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Civic

March 14, 2007
BIWEEKLY
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Progressive celebrations
In this issue:
Public is invited to end-of month musical events
Devastated by the church
Family’s faith shattered by church refusal
to rein in priest who has said Koreans
should be boiled in science experiments.
Page 3
Caldwell Eco-Center
benefit features 60
hours of music
Alternative two-year
anniversary party
March 29 at Players Pub
by Bot Warble
by Steven Higgs
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Pat - riot
Editorial cartoon by Brian Garvey
Page 2
Civitas
Water, water everywhere, but not a
drop to see?
Travis says the time has come to shed
some daylight on the Jordan River.
Page 4
As close to perfect as it gets
Former Mellencamp bassist Toby
Myers’ new band plays a rare gig at
the Alternative print edition’s second
anniversary party on March 29.
Page 5
The right to choose alternative
health care
This last of a two-part series explores
the legislative history behind the legal
right to opt for alternative care and the
impediments that remain.
Page 6
Around town/Venue menu
The Alternative’s biweekly calendar of events
and where to see live performances
Pages 8-9
OUT in Bloomington
Internalizing society’s definitions
In this inaugural column on local LGBT
culture in Bloomington, Helen Harrell,
with Carole Fischer, says gays and lesbians
cannot let others define them.
Page 10
‘Sundown towns’ common in Indiana
Author and social justice activist James
W. Loewen will be in town March 21-23
to discuss his book about communities
that historically banned minorities from
sundown to sunrise.
Page 11
ASTROLOGICK
Astrologer Gary Paul Glynn’s biweekly forecasts
Page 12
Hoosier farmers not ready
for climate change
State policy makers are ignoring the
realities of climate change, which
will mean major changes for Indiana
agriculture in coming decades.
Page 13
An education in blunderology
Jim Thom counts the ways in which the
Bush administration has blundered in the
Middle East.
Page 15
On the web:
Crude Alliance: The politics of oil
Jeffrey St. Clair
International Women’s Day: Girls face
widespread violence
Human Rights Watch
www.BloomingtonAlternative.com
ome have called it Baby Lotus, others have labeled it crazy. But most
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and think the April Fool’s Day weekend
event is going to be like nothing Bloomington has ever seen.
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held in Louisville, New York City and
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will push more than 60 hours of continuous performance over the senses of environmental justice supporters willing to
buy a weekend pass.
The event will begin Friday, March
30, when volunteers adjourn their weekly meeting at the center on South Walnut and take an afternoon musicians-led
stroll two doors down to Rhino’s All$JHV &OXE WKH SULPDU\ YHQXH IRU ,Qsomniathon.
At that point the music will rarely stop,
if only for spoken word performances,
equipment change-outs or the solemnity of the morning yoga sessions that
are part of a program that also includes
dance, theater, activism education and
genre after genre of live music.
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of Bloomington musicians and artists
to donate performances supporting the
missions of the center’s permanent resi-
arch 23, 2005, feels like a few lifetimes ago, which, in Bloomington
time, it was. That was the Wednesday
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print edition on the street, which means
this one closes our second year, which
means it’s time for a project update.
The breaking news is that we’re celebrating the two-year milestone at a
March 29 party with Toby Myers and No
Net at the Players Pub.
Photograph by Steven Higgs
Toby Myers and his band No Net will
kick off a long weekend of progressive
partying with a show at Players Pub on
March 29. That show, an anniversary
celebration for The Bloomington Alternative, will be followed by 60 hours of
continuous entertainment at Rhinos
All Ages Club called Insomniathon, a
benefit for the Caldwell Eco-Center.
See “As close to perfect
as it gets” on Page 5
oriented theater produced by Bloomington Playwrights Project, capoeira dance,
comedy, spoken word and poetry, and
a mix of music that includes bluegrass,
punk, reggae, folk, traditional, blues, alternative, old-time and spiritual.
“And then there are a few acts that
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Chaplin, an Eco-Center volunteer who
Miles to go
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the early 1990s and who instigated the
before we sleep...
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An Eco-Center Benefit
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new Caldwell Center for Culture and “We think this event is going to be a way
Ecology.
for us to connect with a lot of people,
young and old, but more importantly, viomponents of the event include a brant and active people. We’re looking
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a Sunday morning of healing and spiritual
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music, two productions of environment-
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editor@Bloomington Alternative.com
“Real News will be both
a look back at what a
handful of our most
prolific contributors
believe are some of their
best stories and toons
and a fundraiser for the
Alternative cause.”
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performed with some of the state’s most
legendary bands and players, including
18 years with John Mellencamp.
Toby’s the real deal. And the 29th will
be a rare chance to see him, in an intimate setting no less. Read Lori Canada’s
piece on Page 5, and you’ll see that
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be a great show, and there’s going to be
more than just rock ’n’ roll.
The 29th will also be a celebration of
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Alternative’s pages these past 24 months,
as well as the day we move back to the
future.
The gathering will be a magazine reOHDVHSDUW\DWZKLFKZH¶OOXQYHLOWKH¿UVW
edition of Real News: For a Change, a
Ryder-sized compilation of Alternative
contributors’ choices as their best, favorite or most important works.
Proceeds from the magazine’s sale will
go to support the paper’s continued evolution, into which we’ll offer a couple
glimpses that day as well.
