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'IU, do better' Students demand transparency from IU, IUPD about sexual assaults at Friday protest

By Sean Gilley spgilley@iu.edu | @SeanyG729

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IU students chant during the Hoosier Against Sexual Assault protest on Oct. 22, 2021, in Dunn Medow. The demonstration was planned to advocate for a safer campus for students.

By Salome Cloteaux scclotea@iu.edu

Editor’s note: This story includes mentions of sexual assault.

A large gathering of students protested the rise of sexual assaults on the Bloomington campus Friday afternoon at Dunn Meadow. They demanded the IU Police Department change its policy of withholding specific locations of sexual assaults on its public crime log.

Students chanted “IU do bet-

ter! IUPD do better!” and “stand up for survivors, not rapists!” An organizer of student group Hoosiers Against Sexual Assault said 13% of college students nationwide have experienced sexual assault on campus. The organizers said victims at IU can find help at student organization Shatter the Silence and from IU's Confidential Victim Advocates.

The protestors held a moment of silence for victims of sexual assault. When the organizers asked students to raise their hand if they

knew someone who had been sexually assaulted, almost everyone did.

Five IU students formed Hoosiers Against Sexual Assault in response to IUPD’s policy, Sam Barber, co-founder of the group, said. They created a petition asking IUPD to end its policy to not name fraternities and residency halls for sexual assault cases, which they said enables a culture of sexual assault. The petition has more than 10,000 signatures as of Friday.

“Our focus is to fix the campus culture surrounding sexual assault and the things that the university and IUPD does to silence victims and continue supporting perpetrators,” Barber said. “The most important thing is that all survivors are included in this, and we recognize everyone’s experience with sexual assault because they are all so different but equally important.”

The students started to plan

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Lilly Library series reconsiders Native history

By Meghana Rachamadugu megracha@iu.edu

Lilly Library staff and IU faculty challenged the intentions and interpretations of several historical documents relating to Native American history Oct. 25 for the fourth installment of the library’s virtual “Whose History?” series.

Liza Black, Cherokee Nation citizen and IU history professor, said even historical documents rooted in white supremacy can be used as tools of sovereignty for Native Americans, especially when studying indigenous languages.

“Sometimes indigenous communities can find words they need to know more about from, oddly, religious materials that were absolutely not done for the purpose of helping indigenous people,” Black said. “These historic materials in indigenous languages actually can do things that they weren’t meant to do. They can be decolonized in that sense.”

The document she referenced was an 1844 Christian prayer book, translated into a Potawatomi language by a Jesuit priest.

Though originally intended to colonize and convert Native Americans to Christianity, the translated prayer book provided a written record of the language and inadvertently preserved Potawatomi culture.

Lilly Library fellow Romero and Black showcased five primary source documents, or firsthand accounts of historical topics, pertaining to Indigenous history in the Midwest for the Oct. 25 webinar.

These included a book of portraits, treaty records between the U.S. and Native American nations, land transactions and an autobiography dictated by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader who fought alongside British troops during the War of 1812.

Romero said the types of documents presented symbolize larger historical forces, such as the violence endured by Native Americans at the hands of white European settlers.

“It’s relatively innocuous when you first look at it,” Romero said. “I think that Bibles and dictionaries and prayer books are all powerful symbols of colonialism for that reason, because they’re not as outwardly sensational.”

White settlers recorded all the documents, including Black Hawk’s oral autobiography, which

The Food and Drug Administration advisory panel authorized the use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 at a meeting Oct 26.

The FDA advisory panel voted unanimously to recommend the inclusion of this age group with one member abstaining. The FDA must make a final decision on the recommendation. If the FDA agrees, children in this age range could expect to get these shots as early as next week, according to an article from IU Today.

Before vaccines are to be administered to children 5 to 11, however, authorization is required from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee on immunization practices and the CDC director.

The advisory committee is scheduled to meet on Nov. 2 and 3 to review the data to make a recommendation.

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IU President Pamela Whitten declared Nov. 24 a university holiday as an expression of gratitude to faculty and staff.

The new holiday extends Thanksgiving break for faculty and staff to include the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, according to a news release from IU Today. Previously the holiday only encompassed Thanksgiving and the Friday after Thanksgiving, according to IU Human Resources.

All IU offices will be closed Nov. 24 through Nov. 26, according to the release.

“As a way to say thank you for the extraordinary dedication and commitment of our IU employees during this unique semester, we are expressing our gratitude with an extension of Thanksgiving break,” Whitten said in the release. “On behalf of the entire leadership team at Indiana University, please enjoy this Day of Gratitude.”

This day of gratitude gives a break to IU faculty and staff and does not extend Thanksgiving break for students.

Thanksgiving break for students begins after the last class Nov. 21 and ends Nov. 28, according to the IU Academic Calendar.

BPD arrests ICOB vandal Oct. 21

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further complicates modern historical interpretation, Black said.

“Indigenous languages are incredibly complex, far more complex than English, and many words and concepts are virtually untranslatable,” Black said. “How much was Black Hawk able to express given that he was trying to express it ultimately in English?”

The goal of the event series

launched in February is to recenter historical narratives by adopting the perspectives of traditionally underrepresented or misrepresented groups in archives, Romero said. The events draw exclusively from materials housed at the Lilly Library, which is open for research to everyone.

Romero said the staff of the library encourages researchers to

question everything when looking through primary source documents because many marginalized groups have been historically ignored or erased from archival collections.

“The way that things are catalogued and described — those are all human decisions,” Romero said. “It just means you have to dig a little harder.”

The Bloomington Police Department arrested a suspect Oct. 21 following vandalism at the Islamic Center of Bloomington on the morning of Oct. 18.

Adam Lee Walls, 32, was arrested early Oct. 21 and charged with a level 6 felony.

In an Oct. 19 Facebook post, the ICOB said the suspect damaged a new HVAC unit, the new fence, security cameras, picnic tables and more.

Toys from the playground were also damaged, according to a BPD press release.

The center said in the Facebook post they believe the vandalism was a hate crime and the ICOB was specifically targeted.

Walls told police in an interview his actions were not racially or religiously motivated, according to the Herald-Times.

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RHA hosts first Fall Festival

By Tory Basile vlbasile@iu.edu | @torybasilee

On a rainy Sunday, two students played ring toss to win stuffed animals, IU pens or cups in Cedar Hall. A group of residents sat together at round tables while they decorated small ceramic succulent pots with paint pens.

A student spun a wheel at one table and won a reusable water bottle as 2010s’ pop music filled the room from a speaker.

The IU Residence Hall Association organized its first-ever Fall Festival at the Union Street Center Sunday afternoon. The festival welcomed six student organizations and gave on-campus residents a chance to explore club involvements and enjoy refreshments.

RHA Vice President of Programming Elyse Pickering, who organized the festival, said she hoped to provide residents with a place to meet people and explore what they

can do at IU, especially given that the COVID-19 pandemic has made it difficult.

Pickering said this is the first time the RHA has hosted Fall Fest and said she hopes the association will continue hosting it annually. She said that the RHA tried to host a similar seasonal event last spring, but was unable to due to COVID-19 parameters.

“I’m really looking forward to reaching out to the residents, especially because things have been very different for students because of COVID,” Pickering said.

Freshman Cole Hess said he was able to check out the Rec Sports table as well as learn about the Political and Civic Engagement program.

Hess and his friend were just beginning to decorate some of the succulents the RHA provided to guests at one of their tables.

“That’s all I’ve done so far, but there’s a lot more,” Hess said.

Fall Fest gave several cam-

pus organizations a platform to share their recent projects with the students there. Junior Kaitlin Scott, director of communications for IU Student Government, said she was there to spread the word about its upcoming Fall Town Hall and their Title IX Survey and gather feedback from students about what they’d like to see changed on campus.

