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(10/17/03 4:34am)
A local charity will hold a free health screening at its club Sunday for children with medical problems too expensive for their parents to afford. The Stonebelt Shrine Club will hold the screenings from 1 to 3 p.m. at the clubhouse at 7065 N. Stonebelt Drive.\nThe screening is open to the public and is designed to screen children with orthopedic, burn or neuro problems who may be eligible for free care, continual check-ups and transportation to and from the area Shrine Hospitals.\nDr. Kent Moseman is a Bloomington orthopedic Surgeon who volunteers annually at the screenings and refers children to the Shrine hospitals for treatment based on the results of the screenings.\nMoseman said the screenings are an attempt to make the Shrine Hospital services accessible to area families, and this is one of the ways local people can be made aware of their services.\n"The Shrine Hospitals have staffs with considerable experience dealing with orthopedics where the average orthopedic surgeon doesn't see similar cases maybe once a year," Moseman said.\nMoseman said typical ailments he sees are bowed legs, scoliosis and clubbed feet. He said if children have any unusual ailments, he would probably refer them to the Shriners.\nThe screenings may also be beneficial to the IU Community.\n"The student parents, usually graduate students, are far from home," said Shrine member Steve Fiscus. "Usually working part time to supplement their income and short of close support (they) can find relief in the fact that should their child suffer from one of the afflictions that the Shriner's Hospitals work on and can get the treatment needed for free. The Shrine also will pay for the gas to transport the child to the hospital. There are absolutely no charges for the treatment."\n-Contact staff reporter Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.
(10/16/03 6:00am)
Another theft was reported from the IU School of Music Wednesday, less than two weeks after the theft of a $20,000 violin from a locked practice room at the school.\nFaculty member Paul Elliott reported the disappearance of his $500 Canon digital camera Wednesday.\nElliott, a voice teacher, said he needed the camera for a class, and brought it from his home Monday to leave in his studio overnight. When he came into his office Tuesday morning, he said the camera was missing. Elliott said he waited until Wednesday to file the theft report to verify he didn't leave it at home or somewhere else, but he checked the school's lost and found area and didn't find the camera there.\nThis latest break-in comes after the theft last month of master keys that allow access to music school facilities. The keys open rooms in the Music Annex, Simon Music Library, Merrill Hall and the Musical Arts Center, but the school has yet to change the locks.\nElliott said he told IU Police Department officer Brett Wellman he was sure the camera was stolen from his office. Wellman wrote in the police report access to the studio was made without visible signs of forced entry.\nBut this doesn't mean someone used a key to get in, said IUPD Lt. Jerry Minger. He said it is still a possibility, though.\nMinger said it is important investigators don't develop tunnel vision in investigations and assume this theft was perpetrated by the same subject responsible for a break-in foiled by a janitor Friday morning.\nBut Minger said people still should be aware of safety concerns in the area after the recent theft reports.\n"People should be conscious their property is never completely safe without their presence," Minger said.\nSchool of Music Dean Gwyn Richards said in a previous IDS article the school is working with IUPD and the IU Risk Management office to address the situation. \nWhen Elliott reported the theft to Richards' office, Elliott said the office seemed sorry about the theft and said they thought the situation was under control and the thefts had died down.\nRichards did not return phone calls Wednesday.\nElliott said he has learned his lesson. This is the first thing taken from him in his 19 years at IU.\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.