We will launch our upgraded Web site
that morning. For a hint of what else
we’ll be talking about, see our ad on
Page 14.
Continued on Page 2
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The Bloomington Alternative
March 14, 2007
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and celebrate progressive social change
and independent media in Bloomington.
Specifically, we promote social, environmental, and economic justice; local arts;
local business; and independent writers.
Alternative staff:
Editor: Steven Higgs
Columnists: Gregory Travis, Steve Chaplin,
Tom Szymanski, Millie Jackson, Caitlin Brase,
Kristin Rust
Editorial cartoonists: Brian Garvey,
Tom Tomorrow
Calendar: Caitlin Brase
Contributing writers: Thomas P. Healy,
Steve Chaplin, Lori Canada, Caitlin Brase,
Alison Hamm, John Blair, Kevin Howley,
James Alexander Thom, Erica Ballard,
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• Alternative two-year anniversary party
Continued from Page 1
nity outreach for us and helping launch
the print edition.
efore moving to these projects’ deSince that time, we have published 50
WDLOV,¶OOTXLFNO\UHFDSZKHUHZH¶YH editions of the Alternative and haven’t
been, since our readership, like our list of missed a single deadline. Every other
contributors, is constantly growing and Wednesday, we treat (or subject) thouchanging.
sands of Bloomington readers to news and
The paper is actually 4½ years old, RSLQLRQVWKH\FDQ¶W¿QGDQ\ZKHUHHOVH
having begun as an online journal of proAnd that brings the story to our litergressive news and opinion in July 2002. ary look back.
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to about 50 long-time readers of my var“Every other Wednesday,
ious reports, observations, rants, raves,
etc., over the past quarter century.
we treat (or subject)
The initial group of readers grew from
thousands of Bloomington
my work as an environmental activist,
readers to news and
newsman at the Herald-Times, columopinions they can’t find
nist at the Bloomington Independent and
anywhere else.”
editor and environmental writer at the
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Management.
eal News will be both a look back at
Within a couple months, Tom Healy,
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turned Branches publisher and a veri- tributors’ best stories and toons, as well
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writers, joined the cause as a frequent which is to celebrate and promote progressive social change.
contributor.
The book will feature more than two
By January 2003, Greg Travis was
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and Steve Chaplin; and promising young
sends his dispatches from trains.
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The pieces are drawn almost excluen progressive writers, thinkers, teachers,
humorists, student reporters and editorial sively from the print edition and the last
cartoonists. Since we just moved the on- two years, though Travis, Healy and
line archive of stories to our new Web site, , VQXFN LQ VRPH UHOLFV IURP WKH :HE
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helped nurture it in the classroom and
newsletter in the summer of 2002.
Two years ago this month the experi- the newsroom.)
Brian Garvey is designing it, and all
ment morphed into an investment with
the print edition. Brian Garvey joined us the stories are being edited by our chief
almost immediately as our editorial car- copy editor, Karen Garinger.
The effort is underwritten by our ditoonist, as did Tom Tomorrow.
³:H´ DW WKDW WLPH LQFOXGHG /DXUD verse group of individual and business
Birnbaum, who had been campus direc- supporters around town (state and counWRU RI WKH ,QGLDQD 3XEOLF ,QWHUHVW 5H- try, too, actually), who believe Bloomsearch Group before handling commu- LQJWRQ QHHGV DQG EHQH¿WV IURP DQ LQ-
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which they may not always agree.
Real News is also a fundraiser in that
we are going to sell it to raise money for
the paper and any group or business that
wants to help the cause. They’ll sell for
$5 a copy.
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recently noted that the Alternative has
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Web and then went to print. Most follow
the opposite track.
True enough. As our readers know,
we don’t follow tracks. We push boundaries. And we’ve always done it with,
in fact, no money. We could afford to
start on the Web, so that’s what we did.
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the print edition, nursing it to economic
sustainability, and now we’re going back
to the Web.
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new Web site, in addition to the new design, will be graphics, including Brian’s
cartoons, and two new sections: Arts &
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going for.
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of everyone’s on-the-side status in this
operation, including mine, the Web site’s
evolution will be slow and steady.
But we will evolve. We’re going multimedia, adding video, audio and other
online-only features to our biweekly
menu.
We can’t say where it’s going to go,
because the Alternative always has been,
and hopefully always will be, organic.
But go we will.
Steven Higgs can be reached at
editor@BloomingtonAlternative.
com.
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March 14, 2007
Devastated by the church
Family’s faith damaged by church refusal to face priest
by Erica Ballard
proximately 20 St.
Charles
School
itting at a table in the east-side families contacted
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frustration she feels toward the Catholic use of inappropriate
Church, St. Charles Catholic School and language.
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But rather than
Perhaps the worst part about her ex- step in this time, the
perience with them is that her children archdiocese
sugwill not look back on their school days gested McLaughwith the same zeal she feels about hers, lin write a letter to
she said.
Chesebrough with
A life-long Catholic with 16 years of her concerns.
Catholic school education, McLaughlin
“Unfortunately,
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When McLaughlin and her husband to
Chesebrough.
