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IU 2023 Spring Commencement What you'll need to know

IU President Whitten to give Spring Commencement Address

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By Isabella Vesperini isvesp@iu.edu

After years of hard work — hours studying in the library, stressing about finals and writing papers — it is time to come together to reflect on and recognize students’ experiences and accomplishments. The IU 2023 Spring Graduate Commencement Ceremony is at 4 p.m. on Friday, May 5, at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall and the Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 6, at the Memorial Stadium.

Undergraduate Ceremony

The ceremony will consist of the procession, a commencement speaker, a student address, a graduate induction into the IU Alumni Association and the distribution of degrees. President

Pamela Whitten and Provost

Rahul Shrivastav will speak as well. The ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. and end around 11:30 a.m.

Graduates should meet at 7:30 a.m. at the John Mellencamp Pavilion to start lining up. They are recommended to arrive early because traffic will be heavy. Starting at 8 a.m., guests can begin to enter the stadium and find their seats; seating is on a firstcome, first-serve basis, and saving seats is not permitted. Graduate seating will be lo-

cated on the main field and is organized by school. Students will not be individually recognized by name due to the large number of graduates.

Graduates are not allowed to bring umbrellas, bags or any personal belongings. In case of rain, ponchos will be provided. Graduates are recommended to wear business or business-casual attire. Students are expected to stay during the entire ceremony. Each student will receive a diploma cover at the ceremony, and their diploma will be mailed to their home addresses.

Graduate Ceremony

The Graduate Commencement Ceremony will be held at 4.p.m. on Friday at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. Graduates must be at Wilkinson Hall by 2 p.m.

Guests may begin entering Assembly Hall at 2 p.m. Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis, and seats for guests will be located on the east and west ends of the building. The ceremony will end around 6 p.m. Candidates and recipients of doctoral degrees will be recognized individually. Master's degrees participants will not be recognized individually.

All graduates must return their gowns after the ceremony ends, but they may keep their caps, tassels and cords.

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(Top) A student holds his cap in the air at the end of the undergraduate graduation ceremony May 7, 2022, in Memorial Stadium.

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Indiana suffers first home sweep since 2011

By Nick Rodecap nrodecap@iu.edu | @nickrodecap

Indiana baseball was swept by Maryland last weekend, falling to 31-14 overall and 9-6 in Big Ten play. The Hoosiers are now in third place in the conference. The Terrapins improved to 30-15 this season and 11-4 in conference play, taking sole possession of the top spot in the Big Ten. Prior to the weekend,

Indiana had not been swept in a three or four game series in the history of Bart Kaufman Field. The last time the Hoosiers were swept at home was against Minnesota on April 24, 2011.

On Friday, Maryland scored three runs off junior right hander Seti Manase in the opening frame thanks to back-to-back homers from junior infielder Matt Shaw and senior infielder Nick Lorusso, with the

third run scoring on a sacrifice fly from sophomore infielder Eddie Hacopian. That was all the run support Maryland senior starter Nick Dean needed on the mound in the lopsided affair that ended in a 13-2 Terrapin victory.

A theme throughout the weekend was that whenever Indiana’s offense showed signs of life, Maryland responded in kind. After sophomore outfielder Carter Mathison hit a solo hom-

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er to bring the Hoosiers to within two runs heading into the fifth inning, the Terrapins hung seven on freshman Brayden Risedorph, who was tasked with pitching in relief of Manase after his short outing. Maryland sent 11 men to the plate in the frame, and seven came around to score. Risedorph surrendered five hits in the inning, and despite forcing weak contact, the only out he recorded was a sacrifice

fly. Whatever Maryland put into play seemed to find a hole before it found an Indiana defender. By the time the dust settled, the Terrapins had outscored Indiana 10-1 in the first five innings.

Game two began similarly to its predecessor, with the Terrapins scoring in the first inning versus sophomore right-handed pitcher Luke Sinnard, Indiana’s Saturday starter.

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By Isabella Vesperini isvesp@iu.edu

IU’s first female president, Pamela Whitten, will give the commencement address for the undergraduate and graduate commencement ceremonies. This will be the first time President Whitten will be a commencement speaker.

The last time an IU president gave a commencement address was in 2006, from former President Adam W. Herbert.

Past speeches have been delivered by Bob Chapek, IU alumnus and CEO of the Walt Disney Company, in 2022 and Samantha Power, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. in 2019. IU alumnus and President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins spoke at the 2014 commencement.

The graduate commencement ceremony will be held at 4 p.m. on Friday, May 5, at Simon Skojdt Assembly Hall, and the undergraduate commencement ceremony will be at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 6, at Memorial Stadium.

Democratic nominee for Bloomington mayor selected

By Marissa Meador marnmead@iu.edu | @Marissa_Meador

Kerry Thomson emerged victorious in the three-way Democratic primary race for Bloomington mayor May 2. Thomson is currently unopposed and will take office in January if no challenger files to run against her by this summer.

Thomson won with 43% of the vote, beating out Don Griffin with 24% and Susan Sandberg with 33%.

Thomson garnered more donations than her competitors and lauded her experience as CEO of Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County as an example of how she would approach the affordable housing crisis. Thomson is currently the executive director of the IU Center for Rural Engagement.

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A former IU student waves to the audience during the 2018 undergraduate commencement ceremony May 5, 2018, in Memorial Stadium.

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IU President Pamela Whitten addresses the graduating students May 6, 2022, in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. Whitten will give the commencement address for the spring 2023 undergraduate and graduate commencement ceremonies.

Bill could cut school union topics

By Christy Avery averycm@iu.edu | @christym_avery

A bill that would eliminate the requirement for school administrators to discuss certain topics like safety and curricular materials with teacher union representatives is advancing through the Indiana Statehouse.

Senate Bill 486, authored by Sen. Linda Rogers, RGranger, passed the Indiana Senate on April 25 on a 27-23 vote. In addition to eliminating the discussion requirement, the bill would also eliminate some training requirements for teachers. The bill now awaits Gov. Eric Holcomb’s signature to decide if it will become law.

Current law, Indiana Code 20-29-6-7, states administrators “shall” discuss 16 items such as the selection of teaching materials and class size with teacher unions. Senate Bill 486 would turn that “shall” into “may.”

Supporters of the bill, such as lawmakers, say it will eliminate the burden of redundant discussion which would allow schools to find processes that work for them individually.

Those who oppose the measure argue discussion is rarely unnecessary, and eliminating the mandate could silence teacher voices.

Opposition to the bill

Keith Clock, senior public affairs advisor for the Indiana State Teachers Association, said in an email Senate Bill 486 would make teachers feel disrespected, worsening Indiana's already high teacher shortage caused by low pay and hostility toward teachers.

"The Republican supermajority has yet to make a case how taking away this right will help kids and improve Indiana’s teacher shortage crisis," the ISTA said in the email.

Hundreds of Indiana teachers protested outside the Statehouse on April 13 in opposition to Senate Bill 486 and other controversial education bills. More than 400 Monroe County Community School Corporation staff members attended, Paul Farmer, president of the Monroe County Education Association, said.

“You don’t say to people, ‘Hey, let’s take your voice away,’ but ‘Oh, by the way, we want you to come and teach and work for us,'" he said.

This bill was a slap in the face to educators, Allison Haley, a teacher at Noblesville High School and president of the Noblesville Teachers Forum, said.

Haley said her school district holds discussions monthly. Teachers and administrators discuss issues ranging from teacher retention and textbook purchases to safety following the 2018 Noblesville school shooting.

Silencing teacher voices also silences student voices, she said, because teachers are the only people who are in the classroom with them all day and know what they need to succeed.

Giving all teachers a voice

Senate Bill 486 is an attempt to bust unions, Farmer said.

Current law only mandates school districts must discuss issues with "exclusive representation," or teacher unions and associations. Supporters of Senate Bill 486 say it would allow non-union teachers to have a greater voice; however, Haley, the president of the Noblesville Teacher Forum, said she takes the concerns of all teachers to heart no matter their union status.

"People assume that I'm just shutting the door in the face of teachers who aren't members, and that's just not true,” she said.

Despite the intent of the bill, Farmer said he thinks the majority of school superintendents and principals, especially at larger school corporations, will continue to have discussions with teacher

representatives and keep their doors open to union and non-union teachers. He said MCCSC officials have already assured teachers of this.

"(All teachers) have a faculty meeting," he said. "None of our buildings have 100% membership. They have the ability to voice their opinions in their conversations. No one is ever shut out."

However, like Haley, he said he knows the current administration could leave. He hopes if Senate Bill 486 is put into law, MCCSC will continue to have discussions with teacher unions.

"If they decide not to do discussion, then I will make every single school board meeting the longest school board meeting they will ever see," Farmer said. “We will bring every single item to corporate school board meetings."

Supporters of the bill

Robert Taylor, executive director of the Indiana Association of Public School Superintendents, said the bill would allow each school district to make decisions about when to have conversations and discussion. He said the IAPSS recommends districts create their own policy about when to hold meetings.

"I think sometimes when you have mandated discussion, and both parties feel compelled — not out of a desire to increase communication or to increase collaboration, but feel compelled out of a mandated legislative directive — that can be nonproductive” Taylor said.

Kelley School creates Institute for Sustainability

By Madelyn Hanes mrhanes@iu.edu

The Kelley School of Business launched an Institute for Environmental and Social Sustainability on April 24. Through the institute, current and future business leaders can learn more about the environment and sustainability to create a global impact, Rebecca Slotegraff, the associate dean for research at the Kelley School of Business said. The institute is open and offers courses but does not have a set location yet.

The IAPSS and the lawmakers only seek to better communication, he said.

“If a superintendent decides not to communicate, and I tell this to our members, they will not be superintendent very long,” Taylor said.

Changes to annual training requirements

Senate Bill 486 largely eliminates the requirement for most teachers to be trained in six areas: criminal gang awareness, identifying and reporting human trafficking, use of bleeding control kits, alternatives to physical restraint and seclusion, unhoused students, and seizure signs and symptoms.

The bill does keep the requirements for seclusion and restraint training, but only for special education teachers and school resource officers. However, individual schools could still mandate training for teachers if they choose.

Taylor said annual training mandated by the state strips local schools of the ability to decide for themselves when these trainings are necessary and for whom.

“Teachers are burdened with 12, 14, 16 hours of training every year,” Taylor said. “When you're a veteran teacher, maybe you only need a refresher every so often.”

Many who opposed most of the bill praised the training portion. Haley said she appreciated the attempt to deregulate the hours of training teachers do each year. However, eliminating them entirely is not is the answer — rather, she said, compensating teachers for doing them.