(10/15/03 5:28am)
Local Shriners presented a $1,000 check Tuesday to a middle school teacher, allowing more of his students to participate in a learning workshop.\nChapter President Turner Nolan and treasurer David Shafer presented the check to Batchelor Middle School teacher Jeff Rudkin during a 30 minute ceremony in his second floor classroom. Also representing Stonebelt Shrine Club, a county chapter of the Indianapolis based Murat Temple, were members Billy Combs, Bill Resch, Steve Fiscus and Tom Staley.\n"Having grown up in a financially challenged home, I find it extremely gratifying that our organization can help anyone, particularly children who are vulnerable and at such an impressionable stage in their lives," said Staley, chapter vice president. "I firmly believe in role models and support mentoring." \nRudkin runs B-TV, a hands-on broadcasting class where the students produce a regular newscast for Batchelor's student body. The class has won 10 national awards, allowing them to participate in the International Student Media Festival, held in Anaheim, Calif., this Oct. 22-26. \nBut four students eligible to go couldn't afford the trip.\nThe Shrine Club learned of the students' financial need when grandchildren of the local Shriners in the class let their grandfathers know about the situation. They made a donation after they found out the students' plight.\nWhile the Shrine Club's mission is primarily based on generating donations to fund the organization's 23 hospitals scattered across North America, one Shriner said if a chapter has the money, then it should be routed to other good causes.\n"If we are affluent enough, which we are right now, we like to support our kids and help them grow academically," said former chapter president and member Steve Fiscus.\nThe chapter learned of the four students' financial needs too late for the organization's monthly board meeting, where the business would normally have been proposed. So the chapter put it before the general membership of the local chapter in what it calls a "stated meeting." Staley said the proposal to donate the $1,000 passed unanimously.\n"I find (the donation) overwhelming," said Batchelor principal Peggy Chambers. "I think the Shriners are a respected organization and the work they do is so needed. I think for them to take the time to come here today and make this presentation, it says a lot about their commitment to our youth."\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.
(10/10/03 5:25am)
The IU Alumni Association will sponsor several events as part of IU's Homecoming festivities this weekend including today's annual Homecoming Parade, pre-game party and a brunch for alumni on Saturday.\nEach Saturday beginning two hours before any home football game, an indoor party called a "Big Red Warm-up" is held at the Virgil T. DeVault Alumni Center located on 17th Street across from Assembly Hall. The warm-up is sponsored by the IU Student Alumni Association.\nThe SAA is an off-shoot organization of the IUAA and is responsible for bringing students into the fold and encouraging them to benefit from the many services IUAA offers after graduation comes.\nThe pre-game party usually draws 200 or more people, and the number of attendees is gradually increasing, said junior Becky Junokas, SAA director of support for leadership.\nThese warm-ups are a way of bringing students into the Alumni Center as well as helping them get connected with other alumni.\n"It's definitely an important event for us," said Tara Sherwin, a graduate assistant for the IUAA, "because it's a two-prong attack on students and alumni. It brings students into the alumni center so they are exposed to the building, what we do and our table with our membership sign-ups. And students are also exposed to alumni who come in for the home football games, so they can talk with them and see what it is like to be an alumni and be in that other world."\nSherwin said "the other world" is life after college, which seems "awfully far off as a freshmen."\nSherwin said the warm-up benefits alumni who come because it connects them with the students, and she feels the SAA can accomplish its goals this way.\nAlso Saturday, the IUAA is welcoming alumni and friends at its 16th annual Homecoming Brunch. \n"Sweet Home Indiana" will be held at the John Mellencamp Pavilion located on Fee Lane next to Memorial Stadium.\nThe event, sponsored by the IUAA, IU Foundation, Hoosiers for Higher Education and IU Varsity Club, is expected to draw a crowd of at least 1,000 people, IUAA staffer Lori Pearson said in a statement.\nThe program will include entertainment from groups including the IU Singing Hoosiers, the IU Cheerleaders and Craig Brenner and the Crawdads. Speakers will include IU-Bloomington Chancellor Sharon Brehm, Athletic Director Terry Clapacs and IUAA CEO Ken Beckley.\nTickets cost $12 for adults and $6 for children 12 and under. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door.\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.
