Thursday, July 23, 2020

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Market director to step down

By Wei Wang daviwang@iu.edu | @DavidWazman

Anti-Racist Action reunites The former local activists attended a “meet, greet, toast and exchange ideas” event after nearly 30 years on Saturday.

By Katharine Khamhaengwong kkhamhae@iu.edu | @katharinegk

About a dozen self-described “old punks” and members of the former Bloomington branch of the Anti-Racist Action network met at noon Saturday in Peoples Park to discuss their past activism, their present lives and concerns about the future.

Anti-Racist Action was a decentralized anti-racist, anti-fascist network that began in Minneapolis in 1987 and is considered by some, including Dave Tate, to be the origin of the modern American antifa movement.

Tate, who works in sales and marketing outside of Roanoke, Virginia, is the man behind a newer iteration of AntiRacist Action, which he calls Progressive Anti-Racist Action. He first came to Bloomington in 1989 to study political science following a stint with the Marines and became involved with the underground punk music scene. He said that he considers anyone working on anti-racist causes to also be anti-fascist, because racism and fascism go hand in hand. He added that he wanted to make it clear that antifa isn’t a card-carrying organization or made up of people living in their parents’ basements.

“Somehow they’ve managed to manipulate the narrative so that we’re the terrorists and they’re the patriots,” Tate said. “I’m a Marine, I’m a patriot, I bleed red, white and blue.”

Tate said that his choice to hold the

meet-up in Peoples Park was significant for a number of reasons, including that it was the site of the 1968 firebombing of the Black Market by a man with links to the Ku Klux Klan, the Bloomington ARA began there, and the seeds of the Hoosier Anti-Racist Network were planted there.

“I'm helping my fellow white man understand that our place is to listen. All lives will matter once we get Black lives to matter.”

Dave Tate, former Anti-Racist Action member

Tate drove from Virginia to Indianapolis with his 13-year-old daughter, Davin, to meet up with old ARA friends and activists in Louisville, Kentucky, Bloomington and Indianapolis, to try to encourage them to take more anti-racist action in their own lives and to meet some of the new guard.

“I’m helping my fellow white man understand that our place is to listen,” he said. “All lives will matter once we get Black lives to matter.”

Tate added that he’s over 50-yearsold now, so he’s moved toward using photography and the media to combat racists rather than confronting them violently as ARA activists did in the past.

“I don’t condone violence anymore,

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Members of the former Bloomington branch of the Anti-Racist Action network pose for a photo in front of the mural in Peoples Park. The group came from a variety of backgrounds and locations, including Seattle and Roanoke, Virginia.

but I don’t condemn it. There’s a place for it,” he said.

He was wearing a knife and said that if confronted by Nazis, he would not hesitate to defend himself or others.

Tate’s old friends were mostly tattooed white men in their 50s or 60s.

There was an emergency room nurse from Seattle, a cook at a downtown Bloomington restaurant, a fire alarm installer, two other ex-Marines, a writer and church facilities manager and a print-shop owner. They trickled in and out of the park, chatting and taking a few group pictures. One of them showed off a new antifa tattoo. They reminisced about fighting Nazi skinheads behind Kilroy’s, tried to figure out who was who with the added challenge of face coverings and discussed changes to Bloomington in the last 30 years: the loss of a little occult bookstore that used to be on the block, the high quality of the Döner Kebab truck, new construction, Kirkwood’s new weekend pedestrian zone.

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Mask mandate to begin Monday

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By Lilly St. Angelo

By Lilly St. Angelo

Gov. Eric Holcomb announced in a press conference Wednesday that a statewide mask-wearing mandate will begin Monday.

The mandate will require everyone 8 and older to wear a mask in indoor public spaces, which include businesses and transportation services, and outside in public spaces when social distancing is not possible. There will be exceptions for eating and drinking, participating in strenuous exercise and medical purposes. Masks will be highly recommended for children between 2- and 7-years-old.

“I’ve taken note of my gubernatorial cohorts around the country who said, ‘I wish I would have done this three weeks ago,’ and so I don’t want to be three weeks from now where they are right now,” Holcomb said in the press conference. “This is just yet another piece of the puzzle to put in place to do all that we can, all of us.”

Although the death rate in In-

Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market coordinator Marcia Veldman will spend the last day in her position at the City of Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department on Thursday according to her email to vendors at the market.

Her resignation ends her 24 years of overseeing the market’s operations.

“This has been an incredibly difficult decision in large part because of the great respect I have for you and the work you do not only to provide healthy food to our community, but to do it with great care for the customer,” she wrote to market vendors.

Leslie Brinson, community events manager of the parks department, said the market coordinator position won’t be filled for a while, but in the transitional period a group of staff in the parks department will take over the tasks of the position.

Veldman’s resignation comes after a controversial year at the market. Last summer, evidence surfaced that tied Schooner Creek Farm co-owner Sarah Dye to the American Identity Movement, formerly Identity Evropa, which the Southern Poverty Law Center designates as a hate group.

Dye has denied being a white supremacist but identifies herself as an identitarian. The SPLC says the identitarian movement is racist and anti-Muslim.

More recently in June, the Broadening Inclusion Group, a subcommittee of the Farmers’ Market Advisory Council, was dissolved following widespread criticism over its statement condemning Black-onBlack violence. The statement addressed the death of George Floyd and other Black people killed by police and the protests following Floyd’s death. Veldman was the liaison to the BIG. Over the past year, activists and community members have called for Veldman’s resignation for her lack of action despite being a leader of the market. At the end of 2019, there were talks about privatizing the market, but the market remains under city management after a vote by the Board of

La Una Cantina closes for a week after positive tests for COVID-19

By Lilly St. Angelo lstangel@iu.edu | @lilly_st_ang

Bloomington Mexican restaurant La Una Cantina announced July 16 that it will be closed for a week to sanitize after multiple employees tested positive for COVID-19.

“As we continue our efforts to comply with the CDC regulations and the local Health Department, we will also be closed for 1 week at La Una Cantina, even

after the disinfecting company has accomplished their work,” the post reads. “During this time we will continue to abide by all CDC guidelines and enforce strict measures that will be beneficial for all of our establishments.”

The post does not indicate when employees received positive test results or how many employees tested positive. The announcement came two days after one of their now-former employees Britney Gamill posted

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La Una Cantina is located on the corner of Seventh and North Walnut streets. The modern Mexican restaurant opened March 3.

on Facebook about testing positive for the virus. In the post, she claimed managing staff did not tell servers at La Una Cantina for eight days that one of the servers had tested positive for COVID-19.

