Friday, Aug. 26, 2016

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Friday, Aug. 26, 2016

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BPD finds gun stash From IDS reports

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Elizabeth Sensenstein, co-owner of the Bea’s Soda Bar, talks to customers during last year’s Bloomington Pride Summerfest on Aug. 29, 2015. Both Sensenstein and her business partner are gay and they decided to come to support LGBT rights. “It’s a great place for everyone to come and do that together,” Sensenstein said. This year’s annual events begins at 3 p.m. Saturday.

Pride fest is back, see pg. 4 Crean moderates panel at mentoring event By Katelyn Haas haask@umail.iu.edu | @khaas96

IU men’s basketball Coach Tom Crean stood in front of a gym full of Bloomington residents and offered up a dinner in his home as the starting auction item in the Man Up to Make a Difference fundraising event Thursday. Crean introduced a panel discussing what it means to be a man in society today and a fundraiser benefitting the Passport to Manhood male mentoring program run by the Boys & Girls Clubs of Bloomington. Among the panel members were Kevin Kelly, director of scouting for the San Diego Chargers; Ron Helmer, head coach of IU track and field; Dan Burke, assistant coach of the Indiana Pacers; and Anthony Thompson, former IU football player and current assistant athletic director for engagement and sports performance. Jeff Baldwin, executive director of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Bloomington, opened the event. He listed multiple statistics supporting the need

“If we do not have the caring mentors in our lives, we’re in trouble. Getting a kid to that next level requires us to give the attention and care to realize their potential.”

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Jeff Baldwin, executive director of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Bloomington

for positive role models in young people’s lives and how their influence contributes to success later in life. “If we do not have these caring mentors in our lives, we’re in trouble.” Baldwin said. “Getting a kid to that next level requires us to give the attention and care to realize their potential.” The proceeds of the event go directly to Passport to Manhood. Dennis Laffoon, mentor for the program and member of the Boys & Girls Clubs board of directors, said it is designed as a rite of passage for young boys.

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Tom Crean, IU men's basketball coach, gives a speech during the "Man Up to Make a Difference" event hosted by the Boys and Girls Clubs of Bloomington on Thursday.

Throughout the panel, the five men discussed not only what they look for in their team’s athletes, but also what they look for in young people to mentor. Crean moderated the panel and asked the four athletic professionals about educating

youth and leading them toward the path they need to be on to succeed in sports and life as a whole. “I look for a good attitude,” Thompson said. “Because there are

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Dillon Smith, an Asian Culture Center member, creates the schedules Thursday for the new tutors in the center’s office. These volunteers help tutor students who need assistance with speaking English, dealing with cultural differences and assisting anyone who needs guidance.

help them. “We’re not a service where people come in and say, ‘Do this homework for me,’” Smith said. “We want to empower people. We’re not trying to do it for them, but just give them the right direction.” That direction has evolved through the years from a language program to one that addresses other cultural differences as well.

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“There are more issues than just the language barrier,” Smith said. “There are cultural issues, for example, and that can be emotional for some people. They feel like they’re not meshing into the culture very well or there’s some kind of clash that’s going on, and they don’t

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each volunteer to sign up for one to five hours during the same time or times each week. Traditionally, the ACC posts the collective of volunteer hours, and students seeking advice may casually walk in during those times. The tutoring service is not a structured class, Smith said. Rather, it’s flexible for whoever walks through the door and whoever is willing to

Hoosiers to get 2 graduate managers IU will have two new graduate managers on the sideline when the 2016 season begins, and while they’ll both be working toward the same goal, they couldn’t have taken more different routes to the coaching world. Ten-year WNBA veteran Mistie Bass and former Maryland video intern Eddie Praley were announced as additions to IU Coach Teri Moren’s staff Tuesday. Bass went to two Final Fours as a player with Duke and won a WNBA Championship with the Phoenix Mercury, while the 23-year-old Praley has bounced around in several coaching and student manager roles despite his young age. Praley, a native of Annapolis, Maryland, said he reached out to IU about working for the team at the end of last season. He said he was a huge fan of the basketball culture in Indiana and said he liked what he saw from Moren and her team when Maryland played IU last season. “The passion, the way she coaches her girls up — it was very infectious, even sitting all the way up in the stands watching them play while I was recording the game,” Praley said. “You could tell she had a lot of fight in her.” Praley’s main role will be helping with video scouting, though he will also be looking to absorb as much information as possible from IU’s more experienced coaches, he said. “One day I’d like to get into coaching, but right now I’m just taking it day-by-day and learning as much as I can,” Praley said. “I went after this position because I felt like it gave me a good foundation of learning about how to build a program.” Bass will bring more than a decade of high-level college and professional experience to the table, which she said she is thrilled to share with the Hoosier players.

Asian Culture Center welcomes tutors, peer support A handful of green volunteer applications waved in the hand of Dillon Smith, an Asian Culture Center graduate assistant Thursday evening. Each page had the signature of a volunteer who had applied to tutor Asian and Pacific Islander students as part of the ACC’s Peer Support Service and English Tutoring Service orientations. Smith said he is happy to give anyone an orientation while he is in the center and he hopes more people will attend the next round of sessions scheduled for 1, 4 and 5 p.m. Sept. 1. The program is set to kick off for the semester Sept. 12. Last year, the ACC program operated with 19 volunteers, many of whom Smith said were interested in linguistics, speech and hearing sciences and second language studies. One of the students interested this year is Kevin Phan, a freshman in second language studies who had never been to the ACC before his orientation for the volunteer program. Phan said he plans to teach English in Japan someday and saw volunteering with the program as beneficial in several ways. He is excited to gain practice before jumping into the career, meet new people and give back to the IU community. Seated in the ACC lobby’s blue chairs, Smith asked Phan if he was certain of his schedule. Phan said while he was comfortable with his classes, he worried club commitments would conflict with his tutoring availability. Smith said the program asks

Bloomington police discovered a Taurus .357 Magnum, a Marlon .22-caliber semi-automatic long rifle and a J. Stevens double barrel shotgun in the home of Joshua Wilbur at approximately 11 a.m. Wednesday. Indiana State Police obtained a search warrant after receiving a report from a credible source of possible illegal activity from Wilbur. However, ISP were unable to execute the warrant at the time, so BPD executed the warrant and searched Wilbur’s home. All of the weapons were discovered in Wilbur’s bedroom. The weapons were not hidden or concealed and were lying in the bedroom. At the time of the search, Wilbur was in open court. Community corrections had called him in to investigate after a credible source called in to them. Wilbur was convicted for dealing methamphetamine in 2013, according to BPD records. Now, after the discovery of weapons in his residence, he has been remanded on new charges of weapon offense.


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