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(04/01/04 6:17am)
IU's Office of Disability Services for Students will host a reception from 3 to 5 p.m. today in the Indiana Memorial Union's Frangipani Room to kick off April as Disabilities Awareness Month.\nThis is the department's first reception of its kind at IU, and Director Martha Jacques said she hopes it becomes an annual event designed to raise awareness of the needs of students with disabilities and the challenges in creating a level playing field for them.\nThe reception will have catered food and feature various opportunities for challenged students to showcase some of their achievements, such as various pieces of art made by the students including poetry, sketches, drawings and other types of literary work.\nDayna Hummel, who works for DSS, said the reception gives a university that prides itself for programs broadcasting the value in diversity a chance to "recognize another diverse population."\nDSS is located in Franklin Hall 096 and serves as a gateway for students with disabilities, whether they have physical, psychological or learning disabilities like Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. \nJody Ferguson, DSS coordinator of learning disability services, said the program currently works with more than 600 hundred IU students in order to help them gain physical access to the campus, including a van service used to transport students with disabilities around campus. \nDSS also works as a mediator between disabled students and faculty members. DSS tries to help maintain standards of academic fairness while giving disabled students the help they need to demonstrate their knowledge in the same way as other students.\n"Whatever the general population gets, we have to ensure that equality exists for students with disabilities as well," Jacques said.\nBut that sounds easier than it really is.\nBuildings on campus like Kirkwood Hall have no access for students using wheelchairs. Paradoxically, the very office on campus providing help for these students isn't seemingly accessible. DSS is located on both the ground and third floors of Franklin Hall. The only way students with wheelchairs can get to the third floor is by one, closet-sized elevator. This one elevator oftentimes has difficulty holding the larger, battery-operated wheelchairs many students use on campus to get around. \nAnd dealing with faculty members sometimes doesn't fall to a happy medium of cooperation.\nFerguson said there are several of her 450 cases where faculty members do way too much and some of her students have to fight tooth and nail for any help they can get.\nDSS staff members all have high hopes for this reception, hoping it can get some word out about the pitfalls they run into when helping to ensure equality for another one of IU's minorities.\n"I think what we would like to accomplish is (to) have students and faculty come and be made aware about students with disabilities," Jacques said.\nA large concern advocates of students with disabilities have is the word choice used to speak about them.\nStacy Stiening, who also works for DSS, said putting people first is a good way to look at it. \nShe said labeling students with disabilities as "disabled students" is an example of how not to use sensitive language. "Students with disabilities" is the correct way to talk about people with disabilities -- keeping people first in mind, said Stiening. By saying they are "disabled students," the speaker puts the focus on their disability and not their humanity.
(02/02/04 4:07am)
The IU Office of Overseas Study announced Wednesday it received a $225,000 grant to help create three new summer programs for IU students who wish to study abroad.\nThe Edward L. Hutton Foundation has a history of granting generous sums of money to the University to fund study abroad scholarships to eligible students through the Honors College. Kathleen Sideli, director of the Office of Overseas Study and associate dean of International Programs, said the grant from the Hutton Foundation will allow Overseas Study to create and fund several new programs over the next three years.\n"Mr. Hutton's grant will make it possible for us to make our newest programs more affordable for IU students who might not have been able to study abroad otherwise," Sideli said in a statement. "Given the current economy, the shrinking value of the dollar abroad and the pressure on the campus budget, his generous gesture is greatly appreciated by those of us who know the impact study abroad will have on students' lives and careers."\nThe programs created include summer programs in Dakar, Senegal and in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in addition to a photography program in Paris, a theater program in London and an intersession program in Oaxaca, Mexico in December and January. \nSideli said the grant will allow IU students a 10 to 15 percent reduction in costs to those programs, which are still taking applications until Feb. 16.\nSideli said the money would be used to help reduce the costs of several programs the departmet administers, including one in Amsterdam to study criminal justice. \nAccording to the department's Web site, www.indiana.edu/~overseas, "Social Justice in the Netherlands" begins July 1 and ends July 31 at the University of Amsterdam. Students who participate can earn up to six IU credits toward their degree. And because of the Hutton Grant, the cost will be reduced to just over $3,500 from over $4,000. \nSideli said "niche" programming is a word bouncing around in her profession, which refers to creating programs that relate specifically to the curriculum of the students in a particular line of academic programming. An example of this is the Paris photography program funded by the grant, which is designed to benefit students in IU's department of fine arts.\nThis program, administered by IU, runs June 10 to July 23 and works closely with the Speos Paris Photographic Institute.\nHutton, currently chairman of Roto-Rooter, Inc. and Omnicare, grew up in Bedford, Ind., and earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees at IU. After completing his master's, he served in the U.S. Army in Germany during WWII. When the war ended, he worked in Berlin and negotiated several trade agreements, helping to rebuild the German economy. This early experience in Europe inspired him to fund opportunities for IU students to study abroad. \nIn addition to the new $225,000 grant given to Overseas Study, Hutton also created the Edward L. Hutton International Experiences Program in 2000. Administered by the Honors College, the program has helped finance study abroad experiences for over 400 IU students. His support for such opportunities stems from his strong belief that students should be exposed to other cultures, broadening their global perspective. \n"The Hutton grant allows the Office of Overseas Study to work more closely with academic departments to create programs emphasizing and enhancing a student's overall academic curriculum without passing the financial cost onto students," said Paige Weting, an Overseas Study academic advisor who deals with a large part of the department's administration.\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.
