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Remembering Arabic professor Zaineb Istrabadi

By Emma Williams emmewill@iu.edu | @_emmaewilliams

Zaineb Istrabadi was a beloved Arabic professor at IU who left her touch on every person she encountered. She made a lasting impact on her family, friends and students.

From her first impression, anyone who met Istrabadi never forgot her kind at-

titude and selfless actions.

Senior Morgan Hoffman said Istrabadi was one of the best people she’d ever met.

“She was so positive, and she brought that into the classroom,” Hoffman said. “She wanted to be friends with her students and really wanted to be there for you as a support.”

Istrabadi lost a 15-year battle with breast cancer Saturday. She was 65.

Her dedication to teaching was evident, and her brother, former United Nations ambassador and current IU professor Feisal Istrabadi, said she instilled a love for the Arabic language in her students. After her initial breast cancer

diagnosis and treatment in 2006, she made a point to come back to Bloomington to teach, Feisal Istrabadi said.

Professor Stephen Katz of the Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures Department said he has known Istrabadi since her time as a doctoral student at IU. He said she was a

natural teacher and a key member of the Arabic program, and her passing is a SEE ISTRABADI, PAGE 5 significant loss to the deCOURTESY PHOTO

Zaineb Istrabadi, a former Arabic professor in IU's Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, died on Jan. 23. Istrabadi started teaching at IU in 2001.

Lowest-ever COVID-19 rates at IUB reported

By Matt Cohen @mdc1 | @Matt_Cohen_

ALEX DERYN | IDS FILE PHOTO

Junior Evelyn Sanchez holds up a “Unite to ignite” sign during the Unite To Ignite rally Oct. 16, 2020, in front of Sample Gates. IU Student Government passed a bill granting multicultural organizations representation in Congress.

IUSG passes new representation bill

By Avraham Forrest ahforres@iu.edu | @Avraham_Forrest

A bill devoting at least one-third of IU Student Government’s Student Congress seats to multicultural student organizations passed the student body vote, senior Congress member Steven Rigg said.

Black Student Union president Ky Freeman said the bill passed Sunday

night, according to a Tweet.

A minimum of 31 new seats will be added to the current 62, giving multicultural organizations a larger voice in the IU Student Congress. Multicultural student organizations can apply for one of the new seats in the student congress, according to the bill.

Some student organizations could assume their

seats in Congress and begin voting on legislation as soon as Feb. 1, sophomore and IUSG Congressional Secretary Romael Khan said.

A total of 1,280 students voted, with 1,009 voting yes, 260 voting no and 11 abstaining, according to an email from Alison Miron, IU student organization coordinator at the Student Involvement and Leadership

center.

“For me, I am overjoyed,” Freeman said.

According to the bill, requirements for organizations to apply for a seat include a BeInvolved website registration, a display of intent to participate in IUSG and an Election Commission review and certification.

The commission will

vote to certify an organization after they apply. The bill defines a multicultural student organization as “nonpartisan student organizations that represent a historically and currently underrepresented ethnicity, culture, nationality, gender, sexuality, disability or religion."

SEE IUSG, PAGE 5

Girls Rock Bloomington starts community fund

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Girls Rock founder and camp director Amy Oelsner plays guitar at the Girls Rock summer camp in 2019. Girls Rock started a community fund Jan. 15 to lower the cost of their summer camp for participants.

By Alexis Lindenmayer lindena@iu.edu | @lexilindenmayer

Girls Rock Bloomington, a local music and mentorship program, started a community fund on Jan. 15 to provide free and reducedprice events for Black, Indigenous, and people of color girls and transgender and nonbinary youth.

The community fund was created by founder and camp director Amy Oelsner.

As a rock ‘n’ roll camp for girls of all identities, Girls Rock Bloomington strives to magnify self expression through music and education.

Oelsner said the program

wanted to make events more accessible to their campers, many of whom are BIPOC. “We have been paying attention to the Black Lives Matter movement that's been happening for a long time, but has been especially loud this year,” Oelsner said. “We wanted to do a small part in being antiracist co-conspirators and this seemed like a good first step.”

After working at a Girls Rock in Brooklyn, New York, Oelsner brought the concept to Bloomington. The program started in June 2019 with its first summer camp.

The five-day camp has campers work together in

groups to collaborate, learn instruments and perform a song at the end of the week.

Since the program’s launch, Girls Rock has hosted musical workshops, after-school activities and a virtual summer camp last year due to COVID-19.

The community fund has raised $350 of its $2,000 goal, which would cover almost two full tuitions for the program’s summer camp, Oelsner said. She said she would also get in touch with Black Lives Matter for suggestions on where to donate any extra funds.

“It's important to basically create a venue for people who are marginalized in or-

der to share their voice and to develop confidence and build community with each other,” Oelsner said.

Cathleen Paquet was camp director for the virtual 2020 summer camp and has worked as a volunteer coordinator and band coach.

She said the program has previously partnered with the Boys and Girls Club and Ivy Tech to raise money and provide camp slots to children who could not afford it.

“For a program like this only to be open to those who can afford would be really unfortunate,” Paquet said.

“It will always be incredibly important for Girls Rock to keep events financially ac-

cessible because it would undermine the goals of what we do if it was out of reach for any particular kids.”

Paquet said there should be more programs like Girls Rock that amplifies voices of people who may have been underrepresented in the music industry.

“Girls Rock gives me a lot of hope and so much happiness,” Paquet said. “It makes me feel better about the world we live in to see these kids feeling really empowered, sharing things and finding the courage to share their voices.”

Girls Rock Bloomington is a part of MidWay Music Speaks, a Bloomington based non-profit organization that celebrates and connects women and nonbinary people in music via promotion, empowerment and performance opportunity.

MidWay Music Speaks was founded by Alexi King in 2018 after the first MidWay Music Festival.

“We are built by and for women and nonbinary people in music,” King said.

“That is our audience that we usually serve, but we do like to be as inclusive as possible because we're not trying to exclude anybody.”

King said Oelsner’s work with Girls Rock and the new community fund are great ways to break down barriers as it helps children who may not have the opportunity to attend Girls Rock.

“Maybe with the donation, they'll be able to attend and could completely get them to be inspired and encourage them to pursue music,” King said. “To be really cheesy, it could change a life too.”

IU’s COVID-19 dashboard reported Wednesday a record for the lowest positivity rate, 0.28%, on the Bloomington campus in last week’s mitigation testing.

There were 11,484 total mitigation tests conducted in Bloomington with only 32 positive results. That is the most mitigation tests in an individual week on the Bloomington campus.

For the entire IU system, there were 19,259 tests, with only 84 positive results. That comes to a positivity rate of 0.44%, which is also the lowest overall positivity rate IU has reported. The previous campuswide record was last week’s dashboard update, showing a rate of 0.65%.

