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Nov. 3 is just weeks away, and there are concerns about the U.S. Postal Service's ability to handle the increased mail volume.

Will your mail-in ballot arrive in time to count?

By Ally Melnik amelnik@iu.edu | @allylm1

The IDS investigates. jdecastr@iu.edu | @jacob_decastro

Tens of millions of Americans are expected to vote by mail this year — adding more stress to a post office battered by the COVID-19 pandemic, tight budgets and new restrictions from the new postmaster general.

Despite highly publicized incidents over the summer of mailsorting machines going out of commission and mailboxes being removed, the U.S. Postal Service maintains it can handle millions of mail-in ballots, sometimes called absentee ballots.

“The Postal Service has ample capacity – including high-speed mail processing machines and dedicated personnel – to process and deliver an expected surge in mail-in ballots in a timely manner this election season,” USPS spokesperson Mary Dando said in a statement to the Indiana Daily Student.

In August, however, Thomas Marshall, general counsel for USPS, sent letters to 46 state election officials — including Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson — warning there may not be enough time between a voter requesting a mail-in ballot, the ballot being delivered and the ballot arriving at the election location by Nov. 3.

Ballots must be returned to the local election office by Nov. 3 in Indiana in order to count. In the letter, Marshall suggested voters request their ballots 15 days prior to Election Day and put them back in the mail by Oct. 27.

A federal court initially ruled at the end of September that Indiana officials must count all ballots postmarked by Nov. 3. However, the court then stopped the order from going into effect to give the state’s lawyers time to appeal the decision.

“We’ve seen an awful lot of litigation in the past few weeks intended to try to change the rules

for casting a ballot,” IU political science professor Marjorie Hershey said. “And although many of these have lost, I’m afraid they’re also causing confusion on the part of prospective voters on where and how they ought to vote.”

With that decision in flux, just how early should you return your mail-in ballot?

The IDS put USPS to the test to simulate sending ballots back to local election board offices. We mailed more than two dozen letters across the state and country to see how long it would take them to make it there, if at all.

We used standard letter envelopes and sent them via firstclass mail. All of the letters were dropped off at the blue collection box outside the Indiana Memorial Union on Oct. 1.

The furthest letter we mailed traveled 1,757 miles from Bloomington to San Diego in four days.

The closest? From the IMU mailbox to an address in Bloomington. It arrived in two days.

Bottom line: Mail times are normal, for the most part. On average, it took a little more than three days for our letters to arrive at their final destinations. This is right above USPS’ expectations for a first-class letter, but below the 1-5 day the post office says most letters arrive in.

As of Monday afternoon, one letter bound for Charleston, South Carolina, hadn’t been delivered — 10 days after we mailed it out.

From the beginning of April until the end of June, the post office delivered 81.4% of standard 3-5 day first-class mail on time — less than its 86.25% rate during the same timeframe in 2019, according to public USPS reports.

For comparison, 82.3% of mail was delivered on time between October and December 2016 — which included the last presidential election. In a report published after the 2018 midterm election,

Here's how many days it took for our letters to be delivered.

7 days 5 3 1 Indianapolis, IN Barrington, IL Portage, MI Pickerington, OH St. Louis, MO Carmel, IN Noblesville, IN Leawood, KS Naperville, IL Bloomington, IN West Lafayette, IN Knox, IN Niles, MI Columbus, IN Munster, IN New York City Pittsburgh Riverview, FL Reston, VA Arlington, TX West Palm Beach, FL Rockville, MD Little Rock, AR Berea, KY Boulder, CO Tacoma, WA San Diego, CA Los Angeles

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Indiana is one of just five states where COVID-19 concerns can't be used as an excuse to vote by mail.

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the USPS inspector general reported election mail had a 95.6% performance rate.

Indiana voters can request a mail-in ballot and track when their local election officials sent their ballot out and if the completed ballot was received on the online voter portal.

The deadline to request a mailin ballot in Indiana is Oct. 22. Information for other states can be found at vote.gov.

Indiana voters need an excuse to cast their votes by mail in No-

vember, such as being away from home for school. Unlike the June primary election, concerns about the coronavirus pandemic cannot be used as an excuse to vote by mail.

While Election Day itself is still weeks away, the election is well underway. Millions of votes have already been cast around the country.

“You got to vote early,” Hershey said. “If you're going to vote by mail, cast your vote by mail now, don't wait until close to the time of an election.”

Immunocompromised students are scared

By Cate Charron catcharr@iu.edu | @catecharron

IU sees increase in cases

By Matt Cohen mdc1@iu.edu | @Matt_Cohen_

After four consecutive weeks of decreases in COVID-19 positivity rates, IU reported an increase in both mitigation and symptomatic testing positivity rates in Wednesday’s dashboard update. Even though it increased, the mitigation positivity rate over last week’s testing was still the second lowest weekly rate.

Testing included in this update was conducted from Oct. 4-10.

In Bloomington alone, the mitigation testing positivity rate increased from 1.05% the week prior to 1.1% last week. There are 98 reported new cases in Bloomington, which is a slight decrease from the week prior, although IU did again conduct fewer total tests.

IU conducted fewer than 9,000 tests last week in Bloomington, which marks a fourth straight week of fewer total tests and the biggest decrease in number of tests per week during that stretch.

Broken down by group, live-in greek students had SEE DASHBOARD, PAGE 4

son catches COVID-19, their body may have a delayed protective response to the virus, allowing the disease to progress further.

Since COVID-19 is a new virus, it is more dangerous than the flu. Unlike the flu or a cold, Duszynski said the coronavirus is harder to treat since there aren’t any already-known treatments or medicines to fight against it.

The most important thing is that people continue to wear masks, socially distance and wash their

hands, Duszynski said. He said students should know their actions can affect a much larger group of people than they realize.

“It’s about protecting the most vulnerable in the community,” Duszynski said.

Shirley Stumpner, IU Disability Services for Students director, said her office helps find academic accommodations that suit each student on a case-by-case basis.

The office cannot change a class’s method of instruction but can help a student

find a class that fits the level of in-person contact they desire. The office can also help if students with disabilities need extended time or flexible attendance.

A student should contact the specific department if further non-academic accommodations are needed, such as Residential Programs and Services for a single room or air conditioner. Stumpner said her office has had an influx of SEE SCARED, PAGE 4

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Sept. 6

COVID-19 fear and protocols begin to relax.

“It’s like tying one hand behind their back,” said Thomas Duszynski, IU-Purdue University Indianapolis’s epidemiology education director. “They are at a disadvantage.”

Duszynski said the risk of catching the virus is the same for everyone. However, there is greater risk for immunocompromised individuals to develop more serious outcomes from it. When an immunocompromised per-

3.57% 1.86%

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The positivity rate of IU's mitigaton testing increased from last week from 0.91% to 1.08%

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Oct. 4

Junior William Strum lived in his IU apartment for just more than a week.

When Strum spent time outside, he saw crowds of people walking up and down Kirkwood Avenue and members of greek life not wearing masks and breaking COVID-19 rules.

“I just packed up as much as I could from my apartment and I flew back to Dallas because I figured that it wasn't going to get better,” Strum said. “I just personally never felt safe.”

Strum has Type 1 diabetes and said he wanted to stay home in Texas in case he became sick. He said it would be difficult if his parents had to come up to care for him or he would have to take care of himself. He decided to move back home preemptively to minimize that risk.

“Even if it's safe for like four or five people to get together, it's safe enough for them. I still feel a little bit anxious, a little bit of dread,” Strum said. “There's a baseline of anxiety, but I feel like mine is heightened.”

Immunocompromised students coming back to IU during the COVID-19 pandemic are at greater risk of developing a serious case of the coronavirus while living in a highly concentrated area. Their ever-present health challenges are escalated to a new level of risk as

The body of a male student was found Monday morning in IU’s University East apartments, IU Police Department Deputy Chief Shannon Bunger said. Officers aren’t suspecting foul play and believe at this time he died from natural causes, Bunger said.

IUPD responded to a call around 11:30 a.m. after a maintenance worker entered the deceased’s apartment to check the smoke detector, Bunger said. The maintenance worker said the student was lying on the floor and tried to wake him up before calling IUPD for a welfare check, he said.

When officers arrived at the scene, they determined the student was dead. They haven’t identified who the student is or what year he was yet.

The student had significant medical history and no drug use is suspected as the cause of death, Monroe County Coroner Joani Shields said in an email.

Shields said an autopsy has not yet been requested because the cause of death appears to be natural.

