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IU reports 274 positive cases from mitigation tests

By Matt Cohen mdc1@iu.edu | @Matt_Cohen_

IU’s public COVID-19 testing dashboard reported 274 positive cases out of 7,872 mitigation tests over the first week of classes in a Monday update.

This equates a 3.5% positivity rate. The dashboard

notes this is not the entirety of the data, given that tests have a two to three day lag in response time.

Greek house residents had an 8.1% positivity rate. Students in residence halls had a 1.63% positivity rate. The university reports it will focus additional testing on dorms with high positivity rates and

greek houses.

"The rate of positive results within greek houses is concerning," the dashboard IU-Bloomington Total mitigation testing results Negative Positive SOURCE | FALL2020.IU.EDU

Residence halls Greek housing

reports. "The rate in our residence halls shows a slight uptick above on-arrival testing, although similar to what

3.5%

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other universities with robust testing programs have seen."

The overall positivity rate across the entire IU system is 3.1%. Of 8,900 students tested, 277 were positive.

This is the school’s first release of mitigation testing numbers after IU initially released the dashboard Friday without this data.

IU-Bloomington began randomly selecting students for mitigation testing with the start of classes. Those tests are being conducted at sites including Franklin Hall and Memorial Stadium.

Last week, 11 greek houses have been forced to quaranSEE MITIGATION, PAGE 4

23 greek UITS, students, faculty face technical issues houses directed to quarantine

By Vivek Rao and Carson TerBush investigations@idsnews.com

By Sara Kress and David Wolfe Bender news@idsnews.com

More than half of greek houses at IU — 23 total — have been directed to quarantine by the Monroe County Health Department as of Wednesday afternoon.

IU released a list of the following eight greek houses that were asked to quarantine in an email Thursday: • Alpha Delta Pi • Alpha Sigma Phi • Beta Theta Pi • Kappa Kappa Gamma • Phi Gamma Delta • Phi Kappa Psi • Sigma Alpha Epsilon • Theta Chi IU spokesperson Chuck Carney announced Saturday the following houses were quarantined: • Pi Beta Phi • Delta Gamma • Sigma Chi Three more houses were placed in quarantine, according to a Monday update to the Division of Student Affairs website: • Pi Kappa Phi • Alpha Xi Delta • Zeta Tau Alpha Five more houses were directed to quarantine, according to a Tuesday update of the website: • Alpha Chi Omega • Alpha Omicron Pi • Alpha Phi • Alpha Epsilon Phi • Acacia Four additional houses were directed to quarantine, according to a Wednesday update of the website: • Gamma Phi Beta • Kappa Delta SEE GREEK HOUSING, PAGE 4

IU NAACP Zoom attacked

On the first day of her sophomore year, Lilly Rust tried to log into Canvas.

Rust, a sophomore in environmental and sustainability studies, was a few minutes away from her first online class of the semester.

She entered her password and clicked the button that should’ve logged her in.

Three miles away at IU's Bloomington data center, a piece of code was triggered. It should’ve quickly confirmed a few key pieces of information, such as Rust’s student status and her enrollment in the course, Religion, Ethics and Public Life.

But this chunk of code — rewritten over the summer — took longer to run than its previous version, leading to a bottleneck in authenticating users, causing university-wide issues with Canvas.

Rust didn’t log in to Canvas successfully until around 4 p.m. Aug. 24.

“When a lot of folks started logging in Monday morning, we were made aware of issues around 9:15,” said Dan Calarco, chief of staff for the IU vice president for information technology.

Calarco said UITS diagnosed the issue around noon and had fixed it by around 2:10 p.m.

The UITS Support Desk received 915 calls about Canvas on the first day of the fall semester, over five times more complaints than March 30 — the first day of online classes after spring break.

Rust said one of her professors never made it to their online lecture on the first day and also had internet issues during their Wednesday class. 31,000 IU users logged into Canvas between 9 and 11 a.m. on Aug. 24.

IU was also affected by a global Zoom outage Aug. 24.

Calarco said the Zoom outage was a failure completely outside IU’s systems, so UITS had no part in the Zoom issues and was unable to do anything to help. Zoom was working again by 12:45 p.m.

“The issues that we’re seeing on campus are what you would typically see at the start of a semester,” Calarco said of the outages.

isn't the only part of IU that has faced Zoombombing.

Last week, IU’s chapter of the NAACP was Zoombombed with racial slurs during an involvement fair where another club was also interrupted. The virtual attacks have plagued Bloomington Zoom calls since the spring when Zoom usage spiked, including an IUSG meeting and Bloomington Transit meeting, both of which were subjected to porn and racial slurs.

Calarco said UITS and other IU departments have recommended that instructors take measures to prevent future Zoombombing incidents. He said with a new authentication system available on IU calls, instructors can control who enters their Zoom class, and if an authorized member does share offensive or inappropriate material, the culprit will be clearly identifiable through their authenticated login.

“Having that log should be enough to discourage folks from doing that, but if not, then we have disciplinary processes that we can rely on,” Calarco said.

He said despite a rocky start, he is optimistic about the rest of the semester from a technology perspective.

More than a decade ago, UITS drafted a plan for how to continue campus operations in the case of a pandemic-like event. Calarco said this plan was harder to apply in the spring, when classes were not only moved online, but most students were scattered far from campus across the country and globe. He said this fall semester is much more in-line with UITS’ initial plan.

While it was more prepared for the fall with both its decade-old emergency playbook and six months of pandemic-induced virtual learning under its belt, UITS still experienced setbacks in the first week of the fall semester.

Zoombombing Roberta Pergher, director of undergraduate studies in IU’s department of history, said some courses in the history department experienced Zoombombing. She said students and faculty of color were threatened by Zoombombers in more than one class, and IU is investigating the incidents.

“That really is a huge problem,” Pergher said.

“Those are the things that I'm actually more worried about.”

The history department

Broken breakout rooms Pergher is also an associate professor teaching her own course, Inside Nazi Germany, a 250-student virtual general education course.

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IMU renovation unaffected by COVID-19

By Ally Melnik amelnik@iu.edu | @allylm1

By Matt Cohen mdc1@iu.edu | @Matt_Cohen_

IU’s chapter of the NAACP was Zoombombed with racist slurs Thursday evening during the Student Involvement Fair, according to a Twitter thread.

