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Steve Moore sits Oct. 17 in Waggin Tails Pet Grooming. Steve and Saundra own the small dog grooming business.

'By grace, through example' Steve Moore almost died. Now he uses his experience to show COVID-19 is real and life-changing.

By Madison Smalstig msmalsti@iu.edu | @madi_smals

Steve Moore believes himself to be of average intelligence and average life experience. He doesn’t expect you to think he’s smart.

He doesn’t think he is.

The 55-year-old Fortville, Indiana, man doesn’t believe he knows as much as the politicians, such as President Donald Trump, do about the virus that almost killed him. He has now voted for Trump twice and trusts the president’s handling of the pandemic.

Steve contracted COVID-19 in late March. The virus, which he had not initially thought that much of, put him on a ventilator for 18 days and led to two weeks spent in a rehabilitation center relearning how to walk and how to breathe and how to remember simple facts such as his wife's birthday.

Steve feels a little selfconscious about all the attention his friends showered on him through social media when he was in the hospital and rehab.

His family, he says, were the ones who really suffered and deserve recognition. All

he did was lay in a bed.

Before he contracted the virus, Steve knew the pandemic was serious. But it wasn’t until after he had completed physical therapy and returned to his job as a dock worker that he realized how important it was for people to wear their masks and socially distance.

A number of his Facebook friends posted links to articles or wrote their own posts that showed they either thought the coronavirus was a hoax or about as dangerous as the common flu. Many of them still do.

Steve doesn’t put much stock into politics or politicians. Despite having gotten off a ventilator two and a half months before he voted, he did not think about either presidential candidates’ COVID-19 policies when voting. However, he wishes he would have known that Trump could have established a nationwide mask mandate – something Steve supports.

He believes in serving as an example and telling people how COVID-19 affected his life and his family.

After all he’s been

through, Steve still doesn’t claim to be an expert on COVID-19. But one thing he knows is that the virus is real, and he is living, breathing proof. * * * Steve started showing COVID-19 symptoms on March 24, a week before he was hospitalized and the day before Indiana’s stay-athome order first went into effect.

He was at work at the dock when he started coughing quietly, like he was consistently clearing his throat.

Throughout the day, the coughing grew deeper and more consistent. He developed a headache. Nothing seemed too serious, just normal flu symptoms.

Then, on March 26, Steve’s wife Saundra Moore started to feel achy, and she had a fever.

One day later, the two had a video conference with their doctor who prescribed them Z-Pak. It didn’t help.

While Saundra and Steve were both experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, they were taking a heavier toll

on Steve. His headache had progressed into an unrelenting pain. He was having difficulty breathing and had a cough that prevented him from sleeping soundly.

The doctor recommended they quarantine for 14 days.

Steve began to wonder if it was something serious.

He knew about COVID-19, but at the time it seemed like it wasn’t in his community yet and it would be unlikely for him to catch it. He later said it was like he had forgotten he had asthma and had struggled with heart issues.

On March 31, after a particularly restless night, Saundra hefted Steve into the car and drove him to Hancock Regional Hospital. The only sounds during the 20-minute ride were of Steve, trying and failing to fully catch his breath.

After Steve had checked in to the hospital, he turned to his wife. She had tears in her eyes.

“You forgot to give me a hug,” she said.

Even though Saundra got emotional, she fully expected to take Steve home that night. She waited for a few

hours in the parking after she dropped him off. Their two adult daughters, Hannah and Allyson, didn’t know he was having serious health issues until after he was checked in to the hospital.

Hannah said she thought he just had a cold.

Even though Steve wasn’t officially diagnosed with COVID-19 until later, the doctors still initially treated him as a COVID-19 patient.

The next few days were a blur of calling nurses and the family exchanging videos with Steve.

The doctors told Steve’s family on April 2 he was getting better and he would soon be sent home with an oxygen tank. But by the next morning, their diagnosis had changed. Steve’s breathing was so labored that he needed to be put on a ventilator.

“This is no different than any other type of surgery when they put you on a ventilator, except it might be a little bit longer,” Steve told his family in a video that day.

“Take care of momma.”

The first song of the Broadway musical “Into the Woods” speaks of wishes: characters wish for milk, for children, to go to the festival. Each character wishes for adventure, for sustenance and for better lives.

As the cast of IU’s studentrun production sings the prologue, they aren’t just singing empty words. They’re wishing, too.

The cast of “Into the Woods,” expected to run Feb. 12-13, 2021, wishes to continue rehearsing and perform a show during the COVID-19 pandemic. Those involved in the show have followed extensive precautions to ensure their safety and ability to perform on stage, which for many will be their first opportunity in nearly a year.

The group has yet to confirm a venue for the show, but only 15 to 20 audience members will be allowed to attend each performance to avoid the risks of a large gathering.

Although the show isn’t an official IU theater department production, the venue will be on campus.

Musical theater major and senior Kyle Mason is direct-

Stage manager Spencer Lawson, a junior majoring in theater, said because opportunities to perform are so low right now, actors were willing to pour extra time and energy into the production.

“I was actually pleasantly surprised with how excited everyone was,” Lawson said.

“I expected there to be a lot of people like, ‘Hey, this show sounds interesting, I just don’t feel comfortable doing it,’ but rather we had people saying, ‘I will comfortably self-quarantine just to be part of a show.'”

Musical theater is an art form that relies on human contact. Actors must play off one another both emotionally and physically, dancers are often in close proximity and audiences sit nearly shoulderto-shoulder. In a pandemic where close contact is dangerous, the cast of “Into the Woods” had to adapt to put on their show.

