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Editors Laurel Demkovich & Nyssa Kruse campus@idsnews.com

Candidates urge students to vote By Bailey Cline baicline@indiana.edu | @baicline

MATT RASNIC | IDS

Matt Hunzinger speaks to students and staff Wednesday night. Hunzinger is a staff writer with The Onion.

Onion writers speak at IMU By Sarah Verschoor sverscho@iu.edu | @SarahVerschoor

When the Onion staff writers Mike Gillis and Matt Hunziker began presenting in the Whittenberger Auditorium on Wednesday night, they listed the organization’s notable staff members. These members included Herman Melville, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, OJ Simpson and Bashar alAssad. After the joke, Gillis and Hunziker continued to make the students, faculty and Bloomington residents that attended laugh. Playing off each other’s jokes throughout the talk, Gillis and Hunziker spoke jokingly about the Onion’s history, awards, notable staff and important facts and figures. They even noted their favorite headlines, which included “NASA Completes 52 Year Mission to Find, Kill God” and “‘You’re My Best Friend,’ Says Obama to Drone That Appears Outside Bedroom Window

Every Night.” The two spoke seriously as they explained their writing process. Onion writers start with their headlines, then use the headline to create drafts which go through rounds of editing. For the most part, though, the writers don’t avoid any given topic that might be considered controversial. “There’s really no limit to how insane something could be,” Hunziker said. “No matter how obviously crazy you think something is. A common reason ideas get shot down is if something seems too real.” A portion of the lecture which garnered loud laughter from the audience was when the two discussed general reactions to their pieces and moments when the Onion readers mistook their satirical articles as real news. The Onion ran an op-ed about Donald Trump titled, “When You’re Feeling Low, Just Remember I’ll Be Dead

In About 15 Or 20 Years,” and Gillis read the response from Trump’s special counsel to the crowd. “This article is an absolutely disgusting piece that lacks any place in journalism, even in your Onion,” he read, causing the audience to erupt in a large roar. Freshman Kenlynn Albright said she came to gain insight on the Onion writer’s approach to journalism but also because she likes the Onion’s political coverage. “All the political stuff usually makes me angry, but the Onion’s coverage makes me feel better,” she said. After their presentation, the two opened up the dialogue for a question-andanswer portion in which the audience asked about everything from more details about their writing process to how the writers became involved with the Onion. One man even asked if the writers thought what they were doing was like authentic journalism. “It’s somewhere in between,” Hunziker said.

“We’re trying to find salient takes on real world events. It is the same sort of thing as drafting an article.” Freshman Olivia Gennaro said one of the main reasons she came to the event was because she saw was curious about the Onion writers’ process. “I like that it’s completely satirical, even the weather,” she said. Connecting students to entertaining and offering students insight into the Onion’s writing process was part of the reason the Union Board chose to offer this event, said Beth Nethery, Union Board director of performance and entertainment.. “Union Board has been trying lately to bring both relevant, yet still entertaining lectures and events to campus,” she said. “With election season coming up and so else much going on in the world at the time, and with the Onion being so popular, especially among our age, it is a really cool lecture to bring to students.”

Panel discusses addiction recovery By Emily Miles elmiles@iu.edu | @EmilyLenetta

There’s an 18-headed monster, Sen. Jim Merritt, RIndianapolis, said, and we’re playing whack-a-mole. The monster is Indiana’s multi-faceted substance addiction problem, and the game of whack-a-mole is a concordant effort to fight this problem. The panel discussion in which Merritt spoke Wednesday evening was Pathways to Recovery, organized by OASIS and Students in Recovery. It attracted an audience of students and locals ready to learn about campus and community resources for harm reduction and addiction recovery. Panelists included a recovering student an local and state nonprofit representatives, Merritt and Dr. Diana Ebling. Quinn Bush, a founding member of Students in Recovery, said he realized he had a substance problem within a few months of coming to IU. The first steps of his recovery required time off from school, but when he came back, he reached out to OASIS director and panel moderator Jackie Daniels and fellow recovering students for the support community he knew would benefit him. The result was Students in Recovery, which Daniels said will begin holding office hours in the IMU within the next month. Daniels also said, in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, recovering students can register with the IU Office of Disability Services for Students. Doing so allows them to balance classes with ensuring they remain substance-free. As a part of the Health Center, OASIS is only one of the departments focused on harm reduction and recovery.

Local Democrats met with College Democrats at IU on Wednesday to explain their campaign and election goals, as well as to urge them to go to the polls. Students listened to the state- and local-level candidates, asking questions so they could better understand what each candidate, specifically, represented. “These are the people that you want to know because they’re going to be interacting with you,” IU Democrats President Terry Tossman said. “They’re going to be making a lot of decisions that really matter.” Because all of the candidates at the event were Democratic, they shared similar views on politics. Each was running for a different type of office or sector. IU Academic advisor Mark Fraley, who is involved with the Monroe County Democratic Party, told students if they wished to vote completely Democratic, they should also be conscious that the straight ticket does not cover some of the locallevel positions. Three are in a separate area of the ballot. “Make sure to remember to vote D plus three,” Fraley said. Some of the candidates running for office, such as Penny Githens, candidate for State Representative District 60, and John Gregg, candidate for Governor of Indiana, were unable to make it to the event. However, IU students Morgan Murphy and Vincent Halloran represented both candidates, discussing their stances and goals. Githens is focused on education and clearing up construction around town, Murphy told the students. Halloran said Gregg is more focused on LGBT rights and the war on women. “I really want to make sure Indiana will be blue again,” Halloran said. “If you could come in and make a difference, this is the year to do it and this is the year to get involved.” Candidate for U.S. Senator Evan Bayh was also unable to make it, but his representative Dustin Collins talked about some of Bayh’s

