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Culture Shock lineup unveiled By Jack Evans jackevan@indiana.edu | @JackHEvans
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Hiker Diana McClure points to the destruction of the Tecumseh Trail on Thursday at the Morgan Monroe State Forest. Conflict has stirred between forest visitors and the Department of Natural Resources, the agency responsible for bulldozing the trail.
After the Department of Natural Resources widened trails in Morgan-Monroe State Forest, hikers spoke out against the demolition. By Lyndsay Jones jonesly@indiana.edu | @lyndsayjonesy
hen several hikers arrived at the Tecumseh Trail in Morgan-Monroe State Forest earlier this month, they weren’t prepared for what lay ahead of them. The hikers could only walk for a couple of minutes before they ran into trees that had been sawed down and a section of trail that had been widened significantly from its previously narrow width. Diana McClure was one of these hikers. McClure said she has been hiking in Morgan-Monroe nearly every other week for 25 years. What she saw when she went to the trail Feb. 6 alarmed her, she said. “They bulldozed our trail,”
McClure said. “It’s just utter devastation.” The Tecumseh Trail was originally a hiking trail — no pavement, no gravel and room enough for only one person to walk in either direction. She said the hikers had not expected to see changes to the trail that were this significant, although they had heard a bike trail might be put into the forest. On Thursday, she surveyed the changes. “It’s widened,” McClure said. “Two cars could easily pass each other here.” She stopped walking and shrugged. A tree with a white guide mark stood next to a pile of trees that had been bulldozed. Even if the trail would have been walkable in that condition, she said she didn’t know where
the next marked tree was because it had been taken down, too. State Forester John Seifert said the DNR was in a “tough situation” regarding the trail. “We build trails all the time,” Seifert said “Our objective is forest management.” Seifert said the development of the new bike trail wasn’t meant to destroy the Tecumseh Trail or any other hiking trails. It just happened to overlap at points on three different trails, Seifert said. Some of the apparent tree destruction near the trail was just part of the management of the forest, he said. “We have to remove trees before April 1 because of bats,” Seifert said. If foresters disturb bats in trees before then, the bats will have
Video story online Go to idsnews.com to see more of the Morgan-Monroe State Forest’s widened trails and bulldozed trees. nothing to eat, as their main food source, bugs, aren’t really around until spring and summer months. “We have all these constraints we have to work under,” Seifert said. McClure and other concerned hikers reached out to the Department of Natural Resources after Gary Boehle, the leader of a central Indiana hiking group, sent a message urging them to do so. “DNR has to hear from the people that the changes aren’t welcome,” Boehle said in an email to the group. SEE FOREST, PAGE 6
Since its inception 30 years ago, Culture Shock, student radio station WIUX’s annual free spring music festival, has transitioned from exclusively showcasing local acts to balancing local and high-profile touring bands. Neon Indian, Whitney and White Reaper are the three headliners WIUX announced Friday. Six local artists are featured in the 2016 Culture Shock lineup. The daylong festival will take place April 9 in Dunn Meadow. After expanding to three headlining acts in recent years, the station added more acts to maintain the local feel the festival has historically had, WIUX Special Events Director Ben Wittkugel said. “It’s really about the locals, too, and I think all the bands really enjoy playing,” he said. “It’s a big onetwo punch — just an entire day of really good stuff.” Those locals include bands ranging from noise rock outfit Dasher to lo-fi pop group HOOPS. The diversity within the lineup gives it a different feel from previous years and makes it a bill to rival past festivals, Wittkugel said. The headliners should appeal to the festival’s audience in many ways, he said. Top headliner Neon Indian, which released its most recent album, “VEGA INTL. Night School,” in October, has been in the public eye long enough to have name recognition even for casual fans of indie music. “I think it’s really cool because they were one of the big indie buzz bands in like 2008, and they’ve still been able to keep their groove going,” Wittkugel said. The other headliners aren’t as long-standing, but Wittkugel said they’ll appeal to listeners for other reasons. White Reaper is young and energetic, he said, and its 2015 album “White Reaper Does it Again” was its most high-profile release to date. Whitney recently signed to Bloomington-based record label Secretly Canadian. Wittkugel said the band’s lineup, which includes former members of Smith Westerns and Unknown Mortal Orchestra, gives it name recognition despite being a fairly new band. “They’ve also taken it to another level,” he said. “It’s so, so, so good. There’s a lot of stuff in the music people can get behind.” Both White Reaper and Whitney are Midwestern bands SEE LINEUP, PAGE 6
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Nursing students will care for dying patients By Nyssa Kruse nakruse@indiana.edu | @NyssaKruse
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Sophomore guard Tyra Buss attempts to drive against Iowa’s Tania Davis. IU lost 76-73.
