Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016

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IU picks new top safety official

IDS Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016

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GOLDEN GIRL Lilly King proving a royal pain for opponents

By Ben Portnoy bmportno@indiana.edu | @bportnoy15

In the past few months, life has changed for sophomore swimmer Lilly King. From being a little-known student-athlete, to a star in Rio and a campus celebrity, King’s life is far from normal. However, one thing remains constant: wins. Since the United States Olympic Team Trials this past summer, where she became the first person since 2004 to win both the 100 and 200-meter breaststroke, King’s success has thrust her into the global spotlight. She won gold in the 100-meter breaststroke and the 4x100-meter medley relay at the Rio Olympics and rekindled for a moment the Cold Warera fervor of Russian and American competition. “It’s been a wild ride,” IU Coach Ray Looze said. “When we had our first goal talk she goes, ‘I want to make the Olympic team and I want to win a gold medal.’ A lot of people do that though and you’re just like, ‘OK, yeah, yeah, yeah, right,’ but she did it.”

LILLY KING IN THE RIO OLYMPICS

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Gold in 100m breastroke

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Gold in 4x100m medley relay

12th place in 200m breaststroke TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

U.S. swimmer and IU sophomore Lilly King reacts after her gold medal finish in the 100-meter breaststroke final Aug. 8 at the Rio Olympic Games.

King came to Bloomington as the No. 9 high school recruit according to Swim Swam’s 2015 rankings. As a freshman, she captured the 100 and 200-yard breaststroke titles at the 2015-16 NCAA Championships, earning her the CSCAA Swimmer of the Year and Big Ten Swimmer of the Year nods before heading off to Rio to compete with Team USA. “It’s been awesome just to have that success on both sides, short course and long course, between collegiate and professional swimming,” King said. “I think it’s definitely setting me up well for the future. I’m excited to see what it holds.” King accredits her success to a new level of training and competition, day-in and day-out, that she’s devoted herself to since arriving in Bloomington. King said she knew she would get faster over the course of her freshman year because college swimming allows swimmers to battle in practice against high-caliber teammates and provides them with better weight-training than their high schools did. SEE KING, PAGE 6

STUDENTS AGAINST STATE VIOLENCE

Hoosiers rally in support of Standing Rock By Emily Miles elmiles@iu.edu | @EmilyLenetta

Freezing fingers tapped on signs that read “We can’t drink oil” and “I stand with Standing Rock.” Heads bobbed as eyes shifted from the red brick ground around Sample Gates to Davina Two Bears’ solemn face. Two Bears held a phone, which connected to a speaker. It played Frank Waln’s “7,” a song about a prophecy in which Native American youths protect their land. “This is sound of a nation rising,” sounded from the speaker. “A generation with a vision. / We’re tired of our people dying.” Students and community members gathered Tuesday evening for Students Against State Violence’s solidarity demonstration, which included a rally and a march through the streets of downtown Bloomington, against the Dakota Access Pipeline. NoDAPL is a movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline, which Energy Transfer Partners is attempting to build on sacred Standing Rock Sioux land. The people who stand in opposition to the pipeline call themselves Water Protectors. The rally and march were in direct response to the presence of 37 police officers from Indiana at Standing Rock, the official SASV statement said. The student organization said it was unacceptable Hoosier officers were

EMILY ECKELBARGER | IDS

Aslan Tudor, 9, holds a flag in solidarity with the anti-Dakota Access Pipeline protest Tuesday evening at Sample Gates. Tudor held a flag with the American Indian Movement emblem on it.

there when the Water Protectors were strip-searched and harassed by guards, incarcerated in dog kennels and marked with numbers on their skin, much like in concentration camps. Some in attendance at the rally were Native Americans, but many were not. Some had been to this sort of rally before, and some had

been to Standing Rock, but many had not. Two Bears, a member of the Arizona Navajo and an IU Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology, was the first speaker. Her son, Brady, who attends Bloomington High School South, watched from the crowd with a sign reading “#noDAPL” and

“Water is our future.” Two Bears asked where the Kickapoo, Piankashaw, Potawatomi and other tribes native to Indiana had gone. She answered her own question by saying the tribes had been on the land for thousands of years and pushed away by SEE PIPELINE, PAGE 6

IU has chosen a former Indianapolis police officer and city council member to serve as the new Superintendent of Public Safety and oversee campus safety and the IU Police Department across the IU system, according to an IU release. Benjamin Hunter will leave his current position as executive director of public safety, community relations and government affairs at Butler University to start his position at IU on Jan. 2. “Ben’s background is unique, with experience in both municipal and university public safety, local government and across a wide variety of university administration,” said Mark Bruhn, associate vice president for the Office of Public Safety and Institutional Assurance in the release. “Because of this, he understands well and can better traverse the sometimes complex landscape in order to advocate for our officers and address evolving public safety issues.” Before serving two terms on the Indianapolis City-County Council from 2008 to 2015, Hunter worked as a police officer in Indianapolis. Prior to this, Hunter served as an officer for IUPD at IU-Purdue University Indianapolis after graduating with a political science degree from IUPUI. Hunter has an interest in community policing, according to the release, dating back to his time as a police officer. He worked as a community liaison for three different deputy police chiefs while in Indianapolis. Now, Hunter looks forward to returning to the IU system, according to the release, and he believes a college campus provides an even greater opportunity for community-oriented policing. “The Indiana University Police Department and its allied public safety functions are excellent, and I relish the opportunity to continue this good work,” Hunter said. Nyssa Kruse

Local band to play at Bishop, release EP By Katie Chrisco kchrisco@ius.edu | @katiechrisco

Kentucky Nightmare finished recording its latest EP a week ago, and the band members are ready to take their new songs to the stage. The band will perform Wednesday night at the Bishop with Evansville, Indiana-based band Thunder/ Dreamer and local band Chainsaw Mondays. Kentucky Nightmare’s lead singer and songwriter Simon Moor, from Evansville, said the band will play all six of their new songs, five of which have never been performed live, as well as some of their older material. While Kentucky Nightmare is not new to the Bishop, Moore said the band enjoys playing there, especially since their sound engineers are top of the line. “It’s a great crowd, really nice crowd,” he said. “It’s a really cool bar, like I would hang out at the Bishop, too. I would certainly hang out there more than I play there.” Although the band is technically based in Bloomington, guitar player and vocalist Chris Brubeck lives in New Albany, Indiana. Moore said he and Brubeck have recently started to share songwriting duties, and although it is a long-distance collaboration, it’s not difficult to manage. “We work really, really well together,” he said. “It’s been a really fruitful partnership. It goes really smoothly. Honestly, it’s kind of nice because we all have our different home lives. “When you have too many cooks in the kitchen sometimes the song writing process can get just bogged down in detail, but him and I just cut out a lot of that work and our rhythm section is SEE NIGHTMARE, PAGE 6 KENTUCKY NIGHTMARE Tickets $5, 18+ only 9:30 p.m. today, the Bishop


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