During the first few rehearsals, which were over Zoom, Lawson drafted a “COVID Comfortability Contract,” an agreement requiring actors to adhere to strict health and safety guidelines and to constantly monitor themselves and those around them for symptoms of COVID-19. This

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The prop for Milky White, Jack’s beloved “cow as white as milk,” is pictured. The prop was rented from Mason’s high school theater department in Michigan.

contract had to be signed and a negative COVID-19 test had to be sent to the creative team before actors could attend the first in-person rehearsal.

“The biggest thing is keeping transparency for the cast to make sure that everyone feels as comfortable as possible,” Mason said.

Actors also declared social circles within the cast, small groups of people who would only hang out with each other while in Bloomington. When coming back to Bloomington after a trip home or a school break, actors quarantined

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ing the show, a project he said he’s aspired to put on since his sophomore year.

“It was always going to be ‘Into the Woods,’” he said. “I came about it when I was in my early teen years and just beginning to love musical theater, and it had such an impression on me as a person and an artist. It seemed like a perfect thing to do as my own senior thesis project.”

Although student-led work is encouraged within and often funded by the theater department, money was low this year due to the pandemic, which meant in order to get the project on its feet, Mason had to raise the money himself. With a combination of GoFundMe, help from friends and family and a grant from the Hutton Honors College, he eventually raised enough money to meet his goal.

The original 1987 Broadway cast of “Into the Woods” had 23 members, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring safety of this production meant downsizing the cast to 15, plus a creative team of six people. But even with the potential health risks putting on a show brings, getting enough actors wasn’t as big an issue as expected.

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When I started in August, I knew this was going to be a semester unlike any other at IU. And, sitting here in December, I can confidently say that that remained true.

From COVID-19 to the election to a reinstated football season, there was no shortage of storylines to follow.

I’m proud of our coverage of the coronavirus’ effects on IU and Bloomington — whether it be reporting on testing, new restrictions or how different groups have adapted to this new normal.

I’m also proud of Black Voices. It’s not easy to start something from scratch, and it’s certainly not easy to do it in a pandemic. But Jaclyn Ferguson made it look easy, and the section has grown to 10 regular contributors sharing their stories, art and perspectives.

When we’re not out reporting or designing pages, we’re also students just trying our best. I’m proud of the coverage we’ve provided this semester, but I know there are ways we fell short.

I’m grateful to everyone who has emailed or called to provide their feedback. You’re the reason we’re in this business.

Thank you for following along with us this semester.

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until they received negative test results back. Props and supplies are sanitized after use and sharing is discouraged. Everyone is gloved and masked at all times during rehearsal.

Rehearsals take place in the basement of an off-campus house, where fans blow and a door is kept open for better air circulation. Shows typically rehearse in theaters or professional spaces, but concerns around COVID-19 and budgeting made these SEE MUSICAL, PAGE 5

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IU’s game against Purdue has been canceled for the second week in a row due to positive COVID-19 tests within both the IU and Purdue football programs.

“Upon the advice of our medical professionals and in following the guidelines and protocols established for this season, we are not able to play Friday," said IU athletic director Scott Dolson and Purdue athletic director Mike Bobinski in a joint statement. "As we stated last week, we know the history and tradition of this great rivalry game and how much it means to our current students, alumni and fans.

Both universities worked extremely hard in an effort to play, but at this time it just isn't possible. We are certainly disappointed that we cannot play in 2020, but look forward to seeing each other on the field next season and competing once again for the Old Oaken Bucket."

With the cancellation, this season will be the first year IU and Purdue have not played each other since 1919. The two teams have played in 96 consecutive games since the Old Oaken Bucket trophy was adopted.

They also played five consecutive games before the trophy was created.

Purdue leads the overall series, 74-42-6. IU won the Bucket last season 44-41 in double overtime.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Saundra was at a low point. She was without her husband, she was without work, she was struggling through a fever, aches and pains that almost left her couch-ridden, and she was only seeing her daughters through her glass storm door every other day.

Steve was on the ventilator and could no longer speak. She wasn’t sure he was going to make it. No other COVID-19 patient had made it off the ventilator at Hancock Regional Hospital.

She already felt like a widow.

That’s when she saw the words “I love you” written in the dust collected at the top of her headboard.

Steve had a habit of leaving her little random notes of love and affirmation. One of his favorite moves was to find a sticky notepad, flip to the middle of the stack and write “I love you” or draw a heart for Saundra to find later.

Steve thinks he wrote in the dust about two weeks before he went to the hospital.

Saundra believes God was saving that message for her to see that exact moment.

She took a picture of the note.

She had been sharing many photos on her Facebook to document her husband’s COVID-19 experience. But she didn’t share this one. She kept this memory for herself.

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* * * Over the next two and a half weeks, as the ventilator mechanically pumped oxygen into Steve’s lungs, his wife battled and beat COVID-19 and, on April 15, he turned 55.

His family celebrated his birthday picking up Mexican food — his favorite — parking outside the hospital, eating in the car and calling to sing him happy birthday. They asked the nurse to hold up the phone to his face so he could hear.

As their voices rang through the device, his head turned to the sound, his mouth tried to smile and his heartbeat increased from 61 to 78 beats per minute.

Throughout Steve’s time in the hospital, Hannah, Saundra and Allyson all posted on Facebook intermittently about his condition and asked people to pray for him. On almost every post they wrote #prayerworks.

