Tuesday, April 4, 2017

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Tuesday, April 4, 2017

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WINNING HIS TRUST IU Athletics Director Fred Glass didn’t just judge Archie Miller’s performance on the court when he chose him to be the next men’s basketball coach. He also considered how Miller would act in the face of serious situations off the court, like sexual assault allegations against a player on his team.

Poets read for undocumented By Cody Thompson Comthomp@umail.iu.edu | @CodyMThompson

President Trump sent an email urging supporters on Monday to sign a petition that would defund sanctuary cities. The email claimed Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been cracking down on sanctuary cities, or cities that allow undocumented immigrants as residents and help them avoid deportation, but the city of Seattle is slowing Sessions’ progress by suing the administration. On the same day the email was sent, UndocuHoosiers Bloomington started an event by passing around a tablet with its own petition to create a staff position at IU that supports undocumented students. The event was called UndocuPoets: Resistance through the Arts. It was in a garage-style building with exposed ceilings and a concrete floor and featured two poets who read their work relating to undocumented activism. “President Trump’s always going to do a lot of crazy stuff,” said Willy Palomo, co-founder of UndocuHoosiers Bloomington. “This isn’t something shocking or something sanctuary cities aren’t prepared for.” The poets were Janine Joseph and Christopher Soto, who went first. He set a chair up on a raised wooden platform and set his laptop

on the table in front of him. His poems varied in length and theme, but some of them included immigration, gender, race, sexuality and incarceration. At the conclusion of his first poem, about half of the room snapped and the other half clapped. “And I have been marching for Black Lives and talking about the police brutality / against native communities too, for years now, but this morning / I feel it, I really feel it again,” said he, reading from his poem titled “All The Dead Boys Look Like Me.” Boxcar Books was selling works by the poets and other writers at the side of the room, which was nearly full. The crowd began to murmur with approval after Soto concluded his poems. “This border — is not a stitch [where nations meet]. This border is a wound // where nations part,” he read from his poem “Self Portrait as Sonoran Desert.” During his performance, rain began to fall on the metal roof, so he had to raise his voice over it before it quickly stopped. Soft yellow light lit the back wall and turned the poets into silhouettes to the audience. He finished his reading and stepped down. He went to Joseph, whispered something in SEE POETRY, PAGE 6

By Jordan Guskey jguskey@indiana.edu | @JordanGuskey

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ew IU Coach Archie Miller’s résumé showed he could win. It showed Miller could inspire his players, become the face of Indiana basketball and lead the program toward its sixth national championship banner. But there was one variable Fred Glass considered that received less fanfare. Miller could handle significant legal situations involving his student-athletes. Two separate players, one in 2012 and the other in 2015, were investigated for allegedly committing sexual assaults while Miller coached at the University of Dayton. With the help of a search firm based in Atlanta, Glass decided Miller handled both cases appropriately. “Nobody can guarantee that a young person on their team is not going to get in trouble,” Glass told the Indiana Daily Student. “All they can do is guarantee that they’ll handle those situations appropriately.” University of Dayton took the lead. The allegations weren’t hidden within the team. They weren’t hidden within the athletic department. This wasn’t Baylor University, where the law firm Pepper Hamilton found

numerous instances of institutional failure in regards to how Baylor University handled sexual assault cases, leading to the university’s president demotion and later resignation, in addition to the athletic director’s resignation and the football coach’s firing. This wasn’t Penn State University, where the mishandling of child sex abuse cases saw the football coach fired and the university’s president and athletic director both depart. Glass wouldn’t consider a candidate’s coaching abilities if the coach couldn’t prove he cared about honoring the sensitivity of sexual assault investigations. “I wanted to hear ... from his lips to my ears that he understood the importance of those being handled by the institution through the Title IX process as opposed to within the athletic department or the basketball program,” Glass said. Neither case during Miller’s tenure resulted in criminal charges against the then-Dayton Flyers players, but both Matt Kavanaugh and Dyshawn SEE MILLER, PAGE 6 GREG GOTTFRIED | IDS

Above photo Archie Miller and IU Athletics Director Fred Glass shake hands after the press conference announcing Miller as the new head coach of IU men’s basketball.

Trump budget cuts may affect Bloomington’s most vulnerable By Molly Grace mograce@indiana.edu | @mollograce

Hoosier Hills Food Bank is full of ceiling-high stacks of boxes full of tortilla chips, mountains of cereal boxes, piles of canned beef ravioli and baked beans. Hoosier Hills served more than 100 agencies last year and distributed almost four and a half million pounds of food across Monroe, Brown, Lawrence, Martin, Orange and Owen counties. But next year, this warehouse’s shelves may be emptier. Its staff may be shorter. Its reach may be smaller. The food bank and many of the agencies that rely on it may lose a vital source of their funding. President Trump’s “America First” 2018 budget proposal plans to eliminate the Community Development Block Grant program, a $3 billion annual federal grant allocated to communities around the country. The grant allows those communities to serve vulnerable populations. However, the proposal said the grant “is not well-targeted to the poorest populations and has not demonstrated results.” Bloomington will allocate a total of $700,000 to various agencies this year, thanks to CDBG. The 10 agencies in Bloomington that have been approved for it will receive what may be their final year of funding from the grant in June.

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The directors of several recipient charities say it is going to be difficult to make up for the loss of the grant. The city’s most vulnerable residents will likely be the ones hit hardest by this cut. “We hope that there’s no way in the world it would pass this way, but we’ve been hoping all kinds of other things that we didn’t think would happen in the last six months,” said Vicki Pierce, executive director of Community Kitchen. The food insecurity rate in Monroe County is 17.8 percent, which is 2.4 percent higher than the national average, according to Feeding America, a non-profit that aims to end hunger in the United States. It’s even higher for children in Monroe County: 20.8 percent. Food insecurity is a United States Department of Agriculture term that refers to limited or uncertain access to adequate food. Community Kitchen is one of the organizations currently trying to figure out how it will cope if the budget is passed as written. In addition to a daily meal service that provides hot meals to those in need, Community Kitchen has a variety of programs that benefit children, which includes ones that keep low-income kids fed throughout the weekends and during the summer. More than half of the people served by the organization’s various programs are children, Pierce said. The problem is the children’s

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Food insecurity rate in Monroe County is higher than Indiana, U.S. average President Trump’s proposed budget would affect support for those with limited or uncertain access to adequate food. In 2014, 17.8 percent of Monroe County’s population was affected by food insecurity. Monroe County Indiana

17.8%

15.3%

U.S. 14.7% SOURCE FEEDING AMERICA 2014 DATA GRAPHIC BY EMILY ABSHIRE | IDS

programs are the most expensive of all the services they provide. “All of our other programs exist because they’re reaching the most vulnerable populations: children, seniors and people who are chronically ill,” Pierce said of the programs outside of their meal service. “Who do you throw out in that equation? There’s no winner.” Community Kitchen, like many of the other organizations that receive CDBG funding, uses the “social service” portion of its funding to SEE BUDGET, PAGE 6


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