Live-in greek-life students had a 0.2% positivity rate in 541 tests. Live-out greek-life students had a 0.3% positivity rate in 1,527 tests. Dorm residents had a 0.2% positivity rate in 628 tests, and all other off-campus students had a 0.3% positivity rate in 6,838 tests.

Out of 4,108 faculty and staff tested across campuses, there were 14 positive cases, which is a positivity rate of 0.2%.

The weekly prevalence rate, or roughly what percentage of the population is infected with COVID-19, is 0.3% for the Bloomington campus. That is also a record low.

IU’s dashboard said next week’s update will have a new design and layout, stating it will be a “data-forward” design with current and expanded testing information. No specifics were shared about what new testing information will be shown.

Members of the IU community have raised concerns that IU’s dashboard is neither transparent enough nor updated often enough. The University of Illinois, for example, updates its dashboard every day.

Dr. Aaron Carroll, IU’s director of mitigation testing, said throughout the fall in Wednesday webinars he felt the dashboard was transparent enough and didn’t care what the Yale professors’ COVID-19 dashboard rating system said about IU’s.

BASEBALL

3 IU players make Big Ten team

By Luke Lusson llusson@iu.edu | @LukeLusson

IU junior outfielder Grant Richardson, junior pitcher Gabe Bierman and redshirt senior pitcher Connor Manous earned preseason all-conference honors from Perfect Game last week.

Richardson was also picked to win Big Ten player of the year and the Hoosiers were selected to win the Big Ten. Richardson led IU last year with a .424 batting average, tallying five home runs and 17 RBIs. Bierman had a team-best 2.45 ERA and Manous didn’t allow a single run in eight innings of relief pitching last season.

For Richardson, the preseason accolades have been flooding in. He was named a first-team preseason All-American by Perfect Game and Collegiate Baseball, as well as a thirdteam preseason All-American by D1 Baseball.

The Big Ten has announced that its baseball season will only include conference games due to COVID-19 concerns, but a schedule for IU has yet to be announced.

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COVID-19 not spread in MCCSC classrooms

By Madison Smalstig msmalsti@iu.edu | @madi_smals

Monroe County Community School Corporation contact tracers have not yet detected any spread of COVID-19 in its classrooms, MCCSC communications officer Kelby Turmail said.

According to the data compiled by the contact tracers, positive cases resulted mainly from attending social gatherings or being around family members outside of school, Turmail said.

The contact tracing team consists of about 10 registered nurses who cover the MCCSC contact tracing line 24 hours a day, seven days a week. All students, whether in person or online, and school faculty and staff call the contact tracing line if they test positive for COVID-19. Then, the nurses identify close contacts within the school by looking at the whereabouts of the person 48 hours before they started showing symptoms and finding who was within six feet of the person for more than 15 minutes.

Since the start of the

spring semester, there has been an increase in COVID-19 positivity rates from 5.7% on Dec. 30 to 7.7% on Jan. 11, according to the data compiled on the MCCSC website.

There have been about 50 in-person students who have tested positive and about 60 online students, according to data posted by the MCCSC. Turmail said students who tested positive and were attending class in person are categorized as online students if they were not in a school building 48 hours prior to the onset of their symptoms because they immediately move to online learning.

Turmail said she believes this increase in cases is due to holiday celebrations.

In order to prevent the spread of the virus, Monroe County schools took precautions such as wearing masks, adding more shifts for custodians, wiping off desks in between activities, social distancing desks, splitting up bus routes so fewer kids are on each bus and having seating charts for busses and classrooms.

The students and faculty

have also been able to spread out in their respective buildings because of the number of students attending class online.

Schools are following a learning status phase system which, based on factors such as positivity rate, positive case per day and contact tracing speed, determines whether MCCSC schools are in phase green, yellow or red.

Phase yellow, — the phase MCCSC schools are in — means kindergarten through sixth grade classes are in person, while seventh through twelfth grades use a hybrid schedule, where the students only come to school every other day. An online option is also available during phase yellow.

MCCSC board member Jacinda Townsend Gides said she does not believe students should be in schools because the risks regarding COVID-19 are too dire. She said she knows the schools, teachers and administration are doing the best they can to prevent the spread of COVID-19, but the nationwide increase in cases following the holidays

made her think a spike may occur in the community and in the schools.

Townsend Gides said she would not be surprised if there has been spread in the classrooms that has gone undetected by the contact tracers.

“I find it hard to believe that anyone thinks they can conclusively know that,” she said. “We’re talking about groups of people in indoor spaces with no ventilation.”

Tyler Abel, a Bloomington High School North teacher, said the benefits of being in the classroom far outweigh the risks associated with COVID-19. Abel, who leads a communitybased classroom for students with moderate to severe disabilities, said many of his students need a specific daily structure to complete their school work, and it’s difficult to provide that guidance in a completely online format.

His students can’t do all of their normal activities, such as travelling to downtown Bloomington for life skills training at restaurants and transportation services, he said. However, because

the majority of his students are still in person, he has been able to adapt some of the lessons, such as grocery shopping, to an online format.

“Having the students in front of you, you’re able to problem solve a lot quicker, you’re able to help reinforce things when they’re doing it well quicker,” he said.

“That’s hugely beneficial for any student.”

Penny Caudill, Bloomington Health Department health administrator, said people indoors are never completely safe from COVID-19, but that schools are doing the best they can to prevent spread among their students and staff. She said it’s important for students to be in classrooms not only because instruction is easier, but also provides food to kids who don’t have steady meals at home and a safe space for children experiencing abuse.

MCCSC Board President Cathy Fuentes-Rohwer said a representative from Child Protective Services spoke at a board meeting last fall about how child abuse could go undetected if stu-

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Bloomington High School North teacher Tyler Abel poses for a photo. MCCSC contract tracers has not found any spread of COVID-19 in the classroom, but the cases have been tied to social events outside of the school or to exposure to family members.

dents are not showing up for school.

Caudill said while she knows that being in person does not make sense for every student, Monroe County wants to help keep schools open for those that want to attend in person, as long as it is safe.

“The goal is to always keep students and faculty and staff safe and healthy,” she said.

Homeless shelter opens by Switchyard Grant Street Inn closed until May, could stay closed

By Haley Ryan

haryan@iu.edu | @haley__ryan

Beacon, a homeless and housing organization, opened a new homeless shelter near Switchyard Park Jan. 19. The shelter was created to meet the needs of Bloomington’s unhoused population, many of which had been staying at Seminary Park.

Beacon runs the Shalom Community Center, Friend’s Place, Crawford Homes, Phil’s Kitchen, Rapid Re-Housing and Street Outreach Programs to provide shelter, housing, food and other services to those experiencing poverty and homelessness.

