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Rappers will take stage for Little 500
For some clients, Meals on Wheels deliveries provide their only meals. But under proposed federal budget cuts, they could be left with
Jeremih and iLoveMakonnen will perform April 20
empty plates.
From IDS reports
A pair of high-profile singerrappers — Jeremih and iLoveMakonnen — will perform at this year’s Little 500 concert. The concert will be April 20 at the IU Auditorium and will kick off the Little 500 weekend before races start the following Friday. Union Board representatives confirmed the lineup Thursday afternoon. Earlier in the day, a Snapchat geofilter with the artists’ names appeared for people who used the app in the Indiana Memorial Union. Jeremih, who will headline the show, released his critically acclaimed third album, “Late Nights,” in 2015. That record featured hits including “Don’t Tell ‘Em,” “Planes” and “Oui.” Atlanta-based artist iLoveMakonnen made his name with the 2014 single “Tuesday” and its subsequent remix by Drake. He released mixtapes “Drink More Water 6” and “Red Trap Dragon” last year. Student pre-sale tickets will be available Friday using a promotional code, which will be sent out to student emails. General ticket sales begin March 31. Jack Evans
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By Molly Grace mograce@indiana.edu | @MolloGrace
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wo volunteers loaded up the trunk of a Toyota Corolla on a Wednesday morning in March with a container full of hot meals to be handed out to the recipients of Bloomington’s Meals on Wheels program. Bill Milroy and Pat Patterson do this together once a month. Bloomington Meals on Wheels provides two meals, one hot and one cold, a day to people who can’t cook for themselves. The majority of its clients are older than 65. With a new administration in the White House, some of these clients may have to worry about the future of their daily meal deliveries. In his recent budget proposal, President Trump suggested cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services, which has people who care about the Meals on Wheels programs worried. Meals on Wheels organizations across the country partly rely on funding from the Older Americans Act Nutrition Programs, which is run by HHS. It is currently unclear how OAANP will be affected by the cuts. However, the almost
18-percent decrease in HHS spending, as well as the gutting of the Community Development Block Grant program, has people spooked. Bloomington Meals on Wheels Director Kathy Romy said she thinks the budget cuts are short-sighted. “It saves the taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars every year from the health care industry,” she said about the program. Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s budget director recently made comments at a press conference that Meals on Wheels is “just not showing any results.” This bothered Romy, she said. “Nothing could be further from the truth,” she said. Meals on Wheels does a lot more than feed people, Romy said. It keeps people in their homes and out of hospitals or expensive nursing homes and provides a sense of security and daily socialization for its clients. This is very important for the elderly population, she said. Meals on Wheels Bloomington currently serves more than 60 clients and SEE CUTS PAGE 6
Meals on Wheels cuts breakdown Trump proposed cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services which runs the
Older Americans Act Nutrition Programs that helps fund
Meals on Wheels throughout the country
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
IU defeats SMU, advances to WNIT quarterfinals By Josh Eastern
By Jesse Naranjo jlnaranj@indiana.edu | @jesselnaranjo
Campaigns took to tabling and handing out merchandise one last time Thursday, the last day of the 2017 IU Student Association election. Each ticket needed to reserve campaign spots on the days of the election, though tabling had taken place for weeks leading up to it this year. Engage’s presidential candidate, junior Michelle Long, was handing out fliers Thursday afternoon by the Ora L. Wildermuth Intramural Center. She said after weeks of tabling and outreach, her campaign was finally seeing the results it was looking for. It secured endorsements from the Muslim Student Association, College Democrats at IU and a personal endorsement from current IUSA President Sara Zaheer. Long said she was glad people were becoming more aware of IUSA’s role on campus. “I’m tired, but things are coming together really beautifully,” Long said. Freshman Gabriella Brannock stood next to Long and interacted with passing students. Brannock said she was originally contacted by another campaign for her marketing and outreach skills relating to design. “They approached me for my design skills,” Brannock said. “And I had to google what IUSA was because I had never heard of it, and I feel like that’s a big problem amongst freshmen.” She eventually chose to work with Engage because of its sustainability policy. She said climate change and campus recycling SEE IUSA PAGE 6
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IU Coach Teri Moren said it wasn’t one of IU’s cleanest offensive performances. The Hoosiers knew the SMU Mustangs wanted to play slow, and that was the case early on. The Mustangs average about 58 points per game, and IU likes to get out and run and put points up on the scoreboard. To start off, it was a slow game. As it progressed, the Hoosiers started to increase the tempo and get the pace more in their favor. Behind a balanced scoring effort, IU advanced to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament quarterfinals with a 64-44 win against SMU on Thursday night at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. “Sometimes you just have to win ugly, and I thought that was the case tonight,” Moren said. “It didn’t seem like we had any kind of rhythm in the first quarter but had moments where we scored the ball when we needed to.” From the opening tip, things felt a bit off. No one won the tip. It just went out of bounds after it was bounced around between IU senior center Jenn Anderson and SMU junior forward Alicia Froling. From there, it wasn’t much better. SMU had a tough go of it from the field, and so did IU. The Hoosiers closed the first quarter on a 10-0 run. It was a little bit better for IU, but the Hoosiers were still just shooting 38.5 percent and had six turnovers. “We did get stuck there a little slower with their pace, but then we said, ‘That’s not our game,’” IU senior guard Karlee McBride said. “We got back and started hitting people in transition, hitting shots,
64-44 IDSNEWS.COM PAGE 4 | Defense was key in IU’s WNIT victory and it got us back into our groove.” Nothing exemplified the transition game more than McBride’s bucket with 1:45 left to play. It was her and junior guard Tyra Buss. They had a Mustang defender backpedaling, about to fall down. Buss and McBride passed the ball back and forth before the senior laid it in. The crowd was on its feet and about as loud as it had been all night. “Whoever was open at the end, whoever was closest to the basket was going to definitely shoot it,” McBride said. “Our fans are amazing right now, and I could hear the crowd roaring, and that got me really excited.” The Hoosiers eventually were able to put away the Mustangs as the game went on. IU led by eight after one, 10 after two, 16 after three and 20 when the final buzzer sounded. It wasn’t as if there was one player that was far and away the best, either. McBride led IU with 17 points, and junior forward Amanda Cahill was the only other scorer in double figures with 10. Buss, Anderson and senior guard Alexis Gassion had eight each. Off the bench, freshman guard Ria Gulley had seven, and sophomore forward Kym Royster had six to keep up her good play in the WNIT. “I try to remind our guys that they don’t have to do anything special,” Moren said. “All they have to do is play within the confines of what we’re trying to do, our offen-
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Senior center Jenn Anderson jumps for the tip-off against SMU on Thursday in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. Anderson had eight points and six rebounds in the Hoosiers’ 64-44 win against the Mustangs in the third round of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament.
sive system.” With the win, IU will be host to a quarterfinal matchup in the WNIT at 2:00 p.m. Sunday at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. That game will be against the Villanova Wild-
cats, which knocked off the James Madison Dukes in overtime of their round of 16 matchup. Moren said she was quite pleased the Hoosiers SEE BASKETBALL, PAGE 6