Andrew Shea moved to Bloomington “Your reference to
from the East Coast nine years ago, Korean children as
they wanted their children Jack and ‘chopsticks’
and
Claire to attend a Catholic school. They to young girls as
enrolled them in the only one in Bloom- ‘blond bombers’ or Anne McLaughlin simply does not understand how the Catholic Church, her church, can abide by
ington, St. Charles, assuming the chil- ‘blond bombshells’ the actions of a priest who uses terms like “sambo” and tells children at school that Koreans should
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be boiled in a science experiment. But that is what has happened at St. Charles Catholic School,
fond memories they both hold of their
While composing she said, and when she complained, her two young children were expelled.
formative years.
her letter, McLaughTwo days later, on the morning of negative atmosphere with regards to the
While McLaughlin was never quite lin removed her
Oct.
6, the letter McLaughlin had writ- school administration, archdiocese and
comfortable at St. Charles Church, both children from three school Masses and
she and Shea became involved within the WKHWKUHHRIWKHPVSHQW³0DVVWLPH´SHU- ten was delivered to Chesebrough. By clergy. You will bring important issues
parish because they wanted their chil- forming service work in the community the afternoon, he arranged a meeting directly to the leadership of the school,
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without McLaughlin or Shea’s knowl- stated outcomes, regardless of your percommunity as possible.
the St. Charles principal.
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They refused to agree to such terms.
alize, the couple started attending St. children remain in Mass with a man who expel Jack and Claire, McLaughlin
“We both just shook our heads and said
said.
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“Your reference to Korean children as ‘chopsticks’ and
The children were then expelled for
were told their children’s last day at St.
to young girls as ‘blond bombers’ or ‘blond bombshells’ is
the second time in a week.
Charles was to be Oct. 13.
McLaughlin and other families on her
The children were devastated, said
inappropriate.”
behalf continued contacting the archdioMcLaughlin.
Outraged at this decision and the way cese in hopes of reversing the decision
- Anne McLaughlin letter to
it was reached, McLaughlin and Shea and ridding the church of Chesebrough
St. Charles pastor Fr. Charlie Chesebrough
appealed to the St. Charles Board of Ed- to protect theirs and others’ children
ucation. On Oct. 11, they agreed to send from his inappropriate language.
The archdiocese refused to do either.
Jack and Claire back to Mass if the chilChesebrough was to retire soon, church
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things like “let’s boil all the Koreans in a ument saying they would abide by all priate comments were ever made.
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Their view would soon change.
school polices.
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spokesman, told the Alternative in an
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Chesebrough wanted Jack and
outcomes, regardless of your personal beliefs.”
he problems started in February 2006 Claire back in Mass because it was
when McLaughlin and her husband school policy.
started having concerns about what they
McLaughlin, still uncomfortable with
- Reply from Fr. Charlie Chesebrough
felt were inappropriate comments that her children attending Masses led by
to Anne Mclaughlin
the school’s pastor, Father Charlie Che- Chesebrough, asked to meet with him
sebrough, was saying to the children. again to discuss her concerns. CheThey requested a meeting with him to sebrough again refused to meet with
discuss these concerns. He refused.
ut what seemed like the end was interview. “The archdiocese doesn’t dicMcLaughlin, but he agreed to meet with
McLaughlin then turned to the arch- her husband on Oct. 4, 2006.
just the beginning of another set of tate how they (priests) run the details of
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diocese did not respond to complaints back in Mass. He gave no date and of- that they perceived as a gag order.
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March 14, 2007
Civitas
Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to see?
by Gregory Travis
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Monroe to be ingested by the water
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treatment plant.
of the mighty Jordan, in all of its inThere’s really nothing different, schecarnations. But like all stories, it has to
matically, between a sewage treatment
start with a premise, and the premise,
plant and a water treatment plant. The
today, is gross. So at least for the beginplan is the same, get the chunks out and
ning, put down whatever you’re eating
send the rest onward.
and save it for the end.
From there back
What a bipolar relationship we have
into you and thence
with water. The source of life, without
to the commode. And
its regular ingestion we quickly die. Yet
that brings us back to
it’s also the sink of life. All of our rewhere we started.
fuse, all of our offal, eventually ends
up back in the same water, ingest sepOut of sight, out of
arated from excrete only by degree of
mind
dilution.
Every time you use the toilet, whatevWe don’t like to think about it, we
er you did there journeys to State Road don’t like to think about the fact that no
37 and Dillman Road. There, at the Dill- matter how far, no matter how diluted,
man Road Wastewater Treatment Plant, eventually we’re drinking what just a
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Clear Creek.
our pride in our species.
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So we do what we always do when
the even bigger White River and onto confronted with an inconvenient truth.
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of the mighty Ohio and languid old
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muddy starts several days’ journey to
Our 19th-century nation was swept
the destroyed city of New Orleans and by Victorian sensibility, transmitted by
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ample waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
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evaporates, leaving what remains of ZDWHUDV¿OWKDUXQQLQJYHFWRURIG\Vyour residual solids to end up as Puri- entery, typhus and cholera.
na Pisces Chow, and the now distilled
An eager and agreeable ear was found
wastewater begins its journey back to in the earnest and emerging engineering
you.
of the nascent industrial age, as was a
Carried aloft on prevailing south- ready answer to the needs of Victorian
westerlies, the water you disposed of in sensibility.
your toilet just months ago aggregates
That engineering could make the
in summer thunderheads. What the VTXDORU FRXOG PDNH WKH ¿OWK GLVDS-
The antiseptic of daylight
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Hope for Buried Streams, published by
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that were buried in culverts or pipes,
or otherwise removed from view. Daylighting re-establishes a waterway in its
old channel where feasible, or in a new
channel threaded between the buildings, streets, parking lots and playing
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daylighting projects recreate wetlands,
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Maybe the Victorians were overzealous. And maybe a new progressive
movement, countering the old, will take
hold. The movement of daylighting.