Along with writing and saying slurs in the Zoom meeting, people wrote “Fuck the NAACP” in the chat. Several Black students were called out by name by the Zoombombers, who also mocked George Floyd’s death and the phrase “officer, I can’t breathe.”

Junior Ja’Nay Coleman, secretary of IU’s NAACP, said she tried to take screenshots and remove everyone that was Zoombombing.

Coleman said IU reached out to her and told her to fill out a bias incident report and said it would talk with IUPD about it.

IU-Bloomington’s Twitter also responded to her Twitter thread about the event.

“This is unacceptable and we’re so sorry that this hapSEE ZOOMBOMB, PAGE 4

Before its first major renovation project since 1992, the Indiana Memorial Union dining area featured food court fare and outdated decor. Roughly 14,000 students use the school’s largest social hub every day during a normal semester, and the IMU’s directors said the space was no longer adequate.

The project began in December, and IMU executive director Hank Walter and assistant director Gary Chrzastowski still expect the building’s $10.2 million renovation to be completed in time for the spring 2021 semester.

They said the project wasn’t slowed by COVID-19 pandemic.

The number of workers on-site was never cut and they had enough room to social distance. Construction workers on-site all wear masks, and Walter said none have tested positive for the coronavirus.

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Capital Projects employees work on the new renovations to the Indiana Memorial Union food court.

Construction has been going on since December 2019.

Walter said while the renovation was funded through IU Dining, the IMU has cut its budget as a result of decreased revenue since students were sent home in March. That also resulted in

the IMU furloughing or laying off multiple full-time employees. Some were placed in other jobs at IU. Elements of the renovation, such as stages Walter and Chrzastowski plan to

have in the dining areas for live performances, will have to wait until after the main project is completed.

Plans for opening up the new dining spaces in the spring won’t go as anticipat-

ed. Just like every other dining hall on campus, the IMU will have Grubhub pickups and limited touchpoints.

“Pandemics and buffets don’t go together,” Walter said.

Inside the renovation, there are no ceilings or flooring are not in place yet. The outline for the new space emerges with drywall installation.

“I think the spaces felt more like a mall food court,” Walter said. “That's not what students want right now.

They want places in food with some character, some authenticity with some sense that the food is being made fresh. They're interested in different kinds of cuisines.”

There will be eight food options, including the combined Sugar & Spice/Chocolate Moose location, which has already opened. There will also be an Asian-style restaurant, burger restaurant, Italian restaurant and other SEE IMU, PAGE 4

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Can I hit your Juul?

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The use of vape products, such as the one shown above, could lead to an increased risk of COVID-19, according to a recent study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Probably not in the pandemic, IU health educator says

By Avraham Forrest ahforres@iu.edu | @Avraham_Forrest

Although COVID-19 has caused people to change a lot of their behavior, habits such as vaping are not so easily dropped.

Physical contact and the sharing of unsanitized items during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially those that have regular contact with mouths has been limited.

But when people share electronic cigarettes, they ignore these precautions, said Hope Frazier, an IU health and wellness educator.

E-cigarette users often carry them in pockets and purses, creating an opportunity to spread bacteria, in addition to the germs they

carry from going in and out of mouths, Frazier said.

Freshman Jack Stork said his vaping usage has increase since he returned to college.

“It’s definitely gone up, but that’s also been a bit of a social thing,” Stork said. “When you're around other smokers you tend to smoke more.”

E-cigarettes have been associated with lung injuries, seizures, nicotine addiction and poisoning, in addition to increased risk of heart attacks and strokes and inhibited brain development, Frazier said.

“It started as a social thing, and now we all just have nicotine addictions,” Stork said.

In addition to the risks of sharing vapes, the chemicals and nicotine break down the

body’s ability to fight regular illnesses, creating a challenge for anyone fighting COVID-19, Frazier said.

According to a study published in August 2020 by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, young people who vaped were five to seven times more likely to be infected by COVID-19 than those who did not use e-cigarettes.

Vaping is popular among college students. A study conducted by Butler University in 2019 found that 60% of college students have used a Juul.

“I’m definitely going through at least one Juul pod a day,” Stork said.

College students make up about half of Wild Side Smoke

Shop’s business, employee Steven Marchuk said.

Marchuk said the shop has seen an increase in sales since schools reopened.

“It has definitely jumped back up more than it ever has since the college students came back,” Marchuk said. “We are still doing damn good.”

Smoking cigarettes has also been linked to increasing chances of contracting the coronavirus. IU Health suggested in April that people quit smoking to avoid increased complications from contracting the coronavirus citing World Health Organization research.

IU Health offers tobacco and vaping cessation programs.

FBI arrests IU Ph.D. candidate

By Caroline Anders anders6@iu.edu | @clineands

An IU Ph.D. candidate and researcher was arrested in July after an FBI investigation alleged he was one of several Chinese researchers in the U.S. who knowingly lied on his visa application by saying he had never served in the Chinese military.

Kaikai Zhao was studying machine learning and artificial intelligence at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. His lawyer, Indianapolis-based Brad Banks, declined to comment on the case. IU does not comment on pending criminal matters.

Zhao was arrested July 18, and a judge decided Aug. 5 to hold him without bail until trial.

Despite investigators' allegations that Zhao “made false statements concerning that military service to conceal the true nature and purpose of his educational pursuits in the United States,” federal charging documents do not present evidence of Zhao transmitting information to the People's Liberation Army.

Federal authorities believe this case is part of a program run by the PLA or another institution to send military scientists to the U.S. under false pretenses. Three other researchers — all of whom were studying at universities in California — were arrested in July on the same visa fraud charge.

A fourth, who was studying at the University of Virginia, was arrested Friday and charged with theft of trade secrets and accessing a computer without authorization.

In a statement, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers called the purported scheme “another part of the Chinese Communist Party’s plan to take advantage of our open society and exploit academic institutions.”

Zhao’s case and the four similar ones came after President Donald Trump issued a proclamation in May that barred Chinese citizens at the graduate level and above who have ever been affiliated with a Chinese entity that uses or supports China’s military-civil fusion strategy from being granted visas to study in the U.S. The order also prompted a review of individuals already in the U.S. who fell into that category.

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This photo of Kaikai Zhao wearing a People's Liberation Army Air Force uniform appeared in the conclusion of the December 2015 article he co-authored at the Aviation University of Air Force, according to the FBI. Zhao denied being in the air force and told officials he wore the uniform for the photo to increase the prestige of his research and school.

