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Pi Kappas on interim suspension

By Jaden Amos and Mel Fronczek news@idsnews.com

Pi Kappa Phi has been placed on cease and desist by the IU Office of Student Conduct and suspended by the Interfraternity Council following a video circulated Saturday of an assault allegedly committed by its members.

The security camera footage shows a group of around 11 men

attacking one or two other men outside a house.

A former member of the Interfraternity Council executive board said he could not confirm the situation Saturday but believed the fight broke out between members of fraternities Pi Kappa Phi and Alpha Epsilon Pi after members of Alpha Epsilon Pi tried to enter a party at the Pi Kappa Phi house.

“Loving yourself is, from my perspective, key to loving other people. That’s a basic religious tenet, and I don’t talk a lot about it, but it’s at the heart of who I am and what I do. It goes a long way to opening doors with folks of different religions, of different backgrounds.” Doug Bauder, LGBTQ+ Culture Center director

Alpha Epsilon Pi spokesperson Jonathan Pierce has confirmed members Alpha Epsilon Pi were involved in the fight.

IU spokesperson Chuck Carney said Pi Kappa Phi has been placed on cease and desist by the IU Office of Student Conduct.

Carney said in a text message to the Indiana Daily Student on beSEE SUSPENSION, PAGE 4

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR As the semester comes to a close, so does my tenure as the editor of the Indiana Daily Student. It has been an honor to lead this incredibly talented newsroom this fall and last spring.

During this semester we continued the reporting the IDS has done for many years. Campus news kept reporters busy.

We followed the men's soccer team on the journey to its 14th Big Ten title and the controversial views of a professor.

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Sigma Kappa donates to Alzheimer’s Association

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Doug Bauder found out gay marriage had officially been legalized by the U.S. Supreme Court five years ago while he was at work.

He and his partner, Marty Siegel, had discussed the issue and didn’t feel like it was a big deal to them. They had already lived together for 20 years. They collectively had four children and 10 grandchildren. They had legal protection. They had built a life together, and they were happy with the way things were.

But when Bauder got home from work that day, he got down on one knee before Siegel and asked him to marry him.

Siegel didn’t say yes right away. Bauder and Siegel both have children from previous marriages. When he and Bauder first became partners, the kids were all pretty young. They knew what was going on, but it took a while for them to come to terms with having gay dads.

Twenty years later, Siegel wanted to finally ask his and Bauder’s children for their blessing.

The wedding took place in their home. It was co-officiated by a minister from Bauder’s church and a rabbi from Siegel’s synagogue.

It was a small ceremony, but Siegel said it was more touching than he had imagined.

“It felt so good to make those vows and to be official, and to be sanctioned by the Supreme Court,” Siegel said. “It’s a big deal.”

Bauder is the director of IU’s LGBTQ+ Culture Center and has been since the center started 25 years ago.

Bauder’s own journey to accepting his sexuality was difficult. He came out in the late ‘80s, when he was a pastor in his 30s with a wife and two children. He said the difficulties

IU sororities recently released their annual recruitment videos, two to three minute teasers showcasing the chapters' members around campus in an effort to draw new recruits at the beginning of spring semester. The full videos, which are around 10 minutes, are shown during recruitment, which starts in January.

"Chapters typically spend from $1,000 to maybe $3,000-$4,000 on videos," said Josie Myers, IU Panhellenic Association vice president of recruitment.

Sigma Kappa’s total recruitment video budget this year: $0.

“Instead of spending all of the money we were going to spend on the video, we decided to make it ourselves and then donate that money to the Alzheimer’s Association,” said Sigma Kappa president Anne Marie Schaner.

Sigma Kappa donated $20,000 to the Alzheimer’s Association. Schaner and Hine said instead of hiring a professional videographer, booking an area for filming or purchasing music rights, they cut their budget by doing more work themselves.

“That funding came from our chapter recruitment budget that would have been spent on the video and other recruitment tasks throughout the year,” Schaner said.

“We did a lot of work on budget cuts on top of spending $0 on this video so that we could donate the money.”

Kyle Davern, manager of the

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ABOVE Then-graduate student Misha Mikhaylov, middle, speaks with Doug Bauder and Carol Fischer at the then-named Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Support Services Center.

he faced coming out help him understand the struggles students on campus deal with.

Bauder is retiring this year, but he hopes to leave behind a legacy of openness, love and self-acceptance.

Pastor Doug In the 1980s, a young man named Paul was a member of Pastor Bauder’s congregation at the church where he preached near Madison, Wisconsin. Bauder said he always suspected Paul was gay and that he hadn’t come to terms with that part of himself.

Soon after Paul went off to college, Bauder received news that saddened him deeply.

Paul had taken his own life.

“I couldn’t be of help to Paul,” Bauder said. “I think about him a lot. I think what a waste ending his life was.”

This news hit Bauder particularly hard, because he was facing a similar struggle.

Bauder knew he was gay and soon decided to come out to his friends and family.

“Sorting all of that out made me realize that my sexuality is a gift, and my being gay is not a curse — it’s a blessing,” Bauder said.

Bauder said coming out was a difficult process for him, which he described as an existential crisis. Soon after, he and his wife started

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Local animal shelter lowers adoption fees for holidays

By Grace Ybarra gnybarra@iu.edu | @gynbarra

Howls and barks echoed through the cages of the City of Bloomington Animal Shelter, while cats nestled into their beds.

Around 120 to 150 animals are available for adoption. The shelter launched its “Home for the Holidays” initiative to find homes for those animals this year.

The shelter lowered its dog adoption fees to $40 and lowered cat adoption fees to $20 from Dec. 8 to Dec. 24.

Director Virgil Sauder said the cat

adoption fees are lower because they currently have three times as many cats as dogs in the shelter.

“It could make for a really splendid holiday to bring in a new puppy or kitten to the household,” adoption counselor Jan Grant said. “I think having a reduction in the fees is obviously helpful at any time of the year but especially the holidays.”

Sauder said the holidays are a great time to adopt because people have time off work and school to spend with their new animal.

Sauder invited Koda Bear, an 8-year-old American bulldog mix, into his office. Koda Bear has been

at the shelter for over three months since he was abandoned. Sauder said Koda Bear gets stressed in his cage, so he’s been keeping him in his office for a few days.

“This is a fantastic shelter,” Grant said. “But it’s also not the best environment for any animal because they want to be a pet.”

Koda Bear is one of the animals selected for the “12 Strays of Christmas” promotion. The 12 featured cats and dogs do not have adoption fees.

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Eighteen-week-old Desperado sits in his cage Dec. 13 in the City of Bloomington Animal Shelter. The shelter lowered its dog adoption fees to $40 and lowered cat SEE SHELTER, PAGE 4 adoption fees to $20 from Dec. 8-24.

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LGBTQ+ center interim director announced

By Mel Fronczek mfroncze@iu.edu | @MelissaFronczek

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Feline celebrity Lil Bub meets with her fans Oct. 26, 2012, in the Bloomington Animal Care and Control shelter. Mike Bridavsky announced the death of his Internet-famous cat on social media Monday.

Lil BUB’s owner plans to send her remains into space

By Madi Smalstig msmalsti@iu.edu | @madi_smals

Recently deceased feline Lil BUB has been considered one of the most famous cats on Earth. Now, after her death, she may become one of the most famous cats in the galaxy.

Her owner, Mike Bridavsky, said he intends to send her remains into orbit.

Lil BUB, an American celebrity cat famous for her social media and charity work, died in her sleep Dec. 1, 2019. She was 8.

She rocketed to popularity in 2011 for her otherworldly appearance, with her pink, lolling tongue and green bulging eyes. She gained millions of followers online and appeared on “Good Morning America”

and in an award-winning documentary.

Bridavsky, 39, said he has always considered her an “alien cat” because she had an energy not of this planet.

He joked that she came to Earth to make it a better place.

“Well, she came from space, so I think it’s fitting to put her back into space,” Bridavsky said.

Bridavsky said he has been planning to send Lil BUB’s remains into space for almost three years. It’s one reason he decided to cremate her.

Cremation made BUB more compact — more suitable for space travel.

Bridavsky has already been in contact with Purdue University, a place BUB had visited a few times for emer-

gency vet care, to develop a vessel to carry her remains into orbit.

BUB won’t be the only cat sent into the stratosphere.

The first cat in space, Félicette, was launched in 1963 and safely returned to Earth.

In January, an Oregon man launched a fundraiser to provide his cat, Pikachu, a space burial. Pikachu is currently on the “Horizon Flight” provided by Celestis Pets, despite the GoFundMe never reaching the $5,000 goal.

Bridavsky’s plan is to create a pod-shaped satellite that has a camera attached to it.

He also wants to create subscription-based charitable-giving system. Every time Bub completes one orbit, a certain amount of money will be deducted from sub-

scribers’ accounts and donated to veterinary research and Lil BUB’s BIG Fund, a partnership between Lil BUB and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals that has raised more than $420,000 for special needs pets.

“It’s a way to continue her legacy and for people to still be able to connect with her,” Bridavsky said.

He said BUB didn’t care about fame.

