February 4, 2021

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Left in the cold

By Phyllis Cha cha1@iu.edu | @phyllischa

Photos by Abbie Gressley abbgress@iu.edu | @abbie_photos

Unhoused community faces hostility, danger

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s he sat under the awning of A Friend’s Place, an overnight shelter, and leaned back against the wooden chair he was sitting in, Randy Haler sighed. In the freezing January air, he could see his own breath.

Haler, 68, has been experiencing homelessness for nine months. But when he was in his 20s, he walked the same sidewalks that IU students walk now. From 1972 to 1976, Haler resembled many current students in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. He was upset with the way corporations and human beings treat the planet. He hoped to study environmental law after he graduated.

In 1974, he was in a car accident that bruised his brain stem. Since then, he has dealt with seizures and memory loss.

Haler adjusted his gloves and pulled his hat lower over his head as snow continued to flutter down from the sky. He said that since his wife died, just a year before their 25th anniversary, it’s been difficult to do anything. But he's trying to find housing right now using the Social Security benefit payments he receives.

“I have to be patient, that’s all there is to it,” Haler said.

“Because I can get myself screwed. The check doesn’t go too far.”

Bloomington's unhoused population faces challenges from few sources of stable or affordable shelters to hostility generated by negative stereotypes. Seven members of the unhoused community told the Indiana Daily Student that they want Bloomington residents to view them as human beings, just trying to survive.

Hostility toward the unhoused population Harry Collins, the founder of Bloomington Homeless Coalition, has experienced homelessness on and off for about 16 years. He’s lived in Bloomington for his entire life, and he says conditions for the unhoused population have only gotten worse over the years.

Collins said from the moment he wakes up to the moment he goes to sleep, he is doing work for the Bloomington Homeless Coalition, whether he’s giving interviews or helping others in the unhoused community find resources. He said he wished that those who had never experienced homelessness before realized that the unhoused, too, are human beings. All he’s asking for is respect, he said.

In 2017, a petition on Change.org addressed the unhoused population in People’s Park, stating, “Over the past several years, the homeless have decided to make this park their home, starting fights, doing drugs, setting one another's belongings on fire, and causing raucous 24/7.”

As a result of increased police presence, the unhoused population decided to leave People’s Park, dispersing across Kirkwood, abandoned buildings and other places.

Collins said while there are people in the unhoused community dealing with addiction, the assumption that none of them are trying to get better is unfair. He also said there are people who don’t use drugs or drink at all.

He said negative attitudes toward the unhoused are nothing new. People have told him those experiencing homelessness should go to hell.

Candance Goffinet, 50, said she has struggled with opioid addiction, but is working on her sobriety. In 2007,

Goffinet said she was hit by a train and lost her right arm.

She said doctors prescribed her painkillers, but when those stopped numbing her pain, she became addicted to heroin. She is now on Suboxone, a drug used to treat opioid addiction. Goffinet said she still experiences the pain 14 years later, but is working to stop using.

“I got phantom limb pain, all kinds of pain,” she said. “I mean, I got hit by a train. I lost my arm. It was awful.”

Goffinet said many people look down on the unhoused, and people have treated her differently when they realize she is experiencing homelessness. Similarly, Aries, who was evicted from Seminary Park on Jan. 14, said many people look down on him. It’s demoralizing, he said.

“Have you ever had an equal spit at you, laugh at you, call you disgusting, tell you what to do with your life?” he asked.

Aries said he feels like many in the unhoused population have been broken down and are afraid to stand up for themselves. Beacon, an organization that works to serve those in poverty and experiencing homelessness, estimated that around 38 people were staying at Seminary Square Park before the

Top Members of the homeless community gather until the doors of A Friend’s Place open at 5:15 p.m. Saturday. They stood under the porch of the shelter to avoid the snow.

Bottom Candance Goffinet, 50, and Jason Oliphant, 47, wait outside A Friend’s Place Saturday.

The doors opened at 5:15 p.m. and members of the homeless community gathered together until it opened.

January eviction.

By the time the park was evicted on Jan. 14, only two people remained. Many in the unhoused population, fearing arrest or escalation, left before BPD arrived at Seminary Park that night, Aries said.

“They’re so easily dissuaded through a life of pain, angst, anguish and being stomped down,” he said.

“Look at this. They all left,” Aries said, pointing around Seminary Square Park, where activists and police officers lingered but most unhoused people had fled.

Limited housing options In five weeks, encampments at Seminary Square Park have been evicted twice.

The first eviction took place on Dec. 9, when BPD and city employees cleared tents and belongings out of the park.

SEE COLD, PAGE 6

In-person classes to start Monday

By Sophie Suter srsuter@iu.edu | @sophiersuter

In-person classes will start on Monday after being entirely online since Nov. 30.

Students returning to campus after Sunday will receive mandatory COVID-19 testing at Memorial Stadium and quarantine at Ashton until they receive their test results. The test results will take between 24 and 48 hours.

Students have to schedule their test before arrival. Signup will open Friday, according to an IU press release.

Students returning to campus between Jan. 30 and Feb. 7 must take a COVID-19 test at the Garrett Fieldhouse. These students also have to schedule their appointments before arriving and can sign up now.

The university switched to online classes to avoid flu season coinciding with COVID-19, according to News at IU. Students will have in-person classes starting next week through the end of the semester May 9.

During the fall 2020 semester, the amount of in-person classes decreased by 60-70%, IU spokesperson Chuck Carney said, and many classes will remain online for the spring semester.

IU revamps dashboard, reports 0.2% positivity

By Matt Cohen mdc1@iu.edu | @Matt_Cohen_

In the first week of its reformatted and expanded COVID-19 dashboard, IU reported 68 total positive cases out of all types of testing, 353 individuals who should be in quarantine as a close contact and a 0.2% positivity rate on mitigation testing for the week of Jan 24.

IU’s dashboard update features a complete formatting overhaul to improve readability. Previously, the dashboard had the majority of the data — like voluntary testing and results from different groups like greek-life and off-campus students — compiled into a long block of text at the top of the page. Those numbers are now moved into their own sections.

The update also features new information, including average response times on mitigation, symptomatic and voluntary tests. Mitigation tests SEE DASHBOARD, PAGE 6

Hoosiers 65+ able to get Local journalists cover executions, get COVID-19 vaccine

By Haley Ryan

By Cameron Garber garberc@iu.edu | @garber_cameron

Two journalists working for WTIU and WFIU tested positive for COVID-19 after witnessing the federal executions of inmates at the Terre Haute Penitentiary. Despite sharing their positive results with the Bureau of Prisons, the BOP chose not to inform other journalists and prison staff about the results.

George Hale, a reporter for WFIU, tested positive for the coronavirus on Jan. 21, one week after witnessing the execution of Corey Johnson. Johnson, along with Lisa Montgomery and Dustin Higgs, was one of three death row inmates executed by the government in the last days of the Trump administration.

Hale informed the prison of his test result within a few hours, hoping to warn the staff about possible spread.

He assumed that the prison would inform the journalists who had been in the facility to witness the executions, he said.

“There was a guard in

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A sign directs visitors to the entrance of the Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute on July 25, 2019, in Terre Haute, Indiana. WTIU and WFIU reporters tested positive for COVID-19 after covering the Trump administration's federal executions there.

the execution chamber who I was squeezed together against. We could not have been closer,” Hale said. “I worry that person either gave me COVID or I gave him COVID. I wonder whether or not they were ever told they were exposed.”

The BOP did not immediately respond to the Indiana Daily Student’s request for comment. A BOP spokesperson told the Associated Press that reporters had been warned ahead of the executions that social distancing

may not be possible, but masks were required and additional personal protective equipment was available upon request.

In an email obtained by the IDS, the BOP informed Hale it would not be conducting any contact tracing, as Hale’s positive test result occurred six days after his last visit to the penitentiary, and it was not their policy to take any action unless someone tested positive within two days of attending the prison.

“I had a pounding head-

ache on Saturday and Sunday which I associated with the exhaustion from covering the three executions in a row that week,” Hale said.

The BOP responded to Hale’s news about the beginning of his symptoms by wishing him well, according to an email shared with the IDS. Hale said the Terre Haute facility was not equipped to deal with the pandemic. He and two other journalists were crammed into a van that sat outside the penitentiary for 45 minutes before being allowed inside, he said.

Once inside, the journalists waited inside a room that Hale described as smaller than a classroom. They waited in this room for hours while the courts resolved any last-minute appeals.

Following the execution, a federal judge ordered the Bureau to conduct a compliance report for COVID-19 protocol, as several journalists including Hale reported a member of the execution team was not wearing a mask for several minutes during

Johnson’s execution.

The compliance report denied any government wrongdoing and made no mention of the positive results of either the inmates or the attendees. Johnson and Higgs both tested positive for the virus in the weeks leading up to their executions at the facility.

Hale learned of his positive test through mitigation testing conducted by IU, something Hale said is done every time a journalist visits the prison. The IU contact tracer instructed Hale to selfisolate for 10 days. He finished his isolation Saturday.

“The executions have spread COVID both in the prison and the community because they bring in people all over the country to conduct them,” Hale said, referencing the dozens of staff and hundreds of inmates who have tested positive in the facility, according to the Associated Press. “The chamber is cramped and airtight for security reasons. It’s just a wildly unsafe thing to do on its face.”

haryan@iu.edu | @haley__ryan

The Indiana Department of Health announced Feb. 1 that residents aged 65 and older can register to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

Eligible individuals can call 211 or visit ourshot.in.gov to register for the vaccine. According to the Indiana Department of Health, there are currently 259 vaccination sites in the state including some Kroger, Meijer and Walmart pharmacies.

According to the Indy Star, people trying to register for vaccines experienced long wait times and errors on the phone and website after eligibility was expanded. State officials have asked for patience and recommended calling later in the day because afternoons may have lower traffic, the Indy Star also reported.

Because of a limited supply of vaccines, Indiana has prioritized health care workers and first responders. After this priority group received the vaccine, Indiana switched to an age-based vaccination apSEE VACCINE, PAGE 6

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Family, friends remember Nicole Watson

By Wei Wang daviwang@iu.edu | @WeiWangDavid23

Nicole Watson is someone who would light up the room with her big smile.

Friends and family remember her as genuine, caring, fun-loving and sometimes a little goofy.

“Maybe heaven needed some more light,” Watson’s friend Kailynn Warren said.

“And she had a lot of it.”

Watson died Dec. 14 after a collision with a car which was driving the wrong way on I-65 Boone County. She was a senior studying pharmaceutical sales at the Kelley School of Business.

She is survived by her parents, Bill and Lois Watson, her twin brother Nathan Watson and her sister

Kaitlyn Wadman.

On weekends, Lois Watson said her daughter would come home asking for her favorite shepherd’s pie. She was close with her mother, cousins and siblings, Lois Watson said.

She said her daughter cared a lot about the environment and politics because she wanted the world to be a better place for her younger cousins.

“She was a good soul,” she said. “She really was.”

