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Teacher recalls teaching on 9/11
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By Annie Garau agarau@indiana.edu | @agarau6
On September 11, 2001, Sallyann Murphey was driving to her second day of work as a high school teacher. She had been a journalist and producer for the British Broadcasting Company for many years and had started teaching at Harmony School because it was where her daughter went, and she said she thought it would be a fun thing to try. She said she remembered it being a gorgeous morning when she heard the radio broadcast announcing the event that would change the course of United States history, the very subject she was just learning to teach. When Murphey walked into school, everyone was staring at a television that had been pulled into the hallway. She said they watched the first tower crumble, seemingly out of nowhere. * * * Because Murphey was the social studies teacher, the shocked and scared faces turned to her for what to do next. She told them they had a choice. “We can either call your parents and all go home, which gives the terrorists exactly what they want,” she said, understanding the motive from years of journalism. “Or we can all stay here and find out who these people are and how this happened.” In the unconventional style the school is known for, the children voted instead of the teachers. They chose to stay. Murphey, who had taught only one day in her life, decided her former profession was more suited for a situation like this. With the help of her high school students, she transformed a classroom into a newsroom. “It gave them objective distance,” she said. “It kind of removed the personal. There were kids asking, ‘Where’s my mom?’ ‘Where’s my dad?’ Putting them in a role where they had to calm down and figure out what was going on was exactly what they needed at the time.” Together they looked at maps, trying to predict where a plane might hit next. They wondered whether Sears Tower would be a target. Though Murphey would never broadcast the findings of their investigation on international radio, she said their reporting that day felt much more important. SEE 9/11, PAGE 6
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Protestors march down Kirkwood Avenue and chant “Yes means yes, and no means no,” on Thursday night in a rally against rape. The event was organized by the group Students Against State Violence.
ENRAGED Protestors rally against rape culture By Lindsay Moore liramoor@indiana.edu | @_lindsaymoore
Students Against State Violence wore all black and bandanas around their faces during their Demonstration Against Patriarchal Assault rally Thursday night. The group gathered in front of the Sample Gates for a soapbox-style forum on rape culture at IU and in Bloomington. They marched down Kirkwood Avenue in front of bars in response to a recent reported rape behind Kilroy’s Dunnkirk on August 29. The group’s flyer claimed an IU Police Department officer witnessed the crime but did not arrest the perpetrator, who walked free. “The investigation is ongoing, but it’s not as simple as one might think,” IUPD Lt. Craig Munroe said. “The underlying theme of this is consent — whether consent was given.” According to the police report, an officer came across the alleged victim and perpetrator in an alleyway. No arrests have been made at this time. “I understand the concern that people have, and, if you look at it and you don’t have all the facts, then it’s very easy to think something is amiss,” Munroe said. “I can tell you that not all the facts are out in the public yet because it is an ongoing investigation, and that’s probably what’s causing the confusion.” At 11 p.m. the rally blocked traffic in front of Kilroy’s on Kirkwood with protesters yelling “Yes means yes, no means no.” IU doctoral candidate Shadia Siliman joined the rally holding a handmade sign outside KOK. Siliman’s dissertation is on rape culture. “I’m alarmed by the rape culture at IU and I’m joining this group of people ready to do something about it,” Siliman said. “I’m invested in doing something about it.” The rally targeted the University’s “institutionalized
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Top People gathered Thursday night at the Sample Gates to rally against rape culture. The event was organized by the group Students Against State Violence. Bottom Protestors block the intersection of Kirkwood Avenue and Dunn Street on Thursday night, after flares were thrown onto the patio of the Upstairs Bar and on the roof of Kilroys on Kirkwood. The flares were then thrown back into the crowd.
Hoosiers take streak Big Red Eats Green encourages local food to Penn State By Carley Lanich
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Junior goalkeeper Colin Webb doesn’t know about the streak. Sophomore defender Grant Lillard doesn’t know about the streak either, except that it’s ending this weekend. IU Coach Todd Yeagley hasn’t told his team IU hasn’t scored against Penn State in 290 minutes because it’s not important to him, he said ahead of IU’s Big Ten opener Sunday at Penn State. “The guys really aren’t thinking about it,” Yeagley said. “There’s a little bitterness in their mouth. We don’t really have to hammer that into them, and they just kind of feel it and know it.” Webb said there’s no extra pressure for him to keep Penn State off the scoreboard because of the Hoosiers’ history against the Nittany Lions. He just said he’s confident in how his defense has played in front of him. “I think that this group is confident with how our defense is performing right now,” Webb said. “We’ve had good defensive shape, been really connected and been limiting the other team’s chances.” Yeagley said he wasn’t worrying about the streak either. Instead, he’s worrying about the basics. He said the Big Ten season is like a season within a season, so he had the Hoosiers practicing the same drills they were at the start of the season SEE IUMS, PAGE 6
Chile peppers, gluten-free mallow chip cookies, heirloom tomatoes and more could be found just outside the IU Art Museum on Thursday. IU’s Office of Sustainability brought green-eating to students as a part of the fifth annual Big Red Eats Green food festival. The event, which happened from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the lawn in front of the art museum, encouraged students to eat from local growers and support sustainable food practices. Senior Cory Lamping, an intern with the IU Office of Sustainability, began planning the event beginning in July. He said one of the goals of the festival was to showcase local vendors and growers from off campus so students, especially freshmen, can learn more about food organizations in Bloomington they ordinarily would not find without leaving campus. “It’s really about bringing it to them,” Lamping said. “Making sure they know what’s available, making sure they know how awesome the food scene in Bloomington is, how important sustainable food is for the thriving of a community and hopefully get them out to the farmer’s market on Saturdays, out to these local restaurants that are doing a lot of really great work.” This year’s festival, which was smaller than in years past, featured 11 vendor booths and two local growers. All businesses at the event were required to either sell food grown locally or demonstrate
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Susan Welsand, owner of the Chile Woman, shows students different kinds of pepper on display in her booth during the Big Red Eats Green on Thursday afternoon.
sustainable practices in their work. Lamping said usually about 800 students walked through the festival and most vendors sell out of their product by the end of the event. Vendors and growers were told to keep their items small in portion sizes and less than $5, so students could experience a sampling of the foods at the festival. Local favorites like Soma, Laughing Planet Cafe and Upland Brewery were in attendance, selling one of Lamping’s favorite foods at the event, Upland Brewery’s tacos.
Upland uses locally produced pork in its Bahn Mi tacos, which were sold at the event. “We want to be a part of the local community,” Chris Swartzentruber, of Upland Brewery said. “If we were to get factory farm food from all around the United States, then it would make us just like everyone else. If we’re actually getting good products in from the local community that we live in, then it supports the community and also you can give good food to the people.” In addition to local eateries, Big Red Eats Green also featured
growers like the Chile Woman and Heartland Family Farm that frequently appear at the Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market. Teresa Birtles, owner of Heartland Family Farm, said her farm has come to Big Red Eats Green every year. Heartland Family Farm sells fruits and vegetables grown free of chemicals. Birtles said she believed students are becoming more informed about the food they eat. “We love selling real food to SEE BREG, PAGE 6