Tuesday, April 18, 2017
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Rape reported in Collins By Kelly Evans evanskn@indiana.edu | @Knickele5
The IU Police Department received a report of rape at Collins LLC on Sunday. IUPD Lt. Craig Munroe said the incident involved two IU students who were acquaintances before the incident. He said this case involves the issue of consent. When asked to elaborate further, he repeated the statement. This report, unlike a separate alleged rape taking place just days ago, did not incite a crime or safety notification from the department. “IUPD didn’t feel there was any threat to the public,” Munroe said. The investigation is ongoing.
BALANCING ACT
Instructor remembers former IU professor By Christine Fernando ctfernan@indiana.edu | @christinetfern
Jackson Heights, New York, was where former IU professor Elliot Sperling was happiest, where he mingled with countless Tibetans. It was also where Sperling died and where he left an unfinished book and unfinished translations among the walls of bookshelves in his apartment. “He wasn’t done,” said Sara Conrad, Sperling’s student, an IU graduate and a current IU instructor. “He had so much more to give, and he was so ready to give it.” Sperling, an IU Tibetan studies professor, died of a heart attack in January 2017. He was 66 years old. During the past two months, professors, activists, students and scholars gathered throughout Australia, Europe, Asia, the United States and Canada to mourn Sperling, a leading Tibet scholar and human rights activist. Sperling was born Jan. 4, 1951, in the Bronx, New York City. After
IU community works to balance free speech, inclusive culture By Hannah Boufford hbouffor@umail.iu.edu | @hannahboufford
When controversial social scientist Charles Murray came to campus April 12, students, faculty and community members picked up their bullhorns and signs for a non-violent protest of his speech. Police officers brought their riot gear and zip ties in case the planned peaceful protest turned violent. Provost Lauren Robel and others in Bryan Hall watched the protesters fan out across the path at the Sample Gates. Across the country, controversial speakers like Murray are catalyzing the debate between free speech and more correct speech, that keeps marginalized students from feeling attacked. At Middlebury College, a similar situation occurred where protests turned violent and Murray’s speech was cancelled. Protesters at IU said Murray’s speaking on campus stretches past the speaker to the University’s disrespecting minority students. The IU administration said the protests went from protecting marginalized students to shutting down
the ideas of an academic institution — free speech and critique. "There are many ways an academic institution, especially a state institution of
“People who think the right response of an academic institution to a speech that is controversial or that people disagree with, people who think that the right response is to shut down the speech, I just profoundly think that’s wrong.” Lauren Robel, IU provost
Student. “We can do what IU’s Political and Civic Engagement Program did: teach and discuss. Or do what the scholars who scrutinized The Bell Curve’s social science did: interrogate the reasoning, or the evidence, undergirding the claims, and disprove them if they are wrong.” Inside Presidents Hall last Tuesday, Murray spoke about the new upper class SEE BALANCE, PAGE 5 VICTOR GAN | IDS
Top Conservative social scientist Charles Murray gives a talk to students and faculty members at IU the evening of April 11 in Presidents Hall. Murray is known for his book “The Bell Curve,” and his recent appearances at the University of Notre Dame, Middlebury College and other schools have led to protests and in some instances have led to physical violence. ANDREW WILLIAMS | IDS
higher education, which is bound by the First Amendment, can react to controversial speech,” Robel said in an opinion editorial published in the Indiana Daily
Bottom Protesters gather around Franklin Hall to chant in protest against social scientist Charles Murray during his speech the evening of April 11 in President’s Hall. Controversy arose in the student body upon discovery that Murray had been invited to speak at IU.
SEE SPERLING, PAGE 5
WOMEN’S TENNIS
First-year assistant at IU back coaching at alma mater By Dylan Wallace dswallac@iu.edu | @Dwall_1
After spending plenty of his childhood lying on his couch watching the Hoosier basketball team play in Assembly Hall, IU women’s tennis assistant coach Ryan Miller now has an office in the arena he dreamed of being in as a kid. Miller was named an IU assistant Jan. 20 after former head coach Lin Loring retired after 40 years with the program and his 24year assistant, Ramiro Azcui, took over as the head coach. Growing up in Washington, Indiana, Miller lived down the street from former IU basketball star Cody Zeller and his family. Miller’s dad, an IU graduate and IU football season ticket-holder since the
mid-1980s, made his son a Hoosier at heart. Miller started to play tennis during middle school and played in high school with current NBA player Tyler Zeller. He said his late start to picking up tennis was due to a bad knee injury he suffered playing baseball when he was 10. “I thought I should get into something that’s a little easier on my knees, not knowing tennis is terrible for your knees,” Miller said. “But I ended up falling in love with it.” After his freshman year of high SEE MILLER, PAGE 5 COURTESY PHOTO
Right IU women’s tennis assistant coach Ryan Miller sits and talks with sophomore Madison Appel during a match.
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