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An employee of City of Bloomington Utilities Transmission and Distribution services tested positive for COVID-19 over the weekend and is now on paid leave. The employee does not regularly interact with the public and has been quarantined since Wednesday when he or she first began showing symptoms.

The employee is the second CBU employee to test positive for COVID-19, experiencing symptoms a little over a week after the first CBU employee began feeling symptoms.

The employee is the sixth city employee to test positive through a viral test.

A Bloomington Transit employee also tested positive, but BT employees are technically not City of Bloomington employees due to BT being a separate municipal corporation. Mayor John Hamilton also tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies, a strong indication he had the virus at one point.

The city is performing contact tracing and is sanitizing the facilities, vehicles and equipment the employee came into contact with, following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.

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Park Commissioners.

Abby Ang, founder of No Space for Hate Bloomington, is in favor of privatization.

She said she has been very frustrated with Veldman’s leadership and that Veldman should have done more to address issues of white supremacy at the market with her status and connections in the farming community.

“People listen to her, and people respect her,” she said.

But Brinson said Veldman was caught in a difficult position.

“It can be stressful trying to do what’s best, trying to balance city government with requests from the public,” she said.

Veldman said in an interview that the challenges over this past year made her increase her time commitment at the market while she also needs to spend time growing and selling food for her own farm. She said she had originally planned to leave her position earlier but decided to stay longer to help the market through several transitions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Veldman, an IU alumna who grew up in South Bend, moved to Los Angeles after graduation but moved back to Bloomington permanently in 1995 to accept the market coordinator position and live closer to her family, who had moved to Bloomington.

For 24 years, she has worked with the market’s vendors, customers, staff, stakeholders and community partners as a city official.

“When the position managing the market opened up, I was delighted for the opportunity to work on building a stronger, fairer local food system,” she said.

Her leadership led the Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market to grow into one of the largest, and at one

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People walk through the aisles of vendors at the Bloomington Community Farmers' Market near City Hall in 2018. A group of staff in the parks department will take over the duties of the farmers market coordinator in the interim period after longtime coordinator Marcia Veldman’s resignation.

point the largest, farmers markets in Indiana, Brinson said.

In 2002, Veldman and community members started the Plant a Row for the Hungry program, through which she said farmers have donated over 400,000 pounds of produce to the Hoosier Hills Food Bank. Over the years, she has also helped establish multiple food stamp and nutrition programs that benefit low-income people.

“She’s extremely passionate about food security and local food and food safety,”

Brinson said. “She brings both a wealth of knowledge and passion and great commitment to the market.”

“I’ve always felt that she had our best interest at heart,” said Janice Lehman, co-owner of the Olde Lane Orchard and vendor at the farmers market. “She really worked hard to help the farmers succeed at the market.”

Lehman said she and her husband, Chester, are good friends with Veldman, who called the couple before emailing all the vendors

about her resignation.

“I think my first words were, ‘No,’” Janice said. “I cried.”

Chester said when their farm had no fruit harvests for the season in 2011 because of a severe hailstorm, Veldman mentioned their situation to her extended family, who then gave the couple financial help to get through the time, despite never having met them.

“There’s just a few people in this world that have an open-home policy, that use their homes and their re-

FSSA launches crisis helpline

By Katharine Khamhaengwong kkhamhae@iu.edu | @katharinegk

In response to the increase in mental healthrelated issues that has accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic, Indiana Family and Social Services Administration Division of Mental Health and Addiction has created the Be Well Crisis Helpline according to a press release. The helpline which can be accessed by calling 2-1-1, allows Indiana residents 24/7 free and confidential access to trained counselors, according to a press release. The hotline is funded by a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The FSSA said that Indiana residents have shown increasing levels of stress and anxiety as a result of the coronavirus crisis, compounded by grief and loss, financial stressors, changes to routines, social isolation and reduced access to traditional support structures such as family, friends, schools, religious institutions and other organizations. This hotline is intended to alleviate the mental health impacts of these challenges.

“As Hoosiers continue to cope with the ‘new normal’

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Someone dials 2-1-1 for Indiana's Be Well Crisis Helpline. The helpline connects callers to different health and human service resources.

of life during a pandemic, with massive disruptions in their everyday lives, and with emotions ranging from bored to terrified, it was imperative to build a helpline that could literally be a lifeline for many,” said FSSA secretary Jennifer Sullivan.

The helpline can be accessed by pressing 3 after

calling at 2-1-1, the number that connects callers to different health and human service resources including the helpline.

DMHA director Jay Chaudhary said in the press release that callers can talk to experienced and compassionate counselors that will listen, provide support and

encourage resiliency.

More information about mental health resources for Indiana residents, including videos on COVID-19 copingstrategies for children and teenagers and information on how to find accurate information regarding the disease, can be found at BeWellIndiana.org.

Bloomington parking guide for 2020-21

By Raiha Zainab rzainab@iu.edu

Bloomington’s neighborhood residential parking permit applications have been transitioned online in accordance with social distancing guidelines, according to a press release sent by the city of Bloomington.

Residents can now submit applications to purchase a 2020-2021 parking permit.

Residents can view a map of which neighborhoods require street parking here.

Michelle Wahl, Bloomington’s parking services director, said refunds may or may not be issued for school closure due to COVID-19, but exceptions have previously been made for students who have had to leave the university for various reasons.

IU parking passes are available for purchase at the Office of Parking Opera-

sources to really help people in quiet ways,” he said. “And she was one of those people.”

Although the resignation came abruptly for many in the community, Veldman said a few years ago, she had already been planning for the next phase in life. She said after she leaves her position, she will spend some time off gardening and biking while exploring her next steps. She will also continue to work as the state coordinator for Citizens' Climate Lobby, which she had to give up last year because of her

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diana is still going down, the number of new positive cases per day is going up.

There were 763 new positive cases in the state today compared to 273 cases on June 23, which has been attributed to more young people getting the virus.

Lyndsay Weaver, chief medical officer at the Indiana State Health Department, said even though their risk of dying is very low, young people can still get very sick from the virus and transmit it to older adults with a higher risk of dying.

Holcomb said not wearing a mask will be a misdemeanor, but police will not be enforcing this yet. He said he hopes they will not have to. The mandate will begin Monday to allow for communities to prepare.

In schools, faculty, staff, volunteers and students in grades 3-12 will be required to wear masks during the school day and in extra- and co-curricular activities. Instructors who can maintain at least six feet between themselves and their students do not have to wear a mask.

All students should wear masks on school buses.

Jennifer Sullivan, pediatrician and secretary of the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, said desks should be spaced out as far as possible in schools, and young students should be put into “pods” that will move about the school to limit spread to immediate pod members if one student becomes infected. She said although literature suggests children spread the virus more eas-

increased time commitment at the market.