“She does care about reaching a lot of people and helping them,” he said.

She was a powerful presence that took the form of a strange cat, Bridavsky said.

In the future, she will take on her next form: a space pod.

“One way or another, my plan is to send her remains to orbit Earth,” Bridavsky said.

Nunn donates over $2.5M across city

By Kyra Miller kymill@iu.edu | @kyra_ky94

Personal injury lawyer Ken Nunn recently reached over $2.5 million in donations to organizations in Bloomington. Nunn is from Jefferson, Indiana, and the founder of the Ken Nunn Law Office.

Nunn dropped out of high school when he was 16. He went back to school a year later and then attended the IU Maurer School of Law in the 1970s. In honor of his struggle, Nunn awards local students with scholarships in order to aid their education through the Ken Nunn Law Office Scholarship. Nunn has been awarding this scholarship for nearly 20 years.

“If I didn’t go to law school at IU, I don’t know what prison I’d be in,” Nunn said.

For IU, Nunn had contributed $2.25 million for the renovation of Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, including the addition of handrails. Since attending IU and living in Bloomington, Nunn has only missed one IU men’s basketball game, so that he could have heart surgery.

Nunn is also a proud supporter of the Boys and Girls Club. Recently, Nunn donated almost $10,000 to the Bloomington chapter of the

Bruce Smail, public speaker and HIV/AIDS activist, has been announced as the interim director of IU’s LGBTQ+ Culture Center.

Smail will be in this position for at least the next three years. He will replace Doug Bauder, who has led the culture center since its creation 25 years ago.

According to a press release, he previously served as deputy director of the Black AIDS Institute in Los Angeles, the director of the Cross Cultural Center at the University of California-Davis, the director of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Resource Center at the University of Colorado and a diversity education specialist at IU. “I am very excited about the opportunity to return to Indiana University,” Smail said. “Cultural centers play a unique role on college campuses by targeting, supporting and advocating for specific communities, as well as helping the campus understand the community and build strong allies for that community.”

Smail is qualified for his new position based on his past positions as well as his character, said Yolanda Treviño, assistant vice president of strategy, planning and assessment for the Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Multicultural Affairs.

“Bruce has the passion and heart to make a difference,” she said in the press release. “He is someone who will bring to the forefront the many voices that are too often silenced. His experiences and commit-

IU weigh in on committee’s articles of impeachment

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Attorney Ken Nunn reflects on his life Jan. 31, 2017, at his office in Bloomington. Nunn has recently reached over $2.5 million in donations to organizations in Bloomington.

club. On top of this, for two years Nunn partnered with the Bloomington Fire Department to provide children at the Boys and Girls Club with bicycles and helmets, according to a press release from his office.

Nunn is a supporter of the Boys and Girls Club because they provide resources to kids who grow up in similar situations to himself. When Nunn was a child he began working from a young age in order to help his mother sup-

port them. They were evicted from homes about a dozen times in 10 years, Nunn said.

“Giving back to kids who grow up just like I did, it makes me feel good to give them things I didn’t necessarily have,” Nunn said.

Nunn has also donated over 125 trauma packs to the officers of the Bloomington Police Department and surrounding counties to use in emergency situations.

Trauma packs allow officers to quickly stop bleeding if an

officer is hit with a bullet.

Nunn also contributes to holiday fundraising like Shop with a Cop and the Red Cross. One year, Nunn contacted the Red Cross and asked to be put in touch with someone who would not be getting any Christmas presents so that he and his wife could buy them dinner and a few gifts.

“Of course no one charity is better than another,” Nunn said, “I’m just glad to give what I can.”

ment will prove instrumental in helping to lead us into the future as Bruce Smail we create new opportunities to ensure students successfully reach their educational goals.”

In the press release, James C. Wimbush, vice president for diversity, equity and multicultural affairs, said Smail will be an important addition to the IU community.

“Bruce is an outstanding advocate for critical issues involving the LGBTQ+ community,” he said. “He will play a critical role in leading the assessment and planning necessary to meet the needs of students and the IU community for the next 25 years.”

In this position, Smail will implement programming to address sexual orientation, gender identity, intersectionality and social justice, according to the press release. He will also work with alumni and donors and will oversee the culture center’s budget and staff members. As a special assistant to the vice president, Smail will assess all five of IU-B’s culture centers as well as work with the other IU campuses to coordinate university-wide LGBTQ efforts.

Smail said in the press release he is prepared for his new position.

“My own life experiences and various career positions have prepared me well for this work and for the work that lies ahead to enhance diversity, equity and community for all,” Smail said.

Congress’ efforts to impeach President Donald Trump and his statement that he can “do whatever I want,” represents a challenge to the United States’ democratic government, former Congressman Lee Hamilton said.

The House Judiciary Committee passed two articles of impeachment against Trump on Friday morning after more than 14 hours of debate Thurs-

day and weeks of closeddoor and public hearings.

The articles accuse Trump of obstruction of Congress and abuse of power.

The full House of Representatives will vote on the charges this week.

“The whole process is a means of overturning election results,” said Hamilton, who is now an IU professor. “That’s a serious challenge to the system.”

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Community Kitchen offers holiday meals for those in need

By Jess Prucha jprucha@iu.edu | @jess_prucha

Community Kitchen staff and volunteers will serve Christmas meals to people in need from 3-6 p.m Dec. 25 at 1515 S. Rogers St. All volunteer shifts for Christmas Day are full, but Community Kitchen welcomes any food donations or financial contributions at their facility.

Community Kitchen works to eliminate hunger in Monroe County and surrounding areas. The kitchen has been providing Christmas

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Community Kitchen staff and volunteers will serve Christmas meals to people in need from 3-6 p.m Dec. 25 at 1515 S. Rogers St. The kitchen works to eliminate hunger in Monroe County and surrounding areas.

meals for more than 30 years, according to a press release.

Staff and volunteers will serve ham, green bean casse-

role, sweet potatoes, rolls and a variety of desserts, according to the release.

In partnership with the

Hoosier Hills Food Bank, Community Kitchen will also distribute bags of groceries to those in attendance, according to the release.

Community Kitchen Express, located at 1100 W. 11th St., will also offer carry-out meals. The kitchen will prepare over 200 meals for homebound individuals. Area 10 Agency on Aging and Positive Link will distribute the meals, according to the release.

Last Christmas, Community Kitchen distributed over 1,500 meals, and the kitchen anticipates a similar need this year, according to the release.

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IUSG survey looks at student health

By Madi Smalstig msmalsti@iu.edu | @madi_smals

IU Student Government ran a survey, which focused on physical health and how often or if people use the IU facilities, from Nov. 4-7.

One question asked why people did not attend the gym. Eighty-two percent indicated they don’t have time to work out. In addition, on another question, one quarter of participants said they do not go to the gym because there is no bus route to IU’s facilities.

IUSG director of health and wellbeing Jordan Davis, is already in conversation with IU Transportation and plans to meet with them early next semester to address this issue.

“From what I understand the closest you can get is if you go to either Eigenmann or Union Street,” Davis said.

“That is totally something we are working on.”

Another question indicated 23.2% of participants workout 30 minutes to one hour each week and 22.4% said 3-4 hours.

The Department of Health and Human Services recommends that people get two and a half hours of exercise each week. Based on this standard, 60.4% of participants are not getting enough exercise.

In contrast, on another question, 99% of those surveyed said physical exercise is somewhat important to mental wellbeing.

Although there is not anything directly that IUSG can

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IU Student Government ran a survey, which focused on physical health and how often or if people use the IU facilities, from Nov. 4-7.

do to get people to go to the gym, they can encourage students to go through marketing, IUSG congressional secretary Madeline Garcia said.

Garcia and her freshman intern Elizabeth Algeri analyzed the survey data and created recommendations for the Student Recreational Sports Association in their report based on the results. One of the recommendations was increasing marketing of workout classes and advertising the value of even 30 minute workouts.

“I think it is a combination of marketing and then changing the campus culture about exercise and positive eating habits,” Garcia said.

Another recommendation was to ensure that all gym spaces are open to people of all sizes, backgrounds, abilities and activity levels. This was based on the fact that 23% of those surveyed said their physical insecurities were a

barrier to their exercise.

“Some of our policy recommendations there were more inclusive and welcoming spaces and activities,” Algeri said. “Those just have some positive effects that ensure people of all bodies can feel welcomed in the gym spaces.”

Davis said the results more or less matched her perceptions of how students exercise.

This is reassuring because it indicates she is headed in the right direction with her current policies, she said.

The one mistake in the survey was not including a question where people could indicate if they were a student or faculty member, Davis said.

“They’re telling me that I am not going in a completely crazy direction,” Davis said.

“We have already been trying to be proactive and working on things and this tells us that we don’t have to completely scrap the work we have.”

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weighed in on the fourth formal impeachment inquiry against a president in history.

If the House passes a vote this week, triggering a Senate trial in January, Trump would follow former Presidents Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton to be the third impeached president.

Political science professor Gerald Wright said the process is only the latest show of an increasingly polarized political environment, which began before Trump entered office.