Lois Watson said her daughter touched and left a mark on everyone who knew her.

“She was just a little spunk of a girl who just loved life,” she said. “I’ve got some wonderful memories.

Twenty-two years of wonderful memories.”

Watson’s friend Annie Perkins said she first met her in their junior high school’s band class. She remembered her as a sweet and goofy girl who would make everyone laugh. Perkins said she was planning to meet up with her Dec. 15, the day after the accident.

“Every time she walked into a room, she would probably make friends with everyone,” Perkins said.

“Because that’s just how she was – very loud and friendly.”

Her authenticity is the most valuable thing Watson has left in this world, Perkins said. Watson would rather pushbe herself than care about what other people think, she said.

Warren said there was never a dull moment with

Watson. She and Watson went to high school together in their hometown, Greenfield, Indiana. She said Watson had a goofy and talkative personality and would give her both logical and funny advice.

“Every time she walked into a room, she would probably make friends with everyone. Because that’s just how she was – very loud and friendly.”

Annie Perkins, Watson’s friend

Watson always wanted to get out of her hometown,

Warren said. She transferred to IU-Bloomington her sophomore year. Warren said Watson wanted to know about everything happening on-campus and around Bloomington.

Breanna Coscia, a close friend of Watson’s, met her five years ago. She said it felt as if she had known Watson since elementary school.

Watson was always one call away, and now she aspires to be as good a friend as Watson was, Coscia said.

“She was just always there to listen,” she said.

Coscia said Watson was unapologetically true to herself and would tell her friends to also be themselves. “‘Do what makes you happy.’ That was kind of her mindset,” she said.

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Nicole Watson, 22, died on Dec. 14, 2020, in a car crash near I-65 in Boone County.

Watson is remembered by friends and family as being adventurous, genuine and authentic.

Holcomb relaxes COVID-19 rules Kilroy’s announces

By Sophie Suter srsuter@iu.edu | @sophiersuter

Gov. Eric Holcomb relaxed COVID-19 restrictions for social gatherings Feb. 1.

Holcomb’s new executive order decreasing restrictions will last through Feb. 28. The changes in restrictions are because of the recent decrease in positive cases in the state, according to Holcomb.

Holcomb said in a Jan. 27 press conference Indiana’s 7-day positivity rate has been improving. The latest positivity rate update is 8.9% and includes data from Jan. 15 - 21, according to the Indiana COVID-19 Dashboard.

Counties are sorted into color-coded metrics de-

pending on their positivity rate. Color-coded maps of the counties can be found on the Indiana COVID-19 Dashboard. Monroe County is one of the eight counties in yellow on the color-coded map, meaning people will be able to gather in groups up to 50% of total capacity, but Mayor John Hamilton’s executive order limiting gatherings to 15 people is still in effect in Bloomington.

The county’s COVID-19 status determines how large social gatherings can be.

Counties in the red or orange categories will be able to organize social gatherings and events reaching 25% of the venue’s capacity.

This will replace the current measure limiting gatherings

to 25 people.

Previous rules for yellow counties limited gatherings to 100 people, but they will now be allowed to gather at 50% of a venue’s capac-

ity. Blue counties can reach 100% capacity with social distancing and face coverings, but no counties have reached the blue level yet, according to the dashboard.

IU to offer Black history month events

By Sophie Suter srsuter@iu.edu | @sophiersuter

The Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center will celebrate Black History Month with events focused on the month’s theme: “The Show Goes On.” The Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center will offer virtual events throughout February, featuring lecturers, panels, film screenings and a trivia night. Pulitzer Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson will be a speaker for a conversation on Feb. 17 about race, caste and inequality in the United States.

Gloria Howell, Director of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, said the theme means the Black community should celebrate its strength this month.

“The Black community has faced a lot of collective losses this year, disproportionately being affected by the pandemic and losing many Black and Brown folks,” Howell said. “So we wanted to celebrate this year to show that the show goes on. We are resilient, we keep going, we’re persistent, we love each other, we come together to build a community, and we want to celebrate that.”

Howell also said people who are not Black should celebrate this month by recognizing Black history.

They can attend events at the culture center or learn more about Black history independently.

“They should recognize that Black history is part of the world,” Howell said. “It’s our history and it’s something that we should cel-

ebrate and honor 365, all day, every day. So there’s a part for everybody to play in that. And I just hope that we can really be authentic and honor that history.”

The Black Student Union will collaborate with the Neal-Marshall Center on events throughout the month.

Arianna Hoye, who serves as secretary for the Black Student Union, said all students should participate by attending the events and learning.

“Black History Month is a time to celebrate and also it’s a good time to educate ourselves,” Hoye said. “Just looking into things deeper and kind of understanding that the basic history we learn in school is not 100% right. Only one side of the story is being told.”

On Feb. 10, the center

will offer “Kickb(l)ack with the NMBCC,” during which students can connect with peers in a welcoming community space. On Feb. 12 there will also be a virtual screening of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” which is a film about the blues singer Ma Rainey.

The event on Feb. 23 is “BOOKed and Busy: Black Culture Center Monthly Reading Circle,” which will include a conversation with faculty and a reflective activity.

The Black Knowledge Bowl will be Feb. 24 and will include games and trivia about Black history at IU. The final event will be a celebration of the end of Black History Month on Feb. 27. This “City of Bloomington BHM Gala” will feature music and awards for service and leadership.

spring reopening

By Lizzie Kaboski lkaboski@iu.edu | @lizziebowbizzie

Kilroy’s Sports Bar announced it will reopen its doors this spring after remaining closed since March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a statement released Saturday afternoon on social media, Kilroy’s Sports Bar will require reservations in advance for two- or threehour time slots, and patrons are not allowed to move between tables. Masks will be required when not seated, and tables will be placed six feet apart.

“We feel confident that we can begin to open our doors again, in a responsible way,” the statement reads.

The bar will provide table service only, according to the statement. Certain areas of the bar will be closed, such as the Jungle, to better accommodate social distancing guidelines.

Guests can enter at one of four different points of entry, based on the location of their reserved table. This will decrease the time guests have to wait before entering the bar and will decrease interaction between groups of guests, according to the statement.

Exact reopening dates and more information on COVID-19 procedures will be released soon, according to the statement. The statement said Kilroy’s on Kirkwood will not reopen at this time.

Media School dean to step down in July

By Colin Kulpa ckulpa@iu.edu | @ColinKulpa

IU Media School dean James Shanahan will step down on July 31 after six years in charge of the school, according to a press release Friday.

Shanahan will remain on the school’s faculty after his resignation, and an interim dean will be announced at a later date, according to the press release.

In 2015, Shanahan left a position at Boston University to became the first dean of the Media School after the Telecommunications, Journalism and Communication and Culture departments at IU were combined.

His tenure saw the creation of the Arnolt Center for Investigative Journalism and the establishment of multiple study abroad opportunities, according to the release.

“It’s been a real privilege to serve as dean,” Shanahan said in the press release.

“Thanks to our talented and supportive students, alumni, faculty and staff, The Media School has a solid foundation and a bright future. I look forward to supporting the next dean, and the opportunity to continue and broaden my relationships with colleagues and students. I send my sincere appreciation to all members of the Media School community.”

PHOTO BY TY VINSON AND THE MEDIA SCHOOL

James Shanahan, dean of the Media School at IU, will step down July 31, 2021. Under Shanahan’s leadership, the Media School moved to the newly renovated Franklin Hall, created academic undergraduate and graduate programs and assembled multiple media-related research centers.

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Corbett leads new vaccine efforts

By Agness Lungu slungu@iu.edu | @AgnessLungu6

With a COVID-19 vaccine on the horizon, news of its distribution in Bloomington has brought relief to many and concern to some members of marginalized communities. The City of Bloomington will offer both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines through IU Health.

Kizzmekia S. Corbett, a 34-year-old Black woman, is the leader of the coronavirus vaccines and immunopathogenesis team at the National Institutes of Health’s Vaccine Research Center (VRC) that made the Moderna vaccine.

However, Black people around the country are hesitant to get the new vaccine, largely due to the systemic racism present in the medical community. Corbett said she understands the reservations.

“Number one is that I get it,” Corbett said in an interview with CBS in January. “Number two is that

take advantage of the level of transparency we are attempting such as FDA meetings and hearings being broadcast online and data coming out almost immediately.”

Corbett is also working with organizations encouraging Black people to take the vaccine.

“I’m proud of her for sure because that is another sister leading the way,” Dr. Tamara Dickerson said.

“We need more people of color in medicine because it shows that someone understands your history and what you have been through.”

Dr. Dickerson said most people of color are not getting health care and the few who are are receiving it from people who are not aware of their own bias.

IU students of color who have already taken the Moderna vaccine said they were relieved after they found out who was behind the vaccine.

“I was skeptical about taking the vaccine because of what I was seeing online, but if I knew that it was a Black person, I would have been more willing to take it because I feel she’s not going to kill me,” IU graduate student Blessing Olafusi said. “Also, a lot of Black people I know are not taking the vaccine. So letting them know it was made by a fellow Black person helps them know that they are included.”

IU junior Antonia Walker, who is interested in going to medical school, said Kizzmekia is a great source of inspiration.

“If I can be that representation like this woman is to me, then I want to be that representation for someone else,” Walker said. “Just to pass on the image that we deserve to be high in the race like everybody else.”

Representation is important in health care because it shows there are people involved who understand

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Kizzmekia Corbett, a viral immunologist at the Vaccine Research Center, an Intramural Division of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in North Bethesda, Maryland, speaks with a reporter in January 2020. Corbett is a scientific lead for the Coronavirus Vaccine Program.

what you’ve gone through, Freeman A. Hrabowski III, University of Maryland-Baltimore County president,

said in an interview with CBS. “She cannot be a hidden figure,” he said. “She needs

to be in textbooks. Little girls need to see her — of all races. This is what’s possible.”

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Black film takes back power with ‘One Night in Miami’

By RJ Crawford rjcrawfo@iu.edu | @rjsofamous

Since last summer, Black stories have been gaining recognition in the United States. Our lives have been plastered all over social media, news networks, maga-

zines and the internet because of police brutality and senseless murders of Black people.

This year, several films have already been released that can teach Americans about the lives of Black Americans. Films reflecting

Black stories are important because they show the reality of being a person of color in a world not always accepting of differences.

These films are necessary and have the ability to connect people with different backgrounds.

“One Night in Miami” was released to stream on Amazon Prime Video Jan. 15. The directorial debut for Regina King, a well known Black actress, emphasizes the importance of Black stories being told by Black people.

The movie highlights a

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Malcolm X, played by Kingsley Ben-Adir, performs in “One Night in Miami.”

fictional night in 1964 when four Black icons gather to celebrate Cassius Clay, known as Muhammad Ali, and his big win against Sonny Liston at the Miami Convention Hall.

Clay is joined by Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown in his hotel room, where they discuss being a conscious Black man during the civil rights movement. They talk about how they can use their positions as an activist, a singer and an athlete to bring awareness to discrimination to empower other Black people.