Minyao Wang, a New York City attorney who has worked on intellectual property theft cases related to China, said the government was definitely looking for more evidence of wrongdoing by Zhao, but they probably would have found it by now if they were going to.

“Technically and officially and legally, he has not been accused of doing anything,” Wang said, referring to the absence of charges beyond visa fraud. “But there is obviously the insinuation that like, ‘What the heck are you doing in a research lab in Bloomington, Indiana, if you’re an undercover Chinese military officer?’ And that is actually a very valid question.”

Court documents say an FBI surveillance team saw Zhao meet with two officials from the People’s Republic of China’s Chicago consulate on July 17 in a park near his Bloomington home. The trip’s stated purpose was for officials to give health packages of masks and wipes to Chinese students.

Wang called the meeting “exceptionally unusual,” noting the officials drove nearly 250 miles to Bloomington, and said it was compelling circumstantial evidence that Zhao is not an ordinary civilian.

In an interview with the

FBI after his July 18 arrest, Zhao repeatedly denied having met with consulate officials the day prior until agents told him they watched the meeting happen. Zhao reportedly then told agents the meeting was about his visa, and the officials said the U.S. government might contact him because of his military background and the schools he attended.

On his visa application, Zhao disclosed he had a bachelor’s degree from China’s Aviation University of Air Force and was a joint student Ph.D. candidate at China’s National University of Defense Technology and Naval Aeronautical University, which are all PLA-affiliated.

When asked on the visa application if he ever served in the military, investigators say Zhao answered no.

“He sort of wasn’t being super super honest,” Wang said, “but then he also told people that he went to a Chinese military academy.”

In charging documents, the FBI also noted the Aviation University of Air Force is a similar institution to the U.S. Air Force Academy where students are active military members as they earn bachelor’s degrees. Investigators also found photos of Zhao wearing the PLA Air Force uniform and his name on

published research concerning military radar technology.

Zhao denied serving in the air force and told investigators he wore the uniform in a photo for a research study he had worked on to raise the prestige of the research paper and school. As part of the investigation, agents searched Zhao’s Bloomington apartment and office in Luddy Hall. They took documents and electronics from both locations and found a ripped-up copy of his visa application in the trash can next to his bed.

A 2018 policy brief from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute found dozens of PLA scientists have “obscured their military affiliations” to travel and do research in the European Union and countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the U.S. “It’s not clear that Western universities and governments are fully aware of this phenomenon,” the brief reads.

Another Chinese graduate student in Zhao’s intelligent systems engineering program said Zhao was shy but always friendly and helpful. He was also incredibly serious about his work, she said, and would sometimes get to Luddy Hall at 7:30 a.m. and not leave until 10:30 p.m.

He kept sticky notes on his desk and computer monitor at Luddy with encouraging phrases to remind him to keep going and not be afraid of failure. The graduate student, who asked to remain anonymous since the investigation is still open, said she was sad for Zhao and couldn’t see a reason why he would intentionally lie on his visa application.

Their program is also fairly new — it was founded in 2016 — and not yet widely known, she said, so she didn’t know why the Chinese government would send someone to steal information from it.

Zhao’s goal was to be a professor someday, his peer recalled, and he wanted to finish his Ph.D. as quickly as possible because his wife still lived in China.

Wang said unless the U.S. can find evidence of Zhao transmitting information he wasn’t allowed to take, it’s likely he will be offered some kind of plea deal and move back to China. This would be standard for someone facing this kind of accusation, Wang said.

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IU's La Casa to celebrate Latinx Heritage Month

By Celeste Ovelton covelton@iu.edu | @beyondlesea

This year, La Casa Latino Cultural Center partnered with Latino cultural centers of other universities, academic student organizations and Bloomington organizations to celebrate Latinx Heritage Month from Sept.

15 to Oct. 15.

The events will take place on Zoom and cover topics on Latinx life and culture.

What began as Hispanic Heritage Week in 1968 was lengthened to a month in 1988 by former President Ronald Reagan.

Nationally, organizations, including those at IU, have begun to refer to this month as Latinx Heritage Month in favor of better inclusivity.

“We’ve really been trying to work with people to try to get a larger audience this year,” La Casa director Lillian Casillas said.

The Latino Studies Program, assisted by Solimar Otero, professor of folklore and ethnomusicology, will put on two events on Latinx identity during this period.

The first event, Racial Scripts and Immigrant Communities: How Covid-Fueled Sinophobia Affects Us All, will take place from 4:30 to 6 p.m.

Oct. 8.

It will feature Natalia Molina, historian and professor of American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Race, Migration, and Indigeneity Program.

The second event, Community Memories: Quince Años Traditions as Community History, will be from 7 to 8 p.m. Oct. 14.

Rachel González, associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin, will talk about her book, “Coming Out Latina: Quinceañera Style and Latina/o Consumer Identities.”

Community members will be invited to share their experiences and quinceañera dresses.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, La Casa and the City of Bloomington.

Both events will be on-

Zoom and interested participants must RSVP and receive a link by emailing latino@indiana.edu.

“This term Latinx is always changing because it’s not one population.

It's multiple nationalities, multiple generations, multiple backgrounds of indigeneity,” Otero said.

“There’s so many groups that go into that one label, so it’s really hard to find one box.”

Those who identify as Latinx have roots in a country that is in Latin or Central America.

This covers a large area of several countries that have varying sub-cultures, dialects and traditions.

“It’s so much more than the language,” said Natalia River, board member of the Latinx Law Student Association.

Those who are Puerto Rican, including Rivera, are also American citizens. The Latinx Law Student Association is putting on an event at 7 p.m.

Sept. 17, A Conversation on Puerto Rican Identity, to address the lack of specific inclusion in Latinx and American identity discourse due to the overlap.

Law student Nahomi Matos Rondón will speak on her experiences on the intersectionality of being Afro-Latina and Puerto Rican in America.

This event will be held via Zoom and interested participants must RSVP by emailing The Latinx Law Student Association – llsa@iu.edu.

Casillas encourages those who are not Latinx but are interested in learning more about the community to interact with La Casa and other local community groups.

“The programming that we do is not just for Latinos, it’s for everybody.

When you show up to support our programming, it shows that you care, and having that support means a lot,” said Casillas.

“You’re part of IU, we’re part of IU, it is for you.”