Junior Kae Beckwith, team leader and marketing assistant for IU Recreational Sports, set up his table with stacks of SRSC pamphlets and stickers. He said he planned to promote a new mobile app by Rec Sports and share merchandise, such as water bottles and drawstring bags, with the students attending the festival.

“I’m hoping to connect with them more,” Beckwith said.

Beckwith said he thinks students should make the most of what IU’s sports facilities have to offer now that

they’re open and accessible to everyone.

“Take advantage of your membership,” he said. “You automatically pay for it in your student fees. Go to the gym, it’s free.”

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Commissioner allegedly mocks county clerk

By Sean Gilley spgilley@iu.edu | @SeanyG729

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The IUB RHA twitter page posted a flyer detailing their plans for the Fall Festival which took place from 2 to 4 p.m. on Oct. 24, 2021, at Dunn Meadow. The festival welcomed six student organizations and gave oncampus residents a chance to explore club involvements and enjoy refreshments.

County Commissioner Lee Jones appeared to mock County Clerk Nicole Browne on-camera during a commissioner meeting on Zoom Monday which led to community outrage.

During a discussion between County Commission President Julie Thomas and Browne regarding issues with flooding in June damaging electronic poll books, Jones’ camera turned on.

Others in the meeting witnessed her mouthing what many allegedly believe was ridicule aimed at Browne.

Browne said in a statement she initially didn’t think much of the incident but became aware of Jones’ alleged mocking after colleagues reached out.

A handful of local activists and political organizations responded to the clip, scrutinizing Jones. Jones responded to the claims in a B Square Bulletin article, saying she was addressing her cat she alleges was playing with the yarn Jones was holding on-screen. She said her cat knocked the yarn onto the computer, turning on her camera.

Many groups are rejecting this statement, labeling it as a poor excuse to cover her misconduct. Black Lives Matter-Btown said in an email they want Jones to publicly acknowledge her actions and resign as county commissioner.

“It is clear she is not capable of giving the most

basic level of courtesy to Clerk Browne, something that you and your ilk seem to be so big on except when it has to do with Black women,” BLM-Btown said in an email. “She needs to go.”

The Monroe County Black Democratic Caucus shared their disdain with the situation in a statement on Facebook Tuesday. In the statement, the organization said they disapprove of Jones’ actions, especially since it is during the discussions of voting rights and elections which is one of the organization’s key issues.

“The more I watched it, the more I believed that she disrespected Browne,” William Hosea, Monroe County Black Democratic Caucus chairman, said.

Hosea said he would like to see her take responsibility for her actions and wishes for this matter to be resolved quickly.

“At this point, I’m hoping we can go ahead and put this past us and move forward and get back to the people’s business,” Hosea said.

According to previous meeting recordings regarding the upcoming 2022 election cycle, Jones and Browne have had contentious arguments. Jones said she felt Browne was implying she had lied about her past work in local elections in an Oct. 6 weekly work session. Browne said in the meeting she simply couldn’t locate the records of her past work and was not implying Jones was a liar.

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IU sophomore Darian Belcher becomes stressed after studying Oct. 25, 2021, at the Radio-Television Building. The U.S. Department of Education announced in a press release Oct. 19 a new resource guide is available to support child and student mental, behavioral, social and emotional health issues as a result of the pandemic.

Mental health guide provides resources

By Emma Herwehe eherwehe@iu.edu | @EmmaHerwehe

The U.S. Department of Education announced Oct. 19 a new resource guide is available to support child and student mental, behavioral, social and emotional health issues as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The funding was granted to meet the needs of children and students with mental health issues. The resource outlined seven challenges the country is facing, including issues such as ineffective implementation of practices and policy and funding gaps, and seven recommendations to face those challenges.

Eric Walsh-Buhi, IU School of Public Health professor, said it is close to impossible to address mental health challenges in schools without federal assistance.

“This funding is really important because we can’t do that work,” Walsh-Buhi

said. “We can’t employ interventions with young people, can’t do programming and provide support and resources to young people without funding and without really high level resources being directed.”

Depression and anxiety are two mental health disorders that have greatly increased through the pandemic, Sheila Dennis, IU School of Social Work senior lecturer, said.

“Even before the pandemic, we’ve been seeing a steady increase in mental health disorders in students,” Dennis said. “Especially depression and anxiety — the pandemic has exacerbated that.”

Schools can be one of the only mental health resources students have to turn to, Dennis said. At the college level, she said students’ mental health needs to be of utmost importance to ensure a good transition into jobs and life in the real world.

“It's really important that we continue to ensure that students are healthy so they can make those major life transitions,” Dennis said.

Janet R. Decker, IU School of Education and the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Department associate professor, said mental health issues are extremely broad and are different for every person.

She said these issues not only affect a student’s academic performance but also the rest of their life.

“Not only is there a lack of knowledge about mental health, but also just understanding how broad it is,” Decker said. “When you think about those three components — social, emotional, behavioral — that can affect a person’s academic life for sure but their overall well-being is really important to attend to as well.”

Decker said the mental health support systems at the college level were al-

ready struggling before the pandemic. This resource attempts to address concerns about how those support systems address issues and offers recommendations that can help, she said.

“At the university, there’s been increased student needs for mental health attention and support,” Decker said. “It’s happening in a system that was already overburdened before the pandemic, so schools and universities have increased their legal and ethical responsibilities to meet these mental health needs of students.”

This resource is bringing awareness to the needs of children and students that have come to light in recent years, she said. Schools across the country have recommendations for how to address these problems, such as enhancing mental health literacy and prioritizing wellness of each child, student, educator and provider, she said.

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Poppin is a new way to invite and attend parties in a simple and safer way on a phone.

The iOS app launched in June 2021 and is a startup company made by a group of high school and college students. Currently, students at IU, UCLA, USC, Yale and Babson College can download the app.

Party hosts who download the app can manage guest lists, send invites, charge for entry, share media from the event and log the people who attended. Partygoers can use the app to find events using a filter and RSVP to events they want to attend.

The filter feature allows guests to choose parties by distance, location and boygirl ratio. People can also scroll through the guest list to see if their friends are attending and the host’s previous events. Guests can also share party information with other Poppin users.

Miguel C. Dickenson, Poppin chief product and marketing officer, said their team created the technology to do good.

Victims of sexual assault or harassment can use reporting features on the app or inform the host of any incidents. Dickenson said all app events require RSVPs with public profiles.

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university’s student health and wellness center and campus police. The offender’s account will be flagged and other app users see this indicator on the guest list when RSVPing, Dickenson said.

“This level of accountability has never existed in the college-party ecosystem, where guys have been able to get away with their crimes scot-free for decades,” Dickenson said.

IU Freshman Rishab Kalra, a Poppin marketing department member, said the app works to hold attendees accountable and prevent offenders from repeating actions in a quick and comprehensible manner. The team felt motivated to make a technology-based solution to address safety and comfort at college parties.

Both Dickenson and Kalra said they are passionate about addressing safety concerns in partying in a college atmosphere. Through the launch, Kalra said the app is inclusive and raises awareness about the campus social scene.

In the upcoming months, the app developers plan to partner with inter-fraternity councils and the secret societies at Yale. This collaboration will result in an alert system with a chosen trusted contact via voice activation as well as an integrated payment option to increase efficiency and scalability at fundraising parties.

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Art has always affected the real world

By Stefan Townes sztownes@iu.edu | @stefant_

Does art imitate life? Or does life imitate art? Either way, the two are tied together.

