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Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017 | Indiana Daily Student | idsnews.com

Ex-IU admin sentenced on child porn charge By Jack Evans jackevan@indiana.edu | @JackHEvans

A former IU administrator who pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography received a two-anda-half year sentence Monday but will likely face no jail time. Jon Riveire, who worked in the Office of Student Ethics from 2011 to 2015, will be eligible for home

Parker sentenced for death of toddler

detention for the first year of the sentence and will then be on supervised probation. Riveire was arrested in May 2015 after a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children led to police finding more than 30 images of child pornography on his computer. He was fired immediately. He was charged with six counts

of possessing child pornography and pleaded guilty in November to one of those counts. The state, believing one charge would be sufficient, dropped the rest. During Monday’s sentencing, Riveire, speaking often of his family, testified. “I have put them through a version of hell,” he said. He focused on his two young

children, whose lives he said will never be as good as they could have been had he not committed the crime. He choked up as he told Judge Marc Kellams about how his children are too young to understand what is happening, but that he knows he will someday have to tell them about his pornography addiction.

“I’m dreading the school assignment that says, ‘Google your parents and write a research paper on your parents,’” he said. He and his wife are in the process of divorcing, and he is moving out of their home in advance of his name being placed on the sex offender registry, he said. SEE RIVEIRE, PAGE 5

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By Taylor Telford ttelford@indiana.edu | @ttelford1883

SPENCER, Ind. – They saw no path to true justice here, no way to undo the damage, so they settled for putting an end to things. Owen County Circuit Court Judge Lori Quillen accepted a plea deal Monday for Kyle Parker and sentenced him to 60 years in prison for the kidnapping and brutal murder of 15-month-old Shaylyn Ammerman last spring. “Many of us in this community wish we could give you the death penalty,” Quillen said as she delivered the sentence. “What I wish I could do as a parent and a member of this community versus what I should do as a judge are in conflict with each other.” In an unscheduled hearing Feb. 3, Parker pleaded guilty to one count each of kidnapping and murder. As part of the agreement, brokered by Owen County Prosecutor Donald VanDerMoere and Parker’s attorney, Jacob Fish, the other charges, including rape, strangulation, child molestation and failure to report a body, will be dismissed. “You took my loving, sweet and beautiful daughter away from me,” Shaylyn’s mother, Jessica Stewart, read from her statement to Parker. “You stole her from all of us and I hope you live with guilt and torment for the rest of your life.” Parker, 23, sat silently in shackles with his head shaven, his glasses on and his back to the court. In past statements to police and to the judge, Parker described how on March 23, 2016, he had stolen Shaylyn from her crib in her grandmother’s house in Spencer, Indiana, and driven her to rural Gosport, Indiana. At some point on the drive, Parker pulled over and raped the little girl in SEE PARKER, PAGE 5

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A panel of college athletics experts, including NCAA executive Oliver Luck, left, and IU Athletics Director Fred Glass, discussed the future of college athletics Monday evening in the School of Global and International Studies Building auditorium.

Panel broaches issues in college sports By Andrew Hussey aphussey@indiana.edu | @thehussnetwork

College athletics have come under fire in recent years. The debate about paying athletes has become more intense, and many legal challenges to the concept of amateurism have been brought through the court system. However, at a panel on the future of college athletics Monday, several experts in the field remained confident sports at the collegiate level will continue to prosper. The School of Public Health was host to a panel in the Global and International Studies Building Auditorium to discuss many of the hot-button issues facing the

