April 14, 2022

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Thursday, April 14, 2022

Indiana Daily Student | idsnews.com

OPINION: Your body is an accessory, p. 5

Graduate workers to strike, 97.8% voted yes

Visit our website for additional coverage throughout the strike.

By Nic Napier

npnapier@iu.edu | @nicnapier1

and Hali Tauxe

htauxest@iu.edu | @hali_tauxe

The Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition-United Electrical Workers overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike, with 97.8% of those voting saying yes. Unless IGWC-UE demands are met, picket lines will begin Wednesday. The organization is seeking union recognition from the university to represent graduate workers in a collective bargaining agreement with the administration. They are frustrated that administrative salaries have increased while graduate worker stipends have remained mostly stagnant, among other issues, according to an IGWC-UE press reSEE STRIKE, PAGE 4

PHOTOS BY ETHAN LEVY | IDS

Top: Attendees of the vote for a graduate student union cross the intersection of East Sixth Street and North Walnut Street on April 10, 2022. The Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition hosted an in-person vote with speakers and opportunity to vote for a strike. Middle Left: Signs are laid in front the auditorium stage at an in-person vote for the graduate students to go on strike on April 10, 2022, at the Monroe County Public Library. If voted for, the graduate students will go on strike on Wednesday. Middle Right: Attendees of the vote for a graduate student union walk towards Switchyard Brewing Company on April 10, 2022. The vote will decide if the graduate students will go on strike on Wednesday. Bottom: Valentina Luketa raises her arms to applauses from those in attendance to vote for a graduate student strike on April 10, 2022, at the Monroe County Public Library Auditorium. The voting session held an in-person vote at the library Sunday along with a virtual voting period ending on Monday.

Ali Patberg drafted 34th overall in WNBA Draft by the Indiana Fever

Board of Trustees informed of Climate Committee

By Matt Sebree

masebr@iu.edu | @mattsebree

By Lauren McLaughlin

lrmclaug@iu.edu | @l_mclaughlin8

Guard Ali Patberg was drafted by the Indiana Fever as the tenth pick in the third round (34th overall) of the 2022 WNBA Draft. Patberg played four seasons for Indiana women’s basketball, starting all 123 games she played in for the Hoosiers. Patberg is the first Indiana women’s basketball player drafted to the WNBA since 2011 and the fourth in program history. Patberg, a native of Columbus, Indiana, spent her first two college seasons at Notre Dame University before transferring to Indiana and sitting out one season due to the NCAA’s transfer rules at the time. Across her four seasons playing for the Hoosiers, Patberg scored 1,752 points and recorded 528 assists, good for ninth-most and third-most in program history, respectively. Her skills helped lead Indiana to back-to-back NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen BEN FITZSIMONS | IDS appearances in 2021 and Graduate guard Ali Patberg holds her follow-through after making a 3-pointer Nov. 16, 2021. Patberg was drafted in the third 2022. round of the WNBA Draft by the Indiana Fever on Monday night.

The IU Board of Trustees were informed and made decisions about a range of topics in a meeting Friday and Saturday, including climate change, Title IX and sexual misconduct reports and renovations of Wright Quadrangle. IU President Pamela Whitten informed the trustees of a new Climate Action Planning Committee, made up of faculty, students and staff. IU students have been calling for IU to have a climate action plan, and the Climate Action Planning Committee will recommend opportunities for IU to decrease greenhouse gas emissions across all its campuses. The trustees also viewed a presentation on 2020-21 sexual misconduct reports and faculty and staff discrimination and harassment reports. There were 36 faculty and staff discrimination and harassment reports at IU-Bloomington, one of which was not in IU’s jurisdiction. There were 190 student sexual misconduct reports, 28 of which were not in IU’s jurisdiction. As part of a plan to renovate all major residence facilities at IU-Bloomington, the Finance, Audit and Strategic Planning Committee, one of the trustee committees, viewed a reimbursement resolution outlining costs for renovating SEE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, PAGE 4


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