The discussions on film and television center the relation of art and society now more than ever. Instead of talking about the ability to act or edit, more conversations about our favorite shows and movies focus on the social context. Plenty of articles have been written about proper representation in casting and how works of art can address and affect a broader social movement.

In turn, there’s also been a large and vocal opposition to such analysis. Responses to this new wave of criticism are extremely common, and anyone on the internet has probably heard them before. They usually vary from the simple, “If you don’t like it, don’t watch,” or “It’s just a movie, stop getting worked up over nothing.”

While some can dismiss it, art has always affected and reflected the society around it.

While it is indeed “just a movie,” one of the most notorious examples would be the 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation.” This single film is cited as one of the core catalysts which caused the rapid rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 20th century.

In it, the Klan is shown to be a heroic force that helps preserve American values, protecting white people from Black people. Of course, with the hindsight we have now, we can easily say the film is an atrocious act of racism, but even back then, debates were had over whether or not it was of-

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“The Birth of a Nation” is depicted on a lobby card for the 1915 film.

fensive. Such a film caused riots and protests and garnered enough attention that it was one of the first films to ever be screened at the White House.

Prior to the film, another work of art was said to be a core cause of an even larger event in history. The novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is often cited to have laid the groundwork for the American Civil War. Though still a fictional story, the novel had brought attention to the horrible lives of the enslaved and called into question the entire practice of slavery in a way not yet seen. While slavery was always a topic of discussion, it was rare to see it brought up so bluntly.

There’s a long list of more examples of works in

film, literature and television that have directly affected the social contexts around them. Even in modern times, we have examples of viral songs like Childish Gambino’s “This is America” addressing the fearful reality of 21st-century America. There are entire genres of “protest songs” and “social novels,” so why are there still some denying the real-world impact of works of art?

It goes both ways. For every work of art that can bring harm to society, there is another that could help.

There have been studies showcasing a correlation between the representation of marginalized people in film and television to a realworld increase of tolerance to different groups of peo-

ple. At the same time, there are many anecdotes of people who were radicalized into hate groups because of the media they watched.

While some shows and movies might just be fiction and others might just be jokes, the reality is that works of art always relate to the world around them.

While we have over a century’s worth of hindsight in the case of “The Birth of a Nation,” we don’t have that luxury for today’s controversial films. Critique is necessary to understand the relationship between art and the real world. While I could just simply not watch the difficult things and completely ignore them, it doesn’t mean that those works won’t affect me and everyone around me.

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At Seth Boyden Elementary School in Maplewood, New Jersey, second grader Sumayyah Wyatt’s hijab was yanked off of her head by her teacher.

The teacher allegedly told Wyatt to remove what she thought was a hooded sweatshirt, and when Wyatt denied it, she ripped it off her head.

The family reached out to the Black Parents Workshop Inc. to seek support and awareness of the situation.

The Black Parents Workshop is an organization dedicated to academic success in public schools and fighting for equity amongst Black students.

“We support the call of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in demanding that the South Orange-Maplewood School District address the conduct of the student’s teacher and make certain the student is above all, protected, and provided the resources her family desires to make amends for this violation of trust and duty of care,” the organization said in a statement.

The organization is advocating for the placement of anti-racist and cultural competency training for the teach-

ers in the district to make sure this situation doesn’t happen again and for no other child’s religious rights to be violated in the future.

IU junior Aissatou Diallo wears a hijab on a daily basis and said she sometimes feels like an outcast when wearing her hijab on campus, where she said she’s being constantly stared at. Although she hasn’t experienced any action regarding the removal of her hijab, she said she can tell that students and teachers feel intimidated by her.

“I’ve never received any comments from staff — just one teacher, in particular, assumed I was married, then asked me if my husband was the one who made all the health care decisions,” Diallo said. “It offended me because it shows how my religion is represented badly in the media. People assume women have no free will or we’re controlled by men.”

No one should have to worry about their culture or ethnicity being disrespected in a setting that is supposed to be a safe space, such as a classroom. They shouldn’t have to worry that their religious or cultural beliefs are a “distraction” to the classroom.

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Jelani Day, a Black Illinois State University student, was found dead Sept. 4 after being reported missing Aug. 24, in Bloomington, Illinois.

Find the murderers of Jelani Day

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Jelani Day, a Black Illinois State University graduate student, was reported missing Aug. 24, in Bloomington, Illinois, according to CNN. CNN said Day’s vehicle was found two days later in Peru, Illinois, and on Sept.

4, his body was found in the Illinois River.

Carmen Bolden Day, Day’s mother, had to wait nearly a month before she was finally able to see her son. His body was not positively identified until Sept.

23 — 18 days after it was found — even with dental records, Chicago Sun-Times said.

The neglect of the authorities to thoroughly investigate the death of Day displays anti-Blackness within the U.S. criminal justice system.

There were many discrepancies concerning what actually happened to Day. According to NBC Chicago, Day’s mother requested an independent autopsy to be done, because of this they found there were contradicting facts between the first and second autopsies.

The U.S. justice system never seems to show interest in the solving of murder cases concerning Black people.

Day’s case was publicized on social media in the wake of the search for Gabby Petito, a white woman who was

reported missing earlier this year.

People on social media began to realize Petito’s case was receiving more attention than numerous Black people that had gone missing around the same time, like Day. The criminal justice system appeared to work in Petito’s favor. They found out what happened to her fairly quickly after she was reported missing. Why is there never a sense of urgency from the justice system to solve the murders of Black people?

Day’s mother spoke in an interview with BNC News in response to the local police agencies’ response to her son’s disappearance.

“It didn’t seem to me that Bloomington was putting any effort into finding my son nor Peru,” she said. “The only people that was looking for my son was me, my children, my friends and people that I didn’t know.”

Black families should not need their own private investigations to find out what happened to their loved ones. If family members are doing the work that the police and other agencies within the criminal justice system should be doing, this makes people question the efficacy of the criminal justice system.

While there have been studies that attempt to deny anti-Blackness within the

criminal justice system, the facts and reality of many Black people in America tell a different story.

A statistic sheet provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation said Black people are more likely to be victims of homicide than any other race. According to The Washington Post, while Black people are more likely to be victims of homicide, they are still the least likely among racial groups to have their murders lead to an arrest.

This failure to thoroughly investigate the murders of Black people clearly shows anti-Blackness within the criminal justice system.

People will begin to question: why is there a need for the criminal justice system if people are forced to do the job themselves?

Day’s mother and people who were in a community with him should not have to plead for federal authorities to take over his case.

Day’s mother released a statement on Facebook on Oct.11 that read “My son was murdered and my goal and purpose are to find out what happened and hold those responsible accountable!!!”

Jelani Day deserves more. Every single justice department should be thorough in its investigations to ensure that every missing person’s case gets the same care and attention.

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Shows shouldn’t need white characters to be entertaining

By Amani Gates amagates@iu.edu | amani_gates

When Issa Rae was writing “Awkward Black Girl” and the HBO show “Insecure,” a colleague advised her to include a white character in the show. Her colleague said having a white character in her show, which is focused on Black people, would make white audiences care about it and bring more attention to the show.

“From the jump in creating the show, it was put in my mind that you had to have a white character to be a bridge, and for people to care, for it to get awards, for it to be considered worthy of the television canon,” Rae said in an interview with MIC, an online news site.

In the show “Insecure,” the character Freida was a white coworker and friend of Issa's character and was

featured heavily in the first three seasons. Issa’s creative team questioned if she should be featured in the rest of the seasons. Issa refused and said this show wasn’t about Frieda but about the black characters.

Not only do we see how white characters have to be included in our space but how Black shows influence other white shows. “Living Single” was a Black sitcom featuring six Black friends living in Brooklyn, New York. The five seasons ran from 1993 to 1998, then in 1994 “Friends” started production.