“Ultimately I want what's best for continuing to build a strong local food community,” she said about the future of the market. “I want to see a higher percentage of dollars spent on food in this community stay in this community and help farmers and food artisans be successful in their business. We're facing serious environmental change, and developing a resilient local food system will enhance food security for all of us into the future.” ily as they get older, she recommends all children older than 2 wear a mask.

The state now has recommendations for schools on how to handle a positive casewhich include identifying students who have been in close physical proximity to the positive student and having them self-isolate.

Weaver and Sullivan emphasized the simple but effective practices that have been preached from the beginning of the pandemic to decrease the spread of the virus: washing hands, staying home if you feel sick, social distancing, limiting large gatherings and wearing masks.

“I’m going to start with my mom voice,” she said.

“What we do now to decrease the community prevalence of COVID is what gets as many of our kids back to school as possible.”

Both doctors mentioned the myth around masks decreasing oxygen intake and increasing toxin and carbon dioxide intake. They said doctors often wear masks for 8-12 hours and do not experience any of these issues. Weaver said some studies say masks can reduce the risk of transmitting the virus by up to 80%.

“Physicians and other clinicians have worn masks for a long time to protect themselves and their patients,” Weaver said. “This is standard practice to help prevent the spread of disease."

Holcomb said he recently saw pictures in the IndyStar of many Hoosiers not wearing masks and was alarmed.

"I've seen this movie before," he said. "I've seen it around the country. I've seen how it ends. We're trying to change that ending."

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tions website. Students have until Sept. 30 to get a refund if they decide they do not need their purchased parking pass for the fall semester.

Employees who have annual

permits need to submit a request for a refund prior to the fifth of the month to receive a refund for that month. Employees also now have the option to purchase

multiyear parking permits.

Refunds for students who purchased permits for the spring semester should have been issued to their bursar accounts.

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Loans help Bloomington businesses stay afloat

By Raiha Zainab rzainab@iu.edu

As the pandemic hit and the country launched into an economic crisis, the U.S. Small Business Administration released the Paycheck Protection Program to financially support businesses through the pandemic. The goal of the program is to keep businesses afloat and retain workers. Since then, 4.9 million businesses have received loans, including over 79,000 in Indiana.

On July 6, the SBA released a database of all PPP loans above $150,000. In Bloomington, 207 businesses are listed as having received loans over $150,000.

Joshua Bernstein, IU assistant professor of economics, said the PPP program has been undoubtedly beneficial in helping businesses to survive and keeping jobs that would have otherwise disappeared. While overall trends cannot yet be known, he said the PPP replaces income that businesses would normally have received with

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 last name out of concern for making his family a target, said they were a more diverse groupwhen they were active in the 80s and 90s, but the people that had remained in Bloomington were basically all white men.

Several of those present said that lately they were focused on listening and learning or that they could not go out and protest right now because they have family members who are at a high risk of complications from COVID-19, though they generally said they supported the Black Lives Matter movement. Dennis went to one of the rallies for Vauhxx Booker with his daughter and while he isn’t part of any activist group right now, he still talks about anti-racist issues with people he knows.

“As soon as you start saying ‘systemic’ or ‘inherent’

government money.

The WonderLab Museum of Science, Health and Technology is one of the 207 Bloomington businesses that received a loan. WonderLab's loan was between $150,000 and $350,000, according to the SBA's database which organizes businesses into general ranges of loan amounts.

Karen Jepson-Innes, executive director of WonderLab, said the PPP loan has been transformational, allowing WonderLab to hold on to staff and continue operations. The months between March and now, she said, are typically the highest revenue months of the year, therefore the loss of revenue significantly affected WonderLab. Jepson-Innes said while a few staff members were furloughed and some staff faced temporary reduction in hours, WonderLab is now operating online programs and summer camps to continue operations. The loan has helped her business to bring back staff.

As the primary goal of PPP is to keep people em-

ployed, the SBA allows businesses to apply for loan forgiveness if at least 60% of the funds are used for payroll costs.

Jepson-Innes said WonderLab has exceeded this minimum personnel cost

racism, oh man, people get all bent out of shape,” Dennis said.

Tate said that he wanted to meet anti-racist organizers in town, but he had had trouble getting in contact with them. He and others present lauded them for their successful protests.

Tate said he thought it was amazing that Enough is Enough and Black Lives Matter Bloomington could get 300 to 500 people out to protest on a day’s notice after Booker’s story came out.

Conversation turned toward the current antifa movement, which many of those present supported and said was being unfairly maligned.

“They’re calling them communist, they’re calling them a fascist group. How can you be anti-fascist fascists?” said Brian Kieffer, who owns a screen printing company in town.

“Half these people, their grandfathers fought against

fascists in World War II,” said Kevin Burdeshaw, local author and church facilities manager, regarding rightwing opposition to antifa.

The poster for the meeting had advertised an event to “meet, greet, toast, and exchange ideas,” and “bring your own flask and mask.”

Tate gave a toast with a small flask of whiskey, thanked them for gathering and urged everyone present to keep fighting racism.

“ARA every day, boys!” he said. “My whole point in coming down was to inspire you guys to keep working.”

Tate considers “ARA every day!” to be his slogan, reminding himself and others to take an active role in fighting racism every single day.

He says that it’s not enough to just not be racist — you have to push for change.

“I look at racism as an elephant. How do you eat an elephant?” he added later.

“One bite at a time.”

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and expects the loan to be forgiven.

Mother Bear's, a Bloomington-based pizza company, received a PPP loan between $350,000 and $1 million. Ray McConn, president of Motherbears Inc., said that

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “Because of managements carelessness, we’ve brought it home to our families, friends, etc. and now we’re all out of work when we have our families to provide for,” Gamill wrote in her post. “If you’ve eaten at this restaurant or know anyone who has, GO GET TESTED and QUARANTINE! I have so many emotions right now, because so many have been exposed/infected. It’s upsetting and stressful.”

Workers who were exposed to the server who tested positive continued to work because they were unaware of being exposed, Gamill said. At least eight La Una Cantina employees have tested positive for the virus according to her post, which has over one hundred likes and reactions and over 200 shares.

Another anonymous

the loan was not totally necessary, and it was primarily used for cash reserves to utilize when needed. McConn expects the loan to be partially forgiven, although he is unsure of specific numbers.

Mother Bear's, McCo-

nn said, typically employs about 200 people during the school year, and due to the pandemic, it had to lay off about 130 to 140 of them, although they re-hired several of these employees once Mother Bear's reopened.

employee, who Gamill mentions in her second Facebook post about the restaurant, posted on Reddit about the situation. According to the post, La Una Cantina management was notified June 29 of the server with the positive case. Servers working July 5 were told about the positive case when they arrived at work, but all servers did not find out officially until July 7.