IU Food Institute to close after cut in funding

By Isabella Vesperini isvesp@iu.edu

The IU Food Institute will close next month after its funding was suspended by the College of Arts and Sciences.

James Farmer, interim director of the food institute, said the institute was important to have on campus because it provided undergraduates the opportunity to do research through the Critical Food Studies Lab and learn about topics like food justice and distribution systems.

“The Food Institute provided an opportunity to eat, drink, think and learn about complex issues and ways to tackle wicked, food-related problems,” Farmer said. “It brought folks from a variety of disciplines together to learn, explore and research important topics through multiple lenses.”

Community members are concerned about the institute closing. People will no

longer be able to volunteer, intern or collaborate with other groups in the state to do research, Farmer said.

“I feel quite flattened by the institute’s closure,” Farmer said. “I am sad that the institute has come to an end as it was a major resource for people on campus, in the community and a critical draw for student enrollment and faculty recruitment.”

There is still hope for the future because people are still interested in learning about food systems and agrarian studies, Farmer said. The institute is working with students, faculty and staff at IU to expand the new Food Systems Program at the Ostrom Workshop, IU Campus Farm and new Food Systems and Agrarian Studies Consortium.

The College of Arts and Sciences has had to redistribute its resources to prioritize graduate education and achieve their goals, Steven Barnes, executive direc-

tor of communications and marketing in the College of Arts and Sciences, said in an email statement. The College is grateful for the work and contributions the Food Institute has made toward providing research opportunities and promoting food studies.

“It is better situated within larger campus initiatives related to sustainability,” Barnes said. “We are working on ways to incorporate the undergraduate-facing research activities — such as the Critical Food Studies lab — into existing College programs, such as the Arts + Sciences Undergraduate Research Experience (ASURE.)”

Jodee Smith, assistant director of the Food Institute, said in an email statement she hopes IU can find ways to support food systems education because of how relevant it is to issues such as climate change. The Food Institute was important to the

The institute hopes to develop new environmental and sustainability courses, stronger connections to cooperate partners, case studies, certificate opportunities and internships for students at undergrad and master’s levels, Rebecca Slotegraff said.

“The mission is to create cutting edge research education and outreach to equip current and future business leaders with the knowledge and skills in environmental and social sustainability,” Slotegraaf said.

Kelley faculty has been working to establish this institute over the past academic year, Slotegraff said.

“By having this institute, it allows us to build stronger collaboratives with some of the things we have already started and build stronger,” Slotegraaf said.

According to News at IU, Kelley has 45 professors involved in research on environmental and social sustainability. Slotegraaf said the institute will improve the expertise of the Kelley faculty.

In the 2022-2023 school year, the Kelley School of Business held a meeting where it decided sustainability shall

be the main goal for the institute and be the name of the institute Owen Wu, director of research and outreach, at the institute said.

“The overarching background of the institute is the U.N. sustainability goals,” Wu said.

The institute will focus on a variety of the United Nations’ sustainability goals such as wellbeing, poverty, hunger, education and clean water, Wu said. Faculty and students at the institute will play a huge role in research and covering topics on sustainability that will impact humans.

“This institute will keep generating youth, innovative new projects and new education,” Wu said. “Exciting things will be coming over the summer and the next fall semester.”

From an education perspective, Kelly Eskew, director for education and outreach at the institute, hopes the Kelley School of Business and IU become the go-to school for young people interested in impacting the private sector through sustainability and climate leadership.

“I love teaching about sustainability and climate. I am so excited that the business school has elevated this work to an institute that will allow us to do more and go out and face the biggest challenges we face today," Eskew said.

Eskew said she is working on education initiatives, new courses, bringing in speakers, conferences and workshops and many more opportunities for students to be educated in climate and sustainability through the institute.

More information on the institute can be found on the Kelley School of Business website.

Holcomb expected to sign ban on funds to Kinsey Institute

By Carter DeJong cadejong@iu.edu | @ dejong_carter

Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb is expected to sign the Indiana state budget after the Republican-led legislature passed it last week. The budget effectively bans the use of state funds for the Kinsey Institute, an IU-based organization that researches sex, gender and reproduction.

“The more extreme parts of the Republican Party are trying to turn back the clock to a time when gays were in the closet and trans people were invisible,” Matt Pierce R- District 61, who represents IU’s campus, said. “The fact that the Kinsey Institute is doing research to bring light and knowledge to human sexuality, that runs against their goal of marginalizing people who aren’t in the mainstream.”

community because it garnered engagement and participation in their initiatives.

“We are deeply saddened by the closure,” Smith said. “Few places on campus provide this sort of rich interaction and learning around such a critical topic of our times.”

IUFI intends to keep its website running through volunteers and provide updates on work concerning food and agrarian systems.

State charges dropped against stabbing suspect

By Carter DeJong cadejong@iu.edu | @dejong_carter

The suspect in the racially motivated stabbing of an 18- year-old IU student is no longer facing state charges of attempted murder, aggravated battery and battery by means of a deadly weapon, according to court documents.

The suspect, Bloomington resident Billie Davis, is still facing a federal hate crime charge after she was indicted by a grand jury in April. That charge carries a

IU President Pamela Whitten declared her continued support for the Institute in a letter to faculty and staff on April 28.

Whitten disagreed with the decision to ban funding but said the university will conduct a legal review to ensure that IU is consistent with current state laws, according to the letter. The Kinsey Institute and its faculty still has the support of IU’s administration, and the university will continue to support the Institute financially through grants and

maximum sentence of life in prison.

Davis has pleaded not guilty in the federal case, according to documents from the U.S. District Court in Evansville. Her trial is set for June 26 in Indianapolis.

Davis allegedly stabbed an Asian IU student multiple times on the top of her head using a pocketknife on Bloomington Transit bus 1777 on Jan. 11, according to a probable cause affidavit. Davis allegedly admitted to targeting the student because of her Asian heritage.

philanthropy, where most of its funding already comes from.

Criticism of the Kinsey Institute stems from the work of its founder who died more than 60 years ago, Alfred Kinsey, a biologist whose research focused on human sexuality.

Lorissa Sweet, R- District 50 — who authored the budget amendment banning funds for the Institute in February — called Kinsey a child predator while introducing the amendment.

In February, Sweet said Kinsey collected sexual data from children, but the Kinsey Institute has repeatedly disputed this since at least the 1990s.

The data in question was collected through interviews with adults who recalled their sexual memories during childhood, as well as teachers and parents who had observed sexual behavior in children, according to a statement from the Kinsey Institute. There is no evidence that Kinsey witnessed, encouraged or allowed any sexual activity involving children.

Today the Kinsey Institute’s research focuses on a wide range of topics involving human sexuality and gender studies including condom use, gender equity in the workplace and the sexual wellbeing of those with disabilities.

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Special education teacher Kraig Bushey works with students on focusing skills Oct. 13, 2016, to prepare them for traditional classrooms at Highland Park Elementary School. Senate Bill 486, authored by Sen. Linda Rogers, R-Granger, seeks to repeal a school administrators’ requirement to discuss topics such as safety issues and curricular materials.

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The IU Food Institute is seen May 1, 2023, at 405 N. Park Ave. The IU Food Institute will close next month after their funding was suspended by its College of Arts and Sciences.

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Graduation through the years

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At the Ivy, a downtown event venue where Thomson’s watch party occurred, former mayors Mark Kruzan, John Fernandez and Tomi Allison introduced Thomson.

As she approached the podium, the crowd started chanting: “Kerry! Kerry!”

Dealing with issues with the microphone, Thomson asked “Can I turn this off?”

“You can do whatever you want, you’re the mayor!” someone shouted.

Thomson expressed gratitude for her large crowd of supporters and said her campaign had knocked on almost 13,000 doors.

Thomson said everyone’s voice was important in the city, regardless of what they believed in or how much money they had. She said she hoped Bloomington could set an example for the rest of the country.

“This is a new leaf for Bloomington,” she said.

During her speech, Thomson also thanked Griffin and Sandberg for running a great race, saying they made her a better candidate.

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Shaw opened the scoring with a double that scored junior catcher Luke Shliger in the first, and junior infielder Kevin Keister tacked on Maryland’s second run an inning later. Indiana pulled back to within one run in the bottom of the second after sophomore third baseman Josh Pyne singled to score sophomore first baseman Brock Tibbitts, but that was as close as the home nine got.

In his six innings of work on Saturday, Sinnard gave up a season-high six runs and ten hits, two of which were home runs blasted by Shliger and Shaw. He exited the game with Indiana trailing 6-1, and Maryland exploded with nine runs in the eighth inning, putting the game well out of reach.

Mathison hit his second solo homer in as many games in the bottom of the ninth, but Indiana’s rally fell just short as they dropped the second game 16-2.

“(The Terrapins) are the defending (Big Ten) champs for a reason,” Mer-

cer said after Saturday’s game. “They’ve played and thrown really well.”

Freshman southpaw

Kyle McCoy pitched a gem for Maryland Saturday, throwing seven innings of one-run ball, allowing five hits and walking two batters but striking out just one. Of the 21 outs he recorded, 16 were groundouts. Indiana stranded eight baserunners in Saturday’s loss, including a contentious fifth inning groundout from freshman outfielder Devin Taylor that saw the Hoosiers go scoreless with the bases loaded.

The series finale began at noon Sunday and did not finish until over 4.5 hours later because of middleinning lightning delays that totaled one hour and 49 minutes. Maryland’s offense was not stymied by the inclement conditions, scoring in every inning except the first and securing the sweep by a final score of 14-8. Three consecutive oneout knocks and a perfectly executed sacrifice bunt by sophomore infielder Jacob Orr gave Maryland a 2-0 lead in the second inning,

which became a 4-0 advantage an inning later.

Indiana responded with a 479-foot, three-run blast from Taylor in the bottom half of the third, but Maryland’s offense continued its torrid pace in the fourth inning.

After Keister doubled to lead off the inning, sophomore lefty Ryan Kraft’s day ended when he hit Shliger on the first pitch of the atbat. Redshirt senior Craig Yoho took Kraft’s place, and after striking out Shaw on three pitches, he surrendered an RBI single to Lorusso that extended the Terrapins’ lead to two runs.

Indiana took the lead for the first and last time of the weekend in the bottom of the fifth thanks to a sacrifice fly from redshirt junior Bobby Whalen, Taylor’s second homer of the day and an RBI double from Mathison.