"Friends" had the same plot as “Living Single” but with six white friends instead. The name “Friends” was also one of the original titles for “Living Single,” so people found it alarming another show with the same storyline was being filmed but in a whiter version.

David Schwimmer in an interview said there should be an “all Black” “Friends.”

Schwimmer, like many people, have either forgotten or don’t even know there was a previous plot like “Friends.”

Erika Alexander, who co-starred in “Living Single,” said in a tweet “4 yr edutainment. Help me school him,” in response to Schwimmer, referring to him binge-watch the series.

A lot of people, including co-stars who were supporters of “Living Single,” didn’t like how “Friends” did so well and received more seasons just because it had a predominantly white cast.

Throughout the entertainment industry, we see white people forced into Black spaces as a reason for them to be successful, whether it’s with characters or the storyline of the shows.

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then go to the CDC director who will make a final decision.

If the advisory committee and the director agree, then pediatricians and other local vaccination sites can begin administering this vaccine to children in this age group.

There may be planning between the federal government and hospitals for the vaccine administered to newly eligible children, according to the article from IU Today.

This recommendation comes five days after the CDC agreed with the CDC Advisory Committee on immunization practices to recommend an additional booster shot to select groups of individuals.

the protest after seeing an IU NewsNet report about IUPD’s policy while they were eating dinner.

“I was just sitting there thinking about how many other groups of friends are sitting around tables right now talking about this and complaining about how this is unfair and doesn’t make any sense and undermines our safety,” Grace Sarrazin, co-founder of Hoosiers Against Sexual Assault,

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said. “Then we just collectively started doing something about it.”

Sarrazin said the goal of the protest was to replace what she sees as IU and IUPD’s performative activism with real change to combat sexual assault. She said she believes installing blue light emergency phone boxes and offering free safe rides is not enough to effectively protect students.

“The biggest thing is increasing overall awareness of the situation that is rape culture at IU’s campus,” Sarrazin said. “Students are not entirely educated on the poli-

cies that are in place to protect us. It seems like a lot of people at IUPD aren’t even aware of them and they spread miscommunication with the students, which is dangerous.”

The responsibility to prevent sexual assault should be on the assaulters and not on the victims, Sarrazin said.

“We want education garnered towards perpetrators rather than victims on how to avoid being sexually assaulted,” Sarrazin said.

“We want to make sure our voices are heard and hopefully incite

change on a campus that we all personally do not feel safe on.”

Freshman Sofia Southard said she attended the protest to hold assaulters accountable for their actions. She said her friends’ experiences with sexual assault prompted her to make her voice heard and demand change.

“I have had multiple friends be sexually assaulted, and all the men that have assaulted them have gotten off easily, even when they reported it to the police,” Southard said. “That needs to change."

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 police released pictures of the suspect on Oct. 19 to seek help from community members. According to their news release today, the subject damaged several items before leaving around 2:00 a.m.

State Senator Shelli Yoder, DBloomington, condemned the incident in a statement.

“The defacement of a religious center is always disrespectful and unacceptable, and I hope the Islamic Center of Bloomington will see a swift recovery,” she said.

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Comedians make better philosophers than academics Eric Reingardt (he/him)

is a freshman studying pre-law at the O’Neill School.

William Shakespeare wrote in his 1605 play “King Lear”, “Jesters do oft prove prophets.”

Our greatest modernday philosophers will not be found in the echoey halls of university buildings.

They will not be found in the lecture halls or offices of professors. The people who best carry on the tradition of the ancient Greek philosophers and Roman orators are more often found in comedy clubs and auditoriums, filling the rooms with laughter. Comedians are the true public thinkers of our time.

Comedians embody the spirit of the wandering philosophers, orators, poets and prophets of antiquity that would attract a great multitude of people with their profound wisdom or amusing madness.

It struck me when I watched Dave Chappelle’s latest Netflix special “The Closer” that a comedian can convey such complicated and nuanced ideas about social issues and life questions in such a simple setup and punchline for-

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mat.

Whether it is Bill Burr’s muses on double standards in the social constructs of gender, Jim Jefferies’ bit on the nuances of gun control, George Carlin’s rants about the oligarchic power structures in American society or Richard Pryor’s satire of the racism within the criminal justice system, all of these successful comics have the ability to talk about the most controversial and complicated subjects in a manner using joy instead of inciting fear or hate.

Contrast this with the

relatively joyless world of academia. Officially, these scholars, Ph.D. students, doctors and professors, are for all purposes “philosophers,” but they miss so many of the key components that make philosophy a living and vibrant art rather than a cold, dead science.

Comedians are artists, so they appreciate the creativity involved in the questions of life, society, religion and so on. They know that these issues cannot be treated the same way studying quantum mechanics or

evolutionary biology is.

An important element of public philosophy missing in academic philosophical circles is relatability. It is nearly impossible for the average person to apply metaphysics and critical social theory to their daily life.

However, people can identify with and understand Ms. Pat’s stories of being a single teenage mother struggling to survive and Bill Maher’s monologues on the issues of higher education in the lives of young people.

A comedian’s work in

creative writing is often a greater contribution to the cultural climate of our time than a dissertation or an article in an academic journal because life experience is much more important in comedy than academic intelligence.

“The Office” has had a profound effect on popular culture and the way we see the workplace because it involves experiences both the writers and the audience have undergone. Comedies like “The Simpsons” have in the same way affected how we think about the American family unit in the popular conscience.

My favorite comedian, Norm MacDonald, is an ideal example of this phenomenon. His book, “Based on a True Story,” which is a combination of his own real experiences and his imagination, is somehow one of the silliest yet deepest pieces of literature I have ever read. He has shown that what is funny and what is intellectual can harmoniously fit together.

Another area where comedians are better public intellectuals than professional scholars is in the way they gain a large following.

More often than not, an

academic’s success comes from wealth, connections or loyalty to institutions.

The world of academia often seems isolated and exclusive, whereas the world of comedy is a wide-open space centered in the public forum.

Comedians are at the mercy of the common folk.

The way they compete to gain support from the people is democratic. The audience acts as the judge and jury, and they are the ones who ultimately decide the fate of a comedian’s career.

Comedy does not only function democratically, but it also has a role in democratic society at large.

Comedians are usually the ones challenging the status quo, which again, makes them more akin to the original role of philosophers whereas academics are often part of the establishment.

Comedians are the articulators of common sense, the jesters that brighten up dark subjects, the projectors of the human condition and in every way, they are the voice of the people.

These are the true objectives of great philosophers. ereingardt@iu.edu

JACOB’S JAWING

The NFL has a problem and his name is Roger Goodell Jacob Spudich (he/him)

is a freshman studying journalism and political science.

On Oct. 11, Jon Gruden, coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, stepped down after offensive emails, spanning a sevenyear period starting in 2011, were leaked. These emails contained multiple accounts of racism, homophobia and misogyny.

Whether rooted in favoritism or racism, there is obvious hypocrisy in the NFL and not just within the past two weeks, but under the entire tenure of commissioner of the NFL Roger Goodell.

Emails from the NFL’s general counsel, Jeff Pash, to the former Washington Football Team’s president, Bruce Allen, were also leaked recently.

These emails were released as part of an investigation of the Washington Football Team over sexual harassment and verbal abuse allegations from over 40 former employ-

ees of the organization. The investigation involved over 650,000 emails.

Mike Florio of NBC Sports says that the leaked emails contained “not only favoritism toward one team but also a casual, nonchalant brand of racism and disregard of players,” Florio said.“Many would say he should be held to a higher standard. Many would say he’s not fit for the job based solely on the emails released to date.”