(12/09/03 5:56am)
Almost a month ago, local Bloomington music legend Tom Donohue passed away, leaving a void in the emotional compositions of so many friends of both the man and his music.\nDonohue couldn't read music and he couldn't play it. Friends teased him for a brief stint many years ago as a drummer in a band called the "Retarded Gods." But his colleagues say his knowledge of music and artists was "encyclopedic."\nSince 1996, Donohue ran TD's CDs & LPs, and in its newest incarnation, the store sits at 322 E. Kirkwood Ave., in the same building as Laughing Planet and Soma. It's a place reflective of Donohue's personality. Disorganized. Eclectic. Stuff everywhere.\nThe store, which was closed for a brief period, opened again for business Nov. 22 -- the day that would have been Donohue's 54th birthday, said longtime friends and business partners Patrick Fiore and Marina Ballor, who shared store ownership with Donohue and took over the entire ownership after his death. Donohue passed away from liver cancer Nov. 12.\n"The reason we want to continue the store without him is because it catered to a number of young people who couldn't really find their music readily available anywhere else," Ballor said.\nDonohue was a one-time Catholic seminarian whose vocation changed from serving the Holy See in Rome to the music community in Bloomington, with the store created when Fiore and Ballor, owners of Le Petite Cafe, fronted the cash.\n"Not only did we keep a low profile, we kept no profile," Fiore said.\nThe first store opened in 1996, and the second location in 1998.\nBallor said the store never lost money. Fiore said the store always broke even and business was up and down.\nDonohue had "a willingness to unearth rare records and unheard-of bands" Fiore said. "He would go through his huge brains to come up with hunches."\nFiore and Ballor sense a fear among many of the store's patrons that the store will change a great deal with Donohue's passing. They say it's not so.\n"We're preserving the spirit, but we're changing the clutter," Fiore said.\nBallor said Donohue liked to keep boxes around for students when they had to pack up and for breaks. He had 5,000 boxes and the aisles were so crammed with records and CDs, two people couldn't get into the same aisle and reaching for stuff was seemingly impossible.\nStill, the store is popular both among Bloomington residents and students, who voted it as Best Record Store in the IDS Weekend "Best of Bloomington" poll in November.\nFor the time being, the store is open Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 7 p.m. Fiore said during the winter vacation they may alter the hours a little.\nTD's only employee and store manager, Jason Nickey, is worried even cleaning the place may be too much of a change. He said a lot of people just went to the store because of Donohue's personality, and he and Fiore both said it's too soon to tell what effect not having Donohue around could have on business.\nBut Nickey said Saturday was the best day the store had since the reopening.\nFriend and local musician Rex Miller said Donohue was a very good source of information, echoing Fiore's thoughts about Donohue being a walking encyclopedia.\n"He was really good at exposing people to new musical ideas," Miller said. "I think that was Tom's strong point."\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.
(12/09/03 5:16am)
IU's Division of Recreational Sports will close Woodlawn Field again from Dec. 15 until March 22, 2004, officials announced Monday. \nRecSports said it is closing the field to perform routine maintenance and to prevent extensive damage to the field from usage during inclement weather.\nJimmy Finan, marketing and promotions assistant in RecSports, said the division wanted to let the field repair itself.\nFinan said in the cold weather with the ground freezing and then thawing, it gets muddy, and activity on the field creates mud and tears up the grass. Finan also said part of the routine maintenance includes planting new grass seed in the early spring.\nLast year, the fields were closed for approximately five months to complete extensive maintenance and repairs, which included removing rocks, reseeding, aerating the addition of top soil and repairing manhole safety covers. \nThat was the first time Woodlawn Field was closed in 20 years. \nThe closing and subsequent maintenance resulted in improved grass growth and safer playing fields, Finan said. RecSports then decided the fields should be closed each winter to perform routine maintenance and repairs to ensure better playing conditions during the hectic-use period from late March through November.\nClub sports team members expressed mixed reactions to the closing. \n"It definitely puts a damper on our practices, but once January comes around, we'll be able to practice inside the (Harry Gladstein) Fieldhouse," said junior Kelli Whall, a women's Ultimate Frisbee team officer. \nWhall said she understands the closing for safety reasons, but said it limits the team's options. She said once it gets cold out, the team will have to move practice indoors anyway.\nSenior Kelvin Chin, men's Ultimate Frisbee club president, said he doesn't think the maintenance is that crucial right now. Chin said in the long run the repairs would be beneficial for the field, but he doesn't think the field will be made that much worse by playing on it now.\nHe said even though the Ultimate Frisbee season doesn't start until spring, practicing now on a grass or a turf is really beneficial.\nNot every club sport will face the same level of hassle.\nJunior Andy Leigh is coordinator of the club men's soccer team. He said the field closing won't really affect the team all that much since it practices on a space near Foster Quad. \nHowever, he said one possible consequence of the field closing may be other teams who can no longer use the field try to occupy the space near Foster.\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.