“This is one strange fucking night,” Jim Brown, played

by Aldis Hodge, says in the movie.

Although there were obvious differences between them, the men still found a way to be friends and bond to make change in America.

“Everybody talks about they want a piece of the pie.

Well, I don’t,” Sam Cooke, played by Leslie Odom Jr., says. “I want the goddamn recipe.”

“American Skin” was released to stream on Amazon Prime Video and YouTube on Jan. 15. The film was executive produced by Spike Lee, a well-known Black film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.

The film starred Nate

Parker, who wrote and directed the film. “American Skin” follows a Black war veteran in pursuit of justice for his son after he is killed by police during a routine traffic stop.

Lincoln Jefferson — played

by Parker — has a student film crew follow him as he fights for his son.

The world embraces Jefferson and mourns with him through protests against police brutality, but that isn’t enough for him. Jefferson takes justice into his own hands and reacts to the situation the way the police did — violently. Jefferson won’t stop fighting until he gets justice for his son.

“Why are we the only people in this country that are expected to do things without violence,” Jefferson says.

The film brings racial profiling to the forefront and examinates it from perspectives of different races. It can be seen as a wake-up call for America.

We can expect to see the emergence of more Black movies this year.

According to The Root, some Black films to keep an eye out for in 2021 are “Malcolm & Marie,” coming out Feb. 5, “Judas and the Black Messiah,” coming out Feb. 12, and “The United States vs.

Billie Holiday,” coming out Feb. 26.

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As a society, we need to talk about the ‘angry Black woman’

By Kaitlyn Stitch kstitch@iu.edu | @kaitlynstitch

Kamala Harris made history with her status as the first Black woman to be elected vice president of the U.S. She is more likely to be burdened with generalized, insensitive comments that stigmatize marginalized groups. Not even the vice president is immune to these microaggressions.

The “angry Black woman” stereotype is commonly weaponized against Kamala Harris and the Black community as a whole.

This stereotype is one of many that skews society’s view of Black women. The anger of a Black woman is held to a different standard than the anger of anyone else — even when the anger is justified. Black women often hide their emotions to protect their reputation and avoid being silenced.

In an audio study done by Pennsylvania State University graduate student Elaine C. Dicicco, participants listened to clips of Black and white female actresses. The actresses were instructed to speak in both angry and neutral tones as they were interviewed about stress in the workplace. The study found that participants viewed the Black actress as more hostile than the white actress.

As a Black woman in politics, Harris can’t just argue as an individual. Harris

has to work harder than her white male counterparts to be taken seriously.

According to a study done by Lean In and McKinsey and Co., 40% of Black women in corporate America feel the need to provide further evidence of competence because of microaggressions. Black women have to work harder to “prove” themselves as ca-

pable people for the workplace.

This microaggression don’t stop in the workplace or politics. They go beyond and affect the daily and personal life of Black women across the nation. The damage done from constant exposure to microaggressions may carry over to how Black women present themselves in day-to-day life.

A study done by researchers at Columbia University in 2013 found racism can cause trauma that results in low self-esteem.

The portrayal of violent and angry Black women is a misrepresentation and can easily create a complex of low self-esteem, which further develops into an aversion to expression in young Black women.

IU freshman Zaria Ward has experienced this stereotype throughout college.

“I find that I’m always cautious when talking around new people out of fear of judgment,” Ward said.

For many Black women, constantly having to watch their tone, correct their faces and apologize for selfexpression is exhausting — eventually some turn to

silence.

Individualism becomes muted, creativity becomes dulled and feeling anger becomes taboo.

“Overcoming fear of judgment becomes a lot easier when I realize that anyone who doesn’t understand that our anger is justified doesn’t deserve to have a conversation with me in the first place,” Ward said.

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GameStop surges, experts urge caution

By Wei Wang daviwang@iu.edu | @WeiWangDavid23

IUPUI sophomore Sam Chen said he couldn’t believe his eyes when he checked the stock market Thursday morning.

More than a year ago, Chen bought 50 GameStop stock shares for about $4.60 per share. He said he originally bought the GameStop shares for fun, thinking because the price was already so low, he wouldn’t lose much if it fell further.

Thursday morning, the stock had risen almost 8,600% since he bought the shares to $396 per share.

Doubting the stock price would stay high for long, Chen said he immediately sold all his shares Thursday and profited $19,570.

His profit from this stock trade alone could cover an IU in-state student’s tuition and fees for the 2020-21 academic year with $8,350 to spare.

Chen is one of many amateur investors cashing in shares of soaring stocks this week. Video game retailer GameStop’s stock skyrocketed over the past week to more than 1,800% more than its price at the start of the year.

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previously bet GameStop’s steadily declining brick-andmortar business would lead to lower stock prices and short-sold its stock, according to Fortune Magazine.

Short-selling means borrowing shares from their owners, usually stockbrokers or portfolio managers, expecting their price to fall, then buying them back at a lower price to return the shares to their owners and profit off the price difference.

Some investors on the Reddit forum Wall Street Bets believed GameStop’s stock was undervalued by the short-selling hedge funds and that its price would rise.

Through rallying amateur investors to buy in GameStop shares, they fought back against the hedge funds profiting from the company’s declining business. The stock’s price soared and caused one of the short-selling hedge funds, Melvin Capital, to buy back the GameStop shares it had sold at a deficit, causing it to lose 53% of its assets in January.

Despite the stories of overnight fortunes, Charles Trzcinka, professor at the Kelley School of Business, said amateur investors including college students shouldn’t expect to change

their lives profiting off the recent stock surges.

“For every kid who’s a gamer who turns $10,000 into a million, there’s also going to be a bunch of kids who lose their college tuition,” he said.

Trzcinka said it’s relatively safe for IU students to trade on the stock market with a small amount of money once or twice a month. He said trading thousands of dollars every hour is unwise for amateur investors because they would be competing against Wall Street professionals with more information about the market than the public.

“You should probably keep your investing dollars away from GameStop and just watch the show from afar,” Forbes Advisor staff Taylor Tapper said.

Junior Brandon Gorz, copresident of the Financial Services Club, said he didn’t invest in GameStop’s stock.

He said he tends to trade stocks based on long-term assessments of companies’ performances.

“As an investor, I know what I’m good at, and I know what I’m not good at,” he said. “I’ll watch from the sidelines.”

Gorz said his advice for students is to understand

the stock market before they start making investments.

Considerations to be made include the financial risks, the stock market’s structure, such as how stock orders are routed and executed, and the background of the companies with their invested stocks.

“If you do a lot of reading and you follow the markets diligently, I’m pretty confident you could probably make a very good investment,” he said.

Chen said he was skeptical that GameStop’s stock price would stay as high as it is because he believed it wasn’t supposed to rise until last week. He said he read many news articles to understand the price surge.

“I feel like it’s kind of safer just to pull out the money for the profits I already got from it and just not risk it going lower,” he said.

Chen said he puts all his earnings from the stock market in his retirement fund, which he decided he wouldn’t use until he turns 59. He said he doesn’t want to have too much money to tempt him to spend on things he doesn’t need as a college student.

“I would like to have a stable future,” he said.

IU sophomores Misha Rekhter and Max Himelstein are the cofounders of Trap Mike’s, a late-night delivery-only restaurant, opening in Bloomington Feb. 4. Trap Mike’s will offer free delivery from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Rekhter and Himelstein said they noticed the lack of late-night food options in Bloomington despite high demand. They said most of the restaurants open late at night do not offer their own delivery service, forcing customers to pay extra fees to thirdparty delivery companies such as Doordash and Grubhub.

“I think that’s just kind of a pain point in a lot of students’ lives that we can help out with,” Rekhter said.

Freshman Mary Claire Wolk and senior Mark Ferrino said they agreed Bloomington needed more late-night food options.

“I think the late-night delivery-only restaurant is a really good idea because with remote learning, the workload for some students has been a larger amount, and so they are up until late hours of the night,” Wolk said.

Trap Mike’s hours line up for late nights for college students, Ferrino said.

“They’re willing to drop whatever to just get a slice of pizza when a lot of other really popular spots downtown Bloomington are just not open right now,” said Ferrino.

According to the Trap Mike’s website, the restaurant will operate in a “ghost kitchen,” meaning it will rent a kitchen by the hour instead of leasing a

storefront, allowing Trap Mike’s to offer the lowest possible prices for their food this way.

Rekhter and Himelstein worked at a Jersey Mike’s location together throughout high school. They said running their own restaurant is more complicated than it seems. From ordering ingredients to hiring staff and training employees, this is a learning experience for them, Rekhter said.

“It’s just been a really interesting experience, especially as someone who’s never run a company before,” Rekhter said. “It’s been kind of challenging to get our footing as students but also really rewarding and really fun to get more confidence as well.”

According to the menu, Trap Mike’s will serve toasted sandwiches, quesadillas, chicken tender wraps, macaroni and cheese, pancakes and a variety of sides and desserts.

In addition to food, Rekhter and Himelstein created merchandise such as T-shirts, hoodies and hats, as well as building a brand through social media accounts, a website and a mobile app.

“We’re trying to be a brand for college students with our name and our branding,” said Rekhter.

“We’re trying to kind of capture that late-night college student vibe in our food, our merchandise, as well as trying to capture that vibe in our logo.”

Trap Mike’s launched a mobile app Saturday that has been downloaded about 300 times so far, according to Rekhter.

“We are open when you’re hungry,” said Rekhter “All you got to do is log on, place your order, and you’ll get delicious food to your house soon.”

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LIKE IT IS

SPEAKING OF SEX

Indiana legislators benefit from private prisons that harm Hoosiers Alessia Modjarrad (she/her) is a junior in economic consulting and law and public policy.

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Our new series responds to questions exploring gender, sexuality Peyton Jeffers (she/they) is a senior in human development, family studies and human sexuality.

During the COVID-19 lockdown, I habitually, mindlessly scrolled through TikTok. The app’s algorithm tailored its content to my deepest inhibitions. I found myself on queer and nonbinary TikTok, where people shared their lived experiences and relationship with gender identity and sexuality in a geographically unconstrained space.

After a while, I began to question the reason why I had always identified as a cisgender woman. TikTok figured out I was queer in both my gender and sexuality before I did.

If you’ve ever experienced shame due to a desire you’ve had, the identity you hold or body you inhabit, you’ve felt the weight of a society that relies on internalized shame.

American culture dictates how we should or shouldn’t have sex and polices our performance of sex and gender.

It operates at both the individual and systemic level.

Speaking of Sex will be an affirming, nonjudgmental space exploring myriad topics relating to gender and sexuality such as bodily normalization, pleasure-focused sex, healthy boundaries, consent and alternative relationships. Together, we will open a dialogue about how to overcome the internalized shame so many of us hold onto.

Every Sunday, I will answer reader-submitted questions with the help of professors at the Kinsey Institute and the School of Public Health, sex educators, students and sex-positive community members.

