May 11, 2023

Hello everyone and happy summer break! To our student readers, I hope you had a great end to the school year and are getting some much-needed rest. To our readers in the Bloomington community, I hope you’re enjoying the peace and quiet now that school is out. With the spring semester wrapping up and a long summer ahead of us, I want-

‘Catastrophic’:

A few weeks after Hank Duncan began his job as the Bloomington Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator on Oct. 31, 2022, he received an upsetting report at work. Just 200 feet from his house, there had been a car crash involving a pedestrian.

“It was catastrophic,”

Duncan said. “Just thinking about the people who live there and the lack of proper infrastructure to protect those people, it's sickening.

Seeing that every day on my way home, my way to work, I just think about that. It's truly awful.”

The crash was particularly relevant to Duncan, who works with the Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Commission to improve pedestrian infrastructure in the city. But Duncan said traffic safety efforts are inadequate to properly address crashes like the one that happened right by his house, both in Bloomington and across the country.

“It's such a big problem,”

Duncan said. “There are people working on it, but it's not being worked on quickly enough.”

Severe car crashes, and especially those involving pedestrians or cyclists, have recently risen nationally. In 2020, crash deaths spiked even as total crashes dropped due to COVID-19 lockdowns. This trend has been attributed to more speeding that year, since roads were less crowded.

But experts are increasingly concerned about broader traffic infrastructure and car-focused culture in the United States. Crash deaths increased again in 2021 and 2022, and pedestrian deaths hit a 40-year high in 2021.

U.S. citizens in 2019 were more than twice as likely to die from car crashes compared with two dozen other high-income countries, according to research from the Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention. “The U.S. could save more than 20,500 lives and about $280.5 million in annual medical costs (in 2019 USD) if we could reduce the population-based crash death rate to match the average rate of 28 other high-income countries,” the CDC report noted.

Car crashes in Monroe County follow these troubling national trends, according to a new analysis by the Indiana Daily Student of all available local crash data from 2003 to 2022.

This school year alone in Bloomington, at least two students have died in collisions between cars and scooters, along with at least three more people and multiple others who have suffered severe injuries from crashes. At least two cars have also crashed into buildings around Bloomington.

Bloomington has a wealth of passionate transportation advocates and dedicated city employees who told the IDS they are aware of and concerned by recent spikes in pedestrian crashes. But many of them, like Duncan, said things aren’t happening quickly enough as they deal with limited resources, funding issues and resident opposition to traffic safety projects.

“What do we prioritize?” Duncan said. “We only have enough funding for certain projects, so we can't fix everything all at once, and that hurts.”

Addressing severe crashes in Bloomington

Beth Rosenbarger, assistant director of the Bloomington Planning and Transportation Department, said she hopes the city will soon adopt a Vision Zero approach, which is a strategy to eliminate severe car crashes that cause fatalities or serious injuries.

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ed to introduce myself. My name is Cailin O’Malley and I’ll be editor-in-chief of the Indiana Daily Student for summer 2023. Even as campus clears out, the IDS will continue publishing highquality work in news, sports, arts and more. Visit our website, idsnews.com , for daily content and pick up our weekly print edition every Thursday at newsstands around campus and the

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very familiar with Vision Zero goals,” Rosenbarger said. “We want that as a goal. The question is, how do we set ourselves up to get there?”

Rosenbarger said there are several approaches known to reduce harm from vehicle collisions that could be implemented in Bloomington. One is reducing speed, the largest predictor of whether a crash is fatal.

“Anywhere from 15 MPH to 25 MPH has great safety gains compared to 30, 35, 40,” she said.

Reducing speeding goes beyond changing posted speed limits, Rosenbarger said. Instead, changing how roads are designed, such as by making them narrower by adding a protected bike lane, would discourage speeding more effectively.

“We can't control individuals;, sometimes the person is going to speed in a situation that doesn't even make sense,” she said. “What we can do is work to design streets where the overwhelming majority of the time, people are driving at lower speeds and that results in greater probability of safety.”

The Bloomington Traffic Calming and Greenways Program follows this approach by implementing traffic calming infrastructure intended to slow drivers and encourage pedestrians and cyclists to travel along neighborhood greenways. This involves changing traffic infrastructure by narrowing roads or adding speed bumps or median barriers.

Rosenbarger also said Vision Zero requires a proactive approach, not just choosing new projects as a reaction to fatal crashes that already happened. This can involve identifying problematic intersections and planning infrastructure changes before crashes occur.

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IU honors largest graduating class

By Helen Rummel hrummel@iu.edu | @helenrummel

The class of 2023 celebrated this weekend as the largest graduating class in the school’s history, IU President Pamela Whitten announced Saturday morning.

IU’s 194th undergraduate commencement celebrated thousands of students who had their freshman years cut short after being sent home at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. After a year of Zoom-instructed courses, students returned to campus for the last years of their college careers. In total, IU

awarded more than 7,000 undergraduate degrees Saturday.

Graduate students were honored in a separate commencement Friday where they heard from student speaker Muna Adem. Adem graduates with a Doctor of Philosophy in sociology. In total, IU celebrated more than 21,000 graduates from 50 states and 132 countries this semester across the state.

Undergraduate ceremony student speaker Gayatri Thiru opened her remarks to her peers with a feeling of relief that those memories were now in the past for

the class of 2023. Thiru graduated with degrees in neuroscience and finance and was involved at the university as a Dean’s Scholar, Hudson and Holland Scholar as well as a senior member of the Women’s Financial Association.

Thiru empathized with the soon-to-be graduates in attendance, who may not know what lies ahead after graduation. In spite of it, Thiru said, she asked attendees to seek out the positive.

