique theatrical offering for its time, resulting in a hugely successful Broadway run and its subsequent making in the award-winning movie "Gaslight," said Gregg W. Brevoort, who directed the show at a recent production at the Penobscot Theatre Company in Bangor, Maine, on his Web site. "Angel Street spawned a whole new generation of stage thrillers that re-invigorated the old form and injected it with a psychologically fuelled adrenaline. The next generation of stage thrillers included such intense classics as "Dial M For Murder," "Wait Until Dark," "The Bad Seed" and even more recent offerings like "Deathtrap" and "Voices In The Dark," he said.\nThe show opens at 8 p.m. tonight and continues Wednesday through Sunday until Aug. 30. All Sunday performances are at 2 p.m. with evening performances at 8 p.m. on all other nights. Prices are $17 on Friday and Saturday, $15 on Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday. \nCall the BCP Box Officer at (812) 988-2123 or the IU Auditorium at 855-1103 for tickets. For more information, visit www.indiana.edu/~thtr/bcplay.html.

Rash of indecent exposures occur on IU campus

Several episodes of indecent exposure incidents have afflicted the IU campus lately. At least six people have made reports to the IU Police Department since late June of having been the victim of a "flasher."\nIUPD Detective Greg McClure said he believes four of the six incidents were committed by the same man. \n"According to the victims, the suspect is reported as white male, 25 to 30 (years old), 140 pounds, brown hair, medium-length ponytail, glasses with round lenses, 5-feet-10-inches, pale complexion," McClure said.\nThe first offense involving the unidentified man took place around 5 p.m. on June 20 when a woman walking on Fee Lane toward the IU Outdoor Pool spotted the man driving an older model car asking directions. \n"The guy stopped by me and asked me where the mall was," said the victim, a graduate student in the IU School of Music. "While I was answering him, he was rubbing his penis. A couple of minutes later he stopped by me again and asked me if I needed a ride."\nA similar incident was reported June 25 on Jordan Avenue north of Third Street when a man of the same description asked another woman for directions, also rubbing his genitalia.\n"I felt really weird and scared," said the victim under condition of anonymity. "Since then, I'm afraid to walk alone."\nThe two most recent incidents happened at the Main Library between 9 and 10 p.m. on July 28 and 29. McClure said a man of a similar description exposed himself to a female studying in a secluded area of the Undergraduate Collection both nights.\n"If more people seeing this would report it, we could stop it sooner," McClure said. "We are, at this time, putting more manpower into stopping this activity."\nWhile no one has been taken into custody for any of the four recent incidents, McClure has made another arrest in a recent flashing case. \nIUPD responded to a report July 13 about a man in the area of McNutt Quad who exposed himself to two young women, ages 16 and 17. John Lord of Evansville was stopped in the area and later admitted to the incident. Lord, 30, "also admitted to being arrested for the same crime several times in the past," IUPD spokesman Lt. Jerry Minger said.\nA similar incident took place July 6 in the women's restroom of the IU Fieldhouse located on Fee Lane when a man exposed himself to a 15-year-old woman. McClure showed several photos to the victim, who picked out the photograph matching Lord, IUPD said in a statement. \nMcClure got an arrest warrant for Lord on July 24 but found he was being held already on other charges at the Vanderburgh County Jail. He will be transported to the Monroe County Jail to face charges of public indecency, which is a Class D felony.\nWhile Minger says indecent exposure is a crime where victims don't usually have to fear for their safety, that doesn't mean the offenders don't plan ahead.\n"Lord would go on IU's Web site to see what kind of conferences on campus were going on," Minger said. "He would see the Cheerleading Campus for high school and junior high students, drive up from Evansville, and then hang out by the Field House and the residence halls where the students were staying."\nMinger attributes Lord's capture to witnesses who saw something out of place.\n"He was caught because he looked out of place and people called us," Minger said. "That's what we want to happen. If you see someone out of place call the police department and we'll come and check it out. That's what we're here for."\nTo report an incident involving a similar event of public exposure, Minger asks people to come forward and file a report with the IUPD by calling 855-4111.