The anonymous employee said 10 servers were exposed to the first sick server, and all of them were allowed to work during the week after management was notified of the positive case.

Gamill and the anonymous employee both said management threatened to take away some employees’ jobs who quarantined after getting tested and did not go to work. Gamill and the Reddit poster both claimed that workers who tested positive were told to keep their re-

sults private and take down social media posts about it.

La Una Cantina’s Facebook post also said employees at their sister-companies, El Ranchero and Viva Mas, all tested negative for COVID-19.La Una Cantina is one of many Bloomington establishments with employees who have recently tested positive for COVID-19.

Mother Bear’s campus location announced one of its employees tested positive July 13, and the restaurant was closed until Monday.

Soma Coffee House and Juice Bar announced July 14 on Facebook that one of its employees at the Kirkwood Avenue location had tested positive and was closed until Saturday. Malibu Grill announced in a Facebook post July 16 that one of its employees had tested positive for COVID-19 a week before.

Neither La Una Cantina nor Gamill responded to requests for comment.

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Barr’s triple wins Summer League All-Star Game

By Joy Burton joyburt@iu.edu | @joybur10

No players wore the IU uniform at the Grand Park Summer College League All-Star game Thursday at Victory Field in Indianapolis, but you could tell who belonged to the IU baseball team from their batting helmets.

The all-star game brought 10 IU

baseball players to the same field for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic. The IU players were split up with three on the red team and seven on the blue team, but they socialized throughout the game with high-fives and hugs.

The top IU player of the game was junior third baseman Cole Barr, who drove in three runs on a triple to right-center during the sixth inning.

His hit ultimately won the game for the red team in a 4-2 victory.

Junior second baseman Cooper Trinkle made it on base twice for the blue team with a two-out walk in the ninth and a single off IU sophomore pitcher Braydon Tucker in the fifth inning. Incoming freshman third baseman Kip Fougerousse, who started at third baseman for the blue team, made it on base due

to a throwing error at first base that turned into a double and brought in a run for the blue team.

Freshman pitchers Reese Sharp and Zach Behrmann took the mound for partial innings, and junior pitcher Tommy Sommer threw a quick but powerful three-up, threedown inning for the blue team. Junior utility player Drew Ashley made an appearance at catcher for the blue

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Junior Cole Barr follows through on a triple to right-center field July 16 at Victory Field. Barr’s triple brought in three runs.

team, batting twice.

IU sophomore Grant Richardson and freshman Ethan Vecrumba, both outfielders, rostered but never played.

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Top left Junior Drew Ashley swings at the ball at the Grand Park Summer League All-Star game July 16 at Victory Field. The Grand Park Summer League draws in players from across the U.S. to play off-season baseball.

Top right Freshman Zach Behrmann reaches back to throw the ball to first July 16 at Victory Field. Behrmann was recruited by IU from North Central High School in Indianapolis, where he graduated in 2019.

Middle left Freshman Zach Behrmann sticks out his tongue as he throws a pitch July 16 at Victory Field. The left-handed pitcher hasn’t yet played for IU. Bottom right Incoming freshman Kip Fougerousse takes a swing July 16 at Victory Field. Fougerousse was starting third baseman and managed to get on base at one point due to an error on a throw to first.

Bottom left Junior Cole Barr gives red team third base coach Kevin Conder a fist bump after hitting a threerun triple July 16 at Victory Field. Barr’s triple led the red team to overpower the blue team in a 4-2 victory.

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5 Hoosiers who are primed for prolific seasons in the fall Tyler Tachman is a rising sophomore in sports media.

The future of fall sports in Bloomington is still uncertain due to COVID-19, but IU athletics has steadily followed a gradual return to practice since June 15. This week, six members of the IU football program tested positive for the coronavirus, leading to the suspension of the team’s voluntary workouts for an undisclosed period of time.

Players and coaches are continually being tested for the virus, and if sports return to a hint of normalcy in 2020, here are five athletes that will have the opportunity to lead their teams against the rest of the Big Ten. Brendan Burns, sophomore, men’s swimming Burns burst onto the scene as a freshman for the Hoosiers last year. He was named a College Swimming Coaches Association of America AllAmerican while earning Big Ten Freshman of the Year recognition and also being selected to the All-Conference first team.

It was no secret that Burns was top-level talent entering his time at IU. In high school, he set the national public high school record in the 100-yard butterfly and 200-yard freestyle.

Last season, Burns was the Big Ten champion in the 200 butterfly, posting a career-best time of 1:40.98.

He also earned a silver medal in the 100 backstroke and bronze medal in the 100 But-

terfly. Burns was a member of the Big Ten title-winning 200 medley relay team that set a Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center record.

In his first collegiate season, Burns established himself as one of the conference’s premier swimmers. His second season should only bring more medals.

Emily Goodin, senior, softball Goodin got off to a scorching-hot start to her senior season before all spring sports were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The IU fire-baller tossed 107.2 innings from the circle, recording a 1.76 earned run average, while striking out 111 hitters. She threw 13 complete games and had nine appearances with six or more strikeouts. In late February, she completed her second career no-hitter, earning Big Ten CoPitcher of the Week.

Goodin announced she will be returning next season after the NCAA awarded spring athletes another year of eligibility. That’s good news for the softball program because Goodin has the potential to carry the team with her arm next spring.

ing the team in offense with five goals and three assists.

She also scored game-winning goals against Illinois and Michigan State. Lockwood secured a spot on the Big Ten All-Freshman team as a result.

If her freshman year is an indication of her play-making ability, she’ll be ready to put on a show this season as an underclassman captain.

Avery Lockwood, sophomore, women’s soccer Lockwood was named a team captain heading into her sophomore season this fall, a telling sign of both respect from head coach Erwin van Bennekom and her first-year performances.

Lockwood started all 19 games for the Hoosiers, lead-

Graham Rooks, sophomore, wrestling In the always challenging Big Ten schedule, Rooks was a juggernaut in his redshirt freshman season for the Hoosiers. At 149 pounds, he defeated six Big Ten opponents in dual matches, including a win against No. 6 Griffin Parriott from Purdue.

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Rooks tallied five ranked wins throughout the season, finishing the year with a 15-10 record. After starting the season unranked, Rooks moved as high as No. 14 in the country.

He placed 10th in the Big Ten Championships and qualified for the NCAA Championships before the event was eventually canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Rooks will provide consistency in the Hoosiers’ lineup and use his experience to potentially continue his dominance in his sophomore campaign.