Forrest Gilmore, the executive director of Beacon, said the City of Bloomington’s eviction of people experiencing homelessness in Seminary Park in December 2020 deeply disturbed the organization. He said Beacon began to survey the people in Seminary Park in early January to determine how many people were sleeping outside and why they were there instead of at a shelter.

“It just revealed to us that the major crisis that we’re dealing with,” Gilmore said.

“That there simply weren’t enough beds for all the people that were sleeping outside.”

According to a statement released by the Office of the Mayor, there are more than 60 beds in nearby shelters for people experiencing homelessness, but Gilmore said Beacon found large numbers of people sleeping outside.

Beside the lack of available beds, Gilmore said the survey identified a number of issues members the unhoused com-

By Wei Wang daviwang@iu.edu | @WeiWangDavid23

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Bloomington resident Jason “Bubba” Oliphant, 47, sits outside the new Beacon winter shelter near Switchyard Park on Jan. 26. Oliphant has been living at the shelter next door, A Friend’s Place, which is also run by Beacon.

munity faced when trying to access shelter. Pet ownership, separation of couples, religion, distance, shelter rules and storage were some of the issues Beacon resolved, according to Gilmore.

The new winter shelter, located at 310 W. Hillside Drive, allows patrons to bring their pets inside, and couples are permitted to stay together.

On the shelter’s first night of operation, Gilmore said the shelter served 26 people. The number grew to 47 people on Saturday, he said.

“To suddenly provide that many shelter beds for people in such a short period of time indicates that we hit on a very serious and major need,” Gilmore said.

Gilmore said the most im-

portant way people can help right now is by volunteering at the shelter. He said volunteers are needed at the shelters, including Shalom Community Center and Friends Place, and at daytime programs that include hospitality and kitchen volunteers and job search coaches.

“Students have always played a huge role in doing that and supporting our work through volunteerism,” Gilmore said.

Bloomington Homeless Coalition volunteer Heather Lake volunteered at the new shelter during the first two days it was open and said she was pleased with the staff and volunteers.

“The new shelter is really, really good,” Lake said. “It’s

run by really good, trained staff and volunteers and everybody’s really involved.”

Lake said she volunteered the first two days the shelter was open to help clean and set up the space for patrons. She said she was worried about friends who had been evicted from their tents and that people have worked hard to make the shelter a place where everyone feels comfortable enough to stay.

“It just feels better to have them know that they can come inside at night,” Lake said.

To volunteer at Beacon’s shelters, visit beaconinc. org or email volunteer coordinator, Sue Murphy, at Sue@beaconinc.org.

SR 37 lane closures might cause delays

By David Wolfe Bender benderd@iu.edu | @dbenderpt

Students returning to IU next week could see road closures and delays on I-69 that interrupt their normal route to campus.

Officials from the I-69 Finish Line project provided an update on the status of the major roadway improvement project at a virtual presentation hosted by the Greater Mooresville Chamber of

Commerce Thursday. The project is a major roadway improvement plan that aims to upgrade State Road 37 to interstate standards by 2024.

A 5-mile section of State Road 37 in Martinsville has been closed for three weeks and will remain closed for most of 2021. I-69 Finish Line officials said it could speed up completion of the project by a year.

“Safety and shortening the construction timeline are two

of the main benefits of the full closure,” the I-69 Finish Line team said of the closure on its website. “By removing live traffic from the construction zone, it’s a safer environment for motorists and workers.”

The section of State Road 37 between State Road 144 and Martinsville has also been reduced to one lane of traffic. I-69 officials said drivers could experience significant delays and recommend avoiding the road

if possible.

State Road 37 connects I-465 — the Indianapolis beltway — to I-69, the major roadway that runs through Bloomington. The I-69 Finish Line is the final section of the interstate connection between Indianapolis and Evansville. Bridges and access roads are being constructed along the route as part of the project. The finished, updated roadway is expected to be completed by the end of 2024.

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Bloomington’s Grant Street Inn closed its doors Jan. 16 as the local hospitality industry struggles under the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an announcement on the inn’s Facebook page. This is the second time it has closed since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

The inn is scheduled to reopen May 1, but may postpone its reopening or close permanently if the business does not secure enough room reservations by then, said Rebecca Ellison, marketing specialist for CFC Properties. CFC Properties owns the inn.

“The Grant Street Inn could cease to exist if we don’t get the support that we need,” hospitality manager Paul Wagoner said.

The inn first closed on March 19 for health and safety reasons as the novel coronavirus began to spread across the United States, President of CFC Properties Jim Murphy said. It reopened in July to meet recovered traveling demands and have the staff back to work, Ellison said.

This year marks the Grant Street In’s 30th anniversary.

In 1990, the Cook family bought the then-107-yearold Ziegler House to save it from potential demolition, according to the inn’s website. The family, which founded Cook Medical and CFC Properties, moved the house down Seventh Street from behind the First Presbyterian Church to its current location at 310 N. Grant St. Now the inn’s five buildings and 40 rooms occupy an entire block, the century-old Ziegler House sitting at the front of the compound.

Wagoner has overseen the Grant Street Inn for more than 17 years, or

more than half of its lifespan since its opening in 1991. He said many guests have been regulars for years, even decades.

Wagoner said what makes Grant Street Inn special is the staff ’s connection with guests.

“We know these guests,” he said. “We know what rooms they like. We know what they like for breakfast. We know their kids.”

Around 70% of the inn’s guests stay there for IU events, Wagoner said.

He said the past year has been difficult because IU canceled most in-person events such as Little 500 and the May and December commencement ceremonies.

Before the pandemic, the Grant Street Inn’s occupancy rate averaged around 70% annually, Wagoner said. December’s occupancy rate dropped 67% as a result of the pandemic.

Wagoner said he hopes to host guests coming to Bloomington to attend IU’s spring commencement ceremony after the inn reopens on May 1. He said although all 40 rooms are already sold out for that time, the inn will take a sizable hit if the ceremony is online and all guests cancel their room reservations.

Murphy said CFC Properties decided not to apply for state or federal assistance for the inn, which it owns, but declined to comment on why.

The inn has been part of Wagoner’s life since his mid-30s, he said. He had thought he would retire here, but the sudden strike of the pandemic has made that uncertain.

“From the day I walked into Grant Street Inn to sitting here right now — it’s very sentimental to me,” he said. “Will I be able to go out in retirement with the Grant Street Inn or in another role?”

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BLACK VOICES

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TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

President Joe Biden prepares to sign a series of executive orders at the Oval Office hours after his Jan. 20 inauguration in Washington. Biden has signed orders to address to address racial equity, support for underserved communities and economic relief for COVID-19.

Biden addresses racial inequality

By Tiera Howleit thowleit@iu.edu | @officialtieranicole

On Inauguration Day, just shortly after being sworn into office, President Joe Biden got right to work.

He went into the Oval Office and began to map out his plan for marginalized communities and the nation as a whole.

