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Room and board price increase approved By Claire Peters clapete@iu.edu | @claire_peterss
The IU Board of Trustees approved a 3.46% increase in room and board costs at its Thursday meeting at IU-Purdue University Indianapolis. The cost of room and board for
the 2020-21 school year increased by $375. In 2019, the Board of Trustees increased the price of room and board by $365, according to an IU press release. IU treasurer Don Lukes said the cost increases are due to market analysis and comparison, as well as
other factors, according to a tweet from IU. According to a tweet from IU, its room and board rates are in the bottom half of Big 10 schools. The university claims that on-campus housing is still cheaper than most off-campus housing. The Finance, Audit and Strate-
gic Planning Committee approved housing cost increases at IUPUI and IU South Bend as well. Vice President and Chief Financial Officer John Sejdinaj said renovations of on-campus housing, some due to the mold discovered in them, have resulted in the loss of thousands
of beds on campus, but Foster, McNutt and Teter quads will reopen in the fall, according to a tweet from IU. On Friday, the board approved two undergraduate degree programs on two campuses and updates to the 2012 IU-Purdue University Indianapolis Campus Master Plan.
Student reports racial bias at IC
Bus driver suspended, yells at man in video
By Nick Tellman
By Luzane Draughon
ntelman@iu.edu | @telmonster_11
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An IU junior said she experienced a racial bias incident Feb. 2 at the Intramural Center. While playing basketball on the second floor, she said she and another person were asked by employees to identify themselves as students multiple times. Taylor Carlton, who is black, said she, her boyfriend and little brother were approached by Intramural Center employees to check their IDs. She said a white student in the same part of the gym was not asked to do the same. She posted a video of the incident to Twitter later that day. In the video, two employees are seen arguing with Carlton and her boyfriend for about a minute before two more employees walk up. The employees, Carlton and her boyfriend continue to argue for another minute before Carlton's boyfriend ends the video. “What made it seem suspicious was that the staff member who scanned our IDs originally chased us from the first floor of the Intramural Center,” Carlton said. “If our IDs needed to be scanned, the person on the second floor should have done so.” Carlton said she hadn’t been asked for her ID on the second floor basketball court before, but she complied anyway. When she was talking with the employees, Carlton told them she was concerned she was being discriminated against because she is black. “We are aware of the incident and Rec Sports has reached out to the student, but as of now a formal complaint has not been filed,” IU spokesperson Chuck Carney said in an email. “We would encourage the student to reach out to report so that it can be fully investigated.” Jacqueline Puterbaugh, associate director for Campus Recreational Sports, said the Intramural Center is aware of the situation and is still investigating. Checking IDs is standard Intramural Center policy and is meant to ensure the facilities are used by people paying to use them, Puterbaugh said. She said employees are stationed in the main activity areas to check IDs. These areas include the 10 basketball courts and track, swimming pool, strength gym and upstairs cardio gym. “Participants are required to show an ID, and the rationale behind that is students are paying a mandatory fee each year,” Puterbaugh said. “Since students are required to pay a fee, that nonstudents are identified and have to buy a membership." After being asked a first time and then continuing to use the gym, Carlton noticed that two more employees entered the area. She said the employees walked around the gym and messed with a curtain before approaching her and asking to scan her ID. “She came off as very aggressive from the beginning,” Carlton said of one employee. Carlton said she asked why she had to scan her ID a second time. She said they gave her conflicting answers — one said it was the new policy and another said it’s what they’ve always done. “I felt they were intimidated by me, which I don’t understand because I am a 5 foot 4 inch girl,” Carlton said. Carlton said she and the staff couldn’t reach an understanding. Soon after a manager was called over, Carlton, her boyfriend and
newspaper. The Herald-Times’ coverage left out the voices of activist groups opposed to Dye, Black Lives Matter B-town said in the statement. The group called for people to cancel their subscriptions and asked advertisers to no longer work with the newspaper. Neither the Herald-Times nor Black Lives Matter B-town replied to requests for comment. The statement also criticized the city’s response to Dye's presence at the market. Black Lives Matter B-town condemned the city for refusing to remove Dye and those who have racist or violent beliefs from
An IU bus driver was temporarily suspended after she berated a black man on a campus bus Tuesday, yelling at him to go to the back or get off. The incident took place around 5:45 p.m. while the A bus was stopped at the Maurer School of Law bus stop. Graduate student Velencia Posso was on the bus when she said the driver, who is white, yelled at the man because he wouldn't move to the back of the bus or get off while more students got on. “She was screaming at the top of her lungs,” Posso said. IU spokesperson Chuck Carney said in an email that the driver was suspended until Feb. 17, and the incident is being investigated. He said he didn’t know the name of the driver. The incident happened a little more than a week after an IU junior said she was racially discriminated against at the Intramural Center. Carney gave the Indiana Daily Student footage from inside the bus which shows the whole incident. In the video, the man was already standing toward the front on the driver's side of the bus when the driver stopped at the law school. As students got on the bus, the driver repeatedly told the man to move back, and at one point, threatened to call the police. “You have two choices — go back or get off the bus,” the driver said. The man stayed on the bus as other students left. Witnesses said they don’t know the name of the man. Senior Therese Capriglione confronted the driver to try and calm her down, telling her the man was well behind the yellow line and she felt the driver’s actions
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A man walks up to Schooner Creek Farm’s booth to protest Sept. 28 at the Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market. According to a statement on its website, the Bloomington branch of Black Lives Matter called for a boycott Wednesday of the HeraldTimes and the city-run farmers’ market.