(11/24/03 5:43am)
An IU Police Department officer was struck on the back of the head with a beer bottle Saturday as he tried to break up a fight after the Old Oaken Bucket football game.\nIUPD officer Brian Oliger was trying to arrest one of the men involved in the fight when another unidentified man smashed a bottle against the base of his skull, leaving a one-inch gash.\nOliger was transported to Bloomington Hospital to receive treatment for his wound, which required staples.\nPolice said Oliger was released and worked his normal Saturday night shift. Police have not found the man witnesses say struck Oliger.\nThe conflict occurred soon after IU's 24-16 loss to Purdue in a parking lot south of Memorial Stadium. This was the only time this year that an IUPD officer was injured at a football game, police said.\nOliger, the department's bike patrol coordinator, was near 17th Street and Woodlawn Avenue when he saw a fight between two men, IUPD Lt. Jerry Minger said. Oliger broke up the fight, wrestled one subject to the ground, and while about 100 tailgaters hovered around, one man rushed forward out of the crowd and hit him with the bottle then fled.\nWitnesses said all they saw was a yellow T-shirt and red hair, Minger said.\nMinger said he was about 100 yards away when he saw spectators crossing 17th Street point toward the fight. Minger came to Oliger's aid and grabbed a bike and began to use it to push the crowds back.\nMinger's call for help drew 67 police officers from all the involved agencies to the area.\n"The crowd was a little intoxicated and a little belligerent," Minger said. "It made a critical situation, with an injured officer worse."\nIUPD officer Dave Heckman and Lt. Greg Butler fired pepper spray canisters into the crowd, while several six-officer teams began breaking up the crowd, Minger said.\nWith the exception of the rare incident of violence Saturday, Minger said the alcohol problems police encountered were less than normal. IUPD officers wrote fewer than 10 citations for illegal consumption, he said.\nDean of Students Richard McKaig said he didn't have enough information to put the incident into context, but thinks it is negative for the campus.\n"It's an unfortunate incident and no officer should be subjected to that sort of treatment," he said. "I hope the police are successful in finding the man who did this, and certainly if it was a student, I think the University will take severe action."\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.
(11/19/03 5:47am)
The Monroe County prosecutor has declined to press charges against IU football players involved in a phone fraud investigation, an IU Police Department spokesman said Tuesday.\nIUPD Lt. Jerry Minger said the department will leave the case open but "inactive," since the prosecutor said there aren't grounds to press criminal charges. Minger said the department had done all it could with the investigation.\nJennifer Brinegar, IU athletics compliance coordinator, said all players who lost their eligibility to play because of the infraction are no longer suspended because they reimbursed IU for the long distance calls.\nThe investigation focused on one football player who allegedly stole a long distance access code from an assistant football coach, then distributed the number to other players. In total, $480 worth of long distance calls were made using the access code, owned by the IU Athletics Department.\nAt IU, campus residents, faculty and staff members can only make long distance calls using the University phone service after they enter a seven-digit personal access code, or PAC, according to University Information Technology Services. The PAC acts as a billing number so UITS can bill the correct resident, staff or faculty member for long distance calls.\nIn the early stages of the investigation, one player confessed to police and three others told the IDS they were aware of players using the code without authorization, but they didn't know which players were involved.\nFour players were suspects, and at an Oct. 21 press conference, IU football coach Gerry DiNardo said the player involved "to the highest degree" was removed from the team over the summer before the current fall semester.\nOn Oct. 21, then-Athletics Department Director of Media Relations Jeff Fanter said sophomore Damien Jones was the only player removed from the team during that period.\nAccording to NCAA bylaws, it is not permissible to allow a student-athlete to use a telephone or credit card for personal reasons without charge or at a reduced cost. When the total is less than $100, players must pay the bill. For larger sums, the guidelines mandate suspensions.\nBrinegar, who ensures IU athletic programs are in compliance with NCAA rules, said the issue deals with players receiving extra benefits they wouldn't have normally been entitled to.\nShe said she had been in contact with IUPD Det. Greg McClure, who had requested a copy of her report so he could close the case. Brinegar said she expected to have it completed within the next few days.\nMonroe County prosecutor Carl Salzmann did not return phone messages.\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.
(11/18/03 5:51am)
Wireless companies are expected to see a revenue increase following a Nov. 24 deadline to allow consumers to keep their number if they pick up a new service. Local Number Portability (LNP) is a concept the FCC mandated in 1996 and made to include wireless phone numbers in 1997.\nLNP allows wireless consumers to keep their same telephone number if they switch carriers, as well as allowing wireline (landline) customers to keep their number if they switch to wireless, said Travis Larson, an wireless expert for the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) in Washington, D.C.\nLarson said LNP's transfer ownership will allow consumers to own their phone numbers instead of companies. The ability to transfer ownership will create competition between different providers for the millions of wireless consumers. \n"It's gonna create a mess," said Guzman and Co. analyst Patrick Comack, a wireless industry expert. \nComack said the industry will be shaken up heavily in the next two years battling each other for wireless consumers. Comack said he thinks the industry will grow at least seven percent because of LNP.\nComack rates Nextel as having the highest potential for growth, while he predicts Verizon will create the largest amount of industry advertising.\nThe Nov. 24 deadline to allow consumers to keep their number if they pick up a new service applies to the FCC's top 100 markets across the United States, including Indianapolis and Louisville. While these analysts all seem to agree that LNP will positively affect the wireless providers consumer base, no one seems entirely certain how many consumers will take advantage of the policy. Larson said the CTIA's studies show as many as nine million people will take advantage of LNP in the first week. During the first year, he said his information shows 18 million people will have taken advantage. \nThe disparity in the number switch between the one week and one year projections, "tells me they haven't got a clue," said Larson. \nAnother aspect Larson highlights is the amount of consumers in young age groups who will benefit from LNP if they decide to "cut the cord."\nLarson said cutting the cord means to go from wireline phones to completely wireless. Larson estimates 15-19 million Americans will choose to cut their cords. Noting a 71 percent presence of the 20-24 year old age group CTIA predicts strong competition between service providers to attract this demographic after the November deadline.\n"Cell phone companies will really screw you over," said sophomore Erin Farlow. "If you want a new plan it would be really frustrating to contact everyone and tell give them your new information. It would be cool," she said about consumers being able to take the number from company to company.\nBut Verizon Wireless' David Clevenger said his company views the number of potential customers who will decide to go from landline to completely wireless as a negligible influence on decisions the company will make in attracting new customers.\nClevenger said he doesn't think many people will want to make the leap and cut their cords, but he does think LNP will boost Verizon's overall business.\n"We think we will have an increase in customers because of LNP," Clevenger said.\nClevenger does not attribute Verizon's financial success and growth to the offering of low prices and special deals, but providing the most reliable network as compared with its competitors. Clevenger said Verizon's quarterly increase in customers is in the millions and the company is having a record-breaking year.