Impeachment will likely worsen divides between Democrats and Republicans, he said, drawing each side closer to their bases and making it more difficult for Congress to legislate.

“It’s going to be a very bitter 2020 election,” Wright said.

According to a Dec. 9-10 Reuters/Ipsos poll, 45% of Americans support the impeachment inquiry and 41% oppose.

By party, 80% of Democratic registered voters think Trump should be

impeached, while 13% of Republican registered voters do.

Freshman Brett Abbott, press secretary for College Republicans at IU, echoed arguments of Republican lawmakers opposing the articles of impeachment, saying Democrats have been trying to impeach Trump since his first day in office.

“I think it’s dangerous,” Abbott said.

Since many politicians act for political gain, Abbott said, the abuse of power charge is baseless.

He called the obstruction of Congress charge ridiculous because courts have not yet ruled on whether executive privilege excuses complying with Congressional subpoenas.

The impeachment inquiry would not have been possible without Democrats regaining a majority in the House in the 2018 election, said sophomore Alessia Modjarrad, president of College Democrats at IU. She said she thinks Congress is carrying out a fair impeachment process, but the contents of the charges are “disheartening.”

Modjarrad said as a student, it’s interesting to

watch how processes she’s learned about in classes play out in real time.

“I’m 19 years old, and this is happening before my eyes,” Modjarrad said.

For senior Matt Stein, student body vice president, impeachment detracts national attention from other issues Congress could address relating to students — Title IX, college tuition and Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals, for example.

“There’s a lot of other things I wish we could be talking about,” he said.

That doesn’t mean he thinks the impeachment process should wrap up sooner.

Hamilton said he hopes the Senate will conduct an open, free trial with evidence from both sides.

Over his more than three decades in Congress, Hamilton said he never encountered a president withholding information save for national security concerns.

This administration’s refusal to cooperate is new, he said.

“It’s very important for us to have a means of holding a president to account,” he said. “And I’m saying we do not have sufficient means to do so today.”

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IU released preliminary results of a survey measuring students’ attitudes about sexual misconduct the first week of December. Half of IUBloomington students were selected last spring to participate in the 2019 Campus Climate Survey, and about 3,000 of them completed the survey. That’s about 7% of the total undergraduate and graduate student population.

The sample was meant to be proportional to the overall student population based on various traits such as gender and undergraduate or graduate student status. Springston said this data can be generalized to the IU student population, but some uncertainty is inevitable in all surveys.

So far, the results are just presented as “key findings.”

The full report will be available in January, said Emily Springston, university Title IX coordinator and director of the Office of Institutional Equity. The preliminary results include statistics about attitudes on sexual misconduct being a problem, whether students feel safe and the processes of reporting and investigating sexual misconduct.According to the Stop Sexual Violence website, 82% of participants thought sexual misconduct is a problem on campus, and 92% thought sexual misconduct is a problem throughout society.

The survey reports 81% of participants felt the university would take a report seriously, 72% felt the university would protect someone reporting from retaliation and 72% felt the university would ensure due process and a fair investigation.

Emma Norris, IU junior and Feminist Student Association outreach officer, has attended many rallies against sexual violence. She said the statistics about IU handling sexual misconduct surprised her, especially the last statistic. She thought the numbers would be lower.

“I don’t necessarily think IU has the best history of handling sexual assault cases quickly or fairly or painlessly,” Norris said.

She said she knows many people who have experienced sexual violence but haven’t taken any official or legal action. It could be because of the stigma surrounding sexual assault and the emotional

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“It’s On Us” flyers are posted in many of the bathrooms on IU’s campus. Half of IU-Bloomington students were selected last spring to participate in the 2019 Campus Climate Survey, and about 3,000 of them completed the survey.

toll the proceedings can take, she said.

Springston said one of the most important key findings from the survey is 74% of participants felt they could do something about sexual misconduct.

“To me, there’s no simple fix to this problem,” she said.

“So that’s a really positive feedback that survey participants, and therefore students, are having a role in addressing this issue.”

Norris said she wanted more information on what “do something” means.

“Arguably, 100% of us can do something about sexual misconduct,” she said.

She also said many of IU’s initiatives for decreasing sexual misconduct exist in a hypothetical world. However, many people have already experienced sexual violence and need support after the incident.

“So much of the focus is on what happens before or what happens during, but not necessarily what happens after,” Norris said.

She said she went to CAPS for counseling after she experienced sexual violence, but she didn’t feel empathy or support from her counselor.

“Everything seems to work in a way that’s so methodical, so distant from any sense of actual humanity,” she said.

“The people who come in and out are numbers. It’s all about working people through the system so they can say, ‘Oh, we did this, and we served this many people.’”

The Campus Climate Survey results come at a time when the Bloomington campus has had the most reports of sexual misconduct since the university began releasing Title IX reports in the 2014-15 school year.

Springston said the spike in reports isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Cases of sexual misconduct are happening, she said, so the increase in reports suggests students might be more educated and comfortable to report.

“It means these students are connected to resources, to options for how to report and to address it,” Springston said.

She said some of these resources include training and education for graduate students and the It’s On Us program for all first-year students.

Norris said the rise in reports suggests the stigma surrounding sexual violence is decreasing, especially in the wake of the #MeToo movement.

“I don’t think the number of assaults has gone up at all,” she said. “I think it’s because of the culture.”

Norris said sexual violence has been one of the most taboo topics in society.

“It’s uncomfortable, it’s graphic, it’s awful,” she said.

“But fortunately, I think people feel more comfortable coming out and talking about their story, and feel more empowered to do something about what has happened to them.”

If people discuss sexual misconduct, there will be more awareness about how to behave appropriately, more accountability for people who don’t and more support for people who are victims of any type of sexual misconduct, Springston said.

“I don’t think this is an issue that’s going to turn itself and go away overnight, so one of our most important processes is to air it out, to let it be known to our community, to make sure we’re talking about it,” Springston said.

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“I’m so far removed I can talk about it now somewhat, but it was terribly painful,” Bauder said.

Bauder said his wife’s attorney was homophobic and raised concerns about whether Bauder should be allowed to continue being present in his kids’ lives.

“I was feeling threatened about whether I could continue to be a dad,” Bauder said. “It was a horrible time.

It was terrible.”

Bauder said his faith played a large role in helping him find his way again after coming out as gay.

“I just believe that God loves me for who I am,” Bauder said. “Loving yourself is, from my perspective, key to loving other people. That’s a basic religious tenet, and I don’t talk a lot about it, but it’s at the heart of who I am and what I do. It goes a long way to opening doors with folks of different religions, of different backgrounds.”

Bauder said his denomination, the Moravian church, emphasizes acceptance of everyone, including those who practice other religious beliefs or have different identities.

“It wasn’t until I went to grad school that I realized there were people who thought you were going to hell if you believed this way or that way or whatever, that there were bigoted people out there in terms of religion,” Bauder said.

He began to explore the gay scene in Madison, which he described as a positive community. He said finding other people of faith who identified as queer was encouraging and helped him regain his sense of identity.

His acknowledgement of his sexuality didn’t change his relationship with the church.

Bauder said he continued pastoring for 10 years after he came out.

While he didn’t advertise the fact that he was gay, Bauder said his coworkers and congregation members were open and accepting to his sexuality when it did come up. Halfway through his

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Doug Bauder is the director of the LGBTQ+ Culture Center on IU's campus.

time at the last congregation where he served, Bauder met with the board of the church to acknowledge he was gay because he was interested in doing some volunteer work for a gay-advocacy group at the time.

“They were amazingly supportive for a small rural congregation,” Bauder said.

“They knew me after five years, and this didn’t really change their opinion of me.”

However, Bauder soon made the decision to stop pastoring for a different reason — he fell in love.

Doug & Marty In 1991, Marty Siegel was going through a similar process as Bauder did 10 years prior. Married to a woman and the father of two children, Siegel had recently come out as gay in private, only to his family.

Bauder and Siegel met on a phone line, what Bauder described as a chat room before the existence of chat rooms.

“We developed a pen pal relationship," Bauder said. "I can’t even describe what it was, but we started becoming real with each other."

About six months after they met, they saw each other in person for the first time on a trip to Chicago. They met in the middle of Bauder’s home near Madison and Siegel’s in Bloomington, where he had recently been hired as an education professor at IU.

“We developed an amazing friendship that blossomed into a significant relationship,” Bauder said.

For the next year, Siegel made the seven-hour drive up to Madison every other weekend to spend time with Bauder.

“I finally said to him, ‘Look, I really like you a lot, I love you, but I can’t sustain this,’” Siegel said. “‘If you want to be in my life, you’re going to have to move to Bloomington.’”

So that’s what Bauder did.

Shortly after leaving his job as a pastor and moving to Bloomington, he found a job he was passionate about at IU — coordinator of the GLBT Student Support Office.

The Culture Center When Bauder first came to IU, the LGBTQ+ Culture Center had fewer letters in its name. In fact, it wasn’t a culture center at all. It was called the GLBT Student Support Office, and it reported to the dean of students.