Otero and Rivera also encourage allies to advocate for those who are Latinx to educate themselves and others about the culture.

“Be an advocate,” Otero said.

“Be aware that a lot of folks are having to live in the shadows.”

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Bloomington Faculty Council discusses COVID-19

By Abby Chovan adchovan@iu.edu

The Bloomington Faculty Council heard proposals in support of graduate student employees and a new interim suspension policy during Tuesday's meeting.

The council began the meeting by presenting its plans to continue to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic at IU. Provost Lauren Robel began her opening statement by explaining the current positivity rates of the coronavirus testing in residential halls and greek houses. She noted residential halls have seen a small increase in positivity rates since the on-arrival testing that began Aug. 24.

Robel expressed concern about COVID-19 transmission in the greek houses. In the first week, greek life reported an 8% positivity rate after the first week.

Each greek house has put their own individual plans in place with the university.

However, the Monroe County Health Department has now put 19 greek houses in quarantine and suspended further in-person activity, according to the university website.

Robel said the university plans to continue to test residential and greek life stu-

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The Bloomington Faculty Council convenes March 3 in Franklin Hall. The council met again Tuesday to hear proposals in support of advocacy for graduate student academic appointees and a new interim suspension policy.

dents more often through the mitigation testing process.

Through this, the university hopes to track cases and prevent outbreaks in residential spaces with case increases before they are able to spread.

Following the pandemic discussion, the council voted

on a resolution in support of graduate student employees presented support for graduate students. President of Graduate Student Government Dakota Coates explained he supports the resolution citing the lack of representation and help graduate students employees received

throughout the pandemic.

Coates said the goal of the resolution is to provide financial support for these graduate students. The resolution also highlighted the significance of avoiding pay cuts or laying graduate students off and allowing them to continue their academic

track.

Though no official university policy has been established from this proposal yet, the resolution was passed.

The council said they will discuss a course of action to implement these ideas in future meetings.

Council member and

physics professor Paul Sokol continued the meeting by presenting the new interim suspension policy. This policy would make it possible for the university to suspend a student and remove them from campus immediately following a behavioral threat that can endanger other members of IU’s community.

Consequences could go as far as no contact orders with other students, temporary housing moves and or complete removal from IU’s campus and services.

He explained the policy’s difference to the current suspension policy, which calls for a hearing process in order to implement consequences.

Sokol said the current policy makes it difficult for the university to remove a student who might pose an ongoing threat of sexual misconduct or violence toward other students.

Under new policy from President Donald Trump’s administration, the university is unable to use the current policy to remove a student for misconduct in any form.

The policy was passed in the meeting and will continue to be discussed in future meetings.

The next council meeting is scheduled to be over Zoom on Sept. 15.

So you got caught partying during the pandemic. Now what?

By Cate Charron catcharr@iu.edu | @catecharron

With college students nationwide returning to their campuses and partying to break in the new semester, universities are being forced back online. IU created a set of protocols to limit the spread of COVID-19 and prepared a course of action for students who fail to comply.

What happened to those partiers from a couple weeks ago?

IU is investigating an Aug. 19 party involving two homes on North Washington Street. A now-unavailable tweet showed a video of about 100 people gathered without masks outside an off-campus house.

IU Police Department Deputy Chief Shannon Bunger said the department responded to at least 50 calls for parties from Wednesday to Saturday during the week before classes started. He said many of those gatherings were not actually infractions because attendees were socially distancing, all lived in the house or had fewer than 15 people present.

He said many students arrived that Wednesday, which may have accounted for the increase. Bunger said he thinks the surge of party calls will settle down since

classes have begun.

“We're counting on the students to do what they’re supposed to so we can keep IU open,” Bunger said.

What happens if I party anyway?

The City of Bloomington announced last week that private gatherings could not exceed 15 people, a decrease from the previous limit of 50.

The campus event limit is set at 25 and any larger gatherings must be approved by the University Event Request Committee.

If a student is identified to have been at or organized a party that breaks the city or IU’s rules, the Office of Student Conduct will send them a letter. Those students could face a summary suspension from the university, said Kathy Adams Riester, associate vice provost for student affairs and executive associate dean of students.

Students facing this kind of discipline are not allowed to be on campus, participate in campus activities or go to classes.

“The action is pretty quick and swift in order to hopefully reduce the ability for continuing action,” Riester said.

Regarding the parties on North Washington, Riester said IU is still investigating, but multiple students have been suspended for attending the event.

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Such suspensions typically range from a semester up to two years, but persistent infringement could lead to expulsion. The suspension is an immediate action if the provost or designee decides a student’s presence on campus “constitutes a serious threat of harm” to other students, staff or anyone on campus, according to the Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, & Conduct.

A student can appeal their suspension if they send a written response to the dean of students within 10 days of receiving the suspension notice. The student will likely attend a hearing panel where they will present information and witnesses to try to overturn the decision.

“A huge group can potentially have people infect each other,” Riester said. “That's a pretty dangerous situation right now with COVID for the rest of the campus.”

Why are parties such an issue right now?

The coronavirus can be spread within minutes at a party where people are not socially distanced or wearing masks, said Dr. Cole Beeler, medical director of infection prevention at IU Health University Hospital. He said parties are one of the main risk factors for spreading COVID-19 on campus when reviewing positive cases throughout all IU campuses.

“I know that partying kind of comes with being in college, but right now, it's just a very different time,” Beeler said. “One party could easily ruin that situation for everyone else.”

Beeler said when collegeaged people contract COVID-19, they generally have a minimal upper respiratory tract infection and do not progress to more severe symptoms. However, he said it is not impossible for someone this age to reach that

state, and there is a possibility they could transmit the virus to someone at higher risk.

“Even though you might not be around people who are compromised and potentially at risk for having severe disease, you might spread it on to people who are,” Beeler said.

The coronavirus takes two to 14 days to develop symptoms, but a person is infectious 48 hours before showing any symptoms, Beeler said. He said 15 minutes within a 6-foot radius of someone who is COVID-19 positive could spread the virus.

“An infection can actually develop before you even know that you're sick,” Beeler said. “Which is really scary because that means that even though you feel fine, you might be spreading around to other people.”

What do I do if I see a large gathering?

IU has set up an online form to report COVID-19 violations. Riester said every tip received by IU is being investigated, but providing details makes the process much easier since many tips do not provide information such as an address or names.