Trayce Jackson-Davis, sophomore, men’s basketball While he didn’t carry

quite the hype that former IU basketball standout Romeo Langford did as a freshman, Jackson-Davis came through for the Hoosiers and established himself as a force in the paint.

Last season, JacksonDavis scored a team-high 13.5 points per game, while also leading the Hoosiers in rebounding, free-throw percentage and blocks.

He snatched 270 total rebounds, setting an IU freshman record.

As the year went on, Jackson-Davis started to gain more attention as one of the top forwards in the Big Ten. He was second in the conference in field goal percentage at 56% and seventh

in blocked shots with just under two per game.

His impressive outings resulted in a third team All-Big Ten selection and All-Big Ten Freshman recognition. Without JacksonDavis, the Hoosiers arguably wouldn’t have been in position to make the NCAA tournament before it was canceled in March.

Jackson-Davis has already climbed some of the 2021 NBA mock draft boards. If those projections hold to be true, IU fans can only hope for the program’s four-year NCAA tournament drought to come to an end before Jackson-Davis heads to play professionally. ttachman@iu.edu

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Former IU players to take the court in NBA restart

By Tyler Tachman ttachman@iu.edu | @Tyler_T15

NBA stadiums across the country have been vacant since the league halted play March 11 due to the rapidly spreading coronavirus pandemic. At that point, college basketball conference tournaments were still in full swing, and the nation hadn’t come to terms with the monumental changes the virus would bring.

Starting in early July, NBA players have been hunkered down in the league’s “bubble” in Orlando, Florida, as a part of the return-to-play protocol. After a more than three-month hiatus, the league is scheduled to resume play July 30.

Waves of news have circulated from the “bubble” over the past two weeks.

First, players were unhappy with the quality of food that was provided by the Disney resort. Then, Sacramento Kings center Richaun Holmes was caught venturing out of the restricted area to pick up food and had to

re-enter an extended quarantine period. Finally, rumors of players snitching on each other for not following the league’s safety guidelines caused a stir.

After all of the drama, games are still set to start at the end of the month.

Former IU guard Victor Oladipo originally announced that he was sitting out the remainder of the season to continue rehabbing the quadriceps tendon that he ruptured last January. Oladipo appeared in 13 games this season but was hesitant to play in Orlando for fear he may re-injure his leg after the long break. But after recent reconsideration, Oladipo may decide to suit up for the Indiana Pacers.

While there’s uncertainty about Oladipo’s status, here’s a look at more former Hoosiers who traveled to Florida for the restart.

OG Anunoby, Toronto Raptors Anunoby is posting the best statistics in his career so far this season. The third-

year pro is averaging 10.7 points and 5.4 rebounds per game while shooting better than 50%. The Raptors are second in the Eastern Conference, only behind the Milwaukee Bucks.

Anunoby suited up for the Hoosiers from 2015-17 and was a preseason All-American in his sophomore year before suffering a seasonending knee injury. Regardless, he was still selected in the first round of the 2017 NBA Draft by the Raptors.

Romeo Langford, Boston Celtics In his rookie year, the former Indiana High School basketball star and bluechip recruit has bounced between the Celtics and their G-League affiliate the Main Red Claws.

Langford has appeared in 27 games for the Celtics, averaging 2.6 points, 1.2 rebounds and 11 minutes per contest. The Celtics are three games behind Anunoby’s Raptors in the standings.

In his only season at IU in 2018-19, Langford tallied

16.5 points and 5.4 rebounds per game on his way to being named to the Big Ten AllFreshman team.

Juwan Morgan, Utah Jazz The former IU forward split time between the Salt Lake City Stars and the Jazz in his rookie campaign. In his 16 games of NBA action, Morgan averages 1.2 points along with 1.2 rebounds per game. The Jazz hold the fourth spot in the Western Conference.

Morgan, a four-year player at IU, earned a spot on the All-Big Ten third team in his senior season in 2018-19. He was also a part of the program during the transition from former coach Tom Crean to current coach Archie Miller.

Eric Gordon, Houston Rockets In 34 games this season, the sharp-shooter has put in 14.5 points per game while claiming a 37% mark from 3-point range. Gordon underwent knee surgery last November, sidelining him

for 22 games. The Rockets are sixth in the Western Conference.

In his only year at IU, Gordon led the conference in scoring with 20.9 points per game. He was the seventh pick of the 2008 NBA draft and went on to win Sixth Man of the Year in the 2016-17 season.

Yogi Ferrell, Sacramento Kings After going undrafted in 2016, Ferrell has put together a four-year NBA career. He’s dropped in 4.2 points and added 1.3 assists per game in 44 appearances this season. The Kings are 11th in the Western Conference.

Ferrell ranks in the top 10 of a variety of IU program records. He is sixth in scoring, first in assists, second in 3-pointers made, first in career games played and first in career games started.

Thomas Bryant, Washington Wizards Bryant is having a career season as a third-year pro for the Wizards. While shoot-

ing 40% from the 3-point line and nearly 60% from the field, Bryant is averaging 12.1 points and 6.8 rebounds per game. The Wizards are ninth in the Eastern Conference standings.

After Bryant was named third team All-Big Ten in his sophomore season, he was selected in the second round of 2017 NBA Draft by the Utah Jazz. Following a oneyear stint with the Los Angeles Lakers, Bryant has found a home with the Wizards.

Noah Vonleh, Denver Nuggets The sixth-year pro is averaging 3.8 points with 3.7 rebounds per game this season. Vonleh appeared in 29 games with Minnesota Timberwolves this year before being traded to the Nuggets.

The Nuggets are third in the Western Conference, behind only the Los Angeles Clippers and Los Angeles Lakers.

Vonleh was a lottery pick in the 2014 NBA Draft after being named Big Ten Freshman of the Year in his lone season with the Hoosiers.

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137,000 dead and counting

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Protesters demonstrate against police brutality for the 50th day in a row on July 16, 2020, at the Federal Courthouse in Portland, Oregon, and are met with tear gas, "less-lethal" munitions and many arrests.

The state’s 'monopoly on legitimate violence' isn’t legitimate Kaitlyn Radde (she/her) is a junior in political science.

Calls to defund the police, establish mutual aid networks and other efforts to reduce contact with and reliance on state power ultimately issue the same challenge: We live in a state defined by its violence. Let’s organize ourselves without it.

I was first taught the definition of the state as the entity which has a monopoly on legitimate violence in a high school philosophy class. That phrase has stuck with me and continued to rub me the wrong way ever since. As a student of political science, I find myself face to face with it with relative frequency.

