FRIDAY, NOV. 7, 2014
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Freshman guard James Blackmon Jr. reaches for the ball in IU’s first exhibition game against Northwood on Thursday at Assembly Hall. Blackmon led all scorers with 26 points in a 94-70 win.
BACK ON THE COURT Blackmon, Zeisloft combine for 50 points in season-opening win
Junior Forward Hanner Mosquera-Perea shoots the ball in IU’s first exhibition game against Northwood on Thursday at Assembly Hall.
By Alden Woods
Hoops with Hoop, page 11
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Columnist Evan Hoopfer says despite the stats, Yogi Ferrell remains IU’s best player.
It was an exhibition game, a Division II opponent. IU was supposed to win. And it did, 94-70. The game didn’t matter — the Hoosiers’ record still stands at 0-0. Thursday night didn’t change the fact that while nine Hoosiers took the court, one lay in a hospital bed and three were left off the bench by suspension. A victory against Northwood didn’t change what had happened in the last week, especially for IU Coach Tom Crean. “I’m as concerned about everything today as I am every day,” Crean said. “My position is ‘I’ve got a lot of hats to wear every day,’ and this is no different. It’s just game day.”
For Crean, to coach was to return to normal, even if it’s a Division II opponent in front of a half-full Assembly Hall. On the court, IU outplayed Northwood in nearly all facets of the game. The Hoosiers shot better from the field, pulled down more rebounds, committed fewer turnovers and converted their free throws at a higher rate. A pair of newcomer guards led the way for the Hoosiers. Freshman guard James Blackmon Jr. scored a gamehigh 26 points while junior Nick Zeisloft added 24. The two SEE BASKETBALL, PAGE 5
The Bicentennial Strategic Plan, the Bloomington Faculty Council and INPIRG are all tackling college affordability. MaryFrances McCourt, IU senior vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer, addressed college affordability at a BFC meeting Tuesday, referencing the proposals mentioned in the Bicentennial Strategic Plan. The plan builds on Affordable IU, an initiative aimed at stabilizing tuition increases, providing financial aid, increasing financial literacy, reducing direct costs and encouraging on-time graduation. To encourage on-time graduation, the plan expands current programs, such as the Summer Tuition Discount Program, the new Office of Completion and Student Success, the new Graduation Progress System and Finish in Four, a tuition freeze for juniors and seniors set to graduate in four years. According to the plan, the most recent tuition increases were the lowest tuition increases on record. Across all IU campuses, the undergraduate tuition increased by 1.75 percent while the graduate tuition rate increased between 0 and 6 percent. McCourt said that although the plan largely builds on current initiatives, students should expect to see new initiatives as well. “We constantly monitor our initiatives to ensure they are delivering impact,” she said. “In some cases we continue existing initiatives if results are aligned with the desired outcome. Other initiatives are expanded if they can be leveraged for more impact and some may be discontinued. I would expect to see a continued evolution of initiatives to impact affordability.” McCourt said, however, that the need for an affordable education must be balanced with the need for a quality education. “Although we want to deliver an affordable education, we cannot do that at the risk of quality deteriorating,” she said. “We must ensure that we have resources to invest in faculty, facilities and technology to maintain or increase the rankings of our academic programming, our ability to perform meaningful research and to deliver the services and tools for our students to succeed.” Though Matthew Gough, INPIRG campus organizer, was also scheduled to present about college affordability at the BFC meeting Tuesday, due to time constraints, SEE AFFORDABILITY, PAGE 5
MEN’S SOCCER
Hoosiers open Big Ten tournament Sunday michhugh@indiana.edu | @MichaelHughes94
NO. 2 IU (11-3-4, 3-3-2) vs. Northwestern (9-3-5, 4-1-3) 1 p.m. Sunday, Evanston, Ill.
IU likes to separate its season into three smaller seasons. The regular season, Big Ten tournament season and NCAA tournament season. IU finished its first season with a record of 11-3-4 and a sixth-place finish the in the Big Ten. On Sunday, IU starts its Big Ten tournament season against Northwestern. “11-3-4 is not a bad record but that’s done with, it’s over,” IU senior Patrick Doody said. “Now the fun starts.” IU’s first season ended with a 3-2 loss against Michigan State on senior night. That loss was one of three this season for IU, all in conference play. IU, ranked No. 2 in the country, finished sixth in the Big Ten. The lower-half finish in conference means IU will be ineligible to host a Big Ten tournament game and will be traveling to play schools that national polls deem inferior to IU. It does present IU with an opportunity to exact revenge on teams that
IU has dropped points against. “There are a few games we’d like back this year from the Big Ten,” IU Coach Todd Yeagley said. “We’ll have that opportunity now.” First on this redemption tour will be Northwestern, who tied 1-1 with IU in September. IU had been leading before Northwestern junior Joey Calistri equalized with one minute remaining in regulation. IU outshot Northwestern 19-12 in that game, sent nine shots on goal compared to Northwestern’s six and took three more corner kicks. That match was played in Bloomington. Sunday’s game will be played in Evanston. IU is 7-0-1 this season in matches played away from home. “We’ve always been good on the road since I was a freshman,” Doody said. “I think we just kind of like be-
By Michael Hughes
SEE SOCCER , PAGE 5
Legal battle ensues after dog vanishes By Hannah Fleace hfleace@indiana.edu | @HFleace
Sometime after she dropped him off and before the ink dried on the protective order, the dog vanished. Before the lawsuits and threats, before he was hit by a car and returned from the dead, before she went into hiding, before word spread across the country and the searches began, before it got ugly, there was a post on Craigslist about a dog named Henry. * * * There it was among posts for lost car keys and a bike: HELP FIND HENRY!! The 807-word post appeared on the Bloomington Craigslist page Sept. 4. In it, Jennifer Peavler Bradley made a plea for her missing Great Pyrenees. Jennifer wrote that she left the dog in the care of a woman named Shonna Flynn, but Shonna refused to give him back. Shonna said Henry was hers to keep. Then she said a car hit him. Then she said she gave him away. In the post, Jennifer suggested
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Henry, a Great Pyrenees, pictured here sleeping, is caught in a legal battle between Shonna Flynn and Jennifer Peavler Bradley. He has been missing since
Shonna’s motive was reprisal after Jennifer bought a pair of puppies from Shonna in December and returned them in April. “I DON’T HAVE ANY INTEREST IN MONEY,” Jennifer wrote. “I WANT HENRY BACK!!” The law describes pets as property, but owners routinely call them their children. Jennifer was waging a legal and social war to get her “fur kid” back. Where on the spectrum of pet fanaticism did Jennifer and Shonna fall?
* * * Jennifer sat in a booth at Denny’s, tears brimming over eggs, sunny side up. Her story begins in November 2009, when she saw an ad in the paper for Great Pyrenees puppies. “When I first saw him, (in person) he was this little ball of fur,” Jennifer recalled. “I mean, really fuzzy and fat, and he had a chicken wing sticking out of his SEE HENRY, PAGE 5