Shaw seared another Maryland home run to dead center, tying the game at seven. Connor Foley replaced Yoho and got out of the inning without any further damage, but the first of two lightning delays meant the freshman flamethrower’s day was either going to

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At the ninth spot in the lineup, Keister laid down a sacrifice bunt to advance both baserunners into scoring position, and the second lightning delay began immediately thereafter.

As the skies cleared, Shliger ripped Ey’s 2-1 pitch up the middle, scoring both baserunners and giving the Terps the lead for good. They scored seven runs after the delay. Sophomore outfielder Elijah Lambros plated the final two on his second homer of the day, this one ricocheting off the left field scoreboard in the ninth. Indiana lost by six.

Maryland hit safely 50 times in the series, headlined by an 8-14 weekend from Shaw that included three of the team’s nine

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Indiana, by contrast, struck out 11 times on Friday and did not record more than seven hits in a game until the series finale. They batted just .238 against the Terrapins and stranded 22 baserunners in total. The Hoosiers were outscored 29-4 in the first two games of the series and 43-12 on the weekend.

“We got beat,” Mercer said Sunday. “Their coaches were better than ours. Their head coach was better than me. They were just better for three days.”

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JARED’S JOURNAL

5 books every leftist should read this summer (and a few others)

Jared Quigg (he/him)

is a junior studying journalism and political science.

I started this semester with a column recommending six books I think every leftist should read, especially for those who are new to the left. It’s very important for every leftist to fully grasp the history and ideas of our movements, so I’m finishing this semester the way I started: with five more books every leftist should read, plus a few others.

So, take some time off from your classes, enjoy the summer, but be sure to make some time to do some reading. Maybe at the beach –some of these books will be sure to raise eyebrows there.

“Revolutionary Suicide” by Huey P. Newton

This is Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton’s 1973 autobiography, and it’s a blend of the personal and political. I wrote a column in January about the Panthers, largely informed by my reading of Newton’s autobiography. Newton and Bobby Seale were just college students when they founded the Party, and their first recruit was a high school student.

The Panthers largely consisted of young people just like us. They saw the problems in their community, the suffering Black Americans had endured from the hands of the capitalists and the government, and they organized. Every leftist should know their story, beautifully told here by their co-founder.

It’s important for leftists to know the stories of our great predecessors. In addition to “Revolutionary Suicide,” see also former Black Panther Assata Shakur’s book, “Assata: An Autobiography,” and “Che Guevara: A

Revolutionary Life,” Jon Lee Anderson’s biography of the great revolutionary.

“Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?” by Mark Fisher

I’ve been very open about my political views in the pages of the IDS, which has in turn led to many discussions with fellow students about capitalism. Many of them admit the system isn’t great. It produces mass amounts of inequality and is constantly falling into crises. Regardless, an alternative seems unimaginable to many of them. Sure, the system is bad, but it’s the best we can do. Right?

This is the essence of “Capitalist Realism,” a concept which Fisher sums up nicely in his book like this: “It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” It is in many

ways a book about despair; despair that a better future is just impossible. “Capitalist Realism” is one of the best books about modern life – it both explains our collective inertia and seeks to overcome it.

“How to Blow Up a Pipeline” by Andreas Malm

Now a major motion picture!

I wrote a column in March discussing some of the ideas in this book. Malm essentially argues that property damage should be considered a valid tactic in the fight against climate change. It’s a controversial claim, but it is compelling. Climate change threatens our future, and our leaders are not taking it seriously. As I argued in the March column, people like Joe Biden ostensibly believe in climate change, but their actions – see the Willow

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stand them?

Project – suggest that they don’t.

But remember, all I’m recommending is that you read the book! Read it and reconsider if we’re doing enough to combat climate change.

“October: The Story of the Russian Revolution” by China Mieville

Reading books about history is important for leftists, because many reactionaries are going to accuse us of not knowing history. So, we must know it better than them. The Russian Revolution of 1917 produced the world’s first socialist state, and it’s imperative we learn from both the triumphs and failures of the past. Emulate what worked, avoid what didn’t.

Mieville’s book is riveting – you won’t know you’re reading history. It’s an inspiring story of workers who

shook the world, changing it forever. For a leftist, the story of the Russian Revolution will be quite inspiring. For others, “October” will just be an enjoyable read.

For more historical works, see Ellen Meiksins Wood’s “The Origin of Capitalism,” and Marx’s contemporary history of the Paris Commune, “The Civil War in France.”

“On Practice and Contradiction” by Mao Tse-Tung

“Why should we read Mao,” the liberals in my walls ask. Wasn’t he awful? He did make some serious mistakes that should never be repeated, true. But the founder of the People’s Republic of China is still admired by millions of people, including young people in China today. Condemn him if you want – but shouldn’t we try to understand him, if only to under-

The work I recommend here is the 2017 collection of Mao’s essays published by Verso. Many of them are quite inspiring, written before Mao and the communists had come to power. I often think about Mao’s assertion that the mighty U.S. was just a paper tiger – something that seems scary but is as flimsy as a piece of paper.

Those of us on the left often feel like our opponents are too strong, impossible to overcome. That we are small, and they are big: surrender, then, to capitalist realism. But to read Mao’s words is to understand why millions still adore him, despite his errors. “Bigness is nothing to be afraid of,” Mao wrote. “The big will be overthrown by the small. The small will become big.”

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The weird, wonderful world of ASMR

Elizabeth Valadez (she/her) is a sophomore studying English and political science with a minor in Spanish.

As a child, I hated the word “fat.” It made me feel ugly and gross. It made me feel like a failure – the word acted as a catch-all for the descriptors meant to shame me.

If I had a dollar for every time I heard “You’re not fat. You’re beautiful,” in response to a statement I made about my fatness, I think I’d be rich. At least, a couple of $100 richer than I currently am.

I’ve been taught – we've been taught – that fat and beautiful are mutually exclusive.

But the reality is that fat is just another descriptor that has a horrible, societally held connotation. Fat does not have to signify bad or disgusting or lazy or immoral. Fat can be just fat.

Unfortunately, even Google holds the same, outlandish connotation of the word. Its example of the usage of fat as an adjective is “the driver was a fat, wheezing man,” which equates fatness to a lack of health. Fatness does not always indicate cardiovascular disease or high blood pressure. It just indicates a state of being that is not skinny, that is not the socially acceptable form. For my entire life, my

doctors have tested me for diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Not because I actually exhibited symptoms of such conditions – just because of the arbitrary number of my body mass index.

A high BMI is consistently linked to fatness and consequently linked to fatphobia.

A 2020 study shows this: the higher a girl’s BMI, the less likely she is to get into a relationship. Why are fat people always put on the back burner?

A recent TikTok trend further illustrates this point. Different content creators have taken to college campuses and to the general public to ask men if they would date a plus-size woman. In one of the most appalling responses I’ve heard so far, a man says, “If I’m taking care of myself, I expect her to be taking care of herself.”

But, as I will beat over your head again, fatness does not inherently indicate laziness or illness. I, as a fat person, take care of myself as much as I can. I like to go on walks. I like to drink water. I take my vitamins every morning.

Though a fat person should not have to be productive or healthy to be worthy of mutual respect, it is beyond mind-boggling that people still cannot humanize them even when they are “taking care” of themselves.

In some cultures, being called fat can be humanizing and can be a term of endearment. Travel to a Spanishspeaking country and they will likely call a fat woman “gordita.” Accepting the term for what it is is possible – we just have to be willing to let go of our harmful misconceptions.

It is so incredibly normalized in our culture to hear “fat” and to want to run from it. But I promise it does not have to be this way. Fat is just fat. I have more fat than others, therefore, I characterize myself as fat.

When skinny people have less fat, they characterize themselves as skinny. And that is OK. But for some reason, “fat” should never be said out loud.

I am so tired of hearing girls – even my closest of friends – moan and groan when they “feel fat” on certain days. How a person feels fat, I am not entirely sure. Rather, I think they mean they might feel unattractive or unworthy.

Fat people are not inherently unattractive or unworthy because of this singular adjective used to describe them. Being fat is not some moral failure. That word does not have to imply anything other than what it means at its core – to have an excess of body fat.

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Danny William (they/them) is a freshman studying media.

A dorm is a hard place to sleep in. There are people down the hallway having a loud party. There’s the uncomfortable mattress that barely fits your body. There’s probably someone also trying to sleep about five feet away from you, too. And they probably snore.

There have been a few nights in college when I can’t get to sleep no matter what I do. There’s one thing, however, that relaxes my mind and gets me ready for a long winter’s nap: ASMR videos.

ASMR, which stands for autonomous sensory meridian response, is not a scientific term. It works for some people, and it doesn’t work for others. Which is okay – a lot of these videos are really, really weird. But once you look past the weirdness, there are so many wonderful and even artistic elements of the ASMR world.

You’ve probably seen an ASMR video in the wild before. They usually feature a person with a microphone whispering into your ear and making a noise with some prop.

You’ve probably even experienced the effect of ASMR, otherwise known as “tingles” to many fans. It’s often described as a warm feeling that spreads from the top of the spine and base of the skull to other parts of the body. It’s that pleasant sensation you get when someone draws on your hand or

plays with your hair.

The experience can be really relaxing. Take it from me, someone who has nearly fallen asleep to ASMR videos in the past. If you’re someone who suffers from the ever-present anxiety that comes with college life – meaning pretty much every student – ASMR can be a lovely way to decompress.

The key to truly enjoying ASMR is finding creators you enjoy. Just looking into the wild can have you running across content that doesn’t necessarily soothe you. I usually only watch videos from a handful of creators, though I sometimes branch out to others.

My all-time favorite ASMR creator is Mia ASMR. Her videos range from fairly normal – like her recent video where she says her followers’ names – to genuinely bizarre, like her video where the girl sitting behind you in class basically preens you and eats the bugs out of your hair.

Fair warning: Mia ASMR specializes in mouth sounds, which are, understandably, the sounds your mouth makes, like chewing and lip smacking. While these usually drive me insane in everyday life, somehow she makes them super relaxing. I cannot explain the psychology behind that.

What I admire most about her videos are the characters she plays. In a video where she paints your portrait while incredibly tired, she creates a whole personality. This could have

just been a simple video with some nice brush noises, but instead she plays a character that is way too confident in their painting ability, to the point that they compare themselves to Picasso.

My favorite part of ASMR is the creativity of so many of these content creators. It’s pretty simple to make a simple ASMR video – just plop yourself in front of a microphone and camera and make noises. But so many creators bring a new level of creativity that makes the whole experience so fun.