(11/14/03 3:42pm)
A local singing group called the Bloomington Feminist Singers will perform at 7 p.m. tonight at 928 S. Ballantine, the home of one of the group's members. \n"The arts are vital to the community, said Rebecca Keith, the group's director. "There are many classical choral and instrumental groups in town. The Bloomington Feminist Singers is an amateur, non-audition, feminist organization. It's a different niche than many other groups serve."\nThe BFS was founded about 15 years ago, Keith said. She also said the group's membership has ranged from as many as 40 chorus members to as few as six. Keith was involved as a singer herself for three years before becoming the director.\n"The mission of the group is to provide singing opportunities for feminist women in the Bloomington community," Keith said.\nCindy Moore is a new group member this year, and was sought after by Keith because of what Moore calls her "low alto voice."\nMoore said singing is a favorite pastime of hers because it serves as a release from a stressful day of work as an academic advisor.\nThe house concert tonight will showcase choral pieces Keith said the group has worked on since this September. But this isn't the only event the BFS has participated in this fall.\nEarlier this fall, the group sang at "Take Back the Night" with what group composer Emily Williams called "protest songs." Williams, a member of the group for five years, said she tried to write material for the group that related to the event where the group was performing.\nWilliams said the repertoire at this event included a song called "Take Back the Night," which included several verses dedicated to various issues Williams said were important to women. Williams said the issues included a living wage, rape and other themes related to personal safety.\nAt tonight's house concert, the first one Keith said she can remember ever happening during her involvement with the group, will feature about eight pieces the group has been rehearsing, including one called "Fall," also composed by Williams.\nWilliams said "Fall" talks about a tribute to the season through a fable of Greek mythology.\nKeith said tonight's show is the last performance of the year and the new season begins with rehearsals on Jan. 18 with a warm welcome for new members.\nFor information on joining the BFS, e-mail Rebecca Keith at rkeith@alumni.indiana.edu, or call 824-2670.\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.
(11/13/03 4:19am)
School of Music students will form an honor guard on Jordan Avenue today to honor a former colleague as his funeral procession passes the school's buildings.\nLarry Stoute, 57, director of facilities at the school, succumbed Tuesday to cancer at Beverly Health Care Center in Bloomington.\n"He was just a superlative person who met the everyday challenges of daily life around the music school," doctoral candidate Sarah Read said. "Without his detail orientedness the school would have fallen apart."\nRead said Stoute was the type of man who worked behind the scenes and liked it. She said whenever she needed to get into a locked room, he was always there to let her in. \nRead said she didn't know Stoute was ill, but School of Music Dean Gwyn Richards sent out an e-mail to students, staff and faculty letting them know about Stoute's death Tuesday.\nIn his e-mail Richards expressed the sadness the music school will feel with the death of Stoute, who had been an IU employee since 1989, a sadness music school scheduling coordinator Dorothy Riggle said is universal at the school.\n"He leaves behind him a sense of really caring about the job," Riggle said.\nIt was last Christmas when Stoute first began having the stomach pains, she said. Doctors first thought it was ulcers, but they determined it was pancreatic cancer.\nRiggle said even though the school had a month to prepare for Stoute's passing, it's still rough and they were all praying for a miracle that didn't come.\nThe procession will leave Allen Funeral Home headed west on Third Street. At Jordan Avenue, the procession will turn right and pass by the music facilities.\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.
