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Doctors speak on medical education issues Mark Bauman and Sarah Tieman will give IU medical students insight to the bedrock of their medical education on Wednesday. After giving an overview of the curriculum for first- and second-year medical students, the doctors will discuss major issues in
medical education. These include doctor-patient relationships, social accountability and interprofessional collaboration. The address will take place at 4 p.m. at the Poynter Center.
‘Spotlight’ reporters address media students By Austin Faulds afaulds@indiana.edu | @a_faulds9615
Michael Rezendes and Sacha Pfeiffer, journalists recently depicted in the Oscarnominated film “Spotlight,” spoke to Media School students Monday about their experiences in journalism. Pfeiffer and Rezendes, along with other journalists on the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team, uncovered a series of child molestation scandals within Boston-area Catholic churches in 2002, which ultimately led to a major investigation and international reform within the Catholic Church. “This was the worst kept secret in town, maybe in the country, maybe in the world,” Rezendes said. In the film adaptation of their reporting, Pfeiffer and Rezendes were portrayed by Rachel McAdams and Mark Ruffalo, respectively. Through the investigation, the number of Boston clergymen participating in the sexual assault rose from 13 clergymen to about 90. The coverage caused massive controversy for the Catholic Church, and the Church is still facing problems with molestation to this day. Rezendes said he wanted to emphasize to the attendees of the event that the Bos-
ton Globe wasn’t the first to discover the connection between the Church and sexual abuse, but it did expose the cover-up that kept it out of public eye. Rezendes compared the investigation of the scandal by the Spotlight team to the investigation of Watergate thirty years earlier. Since the team’s coverage coincided with the popularization of the Internet, Rezendes said the story was “the first major journalism investigation to ever go viral.” Pfeiffer and Rezendes also gave advice to the media students attending the lecture about what they can do when entering careers in journalism. The reporters opened this part of the discussion by mentioning the pros and cons of being a reporter. “One of the things I love about being a reporter is having access to people and places that you wouldn’t have access to otherwise,” Pfeiffer said. Pfeiffer emphasized that access depends on a reporter’s skills. A journalist must be persistent and able to get the source out of their comfort zones. Rezendes described the bond trust between a source and a reporter as a “romance.” “I got to marry a source,”
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Boston Globe journalists Michael Rezendes and Sacha Pfeiffer answer questions from students in the class “Behind The Prize” on Monday at Ernie Pyle Hall Room 220. Rezendes and Pfeiffer were both members of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize winning team for public service for their stories involving sexual abuse of young boys by Catholic priests.
he said. “I need to get them to trust me.” The downside to journalism currently is the explosion of the Internet-based media, and how it significantly reduces the number of paying subscribers, Pfeiffer said. In order to support journalism today, she said she
encourages others to subscribe to various media outlets. While journalists are encouraged to be objective in their reporting, Rezendes said emotional attachment to certain stories is inevitable. However, he urged reporters to balance their empathy with unbiased
Accelerate IUSA announces ticket By Laurel Demkovich lfdemkov@indiana.edu @laureldemkovich
With initiatives ranging from enhancing student wellbeing to increasing diversity and inclusion, Accelerate IUSA prepares for upcoming elections by focusing on the people of IU-Bloomington. “What we’re really trying to do with Accelerate is really transform the way that the student government has been done in the past in terms of student voice,” said junior Connor Brashear, Accelerate president. Accelerate’s ticket also includes junior Neil Davé, vice president of administration; Jack Langston, vice president of Congress; sophomore Kevin He, treasurer; and sophomore Tanner Snider, speaker of Congress. After announcing its ticket, Accelerate IUSA received more than 100 applications to join its team, something the executive ticket had never seen before, Brashear said. “We’ve tried to approach this in a way that’s very flat in terms of leadership structure and making sure that everyone on our team has that feeling of a very important voice within Accelerate,” Brashear said. He said Accelerate wants to focus on everyone on campus regardless of backgrounds
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Association Eco-Reps and Republic Services, Akers will submit per capita results determined through weekly recycling and trash weights. IU has not faired well against the competition. Akers said IU’s waste diversion rate generally is between 13 to 15 percent, while the average range is 20 percent. Akers said occasionally his office performs waste audits to identify how much recyclable material is thrown away in landfill-destined trashcans. His goal this year is to promote greater education of recyclable materials on campus and reach the 25 percent mark of waste diversion. Last year’s winning school, Antioch University Seattle, had a diversion rate of 96 percent, which Akers said is hard to compare to a school like IU given the difference in size and student population. The RecycleMania team will be working through