From San Francisco to Milwaukee,
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coming out not to lay down more concrete but to pull it up. To pull it off of
the streams and creeks we covered over
because we thought nature covered was
nature tidy.
And tidy was God.
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Bloomington, and that means candidates
DUHGHVSHUDWHO\WU\LQJWR¿QGDPLOOLPHter of daylight that differentiates them
from their opponents. So here’s a present, gentlemen and gentleladies. Take
up as a platform point the daylighting
of the Jordan River.
Build bridges as you must, but otherwise uncover the little stream that a
town, now a city, nestled to. Let us see
the water on its journey to the Gulf and
back to us, again.
“‘Daylighting’ describes projects that
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Gregory Travis can be reached at
[email protected].
pear.
And so, to the degree that they could,
communities hid their water. Where
the streams had run openly, they were
roofed. Pavement, the synonym of
progress, capped the fetid courses.
Bloomington was no different. Originally built straddling something now
called the Jordan River, it was decided
that progress could no longer abide
its sight. The decision made, the little
stream was capped over and today runs
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all the way to the intersection of First
and Walnut streets.
Atop where the stream once ran as it
would lie roadways clogged with cars
and buildings bustling with people, ignorant of the riparian legacy coursing
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water, we cloak it.”
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the
Alternative Arts & Culture
As close to perfect as it gets
Toby Myers’ new band plays a rare gig on March 29
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yers has hardly stepped away from
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music altogether, however. For the
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many a kitchen table in the Brown Counwith a talented ensemble of musicians,
ty hills he now calls home.
including Craig Koons on bass, Max
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rockers Roadmaster, before starting an
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on vocals and Myers himself typically
helped launch homegrown folk hero John
handling lead guitar.
Mellencamp to intergalactic stardom in
The band, calling itself No Net, jells as a
the 1980s.
unit and deftly tackles several covers and
Along with Mike Wanchic, Larry Crane,
original pieces at this rehearsal, including
Kenny Aronoff and Mellencamp himself,
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Midwestern, populist, archetypal albums
Toby Myers, left, will lead his band No Net in a March 29 gig at the Players Pub.
Myers explains in between more selflike Uh-Huh, The Lonesome Jubilee and
Band members include fellow Mellencamp keyboard player Moe Z, right, and vo- deprecating laughs that the band practices
Scarecrow.
calist Bobbi Delane, center. The Lopers and Hewitt Stanley will open the show.
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The others don’t seem to mind, howrehearsing sets with his current band, an 1967, Myers continues, he traveled in Mellencamp, took notice of Myers’ adept
ever,
earnestly insisting that playing as a
exuberant, hyped-up Myers sat still long earnest with bands. He also attended the handling of the bass guitar. The two reenough to discuss his upcoming March 29 John +HUURQ6FKRRORI$UWLQ,QGLDQDSROLV ported back to Mellencamp, who had just group for the sake of playing is incentive
gig at the Players Pub for the Bloomington for three years, a stint he now character- ¿UHGKLVEDVVSOD\HUDQGLQKLVRZQVHOI enough.
Koons, who usually plays bass with
Alternative print edition’s second anniver- izes with his infectious, boyish laugh as effacing way, Myers says the band decidthe band, says the group’s experimental
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Thursday,
detailing his glory days, both with Road- Styx. Roadmaster landed a deal with and crew. But One wall of Myers’ studio is lined with
March 29 at 7 p.m.,
master and Mellencamp.
when discussing bass guitars, arranged chronological- Bloomington will
Mercury Records.
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have a chance to
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The right to choose alternative health care
by Hsin-Lin Lu
nicating with doctors.
Patients whose physicians refuse to
refer them to an acupuncturist can get
referrals from Dr. Lois K. Lambrecht,
founder and director of the Center for
Wholism. Then Reed sends a letter to
those doctors explaining how he treats
the patients.
He also includes journal articles about
patients’ problems that have been treated effectively by acupuncture. The journals are the ones that doctors read, such
as the Journal of the American Medical
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patients
to receive their services. LobbyAcupuncturist Andy Reed from the Center for Wholism can legally practice his
form of medicine in Indiana under a 1999 law passed by the State Legislature. ing for the Natural Health Freedom Act
But while he is content with the law’s requirement that his patients be referred is under way in many states.
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by a physician, others want that provision changed.
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referral is a good idea.
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the Senate Health and Provider Services freedoms because some do not believe
better. She prefers that those who
Acupuncturist the
Committee for more than 20 years. And in going to doctors; and places liability
know the practice, such as a professionMeador-Stone learned that every health constraints on the doctors, too.
al group, decide who is credible rather
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Reed has his own approach to commu- [email protected].
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Around town
Wed - Mar 14
Civic
Spoken word
Max’s Place: Matrix poetry slam, 9
Bear’s Place: Comedy Caravan, Spike
p.m.
Davis, Will Hardesty, 7:30 and 10:15 p.m.
Boxcar Books: Hoosiers for a Com-
Film
monsense Health Plan, general meeting, 5 p.m.
