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Robberies, shooting at party, report of rape By Caroline Anders anders6@iu.edu | @clineands
Though broken glass and crushed Natural Light beer cans lined Bloomington’s streets Sunday morning, police said the weekend was quiet — for Little 500. Thirty people landed in the Monroe County Correctional Center on Friday, and 28 Saturday. The IU Police Department made a total of 26 arrests from midnight Thursday to Sunday morning. One man shot at party Sunday morning
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ABOVE THE REST Kappa Alpha Theta surge late for second straight Little 500 victory By Michael Ramirez michrami@iu.edu | @michrami_
Kappa Alpha Theta wasn't in the lead to begin the final lap of the 31st women’s Little 500. Yet, it only took one final burnout to ultimately surge past the rest of the pack in the last quarter of the 100th lap to seal a date with victory. After hanging within the top 10 throughout Friday afternoon, Kappa Alpha Theta’s Rachel Brown sat back in the thick of the field and waited for the perfect moment to take her chance. "I was just looking to stay in the race until it was time to win,” Brown said. “When it was time to win, give everything I had.” Theta is the winner of backto-back races and has now achieved the same feat three different times in the team’s history. Theta is one of six other teams to win back-to-back Little 500 races as well. Delta Gamma followed Theta for second place while Teter, Alpha Chi Omega and Melanzana rounded out the top five.
Kappa Alpha Theta member Rachel Brown wins the 2018 women’s Little 500 race for her team.
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Women’s top three 1. Kappa Alpha Theta 2. Delta Gamma 3. Teter
Melanzana had the serve a 20-second penalty because the team caused a crash during practice earlier in the week. Senior rider Brooke Hannon chose to take the penalty early on during the ninth lap of the race in order to have enough time to claw back in the race. Crashes weren’t a major issue late into the race as the only two major ones occurred within the first 50 laps. Freshman rider for Alpha Xi Delta, Abigail Shafer, was the victim of a minor crash which led the rider to be stretchered off the track. The yellow flag was dropped for three laps until the track was cleared for the race to begin once again. Going into the final few laps of the race, a mixture of Phi Mu, Ski and Delta Gamma went back and forth for the lead until Theta made its final pursuit. “It was much longer than a standard set for sure, and that wasn’t the plan,” Theta Coach Ryan Knapp said. “It was just the only option we had in my opinion. I just didn’t feel there were a lot of opportunities that the race SEE WOMEN, PAGE 6
Cutters end six-year drought, win 2018 men’s Little 500 By Dylan Wallace dswallac@iu.edu | @Dwall_1
Never again. That was the thought for Cutters’ junior Noble Guyon ever since last year’s Little 500. For the past year, Guyon has relived his team’s third-place finish, over and over again, as a reminder to not let it happen this time around. And he didn’t. Guyon took the bike with 20 laps to go Saturday. His team was in the middle of the leading pack that consisted of about 15 to 20 teams throughout the entirety of the 200 laps. Sporting the green jersey, Guyon stayed under control and in the pack for the last 19 of his 20-lap anchor. It wasn’t until turn four on the last lap where Guyon accelerated to top-speed, passing Gray Goat and being the first one to cross the finish line with the checkered flag waving, raising his arms up in the air in celebration. “I was able to put myself in a position to win on that last lap,” Guyon said. “With how the turns were, I knew I had to go for a full lap.” Guyon, along with Erik Schwedland, Greg Huibregtse and Patrick Coulter, secured the team’s 13th championship — the most in history. “I couldn’t have done it without them,” Guyon said. “I was
Men’s top three 1. Cutters 2. Gray Goat 3. Black Key Bulls
able to save energy until the end because of these guys.” Every rider cranked out lap after lap for the team, but for Schwedland, he did it with a tear in his right meniscus that he suffered in February. The doctors told him he could either have surgery right then or take it easy and compete in Little 500. He chose the latter. After the race ended, his knee hurt, but during the race he said he was too focused to feel any pain. Schwedland would take the bike for long distances where he didn’t have to sprint as much, because sprinting would affect his knee the most. Around lap 120, team Jet Blach took the lead by about a half-lap and held for it for nearly 40 laps. Schwedland was riding the entire time Jet Blach was up by that much, but just stayed consistent and never panicked to speed up. “It’s a matter of doing enough work so they come back but not enough so you’re cooked,” Schwedland said. Beta Theta Pi looked as if it SEE MEN, PAGE 6
