Tuesday, April 25, 2017
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Two rape reports near campus By Jack Evans jackevan@indiana.edu | @JackHEvans
During the weekend, Bloomington Police Department received reports of two rapes. The first involved a 21-year-old woman who was visiting Bloomington during Little 500 weekend and reported she’d been raped Saturday night near campus while walking from a party to an apartment. Police responded at about 9:25 p.m. to the intersection of East 17th Street and North Dunn Street, where they met the woman, who told them she’d been assaulted in the area, BPD Lt. John Kovach said. The woman told police she’d been at a party with her boyfriend and brother and had become separated from them. She was walking north from the party to an apartment when she saw a silver SUV, possibly a Toyota, pull up near her. Police believe the incident happened somewhere in the area of East 16th Street and Dunn, Kovach said. A man — who the victim described as Middle Eastern with black hair, a skinny frame and a gray T-shirt — got out of the car, she told police. He grabbed her, pushed her to the ground and raped her. He fled and the woman called police. She said the rape may have happened in the yard of a residence, but she didn’t know the exact location. She was taken to Bloomington Hospital for a sexual assault examination. The case is still active. The second involved a woman who reported Sunday that she had been raped early that morning outside a residence on the near south side of town. Police obtained the report while collecting a sexual assault evidence kit Sunday afternoon from Bloomington Hospital, BPD Lt. John Kovach said. The woman had been brought to the hospital that day by family members. She did not want to speak to police immediately, so a nurse relayed information to police, Kovach said. The rape occurred at about 2 a.m., the victim told the nurse. She had been looking for a friend outside a residence when an unknown man, who she described as dark-skinned and about 6-feet-tall, assaulted her. The case is still active, and police plan to follow up with the victim, Kovach said.
ILLUSTRATION BY EMAN MOZAFFAR | IDS
Digital defense As technology continues to evolve, threats to security grow. IU’s IT team tries to eliminate these risks as quickly as possible. By Eman Mozaffar emozaffa@indiana.edu | @emanmozaffar
For every step IU’s cyberinfrastructure takes, the cyber criminals take two. Information technology professionals work every day to stop them. Technology users at IU, whether they’re careless or not, can be phished, breached, mishandled, misrepresented, hacked or overtaken by cyber criminals. Recently, thousands of IU employees had their private information accessed through some of these scams. It is up to people under the Office of the Vice President of Information Technology to make sure instances like these are as rare as possible. More than 1,100 employees work under the associate vice presidents in OVPIT and the University Information Technology Services, and about 31 specialize in information security, OVPIT chief of staff Dan Calarco said. Employees in the University Information Security Office are the main experts, but security responsibilities usually cut across different departments because it’s such a complicated field, Calarco said.
“They may be installing security patches on servers or helping integrate single-sign-on for a new service,” Calarco said. “Even I handle our UITS phishing education and simulations. Cybersecurity is not my primary job, but it is certainly part of it.” Internet safety workers don’t just make sure IU’s technology is properly functioning and highly protected. They educate staff and students on the best practices to protect themselves online by training employees, making information accessible on their website and easing users into better practices. The offices also work to formulate a proactive security strategy rather than a reactive one so prevention is more of a focus than simply fixing the problems as they come. “In UITS, at least in UISO, it’s all security,” IT human resources officer Deb Allmayer said. “Typically UITS has depth in roles while departmental positions have greater breadth of responsibility.” Because these employees oversee all eight campuses and not just Bloomington, they’re often stretched thin. One area Calarco said the office is focusing on is recruitment, so they can
keep up with the demand. “We’ve been recruiting from IU and internationally,” Calarco said, “We often lose potential employees to companies like Microsoft and Amazon. We have to make sure we’re competitive.” In addition to the people who work directly underneath IU’s IT department, every school has its own department of security services that operates separately. Many of these schools contract specifically with UITS to get work done within their departments. “It can get confusing,” Calarco said. “But as long as these schools comply with IT-28, IU’s recent cyber risk mitigation policy that tries to contain cyber threats at IU, schools get to decide what they invest in.” Regardless of the trouble they’ve had figuring out logistics or recruitment, information security is a field that has growing national interest, which helps with the expansion of OVPIT’s services, Allmayer said. Policy analysts, journalists and industry professionals mention cybersecurity on a national scale on a daily basis, especially with the recent hacking SEE SECURITY, PAGE 5
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Hoosiers look for win at Victory Field in Indianapolis By Spencer Davis spjdavis@umail.iu.edu | @spencer_davis16
For the third consecutive year, the Hoosiers will head to Indianapolis to play a game at Victory Field, the home of the Triple-A Indianapolis Indians. After taking on in-state foe Notre Dame at the venue in the previous two years, IU will match up Tuesday against yet another in-state opponent in Ball State. The Hoosiers enter the game with a 21-16-2 overall record, and the Cardinals are 21-19. In IU’s first game at Victory Field in 2015, the Hoosiers came from behind in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat the Fighting Irish 6-5. Last year, Notre Dame shut IU out 5-0. The opportunity to play at Victory Field raises the potential for exposure of each team because nearly 7,000 fans attended the game last year. IU’s Bart Kaufman Field seats 2,500 fans, and Ball State’s Ball Baseball Diamond has a capacity of just 1,500 spectators. If Tuesday’s contest is anything
like IU and Ball State’s first meeting of the season, the additional fans will be in for an exciting game. In that April 4 ballgame, sophomore designated hitter Matt Lloyd led the Hoosiers to victory with a walk-off solo home run with two outs in the bottom of the 11th inning to bury the Cardinals 3-2. Heading into this week, IU received a boost in its RPI ranking from No. 41 to No. 33 after beating Michigan in two of three games on the road this past weekend. Michigan entered the series ranked No. 13 in d1baseball.com’s top 25 with a 17-2 record at home before IU won the series. The Wolverines had also won 13 of their last 14 games before the Hoosiers won the series opener Friday. IU’s win Sunday tied it with Minnesota for the third-most conference wins in the Big Ten; however, IU’s win percentage puts the Hoosiers at sixth in the standings. Freshman pitcher Cal Krueger will start against Ball State at Victory Field in just the second start of his college career.
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Freshman Cal Krueger strikes out a Nebraska batter to end the top of the seventh inning Saturday. Krueger will be the starting pitcher on Tuesday against Ball State.
In his first start, Krueger earned the loss but did not allow an earned run. The Jasper, Indiana, native tossed
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three innings and gave up just one hit, but Cincinnati pushed across one run on a costly error by sophomore third baseman Luke Miller and
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another on a passed ball by sophomore catcher Ryan Fineman SEE BASEBALL, PAGE 5