• SUNDAY STORY: Emotional abuse roiling IUPUI women’s basketball?
The panel will report its findings to IU President Michael McRobbie, the IU board of trustees and other IUPUI leaders. No time was mentioned for when the panel is expected to complete its work.
The abuse allegations, reported in The Indianapolis Star, came from 11 former players of head coach Shann Hart and associate head coach Chanel Spriggs.
The women’s basketball program has seen 28 players and assistant coaches quit in the past four seasons, including 19 scholarship players.
The NCAA keeps some statistics on turnover but nothing covering all players who leave a program early.
Mechelle Voepel, who covers women’s basketball for ESPN .com, described IUPUI’s turnover rate as “extremely high.”
“Something is very definitely wrong there,” she said.
Players alleged an atmosphere of fear, favoritism, humiliation and inappropriate interest in their personal lives.
Hart and Spriggs have declined comment through a university spokesman.
Also Tuesday, the gay rights advocacy group Indiana Equality sent a letter to Bantz and IUPUI athletic director Michael Moore, calling on them to “thoroughly investigate” claims of inappropriate questioning of sexual orientation.
One player told The Star that Hart asked explicitly about her sexual orientation. Others described a reckless postgame rant by the coach that centered on accusations of players breaking team rules by becoming involved in intimate relationships with each other.
The letter from Indiana Equality said that if an investigation substantiates the players’ claims, the school should “take appropriate personnel actions, and . . . establish policies that will protect against such future discriminatory actions.”
IUPUI’s student code of conduct states that students have a right to be free from “conduct that targets an individual based upon” sexual orientation and other factors.
They also have a right to be free from an “intimidating, hostile or offensive environment for academic pursuits, housing or participation in university activities.”

The clip was shot by the same website hawking Katherine’s new book “Never Can Say Goodbye” — and according to our source, the footage is all part of a larger documentary on Jackson’s life.

As for who’s behind the whole project — we’re told it’s an equal partnership between Katherine and Howard Mann — the same guy who co-wrote her book.

“It’s official, ‘Drink the Kool-Aid’ will drop on Tuesday July 27th. You can get it right here on icecube.com or itunes. The ringtone will be availible everywhere. Our viral video will drop the following Tuesday August 3rd. I wish I could release a single in store for all my true CD fans, but nobody will stock a single nowadays. Sign of the times. Music is under attack. The video is raw, black and white shot by Dah-Dah. I promised you a song a month and here we go. The first one. Right now I’m in the studio mixing a song called “Soul On Ice” produced by the Bizness. Dope as the title. As the album gets closer I’ll be blogging more and more for all my die-hards out there. Keep pushing the progam and keep it 100.” (Ice Cube’s Blog)

1 battery, 1 criminal trespass, 1 FAA No license (firearm), 1 immediate detention, 1 operativing never receiving license
1 warrant – driving while susp prior, 1 warrant – FTA criminal mischief, 1 theft, 2 robbery, 6 public intox, 1 poss cocaine
2 operating vehicle while intoxcated… per speedway police dept.

The article focuses on the St. Florian Center camp, a program run by Anthony Williamson and Earl Thompson of the Indianapolis Fire Department. The article also looks at Summer Advantage USA.

A gallery of photos on TIME.com focuses on programs that help kids continue to learn during the summer. The St. Florian camp, which began in 1992, runs for eight weeks.

Summer Advantage is open to students between kindergarten and eighth grade. It operates in a dozen sites around Indianapolis and serves 3,100 youth.

Both camps mix subjects such as math and language arts with activities such as rappelling, science experiments and exercise.

The magazine will hit newsstands on Monday.

“I don’t want to say too much, but I just did some work with will.i.am,” Minaj revealed to EW.com. However, she wouldn’t elaborate whether the Black Eyed Peas frontman is producing and/or lending his vocals to their collaboration, saying, “Just something for my album that I’m really excited about.”

Without spilling any additional names, she described the project’s overall direction. “The album is much more emotional than you anticipate, which is a great thing,” she added. “And I know women are gonna connect to the album so much. I felt like for so many years I was the girl who did the catchy little raps, and it’s time for me now to tell my story, and in telling my story, I’m really telling every girl’s story. We all go through the same thing. So the album is gonna feel very personal to every female.”

Other previously announced contributors include Swizz Beatz, Alex Da Kid, and Sean Garrett. The as-yet-untitled set is due November 23.