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Bivianna Torres prepares tamales Sept. 26 in the parking lot of Bloomingfoods East. Torres said she has had to make difficult adjustments due to the coronavirus pandemic, including laying off employees and selling more tamales frozen, but hopes business will get better in the next year.

‘The secret is love’ Bivi’s Tamales struggles but stays afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic

By Phyllis Cha cha1@iu.edu | @phyllischa

Bivi’s Tamales, served in the Indiana Memorial Union in The Globe as well as other places in town, has faced similar problems to other businesses while operating during the COVID-19 pandemic. Owner Bivianna Torres said the pandemic has slashed business nearly in half for her.

She has had to make difficult adjustments, including laying off employees and selling more tamales frozen, but hopes business will get better in the next year.

“I’m working on a COVID schedule by COVID rules,” Bivi said.

Bivi’s Tamales started 10 years ago when Bivi worked at IU Health Bloomington Hospital. While work, doing laundry and hospital office tasks were not her passion, she needed health insurance to pay for her knee surgery.

During lunch breaks, Bivi would eat her now-popular homemade tamales.

“Why don’t you ever eat McDonald's or other fast food?” Her coworkers asked.

“I don’t believe in fast food,” Bivi responded.

She said she began bringing tamales for her coworkers

during every shift. Eventually, she was bringing them to work by the dozens. Her boss used to jokingly tell her she should start her own business.

When her contract with IU Health was terminated, Bivi decided to invest time into creating the business.

At first, Bivi said she was delivering the tamales out of her house to her customers.

Later, someone working for the Owen County Farmers’ Market in Spencer, Indiana, found out about her tamales and invited her to be a vendor there. From there, it took off, she said.

“I’m a one-woman show,” Bivi said.

Bivi also sells her tamales at the IMU on Mondays and Thursdays, at the parking lot of Bloomingfoods East on Saturdays and online through the People’s Market.

IU sophomore Joe Angert orders Bivi’s Tamales when they’re at The Globe. He said he appreciates IU supporting local businesses by incorporating their food in IU Dining.

Angert said it’s different to see employees wearing face shields and seeing plexiglass everywhere.

“It’s definitely different from what we’re used to, but that’s just the new normal for

the time being until we handle coronavirus,” he said.

Bivi said she makes about 700 tamales every week. Each tamale is carefully weighed out and handmade. Currently, Bivi has one employee helping her.

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bivi had to let go of all of her former staff, whom she considered family.

She said it was painful for her.

“We had all of these plans and overnight it was canceled,” Bivi said.

While business is better than it was at the beginning of quarantine, it’s still not nearly at the level it was last year. On Saturdays, at the parking lot of Bloomingfoods East, she couldn’t see the end of the line to her booth. Now, the longest it gets is six to seven people.

“I used to be worried I’d run out of tamales,” Bivi said, laughing.

Business also wasn’t great at the IMU this year when The Globe reopened. Bivi said she got 28 orders her first week. Last year, she used to get more than 200 orders a week. While business has been slowly picking up, Bivi said she doesn’t think it’s ever going to be the same.

Those weren’t the only hits her business took. Bivi

said she had multiple catering events last year. This year, she’s only had one, and it was for family friends.

But for Bivi, money isn’t the real reason she continues to work hard for her business.

She said her business is her true passion.

“I love my job,” she said.

“More than anything, I truly love what I do.”

For Bivi, making tamales has a long family history. She said the first time she ever made tamales was when she was 7 years old. Her mother, who had been preparing to make tamales, was rushing to the hospital because her grandfather had been in an accident.

“Take care of the tamales,” her mother said.

Bivi said she got to work forming and steaming the tamales by herself. When her mom came home from the hospital, she was surprised to find that Bivi had actually made the tamales instead of just putting the ingredients away.

To this day, Bivi still uses her great-grandmother’s recipe. She said people often ask her what her secret to making the tamales taste so good is.

“I have no secrets,” Bivi said, smiling. “The secret is love, I love what I do.”

Students react to anti-Semitic remarks

By Phyllis Cha cha1@iu.edu | @phyllischa

During an outdoor Yom Kippur service on Sept. 27 at IU Hillel, someone passing by in a car yelled an antiSemitic statement, IU Police Department Deputy Chief Shannon Bunger said.

Members were having the service on the lawn of the building as a COVID-19 safety precaution.

IUPD took a case report but is not actively investigating because no one could give a car description or license plate number. Bunger said this would change if they were to get any tips or information.

IU freshman Hannah Pelletiere, who was at the service, said it was late when this happened and made her feel paranoid the rest of the night, she said.

Pelletiere said she feels there has been a rise of antiSemitism, and she gets nervous to go to her temple at home.

“Here it’s just different because we’re all outside like sitting in the front lawn, so all of us kind of figured something like this might happen eventually,” she said. “But it’s scary.”

IU freshman Gabriella Smith, who was also at the service, said she felt unsafe after the incident because they were out on the front lawn with no security.

She said she feels like antiSemitic behavior has become so normalized for her that she wasn’t surprised at first. It took her a couple of minutes to process what had happened, Smith said.

“There’s been so many shooting and anti-Semitic acts,” Smith said.

“Even though it was just words, that doesn’t mean they can’t take action later.”

Smith said she knows she shouldn’t feel scared, but she thinks about how there are threats everywhere. She said the incident made her more nervous about going to future services.

Judge Amy Coney Barrett was officially introduced to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday as her confirmation hearings began. Senator Todd Young, RInd., speaking from an office near Monument Circle in Indianapolis, spoke to Barrett’s qualifications.

“I first met with professor Barrett in the spring of 2017, and it was abundantly clear that she was a star,” Young said.

“A brilliant legal scholar, she was and is held in the highest regard by her peers in the legal world. Her integrity and character are unimpeachable.“ Young, along with former senator Joe Donnelly, of Indiana, encouraged her nomination to the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit be moved forward, in 2017.

“Simply, she possessed all of the necessary qualities to be a great appellate court judge then and to be a great Supreme Court justice now,” Young said.

In the past few weeks, Republican senators have been warning against any attacks from their political rivals over Barrett’s catholic faith.

When she was first nominated to the Seventh Circuit, Senate Judiciary Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., brought up the issue.

“Why is it that so many of us on this side have this very uncomfortable feeling that dogma and law are two different things,” Feinstein said in 2017.

“And I think whatever a religion is, it has its own dogma. The law is totally different. And I think in your case, professor, when you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s of concern when you come to big issues that large numbers of people have fought for years in this country.”

Young addressed those comments in his introduction of Barrett.

“Unfortunately, some resorted to attacks on Judge Barrett’s religious convictions,” Young said. “I can tell you that in Indiana, and in much of the country, faith is viewed as an asset in a public servant, not a liability.”

Senator Mike Braun, R-Ind., spoke from his hometown of Jasper, Indiana. In his introduction of Barrett, he added his own comments regarding her faith. He was one of the first

senators from the midwest to announce support for Barrett’s nomination.

“Liberals and conservatives alike are bound by the constitution’s firm edict that no religious test should ever be required as a qualification to any office of public trust in the United States,” Braun said.

“I believe hostility towards Judge Barrett’s religious beliefs today could set a dangerous precedent of hostility towards other religious beliefs tomorrow.”

Despite concerns regarding her faith when she was first nominated to the federal bench, she was confirmed 55–43 to the Court of Appeals. Her nomination to the Supreme Court is expected to be a partisan fight, which could result in a partisan vote.

Young spoke of Barrett’s time on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which services Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.

“As a member of that court, Judge Barrett’s proven that she is a rather brilliant jurist who interprets the constitution as written and carefully weighs the facts of a given case,” Young said.

Barrett heard more than 600 cases in her time on the Seventh Circuit, authoring over 100 opinions. Additionally, she was the first woman from Indiana to serve on the Seventh Circuit. Should she be confirmed to the Supreme Court, she will bring some diversity to the nation’s highest court in terms of education, Braun said.

“When confirmed, Amy Coney Barrett will become the only justice of the Supreme Court who spent the majority of her professional life in middle America, not on the east coast,” Braun said.

“When confirmed, she will be the only sitting justice who did not receive her law degree from Harvard or Yale. When confirmed, she will be only the second current justice to join the court from west of the nation’s capital.”

Young, who also pledged support for Barrett early in the nomination process, ended his introduction with a call to other senators to support her nomination to the Supreme Court.