(10/09/03 5:39am)
With the Homecoming game Saturday, more football fans than normal will gather to support IU in its battle against Northwestern. \nThis also means more tailgating will go on in the Red Lot across the street from Memorial Stadium. \nBut police say Homecoming events don't necessarily mean there will be more drinking.\n"It's going to depend on the weather, the crowd size and amount of officers we have available in that area," IU Police Department Sgt. Don Schmuhl said. "But just because it's Homecoming doesn't mean we'll encounter more alcohol. If the weather is nice and warm we have people out and doing things, if it's cold and rainy we tend to have more people at home."\nIUPD Officer Martin East is a 20-year veteran and has worked the Red Lot during several games. He said there is a reason a large quantity of police circulate during the partying.\n"There was a time when everybody just turned their heads, and nobody bothered with it," East said. "But we are proactively now trying to combat underage drinking. Now we check IDs. In the past, it was a safe haven because underage drinkers felt like no one would bother them."\nEast said he feels people going to the Red Lot are just looking to have a good time, but problems still arise from inexperienced drinkers.\n"You get kids who have never drank before and they drink too much. Alcohol affects their judgement, and then we have a problem. I think that's the whole problem," he said.\nBut the police presence generates mixed reactions from tailgaters who frequent the Red Lot on game day.\nJunior Quinton Weisberg said he feels the police aren't out "to get anybody." \n"They don't give us a problem about underage drinking, which is good," Weisberg said. "I think they're just here in case there's a big problem. They walk by; they don't hassle us. I'm glad they're here in case there's a problem."\nOther tailgaters don't think the police presence is warranted. \nNon-student Greg Rankin was at IU's last home game against Kentucky for only his second tailgating experience. He said he didn't like the cops being there.\n"They're trying to break up my party," Rankin said. "I just had a confrontation with the cops five minutes ago with about nine cops surrounding the keg. But we were all 21, so everything was straight."\nRankin said the police are there for no reason.\n"I don't see any crowds," he said. "I just see people by their automobiles drinking some beer." \nRankin said he has tailgated at other universities, including the University of Michigan and Ohio State University, and he doesn't feel there's any danger at IU. \nHe said the police are more of a nuisance than a service.\nSchmul said the officers are doing their jobs to keep tailgaters in line.\n"If you are under 21, I would not consume alcohol in that area, and if you are 21 or older you should not violate state law, such as public intoxication, furnishing alcohol to minors and operating a vehicle while intoxicated," Schmuhl said.\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.
(10/06/03 6:08am)
Homecoming Week 2003 begins today as alumni return to the campus and students prepare for this weekend's festivities, including Friday's parade and Saturday's football game against Northwestern.\nBut the IU Police Department is also preparing.\nBecause of the expected influx of crowds, IUPD is expecting to deal with more alcohol-related offenses, including drunk driving.\n"Because it's Homecoming week, I think officers on the street will certainly be more conscious of watching for drunk drivers," said IUPD Lt. Jerry Minger.\nMinger said the department isn't increasing its patrols or enforcement, though. \nLast year, the IUPD made 46 arrests during Homecoming Week, including eight for drunk driving and public intoxication.\nOne of the third shift's main duties during its 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. run is to stop drunk drivers, Minger said. \nFormer IUPD Officer Nick Ojeda, who now works for the Scottsdale, Ariz., police department, said in July during his patrol on the third shift that officers can spot intoxicated people pretty easily.\n"When someone is extremely intoxicated, it's not hard to spot them, meaning their driving behavior is so erratic that it's hard not to notice them," Ojeda said. "What takes more skill and experience in an officer is spotting the person who is intoxicated above the legal limit but not blatantly so to the untrained eye." \nHe said officers are trained to look for certain driving behaviors such as swerving, inconsistent speeds and any movements that are out of the norm for a sober driver. \nThese movements include rolling stops, illegal lane changes, stopping for a green light, swerving, driving at night without head lights, driving abnormally slow, excessive breaking and running a red light, IUPD Sgt. Shannon Ramey said.