IDS Thursday, March 2, 2023
INSIDE, P.6
Dam, whatever happened to the beaver?
Indiana Daily Student | idsnews.com
House votes to strip public funding from Kinsey Institute By Gentry Keener
gekeener@iu.edu | @gentry_keener
The Indiana House voted Wednesday to prohibit the state from funding the Kinsey Institute, a research institute at IU aimed at promoting a greater understanding of human sexuality and relationships. Rep. Lorissa Sweet, RDistrict 50, proposed the amendment to House Bill 1001, the state budget bill, which will prohibit state funding from going to the institute. The amendment was presented after raising concern about the Kinsey Institute’s namesake. The amendment was passed with a 53-34 vote. At the House Chamber meeting, Sweet claimed the Kinsey Institute has a history of child sex studies, much of which she said have been referred to as crimes against children. "We as the governing body need to put limits on the access to tax dollars we allow Indiana University to garner by denying such funds to be directed towards Kinsey Institute,” Sweet said at the House Chamber meeting. Sweet said by limiting the funding to Kinsey Institute, they can be assured they are not “funding research committed by crimes.” Rep. Matt Pierce, DDistrict 61, took to the stand to oppose the amendment. He said these accusations were widely debunked. “This amendment is based on old, unproven allegations of conspiracies that did not exist,” Pierce said. “There are no sexual predators and there never have been at the Kinsey Institute.” SEE KINSEY, PAGE 4
Osmaniye, Turkey It was exactly 4:17 a.m. and 19-year-old Ezgi Kübra was sleeping in her room. Urgent voices from the living room woke her up. As she got up, she noticed the ground shaking beneath her. She was somewhat used to earthquakes hitting, she said. Ezgi knows they’re not uncommon in Turkey. Formerly an exchange student at Bloomington High School North, Ezgi has been back at home for nearly 10 months after a year away from her family. The comfort she felt was interrupted by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that night in Osmaniye. “I felt the hit,” Ezgi said. “It was horrible.” That early morning, she ran into the living room to reach her family, even though she was at risk of being hit by falling objects. Ezgi and her 15-year-old sister were in their father’s arms and her 7-year-old sister with her mom. She said she could feel her mom’s fear — even as she tried her best to hide it for her children’s sake. All five of them hid behind their couches, hands covering their heads. They waited 65 seconds for the trembling to stop. “I thought we were going to die,” Ezgi said. “It was too much time. ‘We’re going to die. We’re going to die.’” They said they could hear the walls cracking all around them. The TV fell over, shattering on the floor. The dishes on the rack splintered into a million pieces. After the shaking stopped, the family and their neighbors went into the garden outside their home to assess the damage. It was dark, and rain was pouring down. Ezgi remembers her 7-year-old sister could not stop shaking. The 15-year-old wanted to call their grandparents to see if they were alright, but Ezgi was too scared to make the call herself. Ezgi’s sisters learned later their grandparents made it through the earthquake alright. Later, the family became concerned for their neighbors that had not fled their homes. They made their way to the doorstep of an elderly couple. They waited
'Nothing was enough.' Former Bloomington exchange student grapples with fallout from Turkey’s earthquake By Isabella Vesperini isvesp@iu.edu
COURTESY PHOTO
Ezgi Kubra's apartment suffered damage after the earthquake. Now uninhabitable, she and the majority of her family have moved in with her aunt until their home is repaired.
10 seconds after knocking on the door. They had slept through the entire thing. Ezgi’s garage was cracked and in pieces, leaving the car useless. Instead, one of her neighbors offered to drive them wherever they needed. They first stopped at their grandparents’ house to pick them
up, and then they all went to their aunt’s house, where they are all currently living. One singular apartment houses her uncles, aunts, grandparents, sisters and parents. Her uncle sleeps in his car with one of his friends. Everyone else sleeps in the main room where the heating is located. Only her grandfather
sleeps in the bedroom with no heating. “He doesn’t care about the cold,” Ezgi said. “He’s just sleeping there.” As a high school physics teacher, her mom is left to do her job from home with school buildings closed. Since exams were not canceled in Turkey, Ezgi and her younger sister have a
room where they will continue studying. They will continue to live in this temporary apartment until it is safe to return home. She said her family was able to return to their apartment twice to collect necessities such as clothes, books and food. She said her dad wants to wait until a professional can come to check their house because he does not trust the government officials that originally came. She said her dad does not think the government is taking the situation very seriously. It will probably take four or five months to get their apartment fixed. “I’m so upset about it— they couldn’t manage all the things that happened,” Ezgi said. “They were not enough. Nothing was enough. It was so bad.” After a few days, the army came and started to search through the rubble for survivors. There was also international help from the United Nations, which is appealing $1 billion to aid Turkey. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has filed two emergency appeals, sending health teams and initiating fundraisers to help Turkey and Syria. Ezgi said she has struggled with her mental health since the earthquake. One of her schoolmates was killed and an acquaintance she knows from her dad is coping with their entire family being killed. She limits the time she watches the news to combat her negative thoughts. “I don’t know what to think about it because I didn’t really have time to manage my feelings," Ezgi said. “I'm not sorry about my physical health or my house because it’s fixable... There are still people out there and when I think about them, I think ‘How can I drink this water if they don’t have water?’” She said some of her international friends she made last year as an exchange student at Bloomington High School North did not reach out to see how she was. “If they knew and didn’t text me...It just breaks my heart,” Ezgi said. SEE EARTHQUAKE, PAGE 4
Open mic event honors Black History Month By Charlotte Herz cherz@iu.edu
IDS FILE PHOTO BY ETHAN MOORE
A sculpture of Alfred C. Kinsey is seen Sept. 27, 2022, outside Lindley Hall. The Indiana House voted Wednesday to prohibit the state from funding the Kinsey Institute.
Girls Rock Bloomington and the FAR Center for Contemporary Arts held a Black History Month open mic night at 6 p.m. on Saturday. “The goal is to reduce barriers for people who want to make music,” Amy Oelsner, the founder and director of GRB, said. She shared that GRB has been putting on open mics for about a year, though this was only their second in-person one. The non-profit organization arranges a music camp each summer, as well as a variety of other workshops and programs, especially for girls, transgender and non-binary kids who are 8-14 years old. While all of the night’s performers were adults, several children sat in the audience,
cheering for the performers and dancing to the music. The theme of the night was “Black Resistance,” one chosen by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History for Black History Month. Several of the performers — many local Black poets and musicians — discussed this theme by recounting the injustice they had faced and their ongoing struggles being Black in America. “As an African American Christian, there’s a lot I have to deal with in order to feel comfortable doing things that go against what others expect,” singer Alese Allen said. She sang one of her singles, “Emotions,” as well as a preview of an upcoming single.
SEE GIRLS ROCK, PAGE 4
COURTESY PHOTO
Jae Gasana addresses the crowd after handing performers flowers for the GRB Open Mic Night on Feb. 25, 2023, at the FAR Center of Contemporary Art. Girls Rock Bloomington and the FAR Center for Contemporary Arts hosted a Black History Month open mic night at 6 p.m. on Feb. 25, 2023.
Bloomington's 7 Day Forecast
SOURCE: ETHAN STEWARD | ETBSTEWA@IU.EDU GRAPHICS BY: THE WEATHER CHANNEL
Thursday March 2
Friday March 3
Saturday March 4
Sunday March 5
Monday March 6
Tuesday March 7
Wednesday March 8
56° 42° P: 0%
55° 35° P: 90%
50° 31° P: 0%
57° 40° P: 0%
66° 46° P: 20%
56° 33° P: 10%
46° 32° P: 0%