To state the obvious: The commonly accepted definition of the state is inherently violent. Under this definition of the state, to be governed is to be violently coerced into behaving a certain way — either literally, or via the knowledge that supposedly legitimate violence may be done to you if you step out of line.

After over a month of following coverage of the protests in the wake of George Floyd's death, specifically the sustained protests in

Portland, Oregon, my uneasiness with the acceptability of this definition of the state is easier to articulate. Can we call state and state-sanctioned violence, including the cruel and excessive use of force and chemical weapons by police, legitimate?

In Portland, our fellow Americans are fighting against a violent, unaccountable federal occupation, being thrown into unmarked vans by federal agents and otherwise having their constitutional rights violently violated.

Can we truly call what is happening there, including violations of the First and Fourth Amendments, an exercise of legitimate violence?

I will no longer accept a definition of society that accepts any of that as legitimate, and I never should have. Portland reminds us that if we want to live as free people, we have to reconsider whether we want to live in a world where horrific state violence, from the day-to-day use of excessive police force all the way up to federal occupation, are considered legitimate and necessary.

Perhaps violence is truly an inherent feature of state-

hood, and the nonviolent alternative would be anarchy. However, I am not sure anyone has tried all that hard to conceptualize an alternative way of seeing and structuring a state. Since the death of George Floyd, many Americans are encountering ideas like police abolition and prison abolition for the first time. And for those who are getting on board, or who are deciding if they would like to, many questions remain.

Many of the questions that come to mind immediately are well-documented, obvious and widely engaged with. You know them: What about violent crime?

Will there be no one to call in case of emergency? But the contradictions we carry within ourselves are less often discussed, perhaps because they are less often perceived.

We have a deeply ingrained impulse to punish, rather than assist or rehabilitate, our fellow citizens.

Defunding or abolishing the police will not be possible if we do not also abolish our impulse to police, if we do not also begin to conceive of justice as separate from incarceration and punishment.

As this 2019 article from

the New Yorker examining America's rage at Jussie Smollett states, “To stem the tide of mass incarceration, we must get comfortable with less punishment, even for some of the people we find morally reprehensible.”

If we want to live in a society that is nonviolent, or that is at least less violent today than it was yesterday, we have to be comfortable with less punishment. We have to ask: What could the social contract mean without a coercive apparatus? What could the state and its laws mean without violence? Do we want to live and die in a police state or under military occupation by our own government, in the land of the free?

I do not have the solutions. As misguided as I find our common definition of the state to be, I am ultimately still a student of it. But I do know that we should work toward answers and solutions, guided by those who have been doing this work for decades.

Alongside them, we should seek to build a country and a world in which we do not have to define the way we organize ourselves by violence. kradde@iu.edu

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Congress must criminalize public health malpractice James Bassett (he/him) is a senior studying political science

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is playing political hardball, aiming recklessly for the livelihoods of Americans. In response to Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’ mask mandate requiring face coverings in public spaces, Kemp took to the courts and filed suit to stop the mandate from taking effect.

Kemp’s clear desire to pursue his own political agenda at the expense of his state’s health directly contradicts the data supporting the use of face coverings in public. Kemp’s lawsuit against Bottoms is a blatant exhibition of public health malpractice and only exacerbates the COVID-19 pandemic that continues to spread like wildfire through the U.S. Public health malpractice is a loosely defined concept that describes the failure of public officials to provide care amid a public health emergency. David J. Scheffer, an American lawyer and diplomat, explores this concept in a Council on Foreign Relations Article. He explains that the term public health malpractice “has generally been confined to medical literature and narrowly described as akin to medical malpractice. The time has arrived to broaden its application to account for the administration of public health during pandemics.”

Scheffer’s analysis dem-

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Vehicles line up July 19 at the COVID-19 drive-thru testing center at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens.

onstrates the urgent need for Congress to codify public health malpractice in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. By criminalizing public health malpractice and imposing strict punishment on those who directly impede efforts to quell COVID-19, public officials will have an obligation to act according to science and data and to work to institute efforts to slow the spread of the virus.

The absence of law criminalizing public health mal-

practice, however, provides President Donald Trump, Gov. Kemp and those who follow their lead with an open opportunity to pursue personal and political agendas at the expense of public health and safety.

Trump’s efforts to reduce Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funding, Kemp’s politically charged lawsuit against Bottoms and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ refusal to close bars and gyms amid climbing cases of COVID-19 directly attack

public health and undermine the advice of medical and scientific experts.

Public officials attacking public health must be held criminally responsible for their actions. Congress needs to act immediately to criminalize public health malpractice and to hold the president and the governors spoon-fed by the president accountable.

The health, economic security and future of this country depend on it. jambasse@iu.edu

In 1983, the novelist, playwright and pioneering AIDS activist Larry Kramer who died in March wrote an essay for the New York Native entitled “1,112 and Counting.” Referring to the HIV death toll at the time, Kramer was sounding the alarm and practically screaming through the page that “If this article doesn’t scare the shit out of you, we’re in real trouble.”

It is now mid-July 2020 and we have 123 times that many Americans dead from COVID-19. If 1,112 dead was supposed to “scare the shit out of (us),” than what is 137,000 and counting supposed to do?

None of this had to happen to this degree. Other countries around the world enacted legitimate lockdowns and stuck to them long enough to drastically reduce infection rates. The latest daily figures in the U.S. surpassed the total confirmed cases seen in Wuhan, China. Again, we are seeing a Wuhan a day in new cases in America.

In the next few weeks, public schools and universities will be open with little to no state or federal guidelines. Additionally, federal and state eviction moratoriums will expire this month, leading to 20-28 million new homeless Americans. So I ask, why the hell are we not all screaming?

The AIDS activist Gregg Gonsalves wrote in the Nation that “Our lives depend on disruption now. Indeed, our survival hinges on making it impossible for our leaders to ignore us.” The tactics used by members of ACT UP such as mass “dieins” outside the FDA or locking themselves to the NYSE, drew upon what the media loves the most, spectacle and theatrics, to push home a dire message.

What it took was a solid group of young people to call out the local, state and federal government as if their lives depended on it. It did then, and it does now. As we have seen with the recent Black Lives Matter protests across the U.S., civil resistance works with masks and six feet of distance. When this is all over and we look back on this plague, will we be able to truthfully tell ourselves that we did all we could do?

In the last interview Larry Kramer gave to the New York Times two months before he died, he said that this time of COVID-19 called for its own Larry Kramer to bring about rage. “I wish it could be me,” he replied. “I don’t know how. I would like to have a big movement. But I’m not quite sure how to do that.”

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Rob Rankin is a secondyear doctoral student in music composition.