accomplishments. Bayh played a crucial role in developing the 21st Century Scholars Program. “I know a ton of your friends and colleagues on campus would not be able to afford a school like IU without that program, and that’s all possible because of Evan Bayh,” Collins said. Democrat Jessica McClellan advocated her candidacy for Treasurer. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and claims it has helped her in her work. “You work with everybody, whether they’re Democratic or Republican,” McClellan said. Running for State Representative District 46 is Democrat Bill Breeden, who had not originally planned to run for office. Breeden found out about a bill written and passed that defined a fetus as a fertilized egg. He did not agree, and he told students he woke up in the middle of the night and decided it was time to get involved. He submitted his file that day, the day it was due, with 45 minutes to spare. “Candidates don’t win elections — people win elections. We need you, we need your help,” Breeden said. Another Democratic candidate works at the IU Media School. Lecturer Matt Pierce is running for state representative. He has been involved in politics since his days in college, even helping to elect one of his friends at the time to the state legislature. Pierce talked about ways in which he wants to see Indiana improve. “We’re going to have a hard time getting there with the jokers that run this state right now,” Pierce said. “Tell your friends we have the power, and we have to use it.” Also running for state representative is Steve Lindsey, who wants to represent District 62. He said he believes everyone should vote. He reiterated points the other candidates made. “Government was created for the people, by the people,” Lindsey said. “We haven’t had that for eight years. Here’s a chance to give it back to the people.”

2 renovated dorms to open for fall 2017 From IDS Reports

EMILY ECKELBARGER | IDS

Indiana Senator Jim Merritt speaks at the Pathways to Recovery panel discussion Wednesday night at the IMU. Panel members discussed legislative, medical and volunteer efforts to curtail the opioid epidemic.

“I learned a lot firsthand about the denial that goes along with addiction,” said Ebling, Health Center medical director, in reference to her father, who suffered with alcoholism. “We’re trying to meet a student where they’re at and provide them with a non-judgmental atmosphere.” Her greatest concern is the normality of binge drinking, but others in the panel focused on opioids and naloxone. One of those panelists was Overdose Lifeline, Inc. board member Aaron Kochar. Overdose Lifeline is an Indiana nonprofit addressing the opioid epidemic through education, harm reduction, resources and support. “My personal goal is that everybody has naloxone and can use it,” Kochar said. “It is going to keep someone alive. It’s not treating addiction so much as it’s giving them a lifeline in that moment.” That lifeline, he said,

would lead to treatment. To achieve Kochar’s goal, Overdose Lifeline had to begin pushing for legislation. “Fortunately, we found an avenue in Senator Merritt,” Kochar said. Merritt championed legislation called Aaron’s Law after the Overdose Lifeline director’s son, who overdosed on opioids in 2013. The law allowed addicts and their families to access naloxone and provided legal immunity for prescribing doctors, as well as those administrating the medicine. Merritt then went a step further to help make naloxone an over-the-counter medication, available at local pharmacies like CVS and the Health Center. The legislative work also opened doors for the Indiana Recovery Alliance, a Bloomington-based nonprofit which provides free safer use and overdose reversal training, as well as triage services, treatment referrals and supplies like clothes

Students struggling with addiction can take several local pathways to recovery: IU Health Center OASIS CAPS Sobriety in Action Students In Recovery Indiana Recovery Alliance and first aid kits, among other things. “Because of the criminalization and stigma, this has to be the lowest barrier possible,” panelist and IRA representative Chris Abert said. “Or it’s just not going to work.” He said the fastest rising demographic for opioid addiction, which typically starts at the prescription drug level, is 18- to 25-yearolds — the same age as most college students. “There’s no magic bullet to this,” Abert said. “It has to be a concordance of wellfunded solutions.” That concordance is what the campus and the community and the state are working to build.

Students living on campus for the 2017-2018 school year will have two new housing options: Goodbody and Memorial Halls, collectively called Wells Quad. According to the Residential Programs and Services website, these two newly renovated residence centers, located near Ballantine Hall, will include two-bedroom apartments, two-bedroom suites with a shared private bathroom, single rooms with a private bathroom and double rooms with shared bathrooms accessible by card. Students returning to oncampus living will be able to reserve a space in these halls Oct. 15-Nov. 18 during the open sign-up period. There will be room for about 188 students, according to an IU release. A dining hall similar to the Bookmark[et] Eatery in the Wells Library will also

open in Wells Quad. Goodbody and Memorial Halls were originally women’s dorms in the early- to mid-1900s before being converted to academic buildings. Due to housing shortages in recent years, the Board of Trustees approved their renovation back into dorms in 2014, and construction began in 2016. According to an Aug. 18 story in the Indiana Daily Student, RPS housed around 180 students in lounges last academic year. RPS lowered that number to around 15 students this year after changing the contract renewal process and reassessing room occupancies. Renovations on the Wells Quad dorms cost around $30 million, according to an IU release, and the dining hall construction cost around $5 million. Nyssa Kruse

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