\nOjeda said a typical stop during the third shift requires officers to look for signs the driver might be under the influence.\nAfter an officer pulls a suspected driver over, one of the signs is the smell of the alcohol on the breath, he said. \nIf an officer feels there is a chance the driver may be intoxicated, the officer might then start what is known as the Standardized Field Sobriety Test.\nDepending on the test's outcome, an officer might ask the potential drunk driver for consent to do further testing with what police call a "Certified Breath Test Machine," which is an instrument designed to measure alcohol content in breath. Essentially, the machine is more sophisticated than the normal Breathalyzer.\n"Once a subject has provided an adequate breath sample to the certified instrument and that sample has returned at a .08 percent BrAC or above, the officer has a statutory obligation to arrest the subject for operating a vehicle while intoxicated and operating with a BrAC of .08 percent or above," IUPD Lt. Tom Lee said.\nDuring a traffic stop, officers typically can use their own discretion to issue a ticket, Lee said.\nDepending on the circumstances, someone going 30 mph over the limit could potentially wind up getting a ticket or just a written warning. \nBut "Officer's Discretion" almost never exists when it comes to drunk drivers, Lee said.\n"OWI's do not offer too much but there is some," Ojeda said. "An officer only has discretion here if the driver is impaired between the levels of .05 to .08. The decision in this area can be made either way based on the other evidence and factors involved in the call."\nOjeda recalled one of his most memorable drunk-driving stops.\nHe said the driver was stopped on the 45/46 bypass driving at roughly 50 mph, swerving almost in the ditch on his side. Ojeda pulled the driver over, and he said the driver was so intoxicated he was hanging onto the steering wheel, laying between the seats. \n"A lot of people drive drunk and a lot of them make it home without incident," Ojeda said. "But all it takes is one time of seeing a serious injury or fatal crash to know all our saturated patrols are worth it. One of our many jobs is to protect people from drunk drivers and drunk drivers from themselves."\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.
(10/02/03 5:20am)
Stings, pigeons and moles. \nThe work of undercover police officers is typically a secret within the halls of a police department, but at noon today, Paul Marcus, Haynes Professor of Law at Virginia's College of William and Mary, will uncover the myths in his lecture, "Undercover Law Enforcement Operations: Word from the street, the police station and the courthouse."\nMarcus will present the lecture in the law school's Moot Court Room, where he'll discuss the legal issues surrounding covert police activity.\nHis lecture is sponsored by the IU chapter of the American Constitution Society.\nLaw student Drew Yoder, IU ACS chapter president, said the legal implications of undercover operations can cause a lot of problems. Yoder said one of the topics Marcus will cover in his lecture will include what legal activities undercover cops engage in, as well as some things they do that tend to be illegal.\nThe lecture is especially important to IU, said law student David Stevens, ACS member.\n"Undercover police operations involve many interesting civil rights and legal issues," Stevens said. "Perhaps more important to the non-law students (at IU) are the questions that are raised by movie depictions of undercover police work."\nStevens said with films like "Reservoir Dogs" and "Donnie Brasco," undercover police work has a wide interest, and he hopes everyone who attends will enjoy learning more about the topic -- a topic one police investigator said he feels has been falsified by television and film.\n"It's almost embarrassing to me," said detective Richard Seiffers, a 33-year veteran of the IU Police Department. "The things people portray in TV and the movies is not reality, and people get the idea that's the way things are normally done and they're not. The glitz and the glamour and the total disregard for following the law, like Miami Vice -- it's not accurate."\nMarcus will give an overview of operations such as stings and buybacks and the legal restrictions covering an area of law enforcement that seems so popular in the pop culture of cop shows both old and new.\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.