Bauder said shortly before he was hired, his boss conducted a study that was intended to assess the harassment of black students on campus. The study brought attention to a different issue — just as many students were harassed because they identified as gay or were perceived to be gay as were black students. This led to the creation of the GLBT Student Support Of-

fice.

“That was the point that the students’ office recognized that there wasn’t a service for queer students,” Bauder said.

Bauder said IU was one of the first universities in the country to implement support for queer students. As the national culture surrounding LGBTQ issues was shifting, IU wanted to be a university that was LGBTQ friendly.

“Students weren’t just coming out in college, they were coming out in high school, looking for queer friendly campuses,” Bauder said.

The creation of the GLBT office faced pushback from Indiana lawmakers, who threatened to withhold funding from the university. ThenIU President Myles Brand decided to fund the office privately.

Over the years, Bauder said he has helped hundreds of other universities create similar offices who are interested in replicating his successful model of providing LGBTQ resources, counseling and support services to students.

Recently, Bauder worked to change the office to be more like the culture centers around campus, mimicking La Casa Latino Cultural Center, the Asian Culture Center and the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center.

Bauder says the GLBT office provided the same op-

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Helping students Bauder has won multiple awards over the years for his work directing the culture center. But when he’s asked about his accomplishments, he attributes almost everything the center has accomplished to the students.

Bauder said while the center does not initiate political activism, it offers support to students who choose to get involved with political issues. One example he brought up was when gay marriage was being legalized.

“We’d have 30 students here on a given evening, contacting people around the state to argue for the value of marriage equality,” Bauder said. “We encouraged, by virtue of having the sign out front, by having the office here, by having me in this role, students to be honest about who they were.”

Danielle Hernandez, the center’s graduate assistant and programming assistant, said Doug supports any and all projects students want the center to pursue.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Alzheimer Association’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s event, said the sorority’s national organization has partnered with the association for 36 years, providing philanthropic efforts.

“With the total contribution between the donation for $20,000 plus their $13,000 they’ve raised for the walk itself, this will be a record-setting year for them,” Davern said.

Schaner and Hine said they taught themselves how to film and edit the video so they complete it in-house.

They said they put in extra time filming and editing to make sure the video was still high quality.

“We knew that this type of video would show our values a lot more than another approach that we could take,” Hine said.

“We were excited to spend a lot of time creating this because we knew that it would be the best to show off our chapter.”

Davern said the money donated by Sigma Kappa will go toward Alzheimer’s research and programs for caregivers and patients. He said the organization keeps as much of the donations

portunities to students, but changing the name and who the center reports to is a symbolic choice.

“While over the years we have worked closely with our colleagues in different culture centers, this move made it more official,” Bauder said. “I think it made a statement that the university was recognizing that we all have multiple identities.”

The name isn’t the only thing that has changed at the culture center over its 25-year life span. Bauder said when it started, some students were uncomfortable being seen there, so he encouraged them to come in the back door.

Back then, he and his staff focused on providing support for closeted students wondering how to approach coming out. Now, Bauder said a good amount of the students active in the center identify as straight and are interested in getting involved because they have friends who identify as LGBTQ. The center focuses more today on social events, activism and raising awareness for LGTBQ issues.

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lobby hangs a sign that reads “Lives saved since Jan. 1: 2552.” Sauder said this number represents the number of animals that have been adopted this year.

Following an adoption, owners can pose for a picture under the sign with

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The Sigma Kappa house is seen Dec. 15 at 1411 N. Jordan Ave. The Sigma Kappa house donated money to Alzheimer’s research.

within local initiatives as possible.

“We want to continue to increase that awareness of the disease so that way people have the proper tools and resources at their fingertips, so they know what to do when the situation arises,” Davern said.

Schaner and Hine said they hope their choice to cut down on recruitment spending will encourage other Greek organizations to reconsider how they spend their money.

“A few years ago, this issue was brought to light with

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“There’s sort of that fine line between excessive spending and spending the right amount to get your point across.”

Hine said she hopes this video will show how greek organizations can use their resources to promote philanthropy.

“I’m hoping that this video kind of is a call to action to the values of sororities and other Greek organizations,” Hine said. “There could just be a lot of change

in promoting these values.”

Myers said rules for sorority recruitment at IU change every year. She said potential regulations next school year would limit budgets for videos to $1,000 and require sororities to work with IU videographers rather than hiring professionals to promote academic values.

“People are just spending a lot of money on these videos that isn’t really necessary, so that’s why the upcoming vice president of recruitment wants to cap the budget,” Myers said.

half of the IU Police Department that IUPD is currently conducting an investigation of the assault. The department has executed a search warrant and has interviewed the victims.

“We are aware of allegations of bias statements made in this case and will investigate fully,” Carney said.

The statement said detectives will work the case in consultation with the Monroe County Prosecutor’s office and federal partners.

Carney said the university will soon be providing a statement on the matter.

The IFC’s interim suspension is in effect until an investigation reveals more information and a standards case can be heard, accord-

“He doesn’t want to feel like the person who’s making the big decisions," Hernandez said. "He gives space for other people to do their own thing."

Bauder said the center’s focus over the years has changed based on what students need. Recently, it has focused on promoting intersectional identities, forming programs that work together with other culture centers on campus, like the Latinx Initiative and Black & Bold.

Hernandez said she personally worked to form the Latinx Initiative student group.

“It’s really important to have spaces where other people hold those multiple identities that you hold, and where you can hold those conversations,” Hernandez said.

'The privilege of being queer' Bauder will be leaving the center at the end of this semester. Bruce Smail was recently appointed as the interim director and will start as Bauder’s replacement Jan. 2, 2020.

Bauder said in retirement, he plans to write a memoir entitled “The Privilege of Being Queer.” Once he’s finished with his book, he hopes to return to campus, volunteering with a group called Student Advocates.

In the culture center, a sign hangs above the fireplace, surrounded by festive holiday decorations and candles. “Welcome Home,” the sign reads.

Hernandez said that sign has been there since shortly after the center opened.

It was a gift from Siegel to Bauder, a symbol of how the culture center felt like a home, wishing Bauder luck in his new job.

Hernandez said the little things like that all over the center will remind her of Bauder and his influence there. She said she isn’t worried about the future of the culture center. She said while Bauder will be missed, his influence at the center is so embedded in the people and the programs there that it will stay for a long time. their newly adopted pet.

Grant said one of the most fulfilling parts of her job is when owners find a perfect match with an animal.

“The fulfillment factor comes when it is deemed to be a good match and the animal is absolutely so thrilled and you can just read it in every pore of their little, hairy body,” Grant said. ing to the IFC’s statement to the IDS. “The problem exemplified in this video insinuates a larger problem in this organization,” the statement reads.

The council is working with IU’s Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life and the national headquarters of Pi Kappa Phi, according to the statement.

Pierce said the organization is aware of the video and knows who the Alpha Epsilon Pi members are in the video.

Alpha Epsilon Pi is a traditionally Jewish fraternity.

The IFC's statement reads the council is investigating "the disturbing increase of alleged anti-Semitic incidents."

Pi Kappa Phi headquarters did not respond to requests for comment.

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Kinsey Institute finds emoji users more successful on dating apps

By Lizzie Kaboski lkaboski@iu.edu

A recent study published by the Kinsey Institute at IU discovered that single people who use emojis in communication with potential partners have more success maintaining romantic and sexual connections than those who don’t.

Published in August, the research demonstrates evidence that emoji users have more romantic opportunities and are able to establish intimate connections more successfully.

“Specifically for emojis, we were particularly interested in them as a way to signal affect or emotion in an effort to better connect with someone in the context of online dating,” said Amanda Gesselman, lead author of the study.

The research consisted of two separate studies surveying single adults and how often they used emojis in messages to potential partners. The first study looked at the frequency of first dates and sexual activity and found that nearly 30% of the sample size used emojis with possible online dating matches. More importantly, emoji use was associated with more first dates and more frequent sexual activity over the last year.

Researchers included

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Gesselman, Kinsey Institute associate director for research; Justin Garcia, Kinsey Institute acting director; and Vivian Ta, assistant professor of Psychology at Lake Forest College.

All three focus a majority of their research on incorporating technology into intimate lives.

“The fact that we could replicate the general gist of our results is something that I find very compelling,” Ta said. “It shows that we’re actually finding some sort of relationship

between the two.”

In addition to replicating the study a second time, researchers also counted the number of dates after the first and evaluated the type of physical contact. Participants who used emojis before the first date had more intimate relationships beyond the initial interaction and were more likely to engage in sexual behaviors with that person.

The use of emojis allow daters to communicate important information to

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potential partners which would be challenging to convey over text otherwise, according to the research.

“Online and text messaging aren’t going anywhere anytime soon,” Gesselman said. “I think that it’s really important to understand how people are adapting these things to fit goals that we’ve always had. It’s really interesting to see how people use technology to achieve goals that are a part of communication or relationship initiation.”

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Have ideas for increasing sustainability or qualms with the city’s public transit system? There’s a board for that.

The City of Bloomington has more than 33 boards and commissions with more than 250 members that help advise the mayor, the city council and varying legislative bodies in the community.

They range from topics such as a commission that covers environmental issues to a group that oversee the status of women, Hispanic and Latino affairs and children.

