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More mumps cases at IU By Joey Bowling
jobowl@iu.edu | @jwbowling08
IU’s mumps outbreak has grown to 20 cases as of April 22, Beth Rupp, medical director for IU Health Center, said. The first case was diagnosed Feb. 12, and an outbreak was declared by the Indiana State Department of Health on March 12 after three cases were documented. Officials from the Indiana State Department of Health and IU spoke Monday about the mumps outbreak. Rupp said 17 cases were diagnosed at the center and three of them were diagnosed at an outside facility. Sixteen students have recovered and returned to classes, while three cases are still in quarantine. No students currently have major complications from the infection, she said. Many of the students were immunized. There had been 19 cases of mumps, and the 20th was confirmed a few minutes before the press conference began. Because of this, Rupp’s numbers are based on 19 cases of mumps. Two of the students were international students, while the other 17 were domestic, she said. Seven students were dormitory residents. Rupp said last week an average of three to four tests were performed per day, and the center is expecting more cases. In 2016, 74 cases of mumps were reported at IU. In 2017, 17 were reported and none were reported in 2018. The telltale sign of mumps is swollen salivary glands, though many students will experience other symptoms akin to the flu, Rupp said. Graham McKeen, public health manager for IU Environmental Health and Safety, said one area for the mumps outbreak has been an on-campus fraternity house. Some of the cases have come from house members and others from exposure. The fraternity isn’t being identified because the university doesn’t want students to target the fraternity or feel as if they have a false sense of security if they haven’t been to its house, Rupp said. If students were exposed to mumps through dormitory living, classes or close contacts, they will SEE MUMPS, PAGE 6
Work on SR 37 may cause delays By Kaitlin Edquist
kedquist@iu.edu | @kaitlinedquist
Lane closures and shifts affecting traffic on State Road 37 in Martinsville, Indiana, started Wednesday and are likely to run through mid-May. There will be a northbound lane shift and a lower speed limit starting on or after May 3 on the road during IU’s graduation weekend. The lane shift should not affect traffic in and out of Bloomington for graduation weekend since all lanes will still be open, said Natalie Garrett, spokesperson for the Indiana Department of Transportation. The speed limit for the construction zone is 45 miles per hour. “Hopefully people will allow for extra time going to and from Bloomington,” she said. This is one of three traffic changes that will be made in Martinsville in the coming weeks, according to a press release from INDOT. The work is part of a larger plan to add lanes, connector roads and an overpass. It cannot be put off, Garrett said. “We are trying to keep on schedule as best we can,” she said. Those wanting to avoid the traffic changes can use State Road 67 as a detour, Garrett said. The first of the traffic changes, which started Wednesday, reduces southbound traffic to a single lane for about one mile. The lane closure begins just south of State Road 252 near IU SEE CONSTRUCTION, PAGE 6
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Growing into it
Freshman outside hitter Breana Edwards prepares to pass Oct. 31 in University Gym. IU defeated Michigan, 3-1.
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Breana Edwards continues to build her confidence and skills as she prepares for her sophomore season. By Stefan Krajisnik
stefkraj@iu.edu | @skrajisnik3
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reana Edwards woke up late to take her SAT, and it was just the start of what she said was one of the worst days of her life. IU Athletics announced Dec. 2, 2017, that volleyball Head Coach Sherry Dunbar-Kruzan’s contract would not be renewed. The person who recruited Edwards from the small town of Rainier, Oregon, would never get a chance to coach her. “It was a little scary,” Edward’s mother Tina Edwards said. It left the Edwards family wondering what was next. For 25 days the family was left with uncertainty, but on Dec. 27, 2017, IU made a hire. Steve Aird took over at the helm of the program. “There were nerves all throughout because I didn’t know who the coach was going to be,” Edwards said. “I didn’t know if he was going to want to keep me, so that was awful.” Then-IU commit Courtney Buzzerio made the decision Edwards was afraid she would have to make herself. Buzzerio decided to change her commitment and instead play at the University of Iowa. “I had felt like we developed a little bit of a relationship,” Edwards said. “So, it sucked not getting to play with her.” But Lexi Johnson, another IU commit, had the same vision as Edwards. After much discussion between themselves, both decided to continue the path to IU and were later joined by setter Abigail Westenhofer in creating the first freshman class under Aird’s tenure. “I loved the school, and I didn’t really want to go anywhere else,” Edwards said. “As soon as Steve got hired, my first conversation with him, I knew I wanted to stay here.” Nearly a year and a half later, Edwards was more than 2,000 miles away from home, shopping on Kirkwood Avenue. Tina sat inside Nick’s English Hut eating a veggie supreme pizza. Edwards' father, Mike Edwards, ate chicken fingers as the couple reflected how they got to where they were. The group was in town for IU’s spring matches
against Butler University and Miami University, and it was the first opportunity for Edwards’ friends to watch her play live. “Even though it was spring, it was nice to have the support,” Edwards said. It was her first spring season with the Hoosiers after a fall in which she flashed her potential. After a torn ACL forced IU’s top outside hitter Kendall Beerman to miss half the season, Edwards' role grew with a lack of depth at the position. Battling a stress fracture in her foot, a calf injury and having to get a cortisone shot in her shoulder just to finish out the season, Edwards continued to grind her way to a team-high 360 kills. The shy freshmen quickly had to develop into a leader, a role that Tina Edwards knew her daughter could handle.
