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Schedule announced for new season By Cameron Drummond cpdrummo@iu.edu | @cdrummond97
Too Juul for school
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FDA considers regulations as teen vaping increases By Caroline Anders
Yearly use of electronic vaping products by Indiana 12th graders
High schoolers hotbox their moms’ cars with mango-flavored clouds, working up the energy to face the first bell. Discarded flavor pods litter parking lots. Juul culture has descended upon Indiana and the rest of the country. This year’s Indiana Youth Survey found nearly 30 percent of Indiana high school seniors reported vaping in the last month. This is a 45 percent increase compared to the survey’s 2017 findings. “People do it in class, people do it in the bathrooms, people do it in the halls,” Carmel High School junior Sean Burgess said. “You just wouldn’t believe it.” The Food and Drug Administration commissioner released a statement Wednesday calling youth use of the Juul and other vapes an “epidemic” and announced a new “enforcement blitz” to keep the products out of teens’ hands. Notices sent to five leading ecigarette manufacturers Wednesday morning, including Juul Labs, require the companies to submit action plans to curb underage use within 60 days. Failing to do so could result in e-cigarettes being pulled indefinitely from shelves nationwide. Across the state, high schoolers and college students alike have taken to vaping, especially using the Juul, a sleek, USB driveshaped vaporizer with the same nicotine concentration crammed into one JUULpod as an entire
Percentage of students
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pack of cigarettes. “The sad thing is, when people start I don’t think they do it for the nicotine,” Bloomington High School North senior Christian Gettelfinger said. “They just get hooked on it.” Juul Labs markets its product as a satisfying alternative to cigarettes for those trying to quit smoking. Though the company plasters warnings all over its packages and website, the elegant little devices are sneaking their way into high schools nationwide. “It’s all from the Juul,” Homestead High School senior Ashley Federoff said. “It’s just easy to get ahold of.” Federoff looked over during her AP Calculus exam last spring to see a boy she’d known since elementary school taking rips
from his Juul. She also knows guys who schedule time out of their day to go to the bathroom and curb their nicotine cravings together. Roncalli High School senior Ben Schwab said freshmen ask him to buy them pods all the time. Across high schools, minors lean on older siblings and peers as suppliers. “It’s kind of the same thing as alcohol,” Schwab said. “But it’s probably a lot easier to go into the gas station and say, ‘Oh I forgot my ID,’ and get away with buying a little tobacco product than a bottle of vodka.” Federoff said it’s easy to see who’s buying and selling pods – just look for Venmo transactions labeled “Mango” or “Cucumber,” two popular flavors. Though Schwab doesn’t know
anyone his age who smokes cigarettes, Federoff said some of her peers started out with the Juul and moved on to cigarettes because of the cost. “The pods get expensive, so if they can’t buy pods, they’ll buy cigarettes,” she said. This contradicts the mission posted on Juul Labs’ website. “We did not create JUUL to undermine years of effective tobacco control, and we do not want to see a new generation of smokers,” the website reads. “We believe JUUL can accelerate cigarette displacement.” Munster High School junior Sophie Hand found someone’s Juul — with their name carved in it — in her study hall. She said her teachers have started putting the school’s no-tolerance policy for vaping in their syllabuses. Sophie’s twin brother Ben Hand said he’s seen plumes of vapor in certain bathrooms in the school during lunch or between classes. “I do think it needs to be addressed because there’s really no reason for it,” Ben Hand said. “It’s a distraction from the school day because you have kids leaving class to hit their Juuls.” As school administrators grapple with the new and discrete device, different policies have sprouted up across the state. The Monroe County Community School Corporation’s spokesman Andrew Clampitt said the district has a strict ban on any kind of vaping or smoking in schools. SEE JUUL, PAGE 6
The IU men's basketball season is just around the corner, so now Hoosier fans can begin planning their visits to Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall and time in front of the television accordingly. On Sept. 6, the Big Ten Conference announced the tip-off times and television designations for games under league control during the 2018-19 season. The announcement came as part of the release of IU's 2018-19 men's basketball schedule. Hoosier Hysteria will be at 4 p.m. Sept. 29 in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. An IU Athletics release said more information about the event will be available in coming weeks, but the IU women's basketball program already announced it will raise its 2018 WNIT Championship banner during the women's basketball portion of the event. IU will play only one men's basketball exhibition game prior to the start of the regular season. The exhibition will be against the University of Southern Indiana on Nov. 1. Prior to the start of Big Ten play, IU will play seven nonconference games, five of which are in Bloomington. Chicago State, Montana State and Marquette will all come to Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in early November, while the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of California at Davis will visit during the second half of the month. In road nonconference play before the start of Big Ten season, IU will travel to Arkansas on Nov. 18 and Duke on Nov. 27. Like all other Big Ten teams, IU will play one home and road conference game between Nov. 30 and Dec. 6. IU will play Northwestern at home Dec. 1 and play at Penn State on Dec. 4. Nonconference play finishes for the Hoosiers with marquee matchups against Louisville in Bloomington and Butler in Indianapolis as part of the Crossroads Classic. The Hoosiers also face Central Arkansas and Jacksonville in late December. The remainder of the season features the Hoosiers traversing the Midwest for Big Ten action. IU will not play any night games Saturday or Sunday during its conference schedule. IU plays Purdue at 2 p.m. Jan. 19 in West Lafayette, Indiana, before the two teams meet again in Bloomington at 7 p.m. Feb. 19. Other notable conference matchups include games against defending regular season conference champion Michigan State on Feb. 2 and March 2, as well as against conference tournament champion and national runner-up Michigan on Jan. 6 and Jan. 25. Senior day for IU will be at noon March 10 against Rutgers. SEE BASKETBALL, PAGE 6
New production mixes Steve Jobs biopic with opera By Robert Mack and David Brinson arts@idsnews.com
“The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs” is an opera which begins with the man responsible for the creation of smartphones telling the audience to put them in their pockets. Jobs wants the viewers to look up. Look out. Look around. “I like to think of it as an exploration of what genius is, what is its inspiration and how did a man who changed the way we think, how did he interact with people?” director Kevin Newbury said. “How did he think about the world?”
The opera will open at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 14 at the Musical Arts Center. It is a new production for the Jacobs School of Music. Several West Coast theaters are co-producing the play, including the Santa Fe Opera, where it premiered, as well as the Seattle Opera and the San Francisco Opera. Newbury said he first heard of the project over a dinner with his longtime friend, librettist Mark Campbell, who told him he was writing an opera about the iconic entrepreneur. “As soon as I heard that, I said ‘It’s mine,'" Newbury said. "I want to do it. Don’t talk to anyone else about it. I must direct it."
Days away from their premiere, Newbury shows no signs of stress or worry. He runs around like a kid on a playground, climbing over seats and laughing with the other people around him. As the lights go down and one of their final rehearsals begin, he shouts, “Let’s do this, kids!” As the title indicates, "The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs” explores how Steve Jobs changed himself and changed the world. It’s a story about love of others and of oneself. ANDREW WILLIAMS | IDS
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Fans obsess over a device created by Steve Jobs that revolutionizes technology during the “(R)evolution of Steve Jobs” rehearsal Sept. 11 in the Musical Arts Center.