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Former IU head coach Chris Lemonis monitors practice at Bart Kaufman Field in 2015. It was announced Monday that Lemonis will be the next head coach at Mississippi State.
Lemonis leaves program Former IU baseball Coach Chris Lemonis is going to Mississippi State after four years in Bloomington. From IDS reports
After four years at the helm of the IU baseball program, Chris Lemonis is moving on. On June 24, reports surfaced claiming Lemonis will be the next head coach at Mississippi State. By Monday afternoon, the Bulldogs had made the hiring of Lemonis official with a press release.
“It’s an incredible honor to be the head coach at Mississippi State,” Lemonis said in the release. “The tradition, fan base and facility in Starkville are second to none in college baseball. My goal is to keep the program moving forward, strive for championships and ultimately win in Omaha. We will be aggressive in attracting the best players in the country to Mississippi State, and when they get here, we will develop them to their full-
est potential on and off the field.” Just a few hours later, IU’s own press release confirmed Lemonis had left the IU program for Mississippi State. “Chris Lemonis cemented Indiana’s reputation as the premier baseball program in the Big Ten by guiding our program to three NCAA Tournament appearances in four years,” IU Athletic Director Fred Glass said in the release. “Chris cared deeply for his players, rep-
resented Indiana University with class and distinction, and is a good friend to so many of us here at IU and around the state. We wish him and his family the best at Mississippi State.” The IU release also announced a national search for Lemonis’ successor has already begun. Assistant coaches
US Supreme Court upholds travel ban By Dominick Jean drjean@iu.edu | @domino_jean
The decision The Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, to uphold President Donald Trump’s travel ban Tuesday. The version of the ban the Supreme Court ruled on was the third version of its kind and bars almost all travelers from five majority-Muslim nations — Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen — as well as from North Korea, and government officials from Venezuela, from entering the United States. The majority decision, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, argues that based on the Immigration and Nationality Act, the president has broad powers to limit or ban U.S. entry to “all aliens or any class of aliens” if he believes their entry would be “detrimental to the interests of the United States.” Not only does the president have broad powers but the language used in this version of the ban was considered race and religion neutral, even if the main countries affected are all Muslim-majority ones. Explained MATT BEGALA | IDS The decision fell largely along President Donald Trump holds up his fist during a rally May 10, at Northside Middle School in Elkhart, Indiana. ideological lines with Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, now masquerades behind a facade Sotomayor wrote. Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan all American people. Justice Sonia Sotomayor offered a of national-security concerns.” dissenting from the majority. Later in her written dissent, Further criticism and debate The majority opinion written by blistering dissent. Democratic leaders Nancy Pe“The United States of America Sotomayor argued while the lanRoberts is one that sticks doggedly to the classic nature of the Supreme is a Nation built upon the promise guage of the ban might have been losi and Chuck Schumer joined Sotomayor, claiming the decision is Court in defining matters of law and of religious liberty,” she wrote. “Our neutral, Donald Trump was not. She explained that through simply handing U.S. enemies a new broad rules which government can Founders honored that core promise by embedding the principle of reli- numerous tweets and comments he weapon to us against the country follow and not on policy. and it fails to make this country safer. “We must consider not only the gious neutrality in the First Amend- had shown an anti-Muslim bias. “The president’s travel ban “Taking all the relevant evistatements of a particular Presi- ment. The Court’s decision today dent, but also the authority of the fails to safeguard that fundamental dence together, a reasonable ob- doesn’t make us safer, and the SuPresidency itself,” Roberts wrote in principle. It leaves undisturbed a server would conclude that the preme Court’s ruling doesn’t make policy first advertised openly and Proclamation was driven primar- it right,” Schumer tweeted. “This is a his opinion. The White House also released unequivocally as a ‘total and com- ily by anti-Muslim animus, rather backward and un-American policy a statement calling the deci- plete shutdown of Muslims entering than by the Government’s asserted that fails to improve our national justifications,” security.” sion a tremendous victory for the the United States’ because the policy national-security
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Free shows to take place July 14 From IDS reports
BloomingSongs is having a free event beginning at 12:30 p.m. July 14 at the Monroe County Public Library in Bloomington. The event will begin with a “Reinvention Parade” with the Jefferson Street Parade Band. At 1 p.m., following the parade, attendees will gather in the auditorium to hear music from the second BloomingSongs collection, “Phlox of a Feather.” There will be performances by members of the IU Children’s Choir, Maria and Lucia Walker, Kate Long of Rodeola and more, according to a BloomingSongs press release. At 2:30 p.m., a teacher/family workshop will take place, of “particular interest to early childhood specialists and area music teachers,” according to the press release. BloomingSongs’ contributors will share activities that go with their music — Swedish folk songs with Malin Sunstein, tango with Winnie Cheung, and viol and simple Renaissance dancing with Eric Rubis. All events are free and participants will receive online access to “Phlox of a Feather” and a BloomingSongs CD. Hannah Reed