Sports gambling hasn’t always been the desired industry for the league. In 2003, Roger Goodell and the NFL wouldn’t even allow Las Vegas companies to have 30 seconds worth of advertisements to boost the city’s tourism.

“We strongly urge you to reject any proposal to permit a sports lottery in Delaware.”

These were words written by Goodell in a 2009 letter to Delaware Gov. Jack Markell. In as early as 2012, Goodell was widely against sports gambling, saying it would force

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the integrity of the game to be questioned.

Today the NFL generates about $270 million in revenue from sports betting, with projections of more than a billion dollars by the end of the decade according to The Washington Post.

There are also racial inequalities in the league that continue to remain un-

touched. Black players make up close to 70% of the NFL players’ roster in a league where there are just four Black head coaches, five Black general managers and no Black team owners with majority shares across all 32 NFL teams.

Contrary to what Goodell and the NFL may believe, putting the words “End Racism” in the endzones and allowing “Black

Lives Matter” to be printed on the back of players’ helmets doesn’t solve racism.

This action is a thoughtful gesture but doesn’t forgive the league’s blacklisting of Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid for kneeling during the national anthem before NFL games.

Kaepernick still has yet to play in an NFL football game since Jan. 17, 2017, although it was reported by Bleacher Report earlier this week that he trains five to six days a week in hopes of an NFL comeback.

This is all while team owners and coaches, such as Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots and Urban Meyer, Jacksonville Jaguars head coach, keep their jobs.

Kraft was alleged of soliciting prostitution back in January 2019. In 2018, Meyer kept silent about his involvement with domestic abuse allegations.

This hypocrisy is seen in something even as prominent as the Super Bowl. It was announced that the halftime

show of this season’s Super Bowl would be headlined

by Dr. Dre, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige and Snoop Dogg.

This decision becomes even more questionable considering many songs by these artists contain misogynic, homophobic and even violent lyrics. For example, take Eminem with his song “Criminal” or Snoop Dogg on a Dr. Dre song.

This isn’t a discussion on whether these artists should be canceled for what they rap about in their songs by the general public.

There’s obvious hypocrisy in the NFL, and this is routine.

Goodell is the commissioner and the change starts with him, a change that must be made immediately.

Saturday Night Live actor Colin Jost, posing as Roger Goodell, said it best, “But hey at least no one is talking about concussions.” jaspudi@iu.edu

CLEAR CUT

My brain is tired of writing negative opinions Chris Sciortino (he/him)

is a junior studying theater and public relations.

Last week I scoured the internet for inspiration for my next column. Ideas usually jump off the pages as I scroll through the New York Times, the IndyStar or the IDS. But as I read each new headline, the world seemed to be slipping more and more into complete and utter chaos. I’d been having a pretty good week, so why was I suddenly deep in a swirl of hopelessness?

With new, morose headlines almost every day, writing opinions on increasingly negative subjects is exhausting.

Recently it has felt like all the opinions I have involve preventing the world from overheating, advocating for basic human rights or preserving the foundation of our democracy. When every news story seems to pose a perilous threat to humanity, I start to feel an overwhelming shift toward pessimism.

Because most of my research comes from the news, I thought this might have to do with how I consume mass media. The term “doomscrolling” has only soared in popularity since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s defined as “the tendency to continue to surf or scroll through bad news, even though that news is saddening, disheartening or depressing.” Continuing to page through multiple news stories and sites is destined to bring

you across some depressing content.

The news might also be getting more bleak. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America has made clear that modern coverage of current events is predominantly negative. Its 2019 study claimed questionable journalistic practices account for the overwhelming negative perception of news and current events in the United States.

We saw this throughout the pandemic. Bruce Sacerdote, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, told the New York Times that news media would often flipflop its focus to keep stories pressing and engaging, citing increased coverage in areas where COVID-19 cases were on the upswing and little in areas where cases were trending lower. In 2020, 87% of COVID-19 news in the US was negative, compared to only 51% worldwide, creating a skewed, negative perception of our progress throughout the pandemic.

But the problem goes deeper than just reporting bias. PNAS’ study also emphasized the psychological tendency to fixate on negative information. Not only are we seeing negative news more frequently, but our brains exacerbate its presence by focusing on it.

The effect of negative news on college students, however, is more cryptic. The demands of university life are enough to keep us burn-

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ing out every once in a while.

When you add the pressures of doom-and-gloom headlines, it’s easy to plunge deep into hopelessness and shut down.

Surprisingly, I have a lot of classmates who are feeling more optimistic. According to an NBC News poll, 92% of freshmen are optimistic about their personal relationships, with 28% considering themselves “super optimistic.” These students highlight their hopes in their personal lives, such as finding potential jobs post-university and

excitement in starting their own families.

A study by the International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology found that optimism in many university attendees correlates with demonstrated resilience of those students.

After all, if there’s one thing students have after COVID-19, it’s resilience.

But just behind that personal optimism comes a more pessimistic world view.

NBC’s poll also found that only 36% of respondents trusted the national media

and 48% trusted President Joe Biden and 48% said they were optimistic about the United States. Within an exterior sense of self worth and personal hope, students are still plagued by issues holding our country in perpetual crisis.

This push and pull between personal optimism and global pessimism cannot become the norm. Yes, coverage of negative events is necessary, and I don’t regret my past opinions on them. They are just as important as positive stories. But in an ideal world, media outlets would

adopt a greater focus on accuracy rather than skewed reporting that might get more clicks or views. Maybe then we can all encounter more frequent positive news stories in our daily lives.

I’ll be honest and say that next week I’ll probably doomscroll again and feel the familiar onset of stress and worry.

But I’ll try to find the elusive positive stories, keep in mind the collective resilience we’ve exhibited this past year and feel some optimism. csciorti@iu.edu

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ARTS

Oct. 28, 2021 idsnews.com

Editors Ellie Albin, Curren Gauss arts@idsnews.com

Q&A with award-winning actress Glenn Close some of the great costume designers that have existed, ever. That is priceless, and I am very, very lucky to have found IU. It is not only a great educational institution, but it has these two archival buildings that are unbelievable — it is like going into science fiction when you go into those buildings.

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Actress Glenn Close visited Oct. 21 at the Eskenazi Museum of Art to tour the “Art of the Character” exhibit, which features a fraction of Close’s 800-plus costumes during her film career, including pieces from “101 Dalmatians,” “Fatal Attraction” and “Guardians of the Galaxy.”

Close is the co-founder of the non-profit Bring Change to Mind, an organization founded to reduce stigma around mental health discussions. IU professor Bernice Pescosolido and U Bring Change to Mind on campus have worked with Close.

In 2017, Close donated her costume collection to the Sage Collection at IU. “Art of the Character” will remain on display until Nov. 14 and is free to the public.

IDS: In building your collection, did you have to purchase your own costumes?

Close: No, I never had to purchase. I early on had it put in my contract and now I am kind of known for that. Basically, the deal is that if they buy them or make them for me, I have the choice of what I want to take. If they rent them, then that is a different thing. Though there are some costumes in here that were rented that ended up here.

IDS: What pieces were not able to make it into your collection from early in your career?

Close: There is one dress that I wore on stage, actually, that Annie Roth designed, who has many pieces in here, and I was not collecting at the time. But it was this amazing — she called it “the baby doe dress” — 1890s dress that was nipped in the waist. It was made out of crimson silk velvet, off the shoulder. And when I would come on stage in it, you could literally hear someone going “Aah” cause it was so beautiful.

IDS: What were your initial thoughts after walking through the exhibit?

Close: I am incredibly grateful that they are still intact. I started collecting because I heard that usually costumes are sold by the production to a costume house and rented out, redone and remade. I did not want that to happen to my costumes, so I started collecting.

