Indiana Daily Student | idsnews.com | Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019
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FEATURE
IU Student Government Elections
2019
Ten things coming in Students will vote on IU Student Government executives this sspring. Tickets for IUSG include a president, vice president of administration, vice president and treasurer. These stuo dent leaders decide on policy and represent students, acd ccording to the IUSG website. Keep an eye out for debates and town halls to get to know your candidates. Little 500
IU Student Foundation will host its annual Little 500 bike race. One of the university’s claims to fame, the women’s 32nd Little 500 will run 4 p.m. Friday, April 12 and the men’s 69th Little 500 will run 2 p.m. Saturday, April 13. Both races will take place at Bill Armstrong Stadium. Bike teams will compete for one of 33 spots in each race March 23 at the Little 500 Qualifications. The women’s race runs 100 laps and the men’s race runs 200 laps. Inspired by IU students racing bicycles in their residence halls, Howard “Howdy” S. Wilcox, the son of an Indianapolis 500 winner, organized the bike race in 1951, according to the 2019 Little 500 manual. The race was featured in the 1979 film “Breaking Away.” Mayoral Election
Primary elections for Bloomington mayor will happen May 7. Mayor John Hamilton has officially announced his re-election campaign, and Democrat Amanda Barge is considering running against him. She will officially make a decision in the next week. More candidates can announce campaigns up until February. The Democrat and Republican primary winners will run The against each other and Libertarians, Independents and other minor party candidates in November. The last election for Bloomington mayor in 2015 had a 7 percent voter turnout. Batman comes to Bloomington
IU alumnus and producer of the modern Batman movies Michael Uslan will come to campus for a screenm ing of “The Dark Knight Rises” with a Q&A session to follow. The event will start at 7 p.m. Jan. 28 in Franklin Hall commons and is free and open to the public. While in Bloomington, Uslan will also be screening his first Batman movie, 1989’s “Batman.” The screening, which is a celebration of the movie’s 30th anniversary, will take place at 7 p.m. Jan. 26 at IU Cinema. Tickets are available for $4. Award winning “Rent” comes to IU Auditorium
The rock musical “Rent,” which has won four Tony awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is coming to the IU Auditorium. The musical will be performed at 8 p.m. Jan. 28-29. Tickets range from $29-$71 and are $17$49 for IUB students. The musical follows seven young aartists who are struggling to survive and pay bills in early 1990s New York. The HIV/AIDS epidemic begins to threaten their East Village community while the group navigates love and friendships. Jenny Slate Comedy Show
Stand-up comedian, author and actress Jenny Slate will be performing at the Comedy Attic at 8 and 10:30 p.m. Feb. 22-23. Slate is known for her appearances in popular TV shows like “Parks and Recreation,” “Big Mouth” and “Saturday Night Live.” She provided voices for characters in recent children’s movies “Zootoopia” fo and “Secret Life of Pets.” She also wrote the children’s books “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On: Things About Me” and “Marcel the Shell: The Most Surprised I’ve Ever Been.” 33rd Annual Culture Shock
The 33rd annual Culture Shock, IU student radio station WIUX’s music festival, is planned to take place April 20 in Dunn Meadow. This year’s lineup will be announced in February, but previous years have brought n musicians such as Chicano Batman, Noname, Neon Inm dian and Mac DeMarco to Bloomington. Lineups typically dia iinclude l d local and regional bands as well. Culture Shock is free to the public. Women’s Basketball
After IU women’s basketball put up a 2018 WNIT banner, Coach Teri Moren made it clear the team was looking for bigger accomplishments going forward. While taking pride in everything the team reached last season, she knew the standard of the program should include Big Ten banners and reaching the NCAA Tournament. 2019 could bring just that. IU is off to a 3-0 start in conference play, highlighted by a win Sunday against then-No. 15 Michigan State. Behind the leadership of junior team has not had in recent years, Moren’s goal of winning more than WNIT titles is looking realistic in 2019. IU Softball
While success has been marginal for the IU softball team in recent years, second- year head coach Shonda Stanton brought a winning tradition in her first season iin Bloomington. After 18 years at Marshall University, where she was the program’s all-time winningest coach, Stanton helped the Hoosiers to a 17-6 mark in the Big Ten, good for the most conference wins since 2011. 2019 will be another step in the right direction for the struggling program as IU will host the Big Ten Tournament at Andy Mohr Field May 9-11. Men’s Basketbal
IU is a young team, and, when fully healthy, reliant on freshmen guards Romeo Langford and Rob Phinisee to facilitate the offense. This equates to road woes. Given that, a top-four finish in the Big Ten regular season season, before winning a game or two in the Big Ten Tournament in Chicago appears likely. From there it’s anyone’s guess where the Hoosiers will be seeded in the NCAA Tournament, but a run to the Sweet 16, no further and no less, seems adequate for an IU team yet to realize its potential.