“It’s my hope that this body will confirm Judge Barrett in a bipartisan fashion, so that we will soon find another Hoosier doing something very important on the Supreme Court of the United States,” Young said.

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Helene G. Simon Hillel Center is seen May 12, 2008.

IU Hillel leader Rabbi Sue Silberberg requested for IUPD to patrol IU Hillel more in response to the incident, Bunger said.

IU Hillel posted a statement about the event Oct. 2.

“We are deeply saddened and outraged by the anti-Semitic shouts during our Yom Kippur evening services and firmly believe that these are the unacceptable and intolerable acts and/or beliefs of a small minority,” IU Hillel

said in a statement on social media.

Dean of Students Dave O’Guinn condemns the actions of the individuals who yelled the anti-Semitic remarks and encouraged others to shine light on this issue, he said in a statement on social media.

“I passionately stand by our Jewish students, faculty and staff as they celebrate their cultural and religious traditions to pray in peace,” he wrote.

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Armenia, Azerbaijan conflict hits students close to home

By Avraham Forrest ahforres@iu.edu | @Avraham_Forrest

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The IU Police Department crest can be seen on the gas tank of one of the IUPD motorcycles at the “Touch a Truck” event Monday in the Chick-fil-A parking lot at 3020 E. Third St.

IUPD releases response data

By Lauren McLaughlin lrmclaug@iu.edu | @l_mclaughlin8

IU Police Department released a response to resistance dashboard for IUBloomington on the Protect IU website as part of the Police Data Initiative sometime in August.

Response to resistance data includes items such as whether a taser was pulled from a holster, pointed or used or whether a firearm was pulled from a holster, pointed or used. Response to resistance can also include verbal commands or even officer presence, said Benjamin Hunter, IUPD associate vice president for public safety and institutional assurance and superintendent for public safety.

The release is in an attempt to be more transparent to the public about response to resistance data, Hunter said. He said they are working on releasing dashboards for all campuses.

The dashboard includes a comparison of how many incidents there were in a quarter to how many incidents in the quarter were response to resistance incidents.

The data also includes subjects’ race, gender, af-

filiation with the university and whether substances such as drugs or alcohol were involved. It also includes whether or not a subject had a weapon or if there was mental concern.

The first quarter data from January through March shows 20 out of 3,103 incidents were resistance incidents, or 0.006%, according to the dashboard.

Of all 20 incidents, there were 29 people involved.

About 79% were white, about 17% were Black and one person was Hispanic.

There were nine students and 20 people unaffiliated with IU. The second quarter data from April through June for IUPD Bloomington shows eight out of 1,572 incidents were resistance incidents, or 0.005%, according to the dashboard. Of all eight incidents, 14 people were involved. About 79% were white and about 21% were Black. Half were students, and half were unaffiliated with IU. Natalie Hipple, an associate professor of criminal justice at IU-Bloomington and a member of IUPD’s De-escalation and Training Commission, helped sort through the data to create the dashboards. IUPD

received a federal grant to consolidate the data.

She said many response to resistance incidents involved drugs or alcohol and were with non-students.

Hunter said the department has been working on the dashboard idea for three years. He said one of his goals when he arrived at IUPD in the beginning of 2017 was to look at the response to resistance system wide.

“I want people to ask questions. I want people to know that we’re trying to put as much information out there (as we can).”

Jill Lees, IUPD chief of police

“We tracked it, but we didn’t track it consistently,” he said. “It was tracked on paper, PDF documents, Word documents.”

Hipple said it took about nine months to sort through the data on all the campuses for a commission report. They had to make sure items important to cases, such as victims’ names, were not released, Hipple

said.

“It took a long time to kind of figure out what we wanted to capture, what we were missing from the paper files, how that translated into electronic files, getting the brainpower of someone who really knew how to work the IT part of it,” she said.

The data is reviewed by chiefs and command staff monthly, Hunter said.

“They have to justify everything, from an officer’s presence to touching someone,” he said. “Any type of response to resistance has to be reviewed and justified.”

Jill Lees, IUPD Bloomington chief of police, said she hopes that through the dashboard the community will see the willingness to be transparent and also look through IUPD’s general orders, which are documents that contain department policies.

“I want people to ask questions,” she said. “I want people to know that we’re trying to put as much information out there because the more transparent we can be, the less people say, ‘I don’t know what IUPD does, IUPD is just like every other police department in America.’”

New conflict burns in the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, with Armenia and Azerbaijan accusing each other of violating terms of a ceasefire negotiated by Russia.

Nagorno-Karabakh, also known as Artsakh, is a mountainous region between Azerbaijan and Armenia and is the subject of the conflict. In 1993, the United Nations Security Council ruled the disputed territory belonged to Azerbaijan.

The conflict reaches across the globe to those at IU with ties to the regions.

“There is no ground things at Nagorno-Karabakh have ever belonged to Armenia,” said Zaur Zeynalov, an Azerbaijani graduate student at IU. However, the Armenians, who have been living in the region for decades, see the territory as their home and a part of their culture.

“I think that Armenians as a nation are very peace-loving, hospitable, friendly people,” said Ani Abrahamyan, an Armenian Ph.D. student in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures. “But when our land is attacked, our right to exist is attacked, we’re going to defend it.”

Conflict flared on Sept 28, with the president of the Republic of Azerbaijan accusing Armenia of firing upon the country, resulting in civilian and military casualties, according to a decree by President Ilham Aliyev on Sept. 27.

In response, the Republic of Armenia accused the Azerbajainis of lying about who instigated the hostilities in a Sept. 28 statement.

The conflict is decades old and has hurt families who

have endured the violence, such as Abrahamyan’s, whose father was killed in the initial war for Nagorno-Karabakh in 1994.

“As someone who was displaced by war and was raised in a single parent family, I understand the pain and the suffering of the children who are facing the same fate as me right now, back at home,” Abrahamyan said.

However, both sides have felt that violence has developed beyond simply defending their home countries.

Armenia has targeted areas that are not a part of NagornoKarabakh, an action that goes beyond defense, Zeynalov said.

He said the government of Azerbaijan sees the fight over Nagorno-Karabakh as a larger legal issue with serious international implications.

“Either we should forget about international law or we should defend by the end that international law is recognized by all countries in the world,” he said.

Abrahamyan has faced tension on social media for posts she tagged as being located in Nagorno-Karabakh.

“It ranges anywhere from just little flags, Azerbaijan flags, Turkish flags, to things like ‘Karabakh is Azerbaijan’ to things like, ‘we will kill you,’” Abrahamyan said.

She feels IU members from both sides of the conflict remain respectful. She teaches Russian language and has an Azerbaijani student in her class.

“Both of us were very professional about it, and we think that’s one of the key things to any attempt of resolving the conflict is people being able to discuss their experiences on both sides,” Abrahamyan said.

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Strum has gotten seriously ill from the flu in high school to the point where his throat swelled up, he had a high fever and could not turn his head.

He also said it was difficult to control his blood sugar until he was completely healthy again. Just a few people not following precautions could put him at immense risk.

“If I get sick through an asymptomatic spreader that could put me in the hospital for a long time,” Strum said.

“[Bloomington] was just a very stressful environment.”

Even though his classes are all online, Strum didn’t want to go home. He said leaving has taken a mental toll, not being able to regularly see friends in person and mostly communicating through Snapchat and FaceTime. He feels secluded and like he’s missing out.

Strum said he hopes IU will take more steps to make it safer for students to stay in Bloomington. He said testing isn’t enough to control the social factors that spread the virus, such as off-campus parties like the viral student boat party on Monroe Lake.

“It just takes the actions of a few to derail the lives of the many,” Strum said.

He said he wished IU would have smaller, compounding punishments for students who break COVID-19 policies instead of larger suspensions. He said this could push students toward safer social interactions without punishing them harshly enough that they don’t want to report themselves or others. IU policies include barring gatherings of more than 15 people and mandatory mask use on campus.

“They've kind of forced it to where if you get caught, there's all these horrible penalties,” Strum said. “Students are just not telling people

that they're sick or they're just being more furtive about things.”

Sophomore Heather Fields has ulcerative colitis but caught COVID-19 over the summer. Before having the coronavirus, she said she was anxious about how serious her symptoms could be but felt calmer when she only had a mild cold and a slight fever. She has since recovered.

Fields said she is becoming more concerned because her immunity period is over so she is now available for mitigation testing. IU gave her a three-month exemption from testing due to her previous positive test result.

She said she doesn’t know about the long-term effects COVID-19 could have but she is doing her best to stay healthy.