“Even if she’s not a captain, she usually just leads by her play. She’s a work-horse.” Tina Edwards, mother of Breana Edwards
“Leadership is definitely there for her,” Tina Edwards said. “Even if she’s not a captain, she usually just leads by her play. She’s a work-horse.” Tina Edwards is no stranger to collegiate volleyball. She played at the University of Oregon in the 1980s. Having lived through what Edwards is experiencing now, Tina Edwards was by her daughter's side throughout the recruiting process. “Going in as a high schooler, I romanticized the whole thing and then found out, ‘Wow, this is real,’” Tina Edwards said. “I feel like I had been keeping her eyes open through the recruiting process about the reality of the difficulties that you can face.” Edward’s mother went to Oregon after growing up in Southern California, while her father has spent his entire life in Rainier. Living in a small town, Edwards knew she wanted to venture out and find something new. “When you come from a small town, there’s kids that are afraid to leave,” Tina Edwards said.
“Hey, I still haven’t left,” Mike Edwards laughed. As a freshman in high school, Edwards was 5 feet, 9 inches tall. But she hit a growth spurt soon after, and now stands at 6 feet, 2 inches — a much more fitting height for an outside hitter in the Big Ten. “She’s always been that late bloomer as far as physical goes,” Mike Edwards said. “She’s always had big hands and big feet.” “And she grew into it,” Tina Edwards said. Edwards remembers walking beneath the men’s nets during practices without having to duck. Despite not going to college, Mike Edwards spent his entire life playing volleyball as well at the club level. It was at a volleyball tournament in Oregon that Edwards' parents met and paved the way for a life filled with the sports for Edwards. “I went up to play and fell in love with Oregon and fell in love,” Tina Edwards said while pointing at Mike Edwards. As a third grader, Edwards was cut by her parents from a team in an older age group. “You weren’t my daughter in that game," Miked Edwards told his daughter after a spring game with IU in which she struggled. Edwards' parents have always been her biggest supporters, but throughout her playing career, they have not hesitated to point out her flaws. That is something they appreciate about Aird’s coaching style. “You know what you did good,” Mike Edwards said. “But you need to hear what you did not do right.” Soon after Aird got the head coaching job, came a hire that was close to home for the Edwards family. In January 2018, Krista Vansant was brought in as an assistant coach under Aird. Vansant was the 2013 National Player of the Year at the University of Washington, and the Edwards family was in attendance for plenty of her Pacific-12 Conference matches. “I feel like it wasn’t even that long ago watching her play,” Edwards said. “She’s just such a huge role model.” When Edwards struggled to handle the enviSEE VOLLEYBALL, PAGE 6
Student ballet showcased at Buskirk-Chumley By Madison Smalstig
msmalsti@iu.edu | @madi_smals
Ballet majors from the Jacob School of Music danced, leaped, crawled, rolled and jumped on the stage Tuesday night at the BuskirkChumley Theater. The show, titled “Ballet at the BCT: The Choreography Project,” contained 21 different dances choreographed and performed by students. The dances ranged from jazzy, contemporary pieces to traditional ballet routines. One of the pieces, “Might as Well,” featured an original song composed by former music school student George Schatzlein. The dance was choreographed by Claire Donovan and featured four dancers jumping, making repetitive movements and swaying in a circle while Schatzlein strummed his guitar. The 21 student-choreographed dances were chosen by the ballet professors out of 28 submitted pieces. Originally, there were only supposed to be 20, but the professors decided to add one more. The dances are selected based
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One dancer is lifted by another Wednesday during “Ballet at the BCT: The Choreography Project ” in the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. The dance was called, “Winter Sun,” written by Bradley Streetman.
on a specific score given by the professors, and the ones with the highest scores got to be featured in the performance. One of the dances scored just below the mark, however the professors decided the dance had to be included, said associate
professor of music in ballet Carla Körbes. “There were supposed to be 20 because we don’t have that much time in the theater, but we couldn’t cut it,” Körbes said. “I was like, ‘Uh uh, we need this in.’ So, it’s in.”
After the pieces were judged and selected for this showcase, the dancers and student choreographers had two weeks to finalize the dance and prepare for the showcase, a long SEE BALLET, PAGE 6