Slight Sounds ASMR made a video where she beats you up – softly, of course. Jocie B ASMR acts as your sleep paralysis demon, who just wants you to fall asleep. And, of course, there’s Angelica, who creates ASMR videos so bizarre they border on parody. A cursory glance through her channel showcases this –from Henry VIII’s wives confiding in you to the cast of South Park turning you into a walrus (shoutout Kevin Smith). ASMR isn’t a monolith. There is so much creativity and love that goes into these videos. Every creator has a different voice and style. Especially now, our world needs a relaxing, imaginative way to express ourselves. Though, if you find the right creator, you might not be able to appreciate their creativity. You might fall asleep too quickly.

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DANNY’S DIATRIBES

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Thousands of Native American remains.

A legacy of offensive research.

In 2001, the IU anthropology department hired its first full-time Native American professor, Wesley Thomas. His office was in the Student Building, where, unknown to him at the time, the remains of thousands of Indigenous people were stored in the basement.

Starting in the early 20th century, anthropologists associated with IU excavated and acquired more than 5,800 human remains, removed from their resting place in the name of science. Mostly white faculty and students used them for research that the majority of Native Americans consider offensive and inhumane, including racial classification studies.

When he realized the human remains were in the Student Building a few years later, Wesley said he asked the anthropology department chair to move his office to a different building.

“I was extremely disturbed by it. Something that people outside of a Native community do not understand is that we’re aware of our ancestors and their presence,” Wesley said. “I couldn’t concentrate or focus, and I had to move out.”

Wesley was quickly given a new office, but he said he still didn’t feel comfortable teaching at IU. According to interviews with Wesley and other faculty, the majority of the anthropology department through the early 2000s adhered to “old school” teachings which cast

human remains at IU were repatriated until 24 years after the law passed, eight years after Wesley left the university.

Slow responses to NAG PRA were not unusual, espe cially right after its passage, when there was little guid ance on best practices for both institutions and Tribal nations. Fifteen years after the legislation passed, only 40.5% of institutions subject to NAGPRA had reported completing at least one re patriation, according to public data.

But in interviews with the Indiana Daily Student, current and former faculty alleged that IU avoided good-faith compliance with NAGPRA for years. Administrators pushed the sensitive, difficult and extensive repatriation process onto anthropology faculty who had fulltime research and teaching responsibilities and were not prepared to complete NAGPRA work.

In inventories of human remains and cultural items that IU was legally required to report by 1995, nearly all were classified as “culturally unidentifiable,” taking advantage of a loophole that allowed institutions to avoid repatriation and continue research. Despite faculty advocacy for repatriation as early as the late ‘90s, IU didn’t fund NAGPRA compliance until 2013 — three years after the law was updated to close the loophole.

In that year, IU hired Jayne-Leigh Thomas — not related to Wesley Thomas

country, which found that IU reported the fifth-largest collection of unrepatriated Indigenous human remains in the country. On April 21, a Senate probe scrutinized compliance processes at the five institutions with the largest collections, including IU, after “troubling testimony detailing ongoing issues related to the timely completion of NAGPRA repatriations.”

Jayne-Leigh, IU faculty and a Tribal representative have expressed concerns about this scrutiny into NAGPRA work, fearful that adding pressure on institutions and Tribes without providing them with more resources would rush repatriation and make it harder to do it properly.

“Trying to expedite this process could turn very easily into kind of a garage sale mentality, of saying, ‘Well, we just have to get them out of our museum, we’ll just give them to the first Tribe that shows interest,’ and that’s not good,” said Carrie V. Wilson, NAGPRA direc-

thropology classes. But he described it as a “hush” topic among faculty, along with other Indigenous issues.

Wesley is a member of the Navajo Nation, and he was the first full-time Native American professor in the Department of Anthropology and the only one during his time at IU, when he also founded the IU First Nations Educational & Cultural Center. During those years, he recalled other faculty members often changing the subject away from Indigenous topics as soon as he walked in the room.

“If I start(ed) asking questions, that would upset the whole department and the university,” Wesley said.

He said the unwelcoming culture of the department contributed to his decision to leave IU and return to the Navajo Nation in 2006, where he taught for years at Navajo Technical University and is now a professor emeritus.

“I felt extremely awkward, uncomfortable, unpleasant — that I shouldn’t

Since Wesley left, the department has hired at least three more Native American faculty members, including two who still work at IU, according to professor emerita

Current anthropology chair Andrea Wiley said the department has improved its inclusion of Indigenous perspectives in the years since Wesley worked “Over the course of my chairship we have undertaken a hard honest assessment of our troubled legacy as a departmentlarly with regard to the collection of ancestral human remains,” Wiley said. “We have held listening sessions and educational sessions to inform us all (students, faculty, staff) about our department’s history in this regard. We have worked very closely with the NAGPRA office to ensure that all ancestral Native American human remains are repatriated and we continue to hold educational sessions so that departmental members are aware of this process and what While most anthropology profes-

tions to compile an inventory of all the human remains and cultural items in their possession. The goal was to determine how many each institution had amassed and understand which materials were associated with which Tribal nations — an important step to enable repatriation work.

Administrators saddled Della Collins Cook, who declined to comment for this story and still teaches in the anthropology department, with the responsibility of cataloging more than 4,000 human remains and more than 5,500 associated funerary objects, on top of her regular teaching and research, according to Wilk and other faculty. Hired as an associate professor and the curator of the collection, she had no past experience with repatriation work, and IU provided no NAGPRA training or overtime pay to help her complete the inventory.

Anne Pyburn, IU Provost professor of Anthropology, who has worked at IUBloomington since the ‘90s, said asking a professor to add NAGPRA work to their job was unreasonable, and that Cook was not equipped with adequate resources.

“That’s a different skill set,” Pyburn said. “It’s not just, ‘Here’s another full time job,’ it’s ‘Here’s another full time job that you don’t know how to do.’”

In addition to the anthropology inventory, about 800 human remains and 2,000 funerary objects were cataloged in the Glenn Black Lab’s inventory, which thencurator Noel Justice completed, according to Sievert.

Based on the original law, institutions — not Tribes — had final say on whether human remains were associated, or “culturally affiliated,” with Tribal nations. Because of this, some institutions marked remains as “culturally unidentifiable” even if there was evidence otherwise, essentially absolving them of legal responsibility to halt research and begin repatriation work.

In IU’s original inventries, from both the Department of Anthropology and the Glenn Black Laboratory of Archaeology, nearly all of the combined 5,800 reported human remains were marked culturally unidentifiable. Students and faculty, including Cook, continued to research the ancestral remains for decades after the inventory was submitted, according to faculty interviews. Research only fully stopped within the last few years, said NAGPRA Director Jayne-Leigh Thomas. She said IU established a NAGPRA research review board in 2021 to ensure no future research would happen without Tribal involvement.

“You could basically get away with saying that everything’s unaffiliated and we don’t have to do anything about it, especially when you think about how much it would cost and the time and the effort required,” Wilk said.

Wilk, who is now a professor emeritus, said he raised concerns about IU’s potential noncompliance within IU and with the National NAGPRA office, but he was dismissed at every turn. He asked his former boss, Kumble Subbaswamy, thendean of the College of Arts & Sciences, to provide resources for NAGPRA compliance work, but Subbaswamy declined, citing financial constraints. Subbaswamy, now the chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, did not respond to emails from the IDS asking about this exchange.

Wilk wrote letters to and called the National NAGPRA office, hoping an official notice of non- com

pliance

would push IU administrators to act, but he said the office was too busy to investigate IU’s inventories. “I think rather than active opposition, what we got was lack of movement,” Wilk said. “There’s a difference between actively opposing something and just not dealing with it. And I think that’s what we were doing for a long time, was just not dealing with it.”

This avoidance wasn’t surprising to Wilk, he said. Most of the faculty in the early 2000s had been educated during a time when most anthropologists considered Native American remains valuable objects of scientific study, not a human rights issue, Wilk said. “Some of the older archeologists and the bio-anthropologists felt that NAGPRA was not a good thing for their science,” Wilk said. “They didn’t like having the bones taken away by Tribes who just wanted to bury what they considered to be extremely valuable data that they had been wanting to study, and keep studying.”

Pyburn said another reason anthropologists across the country didn’t respond well to NAGPRA was because they defined respect differently than the Native Americans

whose ancestral remains they studied. She said many anthropologists were surprised by NAGPRA, because they thought they were being respectful by devoting their lives to understanding Native American history, but didn’t take into account how what they deemed to be respectful was extremely harmful in the eyes of the people they studied.

Pyburn said the field has begun to shift only recently to be more inclusive of Indigenous perspectives.

“I’ve spent my entire career trying to make this happen and trying to change the discipline so that it becomes a different kind of endeavor,” Pyburn said. “The point of what I do and the point of what I encourage my students to do is to address the injustices that are significantly a result of colonialism.”

the largest subject to NAGPRA in the country. Over decades, philanthropist Eli Lilly Jr., grandson of the founder of Eli Lilly and Company, coordinated and funded most of the projects that ultimately brought thousands of Native American human remains and cultural items to IU.

Starting in the 1930s, Lilly became fascinated with archaeology, and made use of his extensive financial resources to sponsor archaeologists and graduate students to study Indiana’s past, according to a biography of Lilly published in 2006. He sponsored Glenn A. Black, who became the first full-time archaeologist in Indiana and one of Lilly’s closest friends, covering his field expenses and arranging for him to study at the Ohio State Museum.

ing his career. Sometimes he would visit museums to examine their materials, but he would also receive donated skeletal remains that would remain at IU permanently.

Neumann was one of the leading physical anthropologists studying Native American remains at the time, and he sought to classify skeletal remains from different Tribal groups into racial categories, according to an analysis of his work by IU professor Della Collins Cook, who was hired as his replacement in the 1970s and was also the professor who completed the NAGPRA inventory. His research, which included phrenology, is now categorized as racial classification, a pseudoscientific theory that was used to try to find genetic differences between human races, often with the goal of scientifically reinforcing racial hierarchies.

Why does IU have so many human remains?

IU originally reported more than 5,800 Native American human remains held by both the Department of Anthropology and the Glenn Black Lab, making its combined collection one of

In the mid-1930s, Lilly provided fellowships to linguistic anthropologist Charles F. Voegelin, archaeologist James B. Griffin and physical anthropologist Georg K. Neumann, who specialized in the study of skeletal remains.