In this series, I hope to help readers answer questions they have about their identity and confront the shame we collectively experience.

I invite you to join me and submit questions anonymously or through email at speakingofsex@gmail.com.

Collectively, we’ve felt the overwhelming stress, trauma and grief associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.

The ongoing health crisis, economic crisis and stronghold of white supremacy has caused emotional and physical turmoil. In facing so much loss, the past year has invited many of us to decide how we want to live our lives, portray our values and contribute to our communities.

Coming to terms with my gender identity during lockdown proved how social interaction is intrinsically linked to gender performance. Following years of living in confusion and shame, I finally had the space to question what my gender meant for me and how I can embrace myself unapologetically.

In her 2018 book “Your Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love,” author Sonya Renee Taylor argues the United States’ political, economic and social

systems thrive on our fragmented sense of self and inform how we feel about our bodies and others.

“Racism, sexism, ableism, homo- and transphobia, ageism, fatphobia are algorithms created by humans’ struggle to make peace with the body,” Taylor said in the book. “A radical self-love world is a world free from the systems of oppression that make it difficult and sometimes deadly to live in our bodies.”

Growing up in a heteronormative culture, my femininity and straightness had been compulsory. Being in isolation forced me to confront my shame and reassess my relationships with the people around me.

“We did not start this life in a negative partnership with our bodies,” Taylor said.

TikTok connected me to queer content creators and other users who helped me understand my place in the queer community. I began to reflect on all of the ways I’ve suppressed my queerness or felt ashamed of my body because it fell outside the rigid binaries I had been assigned since birth.

Radical self-love is not a destination we are trying to reach, but rather an inner peace already instilled within us. Shame is a nasty indoctrination we are no longer obligated to keep. Together with its audience, Speaking of Sex will fight this shame in the pursuit of self-love. pmjeffer@iu.edu

President Biden signed an executive order to eliminate private federal prisons on Jan. 26. Biden’s decision sparked conversations about how the U.S. approaches mass incarceration and how the carceral state has leached into all sectors of society. It’s a topic prison reformists and abolitionists have been shining a light on for decades.

In Indiana, mass incarceration and its poisonous arms have seized many lives. Between 1980 and 2016, the prison population in Indiana quadrupled. As of 2017, Black adults represented 34% of incarcerated people, despite only being 9% of the population. Indiana is imprisoning people at a higher rate — 723 per 100,000 — than the U.S. average, which is the highest in the world.

Mass incarceration is a tool used to inflict violence and maintain the institutions of racism on Indiana’s communities of color. Indiana’s leaders must drastically change policing and end mass incarceration.

Indiana legislators lust for policing and prisons, but why? According to the Indiana Election Division, private prison companies GEO Group and CoreCivic have contributed over $185,000 to state political committees. $19,000 has been donated federally to Indiana’s Republican members of Congress.

It gets worse.

In September 2005, New Castle Correctional Facility became Indiana’s sole private prison, operated

by GEO Group. In the year before and after the contract’s establishment, Indiana legislators received $31,100 in contributions from GEO Group’s political action committee. It isn’t a surprise Indiana legislators support private prisons and increased policing when there’s a kickback involved.

People in prisons also contribute to the state’s revenue streams through severely underpaid labor.

Various items — including PPE, clothing and furniture

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— are available for purchase through the Indiana Department of Corrections. Wages are a mere $0.12 to $1.625 per hour, much lower than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. Under the 13th Amendment, being convicted of a crime still allows slavery — in this case extremely low wages — as a punishment.

When discussing policing and mass incarceration, it is important to remember its effect on all parts of society, not just on those who are currently incarcerated.

By examining the effects of incarceration on neighborhood units, researchers found “mental health is similar for individuals with and without a history of incarceration.”

IU Maurer School of Law professor Jessica Eaglin touches on these ideas in her research on criminal justice debt and the socioeconomic collateral consequences of incarceration.

“What are the support, sort of infrastructures, that we have to prevent people from entering the carceral state in the first place?” Eaglin asked.

Preventing incarceration looks different in every state. Indiana must tackle mass incarceration and its broader criminal justice system through various sustained efforts, such as legislation focused on positively transforming policing, prisons and life post-incarceration.

“Once people have touched the carceral state, it’s very difficult to stay sort of out of its reach,” Eaglin said.

At the forefront of the fight against mass incarceration, the ACLU of Indiana released its Blueprint for

Smart Justice in 2019, which serves as a guide on criminal justice reform with a path to reducing incarceration by 50% by 2025. Significant policy priorities consist of ending all admissions for drug possession, reducing time served for specific charges and instituting alternatives to sentencing.

Dismantling the carceral state also includes massive police reform and a shift in budget priorities, including bias training, de-escalation training and reducing the number of officers in communities. More than a quarter of in-school arrests in Indiana K-12 schools are Black students, despite only being 14% of the student population.

Despite activists’ best efforts, Indiana Republican lawmakers are determined to expand the criminal code. After the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, numerous bills were introduced in the General Assembly to broaden the definition and penalties for rioting. Legislation includes SB34 and SB198 to bring harsher penalties to a broad definition of unlawful assembly and SB187 to protect statues and monuments from damage and vandalism.

It is no surprise that Indiana — with its longstanding history and roots of institutionalized racism — has entangled itself with mass incarceration. By hiding under the guise of public safety and patriotism, Indiana state legislators can continue to strip away constitutional rights and uphold white supremacy as private prison corporations line their pockets. amodjar@iu.edu

NOAH’S NOOK

GameStop stock manipulation exemplifies disillusionment with capitalism Noah Moore (he/him) is a sophomore in psychology, theater and international studies.

Last week, thousands of people organized on Reddit’s /r/wallstreetbets to short squeeze billionaire investors and hedge funds by rapidly raising GameStop stock’s price. These casual investors exploited reckless behavior by the wealthy, specifically mass short-selling of several falling stocks.

Initially, hedge funds began hemorrhaging billions and small investors rejoiced.

Then Robinhood, the main company that small investors used to trade, restricted their purchases and even allegedly sold stock without users’ permission.

Investing companies should not restrict which shares can be bought and sold by ordinary investors when no such restrictions exist for those controlling most of the capital. There should not be different rules for billionaires.

The uproar to Robinhood’s restrictions was immediate and widespread. Politicians as different as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, condemned Robinhood’s actions, with few rushing to defend it.

These small investors are only doing what hedge funds have been doing for decades.

These unjust limitations from Robinhood are a perfect example of why young people are disillusioned with America and capitalism. The

rules keep changing to benefit those in charge.

My generation has now lived through two “once-ina-lifetime” economic recessions, and most of us are barely adults. Productivity has continued rising, but real wages have stagnated over the past fifty years. Each generation since the baby boomers possesses less wealth than the previous. Gen Z is set to be even poorer than the famously poor millennials.

We have been told, most notably by former President Donald Trump, that the economy is doing well because the stock market has been doing well, even though unemployment has continued to skyrocket. But evidently, even the stock market isn’t actually meant to be used by average people.

And while stocks have risen, so has unemployment.

Rising stocks have allowed American billionaires to add more than a trillion dollars total to their wealth, even while workers lost trillions through an economy comparable to the Great Depression.

This is the capitalism that my generation knows.

The market is ensuring that wealthy investors won’t lose money from a monetary struggle with small investors. It continues the financial trend of the COVID-19 pandemic, where wealthy people are virtually unaffected while workers aren’t afforded the same opportunities. This disjoint is significant, and people

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are noticing.

GameStop is the canary in a coal mine.

Robinhood has taught many in the past week that under capitalism, the working class must stay exploited regardless of anything else.

It has advertised itself as the platform for the small-time investor, but by restricting GameStop and other stock, it’s only affirming that it works for the wealthy.

There has already been a push for more regulation, spearheaded by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. Ulti-

mately, while regulation is necessary in general, calling for increased regulation right now is inappropriate after decades of ignoring similar behavior by wealthy investors. It only enforces the notion that there are different rules for different people.

These actions only entrenched the small investors’ convictions. Many users of /r/wallstreetbets have shared how their families’ lives were ruined by the 2008 financial crisis. One person posted about how their refusal to sell

is inspired by their late wife’s battle with cancer. Another posted that they can now finally put their sister through Lyme disease treatment. But regardless of everyone’s individual motivations, one thing is clear — some people want the rich to hurt the way they have been hurt.

This anger is the inevitability of decades of capitalist propaganda. You can pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you’re tough and driven and smart, everyone richer than you deserves to be and it’s good for the economy that

they have more than you — these are lies, and people are realizing it.

This market manipulation has only demonstrated what some have always known about capitalism: those with power will never give it up willingly. But if there is one thing to be learned from Reddit standing against Wall Street, it’s that there is power, too, in organizing. As long as we can recognize our class interests, we can stand strong against greed. noahemoore@gmail.com

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During the second eviction, Aries looked upon what had been his home for two weeks. Scattered blankets, plastic tarps and bicycles sat under a light mist in nearfreezing weather that would reach below freezing later that night. For some people, the items scattered across Seminary Square Park were all they owned, Aries said.

“Take all of that, I mean all of that, and that’s almost what a normal person has in one apartment,” he said, motioning at the items on the ground.

Felicia Johnson, who is also experiencing homelessness, said she’s watched more apartment complexes spring up for college students. She said she wishes that there would be a focus on creating affordable housing for those with a limited income.

“Not even to be selfish, but we deserve to have a life too,” Johnson said. “We deserve to live. We deserve to be warm.”

Collins said the fact that affordable motels have closed and been replaced by apartment complexes for students has forced some in the unhoused population into city parks, making them more visible to the public. He said this has generated hostility from some in the Bloomington community.

“They don't want to see us? Then stop destroying the places that we can use,” Collins said.

In 2015, Southern Winds Inn closed, leaving 36 lowincome households with no housing, according to the Herald-Times. Residents of Southern Winds Inn said it was one of the only locations where people with barriers to housing, such as poor credit histories or financial issues, could find shelter.

Then, Motel 6 closed

down in 2020, to be replaced by a 750-bed student apartment complex. Motel 6 was one of two hotels in Bloomington that accepted housing vouchers, Perry Township Trustee Dan Combs told the Herald-Times.

For some people in the unhoused community, the rules and restrictions of homeless shelters make it difficult to stay there. Goffinet is staying at A Friend’s Place. She has a boyfriend of 14 years but said she isn’t allowed to sleep with him at night because the shelter is separated by gender. She said the shelter also requires people to be in bed by 8 p.m.

“I’m 50 years old,” she said. “I’d like to be treated like an adult.”

Beacon found pet ownership, separation of couples, religion, distance, shelter rules and storage were some of the reasons that people might not stay at shelters.

As a result, Beacon opened a new shelter at Switchyard Park that resolved these issues.

On top of those issues, Johnson said COVID-19 has become a threat to those staying in communal spaces, like shelters. Johnson had to isolate for a week because her roommate tested positive for COVID-19. Payne, her partner, also had to isolate for a week, forcing him to call off of work.