She said if you see a large gathering it is best to first call police to break it up. Riester said police reports are helpful when the university in-

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vestigates tips because the reports provide more information.

“The better information we have, the easier it is to investigate,” Riester said. “A lot of the tips haven't had super great information to allow us to be able to have enough information to determine if they are violating policy or not.”

The Bloomington Police Department will not respond to a gathering violation on its own, but officers will show up if there’s an additional infraction such a noise complaint or underage drinking, Riester said. IUPD will respond for the gathering alone and both departments can report infractions to the dean of students.

Since the large gathering nearly two weeks ago, Riester said students seem to have done a better job at complying to COVID-19 protocols.

Both the Office of the Provost and the President sent emails to students last week in response to social gatherings that asked students to comply with COVID-19 regulations and said partying could force the university to close campus.

Riester said she recommends students find a small circle of people to socialize with. Along with social distancing and masks, she said it is better to do activities outside rather than inside.

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grab-and-go stations.

Walter said the original dining space felt like it could be at any school. He wants the new space to be representative of IU and the IMU. It will feature old elements of the building such as an IMU sign from the 1950s, stained glass and circular ceiling light fixtures.

Additionally, restaurant names will have IU ties such as the Quarry Pie Company and a burger restaurant will be named Whitfield Grill, after Helen Whitfield, who served as the IMU’s food manager from 1943-1948.

Food will be prepared fresh and sourced locally, which Walter said is another part of what students wanted. Seating will also be expanded.

Over the summer, the

tine as a result of a rise in positive COVID-19 test numbers.

The school did not release the testing numbers for those greek houses and the dashboard does not indicate how many of the 274 positive tests come from greek houses.

The dashboard will be updated weekly with mitigation and diagnostic test information across all IU campuses.

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pened to you and others in the meeting,” the tweet said.

“We’re looking into the incident right now and finding ways on how we can prevent this from happening in the future.”

Coleman said another IU

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fected by the outages, Pergher experienced technical difficulties in her Thursday Zoom lecture when she tried to divide it into pre-assigned breakout rooms.

“I wanted the same discussion groups to create a bit of community and get students to get to know each other,” Pergher said. “With more than 200 students, Zoom was not allowing me to do that.”

A representative from IU’s

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Executive director Hank Walter talks about how the Indiana Memorial Union food court will look after the renovations. The plan is to have the renovations finished for the 2021 spring semester.

crew continued installing the framework for what will become the new dining space.

Chrzastowski said. That work should be near completion in the next month.

The next steps for the

renovation will see electrical work continuing as well as the completion of walls, ceilings and plumbing. Chrzastowski expects ceilings to be installed over the next 2 to 4 weeks. Then comes interior

design.

For now, the site bears no resemblance to a dining space — completion of the project is still months away.

Though Chrzastowski believes the work conducted

through the pandemic will create a space that will once again be a hub for students.

“This becomes a destination,” Chrzastowski said. “I want to go all the way there because I want to be there.”

organization, Campus Curls and Coils, was also Zoombombed with racist slurs. The organization tweeted about it and will be filing a report against the individuals.

Senior Faith Griton, president and co-founder of Campus Curls and Coils, said about 30 people Zoombombed CCC’s and

the NAACP’s meetings. She said the Zoombombers also said racist slurs and mocked George Floyd in CCC’s meeting as well as made sexual noises and cat-called its members.

Griton said one of the Zoombombers said he was a student at IU. “Even if they weren’t IU

students, if IU says that they care about their students like they continue to say they do, then they should care that this happens,” Griton said. “They should want to have an investigation to make sure that none of them were IU people.”

Coleman said she hopes IU does something soon so

other students feel safe on campus.

“IU’s always talking about ‘IU is home’ but incidents like this show that IU is not home,” Coleman said. “Because being a Black student on campus, we shouldn’t have to go through this. This is our campus too, we deserve to be on this campus.”

Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, which has been heavily involved in helping instructors transition to online teaching, joined Pergher’s lecture to help her sort out the Zoom problem. While it wasn’t fixed Thursday, Pergher said her students were understanding and she has plans to adjust the format this week.

She said a major drawback of online learning is how difficult it can be to form a community in a virtual class.

“One of the best ways to

learn is to do things and to put out ideas, particularly in the humanities and social sciences,” Pergher said. “It's a way of learning that’s very intangible. It's not something you can measure there and then, but I think over time, it really makes a difference.”

However, Pergher said there are benefits to online instruction she appreciates.

“With the large class, there are opportunities online that I would otherwise not have had and that I was eager to try out,” Pergher said. “There's things

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The Indiana Memorial Union food court is in the middle of renovations to update the experience for students. The IMU staff projected the renovations will be done by the 2021 spring semester.

to be learned in all of this, but oh my God, I can't wait to get back in [the classroom].”

Fighting Zoom fatigue Anna Deeds, a lecturer teaching Business Presentations at the Kelley School of Business, said her course follows a hybrid model where half the class meets in person one day a week and learns asynchronously on the other day.

“This semester, I feel a bit more prepared with the technology, the functions of the

• Phi Delta Theta • Phi Sigma Kappa The university cited a recent spike in positive COVID-19 cases in greek housing as a reason for the mandate quarantines.

The additional organizations will be under the same order as the original eight chapters.

“This is to make sure we keep the spread down both in and out of their houses,” Carney said.

The announcement on Monday comes after the first batch of mitigation testing results were released, which showed an 8.1% positivity rate among those testing and living in greek housing.

technology and I feel like the students were prepared as well,” Deeds said.

She said she has planned for a situation where all classes would be moved online and in such a scenario, she would still meet synchronously in virtual classes.

“There's great value in doing presentations live, even if we're not in front of the inperson audience," Deeds said.

She added that she would still only meet with students once a week.

“I've heard the term ‘Zoom

fatigue’ and having that balance of synchronous and asynchronous work,” she said.

Deeds said she thought the freshmen in her class were positive in the face of the pandemic and grateful to be on campus.

“When everything starts to go back to somewhat of a normal experience, I think they'll be so positive and happy because they made it through their first semester during all of these different things," Deeds said. "I think they're resilient.”

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It’s a cliche, but it’s true: we’re living in a new normal. That includes the masks. The variety of options seemed to explode across the internet almost overnight, with reusable ones in patterned fabrics and disposable ones bulk boxes sold in droves.

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But let’s face it, some options are better than others — here’s what your choice in face mask says about you.

