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WEDNESDAY , FEB. 4, 2015
IU loses to No. 5 Badgers
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John Mellencamp performs on stage during his tour Tuesday at the IU Auditorium. The current tour is to promote his new album “Plain Spoken.”
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John Mellencamp performs at IU Auditorium By Adam Smith adbsmith@indiana.edu | @adbsmithIU
The kick drum used by John Mellencamp’s drummer had a simple message written on it. On top was the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee’s name, and below, a sign of the pride he has for his hometown, “Bloomington, Ind.” John Mellencamp performed in front of a crowded IU Auditorium on Tuesday for the first of two shows at the venue. The Bloomington rock legend is currently on an 80-night tour of
North America that started in South Bend on Jan. 21 and will end in Indianapolis on Aug. 4. The tour is in support of his latest album, “Plain Spoken,” which was released in September 2014. To open the show, Carlene Carter, daughter of June Carter Cash, granddaughter of “Mother” Maybelle Carter and stepdaughter of Johnny Cash, took the stage by herself with just an acoustic guitar to play a 10-song set. Her most recent album, “Carter Girl,” which was released in 2014, is what she described as a compilation
of Carter family songs. “I finally wanted to get around to doing a tribute to my family,” she said. The ninth song Carter played in her set, “Me and the Wildwood Rose,” was a song she had recycled from her 1990 album, “I Fell In Love.” The song talks about Carter’s childhood growing up in the backseat of a big, black Cadillac and watching “Mother” Maybelle Carter perform from the side of the stage. When the song ended, she SEE MELLENCAMP, PAGE 6
From Wisconsin’s first possession, the game plan was obvious. Get the ball inside. Then do it again. Repeat until victory. After winning the opening tipoff, Wisconsin dumped the ball in to 6-foot-8 forward Nigel Hayes, who scored easily. On the next two Badger possessions, 7-foot center Frank Kaminsky had little trouble pushing his way to the rim and scoring. Then Wisconsin kicked it out to Hayes, who hit a wide-open 3-pointer. It was a 9-0 Badger run. No. 5 Wisconsin (20-2, 8-1) found little difficulty throughout the rest of the game on its way to an easy 92-78 win against IU (16-7, 6-4). “The only issue I have within the game is that we didn’t challenge them with the passing, within the post,” IU Coach Tom Crean said. “We know we’re small. We have got to be absolutely scrappy.” The Hoosiers weren’t scrappy enough. Possession after possession, Wisconsin pounded the ball inside, using its size to overpower a small IU team. The strategy worked primarily through Kaminsky and Hayes, who combined to score 39 points on 14-of-17 shooting. Kaminsky — the front-runner for Big Ten Player of the Year and a Wooden Award finalist — scored a game-high 23 points. The loss was IU’s 13th in a row in Wisconsin’s Kohl Center, a streak dating back to 1998. The Hoosiers have been beaten by an average of 13.7 points per game during that span. Freshman guard James Blackmon Jr., the Hoosiers’ leading scorer this season, was held out with an ankle injury he suffered late in Saturday’s game against Rutgers. Crean said Blackmon was a game-time decision. “James tried,” Crean said. “He definitely tried. It was a matter of what he could deal with, pain-wise.” Nick Zeisloft started in Blackmon’s place and scored a teamhigh 17 points. The junior guard shot 5-of-9 from 3-point range. In the end, it didn’t matter how much the Hoosiers scored. The IU defense simply couldn’t slow down Wisconsin long enough to make it a contest. IU put together a 30-10 run late in the second half, but it was far too late. Crean said the late run was more frustrating than promising — a glimpse of what could have been. “I know I should probably be more politically correct right now and say, ‘Hey, what a great comeback,’ but that’s not what we’re trying to do here,” he said.
BFC discusses purpose Obama to speak in Indianapolis of higher education From IDS reports
By Ashleigh Sherman aesherma@indiana.edu | @aesherma
The Bloomington Faculty Council discussed the purpose of higher education at a meeting Tuesday. The BFC discussed a resolution addressing the American Association of University Professors Centennial Declaration. The AAUP works to advance academic freedom and shared governance and define higher educational values and standards, all to ensure higher education’s contribution to the public good, according to the AAUP website. In light of the AAUP centennial, the association recently released the AAUP Centennial Declaration, which affirms the main purpose of institutions of higher education is to contribute to the public good, not to the good of the institution or the good of an individual
faculty member affiliated with the institution. Broken into 10 points, the declaration states the primary mission of institutions of higher education is teaching, followed by researching and addressing social disadvantage. The declaration further states an individual faculty member should teach, research and address social disadvantage to disseminate knowledge and foster creativity, not to make a profit for the individual faculty member, the institution of higher education or a third party. The declaration also states faculty should use information and communication technologies to improve the quality of teaching and research, not to degrade the quality of teaching and research by reducing faculty-student SEE BFC, PAGE 6
President Obama will be visiting Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis on Friday. Logistics of the visit have not been released, but the president plans on discussing middle class economics. Obama has been using the phrase to describe his fiscal policy for the remainder of his presidential term, which includes tax cuts for parents, increases in higher education tax credits and adjustments to federal student loan payments. “We are honored to welcome President Obama and look forward to hear more on his plans for the middle class as we believe here in Indiana that Ivy Tech Community College is the key to rebuilding the middle class,” Ivy Tech President Tom Snyder said in a release.
SEE OBAMA, PAGE 6 PRESIDENT OBAMA SPEECH 2:15 p.m. Friday, Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis Livestream at whitehouse.gov/live
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President Barack Obama answers questions from constituents at Millennium Steel in Princeton, Ind. on Oct. 3, 2014, National Manufacturing Day. Obama will be visiting Indiana again Friday.