Collins said a lot of people experiencing homelessness want to have jobs and provide for their own housing, but it can be difficult to secure a job when they’re living in a tent.

Aries, who holds a job right now, said he believes many employers don’t want to hire those from the unhoused community because of the stigma.

Aries works with heavy machinery and gets grease and dirt on his clothes, but he said his employer asked him to get a haircut and new

clothes. The ends of his grey hoodie are stained in black grease.

“What's gonna happen when I buy a $30 hoodie just so I can look nice and fucking it's black?” Aries said. “The next day, I have to buy another one.”

And jobs aren’t a fix-all solution, anyway.

Payne is currently working at McDonald’s, but he said he doesn’t make enough money to pay rent for an apartment.

Payne said rent for an apartment is hundreds of dollars that he can’t afford.

In 2015, a study from Tikijian Associates estimated the average rent in Bloomington was $893, higher than in surrounding areas. Payne’s paychecks vary based on the hours he works, but he said some have been less than $150 after taxes.

Freezing temperatures endanger unhoused people Without a source of shelter or a job that provides enough for rent, some unhoused people have found themselves stuck in the cold weather.

Dying in the cold isn’t a hypothetical concern for those in the unhoused community. JT, a 51-year-old Bloomington resident, died in Seminary Park on Christmas Eve. JT’s death came after his tent was taken away in the December eviction, BHC board member Marc Teller told the IDS in January. Teller said he held the city responsible for JT’s death.

Johnson said that JT’s death deeply affected her.

Like many in the unhoused community, she considered him family. JT isn’t the first friend she has lost.

“A lot of our friends have died,” Payne said.

Freezing temperatures are a concern for everyone in the unhoused population, even for some in shelters. Payne and three other unhoused

people said there hasn’t been heating inside A Friend’s Place for weeks. Payne said he wears three layers of clothing when he sleeps at night.

Lenora Binkley, director of Shelter Programs at A Friend’s Place, denied the allegation and said there are multiple functioning heaters throughout the shelter.

Rick Moser, 61, has been experiencing homelessness off and on for 15 years. He said he doesn’t have anywhere to stay during the day.

Although he goes to the new overnight shelter at Switchyard Park at 9 p.m. when it opens, he has to leave the shelter by 7 a.m. This means for 14 hours a day, Moser is outside in often-freezing temperatures.

Moser, who said he has owned two homes at separate points in his life, never expected to experience homelessness.

He does everything he can to stay warm during the day.

Recently, Moser has been going to the Community Kitchen for hot meals. Sometimes he rides on city buses until he’s kicked off.

He pointed down at the snow-encrusted boots on his feet that he had just gotten a few weeks ago, one of his key defenses against cold temperatures. For two years, he had owned the same brand of boots and said his feet had never gotten cold or wet.

But on the night of Jan. 27, as he stood in freezing temperatures under the awning of A Friend’s Place to protect himself from the flurry of snow, he said his feet grew cold.

He looked around at the other people huddled on the porch waiting for the shelter to open. Many of them were wearing tennis shoes.

“I don’t see how they can even take it,” he said. “Because once my feet get frozen, I might as well lay down and die.”

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The dashboard includes students who self-reported a positive COVID-19 test but were tested through the state’s clinics and not IU’s.

About 3,000 cases were self-reported in Bloomington, according to the dashboard. That total makes up slightly less than half of IU’s total COVID-19 cases.

This newly public data has drastically increased the total number of COVID-19 cases at IU since July. IU has had 7,081 students in Bloomington test positive for COVID-19 including the self-reported data, a significantly higher number than the dashboard previously reported. There have been nearly 11,000 total positive cases across all campuses for students, faculty and staff.

Once on-campus residents begin to be selected twice a week for mitigation testing, there will be more tests than people tested listed on the dashboard. IU’s Medical Response Team — led by Dr. Aaron Carroll, Dr. Cole Beeler, Dr. Adrian Gardner and Dr. Lana Dbedio — said that is when the prevalence rate becomes a more accurate measure of COVID-19 spread on campus. The week of Jan. 24 had a 0.2% prevalence rate in Bloomington.

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According to the Indy Star, Indiana residents aged 80 and older were allowed to register first, followed by people aged 70 and older.

As of Jan. 27, Indiana health officials reported 51% of Indiana residents 80 and over and 57% of Indiana residents aged 70 and older had

The dashboard also shows data from Indiana’s state dashboard for comparison to IU’s numbers.

The new dashboard will eventually include a specific listing of what groups of students — for example if dorm residents were required to have extra testing on a given week — were selected for testing on a given week. In this week’s data, the dashboard just lists a “representative sample” being taken.

Voluntary asymptomatic testing now has its own section on the dashboard. IU spokesperson Chuck Carney said he anticipates that eventually a section for vaccine distribution will be added on the dashboard, but that requires data sharing agreements with the state that are not yet formalized.

Carney said these updates are based on feedback IU received from the general public during the fall.

Live-in greek-life students had a 0.4% positivity rate in 755 tests. Live-out greek-life students had a 0.3% positivity rate in 1,599 tests. Dorm residents had a 0% positivity rate in 700 tests, and all other offcampus students had a 0.3% positivity rate in 6,755 tests.

Bloomington’s quarantine and isolation facility — Ashton Center — continues to have no listed occupants.

On-campus students are returning over the course of this week. been vaccinated, according to the Indy Star.

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‘It was worth the risks’ An inside look at IU football’s historic pandemic season

ILLUSTRATION BY JUNO MARTIN

OCT. 24

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IU football resumed its voluntary workouts.

IU upset No. 8 Penn State 36-35 in its season opener.

SEPT. 19

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Big Ten postponed all ▶ The fall sports to spring 2021.

The Big Ten announced a 10-game conference-only season.

The Big Ten released an eight-game 2020 schedule.

SEPT. 17 IU football began daily COVID-19 testing.

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Michael Penix Jr. was ruled out for the year with a torn ACL.

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SEPT. 16 The Big Ten voted to restart football and begin playing Oct. 24.

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IU football paused team Bucket game ▶ activities ▶ The OldwasOakencanceled. for the outbreak.

IU football’s COVID-19 outbreak began.

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IU lost the Outback Bowl to Ole Miss 26–20.

DEC. 21 IU football resumed practice.

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DEC. 15 The second Old Oaken Bucket game was canceled.

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But no fans were present to watch IU play before the Outback Bowl. Practices occurred entirely behind closed doors, a departure from previous years when media was allowed at fall camp. What happened inside the tunnels of Memorial Stadium stayed there.

During the summer, IU posted occasional press releases with testing data for the entire IU athletics program.

Once the football season began, the updates stopped.

Lists of inactive players ahead of each game did not specify whether a player was injured or ill, straying from norms of previous years where players’ injuries were specified.

But after the program had very few COVID-19 cases during the majority of the season, fans and some players alike

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Harry Crider, senior and NFL draftbound offensive lineman

The rules were strict, and at first, that was overwhelming to Jordan Jakes, a redshirt freshman wide receiver who left IU via transfer after the season.

After months of debate, the Big Ten ultimately announced Sept. 16 that football games would resume in October. That came with a detailed COVID-19 response plan from the conference, including a requirement of daily testing.

Crider said daily testing made him feel more comfortable to play, even though he never considered opting out of the season.

“When our season first got canceled, I was still gonna plan on coming back,” Crider said. “But I was in, no matter what. I trusted the systems.”

The Big Ten also mandated players be tested for potential heart or lung damage if they contracted the virus. The risk for developing myocarditis — an inflammation of the heart which decreases its ability to pump blood — was especially concerning for the conference after a Penn State doctor found 30-35% of players in the Big Ten had myocarditis symptoms. All players who tested positive had to miss 21 days, including their 10-day isolation period and testing for harmful aftereffects.

The Big Ten wanted to create a bubble for each team.

JULY 17, 2020 IU Athletics shut down its facility after 33 tests out of 480 tests across all teams came back positive.

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“When our season first got canceled, I was still gonna plan on coming back. But I was in, no matter what. I trusted the systems.”

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Play by play: Important dates from IU football’s season

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When Redshirt sophomore quarterback Michael Penix Jr. stretched the ball barely across the goal line against then-No. 8 Penn State, giving IU a long-awaited upset victory, Harry Crider thought he’d look up to see thousands of fans storming the field. He thought he’d join night-long parties on Kirkwood Avenue.

Instead, the senior NFL draft-bound offensive lineman just saw empty bleachers.

After Penix barely reached the ball over the goal line, giving IU a historic win over Penn State on Oct. 24 to begin the 2020 season, Crider drove his Jeep Renegade home from the stadium alongside a few dozen maskless students in the parking lot.

“Just go back to your solitude at your own apartment and wake up and go back to work the next day,” Crider said. “You just wonder how great it could have been around Bloomington with students getting more involved.”

IU had its best year in decades in a season that almost didn’t happen because of the coronavirus pandemic. The team finished with a 6-1 regular season record before losing to the University of Mississippi in the Outback Bowl on Jan. 2. The year featured programdefining wins over Penn State, Michigan and Wisconsin — the first time IU ever beat all three teams in the same season. IU ranked 12th in the final AP Top 25 poll.

were surprised when IU suddenly shut down its facilities Dec. 8, 2020. Nearly 30 players tested positive for COVID-19 during the team’s late-season outbreak.

“Nothing really kept us from playing until the second to last game,” said senior Jerome Johnson, an NFL Draftbound defensive tackle. “I think that was just out of our control. It was bound to happen at some point.”

Throughout the season, players were tested daily and some were moved to hotels to avoid exposure. They received extra testing for potential longterm effects on their heart and lungs.

Four players departing the IU program — whether for the NFL draft or the transfer portal — spoke to the Indiana Daily Student to discuss the testing practices and rush to play despite several players not having fully recovered from the virus that has taken the lives of over 440,000 Americans.

Like every major college football program, IU learned how to handle a pandemic on the fly. And at IU, that meant pulling off a historic winning season while grappling with how to keep players safe from the coronavirus.

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DEC. 13 IU was scheduled to play Purdue in the Big Ten Champions Week.

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Players weren’t allowed to go out for anything other than picking up food or seeing a teammate. Johnson said he does not think any player violated that rule, but only an honor code enforced it.

Players weren’t allowed to see people outside of the program, including their families.

Australia native and NFL draft-bound punter Haydon Whitehead hasn’t seen his family in a little more than a year. But Whitehead never considered opting out, and said he didn’t know of many considering it.

“I think we all wanted to play, not only football in general, but I think we wanted to play together as a team,” Whitehead said. “I definitely say there was a drive there in general to want to play together and build off the 2019 season that we had.”

Players woke up around 6 a.m. every day for a selfadministered nasal swab test between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. at the football facility.

At first, Jakes said he got headaches from the swab poking deep inside his nose.

After their tests, players went into the locker room to get dressed for practice.

Whitehead said IU’s staff effectively spaced out players as they entered the locker room and had them complete their tests in small groups.