MCPL: “Suite Havana,” 7 p.m., free
Misc.
Music
Bloomington Playwrights Project:
Photograph by January Jones
Spring Break Camp: It’s a Mystery,
grades 3-6, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., $125 tuition
Music
Bear’s Place: Live rock ‘n’ roll, 10 p.m.
Jake’s: DJ Swiss, 9 p.m.
Player’s Pub: Stardusters II, 7 p.m., $5
cover
Bluebird: Karaoke, 9 p.m.
Player’s Pub: Songwriter’s Showcase:
Tue - Mar 20
Toots & the Maytals, Bluebird, March 20
Sat - Mar 17
Cereal Barn: Matrix poetry workshop,
8 p.m.
Thur - Mar 15
Maxwell, Jeremy Essig, 7:30 and
10:15 p.m.
Civic
Bluebird: Todd Snider, 9 p.m.
Chapman’s: Calabetta Duo, 6-8 p.m.,
free
Misc.
Housing, general meeting, 4 p.m.
Boxcar Books: G.R.A.C.E. meeting, 6 p.m.
Jake’s: St. Patrick’s Day Bash with Pam
Thrash, Retro Night, Club Jake with
DJ Action Jackson, 9 p.m.
Player’s Pub: Carlyn Lindsay & Snake
Doctor, 8 p.m., $4 cover
Rhino’s: 1200 Flashers, Pylorus, Mortua, 8 p.m., $5
Jacobs School of Music: “Infectious
Music: Music-Listener Emotional
Contagion” by Stephen Davies, 6 p.m.
Music
5:30 p.m.; Karaoke, 9 p.m.
IMU Gallery: NOISE, 7 p.m.
Player’s Pub: Open Mic hosted by
The Lopers, 8 p.m.
Fri - Mar 16
Film
Cinemat: “Aventurara,” 8 and 10:30 p.m.
Misc.
Music
Concerts presents Kiran Ahluwalia,
7:30 p.m., $5 at the door
Player’s Pub: Blues Jam, hosted by
Cliff & the Guardrails, 8 p.m.
Bluebird: Todd Snider, 9 p.m.
Player’s Pub: Lotta Bluesah, O2R &
Crossroad Saints, 7 p.m., $5 cover
Rhino’s: Forever in Effigy, Ruok, Shoot
Coward, Berrydingle, 8 p.m., $5
Civic
Buskirk Chumley: City of Bloomington presents ”Business After Hours:
A Chamber Networking Event,” 5:30
p.m.-7:30 p.m., free
Boxcar Books: Midwest Pages to
Prisoners Project, 7 p.m.
Trinity Episcopal Church: “The
Racial makeup of Our Community
and the Legacy of Sundown Towns,”
forum with James Loewen, 7 p.m.
Film
Leo R. Dowling International Center: “Kebab Connection,” 7 p.m.
Cinemat: “The Trickle Down Effect,”
9 p.m.
Music
Bear’s Place: The (X)tet, 5:30 p.m.;
Karaoke, 9 p.m.
Bluebird: Corey Smith, 9 p.m.
IMU Gallery: NOISE, 7 p.m.
Jake’s: 17th Floor, 9 p.m.
Player’s Pub: Open Mic hosted by
Hewitt Stanley, 8 p.m.,
Theater
Theater
Waldron: Las Cuerdas del Titiritero
(The Puppeteer’s Strings), 7:30 p.m.,
free
Sun - Mar 18
Civic
Film
“Empty Sky,” 8 p.m., $15 general admission, $12 students and seniors
Carlyn Lindsay & Snake Doctor, Players Pub, March 17
Spoken word
Mon - Mar 19
Lecture
Buskirk Chumley: IU School of Journalism presents David Halberstam,
“Iraq in the Shadow of Vietnam,” 7
p.m., free
Dance
and Prose with David Lehman, 8 p.m.
Musical Arts Center: “Cinderella,” 8 p.m.
Wed - Mar 21
Cinemat: “What I’ve Learned About
U.S. Foreign Policy,” 6 and 9 p.m.
Fri - Mar 23
Waldron: Writers in Rhythm: Poetry
Film
Buskirk Chumley: “Caves: Life Be-
Civic
Woodburn Hall 101: “How History
Keeps us Racist and What We Can Do
About It,” James Loewen, 7:30 p.m.
Bear’s Place: Left Foot Down, 6:30
p.m.
Thur - Mar 22
Bluebird: Toots and the Maytals, 9 p.m.
Buskirk Chumley: Lotus Blossoms
Music
Bear’s Place: The Art Deco Quartet,
The Hiders, Southeast Engine, 10
p.m.
Bluebird: Old Crow Medicine Show,
7:30 p.m.
Jake’s: DJ Swiss, 9 p.m.
Player’s Pub: Metzger, 8 p.m., $4
cover
Lecture
Music
Boxcar Books: Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan, endorsement
committee, 4:30 p.m.; Midwest Pages
to Prisoners Project, 7 p.m.
Boxcar Books: Holistic Affordable
Comedy
Bear’s Place: Comedy Caravan, Dobie
Bear’s Place: Jenn Cristy, Carol Bui,
Suzette Weekley, Arthur Hickman
and others, 8 p.m.