Thanks for the memories

When Bob Hope's candle of life went out, it marked the end of an era marked by comic legends such as Jack Benny, George Burns and Milton Berle, who not only seemed to pioneer the "science of comedy" in the 20th century, but also managed to revolutionize it for every new medium they performed in. Hope's centennial birthday was May 29. \nThose hundred years point as evidence to his ability to touch those he knew or entertained.\n"It's hard for me to imagine a world without Bob Hope in it," Woody Allen told The Associated Press. Allen said the 1942 film "Road to Morocco," in which Hope starred in, pointed him to comedy.\nIU School of Journalism Professor David Weaver served in Vietnam as a lieutenant in the United States Army Signal Corps, when Hope appeared for a show in Long Binh, South Vietnam in the spring of 1971.\n"I remember he got a huge turnout, with some soldiers climbing up telephone poles to get a better view," Weaver said. "He was funny then, even in the midst of a war, and very popular with the troops. I wondered at the time why anyone in his position would fly halfway around the world to such a hot, desolate, dangerous place just to entertain some G.I.s, especially for no pay. I think all he got was expenses and meals on these trips."\nBut Weaver isn't the only IU employee who has fond memories of Hope. Tom Lee, an IU Police Department lieutenant and a former G.I. who spent 11 years on active military duty, said Hope was instrumental in making G.I.s temporarily forget where they were.\n"Whenever you're outside the continental United States, it's a little piece of home he brought to those troops," Lee said. "They were familiar faces, entertainers."\nLeslie Towns Hope, who later changed his name to Bob as a stagename, was born in the English town of Eltham only a year after Queen Victoria, when horses and railroads were still the only reasonable ways of travel. He was one of seven sons to a stoneworker and a opera performer. The Hope family came to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1907.\nBob Hope serves as an example of an entertainer who played and captivated audiences in all the fields open to him, from the vaudeville to live appearances, on the screens of television and movie theaters. Hope began his career playing vaudeville and wound up conquering every medium he worked in. Some of his jokes were older than dirt, but nobody cared -- he was Bob Hope.\n"Audiences are my best friends, and you never tire of talking with your best friends," Hope said frequently.\nHe had reached vaudeville's pinnacle -- The Palace -- in 1930 and then went on to play leading parts in Broadway musicals with such stars as Ethel Merman. It was during this time period he met a nightclub singer named Dolores. In 1934, their 69-year partnership began. \nRadio spots came next, and in 1938 the toothpaste Pepsodent was willing to sponsor him, creating his own show. Then came Hollywood with "The Big Broadcast of 1938," from which the trademark song "Thanks for the Memories" came.\nHe got a movie deal with Paramount Pictures and began to team up with singer and entertainer Bing Crosby, who introduced him to a longtime love of golf. \nHope and Crosby made a series of seven films for Paramount now called "The Road Movies" -- "Road to Bali," "Road to Morocco," "Road to Zanzibar" and so on -- playing best friends who lie, cheat and make fun of each other in comedic competition for glory and Dorothy Lamour.\nComic films like the "Lemon Drop Kid" and "Paleface" followed. Hope made 53 pictures in all from 1938 to 1972.\nHe entered television in 1950, and his success continued. Even 40 years later, he could be counted on to pull in respectable ratings. He also appeared more than 20 times at the Academy Awards between 1939 and 1978, first on radio and then on TV, as presenter, co-host or host.\nBut one of his most well-known works, and perhaps his most prized work, was doing USO tours and traveling to entertain America's troops.\nHe originally tried to enlist, but was told he could be of more use as an entertainer. He played his first camp show at California's March Field on May 6, 1941, seven months before Pearl Harbor.\nHe did Christmas shows every year beginning in 1948 when "G.I. Bob" went to Berlin to entertain U.S. servicemen deployed to operate the Berlin Airlift.\nHis 1966 Vietnam Christmas show, when televised, was watched by an estimated 65 million people, the largest audience of his career. But his initially hawkish views on Vietnam opened a gap between the comedian and young Americans opposed to the war, who sometimes heckled him.\nLater, Hope said he was "just praying they get an honorable peace so our guys don't have to fight. I've seen too many wars."\nFrom World War II on, Hope didn't let age slow him down -- not when his country needed him. Even at age 87, he was entertaining U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf War and bobbing around the Mideast in helicopters.\nIn 1990, he traveled to the Persian Gulf to entertain troops preparing for war with Iraq.\nMany entertainers who went with Hope on his travels for the USO took away memories of their friend and mentor. Some said they remember taking off from a landing strip in a transport plane in Vietnam, whilesSnipers were firing at the plane from the end of the runway. Hope was seen sitting in his seat at an angle to limit his chances of catching a bullet.\nBarbara Eden went with Hope to the Gulf and remembered her favorite memory of him -- who often entertained with golf club in hand as a prop -- relaxing by hitting balls off the back of an aircraft carrier.\n"You remember Bob with a smile," Eden told the AP, "but, boy, I'm going to miss him."\nFor those who are skeptical of his influence through the USO, the latest commercials from the USO show mostly clips of Bob Hope on the road entertaining G.I.s. Hope is America's only "honorary veteran," and Secretary of State Colin Powell called Hope "a friend to every American G.I. for over 50 years."\nIt would seem safe to say Bob Hope and his one-liners always will be remembered. He had one for every occasion.\nHe once commented on a golf game with President Gerald Ford shortly after the Watergate scandal.\n"I played golf with Jerry Ford. I bumped into him and said 'Pardon me.' He said 'I don't do that anymore,'" he said.\nAt a Vietnam tour, Hope said to a crowd of G.I.s about Phyllis Diller, "She's so ugly, a peeping Tom would throw up on her window sill."\nThe last of the great American comedians of the vaudeville era has passed into our memories. And now that's all we have.\nHis candle has burnt out and it will never burn again. But so many people are so glad they saw that candle alight.