“Find the beauty in your community and all things abstract that you may not yet know about,” Thiru said.

“As humans, our ability to be lifelong learners is truly something so special.” This year’s commencement speaker for both the graduate and undergraduate ceremonies was IU President Pamela Whitten. Whitten congratulated the students for their tenacity and spirit and reminded them of their lifelong Hoosier status.

“Remember this and remember each other,” Whitten said in conclusion. “All of Indiana University is proud of you for everything you have done and everything that you are about to do."

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difficulty of addressing severe car crashes in Bloomington

3 charts that explain car crashes in Monroe County

The Indiana Daily Student has published a series of articles about traffic safety in Bloomington after conducting a monthslong analysis of Monroe County crash data, including an interactive map. These are some takeaways from the data. Pedestrians and cyclists are five times more likely to die in a crash than the average rate, and four times more likely to be injured. Crashes involving people walking or biking are far more likely to be severe.

Percentage of crashes that resulted in injury or death

Source: IDS analysis of crash data

Number of fatalities per every 1,000 crashes

Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Annual average number of crashes

Source: City of Bloomington crash data

More information

For more information about how the IDS analyzed crash data, or to download the data yourself, see the public Github repository that includes all our code.

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Carroll wins $5 million case against Trump

By Marissa Meador marnmead@iu.edu | @Marissa_Meador

E. Jean Carroll, a journalist and advice columnist who was once an IU student, won $5 million May 9 in her defamation case against former president Donald Trump. The case stems from Trump’s comments calling Carroll a “hoax” and a “con job” after she published in New York Magazine that Trump allegedly raped her in the dressing room of a department store.

The jury, located in New York and composed of six men and three women, unanimously agreed Trump sexually abused and defamed Carroll. However, the jury determined there was not enough evidence that to find the former president guilty of rape.

The case is a civil trial, so Trump only has to pay Carroll and has not been criminally convicted. On Truth

Social, Trump condemned the verdict.

“I have absolutely no idea who this woman is. This verdict is a disgrace — a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time!” he wrote.

A campaign spokesperson for Trump said he plans to appeal the decision. Trump chose not to testify in court at the advice of his lawyers, but the jury was able to see Trump’s taped deposition.

In her time at IU, Carroll won Miss Indiana University and Miss Cheerleader USA. But in the same New York Magazine article where she writes about Trump, Carroll reveals she was allegedly sexually assaulted by another student her freshman year at Indiana University. She writes that she escaped when the perpetrator let go of her wrists to open his knife. She never reported the assault.

Jennifer McCormick announces gubernatorial campaign

By Marissa Meador marnmead@iu.edu | @Marissa_Meador

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jennifer McCormick, who announced the launch of her campaign Thursday morning, walked into the back of Switchyard Brewing Company on Thursday night to the cheers and chants of supporters. Among the sea of blue and gold “Jennifer McCormick for Governor” signs were Democratic nominees for mayor and City Council District 5 representative — Kerry Thomson and Shruti Rana — as well as members of College Democrats at IU and the Monroe County Democratic Party.

McCormick is the first and only Democrat to announce a run for governor in the 2024 election. McCormick was Indiana’s former superintendent of public instruction, an

executive position that oversees public education. When she held the position, McCormick was a Republican, but she occasionally broke with fellow Republicans as she pursued a platform of charter school accountability and expressed more support for public schools.

Serving in the role from 2017 to 2021, McCormick chose not to run for reelection. Shortly after, the state legislature passed a bill to replace the elected Superintendent of Public Instruction position with an appointed secretary of education position.

McCormick began endorsing Democratic candidates in 2020 and officially became a Democrat in 2021. If she wins the Democratic primary in 2024, she could be up against one of the current Republican contenders in the general election — current

U.S. Sen. Mike Braun, Lieutenant Governor Suzanne Crouch and businessman Eric Doden. A November poll showed Braun leading the others by a wide margin.

At Switchyard, McCormick was introduced by Monroe County Democratic Party Chair David Henry, Rana, Switchyard founder and President Kurtis Cummings and College Democrats at IU President Mia Seifers.

Henry said that Indiana had Democrats in the U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress and the governorship just two decades ago. However, Democrats have not won a statewide race since Joe Donnelly became a U.S. senator and Glenda Ritz became superintendent of public instruction, both in 2012.

McCormick’s speech centered around a desire to return to common-sense poli-

tics and unite people across party lines. She emphasized the importance of allowing women and LGBTQ people to make their own decisions about their healthcare and expressed support for affordable healthcare, childcare and universal pre-K. She also focused on the economy, promoting fiscal transparency and creating good-paying jobs. In her conversations with people across Indiana, McCormick said people were focused on infrastructure, common sense governance, reproductive rights and quality public education.

“Hoosiers do not recognize the out-of-touch divisiveness that is coming out of the statehouse,” she said.

McCormick described herself as a fourth generation Hoosier, military mom and the wife of an educator.

In an interview, McCor-

8 major Indiana legislative moves in 2023 session

By Christy Avery averycm@iu.edu | @christym_avery

By the end of Indiana’s legislative session on April 29, lawmakers approved 252 out of the 1,154 total bills filed.

The General Assembly convened starting Jan. 9. During the 110-day session, lawmakers discussed issues including education, gender and sexuality, with passionate input along the way from teachers and advocates.

Many of the bills are awaiting a final signature from Gov. Eric Holcomb. The governor must sign or veto all bills within seven days of their passing; if he fails to act, the bill automatically becomes law on the eighth day. Here is a recap of some notable legislation passed by the Indiana General Assembly this session.