I look at them and I think, “Oh my gosh, I’m just so grateful that they are here,” because they represent not only the characters that I have played personally, but they represent the art of

IDS: Of the pieces on

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display today, do you have a favorite?

Close: It is like choosing your children. I kind of like that one (Dragon Suit from “102 Dalmatians”), that was really fun to wear. I love veils, I haven’t worn very many veils in my career. But that has a veil, and I love the tail that you never see in the movie actually.

They all have a story — some of them were harder to wear, very heavy aspects to them. That gold solid beaded dress that I wore to the Oscars in 2019 is at least over 40 pounds, so that was a challenge. In fact, there were two guys on either side of me and they were like my little army if I had to get up. But luckily I didn’t, for their sake. One was going to haul me up and the other was going to help organize the train. It was funny.

And that light pink dress from the “Sarah, Plain and Tall” trilogy was one of my favorite moments ever. It was dancing with Chris Walken in the middle of the prairie to a beautiful piece of music.

IDS: How has the process of working with IU been?

Close: They have been amazing. It is a big undertaking for them — this collection is over 800 pieces. What you don’t see with all of these, well, you see a lot of them with the Cruella, is that every single outfit has accessories and that is a lot of storage space. So, I am so grateful that they have accepted this collection and are taking

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IDS: Is it weird for you to see these costumes on display?

Close: The only thing weird is how small I used to be, how small my waist was.

But for Cruella, I had a corset that made my waist 21 inches around. You had to learn how to put it on correctly, or else you would literally faint.

IDS: What made you choose IU for the exhibit?

Close: Well, I looked all

over the country for a place that had the storage facilities and the correct kind of facilities. Because it is tricky taking care of fabric, you have to make sure there are no moths in it, that it is not mildewed and that it is stored in such a way that the fabrics don’t deteriorate. Already the white dress from “Fatal Attraction” is much yellower, because it is wool jersey, which will age and change color if it is white. It means it is kept at 50 degrees and when they bring a costume in, you freeze it

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I was just lucky that they accepted it because it couldn’t be in a better place, and I love the campus. I love the fact that this collection is right in the middle of the country.

It just seems the right place for it. I think my profession is thought of as New York and LA. But you know what, that is not America, right? I like it to be embraced right in the middle of the country.

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50 Federal benefits org. founded under FDR 51 Hit hard 53 Write "ere" for this answer, say 54 "Mona Lisa" and "Guernica" ... and, in a different way, the last words of 20-, 34- and 42-Across 60 Debate provision 63 Spice native to Indonesia 64 Hide in the shadows, say 65 "Garfield" dog 66 Southend-on-Sea's county 67 Movie "Citizen" 68 Parallel __ 69 Snookums

9 What many pop songs end with 10 Buddy 11 __ Altos, California 12 Jackie's second 13 Big __ 19 Me or you or a dog named Boo 21 Daredevil Knievel 24 Early Olympians 25 Name related to Peggy 26 Gems, for example 27 Pickles on a plate, often 28 Puts on hold, as an agenda item 29 Wandering vacuum 30 What you eat 32 Fat meas.

35 Part of IOU 36 Uncool one who lately is sort of cool 38 Philosopher __-tzu 39 Seeing no evil?

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Last spring, Jenni Nolan got a breast biopsy at IU Health Hospital North in Carmel, Indiana.

Her physician gave her a mammogram and injected her breast with lidocaine, an anesthetic. Then, the doctor removed a tissue sample and stuck a tiny implantable tissue marker at the injection site to ensure future biopsies would draw from a different spot. The whole process took 25 minutes.

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Even with the newly required data, patients have little to no information about how hospitals determine the cost of their health care or how much of what they pay ends up as profit. The data IU Health released estimates how much procedures cost, but the actual bill each patient receives could vary drastically.

Prices listed in the transparency spreadsheet often conflict with IU Health’s price estimator tools, which IU Health recommends over the standard charge listing for estimating out-of-pocket costs.

Nolan is a Board Certified Patient Advocate who owns a small business that helps people deal with confusing or unaffordable medical bills. She spends her days negotiating with insurers and hospitals to resolve billing errors, to appeal when insurance companies won’t pay for agreed-upon procedures and to dispute high charges for her clients.

Based on her working knowledge of health care costs, Nolan expected her breast biopsy would be expensive — maybe somewhere around $3,000. The actual bill, more than three times that, was a shock.

After her procedure, Nolan investigated IU Health’s standard charge listing and its price estimator tool, which gave her different numbers — $4,118 and $5,499, respectively.

In a statement to the IDS, IU Health said its price estimator tool provides “meaningful estimates” to 90,000 patients a year.

But neither the estimator tool nor the standard charge listing would have helped Nolan — they both underestimated her final bill by about half.

“People who deal with this stuff every day don’t understand it because it’s such a hot mess,” Nolan said. “You may think that you’ve done the research, but you don’t

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Jenni Nolan’s medical bill from IU Health for her breast biopsy totaled $10,687.55, more than twice the amount she expected.

have the whole picture.”

She decided to confront IU Health about her own high fees by writing a letter to the billing department.

Within a couple of weeks, IU Health agreed to write off about $2,100 from Nolan’s bill, leaving her to pay $600 out of pocket for the procedure, the amount she’d requested.

“But the problem is most of the world doesn’t know that they can do that,” Nolan said. “They don’t even know where to begin.”

Nolan works with clients across the country who need help dealing with similar billing issues, including many who received care at IU Health hospitals. She estimated about three-fourths of her clients have medical bills that are higher due to clerical errors. The rest are trying to combat correct but unaffordable bills.

Nolan helps them apply for financial assistance that hospitals offer. If they don’t qualify, she negotiates the balance with the billing department.

The fact that Nolan’s job exists at all points to the increasingly complex, bureaucratic nature of hospital billing. Patient advocacy has existed in some form in the U.S. since the early 20th century, but one-on-one advocates have become more popular in the past two decades.

Nolan said she wishes the system could be remade from scratch, removing the bureaucratic procedures that drive up bills.

“How awesome would it be to go back and be like, ‘OK, how much does a Band-Aid really cost — does it really cost $5? I don’t think so.’”

Why are prices so high?

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The final charge was $10,687.55.

After her insurance company, Cigna, determined what it would cover, Nolan still had to pay about $2,700 out of pocket.

Surprise bills like this one are common, but nearly impossible to prevent. A federal rule that went into effect at the beginning of this year intends to provide patients with the cost of medical services before they receive them.

Hospitals and insurance companies lobbied against price transparency for decades, with health insurers claiming it would “undermine competitive negotiations.”

Four hospital organizations — including the American Hospital Association, of which IU Health is a member — jointly sued the government to prevent the 2021 ruling.

They lost, but many still haven’t provided price transparency data.

The Indiana Daily Student analyzed IU Health Bloomington Hospital’s price data and found it charges private insurance companies an average of nearly twice as much as “self-pay” patients for the same procedures. Self-pay patients are either uninsured or choose not to use their insurance to pay for a procedure.

The purpose of the price transparency rule is to help patients understand the cost of their care before receiving it. But because of resistance from hospitals, a lack of federal government enforcement, difficult to decipher datasets and the unreliability of the published prices, Americans remain in the dark about the cost of their health care — including patients at IU Health Bloomington.

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Freedman, IU School of Public Health associate professor, said.

Not only is the price hidden, but patients often don’t have a choice in whether they need to get a procedure. If someone is having a heart attack, they likely aren’t going to consider the cost of an ambulance before they call 911.

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tempts to offer more price transparency in insurance networks in the past decade or so, Freedman said. Some insurers have developed price tools that allow patients to compare costs for certain procedures at in-network hospitals.