But that meant players spent time with each other, indoors, before knowing their results. Two players who spoke to the IDS for this story said there were instances when a player they were near was pulled out of the locker room or a team meeting because of a positive test result.

A team spokesperson declined to comment on the re-

cord on testing practices and potential false results.

Players who tested negative would keep their masks on and move to a team meeting. Soon after, they took the field for practice where players did not consistently wear masks underneath their helmets, as photos from this season’s practices show.

The days blended together. Coronavirus restrictions meant that every day was the same, without in-person classes and parties and holidays. The schedule was uniform and left no room for players to go out or have any break from football. Jakes said he and others used the coaching staff ’s mantras for each day of practice including “Mindset Monday” or “Takeaway Tuesday” as the only reminder of what day it actually was.

“I think we all wanted to play, not only football in general, but I think we wanted to play together as a team.”

Haydon Whitehead, graduate student and NFL draft-bound punter

After practice and classes, most players relaxed playing video games online with their teammates, Jakes said.

They played Madden, Call of Duty and Rocket League.

Whitehead used the time to watch extra game film. Johnson binge-watched TikTok. Crider played Beatles and Nirvana music on his guitar and watched movie marathons, including classic movies he’d never seen before. The players’ options for entertainment were limited, and Crider said

the time got boring.

But Jakes called football his job, and he said that was more important than missing a night out to party. He said he never got a chance to bond with his teammates like he did during the pandemic.

It’s not like he had a choice.

They were the only people he could be around. * * * Johnson was surprised when he tested positive for the coronavirus. The team had stopped practicing Dec. 8, 2020, because of a COVID-19 outbreak, and the Purdue game — originally set for that weekend — had just been called off.

He said he hadn’t done anything outside of his home.

So when he learned he tested positive, with no symptoms, he isolated in his room, wondering how he’d become a part of the late season outbreak too.

When a football player tested positive, the team moved their roommates to a new location. Most football players have roommates, but they are all just other players on the team. Crider had to relocate in the middle of the season when one of his roommates tested positive. He was moved to a hotel for 10-days while his roommate was isolated in their apartment.

Crider called that a minivacation because he got new scenery for a few days.

Johnson said he didn’t know of any player who broke the team’s COVID-19 protocol, so many players were shocked when an outbreak started so fast. Johnson said with so many other teams shutting down, it was just a

matter of time before IU had to.

Johnson finished his MRIs and heart testing in time to return to practice for the Outback Bowl, set to be played Jan. 2. The team resumed practice on Dec. 21, 2020. He said he didn’t feel rushed back, but he did not feel 100%. He said the coaches supported him whether or not he could play in the bowl game. Johnson had no issues with his breathing or his heart, but he only had a week-and-a-half to return to practice.

He said he remembers getting tired much quicker than usual during the game.

“I think for the most part the tempo was definitely different from what I’m used to,” Johnson said.

The tempo, Johnson said, both refers to how fast Ole Miss plays and to how he didn’t feel at full strength to keep up.

Jakes said he felt players who were sick didn’t have enough time to practice before the Outback Bowl. They had to go from not practicing during the outbreak to being ready to play a bowl game in two weeks.

“The preparation wasn’t the same,” Jakes said. “I feel that if we had a real preparation for the bowl game, the outcome would have been different.”

The four players who spoke to the IDS for this story said they were glad they chose to play this season.

They were part of history — both the success on the field and the unprecedented circumstances off of it.

And being part of a historic winning season meant taking on historic risks.

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VOLLEYBALL

MEN’S TENNIS

IU earns first win of season

IU opens season with invitational

By Amanda Foster amakfost@iu.edu | @amandafoster_15

IU volleyball recorded its first win of the season Saturday against Rutgers in New Brunswick, New Jersey, after losing in four sets Friday afternoon. IU improved to 1-3 on the season with Saturday’s win.

The Hoosiers put up a strong effort Friday, winning the first set 25-18 and losing by no more than 8 points in the following three sets with scores of 17-25, 19-25 and 20-25. The Hoosiers kept sets close, but appeared to lose their energy as the sets drew to a close.

“I give Rutgers credit,” head coach Steve Aird said.

“When they got some confidence they kind of smelled blood in the water. It’s a good lesson.”

Junior outside hitter Breana Edwards led the team with 20 kills out of a total of 44 for the Hoosiers, marking her seventh career match with at least 20 kills. Sophomore defensive specialist Haley Armstrong also set a season high with 22 digs in four sets.

The Hoosiers also showed the benefits of their focus on defensive training with 10 team blocks and 62 digs.

Freshman Layla Blackwell recorded six blocks with one coming at a key point late in the fourth set to put IU within 1 point.

However, the need for improvements in accurately receiving serves was notable as IU put up six service errors and allowed Rutgers to record

IU competed against Wisconsin, Nebraska and Minnesota, finishing 12-15 in singles and 8-5 in doubles.

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Freshman outside hitter Tommi Stockham and junior outside hitter Breana Edwards go for the ball Jan. 23 in Wilkinson Hall. The Hoosiers went 1-1 for the weekend against Rutgers, losing their Friday match 1-3 and winning their Saturday match 3-1 in Piscataway, New Jersey.

nine service aces.

“They won the serve and pass game,” Aird said. “They played well and will be confident coming back tomorrow.”

Looking at the results of Saturday’s match, it would appear that IU came back with confidence.

The Hoosiers began the afternoon with the same energy as Friday, winning two sets in a row and coming back to win the fourth and secure their victory.

IU won the first set 2519, at one point leading by 6 points at 10-4 on a kill by freshman outside hitter Tommi Stockham. After recording her first career double-double on Friday with 11 kills and 11 digs, Stockham continued to bring that energy, leading the team with 16 kills on Saturday.

In the second set, the Hoosiers went on a 4-0 scor-

ing run to lead by six, winning the set 25-15 on an ace by sophomore defensive specialist Sophie Oliphant.

There was a notable decrease in energy on IU’s side of the court going into the third set. In that set alone, Rutgers had a .609 hitting percentage and never trailed, at one point scoring 10 unanswered points and keeping IU in single digits during the 9-25 loss.

The Hoosiers’ lull continued into the fourth set as the Scarlet Knights quickly got ahead 6-1.

The Hoosiers got back into a rhythm, going on a 6-0 scoring run to narrow the gap to 15-14.

From there, the score volleyed back and forth to eventually tie at 23-23. A kill from freshman middle blocker Savannah Kjolhede and an ace from Armstrong clinched the set and match victory.

“We showed character and resiliency to come back in the fourth set,” Aird said. “We had young people make big plays when we needed them. We have to find a way to keep battling and that is a skill.”

With a significant increase in offensive and defensive showing, the Hoosiers now have a total of 155 kills and 174 digs.

They have a .139 attack percentage on the season.

The team with the best attack percentage in the conference, Wisconsin, has a percentage of .367.

“It’s hard to win in this conference and we are fortunate to leave Rutgers with a split,” Aird said. “I was proud of our effort today.”

IU continues their twoweek stretch of away games next weekend at Iowa, who has yet to win a match this season.

CROSS COUNTRY

The Hoosiers returned to the tennis court this weekend for the first time since last February, opening the season at the Badger Invitational in Madison, Wisconsin.

IU competed against Wisconsin, Nebraska and Minnesota from Thursday to Sunday. IU went 12-15 in singles and 8-5 in doubles.

“It was incredible to be competing again,” head coach Jeremy Wurtzman said. “Going into the tournament we just wanted to get as many matches in as we could.”

The Hoosiers kicked off the invitational Jan. 28 with a pair of doubles wins.

Freshmen Ilya Tiraspolsky, Michael Andre and Jagger Saylor, along with junior Vikash Singh, took control of their matches to defeat Minnesota 6-4 and 6-2.

Indiana took on Minnesota in singles and Wisconsin in doubles on Friday.

Graduate student William Piekarsky, sophomore Luka Vukovic, Saylor, Tiraspolsky and Andre all posted singles victories. Singh, senior Andrew Redding and junior Patrick Fletchall fell to the

Golden Gophers.

Piekarsky, who elected to use his NCAA-granted fifth year of eligibility due to the COVID-19 pandemic prematurely ending the previous season, won his match 6-4, 7-6 (7-4).

The teams of Fletchall and Redding, Saylor and Singh, and Andre and Tiraspolsky defeated Wisconsin in doubles 6-4, 6-3 and 6-3.

Piekarsky and Fletchall won Saturday in singles against Wisconsin.

The teams Fletchall and Redding, Andre and Tiraspolsky, and Piekarsky and Singh claimed victory against Nebraska in their doubles matches 7-6 (7-2), 6-2 and 6-2.

Against Nebraska, Redding, Singh, Vukovic, Andre and Fletchall won in singles. Tiraspolsky and Piekarsky fell to the Huskers to close out the invitational.

Although the rest of the Hoosiers’ spring schedule has not been released, Wurtzman expressed excitement for what’s to come.

“Talent-wise, this is one of our best teams and I’m looking forward to how they handle the season,” Wurtzman said.

WRESTLING

IU men and women run in IU secures first win of the Big Ten Championships season against Northwestern

By Aiden Kunst akunst@iu.edu | @aidankunst

IU cross country competed in the 2020 Big Ten Championships on Saturday at the Blue River Cross Country Course in Shelbyville, Indiana. The event had been postponed from its original fall date due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

After finishing second and eighth respectively in last season’s Big Ten Cross Country Championships, the IU men’s and women’s teams finished second and fourth this year.

“We’re a much better team than we were a year ago,” head coach Ron Helmer said about the women. “We’re solid up front, Bailey is really good, Sarah is really good.”

The championships featured two events: a 6000-meter race for the women and an 8000-meter race for the men.

On the women’s side, the Hoosiers were led by junior All-American Bailey Herternstein, who placed second overall with a time of 20:15.2. Hertenstein finished just two seconds behind the champion, Minnesota’s Bethany Hasz.

The women also recorded several other strong performances, particularly from the sophomore duo

of Sarah Schmitt and Jenna Barker. Schmitt finished in tenth place with a time of 20:46.5, while Barker clocked in at 21:21.2, good for 28th place overall.

Several other runners, all underclassmen, turned in impressive performances for the women, including sophomore Maddie Dalton, freshman Gracie Sprankle and sophomore Mikaela Ramirez.

Dalton finished 29th with a time of 21:21.8, Sprankle came in at 32nd with a time of 21:29.0 and Ramirez, who finished 34th, recorded a time of 21:31.8.

“It was a really solid day,” Helmer said. “I thought they were up to the challenge.”

The men had a great deal of success in their 8000-meter race, with five runners finishing in the top 13.

Senior Ben Veatch, who finished fourth at last year’s Big Ten Championships, led the way with an eighthplace finish, recording a time of 24:18.2.

“Coming off an injury and only training the past month, I’m taking the positives and moving on,” Veatch said. “Going into any Big Ten Championship I expect to win.”

