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Record number overdose Friday BPD respond to a record 15 overdoses in Bloomington area From IDS Reports
The Bloomington Police Department responded to at least 15 overdoses in the Bloomington area on Friday. Most of the overdoses, which occurred over a time period from midmorning until 6 p.m., were from spice, a synthetic marijuana. Half of the cases occurred on the afternoon shift, which runs from 1:30 to 10 p.m. “The biggest issue that we’re dealing with is spice and trying to figure out who’s supplying it and where it’s originating from,” Alley said. “We’re figuring how to get it away from the streets because it’s obviously affecting the population.” Seth Hatton, 21, and Kyle Lomax, 30, were also arrested on Thursday for dealing controlled substances. The two transient men were arrested on Kirkwood Ave. and Third Street, respectively, according to a BPD booking log. One of the overdoses was potentially from an opiate. The ambulance team administered naloxone, a medication that blocks the effects of opioids, to one person. Four overdoses occurred at Seminary Park and three of them occurred at 3:20 p.m., according to BPD Sergeant David Alley. Another two people overdosed at South Walnut and East Wiley streets. One occurred at the Bloomington bus terminal. Several occurred within a block of Kirkwood Ave. All overdose cases were taken to the hospital except for one person, who was released from the scene, Alley said. The overdoses on Friday follow a rash of 10 overdoses and one death on June 22, breaking that day’s record for overdoses in the Bloomington area.
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A’Niyah Birdsong, Miss Indiana University 2017, presents an IU t-shirt to Lesamarie Hacker, Ms. Wheelchair of Indiana. Hacker spoke to the Kiwanis Club of Bloomington on Thursday.
‘Trials and triumphs’ Ms. Wheelchair Indiana uses her title to advocate for accessibility and safety By Emily Eckelbarger eaeckelb@umail.iu.edu | @emeckelbarger
Lesamarie Hacker speaks in a whisper. After two strokes, a car accident and surgeries on her esophagus, anything louder is difficult. But with a tiara on her head and a sash wrapped around her chest, she doesn’t need to speak much louder. As the 2017 Ms. Wheelchair Indiana and state coordinator of the state program, Hacker intends to let her voice be heard through her new platform. “I’m very blessed and glad to be a spokesperson for those who are in need,” she said. Hacker, a lifelong Bloomington resident, spoke to the Kiwanis Club of Bloomington on Thursday about her experiences as a person living in a wheelchair and her goals for her platform of Ms. Wheelchair Indiana. Hacker suffered a stroke in February 2013. Just as she began recovering, another stroke hit in March. Her list of symptoms was
long: speech aphasia and dysphasia, difficulty swallowing, essential tremors and thoracic aortic aneurysm. She spent most of 2013 in and out of rehab centers recovering from her stroke. Hacker divides her struggles into two categories: traumas and trials. Things she’s gone through, like losing a child, surviving breast cancer, have been traumas. But being in a wheelchair? That’s a trial to her. She’s working to turn these traumas and trials into triumphs, she said. In August, she’ll go to Erie, Pennsylvania, to compete in the Ms. Wheelchair America contest. She’ll compete with 35 other women during a week-long pageant, in which they present their forums to each other and the judges through poster presentations and speeches about what they’ve accomplished through their title. Hacker will compete as an independent title holder, selected by the SEE MS. WHEELCHAIR, PAGE 7
Lesamarie Hacker, Ms. Wheelchair Indiana 2017
Emily Eckelbarger
SWIMMING AND DIVING
Blake Pieroni and Lilly King earn spots on Team USA From IDS Reports
Junior Lilly King and senior Blake Pieroni secured places on Team USA this weekend as the IU swimming team finished a successful week at the 2017 Phillips 66 National Championships at the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis, Ind. The five-day event started on Tuesday, June 27 and also served as the World Championship Trials. The top-two finishers in each Olympic-distance event, the winners of the non-Olympic events and the top-six in the 100 and 200 freestyle race qualified to swim for Team USA at the 2017 FINA World Championships in Budapest in July. IU sent 18 swimmers to the event, with King and Pieroni earning spots on the national team. These two swimmers join four IU divers who have already qualified for the world championships.
Coach Ray Looze was also named an assistant coach for Team USA for the World Championships next month. He served as an assistant for the Americans at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. King won three national championships, finishing first in the 50, 100 and 200m breaststroke. Her success comes less than a week after King was named Big Ten Female Athlete of the Year. Pieroni represented IU during his school record-breaking performance in the 100 freestyle. His time of 48.49 was good enough for sixth in the A Final of the 100 freestyle, making him eligible to be selected for Team USA in the 4x100 relay. Last summer, Pieroni was a member of Team USA when he won gold in the 400 freestyle relay.
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Blake Pieroni finished 2nd in the 200 meter freestyle at the Phillips 66 US Swimming Nationals on Wednesday at the IU Natatorium.
Austin Ghirardelli Pieroni's time of 1:46.30 is a new school record and earned him a spot on the 4x200 freestyle relay for Team USA.
Colorado emo band Floating Teeth comes to the Bishop By Bryan Brussee bryanbrussee@umail.iu.edu | @BryanBrussee
Charles Manion was asleep as his van hurtled down the highway, bound for Cincinnati. He wasn’t at the wheel after spending the previous night at a wedding. At 2:30 p.m., he was still hungover. Cincinnati is far from home for
Manion, who plays in the Denver, Colorado-based emo band Floating Teeth with Selena Kelley and Reychel Saflor. The band will play the Bishop Monday, July 3, alongside local bands Lindsy and Jacky Boy. Floating Teeth’s current tour — its first in the Midwest — is going well, Saflor, the band’s guitar
and bass player said. The turnout at shows in the Midwest has been better than the band had expected, and the reception is better. “There’s not a lot of bands like us in Denver,” Saflor said. “There’s more folk and indie rock up there.” While indebted to indie rock — Saflor said Modest Mouse is a big influence — the band also draws
inspiration from the post-hardcore of Washington D.C.‘s Dismemberment Plan and the energy of Chicago’s Cap’n Jazz. Lo-fi — a term sometimes used to describe the questionable fidelity of a record and other times used to refer to an entire subgenre of indie rock — has also left its mark on the band, according to
Floating Teeth’s Bandcamp page. The static on the band’s demo and debut album, “MISS,” is as much a stylistic choice as it is a resourceful use of what equipment Manion had available to him during the recording process, Saflor said. In the absence of a proper SEE TEETH, PAGE 3