(11/11/03 6:25am)
Muncie police are investigating a Ball State University police officer who shot and killed a Ball State student Saturday in a residential neighborhood near the university campus. \nSince Officer Robert Duplain was just in his seventh month of duty, police officials might look into the training the rookie officer received before he shot 21-year-old Michael Mckinney.\nPeople who knew Mckinney also are questioning the officer's actions. \nAccording to BSU Police Chief Gene Burton, at 3:26 a.m. Saturday a woman called police to 1325 W. North St. in Muncie for a "burglary in progress." \nBSU officers responded to the call. Within one minute, Duplain and three other officers arrived on the scene. \nAccording to the police report, Duplain searched the perimeter of the back of the house. There he found Mckinney pounding on the back door and window of the house. Duplain reportedly told Mckinney to stop and get down. \nAccording to police, Mckinney lunged at Duplain, causing him to shoot four times into Mckinney's torso. Officers who undergo firearms training according to Indiana Law Enforcement Academy standards are taught to stop a suspect if they use deadly force by firing two rounds -- called a double tap -- into the person's torso.\nThere were no other officers in the backyard with Duplain at the time of the shooting. \nMckinney's fraternity brother Phil Juskevice, whose house Mckinney was supposed to stay at the night of the shooting, said he finds it hard to believe someone could take his friend as a serious threat.\n"He looked like he was 12 years old. He was a short, pudgy kid, and I don't understand how he could look intimidating to a police officer unarmed," Juskevice said. \nJuskevice said he had been out at the bars with Mckinney earlier in the evening and was supposed to meet up with him later. He said Mckinney slept at his house many times and since Mckinney was drunk, he probably mistook the neighbor's home -- which closely resembles his -- for Juskevice's.\n"He always knew the front door was locked so he would always come around and bang on the back," Juskevice said. \nJuskevice said Mckinney was an easy-going guy and described a past run-in the pair had with police. \n"All the papers have been talking about (past) theft charges," Juskevice said. "That was actually from me and him trying to take a stop sign, and when the police showed up he just sat down an said 'Oh we're busted.' He didn't argue with him or anything ... it's just not like him to do something like this." \nJuskevice added all charges were eventually dropped. \nHe said he doesn't understand how the situation could escalate the way it did. \n"Are the policemen not trained enough to subdue somebody, especially someone small and obviously intoxicated?" Juskevice said. "It's university police, and they should be used to dealing with drunk students." \nDuring his training period, Duplain went through a 40-hour pre-basic course run by ILEA. Pre-basic includes eight hours of firearms training, eight hours of physical tactics and the remainder of the time is spent on classroom topics such as criminal law.\nBurton said Duplain also graduated from the department's 14-week Field Training Program, designed to put a rookie with a veteran who can school him in on-the-street law enforcement. Burton said he was very successful and didn't require any remedial training.\n"We are very aware of the officers' experience level," Burton said. "We want to train them as best we can and put them in the best position to serve the community."\nAside from physical tactics and his weapon, Duplain, who Burton said did not have his baton with him, was without any other tools to stop Mckinney. \nDuplain was not certified with pepper spray, Burton said. Since he wasn't certified, he wasn't allowed to carry it.\nBurton said there are officers on BSU's police force who carry pepper spray, but Duplain hadn't been certified since there are no instructors at BSU who could conduct the required training. The outside trainer BSU uses is hard to get because of cost and scheduling conflicts, Burton said.\nDuplain is currently on administrative leave with pay pending the outcome of the investigation. \n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu. Managing editor Kristen Utrecht contributed to this report.
(11/06/03 5:34am)
An unidentified man exposed himself to two female Collins Living-Learning Center residents Tuesday night near the intersection of Woodlawn Avenue and 11th Street, IU Police Department Lt. Jerry Minger said.\nThe two IU students, whose names are being witheld because the investigation is still going on, were studying in Collins' Edmondson Formal Lounge Tuesday night when they decided to take a walk at 11:30 p.m.\nDuring their walk, the two students noticed a lone man following them as they proceeded north on Forrest Avenue.\nThe two women then turned onto 11th Street where they encountered the same man masturbating in front of them. Both of the students ran to the Collins Center Desk and reported the incident to the Residential Assistant on duty, who called IUPD.\nWhile exposures may be common on college campuses, Minger said the results are seldom more than shock effect.\n"Unfortunately indecent exposure is a crime where perpetrators who are not members of the campus community, but come onto the campus," Minger said. "Violators know the environment has very accessible victims with females walking around at all times of the day. I don't want anyone to have a false sense of security, but exhibitionists are usually after the shock effect and don't typically assault their victim. But that's not to say these exhibitionists aren't just testing the water and may escalate in their severity."\nOfficers Ryan Corbett and Scott Dunning began searching the area and took the report.\nThe two victims gave police enough information to draft a composite sketch of the man.\nPolice said the perpetrator is a black male, approximately 5'11" and in his thirtys. He has a large build and weighs between 190 and 200 pounds. At the time of the incident he was wearing baggy jeans, a baggy khaki long sleeve button down shirt with a matching khaki colored skull cap and a light colored knit cap. The subject appeared to be 'out of place' among the other students.\nPolice, saying all tip can be helpful, are encouraging anyone who thinks they have seen the man matching the description to come forward.\n"We're really hoping the perpetrator has been seen by other people who can maybe say 'Hey, I saw this guy hanging out in the Union, or hey, I've seen this guy in my dorm,'" Minger said. "Even if they think their information is very small, that piece of information is golden."\nThe IUPD Investigations Section can be contacted at 855-4111.\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.
(11/05/03 5:39am)
A task force to investigate IU Alumni Associations' Camp Brosius meets for the first time at 2:30 p.m. Friday in Bryan Hall. The 12-person committee, appointed by IU President Adam Herbert and headed by IU Budget Director Steve Keucher, was appointed by the president two weeks ago to make a recommendation about the fate of the summer camp.\nThe IUAA and the IU Board of Trustees agreed to the one-year lease proposed by the IUAA that extends through October 2004.\nCarl Zacher has managed the camp for the last five years and sits on the committee as a representative of the IUAA.\n"I think (the mission of the task force) is to determine the long-term viability of the camp," Zacher said. "How does it fit into the IU community, and how do we justify it."\nZacher said he considers it a privilege to help determine the fate of the 85-year-old camp run by the IUAA since 1974. According to a statement released by the IUAA, about 900 people attend Camp Brosius, located at Lake Elkhart in Wisconsin, annually during its eight one-week sessions. According to IUAA Web site, Camp Brosius is staffed primarily by IU students, alumni and IUAA professional staff. It offers programming for children through teenagers, as well as tournaments, trips and other leisure activities for adults.\nZacher said he has great faith in Keucher's leadership abilities since Keucher has already been in contact with all the committee members. Zacher said he feels everyone will come to Friday's meeting "on the same page."\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.\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 recently decided to extend its involvement until 2004 to keep the camp afloat during the transition to a new manager. \n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.