Gov. Eric Holcomb’s budget

Holcomb is expected to sign the state budget after the legislature approved it last week in a 70-27 vote in the House and a vote of 39-10 in the Senate. The two-year, $44.5 billion spending plan offers $1.487 billion more for K-12 education, reduces individual income tax rates to 2.9% by 2027 and gives statewide elected officials pay raises of anywhere from 39 to 60% , among other measures.

K-12 textbook fees

Prior to the budget being passed, Indiana was one of seven states that allowed schools to charge families for textbooks and curriculum materials – but not anymore. A $160 million annual line item passed with the state budget ensures families do not have to pay student textbook fees in K-12 public schools. Parents can request reimbursement of fees charged for learning materials. Private school students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunches will also be able to have their fees waived.

Kinsey Institute

Holcomb’s new budget ef-

fectively bans the use of state funds for the Kinsey Institute, an IU organization that conducts research about sex, gender and reproduction.

In a letter to faculty and staff April 28, IU President Pamela Whitten stated her support for the Kinsey Institute. Whitten disagreed with the decision to ban funding, according to the letter, but said IU will conduct a legal review to ensure the university stays consistent with state law. The university will continue to support the Kinsey Institute financially through grants and philanthropy.

Lorissa Sweet, R-District 50, the author of the budget amendment, called Alfred Kinsey a child predator while introducing the amendment to the state budget in February. Sweet said Kinsey experimented on children. However, no evidence to support this has been produced, and the Kinsey Institute, which was established in 1947, has disputed this claim since the 1990s.

According to a statement from the institute, data for Kinsey’s research was collected through interviews with adults who recalled their sexual memories during childhood and teachers and parents who observed sexual behavior in children. There is no evidence Kinsey witnessed or allowed any sexual activity involving children.

21st century scholars Holcomb’s push for education also includes signing House Bill 1449. Authored by Rep. Earl Harris, D-District 2, HB 1449 will automatically enroll all Indiana students into the state’s 21st Century Scholars Program. The 21st Century Scholars Program is a statewide grant that funds low-income students to attend two- and four-year colleges and universities.

Under the bill, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education is required to work with the Indiana Department of Education to identify students who qualify for the program and notify students and parents of their eligibility.

To qualify, a student must be a resident of Indiana, be enrolled in 7th or 8th grade and reside in a household where income is not higher than the federal cutoff for free and reduced lunch. Currently, to enroll in the program, a student’s parent or guardian must apply online. Students must consent to participate in the program and can opt out at any time.

Ban on gender-affirming

care

Holcomb signed Senate Bill 480 – authored by Sen. Tyler Johnson, R-District 14 – into law April 5, which prohibits transgender minors from accessing medical care like hormone therapy, puberty blockers and surgeries. The bill also orders those already taking medication to stop doing so by the end of 2023.

The ban would originally take effect July 1. However, the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed a lawsuit in federal court April 5 to stop the bill from going into effect, alleging SB 480 violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. The ACLU of Indiana also claims the law violates the Medicaid Act and the Affordable Care Act because it blocks medical services that would be authorized and reimbursed by Medicaid.

Pronouns in classrooms

House Bill 1608, authored by Rep. Michelle Davis, RDistrict 48, requires schools to notify parents when a student asks for changes to their name or pronouns. The bill also prohibits school staff members from instructing students prekindergarten through third grade on human sexuality but does not prohibit staff members from answering questions a student might ask.

A previous version of the bill required consent from at least one parent if a minor were to request a change in name or pronouns. The latest version of the bill removed that requirement, and only requires parents to be notified when students make the re-

quest. A section of the bill that prevented teachers from being disciplined for not using a student’s preferred pronoun or name due to religious beliefs was also removed.

House Bill 1608 awaits the governor’s signature.

House Bill 1447

Colloquially known as Indiana’s “book-banning” bill, House Bill 1447, authored by Rep. Donna Schaibley, RCarmel, classifies certain literature as “harmful to minors” under the same categories as already-banned obscene materials. Indiana Code classifies the following as harmful to minors: nudity, sexual content or “sado-masochistic abuse;” a persuasiveness for minors to engage in sexual activities; offensive content to community standards for adults considering what’s suitable to minors to see; content void of “serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value” for children.

During debate, Rep. Renee Pack, D-Indianapolis, spoke to lawmakers about her daughter Leah Johnson’s book “You Should See Me in a Crown.” The novel centers around a Black girl who falls for another girl running for prom queen.

Following the Oklahoma attorney general’s classification of the book as obscene, Pack said she was worried the same would happen in Indiana under the proposed bill.

If Holcomb signs the bill into law, librarians who violate it could be charged with a Level 6 felony and face up to two and a half years of jail time. A Level 6 felony is the least serious felony charge in Indiana.

Throwing stars Senate Bill 77, authored by Sen. Liz Brown, R-District 15, legalizes throwing stars for recreational purposes for people at least 12 years of age. The throwing stars, also known as ninja stars or Shuriken, are now allowed anywhere knives and similar bladed weapons are permitted. The legislation adds “throwing star” to the various types of knives recognized by Indiana.

mick said her path to her victory would include a focus on shared values, having the resources to ensure her campaign reaches all 92 counties and launching a team effort — what McCormick referred to in her speech as a “boots on the ground” approach.

McCormick acknowledged the difficulty of running as a Democrat but maintained confidence in her ability to win. If faced with a Republican majority in the state legislature as governor, she said she would work to reach across the aisle.

Former IU football player charged with rape

By Helen Rummel hrummel@iu.edu | @helenrummel

Former Indiana punt returner Connor Delp was charged with two counts of rape and separate charges for sexual battery and battery May 8 following a report made in 2022.

