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Hoosier defense drives victory 71-56 By Sam Beishuizen sbeishui@indiana.edu | @SamBeishuizen
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Rush Boobs The tradition is condemned in public by fraternity leadership, yet still happens on IU’s campus.
By Lindsay Moore liramoor@indiana.edu | @_lindsaymoore
Hannah painted the Greek letters across her friends’ bare chests and butt cheeks. “RUSH AE∏.” An Alpha Epsilon Pi pledge had been challenged to convince a girl to paint his fraternity’s letters on her chest for a photo. Hannah and her four freshman friends agreed to help. Hannah had never heard of “Rush Boobs” before, but it sounded fun and harmless. With yellow acrylic paint, Hannah drew a Star of David on her friend’s butt cheek — a fitting detail for the traditionally Jewish fraternity.
What do students think? To hear student opinions about Rush Boobs, see a video at idsnews.com. She wasn’t comfortable being photographed at first, she said. But when she saw that her friends would be anonymous, she joined in. Why not? She thought. It would never come back to her. Because Hannah’s chest was smaller than her friends’, she decided to have her butt cheeks painted. The girls lined up in the Wright dorm room, alternating every other — three with their chests painted, two with their butt cheeks painted. A sixth friend took the photo, SEE RUSH BOOBS, PAGE 6
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CHICAGO — IU’s practices were a little different this week. The change wasn’t a result of anything IU Coach Tom Crean or his staff said. It was a player decision, sophomore forward Troy Williams explained, to put defense first. The defense, which ranked dead last in the Big Ten in points allowed by more than three points per game, had been prodded and questioned all season heading into the Big Ten Tournament. The Hoosiers didn’t like that. Because when a team’s defense is questioned, freshman guard Robert Johnson said, it’s a direct question of players’ toughness. “Defense is just another sign of showing how tough you are,” Johnson said. “When somebody says you’re not good defensively, they’re basically saying you’re not tough enough.” SEE IUBB, PAGE 6 For more coverage during spring break For full coverage of IU men’s basketball in the postseason, see idsnews.com.
Ind. HIV outbreak caused by drugs By Daniel Metz dsmetz@indiana.edu | @DanielSMetz
A recent outbreak of HIV in southeastern Indiana has been raising alarms among health officials throughout the state. As of March 3, there have been 27 confirmed cases of HIV and 10 preliminary cases, the biggest outbreak of the disease Indiana has ever seen concentrated in one region, according to officials. State Health Commissioner Jerome Adams, M.D., M.P.H. said a majority of the cases are linked through injection drug abuse by the prescription drug Opana, which is an opioid painkiller that contains oxymorphone. “It is very concerning to me that most of the individuals who have tested HIV-positive have only recently contracted the virus,” Adams said in a press release. “Because prescription drug abuse is at the heart of this outbreak, we are not only working to identify, contact and test individuals who may have been exposed but also to connect community members to SEE HIV, PAGE 6
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