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4th Street employees discuss parking By Avery Williams avefwill@iu.edu | @avery_faye

Parking illegally. Paying a monthly parking permit fee. Spending $10 a day to park at work. These are just some of the solutions employees who work near the closed Fourth Street garage have turned to when searching for a way to commute to work by car. The 33-year-old garage closed for structural repairs Jan. 2, and construction was originally scheduled to begin in April. Before the shutdown, many businesses near the garage would pay for employee parking spots, but now employees say they’re responsible for creating their own parking plan. Elan Salon owner Alison McGlothlin said she rides her bike to work now that the garage closed. McGlothlin said she is glad the new garage is being built, but she would like to know the status of the project. She said many of her employees now pay a $28 monthly fee to park in a lot across from the Monroe County Convention Center. However, she said the lot has limited spaces, and a newer salon employee was on a waitlist for months before obtaining a spot. McGlothlin said the employee was paying $1 an hour to park at a meter. SEE PARKING, PAGE5

JOY BURTON | IDS IU president Michael McRobbie acknowledges an audience member at the annual State of the University address. McRobbie revealed IU is renaming one of the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering buildings after past IU president Myles Brand.

IU President McRobbie gives the Bicentennial State of the University address. By Kyra Miller kymill@iu.edu | @kyra_ky94

IU alumna Courtney Cox Cole dies at 48 By Will Trubshaw wtrubsha@iu.edu | @Willtrubs

Courtney Cox Cole, an IU alumna and former twosport athlete, died of cancer at the age of 48 on Sunday in Cox Cole Noblesville, Ind. According to an IU Athletics press release, Cole played for both IU women’s basketball and IU women’s golf while she was a student at IU from 1990-93. With women’s basketball, Cox made 53 career appearances, including 22 starts. During her freshman season, she finished second on the team in scoring at 9.1 points per game, and earned an Academic All-Big Ten honor in 1991 as part of the WNIT runner-up team. “Our sincerest sympathies are with the family of Courtney Cox Cole,” IU women’s basketball coach Teri Moren said in an IU Athletics press release. “I played against Courtney in both high school and college and remember her as a fierce competitor. She took that same attitude as she battled cancer for the last six years. Courtney remained positive throughout her fight and became an inspiration to so many. She will go down in history as one of Indiana’s greatest to ever play, but more importantly she will be remembered as a genuine, funny, successful business woman and as a loving mother, daughter and sister.” Cole twice made an NCAA tournament appearance for the women’s golf team (1992,1993), earned three Academic All-Big Ten selections, three-time All-Big Ten honors and was a two-time NGCA Scholar Athlete. “Indiana Women’s Golf mourns the loss of a great person and great Hoosier in Courtney Cox Cole,” IU women’s golf coach Clint Wallman said in an IU Athletics press release. “Courtney was a talented golfer who qualified for the NCAA Championships twice, but more than that, she was a fantastic teammate and leader. She will be missed by all who knew her and Indiana Women’s Golf extends our deepest sympathies to her family.”

IU President Michael A. McRobbie discussed academic transformation, the importance and future of IU Collections, renovations, tuition affordability and other issues during the annual State of the University address Tuesday in Presidents Hall. Affordability and student debt One of IU’s main goal is to keep education affordable, McRobbie said. IU has done this is by adopting a flat rate for undergraduate students. This locks the price for students taking between 12 and 18 credit hours per semester. McRobbie said IU has also seen a 227% rise in financial assistance for students since 2007. This has helped IU have the second-lowest net cost for attendance in the Big Ten. McRobbie said he was glad to welcome IU’s largest and most diverse class in history with more than 16,162 freshmen on all campuses and a record number of minority and low income students. “We are truly the people’s university,” McRobbie said. IU is also working hard to combat the problem of student debt, McRobbie said.

IU has tried to solve this with student loan letters. These letters clearly inform students about the consequences of borrowing money. Since the introduction of these letters, student debt has decreased 19%, annual borrowing has decreased by $126.4 million, and Indiana has adopted legislation that requires every public university to issue these letters to all students with loan debt. Thirteen other states have also adopted this legislation since 2015. “IU has sought to reduce costs but without sacrificing quality or reducing the high level of services that students expect of us, ” McRobbie said. Academic transformation Starting in 2011, IU saw the establishment of five new schools at IU-Bloomington. These schools include the Media School, the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Affairs, Wright School of Education, the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture and Design, which will be officially named next month, and the School of Public Health, which was the first school of public health in Indiana. McRobbie gives credit to President Myles Brand, who established the School of Informatics in 1999, for leading the way

for all of these schools to be formed. In honor of this, the School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering building on 10th Street and Woodlawn Avenue will be renamed Myles Brand Hall. IU Online Many in academic circles argue about the merits and consequences of online education, McRobbie said. Some believe it could spell the end of the traditional model of education, but IU sees online education not as a replacement of the traditional model, but the merging of online education into a hybrid model, McRobbie said. IU Online was established in 2012. As of the 2019-2020 school year more than 31,254 students are taking at least one IU Online course. This is more than a third of the total student body. 8,768 students are exclusively taking online courses, about one-tenth of IU’s total enrollment. IU Online offers 135 degrees and certificate programs and over 2,500 courses. “Through IU Online, the university has firmly cemented itself as the state’s online education powerhouse for fouryear and graduate online education,” McRobbie said. SEE MCROBBIE, PAGE 5

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Jerome Hunter is ready to make his presence felt By Matt Cohen mdc1@iu.edu | @Matt_Cohen_

Jerome Hunter has never missed a full season of basketball. He spent his freshman season watching from the bench, unable to contribute when his team needed it. And for him, that hurt. Hunter missed the 2018-19 season with a lower leg injury. He worked to get back while being out of the spotlight. Videos surfaced of Hunter putting shots up in Assembly Hall after games and in high school gyms over the summer. He worked over the summer at home in Ohio with his trainer, Andreas James, among others. “Before I got hurt, I was doing really good,” Hunter said. “I thought I could help the team. I was really fitting in with the team. Now I feel like I’m better, and I feel like I know my role, and I know what coach is going to expect from me this year. Last year as a freshman I didn’t know what to expect.” Now, he’s 100% back. He’s cleared for all basketball activities. He’s once again building chemistry with his teammates, something many players stressed has improved since last year. “I’m excited to be back with my teammates,” Hunter said. “Seeing them practice last year and see-

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Then-freshman forward Jerome Hunter guards the ball away from then-freshman guard Romeo Langford during a scrimmage at Hoosier Hysteria on Sept. 29, 2018, at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.

ing all the hard-fought games they went through. I was motivated to get back.” While on the sidelines, Hunter worked on his game the only way he was able: watching his team play.

Hunter watched the IU film to learn his own team. But he spent his season being a student of the game, watching as much basketball as he could at multiple levels. “I was watching college games,”

Hunter said. “I’m trying to see how the game is played and what I’m missing when I’m out there. I watch NBA too. There are great guys in the SEE HUNTER, PAGE 5


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