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IDS Campus trees give more than beauty areas are more susceptible to root damage and are more exposed to storms. Trees face challenges such as storms, pests, disease and drought, but they also face less obvious difficulties. “It’s a hard place to live — a campus — for a tree,” Williams said. “You’ve got people walking on their roots all the time. You’ve got mowers mowing grass around them all the time.” Williams said the campus’s maple trees are under the most stress. She said she’s not sure the warming climate is a contributing factor, but the droughts of 2012 and 2013 still have visible lingering effects on the maples that indicate struggle. With constant construction on campus, Williams said she tries her hardest to protect the trees and be selective about what gets cut down. Every year 200 to 300 new trees are planted on campus and up to 500 in a good year, Williams said. Kristy Anderson, intern of Environmental Quality and Land Use
By Lilly St. Angelo lstangel@iu.edu | @lilly_st_ang
Within the next month, IU’s trees will be ablaze with color. Earthy greens will transform into flaming reds and yellows, and the crunch of leaves will be heard underfoot. Students will whip out phone cameras and eyes will be drawn toward the sky on walks to class as the more than 12,000 trees on campus become IU’s centerpiece. The thousands of trees at IU not only help the environment but may also have an effect on students' academic success. These campus trees are often taken for granted, University Landscape Architect Mia Williams said. Williams knows the campus trees well. She said the large number of sugar maples on campus are one of the reasons it's so colorful in the fall. “It’s everything from yellow all the way through to a deep red in combination,” Williams said. “They look like they’re on fire.” Williams’s eyes are always on the trees. It’s her job, but it’s also a passion and one she takes seriously as
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Top University Landscape Architect Mia Williams explains the difficulties that some sugar maples on campus face Sept. 28. Because of their protruding roots, sugar maples struggle with lawn mowers and pedestrians. Bottom The red berries of a dogwood tree rest on the limb of their tree near the Indiana Memorial Union Sept. 28.
one of the main caretakers of IU’s trees. She sees their triumphs and struggles and believes them to be an integral part of both the natural and academic worlds. Standing outside Lindley Hall on Friday, Williams motioned to
Dunn's Woods. She often compares the trees to people. “These guys in here have brothers and sisters kind of sharing the burden,” Williams said. Campus trees not in Dunn's Woods or other densely wooded
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A 17-year-old girl reported Wednesday she was raped around 2:30 a.m. Sunday at McNutt Quad. The IU Police Department sent out a crime notice about the assault Wednesday. IUPD Capt. Craig Munroe said an Indianapolis hospital called his department to make the report. An officer from the Indianapolis branch of IUPD took the initial report. Munroe would not confirm whether the girl had a rape kit done. Neither the 17-year-old girl nor the 19-year-old man accused of raping her is affiliated with the University, according to the police. Munroe said he does not think students should be concerned about safety in their dorms. He could not confirm whether the two non-students were visiting someone on campus. Munroe said IUPD is working to schedule an interview with the accused. This is the second rape-related crime notice IU has sent out in the past eight days. Caroline Anders
MEN’S SOCCER
Winning streak ends for Hoosiers 3-0
Judge Teresa Harper to retire from bench
By Phillip Steinmetz By Sydney Tomlinson sydtomli@iu.edu | @sydpt
Judge Teresa Harper’s Quaker ideals have guided her not only personally but also professionally. She grew up in Plainfield, Indiana, a historically Quaker community. While her family wasn’t Quaker, the overall culture in the community was, she said. Quaker philosophy has long opposed capital punishment. For much of her career, Harper defended people sentenced to death and trained other attorneys on best practices for capital cases. Harper, 66, is retiring this year from the Monroe County Circuit Court after 12 years. Previously, she spent 10 years as an Indiana State public defender, working in both appellate cases and capital post-conviction relief cases, where she was the last line of defense for those sentenced to death. After being convicted of a crime, sentenced to death and losing their first appeal, a defendant is able to file for post-conviction relief, like a second appeal. Unless the governor commutes their sentence, this is their last chance. “That’s when the stakes are the highest,” Harper said. Before becoming a defense attorney, and eventually a judge, Harper studied psychology at IUPurdue University Indianapolis and worked with abused and ne-
glected children as a social worker in Marion County. Harper said she has always strived to be of service to others, an ideal that played a role in her decision to go to law school. In 1982, the year Harper graduated law school, women made up 38 percent of incoming law students. In 2017, it was 52 percent. Two years before Harper was born, in 1950, Plainfield native Virginia Dill McCarty graduated from the IU law school in Indianapolis. She was the only woman and graduated top of her class. Despite this, no law firm would hire her, because of her gender. McCarty went on to become a pioneer for women in law and government. The progress she and other women, like Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, have made since then isn’t lost on Harper, she said. During her time at McKinney School of Law at IUPUI, Harper clerked for the then-chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, Richard Givan, and continued after she graduated. She was the first woman to ever clerk for him, Harper said. Colleagues referred to her as “the girl clerk.” Tom Frohman, 64, an attorney at Indiana Legal Services, said he first heard of Harper as a highly sought-after defense attorney. When he met her years later on the Indiana Public Defender Council, Frohman said he was
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Monroe Circuit Judge Teresa Harper poses for a portrait at her desk Sept. 13 in the Charlotte Zietlow Justice Center.
struck by her genuine commitment to the idea of justice for all, a value often discussed but not always upheld. “It was clear to me that that was a really important part of her character,” he said. “When she was elected judge, it was like Monroe County had hit the jackpot.” In the late 1990s, after working as a public defender and a director of training programs for other public defenders, Harper moved from Indianapolis to Bloomington for an entirely impulsive and personal reason, she said. Her lifelong best friend had two
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young daughters and had to go back to work full-time to support her family when her husband became extremely ill. Harper moved to Bloomington to be closer to them and support her friend. “It was the best decision I ever made,” she said. While she made Bloomington her home, Harper continued to work as a training director for various organizations, providing education for attorneys on defense and capital cases. This meant regularly traveling around the state and
LEXINGTON, KY. – The sound of blue vuvuzelas was heard loud and clear for the entirety of 90 minutes. After a nine-game win streak, the No. 2 IU men’s soccer team had the opportunity to claim another top-10 victory away from the confines of Bill Armstrong Stadium. But, No. 4 Kentucky took the early lead and defeated IU 3-0. Within the first three minutes, the Wildcats found a hole in the Hoosier backline. Kentucky sent the ball soaring from the midfield toward the top of the box and IU attempted to intercept the pass. As IU got a head on the ball and tried to clear it out, Kentucky came swooping in. Junior forward JJ Williams took the ball and immediately fired it toward the IU net. Sophomore goalie Trey Muse slid to the ground in an attempt for the save but couldn’t make it in time. That goal proved to be just the beginning of a long night for the Hoosiers. “Goals change games,” IU Coach Todd Yeagley said. “It kind of took the air out of the group, which surprised me with some of the experience we have. It affected the group that much. Kentucky is good at what they do.” After failing to score in the first half, IU had multiple opportunities to find the equalizer, but it never came.
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