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IU Senior Michele Loughlin was a member of the IU RedStepper Dance Team. Loughlin was kind, funny and always able to lighten the mood, her friends said.

‘Being around her made you smile’ Friends celebrate the life of Michele Loughlin By Kaity Radde kradde@iu.edu | @kaityradde

Michele Loughlin was kind, funny and always able to lighten the mood. She didn’t take things too seriously, but she was ambitious and an incredibly hard worker. She was the kind of person who never seemed to have a bad day, who wanted to make sure everyone around her was happy and who was always willing to help out a friend. “Being around her made you smile and made you laugh, and she was always 100% herself,” Kennedy Payne, one of Michele’s teammates on the RedSteppers dance team and a rising senior, said. Michele, a 21-year-old IU student from New Jersey who had just finished her junior year, died May 23. She was pursuing a degree in International Studies and was a member of the Russian Flagship program. As a Cyber ROTC cadet, she trained alongside other cadets and conducted research in cybersecurity. Michele was a lifelong dancer and a member of the IU RedStepper dance team during her freshman and sophomore years at IU. She stopped dancing for the RedSteppers during her junior year to focus on ROTC, but she remained friends with her teammates. She also worked at Malibu Grill as a server. At the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow during high school, she discovered her interest in international

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Grace Berger joins roster By Patrick Felts patfelts@iu.edu | @patrickjfelts

IU women’s basketball senior guard Grace Berger was named to the USA Basketball roster for the 2021 FIBA Women’s AmeriCup in Puerto Rico, the team announced Sunday. The tournament will be Berger’s first time representing the U.S. in international competition. Berger, a first team All-Big Ten selection in 2019-20 and 2020-21 and an USBWA AllAmerican Honorable Mention last year, was the Hoosiers’ second leading scorer last season, helping lead the Hoosiers to their first ever Elite Eight appearance. Berger is one of ten players from last year’s team returning to IU for the 2021-22 season. The 2021 Women’s AmeriCup tournament will be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from June 11-19, and consists of the top ten national teams from North America, South America, Central America and the Caribbean. The tournament is held once every two year and the United States team is composed exclusively of collegiate players. The event is a qualifying tournament for the FIBA Women's World Cup and the Olympic Games.

relations, according to a statement she wrote on the Russian Flagship Program’s website. She planned to serve in the U.S. military and aspired to one day become the first woman Secretary-General of the United Nations. Ally Kilzer, an IU 2021 graduate, was one of Michele’s RedSteppers teammates. During Michele’s sophomore season, their coach assigned the team into families of four women led by upperclassmen, and Kilzer was the leader of Michele’s family. Kilzer said Michele was quiet and reserved, but hilarious. “She was someone you kind of had to listen for,” Kilzer said. “She’d say little jokes or comments underneath her breath, and if you could hear them, she was really funny.” Payne remembers that Michele could always laugh at herself, too. At one windy football game their coach had recorded, the wind knocked Michele over, and Payne said they’d rewatch the film and crack up laughing. At a football game in November 2019, Michele was sworn in as an ROTC cadet. It was a moment when two of her worlds touched — her RedSteppers teammates got to be there on the field to support her for her swearing in, since they performed at the game. Erin Stone, an ROTC cadet and friend

of Michele, said Michele was a joy to be around. She said ROTC can be a lot of male energy, and she loved the little things she got to do with Michele, from getting their nails done and browsing DSW to having wine nights together. “She was really, really determined to be excellent at anything she did,” Stone said. She wanted to excel in everything from her academics to her cybersecurity internship to her ROTC training, Stone said. One example Stone gave was when they had to go shooting for ROTC and Michele couldn’t get her sight lined up. Michele read an article by a Green Beret and followed its advice — got an eye patch, put chapstick on her nice glasses — to improve her shooting. Stone said one year, Michele rented Serendipity for her boyfriend’s birthday and flew his family out to see him. “She would do anything for the people she cared about,” Stone said. Chris Consales, a Cyber ROTC cadet and friend of Michele, said he was one of the first people in ROTC to have a chance to meet Michele during their freshman year. They met when a recruiting officer told him about a potential new cadet. They talked for a while about the program, and after she joined a short while later, they became close friends.

