THURSDAY, NOV. 13, 2014
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Miniature ponies to appear at Ballantine By Alexis Daily @AlexDaily1 | aledaily@indiana.edu
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Senior safety Mark Murphy runs down the field for a touchdown after intercepting a pass during the Hoosiers’ game 13-7 loss against Penn State on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. Off the field, Murphy is an informatics major with a 3.85 GPA.
‘Dumb gets beat’ IU safety successful on the field, in the classroom By Sam Beishuizen sbeishui@indiana.edu | @Sam_Beishuizen
Mark Murphy’s football IQ began to develop well before he was even allowed to step onto a football field. The senior safety used to lay in his bed as a boy watching film of his father, Mark Murphy Sr., playing safety for the Green Bay Packers in the 1980s. Those early film sessions molded Murphy into the player he is, as he learned the game directly from his father, who was inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame in 1998. Off the football field, Murphy has put similar effort into his studies in the classroom. An informatics major, Murphy boasts a 3.85 GPA. He’s one of 17 finalists for the National Football Foundation’s Campbell Trophy, awarded to the nation’s best scholar athlete, which bodes well with his safeties coach Noah Joseph. Joseph has a motto he likes his safeties to follow: “Dumb gets you beat.” That hasn’t really been a problem for Murphy, a perennial Academic All-American contender. Unless, of course, he runs late for a team meeting. Then Joseph starts to heckle Murphy a bit. “If he’s ever running late to a meet-
ing or something, he’ll just say that he’s more focused on his schoolwork than his football work,” freshman safety Chase Dutra said. “But you can’t really dog on him because he’s a really, really smart kid and it shows on the field and in the classroom.” Murphy’s classroom success named him to the Capital One Academic AllDistrict V Team for the third consecutive year and placed him on the ballot for Academic All-American consideration. Murphy, who shares his number 37 with his father, was never pushed into playing football. He didn’t even start playing until he was in fifth grade. Since he couldn’t play football, he watched it. In the classroom, he quickly became a top student, and when he was finally allowed to play football, he learned to balance his time between studying his textbooks and playbooks. He treats both the same, giving priority to whichever one’s up next. When he’s on the field it’s all about football. But when he’s off, school becomes a priority. “For me, growing up, my dad always said, ‘You can control your attitude and your effort no matter what you do,’” Murphy said. “Even if it’s school, you want to make sure you have the best attitude and don’t slack off. It’s always been my goal, no matter what I’m doing,
Murphy’s 2014 stats 3.85 GPA 2 interceptions 1 touchdown 39 tackles 2.5 tackles for loss IU is now a running team, page 5 See how the Hoosiers are adapting to life without quarterback Nate Sudfeld. to pour my heart into and get what I can out of it.” Joseph described the safety position in much the same way the quarterback is described on the other side of the ball. Lining up the farthest back on defense, the safety must compensate for the mistakes of others. That means knowing the alignments and communicating with teammates and having them trust the voice behind them. The play itself is a bit like problemsolving in the classroom. Murphy must determine what the offense is showing and anticipate what play is coming. Once the ball is snapped, SEE MURPHY, PAGE 6
Miniature ponies aren’t just for show. They’re for taking pictures with, too. Revitalizing Animal Well-being, a student organization that focuses on improving animal welfare through volunteering, fundraising and education, is working with People and Animal Learning Services for a “Meet the Minis” event today from 2 to 4 p.m. outside of Ballantine Hall. The event will feature two miniature ponies, Rocky and Shorty, ambassadors for PALS. Students will have the opportunity to meet and take pictures with the ponies for a donation of $1, with all of the proceeds going to PALS. “Working with PALS is a wonderful opportunity to give back to our community and a way to help both animals and children who benefit from their services,” said Anna Sernau, a junior majoring in animal behavior and the outreach coordinator for RAW, said. President of RAW Taylor VanArsdale said the goals of the “Meet the Minis” event are to donate to the PALS program, provide publicity for PALS, which could result in both larger donations and additional volunteers, and to expose more people on IU’s campus to RAW. “Our officers have dedicated so much time and energy into reaching our goals this semester and, in doing so, have really done a good job of helping animals as well as making RAW feel like a family,” VanArsdale said. Jennylynn Vidas, community outreach coordinator for PALS, said that by having the event on campus, they hope students are able to learn more about the PALS therapeutic riding program and its mission to serve the Bloomington community. She said Lindsay Nash, development associate for PALS, will speak at RAW’s meeting at 7 p.m. today in Ballantine 137. Vidas said Nash will speak about how the organization has used therapeutic horseback riding lessons to improve the lives of children, adults and seniors in the Indiana community. “The partnership between PALS and RAW is one that’s founded on a mutual love of animals and the desire to help people,” Vidas said. Sernau said so far in the 20142015 school year, RAW has partnered with the Exotic Feline SEE PONIES, PAGE 6 Meet the Minis Sponsored by Revitalizing Animal Welfare 2 to 4 p.m. today, outside of Ballantine Hall
Keller Williams to perform Protesters speak against killing deer at the Bluebird tonight By Neal Earley
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Keller Williams broke into the bluegrass music scene in the ‘90s with an unusual one-man band performance style. “It’s all that I’ve done in my adult life, playing shows and making a living that way,” Williams said. “It’s just kind of what I do. I go away on the weekends, I come home during the week and I’m just really used to doing that and it’s kind of just how I’ve come to survive, that’s not only financially, but mentally, as well. I don’t really look at it as determination, I look at it as just life, that’s how I roll.” Williams is set to play a solo show tonight at the Bluebird Nightclub. Tickets for the show may be purchased online at the Bluebird website or at the door. Doors open at 8 p.m. and the show is set to begin at 9 p.m.
KELLER WILLIAMS Doors open at 8 p.m., show starts at 9 p.m. today, the Bluebird Nightclub Tickets can be purchased online for $18 to $20 or at the door for $20. Although his most recent album was recorded with the Grateful Grass — one of many bands he plays with — Williams said his Bloomington show will implement his “one-man band” techniques. “What you’ll get at a solo show for me is, basically is, every other song will be solo music,” Williams said. “Then every other song ... I’ll set up a drum loop, a bass loop, and guitar loops and pull them in and out. Nothing is prerecorded. Everything is live. We do that every other song, so it’ll be kind of a mixture.” To create loops, Williams uses a BOSS RC-300 Loop Station to SEE WILLIAMS, PAGE 6
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Sandra Shapshay, right, president of Bloomington Advocates for Nonviolent Innovative Deer Stewardship, protests against the deer-killing policy Wednesday in front of Bloomington City Hall.
Some of them dressed up, some of them just held signs, but either way the message was clear — they don’t want deer to be killed by sharp shooters. Before Wednesday night’s Bloomington City Council meeting, about two dozen protesters gathered in the cold to show their opposition to the city’s policy on deer overpopulation. “The science at Griffy, kind of iffy,” the protesters chanted. The issue of the council’s decision to sharp-shoot deer was not officially on the agenda Wednesday night, but Bloomington residents, one after another, spoke at the meeting on the matter. “There are other ways to control the deer that have not been tried or even attempted,” said Chuck Rogers, a 61-year-old Bloomington resident. “To me it’s just pure barbarism to bait deer and then SEE DEER, PAGE 6