(10/31/03 5:28am)
Since the recent report of a blitz rape of an IU freshman Oct. 23 near Ballantine Hall, many students have personal safety on their minds.\nThe IU Police Department is putting on a program designed to alleviate fears.\nRape Aggression Defense is a program of realistic defensive tactics and techniques that teaches women to be aware of their surroundings and minimize the threat of assault. The school also teaches women hands-on physical tactics. \n"RAD provides women with knowledge concerning awareness, prevention, risk reduction and risk avoidance," IUPD Lt. Jerry Minger said. "RAD also teaches hands-on self defense techniques for those women who decide to resist an attacker. These techniques are presented in both static and dynamic training sessions."\nRAD is taught in several sessions a year by IUPD instructors, including Sgt. David Rhodes, a martial arts expert.\nRhodes said the RAD self-defense techniques are based on martial arts, but emphasized the course is not a martial arts class out of "Karate Kid."\n"The techniques are simply blocks, strikes and kicks a woman with an average strength and size can perform," Rhodes said.\nThe first class is from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday. Class members will learn risk reduction and risk awareness. These techniques lower chances of a possible attack as the potential victim may be able to avoid the situation all together.\nThe second and third classes are from 6 to 9 p.m. Nov. 11 and 13. In these classes, members will learn the physical techniques.\nAn optional class period, called "Dynamic Simulation," runs from 6 to 9 p.m., Nov. 18. In this class students who are dressed in safety equipment will defend themselves against mock aggressors. \nRhodes said this is essentially using the techniques at full force, because most women have never hit or kicked someone as hard as they could. They also receive positive feedback on how well they work.\n"No one can tell a woman how she should respond in these types of situations," Rhodes said. "Instead we provide options to physically resist an attacker."\nThe course is an annual event sponsored by IUPD to aid potential victims on campus.\nRegistration is required. Any woman can register by calling IUPD at 855-4111. Class size is limited to 10 participants and is free for IU students. There is a $20 training fee for non-students.\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.
(10/30/03 6:29am)
The IU Police Department arrested the same student on two separate occasions last week, both on felony drug charges relating to an ecstacy lab the student volunteered to show police.\nFreshman Jacob Stoner was arrested last Wednesday on three felony charges, including intent to deliver, possession of narcotics and maintaining a common nuisance -- all Class-D felonies.\nStoner bonded out of the Monroe County Jail for $700, according to IUPD narcotics officer Dave Hannum.\nStoner was arrested again Friday after the discovery of a drug lab he allegedly ran in a Bloomington storage facility. He now faces two more Class-B felonies, including intent to deliver schedule one narcotics, defined as a higher classification of narcotics. He is currently out of jail on a $40,000 bond.\nAccording to police, a tip sent IUPD narcotics officer Dave Hannum to Teter Quad last Wednesday. The tipster indicated there was drug activity going on inside the dorm room.\nIn the room, Hannum said he saw "items that looked like paraphernalia which led me to believe there was drug activity going on in the room."\nHannum obtained a search warrant from Monroe County Judge David Welch and found drugs, paraphernalia, digital scales, over $1,000 in cash, Adderol pills, empty capsules and capsules filled with a white powder police said may have been ecstacy. Hannum said they won't know for sure until the results come back from the Indiana State Police lab.\nHannum said he also found two safes, in the room -- one too heavy to carry out -- and confiscated a Toshiba laptop with an estimated $2,700 retail value.\nHannum obtained a search warrant to examine the hard drive of the laptop. IUPD Spokesman and technical services director Lt. Jerry Minger looked over the computer's registry and found instant messenger logs Stoner had saved.\nMinger said some of the text in the messages indicated Stoner "was trying to set-up a market" for his narcotics business.\nHannum then asked Stoner to walk him through his rented storage facility.\nAfter going inside, Hannum said he saw large amounts of paraphernalia and what looked to be lab equipment. Hannum received another search warrant from Welch to investigate the storage facility and called the Indiana State Police's Clandestine Drug Lab team, a specially trained unit in examining possible drug labs.\nAfter the investigation, Hannum phoned Stoner Friday and asked him to meet so Hannum could return his storage locker key.\nHannum said Stoner made him promise he would not take Stoner to jail again. Hannum said he promised. But when Stoner showed up at the department police discovered three hits of ecstacy on him.\nIUPD Officer Shannon Bunger took Stoner to the Monroe County Jail. He is currently out on bond.\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.
(10/28/03 7:08am)
The first blitz-rape on the IU-Bloomington campus in 30 years might have happened Thursday, according to the IU Police Department.\nAn 18-year-old freshman woman said she was raped in a report she made to IUPD Detective Gregory McClure. In the report, the victim said she was assaulted at approximately 9 p.m. in an area between Morrison and Goodbody Halls, north of Third Street.\nIUPD Spokesman Lt. Jerry Minger said the victim left Ballantine Hall Thursday night after studying. A male subject approached her from behind, covered her mouth with his hand and then forced her to a dark space where she was assaulted. The attacker then fled south toward Third Street. \nThe victim didn't struggle because she feared being harmed, Minger said.\nIUPD Officer Randy Frye and McClure transported the victim, who said she didn't know the attacker, to Bloomington Hospital for a medical examination.\nMcClure then returned and began the processing the scene for physical evidence. Minger would not comment on whether any evidence useful to the investigation was obtained.\nThe victim was able to give a brief description of her assailant, who she said smelled like he had been drinking.\nHe was described as a white male, around 5'4", who may have been wearing blue jeans, according to Minger.\nPolice ask anyone who may have witnessed the attack or who believes they may have any information regarding the assault to contact the Investigation Section of the IU Police Department at 855-4111.\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.