Of all the groups, 19 currently have vacancies. Mary Catherine Carmichael, director of public engagement, said residents can apply any time, but there are many spots that open up Dec. 31 and Jan. 31 because of the two year term limits.

The applications for each board are on their page on the city website “It’s always important to have the voices of your residents included,” Carmichael said. “The mayor doesn’t run the city for himself, he runs it for the residents.”

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boards and commissions communicate with different departmental liaisons on issues they are working on. For example, Animal Control Commission frequently works with the local animal shelters.

“It does give a voice to community members who don’t want to run for an elected position,” McDowell said. “The whole point is to analyze them from the community perspective and work with legislative.”

Eric Sandweiss, a professor at IU and a seven-year member of the Historic Preservation Commission, urged IU students to join these groups and advocate for their interests and needs.

He chose to work on the board because he’s interested in urban history and he wanted to have a part in seeing Bloomington widely preserved.

After serving on that board, he was appointed by the mayor to work on the Redevelopment Commission, which decides how best to improve the city’s public lands.

“You learn a lot more about the city and how it runs,” Sandweiss said. “You have a surprisingly direct and important say in certain decisions, you as a citizen can actually make a difference.”

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‘A little

less than

KIND’

Students within IU’s theater department are pushing for a fairer educational experience.

Senior Adrianne Embry looks off into the back of the theater in her role as Fortinbras during the final seconds of a performance of this season’s “Hamlet.” Embry is a founding member of the group BBBTT, or Black Brown & Beige Theater Troupe, whose goal is to promote the inclusion of people of color in the IU theater department.

Story by Annie Aguiar aguiara@iu.edu | @annabelaguiar

Photos by Elle Kreamer jotlidd@iu.edu | @eelleekk

T

he prom would be perfect, the protesters decided.

Their audience would be there; the majority of faculty and students from the IU’s Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance would be in attendance at the 2018 Drama Prom, the annual end-of-year departmental scholarship award banquet in the Tudor Room of the Indiana Memorial Union.

Everyone would have to listen.

The day of, one of the student actors backed out during practice.

It was too risky, especially when the protest would be aimed at the people controlling casting.

Before the awards ceremony, two of them pretended to be emcees and walked to the podium to begin while the rest waited in their seats in the audience, waiting for their cue. A false introduction later, the seated protesters started to speak while rising from their seats.

“I support the right of every student to an equal education,” one said as they stood.

“I know we can do better,” another said as she rose. “Because every community can do better.”

As they stood, they walked toward the podium. They continued: “I experience discrimination.”

“Men in this department have always tried to control my body.”

“I don’t see myself onstage.”

Woos and spoken-word poetry snaps of support came from some audience members, but many simply stared as they continued.

Some laughed.

“This is our house, our shared house,” actress and black woman Adrianne Embry said in the piece.

“And what happens to each of us in our house happens to us all.” * * * The protest’s model came out of a movement in Chicago theater called #NotInOurHouse, which was created to address sexual harassment and abuse in the industry. The IU version was called “Not in Our Haus,” a reference to one of the season’s productions, and was expanded to include more student concerns — race chief among them.

Some students in IU’s department say the department has mishandled issues of race and gender and deprived them of equal educational opportunities, but a recent push toward a more progressive approach through casting, production details and independent student projects is trying to correct that.

IU Theatre’s selected shows tend to be ones that traditionally let white men actors shine, such as this season’s “Hamlet” or other Shakespeare productions, or 2017’s “Peter and the Starcatcher,” which featured 17 roles for men and only one role for a woman.

Students of color have had limited options for meaningful stage roles, frequently cast as ensemble members or roles with few lines.

Plays with more than one person of color, such as last fall’s “Barbecue,” give students the opportunity to tell stories not focused on the white experience. But they’re outnumbered by more traditional choices, such as

The costumes of an ensemble member, Queen Gertrude and King Claudius, designed

by Justin Gannaway, stand in the costume design studio in the IU theater building.

The cast of “Hamlet” stands on stage Dec. 3 during the first act. Director Jonathan Michaelsen cast more women than men for this production of “Hamlet.”

this fall’s production of “Hamlet.”

Considerations for the play selection process include the university’s Themester and the needs of actors in the graduate program. IU’s productions are chosen through a committee composed of faculty members and two students from the department’s Student Advisory Board, who consider proposed plays and eventually carve the list down to the season’s shows.

These considerations, some students say, have left them behind.

“I came here completely blindsided,” Embry, a senior, said. “I didn’t know I was going to be a token.” * * * Room A200 of the Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center looks more like a high school gym than a Danish castle, with its wooden panel floors, tape demarcations of marks and imaginary coffins.

When “Hamlet” finally makes it to its destined stage in the Ruth N. Halls Theatre in December, the set is complex and evokes the disjointed mood that director Jonathan Michaelsen is aiming for. But for rehearsals, a rectangle of four tables with mismatched chairs was enough to be the Danish royal castle, Elsinore.

While the original play only has two women characters, this production’s cast has more women than men. For the purpose of this production, these originally male roles have been gender-swapped to fit the actors, such as M.F.A actor Glynnis Kunkel-Ruiz playing Horatio and associate professor Nancy Lipschultz playing Polonius.

Another gender-swapped character is Norwegian crown prince Fortinbras, who appears after the Danes have all met their end by way

of stabbing or poison or poisoned stabbing.

He hangs over most of the play, a threat of a foreign conqueror that becomes a reality by the end of the story when there’s not much left to conquer. It’s not a big role and in some productions, the character is omitted for the sake of a shorter run time.

In IU Theatre’s production, Embry will play the traditionally white male role.

“Fortinbras is a trained soldier, and she is ready to act,” Michaelsen said to the cast while discussing some of the gender changes in the show before the first rehearsal As the production’s cast goes around the table to introduce themselves, she is the only black person in the room. The production’s only other black actor, Kenny Arnold, wasn’t at the first rehearsal.

Arnold is playing the priest and the ghost of Hamlet’s murdered father, appearing only as a voice over and a lighting effect for the latter. Like Fortinbras, both roles have limited lines in the play.

Most of the lines in the play go to Hamlet himself, played by M.F.A actor Michael Bayler. A baseball cap covers his blond hair during most of the first rehearsal as Bayler’s voice fills the room for hours.

Embry crossed her arms and rested her head on them as Hamlet and Horatio spoke to the ghost of the murdered king, waiting for her turn. * * * Fortinbras is a Scandinavian prince and military leader originally written for a 400-yearold play based on a medieval legend. Embry is a 22-year-old black woman who grew up in an Indianapolis area so surrounded

by gun violence it inspired her to write a play she’s hoping to stage next semester as an independent project, which has the working title “Chariot.”

At first, she had no idea how she was going to relate to the role.

It takes time to get to a point of connection with your character, and with some it just doesn’t happen.

Her first role in IU Theatre was in the play “Nice Nails,” which was written by one of the then-playwriting graduate students. Embry played an African immigrant named Nomfundo who worked in a nail salon.

The character’s recurring joke was that she didn’t know how underpaid she was. At one point in the show, she asks: “Minimum wage? What is… minimum wage?”

Embry just felt stupid in the role.

She describes roles like that as feeling like someone else’s skin is stretched over her face instead of settling into the character.

She originally auditioned to play Gertrude or Ophelia, but Michaelsen chose her to play Fortinbras instead — a daunting task for her to sink into a role so unlike herself. She watched three different “Hamlet” productions to see how other actors embodied Fortinbras: all three were white men who leaned into the authoritative nature of the role.

Playing Fortinbras didn’t really click for her until one day before rehearsal. She was listening to Houston rapper Megan Thee Stallion, known for songs such as “Big Ole Freak” and for coining this past summer’s social mediadominating catchphrase “Hot Girl Summer.”

Megan is all confidence and precision in her songs, with a mix of attitude and structure that has catapulted her to an up-and-coming class of musicians in a genre famously inhospitable to most women artists.

In “Freak Nasty,” the song Embry was listening to while driving to rehearsal, Megan raps: “And I walk and I talk like a pimp, ‘cause I am.”

Then, it clicked in Embry’s head: If Fortinbras was a female rapper in 2019, she would be Megan Thee Stallion.

Now, she sees Fortinbras being portrayed by a black woman as fitting.

“If that is not the world...how I view black women, we’re strong,” she said. “We carry shit.” * * * In a side room on the second floor of the theater building, those working in the Costume Shop for “Hamlet” are tasked with a big job: making the production accessible to modern audiences.

Costumes in theater are more than just clothes, they’re intensely purposeful choices. In large theaters, when individual facial expressions can be difficult to see in detail, costumes do a lot of the work of shaping how characters are perceived.

“Hamlet” was originally written sometime between 1599 and 1602, but costume designer Justin Gannaway, who is designing the SEE THEATER, PAGE 10

Excerpts from the Not in Our Haus protest Each line was spoken by a different one of the actors, with some lines being said by multiple actors or the whole cast for effect.

“I am Indiana University’s Department of Theater, Drama and Contemporary Dance.”

“I love my department.”

“This is our home.”