Biden has already signed 30 executive orders, including the following ones to advance racial equity and support underserved communities and provide economic relief related to COVID-19.

Biden rescinded former President Donald Trump’s 1776 commission, which was created “to better enable a rising generation to understand the history and principles of the founding of the United States in 1776.”

This commission countered the New York Times’ 1619 project, a series of articles that sought to teach the true

history of slavery and racism in the U.S. “The Federal Government’s goal in advancing equity is to provide everyone with the opportunity to reach their full potential,” Biden wrote in executive order 13985.

Order 13985 articulates the various equity assessments that federal agencies are now required to implement to review their policies, protocols and programs to ensure they do not create lack of opportunity and success within marginalized or underserved communities.

In one year of the date of Order 13985, the heads of federal agencies will meet with the assistant to the president for Domestic Policy and the Office of Management and Budget to create a plan addressing any barriers to full and equal participation, access and enrollment within federal programs.

IU political science pro-

fessor Marjorie Hershey said she believes assessments of certain practices within institutions are important to terminate bad policies that hinder the growth and success of marginalized communities and create better ones.

“Anything that leads us to say why is it that we are doing what we are doing, I think, can be very helpful and also gives us a chance to examine, critically, these institutional practices and see if they have some outcomes that are bad,” Hershey said.

David Adeleye is a thirdyear law student at the Maurer School of Law and former special assistant to the U.S. Senate-confirmed officials under the Obama administration. The Biden administration’s goal is to get rid of systemic problems pertaining to race and identity within federal agencies, Adeleye said.

While definite step-by-

step plans were not mentioned in Order 13985, the plan begins with assessments executive agencies will have to undergo to find systemic issues. From there, Biden officials will discover those affected by these issues, and then work on delivering resources and benefits equitably to all.

The rules and regulations that specifically target and negatively affected individuals belonging to Black and Brown, LGBTQ or other marginalized or underserved communities need to be revised.

Adeleye said the goal of this executive order is to identify inequities baked into the federal government, hear from individuals who are affected and work on addressing these issues.

The Biden administration’s plans to improve racial equity should be applauded because they show the team’s dedication to solv-

ing problems within federal agencies, Adeleye said.

These issues are reinforced due to archaic, but common, practices such as creating programs and implementing legislation not specifically designed to address issues of inequity within governmental functions. The Biden administration will release more detailed information regarding this pan in the coming weeks.

“Biden’s senior officials are required to go into these communities to engage with community members and leaders on ways in which the government can help them,” Adeleye said. “I think that is really powerful because by doing this they will be able to narrow what is going on the ground and the barriers to entry of being awarded these government resources.

To subsidize the economic effects of COVID-19,

Biden blended elements of Order 13985 into another executive order on economic relief related to COVID-19 to advance his plan for eliminating systemic racial barriers.

Adeleye and Hershey both said they believe the administration is taking a step in the right direction.

However, Hersey said she thinks the change Biden and the nation wish to seek may not be as easy as some may think.

“You don’t want to assume that too much change is going to take place until you actually see the evidence of it,” Hershey said.

With only one full week in office, Biden has created plans to address the systemic issues related to racial equity and opportunities existing on the federal level.

This is only the beginning, though. Substantial change will not happen overnight.

Black women learn to embrace natural hair

By Abriana Herron aoherron@iu.edu | @abri_onyai

Since March, many Black women have decided to cut their natural hair short.

The increase of Black women cutting their hair over the pandemic is not only because of the limited access to hair salons and beauty supply stores, but also a change in beauty standards, according to ZORA, a Medium publication for Black women.

High numbers of Black women are rocking their short, natural hair, whether because they want to be more confident in themselves or because they simply did not know what they wanted to do with their hair.

While junior Kori Smith was growing up, many of her family members praised her for the way her hair looked, she said. In late December, Smith made the impulsive decision to cut her hair short, but not long after cutting it, she started crying.

“I was so attached to my hair,” she said. “I have always been connected to it because it is like my marker.”

Hair styling can help women portray their personality and express their creative side.

Today in Africa, many schools require young girls to cut their hair because they believe it removes the distraction of hair maintenance. Other African women shave their heads to signify respect for their dead husbands and fathers.

Many Black women also cut their hair to build selfesteem.

Initially, Smith didn’t think cutting her hair would boost her self-esteem be-

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cause she was attached to her shoulder length hair, she said. Yet Smith said she noticed a positive change in how she viewed herself — not having much hair on her head forced Smith to start to focus on her face and noticed how beautiful it is.

“As soon as I cut my hair I was like, ‘Oh, girl, look at that face,’” she said.

Smith also said cutting her hair made her feel more in touch with her femininity. Growing up, she perceived herself as a tomboy, but after she cut her hair she

learned to put love and attention into herself.

While some women cut their hair for no specific reason, others, such as junior Ashley Simpson, did so to have healthier hair in the future.

Simpson’s hair was relaxed — chemically altered to make it easier to manage and straighten. While relaxers make it easier to manage, they also chemically damage natural hair curl patterns.

She cut her hair off in September, but she did not

immediately notice an impact on her self-esteem, she said.

“I didn’t realize it until it was gone,” she said. "I loved having long hair, and when it was gone, I didn’t know what to do with myself.”

Black women are taught from their mothers or motherly figures to make sure their hair is presentable at a young age, and as short natural hair was not a part of previous beauty standards, they taught them to stray away from cutting their hair.

Smith said she believes

Black women highly value their hair due to the stereotypes of natural hair being unruly and unprofessional.

“If it's real kinky it scares people off,” she said. “That’s unprofessional all of the sudden, even though it’s the hair that grows out of your head.”

In 2017, news anchor Brittany Noble wore her natural hair, and after one month, her director asked her to change it because it was “unprofessional.” Noble continued to wear her natural hair, and she was then

fired from her news station in Jackson, Mississippi.

Smith said because of hair stereotypes, Black women are attached to the way their hair looks and stray away from hairstyles that could perpetuate these stereotypes.

“If you think about cutting your hair, cut it,” she said. “Just do it. hair grows back.”

Even though she briefly cried over the loss of her hair, Smith still advocates for Black women cutting it off, she said.

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Please check in with your quieter friends, they probably need it Natalie Gabor (she/her) is a junior in journalism, business marketing and philosophy.

I spent most of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic like many other financially-dependent college students — alone in my hometown with my parents as my only source of human interaction. Though I’m perhaps not as embarrassed as I should be to admit they’re my best friends, another part of me ached for alternative social outlets.

What was designed to be an introvert’s dream became our worst nightmare, as text messaging and phone calls gradually lost their luster and proved themselves more tedious than any in-person gathering. I eventually abandoned electronic forms of communication altogether and had more than 20 unread text messages at one time, a personal record for someone with anxiety.