Consales, who is studying International Law and Arabic at IU, said he and Michele had a lot of overlapping courses and academic interests in addition to ROTC. Consales described ROTC as a journey cadets go through together, helping each other through highs and lows of school and training. Michele was easy to work with and a great teammate, he said. “She was a really good teammate, a really good peer, but an even better friend,” Consales said. Michele’s RedSteppers teammates remember her coming to practices talking about the intense workout she had done that morning for ROTC. As the RedSteppers would start their own workout, they would marvel at how hard Michele worked, with her days sometimes starting at 3:00 a.m. Kilzer asked her how she did it. “She would just giggle and keep going,” Kilzer said. Payne, too, remembers her as an incredibly hard worker. “She was so determined. She grew up doing ballet her entire life, and then she came to college and explored so many new, different avenues,” Payne said. Stone said she wants people to remember how strong Michele was, how hard she worked and how deeply she cared for the people around her.

Tuition to be increased by $112 By Carter DeJong cadejong@iu.edu

The IU Board of Trustees voted eight to one in favor of a 1% increase in tuition and fees for the 2022 fiscal year. This is an increase of $112 in tuition per year for undergraduate students in Bloomington. The increase will take effect in the fall 2021 semester. Tuition rates for out-ofstate students increased at a higher rate of 2% each year over the next two years. This would mean an increase of around $1500. For graduate students, rates will increase by 1.5% each year over the next two years or around $300 total for in-state students. Out-of-state graduate students will see a 2.5% increase each year for the next 2 years for a total of around $1600 total. “We must ensure that an IU education is not only excellent but also affordable to every citizen in the state,” IU President Michael McRobbie said. The cost of personal protective equipment, contact tracing and mitigation testing combined with loss of income from athletics

MEN'S SOCCER

Captain Spencer Glass to return By Evan Gerike egerike@iu.edu | @EvanGerike

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The Sample Gates appear Jan. 11. The IU Board of Trustees voted 8-1 Wednesday in favor of a 1% increase in tuition and fees for the 2022 fiscal year.

and refunds for housing, amounted to a loss of over $200 million, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer John Sejdinaj said. The main reason for the increase in tuition was to offset losses suffered from the university due to the pandemic, Sejdinaj said. With the increase, IU still has a more competitive price than most of the other schools in the Big Ten Conference, according to data from Sejdinaj. Compared with other schools in Indiana and in

the Big Ten Conference, IU’s tuition is very competitive, Sejdinaj said. Despite increases in tuition, total student debt has decreased by 37% for in-state students since the 2011-2012 school year, Sejdinaj said. During the meeting, four graduate students asked why a raise in tuition was being proposed without considering their pay. “In order to preserve the university and open up in the midst of a pandemic, the costs of doing

that were substantial,” Chair of the IU Board of Trustees Michael Miro said. The board plans to increase the minimum wage for IU employees to $15 an hour. However, this only applies to full time employees, Sejdinaj said. “The conundrum is that basically the only way to raise revenue is to raise tuition since the government is increasingly less involved in our income,” Vice Chair of the IU Board of Trustees Patrick Shoulders said.

IU men’s soccer senior Spencer Glass will return for a sixth season next year, he announced Thursday on Twitter. Glass, a team captain in the 2021 spring season, suffered a season-ending leg injury against Michigan on March 27. Despite missing the last eight games of the season, Glass led the Hoosiers with five assists. He was named FirstTeam All-Big Ten and United Soccer Coaches Third-Team All-American. He was also named to the preseason MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List. Glass has played in 72 games for IU, including starting 35. He has nine career goals and 21 assists. Glass will be returning to an IU team that reached the National Championship before falling 1-0 to Marshall University in overtime.

IU to offer incentives for vaccines By Phyllis Cha cha1@iu.edu | @phyllischa

To incentivize students, faculty and staff to submit documentation of their COVID-19 vaccination us-

ing IU’s self-report form, IU is offering prizes to those who submit a proof of their vaccine. From the weeks of June 7 to June 28, winners will be selected randomly at

IU to win up to $500 in their choice of gift cards, vouchers, dining credits or prizes, according to IU’s website. Winners will be randomly selected each

Thursday on each of IU’s campuses, IU Studios Communications Consultant Justin Whitaker said in an email. SEE INCENTIVE, PAGE 5

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Redshirt senior Spencer Glass passes the ball March 15 in Bill Armstrong Stadium.


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