“This is our house, our shared house, and what happens to each of us in our house happens to us all.”

“I support the right of every student to an equal education.”

“I want to strive for excellence so that every student can succeed.”

“I know we can do better, because every community can always do better.”

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

“I experience discrimination.”

“I feel my experience in life is not equal to that of other people.”

“I feel my experience in this department is not equal to that of other people.”

“I experience microaggressions, not only outside the department but within it.”

“Not only within the department but outside it.”

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Editors Ally Melnik and Greer Ramsey-White arts@idsnews.com

WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY AT SIXTH ANNUAL YULE BALL

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Top A couple dances Dec. 13 in Alumni Hall in the Indiana Memorial Union. The Yule Ball was a Harry Potter themed dance full of numerous performances and activities.

Full Frontal Comedy builds improv community

Middle Matt the Knife works to get himself out of a straightjacket Dec. 13 in Alumni Hall in the Indiana Memorial Union. Matt was one of several performances during the Yule Ball.

Bottom First year grad student Abhigya Agrawal smiles for a photo Dec. 13 in Alumni Hall in the Indiana Memorial Union. The event had a photo booth, stuffed animal station and dance floor for attendees to enjoy.

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Full Frontal Comedy cast members perform a show in the Indiana Memorial Union.

By Reagan Walsh ramwalsh@iu.edu

Many people probably wouldn’t think about getting up on stage to perform in front of a large crowd, let alone in a show where they don’t even know what they are going to say before they start.

For members of Full Frontal Comedy, this feeling is all too familiar.

Founded in 1994, IU’s longest running comedy group on campus, Full Frontal Comedy, specializes in sketch, improv and musical improv comedy. There are 10 troupe members: eight are undergraduates, one is a law student and one is a master’s Jacobs School of Music student, who plays improvised music throughout the show that corresponds with the acting.

Junior Josh Levy had done standup comedy in high school, but was new to improv when he first joined the group in the spring se-

mester of his freshman year.

This year, only one of the three new members had no experience with improv, but there is a wide array of experience that ranges among the members. Levy said the group doesn’t look for the funniest people in the auditions, but those who are the most coachable and can fit in with the culture of the troupe.

“The most difficult part of improv is usually just getting started and building that initial confidence on stage,” Levy said. “It can be really scary as a freshman on stage having to improvise a song, so building that initial confidence to commit to a scene or joke and trust that the group will back you up and support your bits no matter what takes some getting used to.”

Each show consists of a beginning sketch, followed by three or four short-form games.

The short-form games are short scenes

based on audience suggestions. The show continues with a long-form portion featuring a montage, a group of closely related scenes based off an audience suggestion or an improvised musical, where the group will ask for a fake name of a musical and perform it on the spot.

Levy said sometimes the group will perform a nightmare, where the group will have an audience member describe their day and the troupe will act it out as a nightmare.

Practice takes place twice a week and is led by a different person each week based on seniority. The troupe will spend half an hour talking and joking in order to bond and set the tone for the practice. Then, the group begins warm-ups, short-form games and then anything else the person leading would like to practice for the show that weekend.

Levy said he likes how close-knit the troupe is.

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“The troupe is like a family to many of us, and although we already spend a minimum of four hours together a week due to practice, we’re very often hanging out with each other throughout the week and on weekends,” Levy said.

“It’s a great support system, and we all love each other very much.”

Freshman Riya Patel found out about the group randomly one Friday night.

Her and her friends heard laughing coming outside the room, so they decided to go inside.

“I like their originality,” Patel said. “Coming up with things on the spot is crazy hard and to do it in front of a room full of people is even harder. I don’t know how they don’t run out of funny things to say.”

Full Frontal Comedy performs at 9 p.m. Fridays.

Follow them on Instagram @fullfrontaliu for show updates.

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“Fleabag” play screened at IU Cinema on Saturday

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The IU Cinema building is an art, film cinema that is located next to the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center.

By Claudia Gonzalez-Diaz clabgonz@iu.edu

Before the TV show “Fleabag” won three Emmy awards in 2019, it started as a onewoman play first performed in 2013 at the Edinburgh festival.

This past Saturday, the IU Cinema screened the play “Fleabag” live from London.

It is one of many shows in the National Theatre Live series.

The house managers for Saturday’s screening were Will Eltzroth and Jaicey Bledsoe. It served an audience of around 180 people, with many more in London.

Jessica Davis Tagg, the assistant director of Events, Facilities, and Guest Services at IU Cinema commented on the significance of the screening.

“With the show ‘Fleabag’ winning so many Emmys in 2019, it seemed like the perfect time to revisit Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s one-woman show,” said Tagg.

“Fleabag” was written and performed by Phoebe WallerBridge, who also wrote the televised version for BBC as well as “Killing Eve” starring Sandra Oh. The play was directed by Vicky Jones.

As the lights focused on a single chair in the middle of the televised stage, out ran Waller-Bridge from backstage.

She promptly sat on the chair, ready to begin her monologue.

The play opened with Fleabag attending a job interview, which ended poorly

due to personal statements unfit for a first meeting.

Quickly, viewers realized Fleabag constantly offers personal statements about her life. In fact, she established a friendship with the audience built on detailed explanations about her life.

Fleabag speaks openly and explicitly about sex, indicating throughout the play that she used it to cope with trauma. Specifically, the death of her best friend Boo, her mother’s cancer and her struggling café.

As she jumps from one anecdote to the other, Waller-Bridge’s rapid emotional changes and jumping memory sends the audience from cackling laughter one moment, and painful sorrow for Fleabag the next.

“It almost feels like a standup routine, but then seconds later it punches you in the gut,” said Alyssa Brooks, Events and Operations Assistant.

While Fleabag is the only physical character on stage, she describes key friends, family members, hookup partners and regulars at her guinea pig café, drawing the boundaries of her social world. She is the only testament to her character and life story, and since the play presents a single perspective, the audience is left to ask: how are we supposed to read Fleabag? Is she overconfident or masking deep insecurities?

Why does she feel so alone?

For fans of the television show “Fleabag,” this play demonstrates inspiration and background for the characters in the TV series.

“It gives such insight into where she started when fleshing out the other characters for the show,” Brooks said. “You see a little more of the dark, dirty side of the character.”

The play’s climax exposes Waller-Bridge’s ability to turn a hilarious joke into a deep emotional revelation. Fleabag hooks up with a man at her café, who mistakes her pet guinea pig Hilary for a rat. As the crowd roars with laughter, the man kicks the guinea pig across the room twice, nearly killing it.

Fleabag, alone now, held the imaginary guinea pig to her chest, scratchily breathing, and crushes it to death. It scarily reminded her of her friend Boo’s accidental suicide, which she attempted after Fleabag slept with her boyfriend.

The play ended with a second interview for Fleabag, making the same mistake of discussing shortfalls in her resume to the interviewer, on a light note.

Brooks said there are parallels between Waller-Bridge’s original play and TV show.

“Whether you’ve watched Waller-Bridge’s series or not, the play is a valuable part of the Fleabag cinematic universe,” Brooks said. “Live theater lends so much silence and space for her to land jokes and spark our imaginations.”

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Finding a guide for the classic Nintendo fighting game

By Declan McLaughlin dsmclaug@iu.edu | @dickyMclaughlin

The clicks and clacks of GameCube controllers normally fill the apartment of Ishtvan Erdelyi during one of his Super Smash Bros.

Melee bootcamp sessions.

The two players duking it out on the 18-year-old platform fighter normally don’t speak, but sometimes the sound of intelligent dance music or classical piano ballads from Bach plays from Erdelyi’s bluetooth speaker.

If he is one of those players fighting for supremacy on the screen, he has probably dismantled his opponent before the eight minute timer is up.

Erdelyi, called Isti by his friends, is a fixture in the Bloomington Melee community.

He’s known for his training sessions organized at his apartment and for being one of the top players in the IU scene. Now a senior at IU, he not only tutors math but also Melee to players who are willing to come over and train.

“If you go over to his house, it’s just Melee for hours and hours,” IU senior Robert Iannuzzo said.

Erdelyi started these sessions, dubbed “isti bootcamp” to educate other players and practice himself. He invited players in the IU community over to his apartment in the summer of 2018, usually over Facebook or at the local IU tournaments.

During the school year, these sessions last about four hours. But during breaks in the semester, there are times where seven hours pass with only pauses to eat, drink or talk about the game.

Josep Han, a senior at IU and another frequent bootcamper, said one time they stopped during a session to drink coffee at 3 a.m. to help stay awake.

“It’s just a period of time where we just become degenerates and play Melee till dawn,” Han said.

While this marathon of gaming might seem garish to some, it’s not only conducive for learning the game but also acts as a mock tournament for the players. At big regional tournaments players can play for 12 hours, sleep, then come back for another 12- hour day of competition.

But just because Erdelyi wants to teach, it doesn’t mean he’ll take it easy on his opponents. He regularly

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defeats bootcampers with three or four lives left to spare. In Melee, you have four to begin with.

“It’s demoralizing sometimes,” said Han. While fighting and losing against Erdelyi, Iannuzzo said he will sometimes smack his hands against his legs and shakes his head while calling himself stupid.