In 2019, a Trump-era executive order required hospitals to publish a single “charge” for each procedure, but these numbers did not reflect the actual cost, which varies widely for different patients.

Freedman said the 2021 rule is the first major public-facing step toward hospital price transparency.

Insurance companies and hospitals rarely conduct line-by-line negotiations for each individual price, Freedman said. Instead, companies negotiate many procedures at once, often based on Medicare costs, without knowing

what their competitors are negotiating with the same hospital system.

For example, an insurance company might agree to pay 150% of what hospitals charge the federal government for multiple procedures rather than negotiating prices for individual ones.

For insurance companies, the federal transparency rule may mean more bargaining power when they negotiate with hospital networks — even if not every hospital network is complying.

“Anthem might say, ‘Look, you’re charging Cigna $1,000 less.

I want to pay $1,000 less also,’” Freedman said.

But Marty Wood, Insurance Institute of Indiana president, said he was skeptical the rule would significantly affect prices or negotiations, since so many other factors affect the yearly process of working out contracts.

Experts disagree about whether price transparency will cause prices to go up or down. Typically, they expect transparency will force prices down, but that isn’t always the case.

“Under certain market conditions, transparency like this actually makes prices go up,” Freedman said. “They can see what other hospitals are pricing and use that as sharing information with each other to force prices up.”

What does this mean for patients?

Individual patients tend to be either unaware this information is available or unable to sift through it on their own to shop around, Freedman said, which is another reason the standard charge listings may not make much of a difference in prices or negotiations.

For some procedures at IU Health Bloomington, insurance prices are up to 61 times greater than self-pay prices, according to the IDS’s data analysis.

Freedman said it would be inaccurate to think of self-pay prices as the “true” price of a procedure because they are based on hospitals’ expectations about how much people can pay. This is meant to avoid fees associated with hiring collections agencies to chase down patients who haven’t paid.

The biggest proportional difference in the dataset was the cost of surgically removing up to 15 skin tags with IUHPS Narrow Network insurance. A self-pay patient would pay $128.76 for the procedure. But with that insurance, the hospital would charge a total bill of $7,857.91 — 61 times more expensive.

Insurance companies don’t always have an incentive to negotiate lower costs. More spending on health care means more money for insurance companies. According to federal law, insurance company profits can’t exceed a percentage of the amount they spend on care. Even though insured patients aren’t paying the full rates, their costs still go up when their insurers negotiate higher prices.

Freedman said higher bills for insurance companies lead to higher patient costs, which could mean more out of pocket costs, higher premiums, a higher deductible or higher copay rates.

“Something has to give,” he said.

Given the available data, it’s impossible to know how much each procedure actually costs due to wide variation between individual situations. But comparing self pay and insured prices paints a picture of the massive disparities between what IU Health Bloomington charges patients on different insurance plans or with no insurance at all.

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Every year, IU Health provides about $250 million of care it does not receive payment for, Ryan Kitchell, then-IU Health Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, told the IndyStar in 2018.

Uncompensated care includes charity care and patients who do not and cannot pay. At the time, Kitchell said this forces the hospital to boost costs for commercial insurers, which raises the copays and premiums insured patients pay.

Hospital profit margins are rising around the country, but the problem of high costs for insurers is particularly bad in Indiana, according to a peer-reviewed 2019 study.

It found Indiana hospitals overcharge insurers and make huge profit margins compared to hospital networks in other states, resulting in higher costs for patients.

Researchers estimated IU Health had a profit margin of 11.9% in 2016. Most non-profit hospitals in the nation operate at a 2% to 3% profit margin, according to the study. Hospital executives disputed the study’s findings and reported much lower profit margins.

People often do not have a say in choosing their insurance provider, especially if they are insured through their employers — who also pay more when insurance companies negotiate high prices.

Therefore, this data may not be useful for choosing insurance companies but instead for decisions like determining where and when to get a procedure.

All of the data released in compliance with the price transparency law is for all health insurance companies that have negotiated with IU Health. A hospital that is in network for an insurance company has neSEE SELF PAY, PAGE 9

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Editors Evan Gerike, Tristan Jackson sports@idsnews.com

WATERSKI AND WAKEBOARD

‘The Full Senders of IU’ seek extreme adventure

By Matthew Press mtpress@iu.edu | @MatthewPress23

After the rather uncharacteristic stretch of heat, Indiana students can finally pull out their sweaters and commemorate the delayed change of seasons. But for the Waterski and Wakeboard Club, the turning of the leaves marks the inevitable end to the team’s time on Lake Lemon.

With the cold front of November looming, making the most of the coming weeks, whether in practices or competitions, is paramount.

These notions of maximizing time were never more prevalent than last spring in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. With 12 competitions canceled, the team was left desolate and scrambling for solutions.

Indiana senior Jacob Torres, club president and captain of the wakeboarding team, said he saw room for a brand new opportunity.

Torres met with Mike

Dowdy, a professional wakeboarder, and told him he wanted to do a virtual wakeboarding competition.

“The dynamic college aspect of wakeboarding allowed this to happen where basically I pitched it to him, and he was like, ‘Yeah, let’s do it,’” Torres said. “We got it sponsored by Red Bull and Shady Rays and other wakeboard-specific companies, and we made like $30,000 in sales.”

Torres’s efforts have transformed the landscape of collegiate wakeboarding. Last spring, 30 colleges participated and a majority of competitions took place virtually by sending clips of tricks to judges. He also notes the benefit of the sport’s loose governing system, which contrasts that of the club’s waterskiing counterpart.

While wakeboarding competitions generally consist of throwing as many stylish and advanced tricks as possible in a given time period similar to

an NBA dunk contest, water skiing is a bit more complex.

There are three types: slalom, where competitors utilize one ski to ride back and forth between buoys; jump, where a boat pulls the wakeboarder to a ramp and the furthest distance of jump wins; and trick, a smaller ski where difficult spins and flips gain the most points.

Waterski and Wakeboard Club has cultivated a positive image around campus and are well known for its free spirits and enthusiasm.

Torres said he hopes this will help further exposure and participation.

“I want to be able to create a brand image for the wakeboard and waterski team, where people think these guys are super cool, super fun,” Torres said. “That’s something I wanna be involved with.”

Indiana senior Syndey Akers, a four-year member of the club, said she became hooked her freshman year at Recfest. Akers said she holds

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IU senior Jacob Torres makes a move in the air Aug. 22, 2021, at Lake Lemon in Unionville, Indiana. Waterski and Wakeboard Club has cultivated a positive image around campus and is well known for its free spirits and enthusiasm.

nothing but fond memories of relationships built during her water skiing tenure.

“My favorite moments have been going to waterski tournaments with my best friends,” Akers said. “Laying in the sun, watching people waterski all day has been an absolute dream. An amazing memory was when I landed my first jump this year. My whole team came sprinting

down the bank to hug me and celebrate with me as I got out of the water.”

Yet, the team has to worry about a darker aspect of wakeboarding and water skiing: injury. While planning on wakeboarding after college, albeit more as a hobby, Torres said wakeboarding truly lives up to the name of extreme sport.

“I plan on chilling it back a little bit because when I

am training, when I am going hard, there’s always that risk of seriously hurting my body,” Torres said. “I’m at that age where it’s not worth it anymore, and I have to think about it more.”

Torres said one trick he had been chasing is a normal flip but incorporated with a 180-degree turn. When watching it back, he was relatively unaffected while detailing his nasty headfirst plunge into the water. The falls are part of the sport.

Wakeboarding and water skiing both are expensive sports, requiring boats, skis, boards, suits and other gear.

Setting up the future club members with resources, assets and capital is a key focus of the team’s leadership, Torres said.