Note: IU requires CDC guidelinecompliant face coverings on campus except for people alone in enclosed spaces or while eating and drinking, as long as distancing is possible.

IU-branded mask

You’re trying to make the best of this.

Embarrassingly patterned mask

You got it in the mail and said, “that’ll do.” Match with your friends to look cool and represent IU, and try to ignore the dystopic angle of pandemic gear as college merch.

Disposable mask

You don’t have the heart to tell your aunt you’re not going to wear a Minions face mask, even if she made it. But to your delight, it probably smells like fabric softener.

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Remembering to throw your masks in the laundry can be annoying – it’s easier to take one out of a box and go about your day. However, you should Google the environmental impact and be sure to safely dispose of them.

A human face on a mask Even though it still fulfills the necessary duties of a face mask, this style of mask is legitimately jarring.

You must like to shock people.

Please don’t do this.

You didn’t get the memo!

This doesn’t count as a proper face mask, on IU’s campus or anywhere.

Save it for the ski trip.

No mask You really don’t get what’s going on here, do you?

Good luck fist-fighting the coronavirus.

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New York University grads create theater in Bloomington

By Lizzie Kaboski lkaboski@iu.edu

The COVID-19 pandemic abruptly sidelined performers in the theater industry. Live theatrical performances aren’t safe anymore, which has eliminated stage work opportunities for emerging artists.

However, a group of young artists in Bloomington have found a solution.

The group, made up of nine recent graduates of New York University’s Tisch School of Drama, are part of a residency program at the Hundredth Hill in Bloomington, a private property where the artists have space to create theater safely.

They have been rehearsing on the property, cut off from the outside world except for COVID-19 tests and essential trips since Aug. 1.

Their work will culminate in

two outdoor, socially-distanced performances over the first two weekends in October.

Kyndall Sillanpaa, NYU graduate and artistic director, is cultivating one of the performances titled “Ghost Tape Number 10” which will examine psychological warfare during the Vietnam War. There is no established script, and the group is still developing it. Scott Huffman, playwright and fellow resident, wrote “Children’s Crusade” about eight children in Utica, New York, who believe they have found a prophet.

When Sillanpaa found out her senior show at NYU would be canceled due to COVID-19, she asked herself how she could continue to safely share theater with audiences.

“What are people trying to do to quell the artistic need for creation

when there’s pandemic happening?” Sillanpaa said. “I’m having to grapple with entering into a professional field that is at a total stalemate right now.”

Her peers chose to perform their work on Zoom, but Sillanpaa said she felt dissatisfied with that.

She began to develop a new, nondigital way to consume theater.

“It feels so void of what theater making actually is,” Sillanpaa said.

“It’s all about it being in person, and that’s the one thing that can’t happen.”

Sillanpaa, originally from California, spent her first two years at NYU focused on acting, but slowly transitioned to directing. She planned to direct a 15-person cast of “People, Places & Things” by Duncan MacMillian for her senior project.

“I knew I didn’t want to get all

15 actors on a Zoom call and read this text because that wasn’t directing to me,” Sillanpaa said. “I was like, what is going to be anything that is moderately artistically fulfilling?”

Out of Sillanpaa’s frustrations, she and fellow NYU graduate Sam McHale worked with Krista Detor and David Weber, owners of the Hundredth Hill residency, to safely create theater in Bloomington.

The property has a professional recording studio, a barn with a stage, projection screen, an aerial silks rig, sound and lighting systems and four guest houses. This will be the first large theater residency at the Hundredth Hill, Detor said, and she is excited to be facilitating a group of young artists finding a way to make art in the middle of a pandemic.

“This is their future,” Detor said.

“I believe they’re the people that really have something to say right now.”

“The reason this works is because they’re in a bubble,” Detor said. “They’ve all been living here for a month, COVID negative, and are not interacting with the outside world.”

Sam McHale, resident and company manager, said he hopes this new way of performing will serve as a model for other artists on how to present theater during the pandemic.

“The importance of the work we’re doing here is figuring out how to create live theater safely in a time where there’s a lack of hope in the entertainment industry,” McHale said.

Tickets will be available through the Buskirk-Chumley Box Office on Sept. 4.

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

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New Title IX regulations threaten student survivors Maddie Butler is a sophomore studying international law and Arabic.

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COVID-19 emphasizes need for education reform Alex Petit is a senior in marketing and creative technologies in art and design.

In the middle of July, a 15-year old girl known as Grace, who attends Groves High School in Michigan, made national news. She was arrested for not completing her schoolwork once COVID-19 forced all schools to switch to a virtual format. Although it was a part of her probation terms, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, had issued an executive order that would suspend the confinement of juveniles that violated their probation unless they posed a serious threat to the community. Like many Americans, Grace suffers from ADHD which made the transition to virtual education especially difficult.

This is just one instance that shows the need for change in the education system. The school-to-prison pipeline is an American phenomenon where children are more likely to become incarcerated as a result of zero tolerance policies that are upheld within schools. These policies can be detrimental since they disproportionately affect Black and Brown students.

Zero tolerance policies originated in the late 1990’s in response to school

shootings. These policies would lead to the suspension or expulsion of a student for bringing a weapon to school or even for talking back to a teacher. These policies were meant to create safer spaces in schools, but they have not been shown to be effective and have fueled increasing suspension and expulsion rates.

There are several alarming statistics that demonstrate the racial bias of these policies. One being that white students are more likely to be disciplined for provable, documentable offenses while Black students are more likely to be disciplined for more subjective reasons.

These policies also disproportionately affect lower income students as they are up to ten times more likely to drop out of school than those with greater financial security.

Students that are suspended or expelled for a discretionary violation are nearly three times more likely to be in contact with the juvenile justice system within the following year.

Black students are also suspended and expelled three times more than white students, even though they do not misbehave at higher rates. In almost all 50 states, Black students are more likely to be arrested at

school and make up 31% of school-related arrests.

By criminalizing simple offenses within schools, we only exacerbate the mental health crisis and mass incarceration of our nation.

Becoming incarcerated during your adolescent years is associated with worse mental and physical health in adulthood. About 80% of these youth will also become reincarcerated as adults. An overwhelming majority of these youth when they are first incarcerated also have at least one psychiatric disorder and require medical attention.

Again, these trends disproportionately affect Black and Brown people as 1 in 3 Black men and 1 in 6 hispanic men face a lifetime imprisonment risk compared to just 1 in 17 white men. It is clear that these policies are detrimental to our youth and our nation, so why are they continuously upheld?