(10/22/03 6:51am)
IU Parking Operations recently donated several mountain bikes to the IU Police Department to help further the department's bike patrol program.\nThe IUPD Bike Patrol began in the early 1990s and benefits the student body with a faster response time. Because of its ability to cut across all sorts of campus terrain, they often arrive at the scene of an incident before a patrol car.\n"On the bike, officers can more efficiently cover more area and can move quickly to a location if needed for emergencies," said Capt. Keith Cash, IUPD's operations commander. "In some instances, they can arrive more quickly than a motor vehicle due to not having to go through traffic on the streets. This type of patrol is also excellent in high areas of pedestrian traffic." \nIan Lovan is an IUPD officer in the department's Part Time Officer Program, which allows him to finish his degree and gain law enforcement experience at the same time. Lovan is a member of IUPD's bike patrol and said he considers it a privilege because of the program's physical requirements. Only the top 10 most physically fit officers are eligible for the program.\n"The bike patrol adds greatly to the idea of community policing," said Lovan, a senior majoring in criminal justice. "Bike officers bridge the gap between foot officers and squad cars. Being on a bicycle allows you to be very visible, talk to the people while you patrol and answer questions they may have. The foot officers have the same benefit, but when you are in a vehicle, you can't really have the same rapport with the people."\nThe IUPD has a total of six Trek 8000 Police Bicycles, which are ridden by the specially trained police officers of the IUPD Bicycle Patrol.\nCash said the program began when he and a former IUPD sergeant attended a Mountain Bike School put on by the "Law Enforcement Bicycle Association" through the Fort Wayne, Ind., police department.\nAnd all the hard work and training Lovan and the other Bike Patrol officers devote to the program seems to have paid off.\nIn late May 2003, the IUPD set up an undercover operation near the Arboretum to try and catch a flasher who had exposed himself to young women. Officer Jennifer Buttice was in plain clothes and worked to try and bait the suspect. When the flasher made his appearance, he began to flee the area. However, Lovan was on his radio near Ballantine Hall and sped on the bike to the area where he saw the suspect running. \n"He fled through the woods behind Woodburn Hall, and I finally got him stopped there," Lovan said. "Since it would be impossible to get a car in that area at that time, I feel the bicycle played a big role in catching him. I'm not saying if I weren't there we wouldn't have caught him, but the bike did play a big part in his arrest."\nOfficers Dave Heckman, Buttice and Lovan later all received commendations for the arrest.\nLovan said the best thing about the the program is it gets so much done at once.\n"I get a charge out of being a bike officer because it's fun, it's exercise and its work all in one."\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.
(10/22/03 6:05am)
IU football coach Gerry DiNardo said Tuesday that three players are involved in an IU Police Department investigation into long-distance phone fraud, but he does not anticipate any student-athletes will be ineligible for Saturday's game against Ohio State.\nDiNardo said one of those players "involved to the highest degree (in the fraud case) was dismissed over the summer."\nAthletics Department Director of Media Relations Jeff Fanter said sophomore Damien Jones was the only football player to be dismissed since the beginning of the summer to date.\nReached at his dorm room late Tuesday, Jones declined to comment.\nAccording to the IUPD, the investigation was prompted by a confession by one of the players to police officers investigating a similar, but unrelated, case. The confession came from a player at Foster Quad who said he took part in making about $480 in unauthorized long-distance calls. The access code belonged to a football program staffer who has not yet been identified.\nPolice reports indicated at least nine players were involved. IUPD would not confirm DiNardo's statement citing a specific number of suspects because the matter is an ongoing investigation.\n"The case is still being actively investigated, and our detectives are currently working to determine who may be involved in the commission of any fraud with the unauthorized telephone calling number," IUPD Lt. Jerry Minger said.\nMinger said he couldn't release other information about names of anyone involved with the investigation.\nNCAA bylaws prohibit the use of telephone, calling cards or credit cards for personal use without charge by student-athletes, calling it an extra benefit. The rules call for restitution or suspensions.\nAs of Oct. 20, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas had suspended at least 21 athletes -- including 11 football players -- for making a total of $5,617.62 in long-distance phone calls, according to the Associated Press. The first round of suspensions by UNLV came in late August.\nAt IU, students have to enter a seven-digit personal access code to make long-distance calls on campus. University Information Technology Services charges nine cents a minute for domestic phone calls.\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.
