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Freshman center Thomas Bryant, senior guard Yogi Ferrell and senior guard Nick Zeisloft laugh while answering questions during the post-practice press conference Thursday at the Wells Fargo Center. On Friday, the Hoosiers will play the Tarheels in the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA Tournament.
BATTERED, NOT BROKEN Hoosiers still recovering as Sweet 16 matchup with North Carolina looms By Michael Hughes michhugh@indiana.edu | @MichaelHughes94
PHILADELPHIA — IU won against Kentucky in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, but the Hoosiers arrived at the Sweet 16 in Philadelphia a battered team. Sophomore guard Robert Johnson re-injured his left ankle and missed the second half against Kentucky, freshman forward Juwan Morgan’s shoulder popped out of its socket again, and junior forward Collin Hartman has been battling a wrist injury since the Big Ten Tournament loss against Michigan on March 11. But ahead of IU’s game against North Carolina on Friday, all three appear relatively healthy.
“If it’s up to me, I’m definitely going to play, but I think it’ll be a game-time decision based on how the coaches and trainers feel.” Robert Johnson, sophomore guard
“If it’s up to me, I’m definitely going to play, but I think it’ll be a game-time decision based on how the coaches and trainers feel,” Johnson said. Johnson said his ankle felt normal against Kentucky up until the time he reaggravated his ankle sprain. Since then, he’s been rehabilitating his ankle two or three times a day, he said, and he has been a limited participant in IU practices.
NO. 5 IU (27-7) vs. No. 1 North Carolina (30-6) 9:57 p.m. Friday, Philadelphia
SEE SHAYLYN, PAGE 7 In a toned-down practice Thursday that was open to the public, Johnson participated fully while wearing a brace on his left ankle. The practice didn’t include any live action, however, which is the area Johnson has been sitting out as a precautionary measure. The brace is also new for Johnson. He didn’t wear it in the first two rounds of the tournament or during the week of practice leading up to them. This week, athletic trainer Tim Garl recommended he try a brace. SEE HOOSIERS, PAGE 6
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Mauricio Miranda wanted to challenge himself when he started to write his thesis for his third year in the master of fine arts playwriting program at IU. He knew he wanted to write about two things: the Peruvian conflict in the early 1990s and the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City in 2011. At first, he didn’t think there was a connection, but he found a way to combine the two in “Occupants,” which is one of two new plays to be performed this weekend in IU Theatre’s “At First Sight,” which features new plays written by students. “They were two different plays in my head,” Miranda said. “Then at one point, I thought, ‘What if a person from the civil war in Peru became a war refugee in Manhattan?’ The timeline was perfect.” The timeline mirrors his own life. He grew up in Lima, Peru, during its civil war, moved to the United States at age 18 and lived in Hamilton Heights in Manhattan during the Oc-
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Rebecca Dwoskin, left, practices during a rehearsal of “At First Sight” on Monday evening at the Wells-Metz Theatre. “At First Night” is a play about Peruvian-American and the Occupy Wallstreet movement, directed by M.F.A candidates David Koté and Katie Horwitz. The show will open Friday.
to support herself and her mother, who locks all eight locks in her apartment at the stroke of midnight, whether her daughter has come home or not. “It’s a very interesting story about two women trying to find themselves and who they are,” di-
rector Katie Horwitz said. “Alma is very interesting because she’s from a world that most of us have never experienced and couldn’t possibly imagine. We watch her journey from SEE FIRST SIGHT, PAGE 6
IU student arrested on drug charges by IUPD undercover cops From IDS reports
IU freshman Nathan Kolodziej, 19, was arrested March 21 after several purchases of drugs by undercover IU Police Department cadets. According to the probable cause affidavit filed March 22, Kolodziej has been charged with at least eight felony counts, including three counts of dealing in cocaine, two counts of dealing in psilocybin mushrooms, one count of dealing in LSD, one count of dealing in MDMA and one count of dealing in Alprazolam, which is sold as Xanax.