Hoosiers’ win streak snapped By Taylor Lehman trlehman@indiana.edu | @trlehmanIDS
IU was down by 15 at halftime in Iowa City. The Hawkeyes had gone on two separate runs Sunday, 15-0 and 10-0, and outscored IU 24-8 in the second quarter. From then on, IU played from behind, trying to extend its fivegame win streak and maintain a third-place standing in the Big Ten. But Iowa hung onto the lead,
downing the Hoosiers 76-73. “I’m disappointed, especially in that second quarter,” IU Coach Teri Moren said. “That’s the quarter we really dug ourselves a hole. Not that we haven’t been there before, but we needed to be better.” IU outscored Iowa in every quarter aside from the second, including in the second half when the Hoosiers were staging their comeback. The third quarter began with an 8-0 run by IU, the start of a second half in which
IOWA 76, IU 73 Points Cahill, 22 Rebounds Cahill, 14 Assists Gassion/McBride, 4 IU outscored Iowa 45-33. The Hoosiers had dwindled the lead down to four points at six different times in the second half and faced a three-point deficit with 15.4 seconds left. IU needed a three. SEE BASKETBALL, PAGE 6
As a critical care nurse, Greg Carter saw pained and dying people throughout his career. Now, as a clinical assistant professor in the IU School of Nursing, Carter said the idea of people dying alone keeps him up at night. No One Dies Alone, a program potentially starting in Bloomington this summer or fall, would work to end this worry by providing people with a companion during the last 24 hours of their lives. “I think, just because someone is leaving this world, we still owe it to them to be compassionate and caring,” said junior Mackenzie Reetz, a nursing student working to start the program in Bloomington. Reetz initially tried to start NODA after taking a class her sophomore year that addressed death in health care. She volunteered at a hospital in Indianapolis with the program and wanted to bring it to Bloomington. NODA started at a hospital in Oregon and the program now has affiliates across the country. This year, Reetz renewed her efforts with Carter’s help. Reetz is now in the process of putting together training information and setting up contacts with IU Health Bloomington Hospital. Reetz said she hopes the program will have trials this summer using nursing students before integrating the program into nurs-
ing students’ clinical rotations in the fall. Participants in the program will be called for several-hour shifts with patients roughly 24 hours away from death. Reetz said their duties could include reading to them, playing music or providing comfort in other ways. “It’s not necessarily these grand actions,” Carter said. “It’s just pulling up a chair and sitting down.” Reetz and Carter both said they hope the program will expand through time. After nursing students initially test the program, Reetz said she hopes other volunteers at the hospital will join, and eventually the broader community will engage as well. Carter said he hopes the program can work with patients in their homes or long-term care facilities. “I think there will be a lot of people in the community who will be touched and want to be involved,” Carter said. “And maybe not health care individuals — they could just be compassionate individuals.” Reetz said an important component of training will be understanding cultural differences in end-of-life care. She said people of different faiths or backgrounds might want or need different comforts as they die. Learning to deal with personal feelings toward death will be another part of the training, SEE ALONE, PAGE 6