IU Police Department said a woman reported on Nov. 13, 2022, that she had been raped around three days prior at Delp’s apartment, according to the probable cause affidavit.

According to interviews conducted by police with the alleged victims detailed in the affidavit, the first victim said she met Delp through a mutual friend. The night of Nov. 10, 2022, the victim said she visited Delp’s apartment with a friend — who is later described as the second victim in the report. After talking and drinking alcohol as a group, the two began playing video games in Delp’s bedroom.

The woman said after her friend fell asleep, Delp began to kiss and touch her forcefully, later taking her clothes off and his own. She said she shook her head “no” but couldn’t speak because she was

afraid.

Later, the woman’s friend awoke and shouted at Delp, who then stopped, according to the report.

The first victim said after they left the apartment the friend shared Delp had also tried to touch and kiss her but stopped after he was shoved off.

Delp’s attorneys responded Tuesday to the reports with the following statement.

“Connor Delp has a constitutional right to be presumed innocent of the criminal charges that have been filed against him,” attorneys at Voyles Vaiana Lukemeyer Baldwin & Webb said in the release. “There are always two sides to every story. Connor Delp intends to vigorously defend against these charges in the appropriate forum — the courtroom.”

Delp was indefinitely suspended from Indiana’s football team on Nov. 17, 2022 — one week after the alleged assault — after appearing in 8 out of 10 games so far that season. No reason was given for his suspension at the time. Delp was also withheld from activities with the team in November 2021.

E. Jean Carroll, center, sports a broad smile as she exits Manhattan Federal Court alongside and her legal team on Tuesday, May 9, 2023, after a jury found former President Donald Trump liable for battery and defamation in a civil trial. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for N.Y. Daily News)

Give moms the gift of basic human dignity

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Coloring summer in after a busy year

Isabella Vesperini (she/her) is a sophomore majoring in journalism and minoring in Italian.

As I clicked the ‘submit’ button on Canvas and turned in my final paper, it finally hit me. I had completed my freshman year of college. I sighed with relief. I had no more work. No more stress. No finals either. I was really done. I could finally lay on my bed all day, sleep in and not see the shadow of an upcoming assignment looming over my head.

Jared Quigg (he/him)

is a senior studying journalism and political science.

It’s a bit of a cruel joke that in a nation which speaks incessantly of “family values,” having a baby can bankrupt you.

In the United States it can cost nearly $19 thousand on average to have a baby. Now, most of this can be covered by health insurance, but roughly 26 million Americans are uninsured. Even for those with health insurance, outof-pocket costs for childbirth can reach into the thousands of dollars.

I am, however, getting a bit ahead of myself. In the postRoe world, we must always remember that the total bill is forced upon American mothers in 14 states and counting.

The reactionaries love moaning about “individual responsibility” – is it not the responsible thing, for a poor mother to have an abortion if she wants one, rather than bankrupt herself and her children? Conservatives would deny a woman’s right to be responsible.

Now motherhood for many is an act borne of coercion, not love, and can lead to financial ruin. But we’ve once again skipped a step by assuming the moth-

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er will even be around to pay the hospital bills.

The United States has the highest maternal death rate of any developed nation – over 1,200 women died of maternal causes in 2021. Moreover, the maternal death rate for Black women is more than twice as high as the rate for white women.

But assume our mothers have survived forced childbirth and now owe thousands of dollars in outof-pocket childbirth costs. How ever will they pay their debts? Fortunately for them, the kind and caring capitalist class is here to the rescue, putting women straight back to work.

In the U.S., only 21% of workers receive paid family leave through their employers. You might have been duped into thinking by our television shows and movies that mothers were supposed to love, care and bond with their babies. There’s no time for that! There are bills to be paid!

How these mothers are supposed to take care of a child and earn the money necessary to do just that is apparently unimportant to the American government, as the U.S. has no universal childcare, and spends extremely little on it compared

to other rich nations.

“Weak investments in leave and childcare suggest that childcare is seen more as a private responsibility,” reads a UNICEF report regarding U.S. policy. Once again, a “private,” individual responsibility.

“Individual responsibility” is the rallying cry of a country that does not care about its people, but the American attitude toward mothers is even worse than apathy. America feels downright contempt for its mothers.

How can it be denied?

Motherhood is forced upon women against their will, and our rotten private healthcare system, which the reactionaries wrongly claim is better than the socialized medicine of the civilized world, leaves us with the highest maternal death rate of any rich country.

And if you survive? Good luck paying for it all. As if things couldn’t get any worse for American mothers, research has shown that being a mother can reduce a woman’s earnings. This could be for a variety of possible reasons, one being that mothers are often forced into parttime jobs in order to have time to take care of their kids.

What can we do about all this, we good people who don’t hate mothers?

First, motherhood should not be forced upon anyone. The total disempowerment of anyone who would seek to ban abortion should be our first aim.

Secondly, we must move toward a socialized healthcare system. This would not only save our mothers money from the exorbitant cost of childbirth, but it would also help to save their lives.

American women are significantly more likely to skip or delay needed care because of costs compared to women in other wealthy nations, according to a 2022 Commonwealth Fund report. A system wherein healthcare is a human right would put an end to this.

Thirdly, the U.S. needs robust and guaranteed paid parental leave and universal childcare. Many other wealthy countries already do this, and if we cared about our mothers, we would do it, too.

So, America, maybe you can skip the flowers this Mother’s Day. Our mothers don’t need flowers, they need liberation. America must learn that mothers are above all human beings and should treat them accordingly. There’s no better Mother’s Day gift than human dignity. jaquigg@iu.edu

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BLACK VOICES

BLACK VOICES

By Siddharth Nelluri sidnellu@iu.edu

Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of the 2002 animated film “Lilo and Stitch” has already received criticism for casting light-skinned actors to play dark-skinned Native Hawaiian characters. Many are arguing that this casting choice whitewashes the character who was beloved to many darker-skinned Native Hawaiians, who are rarely well-represented on screen.

