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Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017

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Delta Tau Delta at IU suspended By Melanie Metzman mmetzman@indiana.edu @melanie_metzman

The Delta Tau Delta IU chapter was suspended Monday after multiple reports of hazing, according to a statement from the Delts national office. The suspension will last for five years, according to IFC President Andrew Cowie. “There is no place for hazing in Delta Tau Delta. It is absolutely contrary to our values and will not be tolerated,” said Jim Russell, executive vice president of the national Fraternity. “The Fraternity is clear about its expectations.” Russell and other national officials of Delts addressed expected behavior and consequences for failing to meet these standards at a meeting with the IU chapter at the start of the 2016-2017 academic year. This meeting came after the chapter violated previous sanctions imposed by the national fraternity during the spring 2016 semester. Members of the IU chapter declined to comment Monday, but Indiana Daily Student reporters heard music thumping from inside the North Jordan Avenue house Monday evening. One brother walked into the house and would not comment on the chapter’s suspension. “By the way,” he said, “I don’t

think anyone is going to.” The IU chapter of Delta Tau Delta was founded in 1870 and has operated continuously since 1887. In his statement, Russell did not detail the hazing incidents that lead to the suspension. In March of 2015 the IU Police Department arrested former Delts member Andrew Thrall on charges of dealing a scheduled drug after Thrall was reportedly shipping Xanax pills from Canada to his girlfriend’s sorority house, Alpha Chi Omega. Following the arrest, IUPD officers served a search warrant through the Delts house and found one capsule of ecstasy, a small amount of LSD and some marijuana edibles in Thrall’s room. In September 2015, former Delts member John Enochs, then 21, was charged with two rapes occurring two years apart. The first occurred in October of 2013 and the second allegedly took place in April of 2015. At both times, Enochs was an IU student and a member of Delts. Last summer a court dropped the charges to misdemeanor charges. After taking a plea deal, Enochs did not serve jail time. According to the Delts website, the IU chapter lost 45 percent of its members in 2015 following a social probation. The 2015 report did not indicate whether or not the Thrall and Enochs cases affected the probation or expulsion of members.

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Hoosiers head to Maryland for first Big Ten road game By Andrew Hussey aphussey@umail.iu.edu | @thehussnetwork

IU (11-5) at Maryland (14-2) 9 p.m. tonight, Xfinity Center

After snapping its three-game losing streak, IU now looks to build on its first Big Ten conference win and start a winning streak Tuesday at Maryland. This will only be IU’s second game outside of the state of Indiana and its second road game of the season. Maryland has won two of its three conference games so far this season and is 14-2. The Terrapins’ only two losses have been at home against Pittsburgh and Nebraska. In IU’s win against Illinois on Saturday, the Hoosier defense was strong in the first half but struggled to contain the Fighting Illini in the second half. The Hoosiers know what they have to do to come out with a win against the Terrapins. “Building upon what we did last game,” sophomore forward Juwan Morgan said. “On the defensive end, having the talk go to an extremely high level, staying connected on everything we do and executing our coverages.”

Junior guard Melo Trimble has always been a prolific scorer in his career for Maryland, and this season he’s averaging 17.5 points per game and 2.9 assists per game. Trimble is a volume shooter. He takes an average of 11.6 shots per game while shooting 46.5 percent from the field. Shutting Trimble down will be a key for IU, especially because Maryland has moved away from using him at point guard in certain lineups. “I think when they go a little bit smaller, it allows him to play off the ball more, so he tries to get lost in the game where you can forget about him,” junior guard Rob Johnson said of Trimble. “I think we’re going to have to do a good job of not doing that.” IU’s coaching staff has focused on the fact that Trimble’s scoring

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Tweeting police officers seek to catch public eye Read more online at idsnews.com We compiled some of the best of Indiana State Police tweets.