(10/21/03 5:29am)
The IU Athletics Department said in a brief statement Monday it is aware of the investigation involving misuse of University long-distance codes by IU football players, and it is cooperating with the IU Police Department.\nThe statement went on to say the Athletics Department will provide further comment should the police investigations warrant a response.\nIU Athletics Department Media Relations Director Jeff Fanter said the Athletics Department's statement is credited to both IU football coach Gerry DiNardo and IU Athletics Director Terry Clapacs. \nNCAA bylaws prohibit the use of telephone, calling cards or credit cards for personal use without charge by student athletes, calling it an extra benefit.\nWhen the total is less than $100, players must pay restitution. For larger sums, the guidelines mandate suspensions. In a similar case, the Villanova men's basketball team suspended 12 players in March after an internal investigation showed players had been making unauthorized phone calls.\nNCAA spokeswoman Gail Dent said the organization won't comment on an ongoing investigation. Dent said a university under investigation can comment on the investigation if it so chooses.\nIU spokeswoman Jane Jankowski could not be reached for comment late Monday.\nDent, who could not comment on whether IU self-reported these secondary infractions, said sanctions levied upon the team depend on the totality of all the parts and not how the NCAA became aware of the bylaw breaches.\nThe investigation was prompted last week during an IUPD investigation into a similar, but not related, phone fraud case at Foster Quad.\nA member of the football team approached police and confessed to using a stolen IU long-distance phone code, which he said he received from a teammate. The personal access code belongs to an unnamed IU football coach, police said.\nPolice said they think one player saw the number sitting on a coach's desk during a meeting, copied the number and then distributed it to at least nine other players.\nThree other teammates told the IDS they were aware of the unauthorized phone calls by their teammate but denied any involvement of their own.\nAt IU, campus residents, faculty and staff members can only make long distance calls using the University phone service after they enter a seven-digit personal access code, or PAC. The PAC acts as a billing number so UITS can bill the correct resident, staff or faculty member for long-distance calls.\nThe $480 worth of calls equals 5,333 minutes or 88 hours of calling time.\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.
(10/20/03 5:28am)
The IU Police Department is investigating members of the IU football team for illegally charging $480 on a University long distance access code, IUPD officers said. The investigation was prompted when one player approached police and confessed.\nWhile police were investigating a similar, but not related, phone fraud case at Foster Quad, sophomore fullback Jason Sullivan approached a police officer and confessed to using the personal access code, police said. Sullivan told police he received the code from another teammate.\nThe other teammate was not identified by either police or Sullivan. But police said they think one player saw the number sitting on a coach's desk during a meeting, copied the number and then distributed it to at least nine other players.\nIU coach Gerry DiNardo was the main contact for police investigators, said IUPD Lt. Jerry Minger.\nAccording to NCAA bylaw 16.12.2.2.2, it is not permissible to allow a student-athlete to use a telephone or credit card for personal reasons without charge or at a reduced cost. When the total is less than $100, players must pay the bill. For larger sums, the guidelines mandate suspensions.\nIn a similar case, the Villanova men's basketball team suspended 12 players in March after an internal investigation showed players had been making unauthorized phone calls.\nAt IU, campus residents, faculty and staff members can only make long distance calls using the University phone service after they enter a seven-digit personal access code, or PAC, according to University Information Technology Services. The PAC acts as a billing number so UITS can bill the correct resident, staff or faculty member for long distance calls.\nSullivan refused to comment on the investigation, but three other players said they heard about players using the access codes fraudulently, and one said members of the team were confronted with the usage in a meeting.\nFreshman running back Lance Bennett said about four days to a week ago he heard about other teammates making long distance phone calls, but he said he didn't know who any of the players were.\nFreshmen offensive lineman Jonathan Clemente and running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis said they also heard about other teammates making long distance phone calls with the PACs.\nGreen-Ellis said that at one meeting with many other teammates, one of the coaches asked the players to give up names of people who were using the PACs illegally if they knew about it. \nBoth Clemente and Green-Ellis denied any involvement.\nPolice said they won't release the names of any other players involved because it is investigatory material.\nUITS charges nine cents a minute for domestic phone calls. The $480 charge works out to 5,333 minutes.\nNeither Athletics Director Terry Clapacs nor DiNardo could be reached for comment.\n -- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.
(10/17/03 5:53am)
Students who are victims of the recent rash of thefts at the IU School of Music are not eligible for reimbursement for their loss from IU.\nLarry Stephens, director of risk management, said IU doesn't provide any coverage for personal property of students. Stephens said students are advised to get their own insurance coverage for personal possessions.\nThe School of Music reported Oct. 6, that its master keys had been missing for over a month. Recent thefts include a $20,000 violin, a $5,000 violin bow, nearly $2,000 of recording equipment, cash from the desk of the School of Music's dean, and a professor's $500 digital camera.\nIn the case of Tuesday's theft of the Canon digital camera from Music School faculty member Paul Elliott, risk management said they will provide coverage for an employee's personal property only if it is essential to their job. Stephens said employees must file their property with their own insurance and any amount not covered by their own personal polices, will be covered by risk management.\nSome students said the school isn't doing enough to protect property, since locks haven't been changed since a set of master keys was stolen last month.\nSue-Jean Lee, a first-year graduate student studying piano, said after the keys were stolen, the school should have had the locks changes immediately -- regardless of the cost.\n"Not even one student feels safe going to the restroom without packing up all their stuff," Lee said.\nSchool of Music budget director Royce Deckard said the locks haven't been replaced because of the $30-40,000 cost associated with replacing all of the jeopardized locks.\nFriday morning, a janitor foiled a robber's attempt to gain access to a room in the music school where a vault containing money was stored.\nIt may seem that theft at the music school is an epidemic, but according to statistics from IU Police Department Spokesman Lt. Jerry Minger, the cases seem to be in the average range.\nFrom Jan. 1 to Oct. 16, 2002, there were four cases of theft in the music school reported to officers. For the same time period this year, there have been five in the school.\nMusic School Dean Gwyn Richards didn't return calls and e-mails. \n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.