Civic
Spoken word
Music
Comedy
neath the Forest,” 7:30 p.m., free
Radio-TV Building: Abigail Child
Night presenting seven films by Abigail Child, 8 p.m., Room 251
Cinemat: “Ninja Death,” 7, 9 and 11 p.m.
Lecture
IU Art Museum: Gallery Talk and
Book Signing, “Making Coveant,”
12:15 p.m.
Whittenberger Auditorium: “The
Inconvenient Truth” with Jeff Reigel,
7-9 p.m.
the
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Misc.
Waldron Auditorium: Justin D.
Board presents After Hours, 9-12
p.m.
Kinsey Institute: Public tour, 3-4
p.m., Morrison Hall
Stutzman fashion show, 2:30 p.m.,
free
Wilkie and Forest Quads: Navruz
festival, 3-8 p.m.
Music
p.m.; Everything Now!, Hot Fighter
#1, 10 p.m.
Bluebird: Hairbangers Ball, 10 p.m.
Chapman’s: Calabetta Duo, 6-8 p.m.,
free
Jake’s: DJ Wushu and Sunny Bamboo,
9 p.m.
Player’s Pub: Marc Haggerty, 8 p.m.,
$4 cover
Rhino’s: Sentinel, Basillica, Harlots, 8
p.m., $5
Tue - Mar 27
Misc.
Indiana Memorial Union: Union
Bear’s Place: The Blue Rivieras, 6:30
March 14, 2007
Civic
Boxcar Books: G.R.A.C.E. meeting,
6 p.m.
Lecture
Music
Jacobs School of Music: Guest lecture
with Celia Applegate, 6 p.m., Ford-Crawford Hall
Bluebird: 40% Steve, 10 p.m.
Buskirk Chumley: Rock for Kids
Sake!, 12 p.m., $10 Battle of the
Bands (before 5 p.m.), $15 all-day
pass
Jake’s: Club Jake with DJ Action Jackson, 9 p.m.
Player’s Pub: Stella & Jane, 8 p.m., $4
cover
Rhino’s: Busman’s Holiday, Shindig,
Yesterday the Siren, 8 p.m., $5
Empty Sky, Bloomington Playwrights Project, March
22-24, 29-31, April 5-7
Music
Misc.
IMU Alumni Hall: Union Board
presents “Educating America: The
Ron Clark Story,” 7-8:30 p.m.
Music
Jacobs School of Music: Orion String
Theater
Wells-Metz Theater: “Big Love,” 8:3010:30 p.m.
Sun - Mar 25
Quartet master class, 1 p.m., FordCrawford Hall; Guest Recital featuring
Lita Grier, 8 p.m., Auer Hall
Musical Arts Center: Jazz ensemble,
8 p.m.
Player’s Pub: Songwriter’s Showcase
IU Auditorium: Christopher O’Riley,
9 p.m.
the
Theater
Comedy
Spike Davis, Comedy Caravan, Bear’s Place, March 19
Film
Spoken word
Cinemat: “9/11 for Press Truth,” 6 and
9 p.m.
Waldron: Writers in Rhythm: Poetry
and Prose with David Lehman presenting “A Tour of American Poetry,”
8 p.m.
Music
Buskirk Chumley: Al Cobine’s 80th
Birthday Tribute, 7 p.m., free
Theater
Sat - Mar 24
Comedy
Bear’s Place: Comedy Caravan, Tim
Cavanagh, John Richardson, 7:30
and 10:15 p.m.
Dance
Musical Arts Center: “Cinderella,” 3 and
Jacobs School of Music: Orion
String Quartet, 5 p.m., Auer Hall;
Chamber Orchestra, 8 p.m., Auer Hall
Player’s Pub: Democratic Women’s
Caucus Benefit
Theater
Mon - Mar 26
Civic
City Hall: Strengthening Community
in Your Neighborhood, 7 p.m.
8 p.m.
Film
Cinemat: “40 Bands in 80 Minutes,” 9 p.m.
Comedy
Bear’s Place: Comedy Caravan, Larry
Reeb, Todd Link, 7:30 and 10:15 p.m.
* VENUE MENU
Art Hospital: 1021 S. Walnut St.
Bear’s Place: 1316 E. Third St., 339-3460
Blue Room: 732 Whitehorn Place
Bloomington Playwrights Project: 107 W. Ninth St., 334-1188
Bluebird: 216 N. Walnut St., 336-2473
Boxcar Books: 310 S. Washington, 339-8710
Brown County Playhouse: 70 Van Buren Street, Nashville, 988-2123
Buskirk-Chumley Theater: 114 E. Kirkwood, 323-3020
Cinemat: 123 S. Walnut, 333-4700
Crazy Horse: 214 W. Kirkwood, 336-8877
Encore Café: 316 W. Sixth, 333-7312
Indiana University
Art Museum: 1133 E. Seventh St., 855-4826
Auer Concert Hall D: 200 S. Jordan Ave., 855-9846
Auditorium: 1211 E. Seventh St., 855-1103
Frangipani Room: IMU, 900 E. Seventh St. , 855-2231
IMU Gallery: 900 E. Seventh St. , 855-2231
La Casa: 715 E. Seventh St., 855-0174
Musical Arts Center: Jordan Avenue just north of Third Street
Radio & TV Building: 1229 E. Seventh (SW corner, Main Library lot)
Ruth N. Halls Theater: 275 N. Jordan Ave., 855-1103
SoFA Gallery: Fine Arts Building, 1201 E. Seventh St., 855-8490
Student Activities: East Seventh St., 855-4352
Well Metz Theater: 275 N. Jordan Ave., 855-1103
Wittenberger Auditorium: IMU, 900 E. Seventh St. , 855-2231
Kilroys: 319 N. Walnut St., 333-6006
Malibu Grill: 106 N. Walnut St., 332-4334
Max’s Place: 109 W. Seventh St., 336-5169
Monroe Co. Public Library: 303 E. Kirkwood Ave., 349-3050
Players Pub: 424 S. Walnut St., 334-2080
Rhinos All Ages Club: 325 1/2 S. Walnut St., 333-3430
Second Story: 201 S. College Ave.
