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Round three between IUPurdue set for tonight By Dylan Wallace dswallac@iu.edu | @Dwall_1

Candidates from all three tickets agreed First Amendment rights were vital and advocated for freedom of expression for speakers and students who opposed them. “It is moments like this that show how strong the student voice is,” said junior Maggie Hopkins, Voice’s candidate for vice president of administration. Coates said student government should ensure students who feel hurt by specific speakers feel safe, but she also said she encouraged informed dissent, as the other candidates did. “The best way to show how you feel about that is to express your disapproval, but more so, what you believe in,” Mohsenzadeh said. “So when controversial speakers come

The reason conferences were made in sports was to separate the multitude of teams, placing the ones that are relatively close to one another into a specific conference or division. In those conferences or divisions, storied rivalries were created. There’s Bears versus Packers, Red Sox versus Yankees, and Duke versus North Carolina, just to name a few. Then, of course, there's IU versus Purdue. It’s common for teams to play conference opponents at most twice a season. However, if a postseason run for both teams includes paths to play one another, there could be a third matchup. That’s the case for IU women’s basketball as it looks to play rival Purdue for a third time this season in the third round of the WNIT on Thursday. Despite the excitement surrounding a postseason contest with their conference rival, IU Coach Teri Moren had little to say on the fact their opponent is Purdue. “It happens to be the next game of the journey we are on right now,” Moren said. “It’s a six-game series, and we are just taking it a game at a time. It just so happens the next game is Purdue.” The six-game series Moren refers to is the amount of games it will take to win the WNIT. The Hoosiers have won two so far, beating both UTMartin and Milwaukee by doubledigits in the first two rounds. The Boilermakers have come away with two slim victories against other in-state schools in IUPUI and Ball State. In the regular season, IU beat Purdue in both games. Despite similar results, the games were much different. On Jan. 6 in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, IU cruised to a 72-54 victory. It was a blowout from the start, as the Hoosiers led 18-5 at the end of the first quarter.

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SEE BASKETBALL, PAGE 6

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IUSA CANDIDATES DEBATE Unlike last year, candidates found topics on which they disagreed. By Jesse Naranjo jlnaranj@iu.edu | @jesselnaranjo

Unlike last year’s IU Student Association debate, which presented little disagreement, candidates at Wednesday night’s debate in Hodge Hall had varying points of concurrence and controversy. Questions in the debate, which was moderated by former IUSA president and professor Paul Helmke, touched on policies regarding controversial speakers, student government funding and campus safety in the wake of recent school shootings. When Helmke, a former chair of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, asked whether the candidates believed people should be able to carry guns on campus, they offered different views. Unite IU’s presidential candidate, sophomore Kevin Mohsenzadeh, said it was his ticket’s position that more guns were not the answer. Voice IUSA’s presidential candidate, junior Alex Wisniewski, said

his campaign had not yet spoken to stakeholders in the community, and therefore could not say what the student body wanted yet. Reform IUSA’s presidential candidate, junior Emma Coates, said she wanted to speak to various political groups on campus before making a decision at the executive level.

Helmke asked the candidates how students should respond to controversial speakers on campus, specifically mentioning protests surrounding Charles Murray’s appearance on campus last April and Elliott Abrams’ appearance on campus this semester.

Junior Emma Coates is running for IU Student Association president on the Reform ticket. Coates spoke about giving more inclusion to historically oppressed groups on campus.

Funk trailblazer Bootsy Collins talks state of his genre By Emily Abshire eabshire@iu.edu | @emily_abs

Saxophone and trumpet players rehearsing for an IU Soul Revue performance played rough snippets of the ever-recognizable melody of “Give Up the Funk” by Parliament. Minutes later, Parliament’s Bootsy Collins, famous bass player and funk music trailblazer, walked in the room. Collins was at IU on Tuesday to participate in Funkology: A Conversation with Bootsy Collins and Dr. Scot Brown at the IU Cinema. He stopped by the Soul Revue rehearsal an hour before.

“I think it’s an opportunity for us to all embrace each other. The funk is the thing to bring everyone together.” Bootsy Collins, funk music trailblazer

Soul Revue is one of three performance ensembles in the African American Arts Institute and specializes in black popular music. The performers didn’t know they would be singing in front of Collins until a week and a half ago, senior Dexter Clardy said. Fast forward to Tuesday, and Collins was dancing along to the group’s renditions of songs he was originally a part of, like James Brown’s “Get Up Sex Machine” and “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag.” Collins got his start as part of Brown’s band the J.B.’s be-

fore he moved on to the funk collective Parliament-Funkadelic. “You’re all just incredible, man,” he said to the performers. “I’m speechless.” The audience at Funkology seemed to feel the same way. The crowd, filling all 260 seats in the auditorium, danced in their seats to Soul Revue’s performance of Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic songs that paid homage to Collins. It’s one thing to perform for someone big, Clardy said, but it’s another thing to perform their own music to them. “This is the liveliest I’ve seen this room ever in the last seven months,” cinema director Jon Vickers said after the performance. Once Collins took the stage, he was a spectacle in himself. Living up to his self-proclaimed title as rhinestone rock-star doll in the song "Bootzilla", he wore a top hat and jacket covered in silver rhinestones, as well as sunglasses with rhinestones that made a star shape on the lenses. UCLA associate professor Scot Brown led the conversation, asking Collins about funk past and present. Collins sometimes danced and sang during his answers and gave a comical, impressively accurate impression of James Brown when telling stories about him. He learned to play bass in high school on a $29 guitar, whose strings he had swapped for bass strings. He grew up in Cincinnati, where James Brown recorded for King Records. Scot Brown called Ohio,

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Musician Bootsy Collins speaks about the beginning of his career in funk music, stating, "It was hard not to use the word funk, because our whole situation was funked up." Collins spoke with Dr. Scot Brown from UCLA Tuesday evening at IU Cinema during the event Funkology.

specifically Dayton, Ohio, a funk epicenter because of the amount of funk bands that came out of the region in the 1970s. He is currently working on a book titled “Tales from the Land of Funk: Dayton, Ohio, and the African American Funk Bands in the 1970s.” After Collins' first performance with James Brown in 1970, Brown bought Collins his first new bass

and amps. “That was my life," Collins said. "That was the start of it.” James Brown was a father figure to Collins, he said. He took care of him but also kept him in line, like the time he banned him from playing Jimi Hendrix covers on the tour bus. Hendrix was another powerful influence on Collins.

“The more people didn’t understand it, the more I got off on it,” Collins said of Hendrix’s music. The combination of listening to Hendrix and the skills learned from Brown caused a shift in Collins’ musical style. He moved from Brown to join Parliament-Funkadelic, where he taught its founder, funk SEE COLLINS, PAGE 6


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