As mass vaccination approaches, I feel relieved like most others. However, I cannot help but question the lingering effects of remote communication and whether it will hinder my ability to reach out to friends, even physically, going forward.

Because I rely heavily on others to make plans and pioneer conversations, I assumed interacting remotely would be no different. I quickly found physical distancing to be much more isolating than I could’ve imagined. In instances where I was either asked to express myself or forced to initiate, I couldn’t do it.

Being told to “just reach out” when you’re feeling down, although well intentioned, can be draining and sometimes ineffective. Because being shy hinges upon finding social functions and being outgoing emotionally taxing, it’s unsurprising this makes me, like many other introverts, panicked.

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Though introversion and social anxiety are not inherently correlated, they’re not mutually exclusive either.

Because the brain responds identically to real and unreal danger, individuals are left independently to distinguish legitimate concern from aimless feelings of fear, according to a 2014 Anxiety. org article written by Angela Retano, a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner.

The more exposure a person has to events they perceive as threatening — or the more emotionally sensitive they are to them — the more likely they may be to develop an anxiety disorder.

As I experience more so-

cial discomfort, I become more afraid to reveal my innermost thoughts and engage with friends and acquaintances alike, making distaste for interaction all the more palpable.

This desire for human intimacy, coupled with a fear of closeness in my relationships, can leave me feeling like that meme highlighting the dichotomy between being understood and what it takes to actually get there.

I want my friends to understand and help with intense feelings of grief, loneliness or depression, but when they’re right in front of me waiting to listen, I freeze. I’m afraid they will not understand or will

judge my transparency. I’ve waited my entire life to have friends like those I have now, and I would never want them to think I’m anything less than perfect.

So, in such instances when a friend reaches out to me and asks “How’s it going?” or “How are you doing?” my immediate response is “Oh I’m fine.” I’m very rarely fine and live my life as a beacon of pure emotion, so though thinly-veiled as this may seem, it does often work in hiding my true feelings. I perpetuate my mellow and lighthearted external personality to retain friendships I believe are fragile. Unfortunately, this

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false sense of fragility is one of those funny tricks anxiety will play on you.

I have plenty of work to do in allowing myself to be more revealing to those I care about who I know care about me, but I ask a simple favor of my extraverted peers: Please stop asking us how we’re doing — especially through text. Please force me to tell you what’s going on in my life, either with a specific request or a phone call. Say “I want to hear about your day,” or “Tell me what’s bothering you right now,” instead.

That way, I’ll have nowhere to hide.

Introverts will find sneaky ways to allow some of their

inner feelings to leak out, forcing others to dig deeper for the full picture. We do this to ensure those we reach out to will truly have our best interests at heart, and so we don’t waste our precious social time on people we might find unfulfilling.

Please stop telling me I’m strong just because I deal with things independently. Though I’d rather get my teeth cleaned than be perceived by others, I secretly wish to be understood by the people I love, just as much as anybody else. The pandemic didn’t change this desire, but it certainly made it all the more tangible. natgabor@iu.edu

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IU is failing its students and professors of color Alessia Modjarrad (she/her) is a junior in economic consulting and law and public policy.

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During your time at IU, do you feel as though you’ve had exposure to different cultures and experienced a wealth of diversity?

If you answered yes, and you’re white, you’d be surprised at the diversity — or rather, the lack of diversity — present on campus.

Despite being one of Indiana’s most prestigious universities, IU has a diversity issue. From its students to the Board of Trustees, the university remains overwhelmingly white. In order to become a true “college for all,” IU must make structural, not superficial changes. Racism is a multifaceted issue and only a multifaceted approach can solve it.

To combat this issue, IU must hire more faculty of color and provide expansive pathways to full professorship. Faculty of color shouldn’t be considered for diversity positions only — they should be uplifted into all leadership positions.

When examining Bloomington’s campus, the lack of representation is overt. People of color only comprise 23.6% of students as of 2020, and 31% of tenure or tenure-track faculty as of 2019. While people who are Black are about 10% of Indiana’s population, they represent less than 6% of IU-Bloomington students.

While representation of Black, Indigenous and people of color in higher education is generally minimal, IU still underperforms. Among its peer institutions in the Big Ten,

IU ranks 11th out of 14 for minority undergraduate enrollment.

“We want to provide opportunities to everyone in our state and beyond, regardless of background,” IU spokesperson Chuck Carney said.

He also cited scholarship programs specifically for underrepresented communities, such as 21st Century Scholars and Hudson and Holland, and emphasized IU’s longstanding commitment to diversity. IU seems to be working toward inclusivity on campus but it begs the question: Is it enough?

There are countless barriers to people of color reaching college, including disparities caused by systemic racism in K-12 funding and the school-to-prison pipeline. Increasing BIPOC representation is not merely a remedial matter. Increases in diversity are beneficial to the entire university, students and faculty alike.

The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs boasts a 71% increase in tenure or tenure-track faculty on Bloomington’s campus from 2005 to 2019. Yet the figure is deceiving on the surface, as the number of BIPOC faculty increased by only 135 people. Even still, Asian faculty represents more than half of the increase in diversity, while the number of Black professors increased by just 10 over the last 14 years.

IU must uplift all faculty members of color.

Of course, students of color do not want to attend a university where their professors and administrators don’t look like them.

The lack of representation can mean an unwelcoming environment full of

microaggressions or even more severe disciplinary outcomes.

IU history professor Amrita Chakrabarti Myers said she advocates for a topdown approach, specifically uplifting women and people of color to tenure-track professorships and administration leadership.

“If we want to actually increase the number of students of color who come here and who stay here, who will actually matriculate all the way through and graduate and who are successful, then you have to start from the top,” Myers said. “You have to actually hire me, and you have to make this a hospitable climate.”

Significant obstacles don’t suddenly fade away once people of color reach graduate programs.

Myers said she faced an intense financial burden when obtaining her Ph.D. The vast majority of students of color, 80-90%, are likely to take on debt, compared to the 60-70% their white counterparts face. The racial disparities in debt can be attributed to barriers such as the lack of generational wealth and the high percentage of first generation students among Black and Brown families.

It is crucial that IU prioritizes long-term, structural solutions to the issues of racism on its campus. Dismantling racist structures should be a moral imperative, even when those structures are an institution’s own.

“At the end of the day, I want to see us as an institution become better in all respects and at all levels,” Myers said. amodjar@iu.edu

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partment.

“She was in many ways the foundation upon which a lot was built later on with other talented people definitely,” Katz said. “She was one to draw a lot of students into the Arabic language classes.”

Feisal Istrabadi said his sister had a way of connecting with her students unlike anyone he had ever known through her positive and humorous personality.

Students such as senior Alyssa Velez, who only had Istrabadi for a single semester, noted the lasting influence she had on their lives.