“I don’t think I’ve ever been destroyed like that when I was trying before in my life,” Iannuzzo said.

“This is what it takes to get better.” * * * Erdelyi played Melee with his brother growing up but only started taking the game seriously in 2015.

He entered his first tournament in 2015 at a local area network center, a complex with computers or consoles connected directly to each other to mitigate the delay of a wireless internet connection, in Noblesville, Indiana.

Before Melee caught his

attention, Erdelyi played Halo competitively for five years. He started with an eye toward competition on the third installment of the space shooter but quit the game in 2012.

“I’m not a super gamer,” Erdelyi said. “I only play one competitive game at a time, and now it’s Melee.”

Han and Iannuzzo both started on their fighting game journey with Project M, a modified version of the third installment of Smash that made the ingame movement more akin to Melee. Once tournament organizers stopped running the game, the duo had to switch to Melee.

Melee is notoriously tough for new players, with the technical aspects being the first barrier of entry. For reference, the best character in the game, Fox, an anthropomorphic fox and space pilot, can break six inputs a second.

That’s six buttons pressed, a flick of c-stick on the GameCube controller, or a direction input on the

control stick in a second.

The second barrier is the amount of history.

Melee is old enough to be drafted into the military and was treated as a competitive game almost since its launch on Nov. 21, 2001.

Coming into a tournament after only playing against the computer or your older sibling, people find out very quickly how much they don’t know.

Most flame out early in the double elimination format tournaments not having won a single game.

“Literally everyone ever when they go to their first tournament they get 0-2ed and just get destroyed,” Iannuzzo said. “Everyone ever.”

This can be discouraging to newer players and often causes them to quit the game. This is what Han was experiencing his sophomore year after not getting the results he wanted in the IU scene.

Han was starting to give up on the game before he was invited by Erdelyi to a bootcamp session. When

the offer was extended, he thought Eredlyi was joking.

“I was just a teeny guy that barely broke top 20 while he was top two,” Han said.

Han still plays Melee and attends local IU tournaments while traveling to bigger events in Illinois with Erdelyi.

“I was really lucky to meet a person like him,” Han said. * * * Erdelyi is still a student of the game and sees the time he takes to talk to his sparring opponents helpful to his play.

He also frequents Smashboards, a discussion forum for Smash that has been around since 2000.

He discusses the game with players that also use his character, a sword-wielding fighter with blue hair named Marth, as well as the now-retired professional Melee player Kevin “PPMD” Nanney.

“PPMD is secretly public

access,” said Erdelyi.

PPMD runs two Smashboard threads, one for discussion about Marth and his other main character Falco, an anthropomorphic bird that is a part of Fox’s crew. The former pro has critiqued Erdelyi’s matches before over his stream on Twitch.tv and given him feedback on how to improve his gameplay in certain situations.

“You can basically write him a five-page essay, which I do about some Melee ideas,” Erdelyi said. “And then he’ll respond back with another five-page essay.”

While Erdelyi may be a level above the players he has mentored, there is still a level above him that can beat him just as soundly as he does to them. And then there’s another level above that.

“The game never ends, the better you get the more it opens up stuff about it,” Erdelyi said. “Melee’s beauty doesn’t really reveal itself until you put some effort in and look for it.”

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Excerpts from the Not in Our Haus protest, cont.

“I’ve been told the department should cater only to the majority of its students.”

“I performed in a work in which many of the lines were homophobic or racist slurs.”

Isabelle Gardo, left, bows her head during a tense scene with Anna Doyle Dec. 3.

Gertrude and Ophelia are the only characters in the play originally written as women.

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show’s wardrobe for their M.F.A. in Costume Design, says they always design for 2019.

“I don’t ever judge the success of a design until I’ve heard from millennials about it,” they said. “I design for our generation.”

Gannaway and M.F.A Costume Technology stu-

dents Ellis Greer and Madi Bell spent hours stitching and sewing fabric to create Gannaway’s vision on the many dress forms, the mannequin-resembling blank canvases for the costumes that fill the room.

In Shakespeare’s time, men portrayed women on stage. Now, in a production with an unusually high number of women on stage, the modern take is mostly

Michael Bayler and Glynnis Kunkel-Ruiz perform a scene Dec. 3 during dress rehearsal.

Kunkel-Ruiz, who is a woman, portrayed the traditionally male character Horatio.

manifesting itself through representations of gender.

As a non-binary person, exploring gender is a recurring theme in Gannaway’s design work.

Fabrics with feminine touches such as floral flourishes have made their way into masculine roles; Claudius, Hamlet’s uncle who murders his brother and marries the Queen Gertrude in his ascension

to the throne, wears a black and red floral print coat throughout the show. Other costumes for men have lace detailing along collars and sleeves.

For Kunkel-Ruiz’s Horatio, one of the genderbent characters, Gannaway’s original design featured a bustle under a coat to create an hourglass silhouette in Hamlet’s confidante. During the fitting, Kunkel-Ruiz was

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“It’s not feeling right for me, because I feel like Horatio is non-binary,” she said to Gannaway.

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JONAH’S JUSTIFICATIONS

Bloomberg’s campaign is proof that money buys influence in US politics Jonah Hyatt is a junior in political science and philosophy.

Another billionaire is attempting to buy the U.S. presidency. Former Mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, has announced he is running for the Democratic presidential nomination and has since received nothing but fawning coverage from mainstream media outlets, such as Meet the Press host Chuck Todd touting him as a “very serious contender.”

Despite the glamorous appearance portrayed by the media, Bloomberg’s campaign is a complete media fabrication due to the millions of dollars he is funneling into his hollow presidential run.

Not only is Bloomberg extremely unpopular with no support base in the Democratic party, his pathetic attempt at appearing relevant is solely due to self-financing his own campaign — not through individual donations or grassroots fundraising.

No other presidential candidate with his same political positions and record would ever get treated with such praise and support from the media.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT, has the biggest grassroots support base in the primary race with the most individual donations and most diverse base of any candidate, yet mainstream media outlets choose to ignore his campaign, treating him as if he has already lost the race.

This is because fundamen-

tally, candidates like Sanders are change candidates.

Bloomberg is the antithesis — he is the status quo candidate.

According to the breakdown by FiveThirtyEight on how much each democratic candidate is spending on television ads, Bloomberg is ahead by a mile. Bloomberg comes in first, spending a total of $53 million. Tom Steyer is in second, spending $48 million, and Sanders comes in third, spending only $4 million on television ads.

This is proof that billionaires are just trying to buy legitimacy. Bloomberg and Steyer are using their enormous wealth to prop up their own campaigns because their fragile egos can’t bear to let them flop as hard as some of the other no-name corporate shills running for the democratic nomination.

When looking at total spending on ads, Bloomberg has outspent every other democratic candidate in the race, having just surpassed $100 million spent. No candidate should be allowed to selffund their own campaign — these are corporate oligarchs trying to buy the presidency.

Adding to Bloomberg buying influence through ads, he is treated as a candidate on the rise by those in the media.

Donny Deutsch on MSNBC called him “a beast” while Stuart Varney on Fox News argues that Bloomberg will win the 2020 nomination.

Besides being delusional and out of touch with the vast majority of Americans, the favorable coverage of

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Presidential candidate and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at a campaign event held at Trail Coffee Roasters in downtown Stockton. Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs formally endorsed Bloomberg at the event.

Bloomberg is largely due to how much influence he has with Bloomberg News and the many other large corporations he owns.

Voices in the media are much less likely to be critical of Bloomberg, especially if Bloomberg News or another company of his could potentially be a future employer.

Not to mention Bloomberg’s conservative approach to politics is very favorable to the mega-wealthy, which includes most political commentators.

Without his wealth, Bloomberg is a failed candidate. There is not a single policy of his that would

help the average American.

Bloomberg is infamous for his petty crackdown on sugary soft drinks and banning food donations to the homeless in New York City as well as for supporting the racist and ineffective policy of stop-and-frisk.

Bloomberg ran as a Republican when running for mayor, but he did not become a registered Democrat until 2018. When looking at his policy positions, he comes across as any standard Republican.

Bloomberg has said that marijuana legalization is “perhaps the stupidest thing anybody has ever done” and

raising taxes on poor people is a “good thing.” At this rate, Bloomberg should just run as a Republican against President Donald Trump.

To protect his ego further, Bloomberg has given himself plausible deniability if he loses the nomination by skipping the first four contests and jumping into the race on Super Tuesday. This way, when he loses, he can blame his loss on not entering soon enough.

No politician should be able to buy legitimacy by self-financing. This is a prime example of the corrupting influence of money in campaign finance. It is

imperative that Americans push for the public financing of elections through something such as a campaign voucher system like Democracy Dollars in Seattle.

We cannot allow the political discourse to be dictated by wealth. It should be focused on policy and competing political philosophy.

No amount of ad buys can amount to genuine grassroots support,but because of the media’s emphasis on impostor candidates like Bloomberg, It gives voters the impression of legitimacy. hyattj@iu.edu

OPINION

Centrist Democrats are drawing the wrong conclusions from the UK Kyle Linder is a junior in journalism.