The men’s team also received a boost from their younger runners, with three of the five top-13 finishes

coming from sophomores.

Matthew Schadler, Jake Gebhardt and Sklylar Stidham placed at ninth, 10th, and 13th, respectively.

Schadler clocked in at 24:19.1, while Gebhardt came in at 24:20.5. Stidham recorded a time of 24:22.9. Junior Arjun Jha finished eleventh with a time of 24:21.6. Jha finished twelfth at the event in 2019.

“The young guys ran phenomenal,” Veatch said. “It was a great run from the team as a whole and definitely something we are excited to build on. Getting second is always bittersweet.”

IU sent one athlete, junior Hope Purcell, to Champaign, Illinois to compete in the women’s indoor pentathlon at the Illini Big Ten Multi-Meet.

Purcell finished 12th in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 9.45 seconds, third in the high jump with a height of 1.64 meters and ninth in the shot put with a distance of 10.51 meters.

Purcell did not participate in the final two events of the meet, the 800-meter and the long jump.

The Hoosiers will return home to Jack Gladstein Fieldhouse at 11 a.m. Feb. 6, for the Hoosier Hills meet against schools including Purdue and Wisconsin.

CHALLENGE YOURSELF

By Tristan Jackson tripjack@iu.edu | @tristan_jackso

IU wrestling picked up its first win of the season against Northwestern on Saturday in Evanston, Illinois. After losing to No. 3 Penn State earlier in the day, IU took down Northwestern 18-16 and improved to 1-3 on the season.

The Hoosiers fell to the Nittany Lions 24-15 in the first dual of the day, securing their most points against Penn State since a 17-17 tie in 2009. Sophomores Graham Rooks, DJ Washington and Nick Willham picked up regular decisions for the Hoosiers, and a 6-point forfeit in the 125-pound weight class brought IU’s point total to 15.

Both meets for IU came down to the last match at heavyweight, and sophomore Jacob Bullock was able to pick up a 7-2 win in the last match for the Hoosiers.

IU was down 16-15 in team score heading into the

match, and Bullock’s win added 3 team points and secured the 18-16 win against the home team.

“I just asked him ‘Are you ready to take this opportunity?’ and he said yes,” IU head coach Angel Escobedo said. “So that’s what we were talking about beforehand, and he made the most of it, he really did.”

Making his return to the lineup, redshirt sophomore Graham Rooks went 1-1 on the day. Rooks won against No. 14 junior Jarod Verkleeren from Penn State and lost to No. 15 redshirt junior Yahya Thomas from Northwestern, who Rooks beat twice last year.

“It’s a tough conference, so you keep running into the same guys and you just have to make adjustments,” Escobedo said.

Freshman Jacob Moran filled in for injured senior Brock Hudkins in the 125-pound weight class and fought hard in his dual-match

debut. After a forfeit from Penn State, Moran’s only action was against No. 7 redshirt sophomore Michael DeAugustino.

Moran held his own against DeAugustino, who placed third at the Big Ten Championships and earned the No. 8 seed in the NCAA Championships last season.

Ultimately, Moran fell 3-5 to DeAugustino, but the freshman fought hard and kept the match close.

“I think he started to believe too late in the match,” Escobedo said. “You have to believe right away.”

Sophomores Cayden Rooks, Matt Ortiz, Nick South and Nick Willham all split their matches and went 1-1 for IU. The Hoosiers will return home for a quad-meet on Feb. 6 at Wilkinson Hall and face off against No. 17 Rutgers, No. 25 Michigan State and No. 7 Nebraska. Those three teams have a combined 4-5 record this season.

DJ Washington named Wrestler of the Week

By Tristan Jackson tripjack@iu.edu | @tristan_jackso

IU sophomore DJ Washington was named Big Ten Wrestler of the Week Tuesday after going 2-0 last weekend, defeating No. 5 redshirt freshman Carter Starocci from Penn State and pinning redshirt freshman Troy Fisher from Northwestern with 18 seconds left in the match.

The extra points from

Washington’s pin would be the difference for IU in its first win of the season against Northwestern. Washington was down 5-7 in the third period before he was able to take down Fisher, and winning by pin rather than decision gave the Hoosiers the points they needed for the 18-16 win.

Washington also helped IU secure its most points against No. 3 Penn State in 12 years. Washington got off

to a hot start against the topfive ranked Starocci, scoring a takedown and 4 near-fall points 40 seconds into the match. Up 10-1 after the first period, Washington was able to stymie Starocci’s comeback attempt and win 10-9.

This is Washington’s first Big Ten Wrestler of the Week honor of his career. He is the first Hoosier to win the award since redshirt sophomore Graham Rooks won it Jan. 21, 2020.

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IU professor designs first ever music and trauma conference

By Hannah Dailey hanjohn@iu.edu

IU assistant musicology professor Jill Rogers wasn’t sure what would come of her idea for a conference on music, sound and trauma. She didn’t know if it could still happen once the COVID-19 pandemic hit. At one point, she didn’t think she would get the grant she needed to fund it.

But now, “Music, Sound, and Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” happening virtually Feb. 12-14, has five keynote speakers and more than 100 other events on the docket. It’s the first conference of its kind to gather professionals working at the intersection of music, sound and trauma, according to an IU news release.

The conference is free and open to the public.

“I’m trying not to think about how big this could possibly get,” Rogers said. “I’m already freaking out.”

Music and trauma have an intertwined and sometimes harmful relationship, Rogers said. Sometimes, music is used to cope with trauma, but other times, it’s used to inflict it. For example, Rogers said Marilyn Manson-style heavy metal and the Barney theme song have both been blasted over prison speakers to torture inmates.

In addition to speeches, the conference will include recitals, lectures and presentations spanning topics such as psychology, sound studies, literature, theater, history, medicine and more. Funded by an IU Arts & Humanities grant, it will

serve as a gathering place for ideas and research that Rogers and her colleagues will compile into an Oxford Handbook on music, sound and trauma.

“We hadn’t really had a space where we could all share our work,” Rogers said.

“I really love creating community. The people working on music, sound and trauma are all really kind and creative.”

Though the conference was Rogers’s brainchild, she said she had a lot of help developing ideas and putting it together. Fellow music and trauma experts Erin Brooks of State University of New York at Potsdam and Michelle Meinhart of Trinity Laban Conservatory both helped plan the conference, and all three were devoted to pulling it off — funding or no funding.

Rogers said the three of them were sitting on a Zoom call discussing their next steps for if they didn’t win the IU Arts & Humanities grant when Rogers got the email saying they actually had.

“It was a total scream fest, with all of us screaming in excitement,” Rogers said. “You can tell we’re all giant nerds for music, sound and trauma.”

Rogers also had the help of students like graduate assistant Jacqueline Fortier, who’s a doctoral student in musicology. Fortier said she hopes the conference will open up discussions about music and trauma, particularly on how they relate to current events.

“I’m most excited about work related to events in present time, specifically police brutality, systemic racism,

breathwork. She said breathing is tied to all aspects of life, evidenced by events like the Black Lives Matter movement, famous for the phrase “I can’t breathe.”

“We’re thinking about how we use music and sound to bring us back to harmony,” Abegunde said. “The breath helps to regulate the many systems in our body. We know that we are alive through our breath.”

Rogers said her ultimate goal for the conference is to convey the importance of paying attention to trauma of all kinds.

“You can’t really process or heal before you acknowledge,” she said. “My ultimate goal is to help people heal from trauma and recover from trauma, if that’s what they want to do.”

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IU assistant musicology teacher Jill Rogers is the creator of “Music, Sound, and Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” a virtual conference scheduled for Feb.12-14.

homophobia,” Fortier said. “I hope it will create conversation about trauma and music.”

One of the keynote speakers, Maria Hamilton Abegunde, said she will be presenting on the importance of

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Quaker Bloomington Friends Meeting

H2O Church Fine Arts Building, Room 015 812-955-0451

h2oindiana.org facebook.com/h2ochurchiu/ @h2ochurchiu on Instagram and Twitter Sundays: 11:01 a.m.

Small Groups: Small group communities meet throughout the week (see website for details) H2O Church is a local church especially for the IU camus community to hear the Good News (Gospel) about Jesus Christ. We are a church mostly composed of students and together we're learning how to be followers of Jesus, embrace the Gospel and make it relate to every area of our lives.

Kevin Cody, Pastor

City Church For All Nations 1200 N. Russell Rd. 812-336-5958

citychurchbloomington.org facebook.com/citychurchbtown/ @citychurchbtown on Instagram Sunday Services: 9:30 a.m. and 11:15 a.m.

Mon. - Thu.: 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.

City Church is a multicultural, multigenerational, and nondenominational Christian Church. In addition to our contemporary worship experiences on Sundays at 9:30 a.m. and 11:15 a.m., we also have a college ministry that meets on Tuesdays at 6:00 p.m. We would love to welcome you into our community.

David Norris, Senior Pastor Lymari and Tony Navarro, College ministry leaders

High Rock Church 3124 Canterbury Ct. 812-323-3333

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We are currently meeting

by Zoom only; email us at bloomington.friends.website@gmail.com to request our Zoom link. fgcquaker.org/cloud/bloomingtonmonthly-meeting Facebook: Bloomington Friends Meeting Sunday: 9:50 a.m. Hymn singing 10:30 a.m. Meeting for worship 10:45 a.m. Sunday School (Children join in worship from 10:30-10:45) 11:30 a.m. Fellowship after Meeting for Worship 12:15 p.m. Often there is a second hour activity (see website) Wednesday (midweek meeting): 9:00 a.m. Meeting for worship 9:30 a.m. Fellowship after Meeting for Worship

Our religious services consistof silent centering worship interspersed with spoken messages that arise from deeply felt inspiration. We are an inclusive community, a result of avoiding creeds, so we enjoy a rich diversity of belief. We are actively involved in peace action, social justice causes, and environmental concerns.

Inter-Denominational Redeemer Community Church 111 S. Kimble Dr. 812-269-8975

redeemerbloomington.org facebook.com/RedeemerBtown @RedeemerBtown on Instagram and Twitter Sunday: 9 a.m. & 11 a.m.

Scott Joseph, Lead Pastor

West Second St. Church of Christ 825 W. Second St. 812-332-0501

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John Myers, Preacher

Unitarian Universalist Unitarian Universalist Church of Bloomington 2120 N. Fee Lane 812-332-3695

uublomington.org facebook.com/uubloomington Sundays (currently): 10:15 a.m. via livestream Sundays (when in person): 9:15 a.m. & 11:15 a.m.

We are a dynamic congregation working towards a more just world through social justice. We draw inspiration from world religions and diverse spiritual traditions.

Our vision is "Seeking the Spirit, Building Community, Changing the World."

A LGBTQA+ Welcoming Congregation and a certified Green Sanctuary.

1413 E. 17th St. 812-339-5561 • hoosiercatholic.org

Facebook: Hoosiercatholic Twitter: @hoosiercatholic Weekend Mass Times Saturday Vigil: 4:30 p.m.