Soma Coffee House: 322 E. Kirkwood Ave., 331-2770
Tutto Bene: 213 S. Rogers St., 330-1060
Uncle Fester’s: 430 E. Kirkwood Ave., 323-1159
Unitarian Universalist Church: 2120 N. Fee Lane, 332-3695
Upland Brewery: 350 W. 11th St., 336-2337
Waldron Arts Center: 122 S. Walnut St., 334-3100
Walnut Street Tap: 419 N. Walnut St., 331-2947
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March 14, 2007
OUT in Bloomington by Helen Harrell with Carol Fischer
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this space every other issue.
of equality or sharhatred directed
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nity wealth and prosperity.
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ow you might be asking yourself in ourselves upon others. Can we truly
just what are we blathering about, convince others of our right to marriage,
and what does this have to do with a les- or our right to be birth or adoptive parbian/gay culture column? We reply, sim- ents, or that we are worthy of all the
other rights that the heterosexual comply, everything.
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roots of racism.
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thought about since Sociology 101 in
college years ago, but nevertheless it
reminded us of the study of how propaganda based upon economic self-interest
can create an atmosphere of racism and
discrimination through fear.
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someone would fear another based upon
skin color, the fact is that such fears do
still exist and are serious impediments to
intercultural and intracultural harmony
on both national and international levels.
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that maybe we have some shameful reason for hiding.
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that we are responsible citizens of the
United States and worthy of those rights
and privileges afforded to every other citizen of this country. We must then gather
our dignity and strength of purpose to demand what is ours by birthright.
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you.
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[email protected].
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‘Sundown towns’ a Hoosier legacy
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historical overview of the quarry.
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• Have schools and city departments state their intent to welcome and hire nonwhite employees.
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• Encourage the school system and police department to strive for interracial staff.
• Persuade the zoning board to make affordable housing a priority.
• Participate in anti-racist demonstrations.
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• Build public support for a state and/or federal Residents’ Rights Act to preclude a town from merely claiming that it welcomes all newcomers without regard to race.
*Drawn from James W. Loewen, Sundown Towns, Chapter 15.
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ASTROLOGICK
Biweekly forecast for all signs by Gary Paul Glynn
n an opening note, the Vernal Equinox arrives on Tuesday, March 20
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at 8:07 p.m., marking the beginning of
Spring and the quickening of natural
processes. Balance this happy, green
thought with the fact that we’re still in
the darkened Moon phase while only
now pulling out of Mercury retrograde:
life is still in a state of flux and uncertainty for new ventures. The New Moon/Partial Solar Eclipse goes down on Sunday
night, opening a powerful new cycle that
will reverberate for months. Geophysical
and social disruptions along with events
affecting world leaders. Considering
that the eclipse falls on the fourth anniversary of the Iraq War, it could mean
terrorism or perhaps an angry call for
Truth. Extremes are in the forecast over
the next two weeks.
and frustrations give way to wishful thinking. Financial markets shift, congressional
legislation and hot-button social issues
emerge. Tonight looks like Conversations
Involving The Relationship or perhaps a
more intimate, non-verbal approach toward one-to-one interactions.
Saturday, March 17
Venus enters her home sign of Taurus
today like she’s entering an Irish pub
on Saint Paddy’s Day. Here’s to a month
dedicated to comfort, good food and
plenty to drink – it doesn’t get much
better than this. As if announcing the
approach of Spring, today the hours of
daylight and darkness stand as equals.
Excellent day for garden work and time
spent outdoors.
Sunday, March 18
Wednesday, March 14
Friday, March 16
Another sign change as Mercury reenters Pisces – communication shifts from
mental to emotional, objective to subjective. Slippery words and information,
official spins and deceptions are news
fodder for the next three weeks. The Pisces New Moon/Partial Solar Eclipse at
10:42 p.m. (28Pis07), opens a powerful
process with an emphasis on completing
unfinished business and pushing buried
issues to the surface in the days, weeks
and months ahead. Earthquakes, eruptions, freak weather systems, natural and
man-made disasters or accidents. Pluto’s
involvement in the eclipse suggests the
element of terror and manipulation in
the extreme.
A highly active day. Numerous alignments keep things in a constant state of
movement and flux. Delays, impasses
Last night’s eclipse is still evident, reflect-
Serious vibes make up most of the day
under the Capricorn Moon, particularly
in the afternoon hours. Differences in
tastes and values could emerge when it
comes to partners or women. The Moon
will be void-of-course between 4:20
p.m. and 10:52 p.m. creating hazards for
agreements and decisions.
Thursday, March 15
Clearheaded and objective reasoning
skills are strong throughout the day with
the potential for irritability or outright
anger later tonight.