“It’s 2023, stop glorifying Eurocentric beauty standards in the name of erasing characteristics and features integral to ethnicities, especially in terms of representation, give darker skinned Pacific Islanders the visibility we deserve,” one person wrote in a tweet that gained over 40,000 likes.

While Disney has made efforts in the name of diversity in recent years, such as Disney Animation’s “Encanto,” Pixar’s “Coco,” and Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther,” it is not rare for the representation in their films to be criticized. For example, 2019’s “Aladdin” remake was similarly criticized for casting Naomi Scott, a biracial actor of Indian descent, as Jasmine.

As one of the largest movie studios in the world with movies mostly catering towards adolescents and children, Disney’s efforts

Yet at the same time, a bittersweet, sentimental sort of feeling coursed through my body. Freshman year was done. Over with. I would never experience another freshman year in my life. It had flown by without me noticing. Going to Europe with a class. Pizza parties. Basketball games. I could not stop thinking about all the memories I had made, all the people I had met. Who would I hang out with over the summer now that all the new friends I had made scurried to move out of their dorms?

My friends from high school, including my brother, still had another month to go. After a year of working 24/7, I finally had the free time I needed.

Through training for a 10k race, rewatching rom-coms and starting a new book, I managed to keep myself busy the first few days. Yet like previous summers, I got bored pretty quickly. After only a short time, I did not know what to do with myself.

I found myself lying on my bed, eyes closed. My window was open — my room had already reached 80 degrees. I could hear my neighbors mowing their lawn. I could hear an array of musical notes as the kids next door practiced the piano. I wish I had learned the piano as a child — each note had a soothing, beguiling aura to it.

I opened my eyes and

Disney still has issues with diversity

toward representation are always worth scrutinizing. In a vast media landscape primarily influenced by one family-friendly enterprise, the hope is that children’s media is uplifting and representing its diverse audience.

“What repeatedly comes up when you look at overall TV viewing is that the only group that experiences an increase in their selfesteem are white boys,” IU professor Andrew Weaver said. “Because that’s the majority of the portrayals represented on screen.”

Still, this does not explain the phenomenon of whitewashing non-white characters.

“The bigger issue here is the economic aspect of whitewashing,” Weaver said. “There’s a misconception on the part of a lot of big studios that they will lose revenue and a big chunk of their audience if they don’t engage in whitewashing their films, but what mine and other research has shown is that it’s not that simple, you can have a minority cast and market it properly” Disney has at times shown a lack of faith in original projects led by dark-skinned characters.

Disney Animation’s “The Princess and the Frog” and Pixar’s “Soul,” which were the first movies led by a Black protagonist for each studio, both feature their leads in the body of an animal for the bulk of the mov-

ie, which erases the identity the movie is ostensibly representing. While Halle Bailey will be playing the second Black Disney princess, she will be doing so in a remake of the beloved classic “The Little Mermaid.” Even Marvel Studio’s “Black Panther,” a movie rightfully celebrated for its diversity on and off camera, was only made after the Marvel

Cinematic Universe had already existed for a decade. Of course, not all Disney films are whitewashed or lack representation.

Pixar’s “Turning Red,” directed by Domee Shi, is not only a lovely coming of age story about a teenage girl, but it also highlights a Chinese Canadian family. What “Turning Red” and the highly successful

surveyed my room. I spotted the coloring book I had bought at Barnes & Noble only a month prior on my desk. Even though I was not artistic in the slightest, this particular coloring book appealed to me. Each coloring page had a number key, assigning a color per number. The more you colored, the closer you got to discovering what animal lay hidden among the numbers. How hard could it be to follow the recipe outlined right there for me?

I had only completed three pages so far: a peacock, a butterfly and a bug had emerged. 27 additional animals were still waiting to be found. Why not begin the journey now?

I got up to grab the dual tip markers I had received for my birthday off my desk and took a seat on my front porch. The sound of the lawn mower was much louder out here; my room was no longer muting it. It was sunny, one of the first warm, bright days after a streak of storms. I opened the coloring book to page four. I squinted at the stark, white page in front of me. I saw a bunch of tiny hexagons with a number on each one. They were leading the way, encouraging me to bring life and color to the page. To summer. Number one was black. Two a navy blue. Three an indigo. Eleven, the final color, was a light orange. With each hexagon I colored in, some leaves popped up in the bottom right corner. A hazy, orange sunset emerged. Two orange eyes stared back at me. A blue tail began to emerge. A primate native to Madagascar slowly began to materialize. As the animal took form, I realized that I did not need to have my summer break figured out. Summer was a coloring page I was just beginning to complete. It was encouraging me to take my time, patiently waiting to be colored in. isvesp@iu.edu

“Black Panther” do show is that Disney is not incapable of successfully marketing a film that does not star a white or whitewashed cast to a mass audience.

“When a white audience is less likely to see a movie with a minority cast, it’s because there’s this belief that the movie is not made for them,” Weaver said. “A movie like ‘Black Panther,’

the white audience knows they are part of the intended audience because Marvel movies are for everyone.”

The upcoming “Lilo and Stitch” remake wouldn’t need to be marketed any differently if it featured darker-skinned characters, so there is no good reason why Disney has not cast dark-skinned actors.

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A sign that read, “My body, my choice,” is held up in front of Women’s Care Center on June 27, 2022, on College Avenue. In the post-Roe world, the total bill enforced in 14 states and counting.