Neumann focused on studying skulls, and observed at least 10,000 of them dur-

Neumann, Black, Voegelin, Griffin and a few others became known as the “Indiana group,” according to Lilly’s biography. Lilly planned to combine research from the work of his Indiana group into a definitive manuscript, which he hoped would prove the validity of the Walam Olum, a set of birch bark IU has reported Native American remains originating from at least 15 states Through the 20th century, anthropologists, amateur archaeologists and collectors would donate Native American remains to faculty members at universities for study. This resulted in IU having human remains that originate thousands of miles away from Bloomington.

Note: Data only includes human remains that IU has not yet repatriated. County totals are subsets of state totals. Not all data points have county information, so state totals might be higher than the total of all counties shown in that state. At least 66 individuals reported by IU had no location data, and aren’t shown in this map.

Source: NAGPRA Inventories

scrolls supposedly found and transcribed from the Lenape, or Delaware, language into English in 1833, which most historians now agree was probably forged.

After it first surfaced in 1833, the Walam Olum was repeatedly used by researchers to try to justify personal beliefs or political agendas with Native history.

Constantine Rafinesque, the scientist who claimed to have found the original copy of the Walam Olum in 1833, was sympathetic to Native Americans in the wake of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, according to historian Andrew Newman. In that year, at least 18 Tribes were forced to relocate west of the Mississippi River, including most of the Tribal Nations in Indiana. Given this historical context, Rafinesque likely had a political motivation to publish the Walam Olum because it claimed the Lenape people migrated from the Old World, and he hoped to generate sympathy for Native American people by linking their genetic and cultural heritage to Europeans. Regardless of Rafinesque’s motivations, his approach delegitimized Indigenous perspectives, discounting Lenape oral history and implying that Native Americans must fit into traditional Western perceptions of advanced civilizations to deserve respect and dignity, according to Newman’s research and Kelsey Grimm, librarian and archivist at the IU Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. On the other hand, the Walam Olum has also been used to prop up a myth from the early 20th century that claimed the existence of a fabled “race” of “Moundbuilders,” said Grimm. The myth claims that the ancient people who built large burial mounds like the ones at the Angel Mounds site in Vanderburgh County had to have been more advanced, and more directly related to Europeans, than the Native Tribes that still live in America.

“That is false,” Grimm said. “That’s a fallacy. That was a racist myth.”

As early as 1932, Lilly was discouraged by contemporaries from pursuing Walam Olum research. In one letter quoted in Lilly’s biography, anthropologist Carl Guthe wrote that “the Walam Olum thesis is a rather frail reed on which to lean in archaeological work.” But Lilly and his Indiana group continued to work on the thesis for 20 years, working on the project while also pursuing other research.

In 1938, Lilly provided more than $1.4 million in today’s dollars to help the Indiana Historical Society purchase the Angel Mounds site in Vanderburgh County, and Black began a decades-long excavation which would involve laborers hired through the Works Progress Administration and students from IU’s summer field school. Materials from Angel Mounds form the largest portion of IU’s archaeological collection today, comprising more than 2.5 million pot sherds, ceramics, stones, animal bones and shells, along with hundreds of human remains.

The rest of the Indiana group also continued research which brought Native American remains from more than a dozen U.S. states to IU through donations from other museums, universities or private donors, one of the main ways anthropologists acquired the remains of people for research through the 20th century.

Through the 20th century, anthropologists, amateur archaeologists and collectors would donate Native American remains to faculty members at universities for study.

This resulted in IU having hu man remains that originate thousands of miles away from Bloomington.

Partnering with Indiana University was a logical next step for Lilly, who needed an institution to house ar tifacts and continue to pro duce research as part of his long-term goal of ensuring a future for anthropology in Indiana. By mid-1947, Lilly had worked with then-IU President Herman B Wells to establish the Department of Archaeology, instating Black, Voegelin and Neumann as core faculty.

A few years later, Lilly fi nally achieved his goal of publishing a manuscript, titled “Walam Olum or Red Score: The Migration Legend of the Lenni Lenape or Dela ware Indians.” The book re ceived mixed reviews, as an thropologists recognized the impressive scope of the proj ect but remained skeptical of the Walam Olum as a primary document.

When Black died sudden ly in 1964, Lilly funded the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology at IU, both to honor his friend and to store and facilitate the research of the millions of artifacts and hundreds of human remains that could no longer stay at Angel Mounds since Black would no longer be working there.

The methods used to acquire Indigenous ancestral remains for study and the nature of that resulting research has long been offensive to most Native Americans.

Carrie V. Wilson, NAGPRA Director at the Quapaw Nation, said she can’t understand why past scientists felt the need to excavate human remains and cultural items.

“As far as trying to understand the logic behind it and all that kind of stuff, I can’t even begin to go there,” she said. “There’s lots of human remains out there, and they still have to be reburied.”

Starting the NAGPRA office

In the early 1990s, Wilson received a letter from the Glenn Black Lab notifying her that IU had human remains and cultural items likely affiliated with the Quapaw. Those remains wouldn’t be repatriated until decades later.

Wilson was and still is the only dedicated NAGPRA worker at the Quapaw Nation. She said she tried to get in touch with the Glenn Black Lab a couple times over the years but personnel kept changing.

Then in 2013, IU began a series of changes that would finally enable good-faith repatriation work to begin. April Sievert became the director of the Glenn Black Lab, and began to address NAGPRA compliance. A few months later, IU hired Jayne-Leigh Thomas as the first director of its new NAGPRA Office.

When she first started, Jayne-Leigh said she tried to start consultations through letters in the mail, but she didn’t hear back from most Tribal representatives, who often deal with constant communication from many institutions. So in 2014, she and Sievert flew to Oklahoma and drove to multiple states to visit representatives from at least 13 other Tribal nations, including Wilson, in person.

“We talked to 14 tribes in five days, and that was the start,” Jayne-Leigh said. “That goes a long ways.”

The physical distance between IU and most of the Tribes involved in NAGPRA consultation is a result of violent forced migrations in the mid-1800s. This geography makes NAGPRA compliance in the Midwest more difficult, Jayne-Leigh said, as consultations typically require flights and it’s harder to find reburial land.

Soon after their first meet-

April Sievert on establishing cultural affiliation to Angel Mounds,” Wilson said. “So, it eventually went forward.”

As part of that process, Wilson and representatives from at least 14 other Tribal nations met in Bloomington to consult with Jayne-Leigh and Sievert and move forward with the repatriation of hundreds of Native American remains that had been taken from Angel Mounds. IU had received an $85,000 grant from the National NAGPRA office the previous year, which helped fund the consultation, including paying for the flights and hotels of Tribal representatives.

Jayne-Leigh said consultation meetings involve her asking the Tribal representatives where they want to start.

“I had put a map of Indiana up on the board and I said, ‘Do you want me to start with Southern Indiana, Northern Indiana, along the Illinois-Ohio borders?’” Jayne-Leigh said. “And they said, ‘What’s the largest collection you have?’ So that’s what we did.”

In 2021, the day after the spring equinox, Wilson and other Tribal representatives returned to Indiana for the repatriation ceremony of the human remains from Angel Mounds, when more than 700 individuals were reburied.

“Each one is different, and the reburial in that one was very spiritual and it was very emotional,” Wilson said. “It really turned out very, very nice, and it was very appropriate for spring and new birth, and new ideas and new friends, and actually just a new viewpoint to start all over again.”

Since IU founded its NAGPRA office, its staff have completed about a dozen separate repatriation projects, reburying more than 1,000 of more than 5,800 reported human remains, based on public data. The NAGPRA office also worked with administrators to move as much of the collection as possible out of the Glenn Black Lab and the Student Building into a new secure, climate-controlled facility that was built in 2018, according to Sievert.

Jayne-Leigh said while NAGPRA work takes time to do properly, she hopes IU’s entire collection will be repatriated well before she retires.

Richard Wilk, the former department chair who raised concerns about IU’s potential non-compliance with NAGPRA, said he was very happy when IU established a NAGPRA Office in 2013, and has been impressed with the progress in the decade since.

“It was much delayed. But when the university finally woke up, they really woke up,” Wilk said.

American human remains, expressing concern about slow responses to NAGPRA and giving them 60 days to provide details about their compliance processes and send updated inventories.

The probe followed a ProPublica investigation into public repatriation data calling out IU as one of the institutions with the largest reported number of Indigenous human remains that haven’t yet been repatriated.

The National NAGPRA Office also recently proposed new regulations that aim to speed up the repatriation process, which have been criticized by some Tribal members.

Wilson, Jayne-Leigh, Pyburn and Sievert all expressed concerns about the recent scrutiny of NAGPRA work, which they said could put unhelpful pressure on both Tribes and institutions to rush the repatriation process.

Wilson said she fears the proposed NAGPRA regulations might add deadlines that could further strain Tribes and museums that already lack proper funding for NAGPRA work.

Jayne-Leigh expressed frustration about recent scrutiny, and said it perpetuates common misconceptions about NAGPRA, like the idea that collection sizes reflect on the quality of NAGPRA work today.

“Having large numbers in your dataset doesn’t mean you’re out of compliance, and it doesn’t mean you’re not doing good work,” Jayne-Leigh said. “You can have exceptionally small collections and be anti-NAGPRA and refuse to work with communities.”

Instead, she said the size of collections reflects on the practices of institutions decades and even centuries ago.

When asked about these criticisms, the reporting team behind the ProPublica repatriation investigation wrote in an email to the IDS,

“Before publication, ProPublica sought comment from each of the universities named in our reporting, including Indiana University. Director (Jayne-Leigh) Thomas did not respond to our requests. Our reporting team welcomes feedback on our coverage or corrections, which can be emailed to repatration@propublica.org. We are aware that the self-reported inventory records are incomplete and likely underestimates. We write about this in our stories and methodology section.”

Jayne-Leigh also said it would be more helpful if the senators worked with the National NAGPRA Office directly.

“To some extent, that’s the whole point of National NAGPRA is to investigate NAGPRA noncompliance,” Jayne-Leigh said. “It would be great if the senators could work with National NAGPRA to either increase penalties or give more grants.”

She also echoed Wilson’s concerns about rushing NAGPRA work.

“If a university hurries up just because of pressure from senators, media outlets and other organizations, collections might be left behind, there could be funerary objects not accounted for,” Jayne-Leigh said. “My work with Tribal nations needs to be dictated by their timelines and concerns, not any pressure from the public or outside parties.”

Jayne-Leigh also noted that stories about repatriation work are often kept personal and private, because they in-

doesn’t publicize its progress, and the public typically does not know about the complexity of ongoing projects within the department.