Professor found dead on campus

An IU English professor was found dead Thursday near the south side of the Atwater Parking Garage. Investigators are calling the death a suicide. \nTimothy Wiles, 56, was pronounced dead at the scene at around 1:30 p.m. following his fall from the top level of the Atwater Parking Garage at around 1:10 p.m. on Thursday, IUPD Spokesman Lt. Jerry Minger said. \nKaren Van Arsdale said she was a friend of Wiles for more than 30 years and was very involved with him at the Bloomington Playwrights Project, a local theater company founded by two of Wiles' students more than 20 years ago.\n"We are devastated, shocked, shattered, angry, hurt, sad," Van Arsdale said. "Everyone begins thinking of their last interaction with Tim, and we wonder if we let him know we loved him enough. Tim touched so many people."\nVan Arsdale said she had known Wiles was battling depression ever since she first knew him and had been undergoing treatments, including therapy and medication. She said Wiles didn't try to hide the illness and was very open about it. \nVan Arsdale said if Wiles was having a bad day, typically he'd talk about it with friends or with students. \nMary McGann, Wiles' wife, said if his students said they were feeling depressed, Wiles would share his experiences and tell them how to get counseling.\n"We understand people in that mind frame aren't thinking rationally and they aren't thinking about us, they're only thinking about not having the pain anymore," Van Arsdale said.\nIn his 30 years of teaching at IU, Wiles touched many people, English Department Chairman Stephen Watt said.\nWatt said he fondly remembers a time when he first came to IU and was getting ready to send to a publisher a rough draft of an article. Watt said Wiles sat with a thermos of coffee and read over the manuscript intently.\n"The highly motivated students seemed drawn to him because he was so intelligent," McGann said. "He would spend hours pouring over a manuscript offering feedback and critique."\nIn addition to Wiles' academic influence in drama studies through the English department, Watt said Wiles' tenure as director of the Polish Studies Center from 1991 to 1999 was important.\n"Tim was instrumental in writing grants to help Polish publishers, and raising awareness of Polish culture after the fall of the Soviet Union," Watt said.\nIn addition to Wiles' work at IU, Watt praised the late professor's work at the BPP and credited him with strengthening the organization.\n"I think his work with the BPP cannot be overlooked or underestimated," Watt said. "I'll always be grateful for that and the way it touched my daughter's life."\nBPP's Artistic Director, Richard Perez has decided to name the organization's mainstage theatre the Timothy Wiles Memorial Theatre, Van Arsdale said.\nWatt said the IU Department of English is planning to hold a memorial for Wiles during the fall. For more information, contact the English department at 855-8224.

Ashton resident found dead

An Ivy Tech student renting housing space at IU was found dead by a Resident Assistant in the first floor shower of Ashton Center's Weatherly Hall on Saturday evening. \nDouglas A. Weddle's body was discovered at approximately 7:30 p.m. when another resident reported the shower being used by Weddle had been running for roughly an hour.\n"Our preliminary investigation reveals (Weddle) must have had an epileptic seizure which caused his death," said IUPD Detective Lt. Steven Fiscus, who is running the investigation.\nWeddle, 32, suffered from epileptic seizures since he was 16, said Pamela Weddle, his mother. He had been under a doctor's care since, but Pamela Weddle said her son had not had a serious episode in five years.\n"He was very friendly," said Pamela Weddle of her son, who loved history and wanted someday to become a history teacher. "He liked having friends, and he wanted to be everybody's friend."\nAn Ashton resident in the restroom at 6:50 p.m. heard the shower running. That resident passed by sometime later and noticed the shower was still running. At around 7:40 p.m. the resident became worried after not getting any response from calling into the showers and went to get the RA.\nRA Alex Manus went into the shower and found the body of Weddle laying unconscious and couldn't tell if he was breathing. Manus then called the police.\n"There is no suspicion of foul play, and we're just waiting for a notification from the Coroner's officer as to the cause," said IUPD Lt. Jerry Minger.\nWeddle's family in Seymour, Ind., was informed of his death by the Jackson County Sheriff's Department after IUPD requested their services.\nDean of Students Richard McKaig said he spoke with Weddle's family shortly after 10 p.m. to offer condolences on behalf of the University.\n"Because we're such a large campus I seldom know the individual personally," McKaig said. "So there is always a regret of not knowing. There's always regret losing that opportunity to know them."\nRev. Sam Davenport will conduct funeral services at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Voss and Sons Funeral Service in Seymour.\nFriends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday and from 9:30 a.m. until the time of the service Saturday at the funeral home. A Masonic service will be conducted at 7 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Ivy Tech student found dead on IU campus