or cultures. “It really, for Accelerate, comes back to the people, and I think that’s extremely critical,” Snider said. Policies Accelerate’s four main initiatives are safety and wellbeing, sustainability, student empowerment and student affordability. Running as the vice president of administration, Davé focused mainly on creating these policies. Davé said one of the important ways these policies were developed was by bringing the entire Accelerate team together. “We were trying to bring in a representation and a body of students on our platform to come together collectively and identify the key issues that every student is facing day in and day out on campus,” Davé said. To increase campus safety, Accelerate plans to increase lighting both on and off campus, specifically the Old Crescent area and off-campus areas which are heavily populated by IU students. Accelerate aims to improve the relationship students have with the IU Police Department. This will be accomplished by bringing IUPD representatives to New Student Orientation to connect with freshmen right away. the next eight weeks in residence halls and various locations on-campus to promote the event and teach students what products can and should be recycled. In addition to tabling and giveaways, this week RHA eco reps will be handing out 100 recycling bins to students living in Briscoe Quad. Oliveira hopes to draw students’ attention to the use of disposable coffee and tea cups and replace them with reusable containers. Akers said the labeling of containers in residence halls and new composting programs in dining halls on campus should help with this year’s initiative. However, both Akers and Oliveira agreed that in order for IU to rise in the RecycleMania ranks, it would take a campus-wide effort to make a change. “The powerful thing about RecycleMania is that every single person can contribute and every single person’s decision really makes an impact on our standing as a University and as a community,” Oliveira said.
Within its campus safety initiative, Accelerate also focuses on student well-being and health. Accelerate plans to work with IU’s Counseling and Psychological Services to make it more accessible for students to receive mental health treatment. Making IU a greener and more sustainable campus is another goal of Accelerate, Davé said. Increasing sustainability means enhancing transparency with energy usage and related issues. Davé said they hope to adopt models, such as live displays of energy usage of on-campus buildings, that they have seen at other universities. The student empowerment initiative focuses on diversity and the minority interest. One part of this initiative is promoting the Culture of Care IU already has in place. “I think it’s one of the greatest initiatives at IU to essentially show the student body that we take a fundamental interest in ensuring that everybody feels as though they are wanted and cared for at IU,” Davé said. Accelerate wants to create a “Week of Culture” and a new website, diversity.iu.edu, to get feedback from students. Accelerate is currently reaching out to more than 50 international organizations to foster relationships and hear
thoughts on the diversity policies, He, a sophomore, said. During the proposed “Week of Culture,” Accelerate hopes to foster more social interaction between international and domestic students. Davé said one of the most important initiatives is student affordability because it affects every student on campus. Starting with textbook costs, Davé said Accelerate hopes to make more online textbooks available as well as helping students’ accessibility to groceries and cheaper forms of learning. Next Steps Looking forward, Accelerate’s next goals will focus on fleshing out policies, refining members’ positions and increasing outreach on campus. “I think it’s just about stepping back again and reflecting on ‘Is this exactly what the University wants? Is this representative of the broader IUBloomington?’” Brashear said. Davé’s said he hopes Accelerate will breathe life back into student government and engage the general student body by making them more aware of student government. “I think that it’s really the medium and the way that we can facilitate long-standing and long-acting beneficial change on campus,” Davé said.
reporting. The knowledge and stories shared by the speakers was enlightening for aspiring journalists. “It’s really eye-opening,” said freshman John Padric Adams. “It really makes you want to go out and change the world like they have.” While he said he is a fan
of the movie, Professor of Practice Tom French said he wants students to remember it is only a Hollywood adaptation and Rezendes and Pfeiffer are the real stars. “They wouldn’t have a goddamn story if it wasn’t for the real extraordinary story these reporters covered,” he said.
Two peeping incidents reported to IUPD at Wright Quadrangle From IDS reports
Two cases of peeping were reported to the IU Police Department on Wednesday. A 19-year-old male student reported two separate incidents of being unwillingly watched by another student through the window of a men’s bathroom, IUPD Capt. Andy Stephenson said. The first incident occurred last October and the second occurred Jan. 30, Stephenson said. The
victim did not come forward until Feb. 3. Both incidents were reported as occurring in Wright quad, Stephenson said. The suspect is an 18-year-old male student, Stephenson said. He said the victim did not personally know the suspect. The case is still open and IUPD is attempting to get a warrant for the suspect’s arrest, Stephenson said. Sarah Gardner
CORRECTION In the opinion section of Monday’s IDS, an editorial incorrectly stated that Paul Nungesser sued Sulkowicz, and that Jason Casares was “out of a job” as a result of being accused of sexual assault. The University placed Casares on paid administrative leave. The IDS regrets these errors.
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