“I'm a little bit more nervous now about my immunity period according to IU being up and getting it again,” Fields said.

IU has targeted greek life through mitigation testing or urging students out of houses and off campus. She said she was frustrated with IU when it wanted to have all students move out of greek houses.

The stress of not knowing whether or not she could stay in her house or if her chapter would have to quarantine pushed her to move into an apartment, she said.

campus students had a 0.8% rate, which is up from 0.5% the week prior.

Symptomatic testing positivity rates jumped from 16.45% to 21.05% last week.

The prevalence rate in Bloomington increased to 0.8% from 0.7% the week prior. The isolation and quarantine facilities — meaning Ashton — in-

creased to 11.1% of capacity from 7.6% the week prior.

The increasing positivity rates correlates with Indiana moving into stage 5 earlier this month and the record spike in new cases that have come over the last week. Oct. 9 was Indiana’s single-day record for new cases, with nearly 2,000. The state is currently

averaging a little over 1,600 new cases per day, which is the highest average it has ever had.

Monroe County itself passed the 3,000 case milestone over the weekend.

IU reports that the increasing cases are manageable — and this is something IU leaders said in previous webinars they ex-

from mitigation testing, quarantined multiple greek houses for weeks at a time and moved infected students to Ashton Center.

Immunocompromised students are isolated from friends and classmates. Others with at-risk people in their lives are worrying about their actions and who they come in contact with on a daily basis.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 students who needed help as a result of the pandemic.

Stumpner said she knows there are students who haven’t returned in fear of COVID-19, but the university is doing a lot to make classes accessible for everyone. She said the COVID-19 rules are universal since they protect all students, not just the immunocompromised.

“The university really is doing a lot, that is an advantage for students that are immunocompromised,” Stumpner said. “They've put in place these things that really are protections for all students and a strong protection for those students who are more compromised.”

Stumpner said students with medical conditions are more likely to be isolated during this time and Counseling and Psychological Services has many services to help with issues such as anxiety and depression.

CAPS’s chronic illness support group is free and aimed to help students talk about their illnesses.

Students have come back to campus while state and national COVID-19 protocols are relaxing and people are attempting to return to normal life amid a still-spreading pandemic. IU has had 1,823 total COVID-19 cases

“It's important to respect if somebody would ever tell you that they're immunocompromised or are not comfortable with you doing things or going certain places.”

Heather Fields, IU sophomore

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“It's important to respect if somebody would ever tell you that they're immunocompromised or are not comfortable with you doing things or going certain places,” Fields said.

Dylan Phillips is a freshman who drives home to Lafayette, Indiana, every weekend to help his mother, who is both immunocompromised and pregnant, take care of his siblings. A close friend’s relative is also immunocompromised.

Phillips goes to campus twice a week for his two inperson classes. He said he is nervous about going on

campus since he doesn’t know whether his classmates are spending their free time partying.

He sought out the most protective N95 mask he could find for when he does go out in public. He said he keeps most of his food inside his dorm room so he can avoid the dining halls.

“It makes me very nervous because I'm the guardian of my five siblings so it makes me even more nervous if I touch anything or if my mother touches anything,” Phillips said. “It has been a rough adjustment."

Phillips said he had issues living in Forest Quad when his past roommate developed COVID-19 symptoms and didn’t plan on getting tested. He had trouble contacting his RPS administrator to move to a single room.

Phillips said he was told there was nothing they could do to help him and wasn’t able to move until his mother finally got involved.

“I was definitely worried but annoyed at the same time due to other students moving rooms,” Phillips said.

“I knew of three or four other students who were able to move with no problems.”

IU is doing its best juggling everything to keep everyone safe, but he thinks there can definitely be more precautions implemented, Phillips said.

pected once colder weather began to arrive. IU wrote in the dashboard it is not easing any of its own restrictions to this point as the state enters stage 5.

IU reported on the dashboard it will be increasing testing this week due to the rise in rates. IU has always said it would test students weekly once its labs open

in mid-October. The labs, however, are not yet open.

IU also included links in the dashboard for students, faculty and staff to sign up for required flu shots and additionally reports that anyone experiencing flu symptoms is required to isolate until it is confirmed that person does not have COVID-19.

Fields feels safe in her classes and campus buildings but said if she was to catch the virus again, it would probably be out at restaurants or other places in Bloomington.

Fields said people wouldn’t know by her appearance that she is immunocompromised and there are more students like her on campus with “invisible illnesses.”

“It’s like tying one hand behind their back. They are at a disadvantage.”

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Pregnant women in US prisons are our most neglected population Alex Petit (she/her) is a senior in marketing and creative technologies in art and design.

With the rise of COVID-19 cases in prisons and the questionable future of our government, it is important to highlight some of the most pressing issues in our criminal justice system. One of them is how our government fails pregnant women who are incarcerated.

The most alarming aspect of pregnancies in prisons is the lack of documentation.

There is a 15-year gap in data regarding pregnancies and pregnancy care provided in prisons from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The most up-to-date information is from 2002 and 2004 which documented the rates of pregnant women upon their admittance to local, state and federal prisons and jails.

Why is this concerning?

Due to the policies of the criminal justice system in our country that perpetuate mass incarceration, incarcerated pregnancies will inevitably continue to rise.

Additionally, pregnancies in prisons are often high-risk due to several factors existing prior to incarceration. These factors include substance abuse, domestic violence, mental illness, poor nutrition and a lack of prenatal care.

Most prisons do not have any of the standards for specialized care that these pregnancies require.

Between 1980 and 2017, the number of incarcerated women has increased by more than 750%. In 2017, the rate of imprisonment for Black women was double the rate for white women. Currently, the imprisonment of white and Hispanic women

is increasing, and the rate of Black women is declining.

When considering how our prisons care for pregnant women, these factors are extremely important. Currently, there are no mandatory standards of care for pregnant women in American prisons. There are basic recognized guidelines, but several state systems fail to meet them.

Twelve state carceral systems do not specify medical examinations as a component of prenatal care, and in two states this policy is unavailable to the public.

Twenty-three states do not provide screening and treatment for high-risk pregnancies, and once again, two states fail to make this policy publicly available. Preexisting arrangements for deliveries are not required in 24 states, while three states neglect to make this policy publicly available. Only 12 states prohibit or limit the use of restraints during child labor.

In Indiana, IC 11-10-33 is the only law describing expected standards for prenatal and postnatal care. Unsurprisingly, it’s fairly vague.

“Necessary prenatal and postnatal care and treatment shall be provided consistent with acceptable medical practice and standards,” the code reads. “When possible, arrangements shall be made for children to be born in a hospital outside the correctional facility. ” Indiana is among the states that do not prohibit or limit the use of restraints and don’t provide screening and treatment for high-risk pregnancies.

In some states where they do have these policies in place, critical parts of pregnancy care are still missing.

Under the Eighth Amendment, all prisons and jails must provide prenatal care, but there are no federal standards to ensure this care is being adequately provided.

This explains why only 54% of incarcerated pregnant women receive some form of prenatal care.

It is well-documented that incarcerated women often give birth in improper conditions. There are several accounts of women giving birth in their cells by themselves, or of being shackled to a hospital bed while in labor. This can pose greater risks as it can worsen pain, limit movement during labor and interfere with the ability of health care providers to assess the mother and fetus.

This policy was originally developed to prevent the prisoner from escaping or harming themselves or others. However, there have been no documented escape attempts among incarcerated women during child labor, and most women who are pregnant in prison are nonviolent offenders. The Federal Bureau of Prisons and many other organizations have denounced the practice of shackling during child labor. Despite this, there is no legal requirement for state and local prisons or jails to abide by this policy, which explains why so many of these institutions still have this policy in place.

Nutritional standards are already poor among prisons and jails, and there is a lack of critical nutrition standards for pregnant incarcerated women. This is important because unbalanced diets can increase the risk for preterm birth, birth defects and other developmental problems. Currently, 31 states

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lack nutritional policies for incarcerated pregnant women. Twelve states have some guidelines but use vague language, leading to substandard care.

Even when incarcerated, women still maintain the constitutional right to an abortion. Most states have several restrictions in place that make obtaining an abortion extremely difficult, however. It can also vary greatly depending on the location of the facility because concrete policies regarding abortions are difficult to come by.

Pregnant incarcerated women face additional barriers through prison or jail staff as there are several accounts of staff simply refusing the right to an abortion for an inmate. These women are frequently expected to pay for all of the related expenses of an abortion upfront, and it can take months because

JP Brenner (he/him) is a senior in political science and geography.