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Joe Biden’s new climate plan is a big step in the right direction Jerrett Alexander (he/him) is a sophomore in international relations and environmental sustainability.

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden unveiled his new plan to combat climate change July 14 during a speech in Wilmington, Delaware. Centering environmental justice and investments in green jobs and infrastructure, Biden’s proposal is far more ambitious than what he has previously supported.

The plan’s reveal comes after Biden’s unity task force on climate, consisting of some of his own supporters along with some supporters of his former primary rival Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., released its environmental recommendations to the campaign. The task force was co-chaired by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., a Sanders supporter and author of the Green New Deal, and John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee and a Biden supporter.

While his previous plan to tackle climate change left much to be desired, pushing many climate activists to support Sanders or Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., over him in the primary, Biden’s new plan shows a huge, positive shift in how he plans to address the most existential threat facing humanity and leaves little question as to which major presidential candidate has the best interests of future generations at heart.

Historically, presumptive Democratic nominees for president either lock in on the platform they ran on in the primary or move toward the center in an attempt to appeal to moderate and independent voters. Biden, however, has done neither.

Instead, as a result of his unity task force on climate with the Sanders campaign and a desire to treat the issue with the urgency it deserves, he has moved further left and is now adopting the most progressive climate change plan ever supported by a major presidential candidate in the general election.

Along with rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement and addressing climate change as an existential threat rather

than, in President Donald Trump’s words, “a hoax,” Biden’s plan also allocates $2 trillion toward goals like greatly increasing renewable technologies to generate power, building electric cars and an expansion of high-speed rail.

Most notable, perhaps, is the plan’s emphasis on environmental justice as a leading principle. Because Biden understands that low-income areas and communities of color are, and will continue to be, hit hardest by climate change, they will receive 40% of overall spending benefits in areas such as green housing, sustainable transportation and clean energy.

Under a Biden administration, the Justice Department would launch an Environmental and Climate Justice division to hold major polluters accountable, an idea that was first proposed by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, whose shortlived presidential run was animated by the climate crisis. Inslee has endorsed Biden and called the plan “visionary.”

Biden’s new plan is vastly better than his previous one, but it doesn’t include everything progressives and climate activists were hoping it would.

Though Biden has committed to prohibiting new fracking on public lands, he has still yet to endorse banning the practice all together, putting him at odds with progressives such as Sanders, Warren and Inslee.

Achieving net-zero emissions in the U.S. by 2050, as Biden hopes to do, is also fairly underwhelming, especially when considering that, in this scenario, polluters can still emit large amounts of greenhouse gases and simply offset them with actions such as planting trees. Sanders, in comparison, had called for a total decarbonization by 2050.

Despite all its flaws, though, Biden’s is still the most progressive climate plan to come from a major presidential candidate in American history. And when put up next to that of Trump, who promotes fossil fuel usage and has worked tirelessly for the last four years to dismantle any action taken by the Obama administration to combat climate change, there’s really no contest. jerralex@iu.edu

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By Kevin Chrisco kmchrisc@iu.edu | @beatsbykevv

The Jewish Theatre of Bloomington has announced a virtual staged reading of the play “The Grandkid” that will take place on Zoom. The performances are at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 15 and 3 p.m. Aug. 16.

The play follows the lives of Julius Rothstein and his granddaughter Abby. Abby is accepted as a freshman

student at the university where Julius teaches, so she moves in with him to be close to school and to keep her newly widowed grandfather company.

The reading is free, but an RSVP is required. Donations are suggested to help the Jewish Theatre of Bloomington.

Attendees must RSVP on JTB’s website by Aug. 10 to receive a Zoom link to the staged reading.

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Felix Merback, as Joe Farkas, and Adam Crowe, as Adolph Freitag, react to news of Hitler’s advance into Poland in the performance of “The Last Night of Ballyhoo” in 2017. A free virtual staged reading of the play “The Grandkid” was announced by the Jewish Theatre of Bloomington.

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Episcopal (Anglican) Canterbury House Episcopal (Anglican) Campus Ministry at IU 719 E. Seventh St. 812-334-7971 • 812-361-7954

Come visit the most refreshing church in town.

We love all students but especially reach out to LGBTQ+ students and allies longing for a college church where you are loved, welcomed and affirmed without fear of judgment or discrimination. You love the Lord already — now come love us too. Free coffee and wifi.

Rev. Annette Hill Briggs, Pastor Rob Drummond, Music Minister

indiana.edu/~canterby canterby@indiana.edu • facebook.com/ecmatiu 812-361-7954

Sacramental Schedule: Weekly services Sundays: 4 p.m. Holy Eucharist with hymns followed by dinner at Canterbury House

Inter-Denominational Redeemer Community Church 111 S. Kimble Dr. 812-269-8975

Tuesdays: 6 p.m. Bible Study at Canterbury House 1st & 3rd Wednesdays: 7 p.m. Music & Prayers at Canterbury House Episcopal (Anglican) Campus Ministry is a safe and welcoming home for all people. We are a blend of young and old, women and men, gay and straight, ethnicities from different cultures and countries, students, faculty, staff and friends.

The worshipping congregation is the Canterbury Fellowship. The mission of the Fellowship is to restore all people to unity with God and each other in Christ. 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.

Mother Linda C. Johnson+, University Chaplain Josefina Carcamo, Program Coordinator Ricardo Bello Gomez, Communications Coordinator Corrine Miller, Ben Kelly, Student Interns Rex Hinkle, Luiz Lopes, Nathan Stang, Music Ministers Jody Hays, Senior Sacristan Crystal DeCell, Webmaster

Mennonite 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

Lifeway Baptist Church exists to bring glory to God by making disciples, maturing believers and multiplying ministry. Matthew 28:19-20

smumc.church

An inclusive community bringing Christ-like love, healing and hope to all.

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

Connexion: Sundays, 6 p.m.

Lifeway Baptist Church

redeemerbloomington.org facebook.com/RedeemerBtown @RedeemerBtown on Instagram Sunday: 9 a.m. & 11 a.m.

Redeemer is a gospel-centered community on mission. Our vision is to see the gospel of Jesus Christ transform everything: our lives, our church, our city, and our world. We want to be instruments of gospel change in Bloomington and beyond.

Chris Jones, Lead Pastor

Nazarene First Church of the Nazarene 700 W. Howe St. (across from the Building Trades Park) 812-332-2461 • www.b1naz.org

Email: bloomingtonfirst@icloud.com Sunday Worship: 10:30 a.m.

Sunday Small Groups : 9:30 a.m., 4:30 p.m. & 6 p.m.