What are the alternatives?

Many schools are looking into restorative justice practices to help mitigate the affect of zero tolerance policies. These policies are focusing on reducing suspension rates, which have a strong relationship with dropout and arrest rates.

Additionally, these poli-

cies are focusing on how to create an equitable environment for marginalized students. Our school system has to transform the way it views conflict, and it must develop relationships between students and faculty so that conflict can be worked through in a healthy way that benefits both parties. Students should be able to make mistakes and learn from them in a meaningful way.

By prioritizing social and emotional development within schools, we can help promote confidence and empathy, while reinforcing healthy relationships.

It is important to recognize that COVID-19 did not create these issues as they were prevalent before. It only made them more visible to our nation. However, COVID-19 will make these challenges even more difficult as it has created even more barriers as a result of the virtual format that must be addressed as well.

We must continue to fight against these policies so more children like Grace do not get criminalized for things that many children can relate to. Everyone deserves to make mistakes and have the chance to learn and develop from them. apetit@iu.edu

“It is a very scary time for young men in America,” cried President Donald Trump, conjuring a narrative in which it is only a matter of time before your brother, friend or father is falsely accused of perpetrating sexual violence.

It seems the U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, buys into the same illusory story. Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 obliges schools to protect their students from sex-based discrimination in educational spaces. Its existence equips student survivors of sexual harassment and assault with the legal tools to pursue disciplinary action against perpetrators. As of Aug. 14, DeVos has significantly narrowed its protections.

The US Department of Education’s latest Title IX regulations entered into effect this month, creating an increasingly hostile environment for student survivors.

DeVos paints the regulations as an attempt to “strengthen title IX protections for all students.” A critical read of the 2,000-page directive reveals which students she’s truly interested in protecting — those who double as perpetrators of sexual violence.

First, the regulations narrow Title IX’s definition of sexual harassment. To qualify as harassment, behavior must be “severe, pervasive and objectively offensive.” Previous guidance included “severe or pervasive” cases, meaning severe behavior did not have to be repeated in order to constitute harassment.

Already, survivors seeking recourse in the wake of a single egregious act of sexual harassment are no longer supported by Title IX. All schools are now required to hold live hearings when pursuing Title IX action.

In order for evidence presented by a survivor to be considered, they must agree to be subject to cross-examination by a “party advisor” of the other party’s choice. Advisors could include a hired attorney or even the perpetrator’s best friend.

The new regulations continue to hollow Title IX of its ability to protect survivors. The removal of the recommended 60-day limit on investigations allows schools to draw out investigations indefinitely. They rid schools of the mandate to respond to incidents not reported to certain individuals, such as deans or Title IX coordinators.

DeVos sacrifices protections for survivors, shifting policy to the advantage of those falsely accused of sexual assault. According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, this occurs in as few as 2.1% of cases. In contrast, 63% of survivors never report their experiences with sexual violence. Why? They are deterred by already difficult processes made more harrowing by these regulations.

The scale is not balanced by these regulations. It is shifted in favor of the perpetrator.

No regulation better demonstrates this than the change to the evidentiary standard.

Schools may now choose to increase the evidentiary standard from a “preponderance of evidence” to a standard of “clear and convincing evidence.” Rather than a standard which deems the plaintiff ’s case more likely to be true than untrue, the plaintiff must prove their case beyond a shadow of a doubt.

What routes to recourse remain for survivors? Students now rely more heavily upon the sexual misconduct policies created independently by their universities. When a report does not meet the standards for a Title IX case, the school may seek to investigate a case under the jurisdiction of its own institutional sexual misconduct policy instead.

For example, while not meeting the new Title IX process’s standard, IU’s sexual misconduct policy allows the school to address misconduct that is “severe or pervasive” but does not have to be both, according to Emily Springston, IU’s sexual misconduct and Title IX coordinator. It also allows IU to address incidents occurring between students off-campus. IU also opted to keep the lower “preponderance of evidence” standard in the Title IX process as the regulations left this decision to schools.

These decisions made by IU make recourse more accessible for survivors.

This is not enough. Federal civil rights law such as Title IX should not have to rely upon the actions of individual institutions to reach the people the law is intended to protect.

Remember, while Title IX has been stripped of much of its power to protect student survivors, support for survivors may still be found within institutional policy. And when not supported in policy, support must be found in community, in solidarity and in activism. butlemad@iu.edu

EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN

Online learning is hard. Professors deserve kindness now more than ever.

Ellie Albin is a freshman in journalism.

I’m new to college. I’ve only been a freshman for a week. I’m still confused about where everything is and I haven’t really met very many people yet.

But there’s one thing I know for sure: Our professors deserve the same patience they give to us.

This is more of a preemptive piece than anything.

School is just getting underway, so I still feel that brighteyed and bushy-tailed vibe as I talk to people and walk around campus.

That will fade, though, even if it’s just a little bit. As we start to get past the introductory units of our classes, as we get into a routine and see the homework piling up, the initial gleam of the school year will fade away. It always does.

I remember when I was a kid, the first few days of school smelled like disinfectant.

All the school supplies were practically untouched and everyone was still unsure of one another’s names.

It was the most wonderful feeling in the world. But, as I said: it fades. Always.

That’s not necessarily bad, of course. According to

Northwestern Medicine, getting into a routine can result in better sleep, lower stress levels and overall better health.

But what I also know is that, sometimes, we begin to get tired of our routines – and our professors.

But in a year like this, with most classes being taught virtually, glitches in Zoom and Canvas and an overall feeling of uneasiness, we can’t get fed up with our professors.

I’ve witnessed many students being disrespectful both this year and during my senior year of high school, whether they mean to or not, by zoning out, not participating in discussions and having their video cameras off for entire class periods. Not only is that a waste of your education, don’t you think it hurts your professor’s feelings? Even just a little bit?

So, if students are already becoming impatient and restless, then it’s time to state the message loud and clear: Give your professors time to adjust.

There are entire websites dedicated to teaching online courses, such as the from the National Education Association – with documents that are over 20 pages long – so, yeah.

It’s an adjustment. It’s an entirely different way of learning

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and teaching.

They have adapted their entire course just so they can continue to teach you.