As the fall season comes to a close, the practices and competitions on the water may be stalled, but the winter hiatus will surely be filled with team events, and the club’s energy won’t go away.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Indiana loses 2-0 in match vital to making postseason

By Colin Wright colwrig@iu.edu | @colinfhw

Indiana women’s soccer lost 2-0 to No. 18 Purdue on Sunday in a pivotal match to strengthen its resume ahead of the Big Ten and NCAA Tournaments.

Head coach Erwin van Bennekom’s starting XI Sunday once again featured senior goalkeeper Caitlin Arbuckle in place of freshman standout Jamie Gerstenberg, who was called up for international duty with the German under-20 national team last week.

In Indiana’s 2-0 loss to Rutgers on Thursday, Arbuckle registered eight saves on 10 shots on net and didn’t

allow a goal in the game’s last 40 minutes.

Arbuckle continued her defensive success early in the match against the Boilermakers. The senior blocked three shots in the match’s first 45 minutes, saving two strong attempts from senior Boilermaker forward Sarrah Griffith and one from sophomore Boilermaker midfielder Emily Matthews.

Arbuckle has been tasked with replacing Gerstenberg, who set a program record for shutouts in a season with nine “(Arbuckle’s) done well, she’s handled herself well,” van Bennekom. “It’s a tough spot to come into, I’m very proud of her.”

Despite the defensive

success early on, the glaring problem for Indiana continued to be with the offense.

Sophomore forward Anna Bennett had a solid chance in the ninth minute but soared her kick wide of the net.

The Hoosiers best scoring opportunity came in the 32nd minute when senior midfielder Megan Wampler found some space and was able to put one on frame past Purdue goalkeeper Marisa Bova, but the officiating crew waved off the goal due to an offsides.

In the month of October, Indiana has played in six matches against Big Ten opponents. Its goal against Northwestern Oct. 6 was the only goal this month.

Indiana is also tied with

Wisconsin for third-to-last in the conference in goals scored in regular-season play this year with 23.

The Hoosiers came back out for the second half needing a goal to control their own destiny for the 2021 postseason and nearly scored again in the 47th minute. Junior midfielder Paige Webber sent a shot towards the Purdue net only to be stopped again by Bova.

After a pair of shots from junior midfielders Avery Lockwood and Alaina Kalin in the 64th minute, the Hoosier offense was dormant for the remainder of the contest.

Despite the lack of offense, Indiana was still able to hold Purdue scoreless

until the 73rd minute when senior forward Ally Mussallem caught a fast break past the Indiana defense and was able to land a shot on frame past Arbuckle to put Purdue up one.

Purdue added another goal six minutes later courtesy of sophomore midfielder Emily Matthews to put her team up two.

Indiana wasn’t able to climb back from the two goal deficit in the game’s last 10 minutes and lost its fourth straight match to end Big Ten regular season play with a 3-4-3 record.

“I thought we played really well until the 70th minute,” van Bennekom. “We were so good with the ball, we were

in control of this game. If we score one of our chances I think this is a different game.”

After the loss, Indiana sits at 9th place in conference play. The top eight teams in the Big Ten are eligible for the tournament and Indiana, being the first team out, will not be eligible to compete in the event.

“It looks like we might be out, but we left some points on the table so that’s what happens,” van Bennekom said.

Indiana will now have to wait until the field for the NCAA tournament is released on Nov. 11 to see if their season will live on. Indiana has not made the tournament since 2013.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 gotiated a price specific to that hospital system.

“From the customer’s perspective, it means that they can go to any hospital within their network and it will be covered,” Freedman said.

Patients who go out of network may not be covered at all and usually have to pay much higher out of pocket costs than they would in network.

The price data from IU Health comes with several caveats. It remains unclear to what extent the prices listed on these disclosures reflect

the actual amount individual patients are being charged because individual cases of the same procedure can vary widely. The data also does not include the cost of a procedure before profit, which is why the IDS is making relative comparisons between insurance companies and self-pay rates.

For more serious or expensive procedures, the uninsured patient would be paying dramatically more out of pocket than an insured patient. An uninsured patient would also have less access to preventative care and regular check-ups.

But the dramatic difference between the negotiated prices with insurance companies and the prices for uninsured patients drives up the cost of care for everyone, from insurers to employers to patients.

Where do we go from here?

While the price transparency data is a step toward consumer choice in the health care system, Freedman said the 2021 rule will likely have more of an impact on negotiations between hospitals and insurance companies than on actual patients.

“From the customer’s per-

spective, I think there’s still a ways to go to educate and empower people to use these kinds of data in their decision making,” Freedman said.

But the maximum fee the federal government is levying for noncompliance is $109,500 per year, or $300 a day. Because of the high cost of assembling and publishing price transparency data and the possibility it could lead to lower profits, the fees are likely less expensive than the cost of compliance.

The federal government has not enforced these fees, instead opting to send out warning letters. It is unclear

if and when enforcement of fines will begin.

The price data doesn’t help patients reliably predict the cost of their care.

It doesn’t erase often cripplingly high medical bills that many Americans face.

And it doesn’t give people the ability to prevent those types of bills in the future.

But it does reveal previously unknown disparities among what IU Health Bloomington charges patients who have different insurance plans and no insurance at all. Freedman said this might lead to prices changing in the future as

insurance companies now have the tools to negotiate competitively.

“I don’t know if, on average, they’ll end up going up or down because of this, but it definitely seems likely that they’ll converge,” Freedman said.

In the meantime, Nolan recommends patients advocate for themselves if they’re hit with high bills. Even just sending a letter could help reduce medical costs.

“Just pushing back when you see a ridiculous price, we do have some control here,” Nolan said. “We’ve got to stop just going along with it.”

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We aspire to offer a safe and welcoming home for all people. We are a blend of people of different ages, genders, sexual orientations, ethnicities and countries; we are students, faculty, staff and friends. We pray, worship and proclaim the Gospel. We also promote justice, equality, inclusion, peace, love, critical thinking and acting as agents of change in our world.

"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.

Tim Bayly, Senior Pastor Lucas Weeks, College & Career Pastor

Mennonite Fellowship of Bloomington

219 E. Fourth St. 812-332-6396 jubileebloomington.org jubilee@fumcb.org facebook.com/jubileebloomington Instagram: @jubileebloomington Sunday: 8:30 a.m., Contemplative Communion & 9:30 a.m., Classic 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

1413 E. 17th St. 812-339-5561 hoosiercatholic.org facebook.com/hoosiercatholic Twitter: @hoosiercatholic Weekend Mass Times: Sunday: 8:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

12:30 p.m., Spanish 5:30 p.m. & 9 p.m., During Academic Year Saturday: 4:30 p.m., Vigil 1st & 3rd Saturday: 6 p.m., Korean Mass Weekday Mass Times: Mon. - Sat.: 12:15 p.m.

Mon., Wed., Fri.: 5:30 p.m.

Tue., Thu.: 9 p.m.

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

Rev. Patrick Hyde, O.P., Administrator & Director of Campus Ministry Rev. Dennis Woerter, O.P. Associate Pastor Rev. Reginald Wolford, O.P., Associate Pastor

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. & 10:15 a.m. @ St. Thomas Lutheran Church 3800 E. 3rd St. Wednesday: 7:07 p.m. @ Rose House Rose House is an inclusive Christian community that invites students to explore their faith questions, study the scriptures, 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 Rev. Adrienne Meier, Pastor at St. Thomas

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 in-home Bible study throughout the month. Contact Rosh Dhanawade at barnabas@iu.edu for more information.

Lifeway Baptist Church exists to bring glory to God by making disciples, maturing believers and multiplying ministry.

Matthew 28:19-20.

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

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