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IUSA passes four bills
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By Laurel Demkovich lfdemkov@indiana.edu | @laureldemkovich
The IU Student Association passed four resolutions at its meeting Tuesday, including ones creating a University honor code and amending requirements for student organizations. The University is proposing changes to requirements for student organizations that would make organizations choose their leadership regardless of candidatesâ beliefs, such as religion and politics. There has always been a requirement that organizations cannot discriminate against its members. However, the new requirements state student organizations cannot choose leaders based on beliefs. For example, a Christian organization cannot choose a leader just because he or she is a Christian, even though religion is an integral part of the organizationâs identity. The Student Relations Committee said this can deny organizations the ability to maintain the purpose and direction of most of its members. If a leader of an organization doesnât share the same beliefs as the majority of its members, it could cause unfair treatment toward those in the organization, the resolution said. âThis places an undue burden on organizations that are either political or religious,â said Courtney Sporleder, co-sponsor of the bill. âLeaders in this organization uphold the integrity of it.â The new policy the University is proposing would add the phrase âand seek leadershipâ to the current rule. In talks with the University, David Phillips, president of the religious organization Cru, said this has come to not only mean accepting and reviewing applications, but also not using personal beliefs when considering potential applicants. Phillips said Cru, and most other organizations on campus, have no problem with the policy in place now, without the line âseek leadership.â âEven if it werenât a requirement from the University, we would make sure that our organization is open to anyone,â Phillips said. But having this sense of openness can be problematic when choosing leaders. Cru, like many other organizations, is chartered by a national organization that has certain beliefs.
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IU catcher Ryan Fineman attempts to tag out Cincinnati player Treg Haberkorn during the eighth inning. IU lost 5-0 Tuesday at Bart Kaufman Field.
SHUTOUT Michael Hughes michhugh@indiana.edu | @MichaelHughes94
The Hoosiers werenât focused Tuesday night. They made repeated mistakes offensively and defensively. Sophomore outfielder Laren Eustace sensed the lack of focus when his teammates warmed up before the game. IU Coach Chris Lemonis noticed it when IU allowed three unearned runs all in the first five innings. IU couldnât recover from those early mistakes and eventually lost 5-0 against Cincinnati on Tuesday night at Bart Kaufman Field â the first time IU was shut out this season. Lemonis could only describe IUâs play one way. âJust uninspired,â Lemonis said. âI donât know if itâs too many games in too many days or what it is. But offensively our consistency and leadership is just poor at times.â There were four separate innings in which IU had runners in scoring position with less than two outs. One time, a runner on second got doubled off after a fly out to center field. Twice a batter struck out. Another time, a baserunner got
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thrown out when he tried to steal second with one out and a runner on third. There was also trouble defensively for the Hoosiers. It started in the second inning for IU and its freshman starting pitcher Pauly Milto, who overthrew the first baseman. A runner reached and eventually scored after an RBI single ricocheted off Milto and never left the infield. An inning later, another Milto throwing error allowed a baserunner to reach and eventually score on an RBI single that went off the glove of sophomore third baseman Isaiah Pasteur. Aside from the runners left on base, the Hoosiers struggled as a whole offensively. They only managed to piece together six hits Tuesday night. Eustace accounted for two of those hits and reached base his other two at-bats after a throwing error and being hit by a pitch. Cincinnati starting pitcher AJ Olasz picked up his first win of the season after pitching five shutout innings while striking out six
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batters and allowing three hits. He also retired eight straight Hoosier hitters at one point. âWe were swinging at pitches out of the zone, which is something we canât do,â Eustace said. âWe were doing a better job couple games ago at laying off those pitches, and weâre kind of reverting back to swinging at those pitches in the dirt.â If the problem Tuesday night was too many games in too many days, it will only get worse for the Hoosiers. They play four more games over the next five days, starting Wednesday night at home against Evansville. âWe have to get a little SEE BASEBALL, PAGE 6
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Southern band merges psych rock music and homegrown identity By James Freeborn jrfreebo@indiana.edu | @J_Freeborn
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John Whikehart discusses the question "What is progressive in politics?" during the Democratic primary debate for local candidates Tuesday evening at the Monroe County Public Library.
Democrats work to increase interest in local political race By Annie Garau agarau@indiana.edu | @agarau6
In the last primary election, Monroe County came in last place for voter turnout among 92 counties in Indiana, a state that was ranked last in the nation. Only 10.3 percent of the countyâs population voted, a statistic that was bemoaned by a speaker for Democracy for Monroe County, who spoke during the countyâs second democratic debate that took place Tuesday night. Itâs a statistic that suggests Monroe County residents donât really care about who fills local positions.
Low turnout was influenced, at least in part, by the disproportionately high number of students in the area, Monroe County resident Richard Linnemeier said. Many people register to vote during their college years, and then move out of the area, he said. Removing them from the registry is a process that sometimes takes a while, so their absence contributes to the skewed numbers, he said. Even so, voter turnout for local government positions is low in the state and in the country as a whole. Numbers have dropped to lower rates than they have been in any election since World War II,
according to the United States Election Project. âIâm appalled at how disinterested people are and how little they participate,â said Richardâs wife, Christine Linnemeier, who was born and raised in the county. Christine suggested there needs to be a change in how young people are taught about local government. The proposal was enhanced by the demographics of the debateâs audience: mostly senior citizens, with only three young people present who were there for an IU class SEE DEBATE, PAGE 6
Before Curtis Roush could make it to Bloomington, he had to face his girlfriendâs parents. Roush is a vocalist and guitarist for the Bright Light Social Hour, an Austin, Texas, psych rock group. They will perform Wednesday at the Bishop. The Bright Light Social Hour performed Tuesday in Ohio, where Roushâs girlfriendâs parents live. He said he was nervous for them to see his bandâs performance for the first time. âI havenât been nervous for a show in a long time,â he said. The Bright Light Social Hour has played countless shows all over the country in the past few years. Roush said this makes the cities tend to blend together in his head a bit. Roush, bassist and vocalist Jack OâBrien, and drum and synth player Jo Mirasole first started touring together in 2011. Music quickly became the focus of their lives, Roush said. âShows werenât just the big party we throw every month thatâs kind of like our release from the pressures of, like, grad school or something,â he said. The bandâs first tour stretched across the southern part of the country, from Texas to Florida and back again. âBecause we were just starting out as a band, we would typically stay with just friends and, like,
THE BRIGHT LIGHT SOCIAL HOUR Tickets $12 9:30 p.m. today, the Bishop folks we would meet at shows,â Roush said. Throughout this experience, he said the band observed a reoccurring theme of overworked, uninspired people subject to the challenges of the economic recession in the late 2000s. âThe instances of millennialaged folks doing careers and jobs that they felt really inspired and driven by seemed surprisingly rare,â he said. The band members tend to write about whatever theyâre sharing with each other at a given time, he said. Roush said this socio-political theme appears often in the bandâs 2015 album, âSpace Is Still the Place.â âWitnessing that struggle firsthand, you know, was kind of inspiring and made us want to address that a bit in our music,â he said. Music has the âpotential and gravitas to incite change, while reflecting the worldâs faults and follies,â according to the groupâs website. In addition to the plight of young southerners, the Bright Light Social Hour also draws inspiration from traditionally southern music like blues, gritty 1960s R&B SEE BRIGHT LIGHT, PAGE 6