April Sievert, the former Glenn Black Lab director, said via email that after reading the Senate probe, she thinks the Senators don’t understand the scope of repatriation. “Yes, institutions waited way too long. However, in the real world of NAGPRA, a big repatriation” can take years to do properly, Sievert wrote. “Demanding that all the institutions and the Tribes who’ve been waiting so long scramble to transfer materials in say three years will leave many Tribes bereft, especially if they don’t have the resources or staff to make claims or be considered as part of larger repatriations.”

Wilson said increased federal funding for the National NAGPRA Office and more flexible grant options would help facilitate efficient, quality NAGPRA work.

Right now, Wilson cannot request funding for her one-person department — she can only request one-off grants for specific projects. She said money to help Tribes create and maintain NAGPRA departments would go a lot further.

More sustained funding for National NAGPRA would help expedite often backlogged processes. For example, disputes between institutions and Tribes must be processed by National NAGPRA before any fines or other legal action can proceed, but the office is typically very backed up. The office hired its first investigator at the end of January to look into noncompliance at museums and universities, but Wilson said one investigator is far from sufficient to tackle this large undertaking.

National NAGPRA declined to be interviewed for this story, citing time constraints.

Pyburn said more money to help Tribes fund NAGPRA work is especially important.

“This is a problem that is squarely on the shoulders of the people who excavated the human remains,” Pyburn said. “We can’t expect the people whose ancestors we’re talking about to provide hundreds of hours of free labor to negotiate the process, to write the grants that are necessary to cover the costs of the transportation and the rehousing of human remains and the appropriate ceremonial practices, all of those things are time consuming and expensive.”

Despite her issues with the ProPublica story, Jayne-Leigh acknowledged the reporting has been beneficial in calling out noncompliant institutions.

“The silver lining is that for institutions that were not doing anything, hopefully it will get their administrators to realize that they need to be doing better, and they will start to fund offices,” she said.

Wilson said while different Tribes and other groups have their own opinions about the best way to approach NAGPRA work, they have a shared goal: repatriation.

“We all may do it in different ways, but we all have common goals, and that’s to repatriate,” Wilson said. “Especially Tribes who have been removed from their homelands and been decimated by disease, it gives us an opportunity to rediscover our past. It actually can be a spiritual journey and enrich the Tribe in many different ways, if you do it right.”

IU reported the fifth-largest collection of Native American remains in the country The institutions that reported the five largest collections were the subject of an April 21 Senate probe that scrutinized their NAGPRA compliance efforts.

Source: NAGPRA Inventories

PHOTO COURTESY GLENN BLACK LAB

People from the field school at Angel Mounds are pictured.

Indiana sweeps Michigan, ends long losing streak

By Austin Platt auplatt@iu.edu | @AustinPlatter

Indiana softball traveled up to Ann Arbor with the opportunity to beat Michigan and end a drought spanning half a century of losing. It had been five years since Indiana had come out on top in a game against the Michigan Wolverines and 29 years since they took a series.

The Hoosiers snapped both those streaks with a sweep over the Wolverines to attain sole possession of second place in the Big Ten standings. It was the second straight road series win for Indiana after also sweeping Rutgers on April 21-23 in Piscataway, New Jersey. Indiana won both games on April 29 4-1 and 15-1 in six innings after rain forced a postponement of the April 28 game. Indiana finished off its fifth sweep over a conference opponent on April 30 with a 6-5 victory. With the wins and other losses by Ohio State, the Hoosiers clinched a bye to the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tournament as a top-

four team in the Big Ten. Saturday, April 29 Game one was a pitchers’ duel between two sophomores as Indiana’s Brianna Copeland and Michigan’s Lauren Derkowski went toeto-toe in the series opener.

Copeland ended up winning the battle as Indiana led for the entire game despite the low scores. Sophomore first baseman utility player Sarah Stone and Copeland hit back-to-back RBI doubles to give Indiana a quick 2-0 lead. There would be no more scoring until the top half of the fifth when Team 50 got an insurance run courtesy of freshman infielder Taryn Kern, who pulled a single through the right side of the infield to score redshirt junior utility player Cora Bassett. Bassett had a nice day, going 3-for-4 with a triple and a pair of singles.

Both teams scored single runs in the seventh as Michigan prevented Copeland from recording a shutout, but the sophomore still got all 21 outs for her fifth com-

plete game of the season, extending the team lead. Copeland gave up seven hits in as many innings, but six strikeouts helped prevent the Wolverines from doing more damage and jeopardizing the Hoosiers from taking game one of the three-game set.

Copeland brought her record inside the circle to 17-2 and lowered her season ERA to 3.07.

The second game was much more comfortable than the second, as Team 50 clobbered Michigan 15-1, scoring 15 unanswered runs to win via run rule. A sevenrun sixth inning allowed Indiana to reach the minimum of an eight-run lead after five innings to end the game prematurely.

The Hoosiers scored in every inning except the first with a total of 13 hits, six of them being extra-base hits.

Freshman infielder Taryn Kern had not one but two home runs, both two-run shots, her 20th and 21st of the season to extend her program home run record, and now sits three home runs shy

of the Big Ten single-season record, held by Illinois’ Angelena Mexicano in 2008.

Kern wasn’t the only one to go deep in game two, as Copeland hit a towering home run to left, her 10th of the season, in the sixth inning to extend the lead at that point to 12-1.

Sophomore pitcher Heather Johnson starred on the mound, pitching her third complete game of the season, allowing just three hits while striking out a pair of Wolverines. The run she gave up was unearned in the bottom of the first after a Copeland error at third base allowed the inning to continue with two outs. Johnson picked up lucky win number 13 to improve to 13-6 with a 3.50 ERA.

Sunday, April 30

Indiana continued to display its power in the 6-5 series finale win. The Hoosiers slugged three more home runs in the game, beginning with Bassett, as she hit her third leadoff round-tripper this season and fifth overall.

Stone added an RBI dou-

ble to score Kern later in the inning, giving Team 50 a tworun lead before junior Macy Montgomery even threw a pitch.

Montgomery’s start only lasted one inning as the Wolverines got a run back but stranded a pair of baserunners, as the Hoosiers had a 2-1 lead after one inning.

Indiana head coach Shonda Stanton said during the game via a live interview that Michigan had “timed up” Montgomery, which prompted the pitching change. Montgomery handed the ball to Copeland, who would pitch the next 5.2 innings and earn her 18th win of the season and second of the series.

Offensively, junior infielder Brooke Benson and sophomore outfielder Taylor Minnick each hit home runs to center field in the second and third innings, respectively. It was Benson’s third home run of the season, a two-run blast, and Minnick’s solo shot was her tenth.

The Wolverines scored a pair of runs courtesy of two singles in the third, respond-

ing to Minnick’s long ball and cutting Indiana’s fourrun lead in half.

Sophomore outfielder Kinsey Mitchell added an insurance run with a base hit up the middle in the sixth, as Indiana was ahead 6-3 with three outs to go.

The bottom of the seventh would turn out to be nerve-wracking, as Michigan nearly tied the game. An RBI single cut the Wolverine deficit down to one, but Johnson got the final out with the tying run in scoring position, as Indiana nailed down its 37th win, the most in Stanton’s tenure with Indiana.

Team 50 sits at 37-15 overall and 15-5 in conference play.

Indiana had a full week off before Michigan State comes to Andy Mohr Field for the final home series. The Hoosiers have a slim chance to earn a share of the Big Ten regular-season title against the Spartans. Indiana has to win all three games against Michigan State and Northwestern has to get swept by Rutgers. The first pitch on April 6 is set for 6 p.m.

Indiana’s Cora Bassett and Taryn Kern earn Big Ten awards

By Dalton James jamesdm@iu.edu | @DaltonMJames

During Indiana softball’s three-game series sweep of Michigan April 29-30, two players’ performances on Team 50 stood out amongst

the rest of the Big Ten. Indiana senior utility player Cora Bassett and freshman second baseman Taryn Kern were awarded Big Ten Player of the Week and Big Ten Freshman of the Week, respectively.

Bassett had a batting average of .500 during the series alongside her .538 on-base percentage and .917 slugging percentage. She totaled six hits over the three games with a leadoff home run in Sunday’s

COLUMN: Maryland looked

By Matthew Byrne matbyrne@iu.edu | @MatthewByrne1

Indiana baseball was swept in three games at home April 28-30 for the first time since the 2011 season. That’s also the first time that’s happened at the team’s newest, and current, stadium, Bart Kaufman Field, which opened in 2013.

Maryland looked unbeatable.

Before the series, Indiana and Maryland were separated by just one game in the Big Ten standings — the Hoosiers in first place at 9-3 — the Terrapins at 8-4. Neither team had lost any of their four conference series this season, while Indiana managed to sweep one.

Just last season, the Hoosiers became the first eightseed in Big Ten Tournament history to eliminate the oneseed, which was Maryland last May. Now, the teams seemingly met as equals. Maryland won on April 28 13-2, on April 29 16-2, and on April 30 14-8.

Yes, Maryland outscored

Indiana 29-4 to clinch the series. The Terrapins produced 40 runs total in twomidweek wins — albeit they

faced now-No. 100-plus ranked teams in the rating percentage index — yet, nevertheless exhibited their lineup’s expertise and capability. That persisted into the series. The defending Big Ten regular-season champs tallied 50 hits and nine home runs across three games.

Junior shortstop Matt Shaw and senior infielder Nick Lorusso set the tone with backto-back home runs to begin the contest.

Maryland starting pitchers senior Nick Dean and freshman Kyle McCoy totaled 14 innings, allowing three runs, in the first two games. Even as Indiana plated seven runs against April 30 starter, junior Jason Savacool, the Terps pounced on Indiana’s sophomore starter Ryan Kraft, and basically every reliever after that, surging for seven runs across the final three innings.

Indiana head coach Jeff Mercer said postgame April 30, that when speaking with Maryland’s head coach Rob Vaughn before the game, Vaughn revealed that his team rarely perfected a well-rounded series performance, though they’re

series finale alongside a triple. For the second consecutive week and for the fifth time this season, Kern was awarded Big Ten Freshman of the Week. In the three games against the Wolver-

ines, she had a batting average of .455, a 1.091 slugging percentage and an on-base percentage of .538.

Kern also launched her 20th and 21st home runs of the season, and she is now tied with Louisville’s Taylor

Roby for the NCAA lead. She also continues to lead the Big Ten in a plethora of statistical categories such as slugging percentage, onbase percentage, OPS, RBIs, home runs, walks and hitby-pitches.

unbeatable. It’s time to regroup for Indiana

may slingshot them to win the regular season. They were projected to do so. The bulk of Indiana’s lineup is young, and the team wasn’t close to chasing the first place team in the conference by this time last year.

