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RPS changes student housing By Lilly St. Angelo lstangel@iu.edu | @lilly_st_ang
IDS From Poland to Bloomington Matt Jaskulski became a part of the local music scene by documenting house shows. By Chris Forrester chforres@iu.edu | @_ChrisForrester
As a tipsy horde dances and roaring guitar fills the musty basement at deafening volumes, photographer Matt Jaskulski crouches and waves his camera around. He’s trying to snap the perfect shot. Jaskulski, 33, moved from Spain to Bloomington in December 2017. Since then, he’s become a recognizable fixture of the local music scene, photographing bands at venues around town. Bloomington’s music scene is known for house shows, DIY performances often in the basements of cheekily named houses like the Rat House or Mosquito Mansion that host mostly local bands. Tangles of colored lights hang from basement ceilings, strange paintings adorn the walls and concertgoers, party animals and local music nerds alike pack into the basement. Sometimes, the shows are so loud that bowls of earplugs sit at the ready. And usually, Jaskulski is there, camera in hand. “I miss one or two of them now or then,” he said. “Whenever I know there is one going down, I’m there.” Jaskulski’s friend brought him to his first house show, a performance at Rat House. He happened to have his gear on hand because of a shoot earlier in the day, and he decided to take
PHOTOS COURTESY OF MATT JASKULSKI
Above Matt Jaskulski, a photographer from Poland, takes a photo of himself in a bus mirror. Jaskulski photographs bands at venues around Bloomington. Top Nick Newman of Time With Jameson performs.
photos of the show. After that first house show, audience members and performers already began to notice him. He uploaded his photos right away, and at a house show the next night he received a slew of compliments on his work. “People really loved them. That gave me a boost,” he said. “Everybody was welcoming from the get-go.” Bryce Greene, a member of the band Strange Implications, said Jaskulski always captures the energy and emotion of the performances he shoots. “It’s really hard to describe or really capture in any other way than being there,” he said. “But it’s sort of like Matt’s pictures manage
to lock in the moment.” Jaskulski’s passion shows in all of his work, Bryce Greene said. “I imagine he just adores doing the job he’s doing,” he said. Jaskulski’s love of photography began when he explored web design as a hobby while in graduate school at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology in Poland. Because he wasn’t exceptionally skilled at drawing, photography was a sort of work around for incorporating the elements he wanted into his designs. Eventually, he stopped doing web design but his interest in photography stuck. That interest grew through the rest of his time in graduate school,
where he received three degrees in science and engineering. Jaskulski also earned his Ph.D. at the University of Murcia in the south of Spain, studying physiological optics. Jaskulski moved to Bloomington for IU’s School of Optometry, where he works in physiological optics, which he explains as “the physiology of how we see.” Through his job, Jaskulski works on writing software that can analyze data from human eyes to simulate how a person sees. To Jaskulski, his scientific work and his photography aren’t that different. Eyes are like cameras, he said, and vice versa. “Both photography and human vision, you can appreciate how those two worlds are similar,” he said. Several times already, Jaskulski said, he’s encountered opportunities where he could have taken his photography in a professional direction. He’s tried to work with photo agencies, but that would take him down a road toward fashion and beauty photography, away from the joy of shooting Bloomington house shows. “I fear that if you do something that you really enjoy for a living then it can quickly become a chore because you have to make a living out of it,” he said. “I’m keeping photography as just something that I really enjoy.” For Jaskulski, part of the fun
In response to the Foster and McNutt residence hall closings next school year, Residential Programs and Services will not provide oncampus housing to approximately 1,100 returning students who renewed their RPS contracts for the 2019-2020 academic year. RPS will offer off-campus, university-managed housing fairly close to campus, according to an email sent to students. IU spokesperson Chuck Carney said IU is contracting out three currently unnamed housing complexes to returning students. Carney said details are still being worked out and the names and locations of the complexes will be sent out to students soon. Pricing will be comparable to or less than what students originally agreed to pay for on-campus housing, Carney said. “We’re certainly going to be fair to everyone,” he said. All costs, including utilities and Wi-Fi, will be included in the housing cost billed to students’ bursar accounts — just like on-campus housing. Carney said, depending on which of the three complexes they live in, students will be able to walk, take a city or IU bus or have a shuttle service to campus. The university is still working out how to keep Living-Learning Centers together, Carney said. According to the email, students currently living in an LLC may be able to stay with their LLC and should contact their directors for options. According to the RPS email, housing complexes will have resident assistants living among students just like residence halls. If a student does not wish to live in RPS-managed off-campus housing, they may get out of their contract with no penalty, Carney said.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