All four members of the Moore family are Christians who pray at least once a day, if not more. Sometimes when they’re praying, they walk around their house and talk to God as if he is a close friend. Sometimes they bow their heads and clasp their hands together. Sometimes they kneel.

On April 13, Hannah woke up at about 2 a.m. and saw the hospital had called her. She says God woke her up that night. The nurse had needed permission to replace Steve’s central line, the tube placed in a vein for long-term drug therapy. After she got off the phone with them, she spent an hour praying for the doctors to have the wisdom to know what to do and for her dad to have strength.

Allyson said she prayed so much during her dad’s time at the hospital that eventually she didn’t know what to pray for anymore. So, she made a playlist of church songs. She would listen to the playlist during attempts to stave off panic attacks.

In addition to praying on their own, Saundra, Hannah and Allyson reached out to more friends, family and followers through social media to have more people speaking in God’s ear.

“I think God listens to every prayer we pray,” Allyson said. “But if there’s thousands of people storming heaven with prayers, it’s kind of hard for God not to listen.”

On April 19, more than 25 people gathered in the hospital parking lot to pray for Steve for about 20 minutes.

Saundra only had one prayer that she repeated over and over: for Steve to safely make it to tomorrow. * * * On April 20, Steve became the first COVID-19 patient at Hancock Regional Hospital to be taken off a ventilator. No other patient had survived that long. After 21 days in the hospital and thousands of prayers sent his way, he could

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Top Steve and his wife Saundra Moore sit outside in front of a poster reading “Welcome home, Dad” following his discharge from rehabilitation. Steve spent 52 days in the hospital and rehabilitation center before being cleared to go home to his family.

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Middle left A card reading “Welcome home Steve” sits on a table Oct. 17 next to the front door of the Moore household. After being released from the hospital Steve wanted to go out to dinner with his family, but was unable to because the restaurants were not open and he did not realize how quarantine had affected the community during his time in the hospital and rehabilitation centers.

Middle right A walker sits next to a bench Oct. 17 by the front door of the Moore household. Steve wanted to walk out of the care facility without using a walker to greet his family, but the nurses would not let him.

Bottom Steve Moore and his family pose for a photo Oct. 17 in an apple orchard. Spending time with family is something Steve says he cherishes and holds on to a little bit more than he did before contracting the coronavirus.

breathe on his own. Three days later, he was checked out of the hospital.

After he was released from Hancock, Steve went to a rehab center. He stayed for just 36 hours before they had to move him to another hospital for a UTI that sent him into a state of delirium.

During his time on the ventilator and laying in a hospital bed, Steve lost a lot of weight, his ability to walk or dress himself and pieces of his memory.

Steve worked to rebuild his memory throughout the two weeks at the second hospital. His family called him every day to ask him questions and test his memory.

On one of those calls a few days after Steve had been off the ventilator, Hannah asked him some questions to no avail: What’s Mom’s birthday? Where are you going to go after the hospital? How long have you been married to Mom? He struggled through almost every question but one.

“What’s Saundra’s favorite color?”

“Yellow,” Steve said.

After he recovered from the UTI, Steve went to Community Rehabilitation Hospital to rebuild his atrophied muscles.

After 14 days at rehab, he wanted to walk out on May 21 without a walker, even though he had not once walked on his own. It had been a goal of his to rush up to his wife and hug her without a walker in between them.

But the nurse stopped him. So, he limped as fast as he could to Saundra, leaned over the walker and gave her a hug. Saundra said it felt good to hold him.

“We watched him try to cheat his walker,” a nurse told the family. “That’s your job now — to make sure that he doesn’t do that.”

Saundra had been lonely.

All those weeks, she had been handling the bills and everything else on her own.

But now it seemed like her husband was back from the dead.

The hugs and tears continued as the family helped Steve into the passenger side of their car.

When they closed the doors, Steve noticed the air conditioning was on.

“Can we just roll down the windows?” he asked.

After 52 days stuck in the hospital and rehab, he wanted to feel the breeze on his face. * * * Nine months after COVID-19 nearly killed him, Steve does not remember his stay at the hospital and only remembers pieces of his time in rehab. He still tires easily and lags behind his family sometimes when they walk together. He is always exhausted after a full day of work at the docks, where he has to make sure he moves the heavier items at the beginning of the day before he gets too tired.

Sometimes, he gets frustrated with the slowness of his progress. But then he remembers that he couldn’t walk. He remembers rocking in a rocking chair to help get his strength back. He remembers standing by a window on the second floor of the rehab center, staring down at his wife on their 34th wedding anniversary.

He remembers the uncomfortable hospital bed and what it felt like to be stuck in a room without his family. He was less than an hour from his house, and he was homesick. He didn’t know a 55-year-old man could be so homesick so close to home.

He still gets approached by random people who fol-

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“You’re a miracle,” they say. “We’ve been praying for you.”

Before COVID-19 hit him, Steve wasn’t that worried about the virus. He knew it was important to wash your hands and sanitize, that it was good to wear a mask and it would be smart to not go out as much. But he did not think he was old enough to be seriously affected by the virus. He thought his asthma and heart condition were in check.

Now, he is a strong advocate for wearing masks and reminds people that just because the virus hasn’t directly affected them doesn’t mean it’s fake. He tells them that he knows — he went through it himself.

“I find myself getting sad for the people that get upset about having to wear a mask,” he said. “It makes me want to scratch my head.”

He said he’s even had some conversations with his family about masks because his older daughter Allyson isn’t as enthusiastic about using them. Allyson said she is fully aware that the virus is real and recognizes the long-lasting effects, but she doesn’t like the government controlling her health or what she can and can’t do.