By Jack Evans jackevan@indiana.edu | @JackHEvans

In the last 54 hours of 2016, Sgt. Todd Ringle took to Twitter, as he does regularly, interested in the information, that’s good,” and tweeted nine times with a total of 71 he said. Bloomington Police Department PIO emojis – tiny red and blue cars, mugs of beer and smiling policemen to remind readers of Capt. Steve Kellams hasn’t taken to using emojis, but he said that’s largely out of perwho’s watching. In the days leading up to the New Year, sonal preference. “I’m not a ‘WTF,’ ‘OMG’ kind of guy,” he Ringle, an Indiana State Police public information officer based in Evansville, said said. “I’d just as soon spell it out. Guys make he knew he had to remind the public of the fun of me because I use punctuation in my dangers of drunken driving. He knew, too, texts.” Five officers now assist on running social he needed to get the public’s attention and simple text-based social media posts or me- media, and Kellams has regular meetings with them to keep the content consistent. dia releases wouldn’t do the trick. “Your (family emoji) (heart emoji) u, so The department’s first Instagram page went don’t mess (up arrow emoji),” he tweeted online in November, and in 2016, its Facebook page grew from 4,000 to 14,000 likes. Dec. 29. Sgt. Philip Hensley, the ISP PIO for JasAs adept as Ringle is at making his tweets per, Indiana, hadn’t used eye-catching – they Twitter before taking the regularly receive dozjob in 2013, but once he ens or even hundreds of “I am not a ‘WTF,’ did, he said the drive to favorites and retweets ‘OMG’ kind of guy ... reach more people be– he’s not a native to the came addictive. He adsocial media landscape. I’d just as soon spell opted elements of TwitRingle, 52, has spent the it out. Guys make fun ter speech even before past 32 years as a state of me because I use Ringle did, and he said trooper and the past 16 the pair spearheaded a as a PIO. punctuation in my movement to make sure Like other offitexts.” all ISP PIOs used Twitter. cers and departments Capt. Steve Kellams, BPD PIO Hensley, 35, injects around the country, a strain of humor into he’s adapted to an era his tweets, often accomof technology that enpanied by pictures. A ables law enforcement to speak to the public more quickly and directly Christmas Eve post showed a humorous letter from Santa urging Hensley not to pull him than ever. “By getting creative with emojis and pic- over for speeding, and a New Year’s Eve post tures, your message will go farther,” Ringle reminded people pairing football-watching with beer that the scoreboard that matters is said. Though he began using Twitter in 2010, an Intoximeter reading “.000.” He’s come to believe that making his acRingle said he took some time to warm up to using pictorial language in his public mes- count fun to follow makes it more approachable than a wall of information, he said. sages. Finding new ways to effectively reach the As a long-time PIO and self-described old-school state trooper, he worried that public has become a necessity, Hensley said. adopting internet speech might make him TV news affiliates broadcast in Jasper are based in Evansville; Terre Haute, Indiana; appear unprofessional. However, he follows PIOs from across the and Louisville, Kentucky. “I don’t exactly have a large media marcountry on social media, and after he saw the success some of their posts had, he de- ket,” Hensley said. “I can’t get on TV or radio all the time. cided to adapt. So, by using social media, it was a genuNow, his idea of a good tweet has gone from one that gets between 20 and 50 ine change for a lot of people, because retweets to one that gets 150 and reaches they hadn’t had that interaction with law 20,000 people, he said. “The way I look at it is, if it gets people SEE TWITTER, PAGE 5

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Doctoral student, well-known feminist launches Wells exhibit

Gov. Eric Holcomb inaugurated, page 4

By Sanya Ali siai@indiana.edu | @siali13

MATT RASNIC | IDS

Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb speaks during the gubernatorial debate Oct. 3, 2016 at the University of Indianapolis. Before running as the Republican candidate for Indiana governor, Holcomb served as lieutenant governor.

The Herman B Wells Library will soon launch the Arts and Humanities Council’s initiative “China Remixed” with the opening of a photographic exhibit. “Above Ground – 40 Moments of Transformation” was originally organized by Chinese feminist Lü Ping and is organized at IU by gender studies doctoral candidate Jiling Duan. The exhibit will be set up Jan. 10 in the Wells Library’s lobby. The photographs, depicting efforts by feminist activists working in China, are important to Duan for a variety of reasons, she said in an email. “As a Chinese feminist activist myself, I witnessed and

“ABOVE GROUND 40 MOMENTS OF TRANSFORMATION” Free Jan. 9 - March 10 Herman B Wells Library participated in some of the feminist activities in China, and reported many of the events included in this exhibit when I was a journalist,” Duan said. “I understand how difficult it is to do something like what the Young Feminist Activism (YFA) did in China.” Duan said she wants feminist friends who are fighting for the causes displayed in these photographs to feel supported. “I want to give to my Chinese SEE PHOTOGRAPHY, PAGE 5


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