Barnabas Christian Ministry Small Groups: 7821 W. State Road 46 812-876-6072 • lifewaybaptistchurch.org Facebook • LifewayEllettsville

College & Career Sunday Meeting: 9 a.m. Sunday Sunday Worship: 10 a.m. & 6 p.m.

Wednesday Night Bible Study: 7 p.m.

Independent Baptist Lifeway Baptist Church 7821 W. State Road 46 812-876-6072 • lifewaybaptistchurch.org Facebook • LifewayEllettsville

Disciples of Christ First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) 205 E. Kirkwood Ave. (corner of Kirkwood and Washington) 812-332-4459 • fccbloomington.org

Sunday Worship: 10 a.m.

Jazz Vespers: 6:30 p.m. on first Friday of each month As God has welcomed us, we welcome you.

With all our differences – in age, ability and physical condition, in race, cultural background and economic status, in sexual orientation, gender identity and family structure – God has received each one with loving kindness, patience and joy. All that we are together and all that we hope to be is made more perfect as the richness of varied lives meets the mystery of God’s unifying Spirit, and we become the Body of Christ.

Helen Hempfling, Pastor

Wesleyan (Nazarene, Free Methodist) Central Wesleyan Church 518 W. Fourth St. 812-336-4041

4thstwesleyanchurch.org Facebook: Central Wesleyan Church of Bloomington, Indiana Sunday School: 10 a.m.

Sunday Worship: 11 a.m.

Evening Worship: 6 p.m.

Wednesday Worship: 6 p.m.

First Friday: 6 p.m. (Celebrate Knowing Jesus, open mic service) You've ended your search for a friendly and loving church. We are a bible believing holiness group similar to Nazarene and Free Methodist, and welcome all races and cultures. We would love for you to share your talents and abilities with us. Come fellowship and worship with us.

Michael Magruder, Pastor Joe Shelton, Church Secretary

Quaker Bloomington Religious Society of Friends 3820 Moores Pike (West of Smith Rd.) 812-336-4581

bloomingtonfriendsmeeting.org Facebook: Bloomington Friends Meeting Sunday Worship: 10:30 a.m.

Hymn Singing: 9:50 to 10:20 a.m.

Our unprogrammed religious services consist of silent, centering worship interspersed with spoken messages that arise from deeply felt inspiration. We are an inclusive community, a result of avoiding creeds, so we enjoy a rich diversity of belief. We are actively involved in peace action, social justice causes, and environmental concerns.

Christine Carver, Meeting Clerk

Lutheran (LCMS)

607 E. Seventh St. (Corner of 7th & Fess) 812-336-5387 • indianalutheran.com

facebook.com/ULutheranIU @uluindiana on Instagram

Sunday Worship: 10 a.m. & 6 p.m.

Wednesday Night Bible Study: 7 p.m.

Tuesday & Friday: Service of Morning Prayer, 8 a.m.

Lifeway Baptist Church exists to bring glory to God by making disciples, maturing believers and multiplying ministry. Matthew 28:19-20

Wednesday: Second Best Meal, 6 p.m.

Midweek Service, 7 p.m.

LCMS U Student Fellowship, 7:30 p.m.

Cedar Hall 2nd Floor Common Area, 7 - 8 p.m., meetings start Thursday, Sept. 5.

We will meet every other Thursday during the school year.

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

Catholic St. Paul Catholic Center 1413 E. 17th St. 812-339-5561 • hoosiercatholic.org

Facebook: Hoosiercatholic Twitter: @hoosiercatholic Weekend Mass Times Saturday Vigil: 4:30 p.m.

Sunday: 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m. (Spanish), 5:30 p.m., 9 p.m. (During Academic Year) Korean Mass 1st & 3rd Saturdays, 6 p.m.

Weekday Mass Times Monday - Saturday: 12:15 p.m.

Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 5:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Thursday: 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 and Director of Campus Ministry Rev. Dennis Woerter, O.P. Associate Pastor Rev. Reginald Wolford, O.P., Associate Pastor

Unitarian Universalist Unitarian Universalist Church of Bloomington 2120 N. Fee Lane 812-332-3695

www.uublomington.org www.facebook.com/uubloomington Sundays: 9:15 a.m. & 11:15 a.m.

We are a dynamic congregation working towards a more just world through social justice. We draw inspiration from world religions and diverse spiritual traditions.

Our vision is "Seeking the Spirit, Building Community, Changing the World."

A LGBTQA+ Welcoming Congregation and a certified Green Sanctuary.

Reverend Mary Ann Macklin, Senior Minister

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Latter-day Saint Student Association (L.D.S.S.A) 333 S. Highland Ave. 812-334-3432

studentview.Ids.org/Home. aspx/Home/60431 Facebook: Bloomington Institute and YSA Society lds.org Monday - Friday: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

We have an Institute of Religion adjacent to campus at 333 S. Highland Ave. (behind T.I.S. bookstore). We offer a variety of religious classes and activities. We strive to create an atmosphere where college students and local young single adults can come to play games, relax, study, and associate with others who value spirituality. Sunday worship services for young single students are held at 2411 E. Second St. a 11:30 a.m. We invite all to discover more about Jesus Christ from both ancient scripture and from modern prophets of God. During the week join us at the institute, and on Sunday at the Young Single Adult Church.

Robert Tibbs, Institute Director

University Lutheran Church & Student Center

Sunday

Barnabas Christian Ministry Small Groups:

302-561-0108, barnabas@indiana.edu barnabas.so.indiana.edu

Sunday: Bible Class, 9:15 a.m.

Divine Service, 10:30 a.m.

The Best Meal You'll Have All Week, 6 p.m.

College & Career Sunday Meeting: 9 a.m.

Steven VonBokern, Senior Pastor Rosh Dhanawade, IU Coordinator

*Free transportation provided.

Please call if you need a ride to church.

*Child Care and First Day School provided We are Wesleyan in our beliefs, and welcome all to worship with us. We are dedicated to training others through discipleship as well as ministering through small groups. We welcome all races and cultures and would love to get to know you.

Dr James Hicks, Lead Pastor

Cedar Hall 2nd Floor Common Area, 7 - 8 p.m., meetings start Thursday, Sept. 5. We will meet every other Thursday during the school year.

Thursday: Graduate/Career Study & Fellowship, 7 p.m.

University Lutheran Church is the home of LCMS U at Indiana. Students, on-campus location, and our Student Center create a hub for genuine Christ-centered community that receives God's gifts of life, salvation and the forgiveness of sins through Jesus Christ.

Sola Cafe is open 9-5 every weekday for coffee and a place to study. "We Witness, We Serve, We Love."

Rev. Richard Woelmer, Campus Pastor

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.

Jason Pak