Steve said he supports a mask mandate, he doesn’t believe the pandemic is over and that now we should focus more on preventing COVID-19 spread than healing the economy.

However, when asked if he had any direct criticisms of Trump’s COVID-19 response, Steve said he feels that he doesn’t know as much about the virus as those in charge of our country. He said since he hasn’t served in Trump’s position he can’t condemn Trump’s actions.

Steve also said he doesn’t

know exactly where the federal government could have crossed into state politics.

Steve voted in person for Donald Trump on Oct. 31.

He said he voted for Trump because he saw him as the lesser of two evils. He said he was scared by how aggressively the Democratic party had been attacking Trump and trying to remove a Republican president. So he voted against the Democrats.

He also said it’s hard for him to say the president or our state government should have put in particular restrictions in the past because we

are continuously learning about the virus. Steve operates under the idea that even though our nation’s leaders know the most, we don’t know a lot about the virus.

“I can’t ridicule the government like I know more than they do because I don’t feel like any of us know a ton about this,” Steve said.

He does have one opinion on what leaders shouldn’t do: wait to act until it’s too late.

“Millions of people are not dying, yet,” Steve said.

“Don’t wait until they do die to do something.”

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Protesters gather after Seminary Square eviction

By Cate Charron catcharr@iu.edu | @catecharron

A large group of protesters gathered at 5 p.m. Friday at the courthouse after the Bloomington Police Department and other personnel forced the homeless camp at Seminary Square Park to disperse.

The night was filled with speakers recounting their experiences and alleged injustices by the City of Bloomington. Signs showed support with phrases such as “Everybody has a right to live,” “fight poverty, not the poor,” “support the homeless” and “recall Mayor Hamilton.”

On Tuesday, the Bloomington Board of Park Commissioners voted on a policy supported by city administration and the Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department to prohibit encampments on city structures or property without a permit at any time of day.

The policy was struck down with a 1-3 vote, but the existing enactment of an overnight park use rule allowed the sweep of the camp Wednesday night.

Reactions from the events of Wednesday night resulted in an outpouring on social media criticizing the city’s decision. It was described as “horrendous,” “upsetting” and “sad.”

The Bloomington Homeless Coalition first posted about the protest Thursday on Instagram and Facebook.

It is also urging people to call Mayor John Hamilton’s office and the Parks and Recreation Department to stop targeting and evicting homeless encampments.

The Bloomington Homeless Coalition first began in early August after founder Harry Collins started the organization to provide resources and to help people find housing. Collins was a primary speaker at the protest, recalling his own experiences and talking about the city’s relationship with the homeless community.

“They’re trying to blame the homeless for the problem,” Collins said at the pro-

test. “The government is the problem.”

He said that the government exploited a loophole in a previous rule to expel the people from Seminary Square. He said the city should have never cleared them out of park and blames Hamilton and Chief of Police Mike Diekhoff. Collins also read the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considerations for encampments stating people in encampments should remain where they are to not break connection with social services.

Collins said he challenges government officials to live with the homeless community for a week and guarantees those who do would have a newfound respect for those experiencing homelessness.

Many speakers mentioned the lack of available services and that the City of Bloomington needs to invest more in helping homeless people off the streets.

Speakers repeatedly pointed to a new shelter the City of Bloomington has allotted money for but has yet to open as an example of this.

The Winter Contingency Shelter for Women was supposed to open in November and serve up to 40 women experiencing homelessness, according to a City of Bloomington press release from Oct. 30. Monroe County government and the City of Bloomington each gave $54,250 to support operation costs through March. The shelter has yet to release a date but plans to open sometime in December.

The Pigeon Hill Pantry founder Nicole Johnson said 17 people who were evicted Wednesday night were placed into hotels by Hotels for Homeless and have been there since. Johnson said those at Seminary decided the people who were most vulnerable to take the rooms.

However, Johnson said those individuals will have to leave Saturday and find another place to stay.

“What happened in Semi-

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Marc Teller speaks Dec. 11 at the Monroe County Courthouse at the “Hands off the Homeless” protest. The protest was in response to the Bloomington Police Department and other personnel forced the homeless camp in Seminary Square Park to leave.

nary is not new,” Johnson said to the crowd. “They are going to be wet and cold for weeks because there is no place to legally be inside.”

Protester Marc Teller said the city is lying when it says it is concerned about the homeless community and that Wednesday night’s eviction was an act of violence.

“There is a war by the local government,” Teller said.

“This started well before the tents were torn down.”

Before wrapping up the night, Teller said he had a list of demands for the city. The demands include ending the removal of people experiencing homelessness in Seminary Park, diverting money from the Wheeler Mission to Hotels for Homeless instead and approving a location for a camp that can still reach essential services.

Teller said there has been an outpouring of support by the community and it has been very encouraging so far. He said his message for the community is to keep showing up with support.

He urged protestors to speak

with people experiencing homelessness and listen to their stories and emotions.

A little girl and her mother were giving out posters to protesters with an image of a man sitting alone holding a sign. IU sophomore Sarah Greenwell and her group of friends each picked up one of their own.

Greenwell said she hopes the city listens to the protesters and meets the demands of the Bloomington Homeless Coalition listed by Teller. She and her friends agree that they think it’s important that people educate themselves and spread the messages said today at the protest.

“People’s lives are on the line,” Greenwell said. “This is a town that says they are progressive but aren’t.”

Since Friday others have also proposed various ways to help the issue.

