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Arrests made in monthslong drug investigation By Caroline Anders anders6@umail.iu.edu | @clineands
Back in the swing of things
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By Stefan Krajisnik stefkraj@umail.iu.edu | @skrajisnik3
Senior golfer Brendon Doyle is calm, quiet and relaxed — just like the sport he plays. He has no superstitions. He has no rituals. On the surface he is just a golfer enjoying the course. The Louisville native may come from a basketball state, but for him, golf has never been a question. It is a sport that runs in the family. “My grandpa was a PGA professional, so I grew up around it,” Doyle said. “I’ve always wanted to play since I was a little kid, so it’s been a blessing to have been able to be here and play competitively at the best level.”
I’ve always wanted to play since I was a little kid, so it’s been a blessing to have been able to be here and play competitively at the best level.” Brendon Doyle, senior golfer
This season by the numbers
65 73.8
Best round score Average round score
SOURCE IU Athletics
The success that began with his grandpa did not stop with Doyle, however. Doyle’s younger brother Drew was named Mr. Golf in Kentucky last fall. “He’s become a really good player, probably one of the best juniors in the country, which is really cool to see,” Doyle said. “He’s in the middle of recruiting right now and it’s cool to see him playing well and getting better every year.” When it was Doyle going through that recruiting process, the decision was easy for Coach Mike Mayer. Mayer saw great athletic ability in Doyle, but it was the upside that caught his attention. “The easy part is the numbers, because it is a numbers-based game for us,” Mayer
Senior golfer Brendon Doyle practices putting at the IU Golf Course on Feb. 1, 2018. Doyle was a co-medalist for the first time in his career at the Windon Memorial in Oct. 2017.
said. “The hard part is, is there something left in the tank, is he going to get better?” Doyle’s first two years at IU placed him among some of the best players on the team. In his freshman year, he played in the second most amount of tournaments on the team while having the second best average round score. His sophomore year he participated in every tournament, but fell back to fourth in terms of best average-round score on the team. “We saw everything we thought we were going to see the first couple years,” Mayer said. “This is a big time transition. When you raise the level of the competition you’re playing against, it definitely has an impact on what you can do.” For Doyle, everything was headed in the right direction until his junior season. His junior season started off strong. He placed in the top 25 at three of his first four tournaments. Then things took a turn for the worst. After those first four tournaments, Doyle did not place in the top 50 at any tournament and did not participate in the Boilermaker Intercollegiate or the Big Ten Championship. “The biggest thing for me was, I wasn’t really having fun with it,” Doyle said. “I was expecting myself to play better. It’s hard to put that much pressure on yourself and really perform.” During the most recent fall season, Mayer referenced that rough junior spring season for Doyle by saying he had lost his mojo and was not having fun with the game. In an attempt to improve his game and SEE DOYLE, PAGE 6
Thirteen arrests have been made in connection to an opioid ring investigation started by the Bloomington Police Department in Sept. 2017. The 13 individuals knew each other, BPD Capt. Steve Kellams said. The arrests were all made in the last two weeks. There are warrants out for the arrest of five more Bloomington residents in relation to the ring. These individuals include Jessica Mayhew, 27, Jama Bales, 41, Vincent Bell, 51, Jasmine Pugh, 27 and Mercadees Riordan, 23. BPD worked with the DEA, U.S. Marshals, Indiana State Police and Ellettsville Police Department on the investigation. The goal of the investigation was to target opioid dealers, according to police. Kellams said small amounts of heroin, cocaine and meth were seized. Arrests were made for the possession and manufacture of other drugs, including meth, as well. Kellams said this is common in a drugrelated investigation. Two of the individuals arrested for dealing narcotics are from Chicago Heights, Illinois. Kellams said many of the arrested have connections in Chicago. “There’s definitely a Chicago connection with the players involved,” Kellams said. Kellams said the investigation involved standard techniques for a drug bust of this size. These techniques may have included surveillance, informants, controlled buys and undercover officers, he said. Five search warrants for five different locations were obtained by police over the course of the investigation. One rifle, one shotgun and four handguns were seized, according to detectives. One of the handguns was stolen, and a stolen motorcycle was also recovered, Kellams said. The warrants were all for locations in Bloomington. These locations included 1506 W. 11th St., 1297 N. Maple St., 4228 W. Cherry Orchard Court, 3210 W. Tapp Road and 1420 N. Arlington Park Drive. Police will continue to search for the five remaining suspects.
What police found • One rifle • One shotgun • Four hanguns • A twice-stolen motorcycle SOURCE Bloomington Police Department
Composer sets piano aflame for Wounded Galaxies festival By Clark Gudas
MALLORY SMITH | IDS
Ross Martinie Eiler plays the piano while artist Annea Lockwood watches to make sure Eiler does not stay long enough to get hurt. “Piano Burning” was performed Wednesday evening in Dunn Meadow.
ckgudas@umail.iu.edu | @This_isnt_clark
Composer Annea Lockwood and Jon Vickers, founding director of the IU Cinema, placed Indiana Daily Student newspapers in the back of a 1916 Henderson upright piano. Then, they lit them on fire. The piano burning Wednesday in Dunn Meadow was part of IU’s Wounded Galaxies festival, which memorializes the radical shifts in technology, art and politics in 1968 — 50 years ago. Small drifts of smoke flitted away from the paper and charring wood of the piano’s back. The back corner caught flame and rose up the support beams. Pianist Ross Martinie Eiler played some jazz riffs as the flames swept up the lid. As pianist Chris Rall sat down to play, wisps of smoke seeped through the lid and oozed through the slots between the keys. A child turned to his father. “Dad, it’s like the Great Chicago Fire, except it’s the great piano fire,” the child said. Rall played the out-of-tune piano with discordant, rippling sound textures. He descended into muddy chord digressions, then sharp, punchy crescendos that gurgled
their tone and drifted into ambience as the crackling wood sounded on the surrounding microphones. “There was paper and stuff floating above the keys as I played it,” Rall
said. “The smoke really stunk.” Lockwood asked Rall to move away. Before long, flames and gray smoke rolled up from under the keys and upper panel.
The entire keyboard billowed into opaque clouds. The sound of the worn, tinny strings snapping burst in quick succession, like tin cans slamming against each other.
“I tried to ensure the piano burned slowly so you get a chance to see all the tendrils of smoke and flame creeping between the keys,” Lockwood said. The entire piano was consumed in flames. And slowly, the piano fell on its back to the ground. Fire and cinders flew into the air. The crowd roared. Lockwood performed her first piano burning in 1968 in London. She was assembling audio recordings of fire for a projected dance piece. “I kept recording fire in my fireplace, fire in a courtyard, a bonfire,” Lockwood said. “Nothing was quite compelling enough.” She said she heard of a piano graveyard and wondered what burning, snapping piano strings would sound like. Lockwood set a piano aflame by the Thames River in London, with a small microphone inside the base. A crowd gathered. SEE PIANO, PAGE 6