A movie still of “Lilo and Stitch” is seen. Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of the 2002 animated film “Lilo and Stitch” has already received criticism for casting light-skinned actors to play dark-skinned Native Hawaiian characters.

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But Rosenbarger added that proactive projects can receive the most pushback from residents, as some have trouble understanding the rationale behind changing an intersection, because they don’t have the urban planning or engineering expertise of the city staff.

Recently, a traffic calming project received pushback from residents in the Elm Heights neighborhood, one of the wealthiest areas in Bloomington.

“The people who push back on it kind of say they don't see the need for the project,” Rosenbarger said. “I think that's hard to wrap your mind around a proactive versus a reactive project.”

Rosenbarger said she is concerned about recent conflicts in the city council, mostly involving projects in the Elm Heights neighborhood, which are calling preapproved traffic calming projects back into question.

“There is a challenging conversation about how much and how often we're asking people to show up, to keep answering the same questions and to keep asking

the

for the same things,” Rosenbarger said.

Especially as residents from poorer neighborhoods are less likely to have the time or resources to attend public meetings and might not even know about those opportunities to have their voices heard, Rosenbarger said it becomes a large equity issue.

The challenge of making transportation equitable

In 2020, a volunteer analyzed public sidewalk data and found inequities in who was getting new sidewalks, single handedly changing the process city council uses to distribute sidewalk funding.

Mark Stosberg, the volunteer and then-president of the Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Commission, found that poorer areas were objectively in need of better sidewalks, including some where residents were walking on dirt next to a road to reach a bus stop. But these areas had not received funding from the existing Sidewalk Committee.

Stosberg said these disparities resulted from multiple factors including the number of complaints filed to decide

where to allocate resources.

He said he also analyzed the city’s complaint system and noticed stark differences in complaints coming from different neighborhoods. He said some neighborhoods had an organized approach to get many people to complain about even small issues, while generally poorer neighborhoods rarely ever complained at public meetings, even if they had worse existing infrastructure.

“I just think either they didn't have time because they were busy working, or they just didn't think the system was built to work for them,” Stosberg said. “Why complain if it wouldn't make a difference?”

In the year after his report came out, Stosberg worked with city employees in the Planning and Transportation Department to provide more analysis and technical help to create a more evidencebased approach to funding sidewalks that kept socioeconomic factors in mind.

“Since then, the city staff resolved to use a more objective method,” Stosberg said.

Rosenbarger, the associate

director of the department, agreed that complaint-based urban planning often falls short of delivering equitable solutions for communities.

“People with children, people with jobs that aren't nine to five, people who are serving caretaking responsibilities, that is a lot of time out of your schedule,” Rosenbarger said. “There’s a large equity issue in terms of people's time and ability to participate.” But Rosenbarger also pointed out that while data is an important tool to identify inequities, it’s only part of the story and can leave out important context.

For example, she said county car crash data can be useful to identify areas that are unsafe for cyclists by identifying intersections where past crashes happened. But she added that roads with no reported crashes could still need bike infrastructure, and they might not show up in the data because cyclists already avoid them due to feeling unsafe.

Rosenbarger said the city’s Transportation Plan serves as a guideline for which transportation projects to priori-

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tize. According to the plan, city employees used technical metrics and feedback from residents and public officials collected over a series of public meetings to determine which projects to include, and the final version was approved by the city council in 2019.

But recently, the city council has taken unprecedented steps to gain control over specific traffic projects, proposing an ordinance which would require another round of city council approval on neighborhood greenways projects they already OKed in the 2019 plan. The ordinance is set to be voted on in the next council meeting on May 10. The projects receiving pushback have mostly involved the Elm Heights neighborhood.

Greg Alexander is a member of the Traffic Commission, an advisory group that hears complaints from residents and makes recommendations to the city council and Bloomington city employees on traffic safety. Alexander said he has been frustrated by the complaint-based approach of the council, par-

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ticularly with the Elm Heights neighborhood. Alexander said he thinks residents who complain about proposed traffic safety projects lack respect for experts in the city engineering and planning departments, which contributes to more pushback on the proposed projects.

For example, Alexander cited a dispute from January about a stop sign an Elm Heights resident wanted installed. In a break from typical procedure, the resident, Stephanie Hatton, was given unlimited time at a city council meeting to present on the stop sign request, which was ultimately installed against initial recommendations from the city Engineering Department and the Traffic Commission.

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By Dalton James jamesdm@iu.edu | @DaltonMJames

For the third consecutive weekend, Indiana softball went 3-0, this time against Michigan State.

The series sweep marked the end of the regular season as the Hoosiers celebrated their four seniors this past weekend. Outfielder Tatum Hayes, pitcher Kate Rehburg, outfielder Desiree Dufek and outfielder Abby Meeks were among those honored during Saturday’s senior day.

As Team 50 ended the season with three consecutive series sweeps, the Hoosiers will head into the postseason on a nine-game win streak.

Friday, May 5 Michigan State struck first in the series opener with a sacrifice fly in the first inning from sophomore catcher Macy Lee, yet Indiana took the lead in the bottom of the frame with sophomore first baseman Sarah Stone’s sacrifice fly and sophomore pitcher Brianna Copeland’s two-run home run.

The Hoosiers added to their lead in the second inning with four runs via a two-RBI double from freshman second baseman Taryn Kern, an RBI triple from sophomore outfielder Taylor Minnick and Stone’s sacrifice fly.

A pair of walked-in runs in the fifth inning secured Indiana’s 9-1 run-rule victory in the opening game of the series. Copeland notched her 19th victory in the circle, giving up just one run on four hits in five innings pitched.