Local activist Vauhxx Booker is proposing the city council enact an Unhoused Bill of Rights which would outlaw discrimination against people experiencing

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A protester holds a sign as others raise a banner Dec. 11 at the Monroe County Courthouse.

homelessness. There is also a section that states protections in the event of displacement which includes the city giving at least 15 days public notice before removing people. It also states the city will have to coordinate housing of all people who would be displaced and in the event that there is not sufficient housing, the city would have to wait before closing a camp.

The Monroe County Democratic Party released a statement Sunday which said the issue of homelessnes in

our country and community is a critical undertaking. The statement called the removal of people from Seminary Square upsetting and not an acceptable answer.

The statement called on all elected representatives to work with local services organizations, activists and those experiences homlessness to work together on long term solutions.

“Fighting the war on poverty and not the war on the poor should be a mission for all of us,” the statement said.

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Black lives can't matter until the United States abolishes the death penalty Katelyn Balakir (she/her) is a junior in policy analysis and world political systems.

“We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.

We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did,” John Erlichman, a key adviser to former President Richard Nixon, confessed in 1994.

The war on drugs further codified racism as a tool of the justice system.

The Anti Drug Abuse Act of 1986 established the framework for mandatory minimums and drug convictions. The act mandated a minimum sentence of five years for the possession of five grams of crack cocaine whereas it required five hundred grams of the more expensive powder cocaine to trigger the same sentence. By 2010, 85% of the people sentenced for crack cocaine offenses were Black. The legislation demonstrated a clear effort to disenfranchise Black Americans who were more likely to possess crack cocaine.

From 1979 to 1989, the number of Black individuals arrested for drug violations increased by more than

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Signs with messages protesting the federal execution of Billie Allen are seen in front of the Vigo County Courthouse on Sept. 20 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Allen was convicted and sentenced to the federal death penalty for a 1997 armed robbery and murder of bank security guard Richard Heflin in St. Louis, Missouri, despite no forensic evidence tying him to the crime.

300%. Today, 80% of people in federal prison for drug offenses are people of color despite whites being more likely to use drugs. The justice system is twelve times more likely to wrongfully convict a Black person for drug possession.

Mandatory minimum sentences enable the ty-

rannical criminalization of communities of color.

The death penalty is yet another tool in the toolbox.

Alfred Bourgeois’ execution last Friday brought the total number of executions under President Donald Trump to ten since resuming after a 17-year hiatus. 2020 is the deadliest year for federal

than those convicted of killing Black victims.

A disproportionate number of wrongful convictions also occur with the death penalty. More than half of the 172 death row exonerees since 1973 were Black. It is no surprise the justice system, with its history of vilifying the Black community, continues

capital punishment since the late 1890s.

Black individuals account for 34% of all executions and 38% of federal executions since 1977. More than 40% of inmates currently on death row are Black. Furthermore, defendants convicted of killing white victims are 17 times more likely to be executed

EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN

to wield capital punishment in a way that supports its racism.

Not only are Black Americans disproportionately sentenced to death and executed, but their families are less likely to be awarded the “justice” that advocates of capital punishment so often celebrate. The death penalty instead reinforces America’s utter disregard for Black lives.

Support for the death penalty in only certain cases, at its core, is still support for an arcane and cruel system of punishment for all. Granting the justice system any leeway in determining who is fit to live sets a dangerous and unthinkable precedent.

As long as the death penalty exists, so will its racially charged application.

Simply put, you cannot advocate for the death penalty and simultaneously support the Black Lives Matter movement.

The death penalty ultimately provides the United States with yet another opportunity to flagrantly disrupt and exploit Black communities through a selective application of sentencing laws.

Capital punishment is a barbaric measure which enables the government to prioritize victims deemed most deserving of justice at the expense of defendants viewed as the least important. The U.S. has repeatedly made its decision clear: Black lives are dispensable. kbalakir@iu.edu

KEEPING UP WITH KATIE

Forget the birds and the bees, let's talk about the military industrial complex Katelyn Balakir (she/her) is a junior in policy analysis and world political systems.

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Freshmen walk through campus Aug. 24. The group wore their masks for the duration of their journey, which ended at the Indiana Avenue Starbucks.

Reflecting on my first semester of college in a pandemic Ellie Albin (she/her) is a freshman in journalism.

Well, my first semester of college is ending.

I looked up recently and realized it was December. Classes are ending. Textbooks are being closed. I’ve sent “thank you” emails to my professors. I’ve turned in those lingering assignments and I’ve studied for final exams.

You don’t need me to tell you that this semester has been unlike anything we’ve seen. By now, that idea is pretty trite. But I have no idea what else to say, really. I’m still having trouble processing all of it.

Four months ago, I was preparing to leave home to embark on my first semester of college.

As much as I would love to say I was ecstatic, I was pretty much the exact opposite. In fact, when I was moving into my sister’s Bloomington apartment on a humid August day, I had a panic attack.

It’s scary to admit that to an audience, but it’s true: I had a panic attack about attending college. It wasn’t just about going to college, though – it was about being a freshman going to college during a pandemic.

There’s nothing like it. That’s what made it so hard.

I have no prior experience with school during a time like this, just like everyone else. I’m fully aware that we’re about nine months into this pandemic, but there was something about leaving home on that August day that made me feel sad, scared and unsafe in my

new not-so-permanent home.

It’s as if I hadn’t connected the dots that yes, I would be leaving home in August, and yes, I would be living in a place that wasn’t home during a major health crisis.

It hit me at the most unfortunate time: move-in day.