IU suffers road loss to Michigan 63-74
SEE PHOTO, PAGE 5 By Cameron Drummond cpdrummo@iu.edu | @cdrummond97
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Hoosiers defeat Michigan State Spartans By Stefan Krajisnik stefkraj@iu.edu | @skrajisnik3
As sophomore guard Jaelynn Penn rose for a three during Sunday’s women’s basketball game against No. 15 Michigan State, IU Coach Teri Moren stood just feet behind her watching the ball go toward the basket. The team has shown confidence in Penn taking shots late in the game, and as Moren watched this shot develop in front of her on a broken play, she said her only concern was whether it would be too long. “It was right on target when it left her hands,” Moren said. It did not go long, rather it was nothing but net. The shot came with 47 seconds left and gave the Hoosiers a 65-62 lead against the Spartans. Free throws would ice the game for IU, but it was Penn’s shot that gave the Hoosiers what they needed en route to a 68-64 win. “These are games that we’ve worked for,” junior guard Ali Patberg said. “We were ready for the challenge.” Penn scored seven of her 17 points in the fourth quarter, but numerous Hoosiers contributed in the first three periods to keep the game close. Three IU players scored in double figures alongside Penn. Junior Brenna Wise and Patberg had 14 and 12 points while freshman Grace Berger dropped in 10. But it was defensive stops down the stretch after Penn’s three-pointer that Moren said
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Redshirt junior forward Brenna Wise is fouled during the game against Michigan State on Jan. 6 in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.
were able to seal the deal for the team. “We felt pretty confident in what we were going to see, but you always have to give credit to your kids,” Moren said. “They’re the ones that executed it perfectly.” Patberg had another key play in the fourth quarter as a rebound hit off a Michigan State player and headed out of bounds. Knowing the ball was off of a Spartan, Patberg boxed out her opponent to let the ball simply go out with IU possession as a result. But while boxing her opponent out, Patberg fell into the front row where a fan fell out of his seat. However, Patberg did not know she knocked the fan out of his seat
until after the game. “I feel bad,” Patberg said. “If the fan is listening, I’m sorry.” It was scrappy plays like those that gave IU a chance to win. The win marks the first win against a top-15 opponent since the 2009-10 season and the first against a ranked opponent since the 2016-17 season. “This is another experience for us that’s going to help us down the road as we continue to grind it out in the Big Ten,” Moren said. IU received 11 Top-25 votes in the AP poll last week, and with two Big Ten wins, the team awaits its fate to see if it will be ranked in the next poll. “Outside opinions have never
68-64 mattered to this group,” Moren said. “There are things in life that you are not going to be able to control, and in sports it’s a lot like that as well.” With 6,380 people in attendance, IU set the ninthhighest number for attendance at a women’s game at Assembly Hall. “We feed off of that,” Wise said. “We talk about energy and good juice all the time with our team, and Assembly Hall never fails to bring it.”
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Within the first four minutes of Sunday’s 74-63 road loss at No. 2 Michigan, IU’s two most important players were left clutching white towels on the bench instead of grasping the tan surface of a basketball. Both senior forward Juwan Morgan and freshman guard Romeo Langford were each whistled for two fouls during the first 3:59 of the game, relegating both of them to a spot on IU’s bench at the Crisler Center. The precautionary measures taken by IU Coach Archie Miller to sit his two best offensive players due to foul trouble helped spark a less-than-ideal, but familiar, start to the game. IU faced a double digit deficit less than six minutes into the game, while Langford and Morgan sat idly on fold-out chairs emblazoned with the Michigan logo. That lead would grow to as many as 19 points in the opening period. Against the defending national runners-up and still undefeated Wolverines, this slow start was fatal. “We’re not ready to be tough at the beginning of the game,” Miller said. “We take a punch, maybe a few too many, and then we sort of get off the ground and get going.” In addition to foul trouble, Morgan, Langford and IU as a team failed to assert itself on offense in the first half. The Hoosiers made just 12 of their 29 first half shots, while the Wolverines made 18 of their 31 attempts. Morgan went an uncharacteristic 4 of 12 from the field himself in the first half, while Langford contributed only two field goals. “Offensively we missed a ton of SEE MENS BASKETBALL, PAGE 5