Indiana sweeps Michigan State

Saturday, May 6

On senior day, the Hoosiers got out to a fast start behind Kern’s RBI single and Minnick’s two-run home run. Still, the Spartans leveled the score in the second inning with senior catcher Kennedy Wylie’s three-run blast.

Michigan State tacked on a pair of runs across the third and fourth frames to take a 5-3 lead, but Indiana responded in the fourth with four runs behind a two-RBI double from senior utility player Cora Bassett and an RBI double from Kern — who then scored on a wild pitch.

The scoreless fifth inning was followed by a solo home run from Kern and an RBI single from Copeland, giving the Hoosiers a 9-5 victory. Although sophomore pitcher Heather Johnson started in the circle, she lasted just two innings and was relieved by Copeland. The junior allowed only three hits in five relief innings, notching her 20th victory of the season.

Sunday, May 7

After scoring nine runs in each of the series’ first two games, the scoreline of Indiana’s final regular season game was much closer. Johnson started in the circle for the Hoosiers looking for her 14th win of the season. It wasn’t until the third inning that Indiana took the lead.

A sacrifice fly from Stone scored Indiana’s first run of the game to go up 1-0. The Hoosiers tacked on one run in each of the following , which extended the lead to 3-0. A pair of wild pitches allowed freshman outfielder Cassidy Kettleman and Kern to cross the plate.

An RBI triple from Michigan State senior catcher Kendall Kates cut Indiana’s lead to just two runs in the sixth inning. As Kates stood on third base with two outs, Copeland relieved Johnson mid-inning and got the last out — ultimately complet-

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ing her third save of the season — holding the Spartans scoreless in the final 1 ⅓ innings. Indiana went on to win 3-1.

Following the sweep of the Spartans, the Hoosiers now stand at 40-15 and 18-5 in conference play, locking

IU is one game back from first in Big Ten

By Matthew Byrne matbyrne@iu.edu | @MatthewByrne1

Indiana baseball swept Northwestern in three games spanning from Friday, May 5 to Sunday, May 7 — the second time the Hoosiers have swept a fellow Big Ten team this season — and the first time on the road. In all three contests, Northwestern left 31 runners on base in total.

Indiana blanked Northwestern 4-0 Friday for the team’s second shutout win this season, scored five unanswered runs in Saturday’s 5-2 victory and withstood Northwestern’s comeback attempts in Sunday’s 11-9 win. Indiana was out-hit in two of the three games.

Indiana right-handed sophomore Luke Sinnard, who typically starts on Saturdays, was moved up to pitch Friday’s series-opener. Indiana head coach Jeff Mercer explained the switch was to begin timing the ace’s outings to be wellrested for the Big Ten Tournament later this May.

Sinnard tossed 6⅔ scoreless innings Friday, walked three and struck out seven Wildcats. Prior to the seventh inning, which Sinnard did not complete, the right-hander stranded six runners on base combined. Sinnard exited in the seventh with two runners on and two outs.

Right-hander senior

Craig Yoho relieved Sinnard, and despite walking the first batter to load the bases, retired the following batter to hold Northwestern scoreless. Yoho finished tossing

2⅓ scoreless innings, earning his first save in an Indiana uniform through three seasons.

Sophomore outfielder Carter Mathison batted in all four of Indiana’s runs Friday. Mathison hit a three-run home run — the outfielder’s fourth home run in the past nine games — in the first inning against Northwestern graduate starter Michael Farinelli, who would then recuperate. Farinelli allowed just two hits and struck out five, spanning from the second

inning to midway through the eighth. Indiana, however, chased Farinelli in the eighth after the graduate issued a two-out walk and an infield hit placed two runners on base. Following Northwestern’s pitching substitution, Mathison hit a one-run single — tying a season-high four runs batted in.

“(Farinelli) did a really good job mixing pitches,” Mathison said postgame Friday. “He had his changeup; it was working well today. I know he was mixing his slider as well. He’s been spotting the fastball. He was messing with our timing a lot today.”

Northwestern seized the lead first Saturday, the lone game the Wildcats did so. Two doubles in the second inning — the latter hit by graduate catcher Cooper Foard to put Northwestern up 1-0 — prompted Mercer to relieve Indiana right-

handed junior starter Seti Manase.

Indiana left-handed sophomore Ryan Kraft struck out the last batter in the second and tossed a career-high seven innings after that, not allowing an earned run and striking out seven. Kraft remained in the game by the time the Hoosiers scored their first runs in the eighth inning.

“It was just getting the first-pitch strike in,” Kraft said postgame Saturday. “Staying ahead in the count really helps out when you’re battling those long innings. I was told I could be coming in early so I just had a mindset of coming in as early as possible, so I worked with that.”

Back-to-back hits from freshman outfielder Devin Taylor and sophomore infielder Brock Tibbitts tied the game, 2-2. Prior, Northwestern freshman starter Sam Garewal hurled a ca-

reer-high 6⅓ scoreless innings to go along with striking out a career-high seven batters.

Saturday’s contest carried into the 12th inning, Indiana’s longest game this season. Junior outfielder Bobby Whalen’s run-scoring fielder’s choice broke the stalemate in the 12th, and Taylor’s two-run double extended the lead to 5-2. Taylor posted a gamehigh three RBI.

Meanwhile, freshmen right-handers Connor Foley and Brayden Risedorph combined for three scoreless innings, striking out three batters. Risedorph’s third-career save, and his first since two outings ago, April 23, improved Indiana to 3-0 in extra-inning games this season. In Sunday’s finale, Indiana scored five runs in the first inning and Northwestern answered with three in the bottom half. As the Hoosiers scored four runs in the fourth inning to go up 9-4, Northwestern cut the deficit to 9-6 in the same inning. The two teams traded two runs in the seventh, before the Wildcats scored once for the final time in the ninth inning.