NCAA. The panel included IU Athletics Director Fred Glass, NCAA Executive Vice President Oliver Luck and School of Public and Environmental Affairs professor Jayma Meyer. Meyer teaches V450: Sports Law and Public Policy at SPEA, and she moderated the discussion. With the changing media environment and legal challenges that strike at the heart of the college athletics, Luck remained resolute that college athletics will survive and thrive moving forward. “We’ve faced threats over many, many years, but if we take a step back and look at what are, in my mind, the two most important pillars of college athletics, which is No. 1 education and No. 2 is

amateurism,” Luck said. “Those are two very important pillars, and those have survived 150 years.” Glass said college athletics wasn’t going anywhere any time soon even though the future is uncertain with issues of financial sustainability and changing media consumption habits. “An advantage that sports have in this environment is people want to consume it live,” Glass said. “That’s why these media rights deals are so big.” Luck said college athletics are in a healthy place and promote values that are timeless. One legal question that has continued to surface in recent years is the amateur status of student-athletes. A multitude of

former college athletes have brought suits trying to challenge this concept, and litigation is pending in many of these cases. Glass said he likes to use a different phrase for amateurism especially when given the demands on student-athletes and the money college athletics earn. Glass has called it the “collegiate model” because he said it captures the educational side of college athletics better. “If we give students money over and above that which reimburses them or at least arguably reimburse them for their costs, then we kill the goose that’s laying the golden eggs,” Glass said. “You take the SEE PANEL, PAGE 5

Violinist Joshua Bell talks new frontiers of classical music By Emily Jones emkjones@indiana.edu | @emkkjones

In a room high above Third Street, two dozen students in the Jacobs School of Music found their places around a table. Conversation was hushed as the head seat — reserved for Grammy-winning violinist and IU alumnus Joshua Bell — remained empty. Then Bell entered the room with a Diet Coke in hand to dish out advice and insights about the changing landscape of classical music. In the midst of a busy touring season, the virtuoso violinist stopped in to reflect on the importance of forging new connections with artists. “Playing the same concerto with orchestras a hundred times is fine,” Bell said. “I’ve been blessed to be making a living that way. However, at this point in my career it’s important to expand my repertoire and reinvent what I’m doing.” Five years ago, a significant step in this direction came after London’s Academy of St. Martin in the Fields announced a directorial opening. Bell stepped up to the plate, but with a twist: He began leading the orchestra from his chair as concertmaster, or first violinist. Since taking on the leadership position, Bell said he has enjoyed covering eight out of nine Beethoven symphonies. “You’ll meet people who will take

you in directions you never imagined if you just put yourself out there,” Bell told the musicians. “We’ll all be successful on some level, but this is the time to get out of your comfort zone.” For much of his professional career, the Bloomington native and IU graduate has been doing exactly that. In 2016 Bell, a self-proclaimed tech and gaming fanatic, paired up with Sony PlayStation to create a virtual-reality demo performance. With an add-on headset, he said users can experience his music in 3-D surround sound as if the performance were unfolding before their eyes. Bell said this could offer potential for classical music to reach a broader audience. In the future, he’s hopeful the virtual reality software will allow him to stream concerts from his home in Manhattan, New York City, his venue of choice, and allow thousands to get an intimate experience. The violinist’s projects don’t end in the tech field. With close ties to Hollywood, Bell has made cameo appearances in Amazon’s “Mozart in The Jungle” series and filmed skits for Julie Andrew’s “Julie’s Greenroom,” a Netflix childrens’ series. Beyond the film industry, Bell has taken up the role as a cultural diplomat of sorts by joining a team of artists – including the Dave Matthews Band and Smokey Robinson – on former President Barack Obama’s mission to share music in Cuban

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Violinist Joshua Bell signs autographs with students after a roundtable discussion. The discussion was open only to Jacobs School of Music students, who were able to eat lunch and ask the musician questions.

schools. Bell, who has performed with artists such as Aerosmith and Sting, said classical music still faces stigma from other genres. He illustrated this with an unfortunate Grammy moment. “Rosie O’Donnell was like,’ what’s

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your name again?’ and told the audience we were ‘four guys you’ve never heard of,’” Bell said, referring to his performance of “Death By Triple Fiddle” in 1999. “Those are things you put up with.” The audience laughed. As for staying grounded, Bell said

immersing himself in fields aside from music is key. “Sometimes you get so wrapped up in the sphere you inhabit and it feels like it’s the only thing that exists,” Bell said. “But hanging around actors, scientists – that gives you perspective.”

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