Now, they have that chance. If losses continue to pile at Northwestern May 5-7, which is positioned last in the conference, that’ll badly diminish Indiana’s RPI, maybe starting the discussion of late-season collapse. For now, It’s just one gloomy weekend.

always capable. Maryland dominated, continuously conveying that swagger, though Indiana competed well April 30.

Indiana will likely be absent from future regional hosting predictions. It’ll likely be at least some time before the Hoosiers reemerge into Baseball America’s top-25 poll, or surface on D1Baseball’s top-25 poll for the first time this season. But really, does that matter?

Indiana had won sevenstraight series before playing Maryland. The team reached 30 victories by April 23 this year, only winning 27 all of last season — including the postseason. The Hoosiers should, and likely will, still be featured in NCAA Tournament projections. This year probably will mark Indiana’s first appearance in the NCAA postseason since 2019. In program history, Indiana has appeared nine

times in the NCAA Tournament. Yes, Indiana plummeted in the RPI, but is barely out of first place in the conference. Luckily for the Hoosiers, they won’t see Maryland for the remainder of the regular season. The conference race now is a ninegame sprint, with Indiana just two games back from first.

Maryland played exceptionally well, and the sweep

The Terrapins were flawless, from pitchers having great days, to their lineup that’d crush any pitch that missed its intended spot. Indiana botched the series especially with the advantage of playing the Terps at home, but haven’t struck out quite yet. There’s still time.

Facing Maryland’s lineup likely will refine Indiana’s pitching staff. It’s cruel, but beneficial. Indiana began the year going 3-6 at Auburn, Texas, and the Keith LeClair Classic, which featured then-No. 9 Eastern Carolina. From there, the Hoosiers won seven straight series.

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Indiana junior pitcher Macy Montgomery celebrates after a strikeout April 15, 2023, against Nebraska at Andy Mohr Field in Bloomington.

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Indiana senior shortstop Philip Glasser throws to first April 28, 2023, against Maryland at Bart Kaufman Field in Bloomington.

IU celebrates musical legacy at Jazz Celebration

By Grant Wheeler grawheel@iu.edu | @wh33lg

IU’s annual Jazz Celebration took place at 7:30 p.m. April 29. The event consisted of a performance by the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, who played “The Gennett Suite,” a tribute to Gennett Records and the seminal recordings it produced.

The piece was composed and arranged by David N. Baker Associate Professor of Jazz Studies Brent Wallarab. The suite aims to highlight the importance of Gennett Records, a Richmond, Indiana-based record label that recorded many of the earliest jazz recordings, including those of Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke and Bloomington’s own Hoagy Carmichael. The first movement, “Royal Blue,” focuses on the influence of blues in the early jazz sound, shown through the work of musicians like Louis Armstrong and King Oliver. It was split into four parts, with each exercising a different aspect of the blues sound.

They went on to “Blues Faux Bix,” the second movement, which was inspired by the music of cornetist Bix Beiderbecke. David Brent Johnson, the event’s master of ceremonies, explained that the title references a trend of adding “blues” to the titles of non-blues tunes

to increase sales. In following this theme, neither of the movement’s two parts, “Davenport Blues” and “Jazz Me Blues,” fall into the blues form. This movement masterfully combines techniques of composition and arrangement from across time periods, incorporating modern sounds effortlessly with the early melodies.

Professor Wallarab said this suite has been in the oven for a long while, with its first draft being penned twenty years ago. He said he only revisited the piece in 2018 before committing to fully realizing it in 2022, and he thinks that time off was important for its development.

“As a musician, you can keep getting better and better. Even in my late 50s, I feel like I’m still getting better,” Wallarab said. “I’m a better composer than I was 20 years ago, so in that way, (the piece) works even more effectively now.”

After the intermission, Johnson presented the Hoagy Carmichael Award for Excellence in Jazz Composition. The award went to Jacobs School of Music master’s student Garrett Fasig, who said taking Wallarab’s composition classes, as well as playing in his big band, were important for his development as a composer.

“He runs the big band I’ve been playing with for

four years, so I’ve gotten to workshop my music with the band and have him advising me in the classes,” Fasig said. “Getting to hear your own stuff is one of the most important parts. Knowing what you wrote versus knowing what it actually sounds like are totally different things.”

The piece’s third movement, “Hoagland,” highlighted the contributions of IU alumnus Hoagy Carmichael to the early jazz

idiom. The first part of this movement was an arrangement of his now famous composition, “Star Dust,” which featured lead alto saxophonist and Assistant Professor of Music Greg Ward.

“It was interesting seeing how this music was captured and who thought it was important enough to document, and especially because it happened to come from Indiana rather than one of the big centers

COLUMN: Summer 2023 trend predictions

By Marg Barnett margbarn@iu.edu

After another long stretch of cold days and long classes, we are due for a change in trends for the upcoming season. While there’s no way to truly know what this summer is going to bring, it’s something fun to consider.

Hoka shoes — not just for running Hoka is not a new brand, but it’s finally breaking out of just the running community.

Campus has been alive with students in Hokas. As a loyal Hoka customer, I can attest that its shoes are worth the price for comfort. This summer could see an even bigger rise in Hoka wearers, as the warmer weather encourages more outdoor activity. There are even some styles of Hokas that have yet to gain popularity that I could see make their way into summer looks, including the Hoka One One Ora Recovery Slide.

Kindle and Nook resurgence

Reading is in style, as always. Recently, my TikTok has been filled with book suggestions and summer reading lists, which makes me believe this habit is here to stay for the summer. The benefits of Nooks and Kindles are the lower prices to download books and convenience of having all your reading in one place. After a rise in podcasts postpandemic, according to a Forbes article, it seems that reading still remains popular, whether it be digitally or hard copy.

Mixing jewelry styles People no longer need to choose between gold or silver. The world of jewelry is seeing a lot more variation, with the incorporation of new materials and colors. Jewelry is going to switch from being dainty to being more eccentric. Materials like clay, resin and glass are likely to be seen more frequently in jewelry, as they provide this break from the classic gold or silver options.

Hometown tourism

Everybody’s talking about it — gas and plane tickets have continued to be pricey. No matter the state of the economy, people aren’t going to want to stop traveling. This could encourage people to be tourists in their own state or even in their own town. Small businesses will hopefully reap the benefits of this type of tourism, as residents will be looking toward their own home to provide entertainment, food and shopping experiences.

Craft time returns

Afternoon art time will return, just like in kindergarten. When it’s a day that almost feels too hot to be out in the sun, there’s nothing better than sitting down to do a nice craft. I’m thinking sun printing, flower pressing and embroidering. This summer will be full of finding new hobbies to do instead of scrolling through Instagram, and maybe these hobbies will last into the fall. Learning languages through music

Listening to music in another language not only exposes you to a new language, but it makes falling into a music rut nearly impossible. If there’s a genre you like in English, there’s likely the same or a similar genre from another country. Spotify has mixes like Spanish Indie, French Punk Rock and other curated mixes to enjoy in your desired language. The months of summer can be spent immersing yourself in a new culture through language learning.

like New Orleans or Chicago or New York,” Ward said.

The fourth and final movement showcased the work of pianist and alleged inventor of jazz Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton. Featuring two of his compositions, this movement took the piece out with all the grandiosity that this music warrants.

Wallarab said the works that inspired “The Gennett Suite” are among the most important in jazz history

and that they deserve the sort of reverence shown in his piece.

“I love the original recordings from the 1920s, so first I think you have to have a real love for the source material. I didn’t try to improve upon it, because you can’t; all I could do was be influenced by it,” Wallarab said. “I think any time you’re creating from someone else’s material, you have to really love and respect it.”

By Hand Gallery displays

‘Rites of Spring’ exhibit

By Erin Stafford ecstaffo@iu.edu | @erincstafford

The By Hand Gallery is currently displaying its “Rites of Spring” art exhibit until May 27. A reception for the exhibit will take place from 5-8 p.m. on May 5 at the gallery inside Suite 109 at Fountain Square Mall.

By Hand Gallery is a locally owned, cooperative gallery that currently has 12 artisan members. Its “Rites of Spring” exhibit showcases artists Paul Smedberg and Sarah Pearce. Each artists’ work has been translated from their exploratory spring treks. The artwork produced includes photographs and drawings of vibrating color and form.

Smedberg’s artwork includes digitally transmuted photographs — as well as animated work made specifically for digital viewing — ranging in scale from monumental to small.

Pearce, who obtained

her MFA in painting from IU in 2008, paints with oil on canvas. A press release from By Hand said she uses transparency and resistance in shaped layers of color that convey experiences. “Rites of Spring” opened on April 7 and will be on display until May 27. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

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Members of the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra perform “Star Dust” April 29, 2023. The Jazz Celebration showcased Indiana’s contributions to the history of jazz.

IDS FILE PHOTO BY CARL COTE Shops at the Fountain Square Mall are pictured April 13, 2020, on Kirkwood Avenue. The By Hand Gallery is currently displaying its “Rites of Spring” art exhibit until May 27, 2023.

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Rose House LuMin- Lutheran Campus Ministry at IU

314 S. Rose Ave. 812-333-2474 lcmiu.net

Instagram: @hoosierlumin

facebook.com/LCMIU

Sunday: 8:30 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. @ St.

Thomas Lutheran Church 3800 E. 3rd St.

Tuesday: 6:30 p.m. Dinner & Devotions @ Rose House LuMin 314 S. Rose Ave. Rose House is an inclusive Christian community that offers a safe space for students to gather, explore faith questions, show love to our neighbors through service and work towards a more just world. Rose House walks with students to help them discern where God is calling them in life.

Rev. Amanda Ghaffarian, Campus Pastor

St. Thomas Lutheran Church 3800 E. Third St. 812-332-5252 stlconline.org

facebook.com/StThomasBloomington

Sunday: 8:30 a.m. & 11 a.m.

We are the worshiping home of Rose House Lutheran Campus Ministries. As disciples of Christ who value the faith, gifts and ministry of all God's people and seek justice and reconciliation, we welcome all God's children* to an inclusive and accessible community. *No strings attached or expectations that you'll change.

Rev. Adrianne Meier

Rev. Lecia Beck

Independent Baptist

Lifeway Baptist Church 7821 W. State Road 46 812-876-6072 lifewaybaptistchurch.org facebook.com/lifewayellettsville

Sunday: 9 a.m., Bible Study Classes 10 a.m., Morning Service 5 p.m., Evening Service Barnabas College Ministry: Meeting for Bible study throughout the month. Contact Rosh Dhanawade at bluhenrosh@gmail.com for more information.