“I remember one day she made my class and I, probably around 20 people, individual flash drives for each and every one of us with all of her favorite music so we could learn more about Arabic cul-

ture,” Velez said. “I still have mine today, and it’s something I’ll cherish forever.”

Senior Brian Hancock said he admired how giving Istrabadi was.

“I remember she came into class in Arabic 101, and she held up a coupon and asked if anyone wanted it,” Hancock said.

“I thought she said a $5 coupon. She gives it to me, and it’s a $50 coupon to the shoe store she went to.

I got Chacos with it.”

Local baristas at her frequented coffee shop, Needmore Coffee Roasters, also remember her smiling and gracious attitude. Former employee Harrison Wagner said she was his favorite customer, and she always made his day when she came in for a coffee.

“She would come in most days I would work, and I would go out of my way to make her drink. She was always smiling and

happy and thankful,” Wagner said. “She’d always tell me I made the best cortados.”

While she was a dedicated educator, Istrabadi was also active in interfaith dialogue to promote acceptance and conversation across religions, both locally and statewide.

Many community members in Bloomington and beyond, across different religions and sects, were rooting for her to overcome her battle with cancer, Feisal Istrabadi said.

“I know in the last weeks of her life the Temple Beth Shalom here in Bloomington were saying prayers for her, which she appreciated very much,” Feisal Istrabadi said. “She was extremely active in interfaith dialogue with Christian communities, with Jewish communities, with Buddhist communities. She was herself a devout Muslim.”

Istrabadi attended IU

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for both her bachelor's degree in Arabic language and literature in 1978 and her Ph.D. in Near Eastern languages and cultures in 1988. She started teaching at IU in 2001.

Kathryn Bayless, executive director of Campus Recreational Sports at IU, said Istrabadi was incredibly smart and an advocate for being active. Istrabadi was a member of the club sport program and helped other students explore Campus Recreational Sports opportunities, Bayless said.

Along with being an accomplished scholar and educator, Istrabadi was also a published poet, Feisal Istrabadi said.

“She first published poems when we were still living in Iraq,” Feisal Istrabadi said. “She was a true teenager, maybe 13 or 14, when she published her first poem. I don’t think very many people knew that.”

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ganizations to join the Congress, according to the bill.

The Black Student Union plans to apply for a seat, junior and BSU president Ky Freeman said. Like other student organizations, the BSU will edit its constitution to create the new IUSG representative position.

Graduate student Lindsey Batteast, one of the bill’s authors, said the passing offers peace of mind for underrepresented groups on campus.

“Obviously the work to do now is to make sure that student orgs, multicultural organizations know this is an option for them,” she said.

Batteast said she was satisfied with the large majority of votes in favor but was frustrated with the 260 students who voted no and the 11 who abstained. She questioned their commitment to improving representation in IUSG’s Student Congress.

“Are you ready for progress?” she asked.

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IU musical theater seniors produce virtual concert

By Tommy McEvilly tmcevil@iu.edu

The living room may be a place to watch TV, work on homework or lounge around after a long day of work, but for a dedicated group of IU musical theater students, the living room has become a place of expression and community.

“Unmuted Living Room Concerts” was created by a cohort of 12 seniors in the B.F.A Musical Theatre program. The student-run production is a series of biweekly musical performances with covers “ranging from Disney to depressing,” according to the series’ YouTube channel.

The entire production team and performers are in their final year of study in the musical theatre program, a year that would typically end with a senior showcase in New York City. The showcase typically serves as a chance for students to perform for casting directors, talent agents and other theatre professionals.

While the showcase has been canceled for this year due to COVID-19, this production may be a way for the seniors to put themselves out there and potentially get on the screens of directors, video editor Ethan St. Germain said.

“A lot of the time, the institutions that are in place have the power to say no or turn down creative ideas,” St. Germain said. “It isn’t that we didn’t take no for an answer, it’s that the word no was not in our vocabulary when it came to our creativity.”

The series is also an opportunity for the seniors to collaborate with one another

and share their music with the community, too, senior Justin Smusz said. Producers Cassia Scagnoli, Victoria Wiley, and Smusz spearheaded the project.

“The idea kind of stemmed from Tiny Desk Concerts,” Scagnoli said. “And I thought, wouldn’t it be cool if we did this in my house?”

They began the process during the fall 2020 semester by constructing a performance space. The students spent hours exploring the Bloomington area in hopes of finding the needed elements to make the venue performance ready, such as lighting, decorations and recording equipment, with significant help coming from other students and organizations, according to Scagnoli.

“Everyone just so happened to have all the tools we would need,” Scagnoli said. “It was a matter of getting things like foam squares for acoustics and making them look cool.”

The group also obtained an array of lights, some of which came from friends in University Players, a nonprofit theater organization run by IU students.

Though the performance space may look similar in the videos, a variety of props fill the room. Wiley emphasized that the set is intended to be representative of the whole class.

“It’s really personal, and every knick knack is from someone who helped with ‘Unmuted’,” Wiley said. “If you watch, it changes from week to week and from performer to performer. Each person brought something special to

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IU students perform in the “Unmuted Living Room Concerts” series. A group of 12 seniors in the IU Musical Theatre program created the “Unmuted Living Room Concerts.”

the space.”

“Unmuted Living Room Concerts” was designed primarily to create performance opportunities, but the performers also developed technical skills necessary to put the pieces of this production together, Wiley said.

Many students took on roles on the production

team, with Scagnoli serving as audio engineer, Smusz as videographer and video editor, Wiley as photographer and St. Germain as video editor.

“We understood the bounds of working together because we’re great friends, and we were having all our other friends and students as

support,” Wiley said. “It was just finding out that we all had these different skills like audio mixing, photography and video editing.”

Smusz said this experience has provided a spark of confidence and hope for the seniors as they prepare to take the next step in their career as performers.

“We’re all seniors now, and we all agree that when we do something student-led and created, it’s one of the most fulfilling things,” Smusz said. “This has been special for me, and I’m so grateful and fortunate that when a lot of theatres are dark and it’s not easy to get a group of people together, here we are.”

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If you’re a fan of serial killer fiction, you can’t go wrong with this crime thriller starring Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto. “The Little Things” follows a deputy sheriff and a detective as they attempt to track down a serial killer in Southern California.

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including the three Oscar winners, audiences are certainly in for a treat. The crime thriller is sure to satisfy anyone who’s been hoping for something exciting to check out in a theater or at home in the coming month.

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Do you like Japanese animation?

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One Night in Miami Watch now on Amazon Prime

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If you’re looking for a time capsule that will bring you right back into the ‘60s, there’s no better option than “One Night in Miami.” The film portrays a fictional meeting between Jim Brown, Sam Cooke, Malcolm X and Cassius Clay at a pivotal moment in history.

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four of the most iconic figures of the ‘60s is no easy task, but the movie nails it at every turn.