An Ivy Tech student renting housing space at IU was found dead by a Resident Assistant in the first floor shower of Ashton Center's Weatherly Hall Saturday evening. \nDouglas A. Weddle's body was discovered at approximately 7:30 p.m. when another resident reported the shower being used by Weddle had been running for roughly an hour.\n"Our preliminary investigation reveal(Weddle) must have had an epoleptic seizure which caused his death," said IUPD Detective Lt. Steven Fiscus, who is running the investigation.\nAn Ashton resident in the restroom at 6:50 p.m. heard the shower running. That resident passed by sometime later and noticed the shower was still running. At around 7:40 p.m. the resident became worried after not getting any response from calling into the showers and went to get the RA.\nRA Alex Manus went into the shower and found the body of Weddle laying unconscious and couldn't tell if he was breathing. Manus then called the police.\n"There is no suspicion of foul play, and we're just waiting for a notification from the Coroner's officer as to the cause," said IUPD Lt. Jerry Minger.\nWeddle's family in Seymour, Ind. was informed of his death by the Jackson County Sheriff's Department after IUPD requested their services.\nDean of Students Richard McKaig said he spoke with Weddle's family shortly after 10 p.m. to offer condolences on behalf of the University.\n"Because we're such a large campus I seldom know the individual personally," McKaig said. "So there is always a regret of not knowing. There's always regret losing that opportunity to know them"

Car chase leads to capture

A wanted felon who escaped prison after being arrested for bank robbery led the Bloomington Police Department on a chase Saturday evening, ending with a car crash and a foot pursuit. The felon and his companion were taken into custody near the intersection of Fess and Cottage Grove avenues.\nJames Pasek, 24, escaped jail in Bozeman, Mont., where he was awaiting trial for bank robbery. According to a BPD statement, Montana police allege after his escape, Pasek then robbed a bank in Spearfish, S.D., and proceeded to steal a red Chevy Envoy. With Pasek was a 16-year-old female runaway whose stepmother lives in Bloomington. \nThe stepmother informed BPD of the whereabouts of the two, as she was in contact with the runaway.\n"(The stepmother) was absolutely crucial. It's the only way we knew when they entered our area," BPD Sgt. Scott Oldham said.\nThrough the stepmother's information, it was learned that both the juvenile and Pasek had set up a meeting with the stepmother at Tomcat's Pawn Shop, 750 W. 17th St.\nOldham said when BPD learned of the meeting, they sent in unmarked squad cars to the area to setup surveillance and watch for Pasek. An unmarked car eventually spotted Pasek in the parking lot. When BPD began to block Pasek in the parking lot of the pawn shop, he escaped in the vehicle before he could be sealed in.\nAt 5:17 p.m. Pasek began to flee eastbound on 17th Street and led BPD in a nine-minute pursuit around Bloomington and through campus.\nOldham said nine BPD officers were involved in the pursuit, along with eight cars both marked and unmarked. \nWhile the investigative leg-work and the pursuit was run by the BPD, other local police agencies, including the IUPD, took part in the pursuit as well.\n"IUPD, as always, was there to provide additional manpower to us when we needed it," Oldham said.\nIUPD Officer Randall Frye took part in the pursuit by driving parallel to Pasek hoping to get ahead of him and cut him off. Frye eventually joined the pursuit at the intersection of 10th and Dunn streets. \n"My concern was just getting it stopped and making sure no innocent bystanders got hurt," Frye said. "And that's all you think about. You're just keeping your mind on the task at hand."\nPasek lost control of his car near the intersection of Woodlawn Avenue and 12th Street, striking a chain link fence and bending backward a 30 mph speed limit sign. Pasek and the runaway then abandoned the stolen car and led police on a foot chase until he and the teenager finally were apprehended at Fess and Cottage Grove avenues.\nBPD Officer Amy Romosser gave chase to Pasek and tackled him while Oldham apprehended the runaway from Gillette, Wyo.\nThe pursuit went through city streets, backyards and railroad beds in a testament to Pasek's desperation to escape.\n"If he would have known anything about Bloomington, we'd still be out there chasing him," IUPD Lt. George Robinson said.\nOldham said BPD preliminarily charged Pasek with resisting law enforcement in a vehicle and criminal mischief -- both class D felonies. Currently Pasek is being held at the Monroe County Jail under charges from various states and jurisdictions. \nOldham said Pasek was enough of a threat that he would have been extradited from anywhere in the world should he have been apprehended.\n"I'm wonderfully happy he's in jail," Oldham said.

