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3 Hoosiers suspended, Crean faces criticism By Alden Woods aldwoods@indiana.edu | @acw9293

A fan called into IU Coach Tom Crean’s radio show Monday night and got straight to the point. “Why does Coach Crean still deserve his job?” The room went silent, and then the crowd gathered at the Holiday Inn erupted into boos. A visibly stressed Crean didn’t respond. Don Fischer, the show’s host, ignored it and moved on. Another caller, who said he was “a member of the IU basketball

family,” said blame for the IU’s troubles fell directly on its coach. This time, Crean welcomed the criticism and responded quickly. “You’re more than welcome to put that on me,” he said. “My shoulders are fine.” They were viable questions — Crean had just announced the suspensions of three players as

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another lay in serious condition at IU Health Bloomington Hospital. The season hadn’t yet started, and IU’s Williams worst-case scenario has happened. Three days earlier, Devin Davis was struck by a car driven by teammate Emmitt Holt, who was cited for underage drinking. That incident put Davis in serious condition at IU Health Bloomington Hospital and led to Crean suspending Holt for four games.

3 sexual assaults reported Sunday

Monday night, he announced four-game suspensions for two more players. Troy Williams and Stanford Robinson had failed a drug test, according to ESPN, and would sit out the season’s opening chunk of games. Davis’ injury and the trio of suspensions are the latest in a string of incidents involving IU players throughout 2014. In February, Hanner MosqueraPerea was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated. He was suspended for two Big Ten games. Two months later, Robinson and

More from Crean, page 10 An update on Devin Davis’ health and column from Evan Hoopfer. Kevin ‘Yogi’ Ferrell were arrested for attempting to enter Kilroy’s Sports Bar while underage. Both were charged with consumption of alcohol by a minor and possession of false identification, though both entered a pretrial diversion program. That’s four drug and alcohol-related incidents in eight months for IU SEE BASKETBALL, PAGE 7

WOMEN’S SOCCER

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Three separate incidents of sexual assault were reported during the weekend, Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Joe Crider said. At about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Bloomington police responded to IU Health Bloomington Hospital after receiving a call about a sexual assault, Crider said. A 34-year-old woman reported she was raped at an apartment complex on Bloomington’s west side. The woman said she was at a liquor store when she met four unknown men, according to the police report. A while later, she said she was at Kilroy’s Dunnkirk when she and a friend ran into the same four men. The women went back to an apartment on the west side of town, where the complainant said she was sexually assaulted by one of the men. The woman completed a sexual assault exam. SEE ASSAULT , PAGE 7

Union Board elections start today By Ashleigh Sherman aesherma@indiana.edu | @aesherma

Today and tomorrow, students can vote for eight Union Board directors, in charge of $300,000 of student fees for organizing movies, concerts, lectures, debates and more. Polling for the 106th Union Board election begins today at 8 p.m. and closes Wednesday at 8 p.m. Voting for the Union Board election is online. Between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday, students can also vote at a voting booth located on the main level of the Indiana Memorial Union, said Connor Foy, Union Board elections commissioner. SEE UNION BOARD , PAGE 7

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Then-senior Lisa Nouanesengsy, middle, and then-sophomore Jessie Bujouves smile while the team huddles together after IU’s match against DePaul on Nov. 16, 2013, at Bill Armstrong Stadium. Friends are raising money to support Nouanesengsy after she suffered injuries in a fire.

‘Prayers for Lisa’ Money, awareness being raised for former Hoosier standout By Sam Beishuizen sbeishui@indiana.edu | @Sam_Beishuizen

It was Lisa Nouanesengsy’s laugh that often caught her teammates’ attention. She had a habit of making jokes that sometimes weren’t funny. She’d oftentimes end up laughing alone at her own jokes. Nouanesengsy graduated from IU in 2013 as one of the most celebrated women’s soccer players in program history. She finished her career third in goals scored and fifth in points all-time at IU. But where she frequently stood out more was off the field. IU Coach Amy Berbary often called her “the engine that makes IU women’s soccer go.” Nouanesengsy suffered severe burns to her hands and legs in a gas explosion Oct. 24 at her apartment at Shawnee State University where she was attending graduate school. On top of hospital expenses, she lost everything she had including clothes and electronics.

For four years, Nouanesengsy made an impact on teammates, coaches and fans in Bloomington. Now, those people are trying to give back through the Facebook group “Prayers for Lisa,” which aims to raise money to support Nouanesengsy. “We just wanted to help her after the recovery to get some of that stuff back and support Lisa and her family,” said Megan Holland, a former teammate and current graduate student at IU who founded the page. In a little more than a week, the Facebook page has generated 1,760 likes. Holland said she hopes to raise $10,000 to help cover expenses and has already raised about $5,000. The money will go directly to the Nouanesengsy family. When Holland first visited Nouanesengsy shortly after the fire, Nouanesengsy couldn’t talk and mostly slept. Since then, Nouanesengsy has been able to walk and talk, but Holland said she is expected to be in intensive care for

another four to five weeks. Holland said she doesn’t know all the specifics of the injury, but Nouanesengsy is expected to need a skin graft on various parts of her arms and legs. The page is expected to raise money for another week or two, but then the group will look elsewhere for donations. Nouanesengsy — whose parents immigrated to the United States from Laos in 1981 — has mostly paid for everything herself. Her independent nature always stood out to Holland, who said now is a chance to give back to Nouanesengsy. “She’s always caring about other people,” Holland said. “She always puts others first, which I think is something you really value in a friend.” Nouanesengsy tried her hand at considering a professional soccer career after graduating from IU, but she decided it was in her best interest to go to graduate school to continue studying occupational

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