All four actors are pitch-perfect, especially Leslie Odom Jr. with his brilliant performance as Sam Cooke. If you’re looking to see some of the best acting of the last year, this is where you’re going to find it.

News of the World He’s my hero!

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Earwig and the Witch Watch on HBO Max starting Feb. 5

If you’ve been thinking there aren’t good Westerns coming out anymore, it’s time for you to watch “News of the World.” Tom Hanks’ latest adventure has him traveling across a post-Civil War South in order to bring a young orphan to her new family.

While it has its intense moments, the movie leaves a lot of

room to reflect on the meaning of family in a world that can feel meaningless, a relevant theme in times like we’re in now. It’s a feel-good drama that’s sure to appeal to anyone looking to reaffirm their faith in humanity. And how can you say no to Tom Hanks in a cowboy hat?

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“Earwig “E i and d the th Witch” Wit h” is i the newest film from Studio Ghibli. The movie, which is the first 3D-animated film from Ghibli, follows a young girl in England who discovers she’s a witch’s daughter.

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animated time, and i t dfi fillms off allll ti they rarely disappoint. If their excellent track record is anything to go by, then this is certain to be one of the best animated movies of the year. If you’re a Ghibli fan, you have to check this out as soon as it’s available.

Have you been looking for something to watch with your Apple TV+ subscription? If so, it’s time to check out “Wolfwalkers,” the story of a young hunter who becomes friends with a girl who transforms into a wolf at night.

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Hoosiers win 14 events at invitational

By William Coleman wicolema@iu.edu | @WColeman08

The Big Ten Conference announced two more schedule updates Sunday for No. 16 IU women’s basketball after a pair of postponed games last week, according to a press release.

IU will now play Ohio State at 8 p.m. Thursday in Bloomington at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, a game that was originally scheduled for Feb. 4. The game will be broadcast on Big Ten Network.

Additionally, the conference announced IU’s matchup at home Sunday against

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Michigan State will tip off at 4 p.m. with coverage on BTN Plus.

The Hoosiers are now scheduled to have a week off from Jan. 31 to Feb. 7, but they also have the flexibility to reschedule one of their postponed games from last week. IU, 9-3 overall and 7-1 in conference play, has as many as 12 more regular season games left before the postseason.

No. 16 IU comes back to beat No. 21 Northwestern

By Audrey Hausberger auhaus@iu.edu | @AudreyHausberg1

No.16 IU women’s basketball climbed back after trailing most of the game against No. 21 Northwestern on Sunday afternoon, winning 74-61 in its return from a 10-day hiatus.

The Hoosiers had a rocky start early in the game as they grappled with Northwestern’s stifling defense on the post. The Wildcats were quick to double or triple team sophomore forward Mackenzie Holmes and anyone else who attempted to drive to the basket in the first quarter. Northwestern’s stops down low gave them a 21-16 lead at the end of the first quarter.

Northwestern’s tough defense continued to rattle IU in the second quarter, forcing four turnovers in addition to four turnovers in the first quarter. The Hoosiers uncharacteristically gave the Wildcats 13 points off turnovers in the first half.

Despite outscoring Northwestern 17-15 in the second quarter, IU could not maintain a lead. Northwestern led 36-33 by halftime.

“In the first half we were missing a lot of the shots that we usually make,” Holmes said. “We had one of two choices. It was either feel sorry for ourselves that the ball is not going in, or make the next one. I think that we were very mature in the second half.”

Head coach Teri Moren said the first half of play didn’t look like her team and that everyone was frustrated at how the team was starting off play again.

Moren told her players, and herself, to take deep breaths at halftime and said that playing with emotion is normal but that being emotional can’t affect play.

Yet the third quarter was much of the same narrative for the Hoosiers. IU started

the second half with two early turnovers and allowed the Wildcats to go on a 9-0 run for three minutes of the third quarter.

Senior guard Jaelyn Penn attempted to get IU back on track in her first game in nearly three weeks, after injuring her ankle against Maryland on Jan. 4.

Penn sank the first 3-pointer in the game, closing what was a 13-point lead earlier in the quarter to a 7-point lead.

“I felt good in the game,” Penn said. “I was just trying to get reps. It is more mental coming off an injury and playing, but I felt good today.”

Northwestern was able to hold on to the advantage and ended the third quarter 54-48.

IU continued to chip away at Northwestern’s lead and ended up taking over in the last quarter. Senior guard Nicole CardañoHillary tied the game 56-56 with a 3-pointer with just under eight minutes remaining. The Hoosiers’ defense caused four Wildcat turnovers and held them to only seven points in the fourth quarter.

“We felt like we owed them,” Penn said about Northwestern. “Last [time] we came down here and they beat us by 20. That never left our heads. We wanted to come out here and beat them on their own court.”

IU ended the game on a 22-5 run, largely due to Holmes’ ability to finally penetrate Northwestern’s post defense and make baskets. Holmes led IU with 22 points and 10 rebounds.

Although Northwestern had control of the game for 26 minutes, IU ended with a 74-61 win.

“I keep telling everybody that we are a veteran team, and I thought that shined through this afternoon with the way we finished the game,” Moren said.

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IU track and field hosted the Jack Gladstein Invitational on Saturday at the Harry Gladstein Fieldhouse in Bloomington, the first of three indoor home meets this season.

At home in Gladstein, 14 Hoosiers took first place in their respective events.

Like last weekend’s Harvey-Simmons Invitational in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Saturday’s meet was non-scoring, so none of the competing schools — IU, Ohio State, Northwestern, Michigan and Michigan State — won the overall event.

Sophomore Alyssa Robinson scored her first win of the season in the women’s 200-meter with a time of 24.22. She followed up with a second-place finish in the 60-meter with a time of 7.58.

Senior Natalie Price continued the women’s success, following up a personal record last week with her first win of the season in the 400-meter, finishing in 55.78.

Junior Bailey Hertenstein placed first in the mile with a time of 4:42.75. Her performance earned her a new personal record, and her time is the ninth-best this season in the NCAA. Senior Anna Watson followed up last week’s win with another victory in the pole vault, clearing a height of 4.07 meters.

After a second-place finish last week, senior Princess Brinkley broke through in the weight throw, securing her first victory of the season with

a distance of 19.40 meters.

Freshman Mahogany Jenkins won her first career triple jump competition with a jump of 12.03 meters.

The men’s team members placed first in 15 events.

After a first place finish in the 60-meter last week, junior Rikkoi Brathwaite went back to back, taking first place on Saturday with a time of 6.67.

Sophomore Micah Camble secured his first collegiate victory in the 600-meter, crossing the finish line in just 1:21.21. His relay teammate, senior Cooper Williams, snagged his second straight 800-meter win with a time of 1:48.09.