(09/29/03 6:34am)
Two IU students who have reported a rash of peeping tom incidents are upset their landlord won't let them out of their lease after police advised they leave their off-campus apartment.\nJuniors Jami Bennett and Maria Long are living at Lincoln Hill Apartments, 544 S. Lincoln Ave. The two said they have reported a "peeping tom" outside of their living room window seven times since last September.\nBennett said she was really scared for her personal safety. The Bloomington Police Department advised she move out of the apartment complex after the repeated incidents.\nBut Bennett said Grant Properties, which owns Lincoln Hill, has not been cooperative to ensure tenant safety.\nBennett said she tried repeatedly to move out of the complex, but Grant Properties wouldn't let her out of the lease unless she paid $5,000.\n"I felt like that's how much my life was worth -- $5,000," Bennett said.\nRecently Grant Properties installed vertical blinds in only Bennett and Long's apartment. They also paid for an advertisement to help Bennett and Long find a subleaser to get out of the apartment.\nBut the outdoor lighting, which Bennett said she requested in July, wasn't installed until Sept. 19.\nGrant Properties did not return phone calls to the IDS.\nThe property managers are not required to take any measures for safety in this case, according to Ft. Wayne attorney Marc Lansky, who ran his own property management business in the mid-90s.\n"The landlord isn't criminally responsible. The real question is civil liability," Lansky said. "The landlord would be responsible if he'd been warned and didn't take measures to ensure the problem would be solved. A peeping tom isn't really serious enough for a civil suit. But something more serious like a rape or assault would make him liable." \nLansky said Grant Properties isn't responsible for something like a peeper since the amount of damage caused is relatively low.\n"The landlord isn't legally obligated to do anything," Lansky said. "But can the landlord trim the bushes and put up better lighting? Sure."\nCrime Prevention through Environmental Design is a concept utilizing lighting, landscaping and other similar design factors to prevent crime.\nIU Police Department Sgt. Leslie Slone, a certified CPTED expert, inspected Lincoln Hill Friday morning. She said there are design flaws in the landscaping of the complex, particularly in the outdoor lighting.\nSlone pointed out only two lights on the back of the building where Bennett's apartment is located. She said the lights are placed too high, which would allow someone to only see the top of the peeper's head because of how far away it is from the source of the lights. Ideally, lights should be placed at face level to ensure a good look at someone's face, Slone said.\nSlone also said the complex's entrance areas provide easy access. The fence around the property is waist-high and sagging in some areas. Slone said that calls into question the whole idea of having a fence.\nThe overgrown shrubs and trees around the entire complex don't help either, Slone said. According to the CPTED, no shrubs should be higher than three feet and tree branches should hang no lower than seven feet.\nAll along the back of Bennett's particular building, the branches and shrubs prevent any visibility from off the property.\n"When a building is really obscured by vegetation, it limits the ability of passersby or people living in surrounding houses to call the police if they saw some illegal activity because they can't see onto the property," Slone said.\nBPD Capt. Joe Qualters said the department now conducts an extra patrol of the apartment every hour to track down the peeper. He said it might be very difficult to catch the man because of his unpredictability.
(09/24/03 6:30am)
Sitting at 519 N. College Ave. is a red brick house believed to be the second oldest house in Monroe County.\nThe home, which was first constructed in 1829, has always been residence to well-to-do Bloomington families and IU notables, including former President William Lowe Bryan and Herman B Wells during the first 25 years of his presidency.\nIt is this history that led the IU Alumni Association to begin the process of placing the Woodburn House on the National Register of Historic Places.\nDottie Warmbier, IUAA's director of merchandising, spearheads the care of the Woodburn House.\nShe said the registry appraised the house and rated it "O" for "outstanding."\nThe importance of the house has been recognized by many officials.\nAt a 1983 reception hosted by then-IU President John W. Ryan, Chancellor Emeritus Wells spoke lovingly of the structure.\n"Sustained by modernized innards, resplendent in its new decor, amplified by the south garden, may the Woodburn House go from event to event, proud of its mission and certain of the usefulness of its role in the life of an ancient and distinguished University," Wells said.\nThe original 1829 structure was two rooms, each heated by a fireplace. The one-story house had the two rooms in the middle of the lower half of the present-day structure. Behind the two rooms was a kitchen. Northwest of the main rooms was a whitewashed three-sided "lean-to" serving as a bedroom which, in keeping with the time of the pioneer days, was unheated.