MEL FRONCZEK | IDS

Mayor John Hamilton asks Bloomington City Council members in a Zoom meeting on Sept. 16 to support a 0.25% increase to the Monroe County local income tax rate. The council voted 4-5 against the tax.

Mayor Hamilton’s tax proposal was struck down irresponsibly ing the proposal and it’s not specific enough in what the funds will be used for.

The not-the-right-time and not-a-progressive-tax arguments come through most strongly. They’re fair points worthy of consideration, but fall short as the basis of a nay.

First off, it reads as somewhat dubious considering those opposed to the tax increase battled against it before the pandemic. Still, Bloomingtonians are hanging on by a thread right now, and we can’t visit an egregious tax hike upon them, their argument goes.

A quarter percent of annual income — despite not being progressive — is modest. To the median Bloomington resident, it would have amounted to six dollars and eighty-seven cents per month, or less than a Netflix subscription.

Such an increase would have put us closer to par with surrounding counties.

Bloomington has the third lowest local income tax of the 21 counties in our region, despite having similar median household incomes.

All that aside, the flat versus progressive tax argument was a moot point in the first place. The state legislature doesn’t allow Bloomington to introduce progressivity

order to have the procedure but was denied. Without any options, she was then forced to carry her pregnancy to term.

These barriers to abortion are largely unconstitutional as they violate the Eighth and Fourteenth amendments.

The right to have an abortion is a serious medical need and the economic and administrative barriers these facilities place on women infringes on their constitutional rights.

Considering the additional health risks in prisons with the rise of COVID-19 in facilities paired with the questionable political climate of our country, the lack of proper reproductive care has serious consequences for these women. We must fight for change within the criminal justice system and the rights of all prisoners. apetit@iu.edu

Critical race theory should be examined, not attacked Rebekah Amaya (she/her) is a junior in law and public policy and critical race and ethnic study.

On Sept. 16, the Bloomington City Council voted 5-4 to reject Mayor John Hamilton’s Recover Forward proposal. The five nays came from councilmembers Isabel Piedmont-Smith, Susan Sandberg, Ron Smith, Sue Sgambelluri and Jim Sims.

The proposed funding measure was meant to help Bloomington recover from the financial quagmire visited upon us by the COVID-19 pandemic and was written with an eye toward economic, climate and racial justice. The cost to the median Bloomington resident would have been about $7 a month.

The city needs the money considering income and sales tax revenues are down.

As we begin to emerge from the worst of the pandemic, deliberate action is required to maintain present levels of city services. There’s certainly no shortage of programs which could use the funding.

Those basic facts don’t appear in dispute. In fact, on the night of the vote, criticisms emerging from some council members mostly fell into one of the following categories: a pandemic is not the time to raise taxes, we should have a progressive rather than flat tax, the community hasn’t been sufficiently engaged in debat-

many do not have the financial resources to afford these procedures while earning prison wages. Incarcerated people in Indiana only earned between 12 and 25 cents an hour in 2017.

In the 2017 court case Doe v. McCauley, Doe repeatedly informed guards at Indiana Women’s Prison that she wanted to obtain an abortion. The guards repeatedly denied her requests to see a health care provider, and told her she only had one week to pre-pay around $1,000 in fees for the procedure.

After seeking legal assistance, she was finally transported to a health care provider where she found she was already 14 weeks pregnant. Abortion clinics in the state of Indiana cannot perform abortions after 13 weeks and 6 days. She requested to be transported to an out-of-state facility in

into its income tax code. This was never on the table in the first place.

The idea the community was not sufficiently engaged is ludicrous. Hamilton publicly announced this initiative nine months ago. The council and the community had time to weigh in.

Hamilton’s outline provided a slew of ideas for the tax. They included focusing on issues of climate, racial and economic justice — all topics which would find purchase in Bloomington.

To the council’s credit, the proposal was indeed not focused because Hamilton did include 64 potential uses of the tax.

But is it not the council’s job, in conjunction with the mayor’s office, to oversee the budget? And did they not have nine months to hone such a proposal?

Specific or not, progressive or regressive, this proposal wasn’t itself enough.

Its $4 million amounts to only 0.06% of local GDP. A serious proposal would necessitate a bond issuance, or assistance from state and federal entities.

But still, is it not better to at least try? The mayor was willing, and the council deferred their responsibility.

by Nicholas Baird

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last month that banned promotions of “divisive concepts” in all federal agencies, including federal contractors and the armed services. This order came after a memo from the Office of Management and Budget outright attacked any ideas associated with critical race theory.

CRT, as defined by leading scholars in the field, is “a collection of activists and scholars engaged in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism and power.”

In light of ongoing racial injustice and increase of white supremacist violence, critical race theory needs to be closely examined and protected.

Just this past week, Trump released a proclamation calling for the celebration of Columbus Day amid national movements aimed at reclaiming this holiday as Indigenous Peoples Day. The fight against CRT isn’t new, but it is now time IU steps up to uphold a field of study aimed at combating racism and erasure of marginalized groups’ experiences.

CRT studies intersectional issues and challenges prevailing ideologies through the interdisciplinary use of storytelling and social justice.

Despite being a relatively new academic field, CRT has been widely influential in developing diversity programs and guiding research on race and ethnicity. This has led to pushback from scholars, politicians and professionals who believe CRT is an assault on U.S. history and is anti-American propaganda.

The executive order conflates anti-bias training with all efforts to build an inclusive and equitable society that recognizes the historic and ongoing struggle of marginal-

ized groups. It somehow concludes these needed efforts are a “destructive ideology grounded in misrepresentations of our country’s history.”

“It’s not surprising we’re witnessing this [the attacks on CRT] in the wake of George Floyd,” said Andrés Guzmán, an IU professor of Spanish and Portuguese, who does research on the intersection between cultural studies, border studies and political theory.

The murders of Floyd and Breonna Taylor by police officers this year has sparked dissent and protests across the country. Consequently, CRT has taken a front-row seat in leading discussions on combating racism and dismantling systems of oppression.

These egregious — but not new — acts of violence have shed a national light on our country’s prevalent racism.

From 1619, when the first enslaved Africans were brought to America, to 1787, when the Constitution was written by slaveholders and colonizers, racism pervades every aspect of United States history.

While the Trump administration may be waging the latest battle, the war to banish CRT and ethnic study from university and public school curriculum has been fought for decades. It’s rooted in conservative, white-supremacist beliefs, viewing universities as liberal strongholds corrupting the impressionable minds of the next generation.

One particularly vicious expression of this xenophobia was the termination of the Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican-American Studies program in 2010. The program was established in 1997 to reduce the achievement gap and lower dropout rates of Latinx students. As the data and anecdotal evidence suggest, it accomplished that and much more, providing a home to students of color. It challenged stereotypes and expressed better ways to deal with the discrimination encountered head-on every day.

But Arizona lawmakers didn’t see it that way. In 2010, they passed HB-2281, effec-

tively banning all ethnic study education in the state’s public school system.

CRT holds a place at IU in areas such as the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society, the Cultural Studies Program, the department of African American and African Diaspora Studies and the Race, Migration and Indigeneity Programs through the College of Arts and Sciences.

IU needs to protect programs and research guided by critical race theory in order to keep their mission statement of striving to “achieve full diversity, and to maintain friendly, collegial and humane environments, with a strong commitment to academic freedom.”

However, the budget allocations for the African American and African Diaspora Studies have decreased since 2009. IU cannot claim to protect academic freedom if they are willing to sacrifice the very departments that work to maintain it.

Unfortunately, IU has a history of mishandling racism throughout campus. From the racist comments by professors to bias incidents and attempted lynchings, we need to reckon with the racism that surrounds IU and the racism that occurs within it.

There are several schools that have diversity, equity and inclusion offices that offer diversity and bias training.

However, campus-wide there is no mandatory training for students, faculty and staff.

By allocating more funding and resources to programs that promote CRT, requiring mandatory diversity training and ending budget cuts to ethnic studies programs IU can take the first step in combating racism in a meaningful and effective way.

It is clear that Trump will continue to push against antiracist initiatives and enable white supremacy. As a research institution IU must defend and support critical race theory in the fight against racism, erasure and oppression. opinion@idsnews.com

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Fishers senior Jaylen Castillo commits to IU

By Aidan Kunst akunst@iu.edu | @aidankunst

Jaylen Castillo made a was a long decision which w time coming.