Sunday: 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m. (Spanish), 5:30 p.m., 9 p.m. (During Academic Year) Korean Mass 1st & 3rd Saturdays, 6 p.m.

Episcopal (Anglican) Canterbury House Episcopal (Anglican) Campus Ministry at IU 719 E. Seventh St. 812-334-7971 • 812-361-7954

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Sundays: 4 p.m. Holy Eucharist with hymns followed by dinner

Weekday Mass Times Monday - Saturday: 12:15 p.m.

Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 5:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Thursday: 9 p.m.

Bible Studies and Music Services: See our Social Media

Independent Baptist

Director of Campus Ministry Rev. Dennis Woerter, O.P. Associate Pastor Rev. Reginald Wolford, O.P., Associate Pastor

Ricardo Bello-Gomez, President of the Board Corrine Miller, President of the student organization

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Latter-day Saint Student Association (L.D.S.S.A.)

Mennonite Mennonite Fellowship of Bloomington

Lifeway Baptist Church 7821 W. State Road 46 812-876-6072 • lifewaybaptistchurch.org

Facebook: LifewayEllettsville College & Career Sunday Meeting: 9 a.m.

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Sunday Worship: 10 a.m. & 6 p.m.

Wednesday Night Bible Study: 7 p.m.

Lifeway Baptist Church exists to bring glory to God by making disciples, maturing believers and multiplying ministry. Matthew 28:19-20

Barnabas Christian Ministry Small Groups: Cedar Hall 2nd Floor Common Area, 7 - 8 p.m., meetings start Thursday, Sept. 5.

We will meet every other Thursday during the school year.

Steven VonBokern, Senior Pastor Rosh Dhanawade, IU Coordinator 302-561-0108, barnabas@indiana.edu barnabas.so.indiana.edu * Free transportation provided. Please call if you need a ride to church.

Lutheran (LCMS) University Lutheran Church & Student Center 607 E. 7th St. 812-336-5387

indianalutheran.com facebook.com/ULutheranIU Instagram: @uluindiana Sunday: Bible Class 9:15 a.m.

Divine Service 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday & Friday: Morning Prayer 8 a.m.

Wednesday: Midweek Service 7 p.m.

LCMSU Student Fellowship 7:30 p.m.

Thursday: Grad/Career Study & Fellowship 7:30 p.m.

University Lutheran is the home LCMSU at Indiana. Our on-campus location creates a hub for genuine Christ-centered community that receives God's gifts of life, salvation and the forgiveness of sins through Jesus Christ.

"We Witness, We Serve, We Love."

Rev Richard Woelmer, Campus Pastor

Reverend Mary Ann Macklin, Senior Minister Reverend Emily Manvel Leite, Minister of Religious Education and Congregational Life

Catholic St. Paul Catholic Center

David Foley, Institute Director Lyn Anderson, Administrative Assistant David Baer, YSA Branch President

Rev. Patrick Hyde, O.P., Administrator and

Wednesday Bible Study: 7:00 p.m.

We use no book, but the Bible. We have no creed, but His Word within its sacred pages.

God is love and as such we wish to share this joy with you. The comprehensive teaching of God's Word can change you forever.

Currently restricted hours: Wed nights for class, 6:50 p.m. to 8:40 p.m.

(Subject to change based on COVID-19 developments)

Chris Jones, Lead Pastor

Sunday Bible Study: 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship: 10:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

333 S. Highland Ave. 812-334-3432 myinstitute.churchofjesuschrist.org Facebook: Bloomington Institute and YSA Society

The Insistute building is a place to gather on campus for a break from academic rigors. Small library for quiet study, kitchen area for snacks and eating lunch, room to socialize, come play pool, ping pong or foosball. Games and puzzles available as well. A place to feel spiritually recharged and learn more about the Savior, Jesus Christ. Parking available when enrolled and attending a class. Church meets 11:30 on Sundays, at 2411 E. Second Street.

We aspire to offer a safe and welcoming home for all people. We are a blend of people of different ages, genders, sexual orientations, ethnicities and countries; we are students, faculty, staff and friends. We pray, worship and proclaim the Gospel.

We also promote justice, equality, inclusion, peace, love, critical thinking and acting as agents of change in our world.

Redeemer is a gospel-centered community on mission. Our vision is to see the gospel of Jesus Christ transform everything: our lives, our church, our city, and our world. We want to be instruments of gospel change in Bloomington and beyond.

Sunday: 11 a.m.

We are a Bible-based, non-denominational Christian church. We are multi-ethnic and multi-generational, made up of students and professionals, singles, married couples, and families. Our Sunday service is casual and friendly with meaningful worship music, applicable teaching from the Bible, and a fun kids program.

Latter-day Saint Student Association (L.D.S.S.A.)

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St. Paul Catholic Center is a diverse community rooted in the saving compassion of Jesus Christ, energized by His Sacraments, and nourished by the liturgical life of His Church.

333 S. Highland Ave. 812-334-3432

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2420 E. Third St. 812-646-2441 bloomingtonmenno.org • Facebook Join Zoom Fellowship Sunday Evenings at 5 p.m. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7055210574

Currently restricted hours:

Meeting ID: 705 521 0574

Wed nights for class, 6:50 p.m. to 8:40 p.m.

(Subject to change based on COVID-19 developments)

A welcoming, inclusive congregation providing a place of healing and hope as we journey together in the Spirit of Christ. Gathering for worship Sundays 5 p.m. in the Roger Williams room, First United Church. As people of God's peace, we seek to embody the Kingdom of God.

The Insistute building is a place to gather on campus for a break from academic rigors.

Small library for quiet study, kitchen area for snacks and eating lunch, room to socialize, come play pool, ping pong or foosball. Games and puzzles available as well. A place to feel spiritually recharged and learn more about the Savior, Jesus Christ. Parking available when enrolled and attending a class. Church meets 11:30 on Sundays, at 2411 E. Second Street.

David Foley, Institute Director Lyn Anderson, Administrative Assistant David Baer, YSA Branch President

Southern Baptist Bloomington Korean Baptist Church 5019 N. Lakeview Dr. 812-327-7428

mybkbc.org facebook.com/mybkbc/ Sunday: 10:30 a.m.

Friday: 7 p.m.

Saturday: 6 a.m.

Praise the Lord! Do you need a True Friend?

Come and worship the almighty God together with us on Sunday, Fellowship included. We are a Korean community seeking God and serving people. Students and newcomers are especially welcome.

Jason Pak, Pastor

John Sauder mfbjohn@gmail.com

United Methodist Jubilee 219 E. Fourth St. 812-332-6396

jubileebloomington.org Instagram: @jubileebloomington Twitter: @jubileebloom facebook.com/fumcbloomington 10 a.m. Sundays: Classic Worship via Youtube Live 11:15 a.m. Sundays: Interactive Bible Study via Zoom 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays: Virtual + InPerson Meeting at First Methodist Jubilee is a Christ-centered community open to all people. We offer both virtual and in-person community events on Wednesdays for a free meal, discussion, worship and hanging out. Small groups, service projects, and events are all a significant part of our rhythm of doing life together and avoiding isolation.

Email: jubilee@fumcb.org Markus Dickinson, Campus Director

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IU theater’s ‘Adored You’ shows Black experience

By C. Ovelton covelton@iu.edu

IU Theatre will debut “Adored You,” a play written and directed

by Rachel Lynett, artistic director of the Rachel Lynett Theatre Company.

The play is part of the Amplified series, a collection of four plays shown throughout the 2020-21 season highlighting Black stories. Virtual performances over Zoom begin at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 5 and 6. Tickets can be purchased on the IU Theatre website.

Lynett is happy for their play to be included in the Amplified series. They hope that as the season continues, viewers will continue to see different representations of the Black experience.

“Adored You” is based on Lynett’s identity and personal experiences as afro-latine and queer. They wrote the play to process their feelings on a tricky relationship and stressful events of 2020.

“In the play, there are moments of deep sadness and lots of anger because those are the feelings that I was feeling during the pandemic,” Lynett said.

The play occurs during a date between the main characters, Alex and Lila, as well as throughout the course of four years. Lynett wanted to write a story that played with time in an interesting way, they said.

Maya Jones, a first year graduate student and doctoral candidate in acting, plays the main character Alex. Alex is Honduran and Black, and a queer woman.

“I think this play is heart-

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breakingly beautiful and inspiring,” Jones said. “This is a story about two people. It’s a story about love. It’s a story about heartbreak. I feel like those are universal experiences.”

Jones said it is important to recognize the story as an example of a Black experience, but not the Black experience.

“Amplified is an opportunity for Black voices to be uplifted, and Black stories to be heard,” Jones said. “Oftentimes, we fixate on Black pain and Black trauma, but Black joy is a space where I think the Amplified series is doing a great job at making a way to see other experiences that Black people have. It highlights the complexity of Blackness and Black storytelling.”

Freshman Gracie Harrison, who is a musical theater major, plays Lila. Lila’s experience differs greatly from Alex’s as a white woman from a more accepting family, Harrison said. Behind the scenes, Lynett has given Harrison insight into the Black experience that is integrated into Alex’s story according to Harrison.

“I feel very honored because I feel like this is an amazing series that they’re doing to amplify Black voices,” Harrison said.

“I know there’s much material there, but there’s so little of it being performed. I’m very honored to be part of it as a half white, half Hispanic woman.”

Harrison, Jones and Lynett said they would invite audience members to engage with the play over Zoom, with Lynett calling it an intimate and personal show observing intersectionality.

Two art exhibits to open at Cook Center

By Taylor Harmon tayharmo@iu.edu

IU’s Gayle Karch Cook Center for Public Arts & Humanities will open two new art exhibits Friday titled “Ongoing Matter” and “Photographic Occurrences.”

“Ongoing Matter” will feature a collection of graphic political posters and include the work of 15 different artists. According to a press release from the Cook Center, the exhibit will encourage political engagement, centering on the 2019 Mueller report. The show seeks to educate the public on the major threats to democracy cited in the report while also making the report accessible.

“Photographic Occurrences” will feature the work of more than 20 artists and will focus on the legacy of Henry Holmes Smith, who taught photography at IU from 1947-1977. Smith is well known for his contribu-

tions to photography in higher education and broke new ground in the creation of cameraless photographic images, some of which are fea-

tured in the exhibit.

According to the Cook Center’s press release, the exhibits will be open to in-person visits in Maxwell Hall’s Cook

By Ellie Albin ealbin@iu.edu | @elliealbin1

The LGBTQ+ Culture Center kicked off its spring semester events Jan. 27 with the first session of a workshop series titled “INTERSECTIONS: A Focus on Queer Student Leadership.”

The workshop is the first of seven sessions in

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The next session Feb. 10 will cover gender expression and identity and take place over Zoom.

The INTERSECTIONS series will continue approximately every two weeks throughout the semester, with conver-

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Future discussions include topics titled Socioeconomic Status, Sexual Expression & Identity, Race & Ethnicity and more.

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