The whole experience was so unnerving that I moved back home in October. After my only in-person class ended, I packed up my belongings and left Bloomington.

And I think, now that I’m really taking a deep look at this past semester, that’s one of the most heartbreaking parts of it all. Bloomington doesn’t feel like home. I so desperately want Bloomington to feel like home. I want to know what my favorite restaurant is here.

I want to know where I’ll love to study in the coming years. I want to know what it’s like to go sit in a lecture with tons of people. I want to know where I’ll meet all my new college friends on weekends to hang out.

The truth is, so much of that just couldn’t happen this semester. I didn’t explore Bloomington’s restaurant scene. I mostly studied where I lived.

I went to Zoom lectures. And, even though it’s a little embarrassing to admit, I didn’t really make a whole lot of friends.

That was my story for this semester. It’s indisputably factual, but it’s a hard one to swallow. This whole year has been hard to swallow. A huge part of me just wants to go on a walk in the woods and not turn around for a while. I want to leave so

much of this behind.

But I can’t do that. And neither can you.

Another truth of my story is that while yes, it’s sad, there are people who have it far worse than I do. There are people suffering from COVID-19. There are people being evicted from their homes. There are people going hungry. There are people who couldn’t attend college this semester.

But just because others are going through problems that could be seen as far more painful than your own doesn’t mean the pain you feel is diminished.

That’s a lesson I’m still trying to learn. Part of the difficulty in this semester is the guilt I have felt – and I know others have felt – for being sad. For being in seemingly endless pain.

For having no idea how to really cope with it all.

But maybe we’re all in indefinite pain right now. Maybe we need to stop comparing each other’s pains. Maybe, at the end of the day, we’re all just aching right now.

Maybe it’s okay that I’m aching. At least I know I’m not alone. And I know that, one day, things will be better.

I know that, one day, I’ll sit in a lecture hall full of people.

I know that I’ll make more friends. I know that I’ll know the shops and restaurants of my college town like the back of my hand.

And I know that, one day, Bloomington will feel like home. ealbin@iu.edu

Although it feels like a pipe dream, think back to the last time you stepped onto an airplane. You likely flew American, Delta, Southwest or United — given the four airlines together control roughly two-thirds of the United States market.

But the airline you chose is not all that relevant. The global passenger aircraft market is controlled exclusively by Boeing and Airbus. Some airlines such as Southwest rely primarily on Boeing and others, including Delta, on Airbus.

While you were snacking on your complimentary pretzels you may not have realized you were flying courtesy of either the second largest, Boeing, or seventh largest, Airbus Group, defense contractor in the world. The two companies raked in $38.2 billion from arms sales in 2017 alone.

Only half of Boeing’s revenue comes from commercial aircraft whereas 30% accounts for defense, space and security systems. In July, Boeing secured a $1.2 billion contract with the Pentagon.

So the Pentagon contracts private companies to maximize their output, what’s the big deal?

The range of contracts the federal government awards to private entities is astonishing. The Pentagon and a conglomerate of corporate suppliers engage in a symbiotic relationship — known as the military industrial complex — for anything from intelligence to engineering in exchange for exorbitant contracts.

The concern lies within the complexity of these relationships. A growing web of stakeholders rely on a steadily increasing defense budget, leaving U.S. policymakers vulnerable to advanced interest groups with one motive: inflating profit.

President-elect Joe Biden announced retired U.S. Army General Lloyd J. Austin III as his nominee

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Gen. Lloyd Austin III, commander of U.S. Central Command, testifies Sept. 16, 2015, before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. President-elect Joe Biden nominated retired Army General Austin as defense secretary.

for Secretary of Defense earlier this week.

Historically speaking, civilian control of the military is a quintessential feat of the American democratic model. The Constitution recognizes the president as commander-in-chief and grants Congress the power to declare war and approve funds for the military.

When Congress created the Department of Defense in 1947, it put a great deal of emphasis on the importance of a civilian Secretary of Defense.

If a former member of the U.S. Armed Forces were to fill the position, the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act requires at least seven years between their retirement and assuming the role of Secretary. Although a waiver is possible, the matter is subject to congressional approval. Former Secretaries of Defense James Mattis and George Marshall, who filled the position during the Korean War, have been the only two exceptions.

Austin retired in 2016 making him ineligible for the role without a waiver from Congress under the current federal law.

Ensuring a separation between military and state is critical to prevent politicization. Additionally, bureaucratic agencies are strange creatures. The transition from commander to politician is not an easy task, especially during a

high stakes presidency such as Biden’s.

Most importantly though, the Secretary of Defense is the American people’s liaison to the defense industry.

Austin joined the board of United Technologies, now Raytheon, shortly after leaving the military and earned $1.4 million over four years. Raytheon is the third largest defense contractor and facilitated $8 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia in 2019.

Time and time again, the military industrial complex reminds us of its indifference toward the well-being of the American people. In March, the Pentagon used $1 billion in COVID-19 emergency relief aid to fund new defense contracts instead of manufacturing medical equipment. The interests of the military industrial complex and Americans will forever be diametrically opposed.

Austin, with his shortlived, post-military civilian life tainted by ties to defense contractors, is incapable of empathizing with the American people.

Placing a defense executive in a position where he must speak on behalf of the American people is as insane as appointing an oil industry sympathizer as the liaison between climate activists and oil and gas executives. kbalakir@iu.edu

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Senior musical theater major Larkin Reilly, who plays Little Red Riding Hood, said it is a challenge to be working unconventionally, but she’s hoping for an easy move to the stage where they will perform.