Risedorph allowed the ninth-inning solo home run to Northwestern senior infielder Evan Minarovic. Still, Risedorph managed to record back-to-back saves in two games. Indiana lefthanded senior Ben Seiler gave up just one earned run across the fifth to seventh innings.

Indiana senior catcher Peter Serruto led the team with three runs batted in and Taylor became the ninth Indiana freshman in program history to reach 50 RBI in their first season in Sunday’s finale. Taylor is currently tied for No. 8 on that list with Sam Travis’ 2012 season.

Following Indiana’s three-game sweep over Northwestern, the Hoosiers improve to 34-14 and 12-6 in the Big Ten — just one game behind first-place Maryland — which swept Indiana in three games April 28-30. Indiana’s season continues Wednesday at Xavier University.

up the second seed in the Big Ten Tournament.

Team 50 will face off against the winner of Wednesday’s game between No. 10 Michigan and No. 7 Penn State at 1:30 p.m. Thursday. Indiana swept Michigan in a three-game

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series one week ago. The Hoosiers have not played Penn State this season. The entirety of the Big Ten Tournament will be televised on the Big Ten Network and will take place on the campus of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois.

Taryn Kern wins third straight Big Ten Freshman of the Week Award

By Austin Platt auplatt@iu.edu | @AustinPlatter

For the third consecutive week, Indiana freshman infielder Taryn Kern received Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors, the league announced May 8.

Kern had five hits in seven at-bats during Indiana’s weekend sweep of Michigan State — three of them doubles to break the singleseason record in that category. Kern also hit her 22nd

long ball of the season and is tied for the most homers in the country.

Kern leads the Big Ten in eight offensive categories and is third with a .438 batting average. The California native has reached base in 47 straight games and has 10 multi-RBI games this season. Indiana will return to action Thursday as the No. 2 seed in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals, hosted by Illinois.

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Defensive back JoJo Johnson commits to Indiana

By Matthew Byrne matbyrne@iu.edu | @MatthewByrne1

Merrillville native JoJo

Johnson announced his commitment to play for Indiana football next season via Twitter May 9. The 3-star defensive back from Junior College, according to 247Sports, initially signed with the University of Notre Dame in high school.

Johnson tore his ACL in Sept 2021, prematurely ending his first season with Notre Dame. Johnson did not appear in any games and transferred to Iowa Western Community College for the 2022 season — playing in nine games — totaling 16 tackles and three

interceptions.

Iowa Western won the 2022 NJCAA National Championship. Johnson is listed as 5-foot-11, 190 pounds on the program’s online roster. According to 247Sports, Johnson received eight other offers besides Indiana in 2023, including Louisiana Tech, Utah State and Illinois.

As brothers Tiawan Mullen and Trevell Mullen departed Indiana’s program in April — both defensive backs — Johnson adds depth to that same position group. No. 75 nationally in 247Sports’ JUCO prospect rankings, Johnson has three years of remaining eligibility.

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Sophomore Brianna Copeland throws a pitch March 28, 2023, at Andy Mohr Field. As Team 50 ended the season with three consecutive series sweeps, the Hoosiers will head into the postseason on a nine-game win streak.

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Sophomore designated hitter Carter Mathison slides to first April 28, 2023, against Maryland at Bart Kaufman Field in Bloomington. Indiana swept Northwestern over the weekend.

MICHAEL CLAYCAMP | IDS Freshman Taryn Kern swings at a pitch in a game against Wisconsin March 5, 2023, at the Andy Mohr Field. Kern’s 22 home runs are tied for first nationally.

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/calvarychapelbloomington

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 Baptist Church

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!

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

3740 E. Third St. 812-339-1404 ubcbloomington.org facebook.com/ubc.bloomington

YouTube: UBC Bloomington IN

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. Richard Woelmer, Pastor

Annette Hill Briggs, Pastor Rob Drummond, Worship & Music Minister

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

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Horoscope

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Today is a 7 - Collaborate with talented friends. Adapt with changes in your career, project or industry. Provide excellent service and a flexible attitude. Keep communication channels open.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)

Today is a 7 - Delays or roadblocks could stall your exploration. Communication glitches could impact the itinerary. Learn valuable tricks in the process. Adapt to a surprise.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) Today is a 7 - Pull together for common gain. Love is the common thread that binds your enterprise. Avoid financial arguments. Patiently collaborate and coordinate. Listen generously.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is an 8 - You and your partner are on the same wavelength, despite the potential for crossed cables. Romance sparks when least expected. Patiently support each other.

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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.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is an 8 - Balance physical action with self-care. Temporary work stoppages or delays are an opportunity for rest and recharging. Prioritize health and safety.

Practice your moves.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Today is a 7 - Consider the big picture. Patiently navigate communication breakdowns, delays or other surprises. Gentle pressure works better than force. Honey gets more than vinegar.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Today is a 7 - Take charge. Maintain momentum

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

Today is an 8 - Listen more than speaking. Miscommunications could frustrate financial endeavors. If something sounds too good to be true, maybe it is. Stay in action.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

Today is an 8 - Build a personal dream one brick at a time. Keep lines of communication open. Polish your bios, profiles and resumes. Articulate what you want.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)

Today is a 6 - Consider where you’ve been and what’s ahead. Plan your moves. You can get what’s needed soon enough. You’re especially sensitive. Rest, relax and recharge.

Aries (March 21-April 19)

Today is an 8 - Advance shared dreams in collaboration. Complications could cause misunderstandings or surprises. Don’t take things personally. Patience and humor pay double. Eyes on the prize.

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