Jazz Fables to tribute Indy masters

The Jazz Fables series takes the stage again this week Thursday at Bear's Place. This week's show makes a special tribute, in part, to Indianapolis jazz musicians, including IU Distinguished Professor of Music David Baker. Also appearing are Alonzo "Pookie" Johnson and Jimmy Coe, both on the sax. The show runs from 5:30 to 8 p.m. with ticket prices set at $7.\n"David Baker, Jimmy Coe and Pookie represent the Indy jazz tradition as living legends," said Jazz Fables director David Miller. "Their annual performances together at Jazz Fables at Bear's Place have always been one of the annual highlights of the Jazz Fables concert series, as they always swing and compliment each other musically. Their improvisational styles span the Swing, Bebop and jazz/blues idioms, energetically and artfully representing the musical story telling tradition of the Midwests' Indy Jazz Masters whose music they will be performing."\nThe weekly performances at the local multi-venue club are a big seller, and one Bear's Place employee said they feel the turn-out will be even bigger at today's event.\n"That'll be a big crowd, especially because of David Baker," said Bear's employee Michael Woodward. He said whenever Baker plays, he always draws a lot of his students who have taken or currently take classes with him as well attend IU and are jazz fans. And the presence of Pookie Johnson and Jimmy Coe won't hurt the box office either.\n"They're definitely a draw because of the fact they've been playing jazz for over 50 years," said Abbie Sutton, service manager at Bear's Place .\nBaker will perform at Bear's Place on cello, along with Jimmy Coe and Pookie Johnson on the saxophone, featuring one of Baker's compositions and many of his arrangements of music by Indy Jazz Masters J.J. Johnson, Wes Montgomery, Freddie Hubbard and Slide Hampton. They'll be joined by Baker's wife, Lida, playing the flute, David Miller on the trumpet, Don Pickett tickling the ivory, Joel Kelsey strumming the bass and Deno Sanders pounding his drums. \nPart of the performance at Bear's Place is designed in part to honor the work of IU's David Baker. In the 1950's, Baker toured frequently with jazz big band leaders Lionel Hampton, Maynard Ferguson, Stan Kenton and in between played in Indy. While playing with his own group at Indy's Topper night club, Cincinnati jazz composer, pianist and jazz theorist George Russell picked Baker and many of his band's members to join his new sextet, which subsequently moved to New York City and recorded four albums together. In New York, Baker also recorded with prominent jazz artists John Lewis, Quincy Jones, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy and Bill Evans. \nIndianapolis has a long history with jazz in the early days of the art for a number of reasons, including its proximity as a hub for car, train and air travel. Often times when major band leaders would play through, they'd pick up replacement players from the jazz scene on Indiana Avenue. Kansas City big band leader and pianist Jay McShan hired Jimmy Coe as an arranger and saxophonist for his group and took the band to New York City in 1942. \nMcShann's band included the soon-to-be legendary alto saxophone innovator Charlie Parker. McShann's band recorded with Parker and Coe in New York for Decca records in 1942. Coe replaced Parker in McShann's band in New York in 1943 at the Apollo Theatre. \nCoe went on to lead his own groups and recorded for States Records in 1953, later released on Delmark records as "After Hours." He recorded with his own big band, "Say What" and with guitarist Paul Weeden, "Now I Know Dreams Come True." Jimmy Coe is now 83.\nWhen "Pookie" Johnson got back from fighting Hitler and Tojo, he became a so-called disciple Parker's Bebop in Indianapolis. Starting in the post-World War II late-40s Indy scene, Johnson played with virtually everyone there, including with Jimmy Coe's group, along with the Montgomery Bros. --Wes, Buddy, Mondy and Freddie Hubbard in 1955.

A crowd waits to go through the ticket lines at the main entrance to the Fun Frolic Friday night. The event, which benefits Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Monroe County, is located near Memorial Stadium in the west side parking lot.