Castillo, a secomi High School nior at Fishers Fis and a lifelong IU super-fan, lifel committed to IU on Sept. committe 23.

Castillo wasn’t always Casti a great runner. As a kid he played basketball p and football, and track f and cross-country were just hobbies.

But in eighth grade, he ran cross-country r and ended up placing e ninth at a state.

“After that, I was like, ‘Whoa, I’m actually kind of good at this.’ th And then I just pursued it from there,” Castillo said.

He couldn’t have purcou sued cross-country without cross the help of o Ethan Meyer, a freshman runner at IU and Castillo’s former teammate f at Fishers. It was Meyer who he looked up to, who he ran with and who pushed him to get better. bett “I really real looked up to Ethan, and an I told myself I was gonna do everything he does and run with him and try to kee keep up with him,” Castillo ssaid. “I committed myself to run with him COURTESY PHOTO

Fishers High School student Jaylen Castillo runs during a meet. Castillo committed to IU on Sept. 23.

every day, and come track season I ran crazy times, stuff I couldn’t have imagined. He had a big impact on me.”

While Castillo said he owes much of his success to Meyer, his work ethic is unmatched. A seven-mile run Castillo plainly called “easy” is just constant in his daily routine. His passion for running and drive to push himself to shave valuable seconds off his times are why he is one of the top runners in the state, with running times for the 5K consistently in the 15:40 range.

Hunter Christ and Drew Smith, freshman runners at Purdue and former teammates of Castillo, noticed his work ethic from the time they first met him.

“Jaylen is one of the most hardworking people I’ve ever met,” Christ said. “During our runs together if we were ever short on mileage he would run around the parking lot until he finished his mileage instead of being .08 miles short.”

When it came time for his recruitment, many of the big names in running including the University of North Carolina, University of Alabama, Baylor University, Michigan and Purdue all showed interest. Castillo said as a result of uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a five-star review from Meyer of IU’s coaching staff, he decided

to stay home and commit to his self-described “dream school.”

“Growing up I have always been a really big IU fan, and I think it just took the call from Coach [Andrew] Poore, the assistant, for me to realize, this is really where I want to go,” Castillo said. “Ethan Meyer played a big role in why I got fast and he seems pretty successful at IU, so I think I can just follow his footsteps and continue to thrive.”

Though the COVID-19 pandemic wiped out any ability for Castillo to have an official visit and meet the coaches face to face, a couple of unofficial trips to Bloomington and several Zoom calls with the coaching staff made him feel comfortable enough to make his decision to commit.

But before Castillo steps onto IU’s campus next fall, he is still focused on improvement and achieving the goals he’s set for himself in high school.

“I really want to make all-state, because I have never been a cross-country guy but I have really started to get the hang of it,” Castillo said. “I really want to run 15:40 or sub-15:40. This is one of the most competitive years ever for Indiana cross country, it is really open and there is no clear frontrunner. Our team is really healthy and really solid and we want to win state.”

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Activists want to defund police departments, what could that look like in Bloomington?

By Vivek Rao and Kaitlyn Radde investigations@idsnews.com

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ith racism and police brutality coming to the forefront of public attention across the community and nation, many are condemning police departments and the justice system, arguing they perpetuate systemic racism.

The movement to defund the police has become a central component of many activists’ fight, but some observers aren’t sure what that means, especially at a local level. We took a closer look at what defunding the police might actually mean in practice and at the Bloomington Police Department and Indiana University Police Department to help understand how our city fits, and doesn’t fit, into the national conversation.

So, what’s defunding?

Recently, protesters across the nation have demanded the defunding of police departments, or the reallocation of money away from the police and into social services. Activists argue a budget prioritizing social services and meeting people’s basic needs could lead to a decrease in overall crime rates.

The idea is to shrink a police department by reducing the number of issues police are responding to and provide non-carceral solutions to problems such as homelessness and drug addiction. Some activists see this as a step toward eventually abolishing the police.

Both defunding and abolition would have to happen in stages to help ensure a safe transition away from policing.

Dr. Amrita Chakrabarti-Myers, associate professor of history and gender studies, said Black Lives Matter proposes city budgets divert money away from policing and into other community resources that are more capable of nonviolently dealing with noncriminal social problems.

She and others have advocated for the creation of a non-911 number that could be called for things like mental health or drug-related emergencies to avoid unnecessary and escalatory police presence.

In the absence of a non-911 number, BLM B-Town is working on a campaign called Make the Right Call, which will provide alternative phone numbers for those who would like to avoid calling the police.

BPD Chief Mike Diekhoff explained that even if a non-911 number were created and funds were reallocated, people would still call the police for things they should call the non-911 number for.

“Other organizations are more than capable of creating their own units, but nobody has done that yet. We stepped up because we saw a need to do that,” he said.

Donyel Byrd, a Bloomington social worker, mentioned the same issue with getting people to call a non-911 number. She suggested training 911 dispatchers in alternative crisis response so police are not sent out to calls that don’t require a police presence.

This would include situations such as a drug emergency where an

ambulance alone is more appropriate.

However, Diekhoff said police are often sent out on those calls because EMTs and the fire department request officers be dispatched for their safety.

Hypothetically, if BPD were defunded, the city would maintain a smaller police department that would respond to only the emergency calls that require its presence, such as breaking and entering. Over time, as alternate crisis responses become more familiar, the police would deal with fewer calls and need fewer officers. Police departments would gradually shrink as resources went elsewhere to allow social workers, rather than police officers, to deal with social problems.

“I think logistics are what people tend to back away from,” Byrd said regarding the movement to defund the police.

Another important component of reallocating funds is addressing the root causes of problems such as homelessness and drug addiction, she said, which bring people into disproportionate and preventable contact with the police. She also emphasized the importance of centering the voices of the vulnerable and marginalized people who will be subject to decisions that are made.

“If you’re going to defund the police, you shrink the budget and you put money into alternative places where people can actually be helped and not harmed.

Because the police are not trained to deal with people who are mentally ill, and mental illness is not a crime.

The police are not trained to deal with homelessness, and homelessness is not a crime.”

Dr. Amrita Chakrabarti-Myers, associate professor of history and gender studies

“If you’re going to defund the police, you shrink the budget and you put money into alternative places where people can actually be helped and not harmed,” Chakrabarti-Myers said. “Because the police are not trained to deal with people who are mentally ill, and mental illness is not a crime.

The police are not trained to deal with homelessness, and homelessness is not a crime.”

However, police often get called for these issues, Diekhoff said, and having social work staff embedded in the police department allows for a more streamlined process of turning those calls over to social workers.

Jeremy Carter, director of criminal justice and public safety and director for research for the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, pointed out police departments have high call rates for non-crime related issues, such as noise complaints.

What are the risks of defunding police departments?

Diekhoff said reallocating funds away from the police would not mean that police get fewer calls, and separating police funds into other departments would not mean that people stop calling the police for non-crime, quality-oflife issues.

Carter acknowledged challenges to defunding the police, such as the risk of under-policing. He said the idea of removing police presence to protect minority communities could backfire because of the high victimization rates of those communities.

He referenced a June 2020 Washington Post op-ed written

by Rod Brunson, a professor at Northeastern University.

“If you were to just map crime, you will see the highest number of victims in those same [predominantly minority] communities,” Carter said. “How do you balance that reality with also having an appropriate police response and presence? That’s a tricky thing to navigate.”

But Chakrabarti-Myers said those communities are often victimized by the police themselves and are heavily overpoliced.

“I will be much less concerned about that when Black and Brown people aren’t being terrorized and victimized by the police themselves,” she said.

Why divert money away from police instead of reforming how it’s spent?

In his memorandum to the 2021 budget, Diekhoff said “BPD strives to provide a transparent, bias-free, equitable environment for all people we serve.” He also mentioned efforts to make BPD reflect the demographic makeup of Bloomington by recruiting a more diverse workforce.

BPD has a downtown resource officers unit that works with people experiencing homelessness. In July, the Stride Coalition opened a 24-hour crisis center where officers can take people experiencing mental health and addiction crises instead of taking them to jail. The center is staffed by Centerstone, a not-for-profit health system providing mental health and substance use disorder treatments.

Only law enforcement officers can refer people to the center.

Diekhoff said this is because the police have the most contact with individuals who would need their services and expects that once the center is more established, it may begin to take walk-ins and nonpolice referrals.