One man was shot twice at a party just after 2 a.m. Sunday. Police are still looking for the shooter. The party was at the event space of Bedräk Cafe, a brunch restaurant on South Walnut Street. Police said hundreds of partygoers were spilling out into the parking lot and street on the last night of Little 500 weekend. Officers found the 20-year-old man inside the building. He was shot twice below the waist. He was taken to IU Health Bloomington Hospital, and his condition is not known. He is alive as of 5 p.m. Sunday. The man is from Indianapolis and is not an IU student. Officers from the Monroe County Sheriff ’s Office heard gunshots around 2 a.m. and determined they came from the building at 409 South Walnut Street. The event was shut down after the shooting. Police declined to say what kind of gun was used and whether they found it, but Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Ben Burns said he does not believe the public is in danger. Reported rape A 44-year-old woman told police she was sexually assaulted Saturday night. BPD Sgt. Ben Burns said she was then uncooperative with police and wouldn’t answer most questions. Police said they will follow up to see whether the woman wants to press charges. Armed robberies A group of four people told police they were robbed around 2:45 a.m. Saturday near East 17th Street and North Lincoln Street. The group told police two men demanded their wallets and cellphones, and that one of the men was holding a handgun with a laser sight. Police found the stolen property — aside from the cash in the wallets — a short distance from the alleged location of the robbery. Three of the four people who reported being robbed were 21 and the fourth was 22. Three were men. Around the same time Saturday SEE CRIME, PAGE 6
Rapper Playboi Carti rocks auditorium Friday night “Yo, who wants to learn how to DJ?”
By Kathleen Clark-Perez kpclark@iu.edu | @KatPerezIN
White rays of light spiraled from the ceiling as Jordan Terrell Carter, known by his stage name Playboi Carti, danced onto the IU Auditorium stage wearing a black and white camouflage ski jacket. "Make some noise if you are here for Playboi Carti," Carti's DJ said, to an uproar of applause and shouting. Playboi Carti, Joey Purp and Boombox Cartel performed Friday at the IU Auditorium for the annual Little 500 Concert. Before Carti, Purp and Boombox Cartel opened the show with rap and electronic music. Joey Davis, a Chicago rapper known as Joey Purp, kicked off the evening with an eightsong set. Members of the crowd waved their arms and shook their hips from side to side when the DJ accompanying Purp dropped the first beat for the song “Morgan Freeman.” Purp said he has been in Bloomington a couple of times. “I hear you are a good party school and that you have a lot of beautiful women here,” Purp said. “Where the girls at?” Purp proceeded to rap the song “Girls @” while the audience cheered and jumped. Following Purp’s set, Americo Garcia of the duo-group Boombox Cartel took the stage, mic in hand. He sang into the mic, but the audience could not hear him. The audience chanted for the sound
Americo Garcia, member of Boombox Cartel
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Playboi Carti performs Friday, April 20, at the IU Auditorium during Little 500 weekend.
engineer to turn up the mic until Garcia noticed he could not be heard. “Can you turn the mic up?” Garcia said. “I’m getting ready to throw down.” Blue, green and red lights flashed as he stepped up to the turntables and mixers to play a remix of Drake’s song “God’s Plan.” Members of the crowd roared and pumped their
fists in the air. “Yo, who wants to learn how to DJ?” Garcia said. Audience members screamed with joy in response. The volume of the screams grew when Garcia selected IU students Marissa Moss and Erik Hufford to DJ with him on stage. “There are two buttons here,” he said. “I’ll tell you when to press this green one.”
Moss got to push the green button to drop the beat for the next song. Hufford and Moss danced on stage and Moss took a selfie while dancing with Garcia. Near the end of his set, Garcia played a remix of The Killers' song, “Mr. Brightside.” The crowd sang along and he lowered the volume of the music so the voices of the audience could be heard.
“I’m coming out of my cage and I’m doing just fine,” the audience sang. “Gotta gotta be down because I want it all.” After Boombox Cartel left the stage, Playboi Carti's DJ played several well-known rap songs. “Get your hands up, Bloomington,” Carti said. Members of the crowd threw their hands in the air in anticipation of the first song. Crowd members shrieked when Carti performed the song “Magnolia” from his self-titled mixtape released in 2017. The song reached No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2017. “Hide it in my sock, selling that rerock,” Carti sang. Throughout Carti’s set, images played on a giant screen. Some of these images contained guns, women in bathing suits shooting guns and Carti being showered in money. Once his next song started, the scent of marijuana wafted through the venue. Security guards began scrambling around. The audience shouted and jumped up and down for Carti’s song “wokeuplikethis*.” "I swear I had these thots before I got the fame, and I swear I had the Glock before I got the chain," Carti sang.