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The little sister

Monday, Jan. 11,2016 1 a.m.

Haley Wilson started her freshman year only a few months after the murder of her older sister, Hannah Wilson. Haley wants to be strong. But when you're only 18 and your world has cracked open, how do you know what strong is?

Fall 2015 semester in review

Tuesday, Dec. 15,2015 11:17 a.m.

The 16 biggest stories from the last 16 weeks.

The unsettled

Sunday, Dec. 6,2015 9:01 p.m.

Forced to flee Syria and start over, a family adjusts to a state that suddenly doesn't want them.

State of mind

Thursday, Dec. 3,2015 3:42 a.m.

BJ Toole, Abby Ridgeway and Emily all have struggled with anxiety or depression during their time at IU. Each has sought out mental health services from hometown doctors, physicians at the IU Health Center or psychiatrists at Counseling and Psychological Services. Data provided by CAPS shows that anxiety diagnoses among IU students is on the rise, steadily surpassing depression diagnoses.

Yaolin's story

Tuesday, Oct. 27,2015 8:21 a.m.

Friends regret not calling police, recall a pattern of repeated abuse.

Waiting for help

Thursday, April 23,2015 2:30 a.m.

Students seeking counseling have reached an all-time high. Does CAPS have the resources to treat them?

Holding up a house

By Samantha Schmidt · Friday, April 17,2015 3:01 p.m.

On an unusually warm Saturday in February, a group of students swig from blue Solo cups and dangle their feet out second-story windows, where they snap pictures of the crowd on the porch below.

Casares describes how men often fail, or fall short of understanding what consent is and is not as he talked with reporters in the Student Ethics conference room where hearings are held. Casares was the moderator when Lyndsay’s sexual assault hearing case was heard.

Sexual assault: Larger issues revealed by IU sexual assault case

By Carolyn Crowcroft · Monday, Dec. 8,2014 8:52 p.m.

Lyndsay Jones’ first-person account is striking because of her willingness to share her story on the record with her name and photo.

Lyndsay sat in this chair during her hearing. The Office of Student Ethics is located in Alice McDonald Nelson Building on the north side of the IU campus. The office conducts about twenty hearings each academic year.

Sexual assault: Limits of the law

By Tori Fater · Monday, Dec. 8,2014 8:46 p.m.

Sexual assault survivors say restrictive campus and legal policies meant to protect privacy cost them closure and may re-open emotional wounds.

Lyndsay Jones, 22, stands in front of the Pour House Cafe on Kirkwood Ave. on Nov. 8. During her first semester at IU in 2013, she was sexually assaulted by her friend at his apartment. After completing her sophomore year at IU, she returned to Lafayette to earn enough money to return to classes at IU in the spring. She used to hang out with her friends at the Pour House and still stops by when in town to visit with friends. Lyndsay reported being sexually assaulted to the Office of Student Ethics and participated in a hearing, but her case resulted no finding.

Sexual assault: "I am not afraid to tell my story"

By Lyndsay Jones · Monday, Dec. 8,2014 8:42 p.m.

Fairness. Dignity. Integrity. I stared at the words printed on the wall in front of me. I was in the hearing room in the Office of Student Ethics.

Emily Smith, 23, remembers the night she woke up in her bed to a man on top of her. In the months after, she withdrew from classes at Indiana University Bloomington, slept in her roommates’ bed and searched for control of the life she remembered before everything changed.“It’s not stranger danger," she said. "It’s your neighbor, it’s your friend. It’s the cute guy you met at the party who you’re really hitting it off with. It went further than you were comfortable with. You feel taken advantage of. You feel like you didn’t have a say in the matter."

Sexual assault: Caught in the gray zone

By Samantha Schmidt · Sunday, Dec. 7,2014 10:32 p.m.

Hours are missing from her memory of that Saturday night.

Dad's bucket

Monday, April 14,2014 2:03 p.m.

Nobody is quite sure whose idea it was to bring the buckets to Nick’s. The idea for a drinking club using buckets came from a bar someone visited in Wyoming in the early 1970s. The 120 tin buckets were hung on 120 hooks above the main bar for elite regulars.

Suspended justice

Sunday, Dec. 8,2013 11:12 p.m.

Janice Renn, mother of Kim Camm, now wears her daughter's locket with photos of her grandchildren Brad and Jill as toddlers tucked inside. Janice and Frank Renn blame David for the murders of their eldest daughter and only grand kids. "It's hard for me to believe, but I'm convinced Dave had done this," Frank Renn said.

After the fall

Thursday, Dec. 5,2013 6:12 p.m.

Angi Fiege stands at the grave of her 19 year old daughter Rachael, who died Aug. 23, 2013 after falling down a set of stairs at her first party at IU. In the months after her death, Rachael's family and friends have been burdened by misconceptions of who their daughter was and what really happened to her that night.

Barbers of Bloomington

By Charles Scudder · Friday, Dec. 10,2010 12:39 a.m.

Fred Rumple is the owner and master barber stylist at The Golden Shear near East Third Street and South Jordan Avenue. He is of medium height and hefty build. His hair is white and, like all barbers, is well combed. He has a bright face and jolly demeanor. If you were to add a beard and a big red hat, Fred Rumple could be Santa Claus.

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