IUPD first began making undercover purchases of drugs from Kolodziej on Feb. 11, IUPD detective Dave Hannum said in the affidavit. On that date, an IUPD cadet purchased one plastic bag of mushrooms weighing 4.6 grams from Kolodziej at Ashton Center. A plastic bag of mushrooms weighing 4.63 grams was purchased from Kolodziej by IUPD cadets Feb. 24 at Fountain Park Apartments. The undercover cadets also purchased four plastic bags, each containing one blotter square, or hit, of LSD, and one plastic bag weighing .034 grams containing four capsules sold
as Molly or MDMA. An IUPD cadet purchased two plastic bags of cocaine weighing 2.69 grams combined from Kolodziej on Feb. 26 in front of Fountain Park Apartments. Two IUPD cadets purchased two bags of cocaine, weighing a total of 2.61 grams, and two bags containing four Xanax tablets each from Kolodziej on March 9 in the Teter Quad circle. On March 21, IUPD officers arrested Kolodziej after two undercover IUPD cadets purchased two grams of cocaine from him. Kolodziej’s backpack, which was
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searched upon his arrest, contained five bags of cocaine, weighing a total of six grams, 152 blotter squares of LSD, 64 Vyvanse capsules, 12 bags of THC wax and one large square of THC wax, according to the affidavit. A search warrant was obtained and served later that day, and IUPD officers found seven bags of marijuana, 94 THC suckers, four Xanax tablets, some paraphernalia and $9,100 in cash in Kolodziej’s room in Ashton Center, Hannum said in the affidavit.
AT FIRST SIGHT Tickets $15-25 2 p.m. April 2 the Wells-Metz Theatre cupy movement. Miranda did not know much about the civil war while it was happening around him, he said. He was only about 8 years old, and his parents did not tell him what was going on. Even though the main conflict occurred in the Andes, he said he remembers acts of terrorism that spread to the capital in the form of citywide blackouts. “There was this collective concern that people didn’t speak about,” Miranda said. “It was like in ‘Harry Potter,’ you can’t say the name Voldemort. You can’t say the Shining Path in front of kids, because they would start asking questions. You don’t want them to know there are big bad guys in the Sierra out to get them.” In the play, Alma is a Peruvian woman living in Manhattan who is so emotionally traumatized from the civil war she cannot leave her apartment. Her daughter Gabi must work
Abortion bill passed by Pence Gov. Mike Pence signed a bill into law Thursday that imposes additional restrictions on abortions. House Enrolled Act 1337 prohibits women from seeking abortions based on race, gender and possible fetal abnormalities. Indiana is the second state in the nation after North Dakota to impose such restrictions. The new law also requires a woman to view an ultrasound of the fetus and hear its heartbeat 18 hours before she can obtain the procedure. “By enacting this legislation, we take an important step in protecting the unborn, while still providing an exception for the life of the mother,” Pence said in a press release. “I sign this legislation with a prayer that God would continue to bless these precious children, mothers and families.” While supporters of the measure say the bill will be used to prevent abortions based on disabilities like Down syndrome, pro-abortion rights advocates say the bill’s language is vague enough to prohibit abortions of fetuses that cannot survive past birth. “Throughout my public career, I have stood for the sanctity of life,” Pence said in a press release. “HEA 1337 is a comprehensive pro-life measure that affirms the value of all human life, which is why I signed it into law today.” In addition to limiting the reasons for which women can seek abortions, the new law criminalizes the transfer of fetal tissue and requires abortion providers to bury or cremate all fetal remains. Before the law’s passage, fetal tissue disposal was regulated by the same laws as other types of medical waste. “I believe that a society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable — the aged, the infirm, the disabled and the unborn,” Pence said in a press release.
Playwright draws on war, Occupy movement By Maia Rabenold
SPENCER, Ind. — At about 8 p.m. Tuesday, Tamara Morgan put her 1-year-old granddaughter to sleep in her crib in the corner of the living room, just like any other night. Several hours later, she checked on the blonde-haired, blue-eyed toddler, Shaylyn Michelle Kay Ammerman. “She was sleeping, peacefully like she always does,” Morgan said. But when Morgan woke up at 7:30 a.m., Shaylyn was gone. “Nothing in the house was disturbed,” Morgan said. “No note. Nothing.” After two days of searching for Shaylyn, investigators found a body matching her description at about 6 p.m. Thursday, Indiana State Police confirmed. The body was located on private property in a remote area near the banks of the White River, northeast of Gosport, Indiana. An autopsy has been scheduled for Friday. Police arrested Spencer resident Kyle Parker, 22, and took him into custody on Thursday night in connection to Shaylyn’s disappearance. Parker was one of two acquaintances at the family’s house on the 400 block of West Jefferson Street the night Shaylyn went missing,