CONFLICT AT THE FARMERS' MARKET
Vendor sues mayor, BLM announces market boycott The vendors say their constitutional rights have been affected, and the activist group claimed the city has supported white supremacy. By Joey Bowling jobowl@iu.edu | @joeybowling8
After months of protests over farmers’ market vendor Schooner Creek Farm’s ties to white supremacist groups, the business owners announced Friday they are suing the mayor and park officials. A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court accuses the mayor and park officials of violating the vendors’ constitutional rights. The lawsuit alleges by making public statements supporting the protesters at the market, Mayor John Hamilton impeded Schooner Creek Farm owners Sarah Dye and Douglas Mackey’s First Amendment rights. The Bloomington branch of Black Lives Matter called for a
boycott Wednesday of the HeraldTimes and the Bloomington Community Farmers' Market, according to a statement on its website. The group asked people to support the Eastside Market, a newer, vendor-run market. “It is long past time for Bloomingtonians to divest from institutions that promote the destruction of marginalized people,” the Black Lives Matter B-town statement read. The statement claims the newspaper and city have supported white supremacy. It criticizes a Herald-Times profile of Sarah Dye, a vendor at the market with connection to the American Identity Movement, a white nationalist group. It was published Feb. 2 on the front page of the
BASEBALL
Hoosiers lose opening series 2-1 against LSU By Sara Kress sekress@iu.edu | @sarakress4
IU baseball lost its opening series 2-1 this weekend, avoiding a sweep from No. 11 Louisiana State University. The teams played one game on Friday and a doubleheader on Saturday. The game scheduled for Sunday was moved to Saturday because of a rain forecast. The Hoosiers improved throughout the series, moving from an 8-1 loss in the first game to a 7-4 loss in the second game, until they finally beat the Tigers 7-2 in the last game. Head coach Jeff Mercer said he was encouraged by the team’s ability to adapt during the series. “The overriding theme for the weekend was our ability to grow and to learn in real time,” Mercer said. “To be able to adjust in real time is really difficult to do, and we did that exponentially.” IU struggled to hit in the first game. The team only had three hits compared to LSU’s nine. All of IU’s hits were against LSU sophomore pitcher Cole Henry. He had eight strikeouts but tired out after four innings, leaving IU plenty of time to hit against other pitchers. IU’s only run in the first game was unearned. Freshman outfielder Ethan Vecrumba scored af-
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Then-senior catcher Ryan Fineman prepares to catch the ball May 18, 2019, at Bart Kaufman Field. Louisiana State University defeated IU in two of the three games played this weekend.
ter he reached on a fielding error in the fifth inning. The Hoosiers hit better than the Tigers in the second game but earned fewer runs. IU had 10 hits while LSU had nine. With 10 hits and only four runs, IU stranded 11 players on base.
“We weren’t great finishing innings in either of the first two games,” Mercer said. “We had a lot of guys on base throughout.” IU left seven runners on base in the first game and nine in the third game. Sophomore outfielder Grant Richardson was the only Hoo-
sier who hit in all three games. He went 6-12 in the series, with a triple in the second game and a 2-run home run and 4 RBIs in the third. Junior infielder Cole Barr only had one hit in the series, but it was SEE BASEBALL, PAGE 6