Steven VonBokern, Senior Pastor Rosh Dhanawade, IU Coordinator 302-561-0108 bluhenrosh@gmail.com

*Free transportation provided. Please call if you need a ride to church.

Episcopal (Anglican)

Canterbury Mission

719 E. Seventh St. 812-822-1335

IUCanterbury.org

facebook.com/ECMatIU

Instagram & Twitter: @ECMatIU

Sun.: 3 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Mon., Wed., Thu.: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Tue.: Noon - 8 p.m.

Fri., Sat.: By Appointment

Canterbury: Assertively open & affirming; unapologetically Christian, we proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ by promoting justice, equality, peace, love and striving to be the change God wants to see in our world

Ed Bird, Chaplain/Priest

Jacob Oliver & Lily Dolliff, student workers

Unitarian Universalist

Unitarian Universalist Church of Bloomington

2120 N. Fee Ln. 812-332-3695 uubloomington.org facebook.com/uubloomington

Sunday: 10:15 a.m.

We are a dynamic congregation working for 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.

Rev. Connie Grant, Interim Minister

Rev. Emily Manvel Leite, Minister of Story and Ritual

Church of God (Anderson Affiliated)

Stoneybrook Community Church of God

3701 N. Stoneybrook Blvd. stoneybrookccog.org

facebook.com/StoneyBrookCCOG

Sunday: 10:30 a.m.

10 a.m. Coffee & Treats Stoneybrook Community Church of God is a gathering of imperfect people learning to follow Jesus. We invite you to join us on the journey.

Mitch

Ripley, Interim Pastor

Evangel Presbytery

Trinity Reformed Church 2401 S. Endwright Rd. 812-825-2684 trinityreformed.org

facebook.com/trinitychurchbloom

Email us at office@trinityreformed.org

Sunday Services: 9 a.m. & 11 a.m.

College Bible Study: Contact us for more info.

"Jesus answered them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.'" Proclaiming freedom from slavery since 1996. Only sinners welcome.

Jody Killingsworth, Senior Pastor Lucas Weeks, College Pastor

Bahá'í Faith

Bahá'í Association of IU 424 S. College Mall Rd. 812-331-1863 bloomingtoninbahais.org

facebook.com/BaháíCommunity-of-BloomingtonIndiana-146343332130574

Instagram: @bloomingtonbahai

Regular Services/Devotional Meetings:

Sunday: 10:40 a.m. @ Bloomington Bahá'í Center

Please call or contact through our website for other meetings/activities

The Bahá'í Association of IU works to share the Teachings and Principles of the Founder, Bahá'u'lláh, that promote the "Oneness of Mankind" and the Peace and Harmony of the Planet through advancing the "security, prosperity, wealth and tranquility of all peoples."

Karen Pollock & Dan Enslow

Non-Denominational

Calvary Chapel of Bloomington 3625 W State Road 46 812-369-8459

calvarychapelbloomington.org

facebook.com/calvary-

chapelbloomington

YouTube: Calvary Chapel Bloomington IN

Sunday: 10 a.m.

Tuesday: 7 p.m., Prayer

Wednesday: 6:30 p.m.

Hungry for God's word and fellowship with other believers? Come as you are and worship with us as we grow in the knowledge of His love, mercy, and grace through the study of the scriptures, and serving those in need. May the Lord richly bless you!

Frank Peacock, Pastor

Alissa Peacock, Children's Ministry

Christ Community Church 503 S. High St. 812-332-0502 cccbloomington.org

facebook.com/christcommunitybtown

Instagram: @christcommunitybtown

Sunday: 9:15 a.m., Educational Hour

10:30 a.m., Worship Service

We are a diverse community of Christ-followers, including many IU students, faculty and staff. Together we are committed to sharing the redeeming grace and transforming truth of Jesus Christ in this college town.

Bob Whitaker, Senior Pastor

Adam deWeber, Worship Pastor Dan Waugh, Adult Ministry Pastor

Church of Christ

825 W. Second St. 812-332-0501

facebook.com/w2coc

Sunday: 9:30 a.m., Bible Study

10:30 a.m. & 5 p.m., Worship

Wednesday: 7 p.m., Bible Study

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.

John Myers, Preacher

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

citychurchbloomington.org facebook.com/citychurchbtown

Instagram: @citychurchbtown

Sunday Service: 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.

*Always check website for possible changes to service times.

City Church is a non-denominational

multicultural, multigenerational church on Bloomington's east side. 1Life, our college ministry meets on Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. David Norris, Pastor Sumer Norris, Pastor

University Lutheran Church and Student Center

We are the home of the LCMS campus ministry at Indiana. Our mission is to serve all college students with the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ. Located on Campus, we offer Christ-centered worship, Bible study and a community of friends gathered around God’s gifts of life, salvation and the forgiveness of sins through our Senior Jesus Christ.

607 E. Seventh St 812-336-5387 indianalutheran.com facebook.com/ULutheranIU instagram.com/uluindiana

Richard Woelmer, Pastor

Society of Friends (Quaker)

Bloomington Friends Meeting 3820 E. Moores Pike 812-336-4581

bloomingtonfriendsmeeting.org

Facebook: Bloomington Friends Meeting

Sunday (in person and by Zoom):

9:45 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., Light Refreshments and

Fellowship

12:45 p.m., Often there is a second hour activity (see website)

Wednesday (by Zoom only):

9 a.m., Midweek Meeting for worship

9:30 a.m., Fellowship

We practice traditional Quaker worship, gathering in silence with occasional Spirit-led vocal ministry by fellow worshipers. We are an inclusive community with a rich variety of belief and no prescribed creed. We are actively involved in peace action, social justice causes, and environmental concerns.

Peter Burkholder, Clerk burkhold@indiana.edu

United Methodist

Jubilee 219 E. Fourth St. 812-332-6396 jubileebloomington.org jubilee@fumcb.org

facebook.com/jubileebloomington

Instagram: @jubileebloomington

Sunday: 9:30 a.m., Classic Worship & 11:45 a.m., Contemporary Worship

Wednesday: 7:30 p.m., College & Young Adult Dinner

Jubilee is a Christ-centered community open and affirming to all people. We gather on Wednesdays at First Methodist (219 E. Fourth St.) for a free meal, discussion, worship and hanging out. Small groups, service projects, events (scavenger hunts, bonfires, etc.), mission trips and opportunities for student leadership are all a significant part of our rhythm of doing life together.

Markus Dickinson, Campus Director

Lutheran ChurchMissouri Synod

University Lutheran Church and Student Center 607 E. Seventh St 812-336-5387 indianalutheran.com facebook.com/ULutheranIU instagram.com/uluindiana

Sunday: 9:15 a.m.; Sunday Bible Class 10:30 a.m.; Sunday Worship

Wednesday: 7 p.m.: Wednesday Evening Service 7:45 p.m.: College Bible Study Student Center open daily, 9 a.m.-10 p.m. We are the home of the LCMS campus ministry at Indiana. Our mission is to serve all college students with the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ. Located on Campus, we offer Christ-centered worship, Bible study and a community of friends gathered around God’s gifts of life, salvation and the forgiveness of sins through our Senior Jesus Christ.

Woelmer, Pastor

Richard

Sunday: 9:15 a.m.: Sunday Bible Class 10:30 a.m.: Sunday Worship

Wednesday: 7 p.m.: Wednesday Evening Service 7:45 p.m.: College Bible Study Student Center open daily, 9 a.m.-10 p.m.

Inter-Denominational

Redeemer Community Church

111 S. Kimble Dr. 812-269-8975 redeemerbloomington.org

facebook.com/RedeemerBtown

Instagram & Twitter: @RedeemerBtown

Sunday: 9 a.m. & 11 a.m.

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.

Chris Jones, Lead Pastor

Baptist

University Baptist Church 3740 E. Third St. 812-339-1404

ubcbloomington.org

facebook.com/ubc.bloomington

YouTube: UBC Bloomington IN

Sunday: 10:45 a.m., Worship in person & live streamed on YouTube

A welcoming and affirming congregation excited to be a church home to students in Bloomington. Trans and other LGBTQ+ friends and allies most especially welcome!

Annette Hill Briggs, Pastor

Rob Drummond, Worship & Music Minister

Mennonite

Mennonite Fellowship of Bloomington

2420 E. Third St. 812-646-2441 bloomingtonmenno.org

facebook.com/Mennonite-

Fellowship-ofBloomington-131518650277524

Sunday: 5 p.m.

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.

John Sauder mfbjohn@gmail.com

Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

205 E. Kirkwood Ave. 812-332-4459 fccbloomington.org

Sunday: 10 a.m.

We are an inclusive community of people who are diverse in thought and unified in spirit. We are an LGBTQIA+ welcoming and affirming congregation known for our excellent music and commitment to justice. Our worship services will not only lift your spirit, but also engage your mind. You are welcome!

Pastor Kyrmen Rea, Senior Pastor Pastor Sarah Lynne Gershon, Student Associate Pastor Jan Harrington, Director of Music

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Today is a 7 - Home improvement projects provide lasting family benefits. Put things away to clear space for what’s ahead. Share love, support and good food.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)

Today is a 7 - You may need to repeat your message until it gets through. Let others know they’ve been heard. Patiently manage surprising news or delays.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)

Today is an 8 - A financial challenge requires adaptation. New possibilities stretch old boundaries. Generate the income to meet priorities and deadlines. Keep your eyes on the prize.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)

Today is an 8 - Imagine perfection. Build your vision, step by step. Listen carefully to avoid miscommunications. You’re especially strong. Use your power and confidence for good.

BLISS HARRY BLISS

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Today is a 7 - Finish old projects and process where you’ve been. Organize for what’s ahead. Notice hidden potential and options. Consider the situation from another angle.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Today is a 7 - Misinformation and misunderstandings abound in your social networks. Share support for a team goal despite obstacles. Patience and a sense of humor work wonders.

UNDER THE RUG JONATHON ZAPF Ned’s bucket list.

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The IDS is accepting applications for student comic strips for the summer 2023 semester. Email five samples and a brief description of your idea to adviser@iu.edu . Submissions will be reviewed and selections will be made by the editor-in-chief.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

Today is an 8 - Provide reliable support. Miscommunications could affect shared accounts. Maintain a philosophical attitude about money. Patiently coordinate with your partner. Money saved is easier than earned.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

Today is an 8 - Direct complaints to someone who can do something about them. Avoid automatic reactions, especially with your partner. Clarify misunderstandings right away. Focus

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