Monday, March 19
March 14, 2007
ed in news stories with a martial theme
– no surprise considering tomorrow’s
the fourth anniversary of the biggest
on-going mistake in American history.
Tread carefully, we’re still in the realm of
extremes.
Tuesday, March 20
More fallout in the wake of Sunday
night’s solar eclipse? On the face of it,
alignments are generally quiet throughout the day. Tonight the Sun crosses the
celestial equator into the Northern Hemisphere at 8:07 p.m. marking the Vernal
Equinox and the beginning of Spring.
The Sun enters Aries, the first sign of the
zodiac and the Sun’s new round through
the Big Twelve commences. Happy Birthday, Aries!
Saturday, March 24
A mixed bag under the Gemini Moon
signals a busy day – projects, errands
and more road time. Outside the frantic world, relax, things will turn out fine
– you’ll see.
Sunday, March 25
Yesterday was mental, today appears to
contain an emotional charge with the
Moon in Cancer alongside a Mars-Neptune conjunction. This bi-yearly alignment speaks of compassionate, selfless
actions or anger and violence arising
without provocation. Misguided and
ill-advised actions lead to self-undoing.
Deceptive behavior, surprise attacks and
engaging an invisible enemy in the War
Against the Shadow.
Wednesday, March 21
Monday, March 26
The heavens take a time out after the
commotion of the past several days with
the Moon now in the stable sign of Taurus. Good night to see a movie, go to a
concert or spend quality time with your
significant other.
Feelings of vulnerability may be in evidence today, placing greater emphasis
on family and security issues. Mostly
quiet in the heavens as we wait for the
fog to lift.
Thursday, March 22
Moon enters Leo at 1:04 p.m., coinciding
with better moods if not sunny dispositions throughout the day. Creativity and
greater self-expression are indicated.
More tense alignments emerge with
the Taurus Moon forming hard alignments in the morning hours. Fixed and
stubborn attitudes result in adding additional and unnecessary stress. Irritability, frustration and anger are likely if you
don’t have a way to deploy your energy.
An immovable force meets an irresistible
force with explosive results. If it doesn’t
move, don’t push on it.
Friday, March 23
Yesterday’s forecast is valid today, but
with a verbal bite. Misunderstandings
this morning yield to a more effective
way of expressing ourselves this afternoon. Good energy throughout the day.
Tuesday, March 27
Times are EST/-0500 UTC
Gary Paul Glynn
Professional astrologer
25 years of experience
Personal birthchart interpretation
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March 14, 2007
Hoosier farmers not ready for climate change
“We need to translate variables that CO2 has only a small fertilization effect
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2025 fails to mention climate change agreed that models
Corn growth is
even once, but over the last century the are important for
reduced at tem“Rising CO2 levels and
average temperature in Bloomington predicting climate
peratures above
has increased 1.8 degrees, and precipi- change. He added
86 degrees, while
temperatures affect not
tation is up by 10 percent, according to that research on the
wheat and potaonly agricultural species,
a 1998 U.S. Environmental Protection effects of increastoes show growth
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American Association for the Advance- growing season, one might expect glob- plant diseases and insect pests. The
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But all is not rosy for the Midwest. tage of niches generated by a changing
frequent dry periods across the North- While indoor crop experiments have climate.
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• Devastated by the church
church, the school and the
archdiocese, nothing was
resolved, she said. Does it
have to get as bad as sexual abuse before they admit
that some priests may be
abusing their power?
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cently led Masses at St. Charles, accordafter four months at his new school,
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Edgewood in Ellettsville, she said.
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She is still in shock this whole thing
outcome would have been completely
Despite complaints from nearly two dozen famiever happened.
lthough McLaugh- different.
lies about inappropriate language used by one of
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Paul agreed. The saddest part of this
lin, Shea and Paul
their pastors, officials at St. Charles Church and the
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are infuriated at how the story is what could have happened, he
Archdiocese of Indianapolis have refused to act. An
And McLaughlin and Shea are not
archdiocese treated their said. But nothing can change the inciarchdiocese spokesman told the Alternative this
alone with this thought.
requests, they are most up- dents that have occurred.
story is “such old news.”
At least one other family has removed
“So now we have to have a resolution
set about the way Jack was
so
Jack can say something wrong haptreated.
e-mails to the archdiocese asking that
pened
to him and that people had the
Unlike
his
sister,
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McLaughlin’s children be reinstated and
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the school and parish be ended.
children. … I felt like I was
Erica Ballard can be reached at
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sacrificing my children to
said. “They (the school and archdiocese) and fellow pupils. His mother described [email protected].
him as an outgoKDYHWUHDWHG$QQHKRUULEO\´
this priest.”
ing kid, with good
“You have to understand the Catholic
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- Anne McLaughlin
that this incident is not nearly as friends when he
Church. The archdiocese doesn’t dictate
Catholic parent KRUUL¿F DV WKH &DWKROLF &KXUFK¶V VH[X- was at St. Charles.
how they (priests) run the details of their
But this incident
al abuse scandals, she believes that the
church. The family wasn’t following the
poor handling of situations seems to be a traumatized him,
their children from St. Charles, no lon- trend for the archdiocese.
said McLaughlin.
rules, so they were expelled.”
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substitute at the school Randy Paul sent
Jack’s
grades
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