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ELECTIONS 2014
Balancing act Overall, more women are on the Indiana ballot, but fewer running for Congress
Provost’s Medal awarded to Soni By Ashleigh Sherman aesherma@indiana.edu | @aesherma
Sarita Soni said she came to IU with two suitcases and a brain. Soni, who recently retired from her role as associate vice president for research and vice provost for research, was recently awarded the Provost’s Medal in recognition of her service to IU. She earned a doctor of optometry degree from IU in 1976 where she has since filled several positions, including lecturer, professor and Sarita Soni associate dean. Soni then accepted the position of IU’s associate vice president for research in 2004 and the position of IU Bloomington’s first vice provost for research in 2006. She said her work in optometry spurred her interest in research. “I was always looking at questions that patients asked me and I’d find answers in either this way or that way,” she said. As the associate vice president for research and vice provost for research, Soni was responsible for overseeing current internal funding programs, developing new external funding sources, overseeing research development services and fostering high quality research, according to the executive vice president for University Academic Affairs’ website. “She was in charge of overseeing the research enterprise of the Bloomington campus,” Jorge José, vice president for research, said. “That includes biological and physical sciences as well as arts and the humanities. She also managed several centers and institutes, including the two museums that we have in the Bloomington campus.” As the associate vice president for research and vice provost for research, Soni championed translational research, collaboration between professors and students and
By Emily Ernsberger emelerns@indiana.edu | @emilyernsberger
Past and present For the 2014, 2012 and 2010 ballots, there were only a total of 11 female candidates in comparison to the 77 male candidates in the 29 national races. This year’s ballot breakdown Out of nine national races candidates 5 female 21 male candidates
Out of three state races candidates 4 female candidates 5 male
Out of 100 representative races candidates 24 female candidates 37 male
Out of 16 senator races candidates 2 female candidates 28 male SOURCE IN.GOV
As the midterm election approaches, predictions for outcomes of congressional races are calculated to estimate how the 114th Congress will shape up. For the next two years, Congress is projected to have more men than in the previous term. Currently, 79 women are serving in the House of Representatives. Sixty-one are projected to win their respective elections. Eleven of the 44 races filling vacant seats have female contenders. Twenty women are currently serving in the U.S. Senate, and that number of women is expected to remain the same after the 36 Senate races. While many have expressed concern that not enough women serve in Congress, their minority is apparently not because of voter bias against women. “Nationally, there is evidence that women are less likely to run for office at any level,” associate professor of political science Barnard Fraga said. Fraga said that women are often not asked to run for local, state or federal positions as often as men are, which is not an indicator of their competence, he said. If women are asked or encouraged to run for an office, they are more likely to do so. “There’s just something about being asked,” Fraga said. This might explain why more women are represented on the Indiana ballot than in previous elections. In 2010, Indiana held three statewide races with no women running for them. In 2012, two women ran in statewide races. That number has doubled to four for the auditor, treasurer and secretary of state races for the upcoming election. One woman in each of those races is SEE BALLOT, PAGE 6
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Country singer returns to campus for Friday show
VOLLEYBALL
IU travels to Maryland, Rutgers By Evan Hoopfer
By Alison Graham akgraham@indiana.edu | @AlisonGraham218
After getting to college, Clayton Anderson needed a new way to talk to girls. In high school, he played basketball. In college at IU, it was a little harder without that ability, he said. Thankfully, his Clayton roommate played Anderson guitar, and Anderson learned from him. They started playing at fraternity houses on campus and eventually spread to other Big Ten schools. “All of a sudden, one day it was time to graduate and grow up,” he said. Since graduation, Anderson has moved onto a successful career in country music, one that has brought him back to IU.
Clayton Anderson 8 p.m. Friday IU Auditorium Anderson will perform at 8 p.m. tonight at the IU Auditorium. Tickets are still available at the IU Auditorium box office and online at iuauditorium.com. If audience members purchase tickets online and use the promo code IUDM, the group will donate money to IU Dance Marathon. “It’s my favorite campus charity, and so we wanted to participate as much as possible,” Anderson said. Anderson participated in the dance marathon as a student at IU. He graduated in 2007 with a degree in business. However, his musical experience while in college was SEE ANDERSON, PAGE 6
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Several IU players have said one of their goals this season is go to .500 in the conference. Going .500 in the Big Ten gives IU a great chance to make the NCAA Tournament at the end of the season. The last time IU made the NCAA tournament was the 2010 season, in which they went 9-11 in the conference. IU advanced to the Sweet 16 that year for the first and only time in program history. This weekend, IU might have its best chance to go 2-0 during a conference weekend and get closer to their goal of going .500 in the Big Ten. IU (10-4, 1-1) will make its first-ever Big Ten trip to the east coast this weekend to play Maryland (7-6, 0-2) and Rutgers
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Junior middle blocker Awele Nwaeze attempts a kill during the game against Michigan State on Sept. 26 at University Gym. IU went 1-1 during its opening weekend, matching the amount of conference wins it had all last season.
(7-8, 0-2). Last weekend against Michigan State and Michigan, IU split the two games. Even though they went .500 during the weekend, sophomore outside hitter
Taylor Lebo wasn’t happy with the result. “We should have gone 2-0,” Lebo said. “I’m pleased that we went 1-1, but I’m not satisfied.” SEE VOLLEYBALL, PAGE 6