Byrd said she is troubled by the neighborhood resource officers, whose stated job is to work with people experiencing homelessness.

“They’re unarmed, but there are increasing patrols in neighborhoods,” she said.

She said the increase in patrols would disproportionately affect areas that are already overpoliced.

Byrd also said the Stride Coalition crisis center and some of Centerstone’s other efforts, while

well-intentioned, are still coercive.

“It is right by the jail,” she said of the crisis center. “It looks like a locked facility. It was extremely expensive.”

She said from her conversations with the people who could be recipients of that service, it is not a place they would want to go.

Byrd and Chakrabarti-Myers both argue that police departments hiring social workers misses the point. Instead, those in favor of defunding the police want to reallocate funds away from policing altogether into existing social services so people experiencing mental health or addiction crises do not have to come into contact with the police in the first place.

But Diekhoff said many people, including social workers, are in favor of embedding social workers in police departments. BPD’s lone social worker has been able to affect positive change in people’s lives after she encountered them through police contacts, he said, including working with the elderly and children and connecting people with the services they needed.

Because the police get noncrime related calls, such as for homelessness and mental health issues, having a social worker in the department allows BPD to turn those cases over to her, which would be more difficult if funds were reallocated away from the police and those calls still went to police.

“We’ve been consulted by a variety of different departments from around the country about how we set our program up so that they can do the same thing,” he said. “We certainly don’t impede upon what they need to do and what their ethics require them to do.”

There is currently only one social worker employed by BPD. Where does BPD’s money go?

BPD’s budget has steadily increased over the years, while its share of the general fund has fluctuated around 30%. The general fund is the city’s discretionary fund, which relies heavily on property and sales taxes and funds city functions such as police, fire and other community services.

The police department’s budget for next year, if approved as proposed, would come to about 38.1% of Bloomington’s general fund.

About 82.5% of the proposed 2021 BPD budget would go toward personnel services, such as wages and insurance.

The largest proportional increase would be an 11% increase in funding for supplies. Notable requests include $15,000 for gas masks and $6,000 for less-lethal weapons, which are generally considered riot control supplies.

Diekhoff said the gas masks are not only for tear gas but also for other hazardous chemicals that companies in the community possess, and they would protect BPD officers in those situations as well as riot control situations.

At a city budget hearing in August, Diekhoff said he couldn’t remember the last time the de-

partment used the less-lethal weapons it has access to, which include pepper spray, rubber bullets and tear gas. He did not specify contexts in which such weapons might be used in the future or whether he anticipated using them.

In his 2021 proposal, Diekhoff also projected an increase in the amount spent on rifles and handguns through 2030.

Who’s policing us?

In the proposal, BPD said it served 85,000 people, in line with census estimates of Bloomington’s population. This estimate includes students.

IUPD and BPD often assist one another due to call volume, and both police departments have jurisdiction throughout the city and on campus, according to IUPD Deputy Chief Shannon Bunger.

Collaboration between city and campus police departments is the practice nationally recommended by the Department of Justice and Major Cities Chiefs Association.

BPD’s full staffing under the 2021 proposal would be 100 sworn officers, reduced from 105. BPD has 98 sworn personnel currently, and IUPD employs 45 full-time sworn personnel. According to the IUPD website, IU is the only university in the country that allows students to work as police officers, a program students and activists have criticized.

“I don’t believe students should be weaponized against other students. I don’t believe that students should be allowed to perform wellness checks and mental health checks on other students. I think it’s incredibly problematic.”

Dr. Amrita Chakrabarti-Myers, associate professor of history and gender studies

“I don’t believe students should be weaponized against other students. I don’t believe that students should be allowed to perform wellness checks and mental health checks on other students,” Chakrabarti-Myers said. “I think it’s incredibly problematic.”

During the school year, Bloomington has about 16.5 officers per 10,000 residents, with that ratio increasing in the summer months when many students leave. This is slightly less than the number of officers per capita in comparable Big Ten cities.

Part of the reason activists want to reallocate funds away from the police is to reduce overpolicing.

Chakrabarti-Myers said Bloomington is policed by seven different police departments — BPD, IUPD, Indiana State Police, Monroe County Sheriff ’s Office, overlapping jurisdiction with Ellettsville, IU Health Police Department and the Department of Natural Resources’ Law Enforcement.

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Art, music play major role during social movements Haley Ryan haryan@iu.edu | @haley__ryan

The connection between art and social activism can be seen on the streets, walls and windows of Bloomington every day. From the “Black Lives Matter” mural in People’s Park to the music playing in dorm rooms on campus, artistic expression, in its many forms, has been a primary way for students and citizens to make their voices heard.

This year has seen an enormous wave of social and political change including the upcoming election, the COVID-19 pandemic and discussions on racial inequality and policing. But due to increased social and political changes, many protesters are turning to art to express their views.

Protests in the U.S. are is inextricably linked to the production of art, said Faye Gleisser, assistant professor of contemporary art in IU’s art history department.

Gleisser studies national social imaginary of social conflict and myth making, according to the art history website.

“We have these images of large scale protests where people are coming together and carrying signs with images,” Gleisser said. “That kind of solidifies this idea of protest always having to be at this grand scale, when it can happen on many different registers.”

Artists have been protesting in many different ways throughout history, Gleisser said. In the 1960s, artists began to experiment with conceptual and protest art as a way to rebel against established ideas and encourage conversation about social norms.

Groups such as Asco, a Chicanx collaboration, the Guerilla Art Action Group and Black Emergency Culture Coalition would often partake in acts of protests meant to take up space,

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such as performance art or sit-ins outside of museums in order to bring attention to issues of racial, gender and structural inequality in the art community.

“Just by sitting in those seats and refusing to be removed from them by this racist segregated system, their occupation of space was a political act of refusal,” Gleisser said in reference to students who participated in lunch counter sit-ins in 1960 at Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. “So the ways that artists were also thinking about the occupation of space, just coming together and how the political act of standing in a certain space could be translated into material form.”

Gleisser said the relationship between art and protest is symbiotic, as the protests of the Civil Rights Movement influenced sculptures and other art installations.

Artists also experimented with visuals and advertising

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influences in order to evoke change through protest.

“You also have artists who have deeply shaped protest culture through the way they use minimalist graphics and symbols and intentionally use them to bring a lot of people together,” Gleisser said.

Artists such as Emory Douglas of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense relied on visual images to advance the party’s cause in the 1960s and 1970s.

Douglas’s use of pop art and protest elements became a large part of the party’s print publications and later posters, bringing members together under a united symbol.

The Aids Coalition to Unleash Power for HIV/ AID advocacy used the pink triangles and the phrase “Silence=Death,” which were created by another group, Gran Fury, during protests in the 1980s and 1990s to communicate the severity of the HIV/AIDS crisis and the failure of the U.S.

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government’s response.

The use of symbols to comment on society and bring people together shaped art and protest culture in a way that made them essential for each other.

“Protests, or the way that they’re documented, means that their after lives are solidified through images that become iconic,” Gleisser said.

Musicians have also played an important role in protest and political activism, specifically the genre of punk rock.

Punk rock is not a clearly defined genre of music. Paul Mahren, an adjunct professor in the Jacobs School of Music, said punk rock is defined by the aggressive attitude and lyrical content of a song.

“It’s not necessarily about the instrumentation and the arrangement,” Mahren said.

“But it does need to have not just the intellectual content, but it also has to have this kind of aggressive musical content.”

The connection between music and political activism has been around for decades. Early examples of protest music can be heard in blues and folk songs where artists wrote about events in their lives, some of which contained social commentary.

The genre continued to evolve with the introduction of rock style elements to create punk rock.

“I just think the vibration of music is something that we connect with as humans on a very deep emotional level,” Mahren said. “So it makes sense to me that this would be the highest expression of these kinds of feelings that would come through in musical performance.”

Bands such as the Sex Pistols, Public Enemy and Green Day have all used their music to comment on societal problems and political movements, which is why they can all be considered punk rock despite their different backgrounds and

musical styles.

Mahren said the connection between protest and music can be extremely minimalistic and doesn’t even require musical aptitude to participate.

“When you see protesters on the street, and they’re chanting, ‘no justice, no peace, no justice, no peace,’ ” Mahren said. “That’s a protest song.”

The connection between protest and art is the subversive nature they have in our society and culture, Mahren said. Art invites exploration and the questioning of ideals, which is why Mahren said he believes it’s so important.

