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Monday, March 25, 2019 | Indiana Daily Student | idsnews.com
THE VOTERS GUIDE TO THE 2019-2020
IUSG ELECTIONS Student government campaigns often tout the same issues, focused on student well-being, transparency and diversity and inclusion. Students must decide which ticket can actually implement its policies
beyond student government executive election campaign. Two teams will appear on the ballot this year: Vision, spearheaded by presidential candidate Isabel Mishkin, and Bridge IU, led by presidential candidate
Vision
Bridge President Mackenzie North, junior
President Isabel Mishkin, junior
Opens Wednesday morning Closes Thursday night The link to vote will be emailed out. VOTER GUIDE BY JENNA WILLIAMS
Bridge IU plans to work with the IU Health Bloomington Hospital, IU Health Center, administration, local and state government and more to create access to drugs that prevent narcotic overdoses. The ticket also wants to focus on the development of scooter and bike
safety policies and implement more accessible and efficient bus routes. Vision’s health and well-being policies include advocating for Wright Residence Hall improvement and renovation, the implementation of the suicide hotline number on the back of Crimson Cards, in-
creased education on gym equipment in the Intramural Center and the Student Recreational Sports Center, a dietary facts sheet for diabetic students and increased campus lighting to provide safety and comfort for students walking on campus at night.
Bridge IU’s campaign platform plans to advocate for minority and international students on campus, focusing on improving their transition to IU. The ticket also wants to add disability-friendly gym equipment in the SRSC and IC to ensure that the campus is fully accessible. Vision proposes establishing a Middle and Near
Eastern Cultural Center, creating faculty resources for working with minority and international students and creating a Herman B Wells Library International Flag Display. The ticket also wants to rename Jordan Hall, named after David Starr Jordan, a known eugenicist. The ticket aims to provide event space for unhoused
National Pan-Hellenic Council and Multicultural Greek Council fraternities and sororities, establish a prayer and meditation room in Wells Library, promote LGBTQ groups within schools, create a new space for La Casa Latino Cultural Center and implement more inclusive programs for international students after orientation.
Bridge IU is focusing on bringing together students from different backgrounds and schools on campus. The team’s student opportunity policies include providing students with rÊsumÊ and career building services and organizing workshops in order to increase
students’ knowledge of off-campus living, including working with landlords. After talking with students who spoke of the lack of resources for students interested in the music industry and music business, Vision plans to work with IU
to create a Music Business Program. The ticket also plans to advocate for allowing three-credit hour classes taken abroad to count for World Culture credit for students outside of the College for Arts and Sciences.
Bridge plans to implement IUSG town halls and office hours and create interactive events for students to become more involved with student government. Presidential candidate Mackenzie North
specifically spoke of the need to make IUSG more familiar to students on campus, reflecting on her time spent in IUSG Congress when some of her peers didn’t know what the organization was. Vision wants to institute monthly IUSG town
halls, increase administrative transparency and educate freshmen on greek organizations. The ticket plans to improve communication between greek organizations and IU administration.
Bridge IU proposes advocating for students with food insecurities by working with RPS to create an option in dining halls for students to donate money and meal points. The ticket also plans to create a more sustainable campus by working with agricultural and sustainability groups to use IU’s greenhouses and gardens for fresh food in the dining halls.
Vision wants to increase sustainability on campus. They plan to educate students on how and what to recycle, introduce composting in all dining facilities, promote transparency in IU’s recycling processes, advocate for a plastic-free campus and create a sustainable living orientation event. The ticket plans to work toward amending the Indiana Lifeline Law. The law currently
protects students only under the influence of alchohol and offers limited immunity to the student calling but not to the individual who requires help. Vision wants to work toward the inclusion of students under the influence of marijuana and opioids, as well as the protection of all individuals involved. The ticket proposes the continued advocacy of hate crime legislation in Indiana.
LOCAL AND STATE FOCUS
IUSG AND ADMINISTRATION REFORMS
STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES AND ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
Vice President of Administration Matt Stein, junior
Vice President of Congress Mackenzie Austin, junior Treasurer Taegan Myers, junior
VOTING
EQUITY AND INCLUSION
Vice President of Administration Mihir Barot, junior
Vice President of Congress Megan Miller, junior Treasurer Sai Mandala, junior
Mackenzie North. Elections are Wednesday and Thursday, and students will receive an invitation to vote via email. The winning ticket is expected to be announced Friday morning.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 needed back up. The strong smell of weed spilled out of the building the moment Wagner opened the first floor door. One officer stood in the hallway next to two girls sitting on the ground. Two other officers searched the room. They finally came out with a small bag of marijuana. It had been hidden with a lot of shoes, which is why officers took so long at the scene. The girls told officers it was their first time smoking. Officers didn’t press legal charges, but Wagner told the girls they might have to do Oasis classes. “At the end of the day, we’re not here to take every-
one to jail,� he said. With the bag of marijuana in the trunk of his car, Wagner drove back to the station. He carefully transferred it to another bag and weighed it on a scale — 1.4 grams. Around 1 a.m. other officers received a report of a rape outside Eigenmann Hall. It was reported by a third party. Sgt. Kyle Moulden said police believed the rape happened a little before 8 p.m. Saturday. Detectives are currently investigating and looking for a suspect. After speaking to Moulden around 1:30 a.m., Wagner and other officers were sent to investigate the area. “We’re not looking for anything specific,� Wagner said. “We’re looking for any-
thing at all.� Wagner and another officer shined their flashlights in every bush, tree and trash can, leaves crunching and twigs snapping as they trekked around the perimeter of the residence hall. Two officers checked the other side of the building. After finding nothing, Wagner suggested they search a wooded area behind the Student Central building on North Union Street. They only found a rope, which they decided was unrelated to the rape. Next stop was the train tracks across from the Student Recreational Sports Center. Wagner carefully walked along, trying not to slip on the rocks or trip on the rails in the 2 a.m. darkness.
Two other officers had gone ahead, their flashlights small dots in the distance. Officers heard a rustling in the bushes — just a possum. Then a confusing yell came over their radios. The two dots from the other officers’ flashlights were moving back Wagner’s direction fast. They were running. Wagner sprinted down the tracks. He jumped in his car and sped back to Eigenmann Hall, where the call came from. At least six other squad cars were at the scene, all with lights flashing. Curious Eigenmann residents peeked out their windows. An IU-Notify alert about the reported rape had been sent out almost two hours ago.  A few minutes later,
Wagner returned and put a handcuffed man in the back of the car. The officers questioned him and two other men. The men were unrelated to the rape case officers had been sent to investigate. The men had been found in the area and ran when they saw foot patrol officers coming. One allegedly pushed an officer and another officer had to tackle a man to the ground to handcuff him. Police ran a drug test on a powder substance found in a red fanny pack at the scene. They were unable to determine what it was at the time. Â A little after 3 a.m. Wagner drove the man, 19-yearold Jacob Jackson, to the Monroe County Correctional Center. Two other officers fol-
lowed behind with IU freshmen Alec Martin and Brady Tolva. While the officers filled out paperwork of the men’s charges, their belongings were bagged, and they were taken through a door. Jackson was booked on the preliminary charges of public intoxication, minor consumption of alcohol, resisting law enforcement and battery for allegedly pushing an officer. Martin was charged with minor consumption of alcohol, and Tolva was charged with resisting law enforcement, public intoxication and minor consumption of alcohol.  After putting them in jail, Wagner went back to the station to do paperwork.  “A lot of being a cop is hurry up and wait,� he said.
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