“When we’re rehearsing, Kyle will often say, ‘OK, we’re doing it this way first but when we’re actually in the space this will look different,’” she said.

“So it’s definitely been hard to imagine being in a regular space, but it’s mapped out so well in the basement and we have a lot of the set pieces we’re already using, so I hope the transition will be relatively seamless.”

But the heart of musical theater — singing, dancing and acting — is facing major adjustments. The goal is to have as few people as possible onstage at the same time. With the exception of a few numbers featuring all 15 cast members,

actors who are not in each other’s social pods will not make close contact during the show.

Actors will also be masked for the entire show — even while singing — leaving them to express the complexities of human emotion with half-hidden faces.

While Mason described masked theater as “jarring” at first, he also said it creates an opportunity to try new things.

“There’s something interesting to be found with just acting from your eyes up, because you can’t use the lower half of your face to emote at all, so I’m finding that as we’re working with the actors it’s interesting to see how each of them approach that,” Mason said.

It’s all different from how theater normally operates. But despite the restrictions, Reilly said she’s grateful to be rehearsing at all.

“Every night after rehearsal I feel like the luckiest girl in the world because so many people aren’t getting that experience,” Reilly said. “I feel very lucky to be where I am right now in my

life while this is occurring.”

Senior musical theater major Ethan Germain, who plays Jack, said scene work was his favorite part of rehearsal because he gets to work on a team.

“It’s really fun to act with other people and look at my colleagues and say these lines to them even if we’re in masks,” he said. “The discovery in that is a lot of fun for me.”

Because close contact between actors is generally limited, senior Carly Liegel, the choreographer, has had to work around barriers. Rather than having flashy ensemble dance numbers, the choreography is simple. Liegel described many of the movements as “just taking a normal human gesture and making it a little bit more.”

“What I think I love that dance can bring to the table is that it allows the actors to portray things in a way where they don’t necessarily have to be super close to each other or touching,” Liegel said. “I think the body can tell so much

about a person without even having words there at all.”

The aesthetic of the show is modernized, to fit the contemporary style and a student budget. Scene design is stripped down. Huge set pieces aren’t feasible, so instead the set consists of eight blocks that create different structures depending on how they’re used.

The actors themselves form certain aspects of the set, swaying to mimic the movement of trees or using green parasols to imitate the beanstalk Jack climbs. Costumes consist largely of regular street clothes that fit with each character’s theme. Little Red, for instance, trades her cape as red as blood for a red hoodie, and moves across the stage in a pair of Heelys. Jack wears overalls and a flannel.

Lawson said while the show is a huge undertaking especially in the middle of a pandemic, it’s worth it to see the work come together.

“It’s a notoriously difficult musical,” he said. “It’s incredibly fast-paced and diverse

day’s circumstances.

“Thematically, in Act 2 there is a plot point that kind of eerily reflects COVID in terms of something that greatly affects a group of people,” Mason said. “It’s a lot about individualism versus thinking in a community sense, which I think is so relevant to COVID times.”

Germain said his character in particular has helped him realize meaningful life lessons that he wants the audience to take home with them as well.

Toward the end of Act 2, his character Jack suffers a major loss and sings a song called “No One Is Alone,” which makes him realize the family he’s found along his journey.

“It’s just made me realize, if it’s not OK, it’s not the end, and you’re not alone,” Germain said. “I just hope people will appreciate the people in their life that are there for them, but even more than that, just escapism for two hours. You can just come and watch a show and pretend things are a little bit normal, and hopefully laugh a little bit.”

in style. We’re taking on this Goliath-size show and we’re still trying to make it work, and that’s just so exciting for me to see the talent that’s coming out to make it happen.”

“It may all be in vain, I know / into the woods but even so / I have to take the journey,” says a line in the prologue. Of course, because of the unpredictability of the virus, the threat of being shut down looms over the production. Even with safety measures in place, further lockdowns or regulations in the future could equal closure.

“There could be a circumstance where it gets shut down any day,” Mason said. “There could be a chance when the new administration takes office in January, more strict shutdowns get put into place.

That is a real possibility for us and something that I am conscious of.”

It may not be the traditional theater experience, but the cast still hopes audiences will go home inspired, especially since the themes of "Into the Woods" can be applied to to-

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Phoebe Bridgers’s holiday EP is easier to swallow this wintery season Hannah Dailey is a junior in Journalism.

If you’re having a hard time absorbing any holiday cheer this year and would rather just, well, be realistic about things, you and Phoebe Bridgers are in the same boat.

The 26-year-old indie folk musician, whose record label Dead Oceans is based in Bloomington, has never been afraid to explore realism, no matter how unhappy it can be. On her sophomore album “Punisher,” which came out in June, Bridgers examines emotion like a scientist might — she neither flinches away from nor overly romanticizes the painful experiences she’s reflecting on, but rather sifts methodically through the relevant details and conversations she can’t forget.

Most recently, Bridgers released “If We Make It Through December,” a wintery collection of her past Christmas song covers. All proceeds will go to Downtown Women’s Center, a women’s shelter, in Los Angeles, where Bridgers is from.

Though none of the four tracks on the Christmas extended play are originals, the solemn nature of each one makes her spot-on song choice startlingly reflective of 2020’s bleakness. Additionally, Bridgers managed to put her own moody, forlorn twist on each of them, making this EP the perfect cap to a year gone sour.