Junior Matthew Schadler and fifth year senior Ben

Veatch rounded out the victories on the track in the mile and the 3,000-meter, respectively.

Schadler, who finished as the runner up in last year’s Big Ten Championships, clocked a time of 4:02.40. Veatch, a former All-American, finished with a time of 8:02.27.

The men’s team narrowly missed a clean sweep, winning four of the five events.

IU was led by junior JaiQuan Earls, who won his first two events as a Hoosier. Earls, a transfer from BethuneCookman, recorded a distance of 6.98 meters to place first in the long jump, and he followed it up with a win in the triple jump of 13.85 me-

ters.

The men also saw victories from senior Jyles Etienne and freshman Nolan Landis in the field. Etienne secured high jump wins in back-toback weeks, clearing a height of 2.06 meters. Landis gained his first career win in the shot put, throwing a distance of 16.10 meters.

The Hoosiers will send athletes to both a track and field meet and the Big Ten Cross Country Championships on Saturday.

The track and field meet will be hosted by the University of Illinois in UrbanaChampaign, Illinois, and the Big Ten Cross Country Championships will take place in Shelbyville, Indiana.

VOLLEYBALL

IU drops first matches to No. 5 Nebraska

By Amanda Foster amakfost@iu.edu | @amandafoster_15

In their first weekend of play in over one year, IU volleyball fell in three straight sets two nights in a row to No. 5 Nebraska. The Hoosiers finished the weekend with a combined hitting percentage of .188 and a total of 57 kills.

IU got off to an impressive start Friday night in the first two sets. The Hoosiers kept the score close and looked like a seasoned, competitive team, despite losing 2225 and 20-25. Their energy dropped off slightly in the third set, with IU trailing 8-16 at one point. IU lost the final set 17-25.

“I would say we competed well in the first two games and then kind of got young and made some errors in the third,” head coach Steve Aird said.

The Hoosiers began their Friday night with four freshmen on the court, all of whom performed well in their Big Ten debuts. Outside hitters Tommi Stockham and Morgan Geddes led the team in kills. Stockham recorded nine kills — four coming in the first set — followed by Geddes with eight. Stockham was also a contributor in the back court with a total of five digs.

“I looked around and it was Haley and everyone else was a freshman,” senior setter

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Senior setter Brooke Westbeld sets the ball up for teammates Jan. 23 in Wilkinson Hall. The Hoosiers lost 25-21, 25-16 and 25-17 to Nebraska on Saturday.

Brooke Westbeld said. “But it didn’t feel that way. They’re handling themselves beautifully.”

Blocks from freshmen Leyla Blackwell and Savannah Kjolhede came at key times to stop Nebraska rallies and earn significant points late in sets. In the second set, Kjolhede produced back-to-back service aces to put a halt to Nebraska’s momentum.

IU still struggled defensively Friday night, especially when faced with a tough rotation featuring Nebraska outside hitter Lexi Sun serving.

The Hoosiers had seven service reception errors on the night and were often thrown off by off-speed hits and tips

by Nebraska.

Saturday night began with a bang, literally, as IU got a block in the first play of the first set. Outside hitter Grae

Gosnell joined the lineup, making her the fifth freshman to play in the first set. While IU failed to gain a lead, falling 21-25, they kept the score close and maintained strong energy throughout.

However, the second set saw an IU loss of 16-25. There was a notable decrease in the Hoosiers’ energy, and the Cornhuskers consistently led by 4 to 6 points.

“We took our foot off the gas a little bit,” Westbeld said.

In the third set, Nebraska went on a 6-0 run before IU regained momentum with a kill by junior Breana Edwards.

They went on to lose 19-25, but the Hoosiers made up lost ground with multiple scoring runs led by Stockham and Edwards.

Edwards had an impressive outing on Saturday, increasing her kills total from

two to 12, leading both teams for number of kills in a match during the weekend. Edwards also hit .194 on the night, second only to Stockham with .214.

“I think she’s at times one of the top outsides in the conference,” Aird said of Edwards. “She’s earned my respect. I feel really good about where she’s at.”

The Hoosiers improved defensively over the course of the two matches. With 39 digs Saturday compared to 20 on Friday and a decrease in serve-receive errors, they made Nebraska’s offense, who put down 1641 kills in the 2019 season, struggle at times.

“I was really thrilled with how we played defensively,” Aird said. “I still don’t think we’re anywhere close to where we need to be, but a huge difference between last and this night just with our commitment to run down balls and dig balls.”

Indiana travels to Rutgers next weekend, and while the Scarlet Knights are unranked, the Hoosiers will be going into the matches with the same level of grit and determination they did this weekend.

“We have to be a heck of a lot better to have success next weekend,” Aird said. “Anyone in the conference can beat you.”

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After losing in the wild card round, the Indianapolis Colts have substantial decisions ahead of them this offseason. The team is on the edge of contending for a Super Bowl, but now has coaching vacancies, and more importantly, a quarterback vacancy after starter Phillip Rivers announced his retirement Jan. 20.

A quarterback such as Detroit Lions starter Matthew Stafford can be the final piece of the puzzle to get Indianapolis back in Super Bowl contention.

The Colts ended the 2020 regular season 11-5, their best record since 2014 when they made the AFC Championship. After facing a stout Buffalo Bills team, the Colts fell in the wild card round as the murky future became the centerpiece of the organization when an aging, struggling Rivers announced his retirement.

After averaging 28.2 points per game last season, Colts offensive coordinator Nick Sirianni left to become head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles. Defensive backs coach Jonathan Gannon and offensive assistant Kevin Patullo are also leaving to join Sirianni, which pushes the Colts even more in the direction of a coaching overhaul this offseason.

One vacancy was filled after the organization promoted quarterbacks coach Marcus Brady to offensive coordinator Monday. Brady is an interesting hire for multiple reasons, the first being his quick rise after only being

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Highly rumored names to fill the Colts vacancy are Matthew Stafford, the Eagles’ Carson Wentz, Sam Darnold of the New York Jets and New Orleans Saints backup Jameis Winston, with slight hopes for stars like the Green Bay Packers’ Aaron Rodgers and the Houston Texans’ Deshaun Watson.

The Colts are in a prime position to win a Super Bowl.

Their defense ended the season ranked eighth in yards per game. Despite the loss of left tackle Anthony Castanzo, the Colts have a great running attack and solid weapons in

the passing game returning, especially if Parris Campbell is healthy enough to pair with the rising Michael Pittman.

Stafford can win a Super Bowl with the Indianapolis Colts. The 32-year-old quarterback was the No.1 pick in 2009, but hasn’t won a playoff game in 12 seasons with the Detroit Lions. Although he is not on the same level as Andrew Luck, he doesn’t need to be to get this team to the next level. Stafford is a massive upgrade compared to Rivers and could be the final piece to this Colts puzzle.

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