Thursday’s United Kingdom election ended in disaster for Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party and delivered the Conservative party, led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a powerful majority in Parliament. In the United States, politicians and party strategists shared the lessons that they learned in Labour’s defeat.

“Look what happens when the Labour Party moves so, so far to the left,” former Vice President Joe Biden said at a Thursday night fundraiser.

Voting patterns, polls and recent history suggest that Biden and other moderates are learning the wrong lesson for 2020.

Centrist Democrats are characterizing the Tory victory as a wholesale rejection of Labour’s left-wing platform.

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Rep. John Delaney, D-Md., joined the frontrunner in expressing this sentiment.

Bloomberg called the results

a warning for the Democratic Party in 2020, while Delaney released a statement saying that it “proved that mainstream voters will not embrace an extreme economic plan.”

Obviously, these primary contenders have a clear interest in drawing such conclusions. If they can convince Democrats that Labour lost because it went too far left, then they may be able to bleed support from the campaigns of progressive Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., .

By a slim margin, the U.K. voted to leave the European Union in 2016. Over three years later, and it’s still in the E.U. That is likely to change now that the Conservatives hold 365 of Parliament’s 650 seats, placing them comfortably in the majority.

Johnson and the Conservatives cemented Brexit at the center of their campaign, promising to finally reach a deal, leave the E.U. and bring stability back to British politics. Corbyn and Labour, meanwhile, devoted significantly more attention to their

economic proposals, such as nationalizing major utilities.

Under a similarly radical platform, the Labour Party fared much better in the U.K.’s 2017 election. At that point, they deprived the Conservatives of an outright majority, won 40% of the vote compared to the Conservative’s 42.4% and added 30 seats.

This alone disputes the narrative that Labour’s left-wing policies led to its downfall in 2019, but it fails to capture the whole picture.

The Brexit vote divided Labour’s constituency and left them attempting to appease supporters on both sides of the “Leave/Remain” debate.

In 2017, Labour campaigned on honoring the results of the E.U. referendum, preferring to seek a favorable, workeroriented deal with Europe. In 2019, however, the party took a slightly bolder stance. They promised to reach a deal with the E.U. and then put it back to the British public for a second referendum.

“Who is going to negotiate it?” Johnson asked during a BBC debate with the Labour Party leader. “Because as far

as I can see everyone on the Labour front bench is campaigning for ‘Remain’ apart from Mr. Corbyn, who is neutral on the matter.”

Johnson’s argument attracted “Leave” voters that traditionally supported Labour. In Thursday’s election, the Conservatives managed to flip 54 Labour seats. The vast majority, 52 of them, had voted “Leave” in the 2015 referendum. Losing a total of 59 seats, this constitutes the bulk of Labour’s defeat and highlights the differences surrounding Brexit between 2017 and 2019.

The prime minister made a convincing case to this bloc of voters, claiming that Labour took its support for granted and that Corbyn was now attempting to reverse its vote to leave the E.U. The results reflect his success.

Labour’s historic defeat cannot be attributed to Brexit backlash entirely; Corbyn was also a deeply unpopular candidate. The U.K. pollster Opinium asked former Labour voters who backed the Conservatives to list why they did so. The poll found that

45% cited party leadership, while another 31% switched due to Labour’s Brexit stance.

Only 6% voted Conservative because of Labour’s economic proposals.

In areas that voted “Leave,” reservations about the party’s leader and a suspected Brexit double-cross compounded into a nightmare scenario for Labour.

While the party’s vote share decreased from 2017 nationwide, it hemorrhaged seats where residents supported leaving the E.U. Compared to the 52 seats lost to the Conservatives in such areas, Labour lost only eight seats and gained one in pro-“Remain” constituencies.

Without the context of Brexit and Corbyn’s personal unpopularity, the observation that voters rejected Labour because they moved “so far to the left” does not withstand scrutiny and lacks useful application in the U.S. American politics, for all of its divisions, has no equivalent to Brexit threatening to permeate the 2020 election. Sure, the question of impeachment will dominate

headlines and appear prominently in stump speeches and debates, but its support is split along party lines. This is quite unlike Brexit driving a schism between two factions of the Labour Party.

Additionally, progressive candidates in the U.S. do not share many of Corbyn’s liabilities. Both Warren and Sanders have positive favorability ratings, and neither have been enmeshed in substantive political scandals. This is in contrast to Corbyn, who faced accusations of anti-Semitism throughout his campaign.

Moderate Democrats are wrong to believe that the election’s results vindicate their position. There are certainly lessons to learn in Labour’s defeat, but polling and voting patterns do not substantiate the claim that the party went too far left for the electorate’s liking. Centrist candidates would do well to debate their progressive counterparts on even ground, abandoning whatever self-serving hunch they feel about the U.K.’s election. kylinder@iu.edu

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Excerpts from the Not in Our Haus protest, cont.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 Gannaway agreed, and the bustle was gone. Horatio’s final costume features a long coat belted to create a shape that’s feminine without being an hourglass, existing somewhere between the exaggerated shapes of the noblewomens’ dresses and the stark masculinity of the play’s military outfits.

In a theater like the Ruth N. Halls, with rows of seats extending into the back of the house, the designs have to say something about the character both when seen by close-up audience members and ones sitting further back.

For Fortinbras’ modified military uniform, the gold chaining coming down from Embry’s shoulder adds another layer of ornamentation to the accomplished soldier.

But it also helps build the character: Embry has narrow shoulders, and the gold highlight on the navy fabric helps form a more authoritative, masculine silhouette on stage.

Embry loves the costume. She likes to keep the shoes her characters wear because they make her walk differently for each — she said Fortinbras’ boots, which give her a heavier step, make her feel badass.

But her favorite part of the costume is the gold chaining on the shoulder.

“If that doesn’t say boss bitch,” she said, “I don’t know what does.” * * * Taking a modern approach to a centuries-old play exemplifies a debate that runs along a generational divide through theater, both in IU’s department and nationally: why continue to produce the classics?

While Gannaway has embraced this production’s genderbending, they say the cause of it – the original lack of roles for women – along with the mistreatment of Ophelia and Gertrude by the source text can’t be forgotten.

“As theatricians and de-

“Men in this department have always tried to control my body.”

“I don’t see myself onstage.”

“What can we do to make things better?”

“We can produce shows which represent more of our students.”

“We can more strongly recruit people of different experiences to our department, both students and faculty.”

Embry acts out her final scene as Fortinbras, entering on stage as the Danes lay around her.

signers and tastemakers, we have to have those conversations,” they said. “At some point, we have to consider: do we phase these classics out?”

Embry was Shakespeareaverse for a long time; she didn’t see herself in those shoes, because actresses who look like her didn’t often get to be in them.

“The goal of this project is to embolden a positive shift of culture in which every student feels supported,” wrote department academic adviser Kim Hinton in a 2018 email planning the Not in Our Haus protest. Hinton died earlier this year from a pulmonary embolism at age 47.

Now, over a year after the Not in Our Haus protest, students are still trying to achieve that goal while acknowledging the original protest was ineffective.

“We got the same results as if we didn’t even do it,” Embry said.

Now, students of color within the department are trying a new technique: making their own opportunities. Embry is the copresident and co-founder of Black Brown & Beige Theatre Troupe, after encouragement

from theater professor Ansley Valentine.

The troupe, which was formally started this fall, is planning different ways to elevate student performers of color starting next semester: a showcase, a partnership with the Black Student Union, collaborating with prominent student theater troupe University Players, an independent production of Embry’s play, “Chariot,” and a production of the play “The Colored Museum” by George C. Wolfe.

Some of these are dependent upon departmental approval — some applicants get higher priority and better chances at departmental approval, such as M.F.A projects or University Players productions.

Embry said that if the department wants to be inclusive, the Black Brown & Beige Theatre Troupe should have a spot on that list.

“This is a university that, and especially this theater building, loves to claim that we’re so diverse and inclusive,” she said. “It’s like, okay.

Make sure my troupe gets to put on these stories.”

“We can more strongly support student created theater.”

Kenny Arnold portrays a priest Dec. 3 during a dress rehearsal. Arnold is also the voice of the ghost and an ensemble member in this production, and he is the only other black person in the production besides Embry.

* * * Fortinbras is the character who says the last lines, a lament for Hamlet’s death and for the state of affairs in Denmark, as she arrives to take over.

Each time Embry walks on stage as Fortinbras to see the slain Danes, she said she can’t help but think: you white folks messy. Let me help you out.

While Fortinbras is a minor character in the production, she exists largely

as a foil for Hamlet: Hamlet’s fatal flaw is an inability to take action, and Fortinbras is all action.

“For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune,” she says as she orders those left to now serve her.

In the last moment in the production, before the cut to black and the cast takes a bow, Embry takes centerstage and looks out toward the audience as Fortinbras becomes Queen.

The rest of the stage is dark.

Now, the light is on her.

“We can stop producing shows that center the white male experience.”

“We can examine when it’s our story to tell.”

“Even when done with good intentions.”

“And we can step down when it’s not our story to tell.”