“It’s really important to have voices that are questioning aspects of our culture, through their art,” Mahren said. “Whether their art medium is visual, or its musical, I think it’s it’s important that we have those voices that are pushing the boundaries and taking a closer look at what is real.”

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IU student channels heritage into jewelry

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A budding hobby was soon transformed into a small business for IU junior Carolina Morales.

Like many other students, Morales was struck hard by the news of campus shutting down in March.

She was a sophomore then, studying social work. She lost her job at the IU campus daycare with the shutdown.

“I was absolutely devastated because I don’t have the greatest home life so I was struggling to think of ways where I could make money and not have to work in a public and crowded environment,” Morales said.

That’s when Morales decided to take an unconventional route to earn an income during the corona-

virus pandemic — creating jewelry from the safety of her home. Her Etsy store, NinaMora Shop, launched in August. NinaMora Shop features collections of handmade jewelry made with clay.

A mutual friend who made earrings as a hobby inspired Morales to start her jewelry business. After sifting through many other jewelry-making accounts online, Morales started to create her own designs for jewelry pieces.

“I thought I could bring my own element of artistic design to the table,” Morales said.

Grace McNeal, a fellow IU junior and customer of Morales’, said she can really tell how much thought and effort goes into creating the pieces.

“I know she works incredibly hard and her earrings show that,” McNeal said.

Morales taught herself how to make jewelry by watching YouTube tutorials. After practicing her craft for months through practice pieces, she launched NinaMora Shop.

Morales said her pieces are inspired by her childhood memories of seeing artisans lined up to sell their handmade clay jewelry on the streets of Nicaragua, according to her Etsy page.

Morales explained the pride she has for her Nicaraguan culture and heritage.

“When I spent my summers in Nicaragua, I was definitely proud of my culture and everything about it, but when I got to the United States for the school

year, everything completely changes because no one understood [Nicaraguan culture],” Morales said.

Morales said she would shy away from expressing herself culturally in school.

She said kids in school would make fun of her parents because they didn’t understand them.

“I love being Hispanic, but when I was younger I felt like I was really embarrassed by my heritage because I lived in an area where it was all white and I remember my mom would pull down the windows and blast music in Spanish and I was so embarrassed,” Morales said. “I was embarrassed to speak Spanish at school and I was embarrassed to talk about where I was from.”

As she grew up, Morales

has allowed her to engage with her heritage and seek inner peace.

Alizah Conard, Morales’s girlfriend and IU sophomore said Morales’s social work major is very stressful so it’s gratifying to see her work on something she loves.

“Just getting to watch her have a creative outlet and come up with these ideas is really cool,” Conard said.

Conard said even when life is hard and stressful, Morales still can sit down and come up with new designs and practice her craft.

“When I work on my jewelry for hours, I don’t have to think about being anxious and being depressed because I am working so hard on something that I passionately love to do,” Morales said.

realized her Nicaraguan heritage wasn’t something to hide — rather, it was something to celebrate. Morales said she soon found comfort in her heritage by finding others on the internet that also identify as Hispanic.

“I am definitely proud of who I am now,” Morales said.

Morales said jewelrymaking helps her better her mental health. She views her jewelry business as an outlet to alleviate stress.

“Focusing really hard on something and working really hard on something and doing something I really love relieves my anxiety,” Morales said.

Morales said she finds her business to be a creative getaway from the stress of her schoolwork. This hobby

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Bible Studies and Music Services: See our Social Media 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.

Director of Campus Ministry Rev. Dennis Woerter, O.P. Associate Pastor Rev. Reginald Wolford, O.P., Associate Pastor

Ricardo Bello-Gomez, President of the Board Corrine Miller, President of the student organization

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Latter-day Saint Student Association (L.D.S.S.A.)

Mennonite

333 S. Highland Ave. 812-334-3432

myinstitute.churchofjesuschrist.org Facebook: Bloomington Institute and YSA Society Currently restricted hours: Wed nights for class, 6:50 p.m. to 8:40 p.m.

(Subject to change based on COVID-19 developments) The Insistute building is a place to gather on campus for a break from academic rigors.

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.

David Foley, Institute Director Lyn Anderson, Administrative Assistant David Baer, YSA Branch President

Southern Baptist Bloomington Korean Baptist Church 5019 N. Lakeview Dr. 812-327-7428

mybkbc.org facebook.com/mybkbc/ Sunday: 10:30 a.m.

Friday: 7 p.m.

Saturday: 6 a.m.

Praise the Lord! Do you need a True Friend?

Come and worship the almighty God together with us on Sunday, Fellowship included. We are a Korean community seeking God and serving people. Students and newcomers are especially welcome.

Mennonite Fellowship of Bloomington 2420 E. Third St. 812-646-2441 bloomingtonmenno.org • Facebook

Sunday: 5 p.m.

A welcoming, inclusive congregation providing a place of healing and hope as we journey together in the Spirit of Christ. Gathering for worship Sundays 5 p.m. in the Roger Williams room, First United Church. As people of God's peace, we seek to embody the Kingdom of God. John Sauder mfbjohn@gmail.com

United Methodist Jubilee 219 E. Fourth St. 812-332-6396

jubileebloomington.org Instagram: @jubileebloomington Twitter: @jubileebloom facebook.com/fumcbloomington 10a.m. Sundays: Classic Worship via Youtube Live 11:15a.m. Sundays: Interactive Bible Study via Zoom 7:30p.m. Wednesdays: Virtual + InPerson Meeting at First Methodist Jubilee is a Chrust-centered community open to all people. We offer both virtual and in-person community events on Wednesdays for a free meal, discussion, worship and hanging out. Small groups, service projects, and events are all a significant part of our rhythm of doing life together and avoiding isolation.

Email: jubilee@fumcb.org Markus Dickinson, Campus Director

Jason Pak, Pastor

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Call Lisa’s Green Cleaning for your commercial cleaning needs. One time deep cleaning or on a regular schedule to help kill germs. Find us on FaceBook, Twitter, & InstaGram. 812-340-1552 www.lisasgreencleaning.com

Polly Lybrook, MD will be closing her private psychiatric practice effective Dec. 4, 2020, to take a position at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Current active patients may call and schedule an appointment prior to Dec. 4 to discuss follow-up care options. Records will be kept at the current location at 1501 E. Hillside Dr. Suite 200, for 10 years from the date of last contact. To transfer records to a new provider, contact Kenzie at (812) 331-1602. A Release of Information form is required before sending.

Dr. Lybrook wishes to thank you for 25 incredible years of psychiatry practice in Bloomington!

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Bluetooth Turntable in good cond. $40. kochalex@iu.edu

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General Employment Caregiver needed for elderly woman. Free rent; own living quarters.

Part time or evenings avail.

812-320-2141

Motorola Surfboard SB6141 DOCSIS 3.0 High-Speed Cable Modem $30. gmariano@iu.edu

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Sublet Apt. Furnished 2BR/2BA apt. avail. at The Kirkwood. Parking, W/D, private balcony, fitness center, rooftop seating.

Avail. now - 5/31/21. $1,745/mo.

312-720-3025

Looking to hire someone for general yardwork: mowing, raking, weeding, etc. Starting $13/hr.

812-339-0628

Bloomington 1 BR furn. in 2 BR apartment at Evolve.

Contact for more info.

P/T Computer Technician needed. Flexible hours.

812-333-4484 ggiolil@yahoo.com

Subletting east side studio near Campus.

Animal allowed for fee.

765-346-9466

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Nike Airs, great cond., men’s size 10.5. klheureu@indiana.edu

GE cabinet flat screen TV for FREE! sdeckard@indiana.edu

Admin./Professional Small realty office needs independent worker & problem solver to help w/ all projects in areas of realty. Projects incl. house remodel, business (bar) reopening, leasing, advertising, commercial marketing, refinancing of mortages, bookkeeping & general clerical. If you want to learn every facet of real estate, a sole proprietor’s office is the place to be. Demanding, fast paced but never boring. Aronis & Underwood Realty: (812) 327-0948.

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Electronics 62” Toshiba flat screen TV with matching stand. $150. bshasler@iu.edu

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Furniture Chesterfield 92” tufted sofa in excellent cond. $499. rkoryan@iu.edu Large, white tile full length mirror. $80. markinde@iu.edu

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Bicycles Gary Fisher mtn/rode. $200. x-l frame. Great cond. notten@hotmail.com Giant Revel 2 Mountain bike in good cond. $300. gdederic@indiana.edu Large Vintage Royce Union Road Bike. $200. johkrieg@iu.edu

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