\n"I myself remember, after the house was enlarged, leaving the warm fireside and going upstairs to bed in a cold room, undress and getting into bed between cold sheets," said Dr. James A. Woodburn in a 1934 letter to Wells recounting the architectural history of the house. "In the morning I would have to break the ice in the pitcher to get water for the bowl to bath my face."\nThe house was bought by the Woodburn family in 1855 for what Woodburn remembered as being $1,200. And the purchase didn't buy just the house -- but the entire city block surrounded by Ninth and Tenth Streets, College Avenue and Morton Street. The Woodburn family made some renovations while living there for three generations and 70 years.\nIn 1858-59, when William Mitchel Daily was IU president, the Woodburns built a front and a back porch and raised the house making it two stories. The front addition contained the parlor and a front hall with a large bedroom over the parlor and small bedroom over the hall, said Woodburn in his letter to Wells.\nIn 1938, when Wells became president, he remained in the house telling outgoing president Bryan to stay in the traditional president's house -- now called Bryan House, which sits in a grassy knoll near Ballantine and Morrison Halls -- as a courtesy. Wells remained in the house until 1957, five years before his 1962 retirement as president.\nWells said he "did all the social things a president does (in the Woodburn house)." The place underwent a few changes during the Wells era.\nIn an additional wing, two rooms and a bath were added and the two previous open porches were closed. \nThe house, managed by the IUAA since 1976, has undergone renovations designed to maintain its historic richness while making it a useful part of the University culture. Recently the University Architect and Physical Plant made some renovations and restorations where some bricks of the house were repaired.\nMembers of the physics department took some of the soft mortar and analyzed it. They created a formula to duplicate the more-than-century old mortar to hold together remade clay bricks, a common building material of the era. Around Bloomington at the time there was so much clay, it was cheaper to make bricks on-site than use timber.\nThe house contains furnishings from the time period coming from many sources including the Bryan estate, donors, and in several cases, Wells himself. In an upstairs bedroom over the parlor is the bed of "Mother Wells" who lived with the late chancellor. Also off the bedroom is a study used by Wells including his desk and cameras used on Wells' international travels. All sorts of books and journals are there too, taken from the Tenth Street residence Wells lived in during the last years of his life now occupied by IU-Bloomington Chancellor Sharon Brehm. Warmbier said Wells was a lover of all things old and antique. He also never seems to have thrown much away, she said. \nIn a closet in the bedroom once occupied by his mother are some pieces of clothing including a tuxedo, a charcoal gray tweed suit, a hat and cane, and the Santa suit Wells wore at Christmas when he visited staff and students of the Bloomington campus. \nA straw hat found in the closet is still in immaculate condition and still has the $5 price tag from Sullivan's on Washington Street. Found in the jacket of the gray and black-specked suit is a little note written by one of Wells aides. The note said where the jacket was too tight in the waist and that the suit fit best when "HBW's weight is 224." The note was dated 1993. \nThat's the kind of detail the IUAA uses to ensure the historic truthfulness of the house the Woodburns built -- a house that has seen so much of the passing times that IU has endured.\nWarmbier said the IUAA was inspired to apply for historic registry because of the recent registry of another historic campus home. The Legg House, located at 324 S. Henderson St., is a house constructed in the 1850s and is one of the oldest homes in Bloomington.\nThe property history for the house began in 1820 as Seminary Lot #74. Later, IU President William Lowe Bryan visited his grandparents at Legg House when he was a boy. Bryan later returned to the house for meals around 1890, when the structure was a boarding house. The building, owned by IU, has been used over the years for student housing. It was vacated and boarded up in 1993 because of a lack of funds for repairs and renovation, according to a University-issued statement.\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.
(09/22/03 6:35am)
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.
(09/19/03 5:57am)
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.
(09/16/03 5:15am)
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.
(09/09/03 5:02am)
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.
(09/04/03 5:49am)
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.
(09/04/03 5:07am)
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.
(09/03/03 5:54am)
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
(09/02/03 5:32am)
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.
(09/01/03 5:23am)
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.
(09/01/03 5:23am)
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.
(07/17/03 2:18pm)
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.