Yeah, of course, it looks different. Of course, the work will have to be adapted. Of course, nothing is quite the same. But your professors are human beings. This was not their choice, and they are forced to adapt. And they are doing all of this, ultimately, for you. They do this for you so you can learn, so you can stay

on track with your coursework and so you can graduate on time.

So instead of hassling your professors, why don’t you thank them? Or at the very least, give them some patience because they’re certainly being patient with you. Their patience should be evident at this point, and I can speak to this from personal experience. During the first week of classes, I accidentally missed an entire period of

German. I waited 50 minutes, thinking either my professor had a problem getting the Zoom started or it was a glitch on my end, so I sent an email acknowledging I wasn’t sure exactly what had happened.

Instead of lashing out, I sent a respectful email, and my professor was very kind and understanding in response. Class did indeed happen, but because neither of us is incredibly comfortable with Zoom yet, we didn’t un-

derstand why it sent me to an entirely separate Zoom meeting room.

Zoom logistics aside, the patience and understanding we had for the situation is an example of how we all need to act with one another not only during the pandemic but even once the pandemic ends.

Be nice to your professors.

I promise they’ll be nice in return. ealbin@iu.edu

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TAKE IT LIKE A FAN

A clueless fan recreates AT&T Stadium’s Cheetos Mac N Cheese Balls Bradley Hohulin is a sophomore in marketing.

Like the American flag on the moon or the boot prints on the peaks of Mount Everest, the Cheetos Mac N Cheese Balls at the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium represent mankind’s propensity to push the limits of what is deemed possible.

This dish is the invention of a species that decided carbs laden with fat were not sufficient and thus must be coated in more carbs — Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, specifically — and fried in more fat.

Since I will not be attending any sporting events in the foreseeable future, I sought to bring the flavors of the game to my own home. My utter lack of athleticism has never hindered my love of sports, so my cluelessness in the kitchen was not going to stand in the way of making this monstrosity.

The macaroni and cheese itself was nothing intricate. All it took was milk, water, elbow pasta and a block of sharp cheddar chopped to bits by a young man with nary a cheese grater to his name. Stirring the thick mass before me, I felt a pang of guilt knowing the horrors to which I would soon subject it.

I enjoyed a helping of the untainted delicacy to myself, then used as little as necessary of what was left to form crude spheres, putting them on a tray in the freezer to harden.

Meanwhile, I prepared the jalapeño ranch with which AT&T Stadium dresses its Mac N Cheese Balls.

A proper recipe for this sauce from Taste of Home extends far beyond the narrow reaches of my spice cabinet, so I made do with

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Greek yogurt, olive oil, garlic salt, sugar and a finely minced jalapeño pepper. The resulting mixture ultimately resembled something between mayonnaise and the ooze from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Roughly 45 minutes later, the hour of reckoning was upon me. I placed a few handfuls of Cheetos in a Ziploc bag and mangled it until only vibrant red powder remained, beat an egg in a bowl and began heating a small pot of canola oil.

Then, it was a simple matter of dousing the macaroni in egg wash, rolling it in Cheeto crumbs and repeating this process to ensure a thick, sturdy crust.

Once I touched the first ball to the Cheeto dust, I knew there was no going back. Any shred of innocence this wholesome comfort food once held had been mercilessly ripped away by the claws of Chester Cheetah.

Finally, with a broken heart and an irredeemable soul, I submerged the malformed clump of cheese and starch in a scalding pool of canola oil. I watched the craggy orb hiss and sputter while bubbles rocketed upward like tormented spirits in the River Styx.

Frankly, I deserved to get burned by the oil. I don’t mean I was being careless, but rather some higher power should have immediately punished me for my transgressions at that moment.

However, no such judgment befell me and I was free to enjoy what I could of my creation. I nestled each orange pearl atop the macaroni and cheese, drizzled the plate in jalapeño ranch and garnished it with more Cheeto crumbs.

One stroke of a table knife and a couple Hail Marys later, my tongue

was reminded of an ageless American truth — that which is cheesy and deep-fried usually tastes really, really good.

A crunchy Cheeto exterior gave way to a smooth, velvety interior.

Jalapeño ranch filled the nooks and crannies of the noodles left unoccupied by melted cheese, seamlessly juxtaposing hot and crispy with cool and creamy.

What surprised me most was the ball’s structural integrity. I ex-

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Today is a 7 — Share support.

Words can get twisted in unexpected ways. An answer may seem elusive. Treat your partner with patience and kindness. Allow extra consideration.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Today is an 8 — You can get the results you’re after. Listen to elders and your inner wisdom. Follow your emotions as well as intellect. Lead with heart.

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Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Today is a 7 — Go for excellence.

Your performance has been gaining attention. Talk about the results you’d love to see. Patiently, persistently practice. Slow and steady wins.

cellent finger food, an advantage completely nullified by the loose noodles underneath. The last thing I wanted to eat after fried macaroni and cheese was slightly less-greasy macaroni and cheese.

In the future, perhaps AT&T Stadium can consider pairing this menu item with a bed of leafy greens, a long jog or a quick coronary bypass.

The final product of my recreation of AT&T Stadium’s Cheetos Mac N Cheese Balls.

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is an 8 — Consider another’s point of view. Focus on maintaining functional systems, and keep the machinery flowing smoothly. Find a financial solution. Collaborate for shared gain.

pected it to collapse in a cascade of molten cheese but was instead greeted by a convenient hand-held treat.

Obviously, there are easier ways to accumulate plaque in your arteries. But this was a lot more fun than injecting myself with a syringe full of maple syrup.

My only real complaint with this meal is that it is served over its own trough of macaroni and cheese. As I discovered, these make for ex-

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Today is a 7 — Your home and family require more attention.

Spice things up with new recipes or projects. Monitor and conserve supplies. Gather and preserve windfall fruit.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is an 8 — Enjoy a new creative project or assignment.

Articulate the message. Set rules and guidelines. Avoid another’s argument. Record feelings and observations in your journal.

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Aries (March 21-April 19) Today is a 9 — Listen to a wise elder. Solve a puzzle. Reaffirm a personal commitment. You’re getting stronger with each step forward. Follow your heart where it leads.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Today is a 7 — Work out new ways to connect with friends. Not everyone has the same risk tolerance.

Community roots run deep. Feed and nurture them with love.

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Track budgets to monitor progress.

Give up unnecessary practices or expenses. Adjust and adapt.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is an 8 — Roads that previously seemed blocked could open.

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