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Over 250,000 possibly affected by grade leak Christine Fernando ctfernan@iu.edu
A reported 250,285 students’ grades were vulnerable to being searched using an official IU GPA calculator that gave students, faculty
and staff access to other students’ grades, IU spokesperson Chuck Carney said Monday. IU has yet to release specific information of how many students’ grades were searched by another person.
IU blamed a software mistake for the grade leak in a Monday email notifying students of the situation. Only a small number of individuals used the tool to look up grades that were not their own, according to
the email. In violation of federal privacy law, the calculator gave students, faculty and staff access to the grades, courses taken, and GPAs of all enrolled undergraduate and graduate IU-Bloom-
ington students, current transfers to and from IUBloomington, and former students from any IU campus who graduated or left after 2013, IU spokesperson Chuck Carney said. The tool also included the grades
of students who graduated before 2013 whose records were reactivated on or after Nov. 26, 2013. Student records are reactivated for a number of SEE GPA, PAGE 7
Diné chef cooks Native food in demonstration
Civil rights activist honored at panel
Middle left Fulbright scholars Dishari Chattaraj and Suparat Gulkong watch Native American chef Freddie Bitsoie on Feb. 19 in the Bookmarket Eatery in Wells Libary. Chattaraj and Gulkong are part of a food and cultures class taught by professor Jennifer Robinson.
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An IU alumnus and civil rights activist was awarded a Bicentennial Medal on Wednesday at a Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center lunch and learn event focused on student activism. Keith Parker, former assistant vice chancellor at the University of California, Los Angeles who was an IU student body president from 1970 to 1971 and member of the Black Panther Party, was awarded the medal. The panel's discussion focused on the activists' experiences and activism inspirations. “When I left IU they weren’t awarding me medals,” Parker said. Parker helped form the African Studies program. While student body president, he was investigated by the FBI as part of an effort to disrupt the Communist Party of the United States. The campaign was later expanded to investigate groups like the Black Panther Party and the Ku Klux Klan. Parker's student government demanded the creation of ethnic studies programs, organized daycare centers for students that had children and food co-ops to try to lower the cost of food and created the Student Legal Services program. IU Bicentennial Medals are awarded to individuals and organizations that have broadened IU’s reach through their professional, personal, artistic or philanthropic achievements, according to the IU Bicentennial website. They are made of bronze recovered from bells that used to be part of the Student Building. Parker said he first became involved with activism in 1954 when he began kindergarten. He
The smell of New Mexican chili powder wafted through the air as Native American chef Freddie Bitsoie placed the seasoned pork in the pan. As he rotated the tenderloin, the smell grew stronger. Audience members sniffed the air, captivated by the spices. Some breathed in so deeply they coughed. “Thank you,” Bitsoie said. “Tomorrow your si-
SEE MEDAL, PAGE 7
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Above Native American chef Freddie Bistoie pours broth into a pan Feb. 19 in the Bookmarket Eatery in Wells Library. Bistoie gave a cooking demonstration as part of the Indiana Remixed series. Top left Native American chef Freddie Bistoie pours ingredients into a pan Feb. 19 in the Bookmarket Eatery in Wells Library. Bistoie owns FJBits Concepts, a company that specializes in Native American foodways, a practice relating to the production and consumption of food.
nuses will be clear.” Bitsoie, executive chef at the Mitsitam Native Foods Café at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, prepared four dishes for a cooking demonstration Wednesday afternoon in the Bookmarket Eatery in Wells Library. The menu prepared by Bitsoie was sold at the Traveler food station in that same area. Throughout his talk, Bitsoie, a member of the Diné (Navajo) Nation, frequently discussed how culture is
connected to food. He discussed how the domestication of animals changed Native people’s diet. He also explained that Native food is more expensive because of availability and the fact that few people work to get Native ingredients such as Heart of Palm. This demonstration was a part of 2020 Indiana Remixed Festival. Joe Hiland, associate director of the IU Arts and Humanities Council, said the council worked with IU Dining, IU Food In-
stitute and the First Nations Educational and Cultural Center to bring Bitsoie to IU. Hiland said while the festival mainly includes what would be considered traditional art forms, such as dance, painting and music, it was important to include culinary arts because food is a defining trait of most world cultures. One of the plates Bitsoie prepared was a combination of two recipes: a spicerubbed pork tenderloin and a three-bean ragout.
For the pork tenderloin, Bitsoie seasoned the meat with cayenne pepper, chili powder, cumin, brown sugar, dry mustard, dried sage and extra kosher salt and turned it a few times in a pan with oil and then put in the oven “till it was done.” He then placed the pork over the ragout, or stew, which included onion, garlic, thyme, bay leaf, carrot, celery, tomatoes, chicken stock and kidney, black and canSEE COOKING, PAGE 7
Dance company to perform new piece at IU Helen Rummel hrummel@iu.edu
The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company will perform its newest work, “What Problem?” at 8 p.m. Feb. 22 at the IU Auditorium, which cocommissioned the work with George Mason University. The international, Harlem-based dance company features 10 main company dancers along with cofounder Bill T. Jones. The group has created social commentary through dance and has performed in over 40 countries since its inception in 1982. Performer Shane Larson joined the company in 2015 after graduating from New York University with a BFA in dance. Larson said he attended mock rehearsals before joining the company and at a certain point looked around, confused, realizing he was one of the
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Members of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company perform. The company will perform its newest work "What Problem?" at 8 p.m. Feb. 22 at the IU Auditorium.
few still being considered. “By the last two days there wasn’t really anyone left, but she never told me that I got the job,” Larson said. Larson was told later that day he had secured a spot
with the company. Around 400 people apply for a position in the company when one member leaves, Larson said. Before joining the company, Larson worked five
jobs at once to support himself. He said many of his peers still work jobs in addition to their roles with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. Larson himself works other jobs alongside
PERFORMING A NEW DANCE WORK CO-COMMISSIONED BY IU AUDITORIUM TITLED WHAT PROBLEM?
his dance career. “Even though this is one of the premier dance companies in the world we’re still fighting for financial equality,” Larson said. “You sacrifice that for freedom of expression." “What Problem?” will tour at three locations in February. The show focuses on the dynamic between division and isolation, as well as the struggles of marginalized communities. “What does it mean to be a problem?” Larson said. “Are you a problem? It’s not even that you have to answer it, but having that dialogue with yourself will elicit a lot of deeper understanding about self-identity.” The piece, choreographed by Jones and the company, will open with a movement inspired by the words of Martin LuSEE DANCE, PAGE 7
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