Bridgers’ version of “If We Make it Through December”

by Merle Haggard is the only new cover off this EP, which came out late November. It’s a timeless portrait of how Christmastime isn’t neces-

sarily merry for those who struggle to make ends meet, a concept that has been duly pronounced by the economic disparities caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

On her rendition of “7 O’Clock News/Silent Night,” released last year, she and Fiona Apple sing the holiday classic’s serene lyrics while Matt Berninger of The National plays the part of the newscaster, reading off news stories about police officer sexting scandals and President Donald Trump’s impeachment. These headlines are an update to Simon & Garfunkel’s original, which included news stories from the 1960s.

You aren’t able to hear the news bulletin if you remove your right earbud, which is possibly to show how easy it is to ignore the disheartening parts of reality to focus instead on the cheerful, “peace and goodwill toward men” theme of Christmas — no matter how antithetical it is to what’s actually going on.

“Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House Chief of Staff, threw the Trump administration's defense against impeachment into disarray on Thursday when he said that the White House withheld nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine to further Mr. Trump's political interests,” Berlinger reports drearily over Bridgers’ breathy vocals. “And that’s the 7 O’Clock News.”

Mccarthy Trenching’s “Christmas Song” is a somber reminder that the facade of holiday cheer can be a trap for those who are suffering. Afraid to disrupt the joy of others, mentally unwell

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Musician Phoebe Bridgers rehearses on stage Feb. 26 during the 33nd Annual Tibet House U.S. Benefit Concert & Gala in New York City.

people feel like they have no one to confide in during the holiday season.

“You don't have to be alone to be lonesome, it's so easy to forget,” Bridgers sings. “And sadness comes crashing like a brick through a window, and it’s Christmas so no one can fix it.”

Make no mistake, though — Bridgers is not completely joyless. This EP isn’t a devil’s advocate play at making Christmas depressing for no reason. Through her song selection, she’s simply presenting a view of the holiday that’s easier to swallow for people who struggle more to

ignore their difficult circumstances.

This is evidenced by the last song of the EP, the renowned Judy Garland tune, “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.” The famous lyrics, which Bridgers delivers beautifully, advocate for love, family and friendship in

spite of all that’s painful.

“Someday soon, we all will be together if the fates allow,” she sings. “Until then, we'll have to muddle through somehow.

So have yourself a merry little Christmas now.”

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Offensive lineman DaVondre Love during a game against Purdue Nov. 30, 2019, at Ross-Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, IN.

When the dream dies DaVondre Love’s journey to find himself beyond IU football

By Evan Gerike egerike@iu.edu | @EvanGerike

In the back of an Amazon warehouse in Indianapolis, DaVondre Love whispers to himself.

“Embrace the suck,” he repeats under his breath. It’s a simple idea. He picked it up at football practices while playing for IU, and now it helps him make it through the work day.

It’s been nearly a year since IU lost to the University of Tennessee in the Gator Bowl, since Love played his last game in a Hoosier uniform.

Since then he has become the first member of his family to graduate college. He’s lost a brother and dealt with depression and anxiety. He’s worked four jobs.

Love is now 23 years old.

He was 6 when he started playing football. It’s been his driving factor for years — going to camps through high school, trying to get recruited. It was his main focus in college, but now he’s in the workforce.

For 10 hours, Love stands at a conveyor belt, scanning items and putting them in the appropriate totes. There’s no music playing in the building and he’s not allowed to bring his own headphones. His co-workers certainly won’t talk to him, so he keeps his own company.

“Embrace the suck,” he tells himself. “It pays the bills. You’ve got three dogs at home, you’ve got a girlfriend.”

Love dreads working these shifts. He’s held a few warehouse jobs since graduating, but he hasn’t worked in one he’s happy with yet. His dreams died when he left football, and he’s now searching for a new one. * * * Only 3.8% of eligible Division I players were selected in the 2019 NFL Draft. A small selection of others may sign undrafted rookie contracts. The rest, like Love, are forced to find careers in a new world where they don’t have sports.

The transition isn’t easy.

Love is quick to let anyone know he doesn’t regret playing college football.

Football has been there from the beginning.

Love has a picture of himself from when he was just 1 year old.

He was a fat baby, his mother Rickia Brown-Rockett said. He’s wearing a red Ralph Lauren polo.

In his lap is a Spalding football.

On his face is a smile.

She signed him up to play when he was 6 years old. He was already big by first grade and people thought he was older. He loved the game and loved throwing other people around.

But he never found a passion outside of the game, never found something he could do once Saturdays were no longer game days.

While he was in college, Love told himself he had a few years to figure out the next steps.

He thought he knew where he was headed next in his life. He got a degree in liberal studies and minored in criminal justice, but like every other collegiate football player, Love said he thought he was headed to the pros.

Yet time was running out.

The final 15 seconds of the Gator Bowl marked the final 15 seconds of his five-year clock and the end of his playing days.

He stood on the sideline, taking in the loss. He reminisced on memories, practices, moving into his freshman dorm. He embraced his teammates. He shed a couple of tears.

After five years of devoting himself to the game, he no longer had a plan going forward.

“I wish that I was as invested in figuring out myself beyond football,” Love said. “I was just so focused on trying to play ball.”

Suddenly, football was gone.

“He was devastated,” BrownRockett said. “He always dreamed and thought that football would be the direction that his life went in after IU.” He struggled mentally, feeling like he failed for not making it professionally.

That final game came a little more than a month after Love earned his first career start against Purdue, the game he calls his moment of glory. But he played through a knee injury that kept him out of most of the Gator Bowl and required surgery after the season ended.

Coming off his second ACL surgery, Love was facing the reality of an uncertain future.

He had to switch directions away from the only path he’d known. Instead of heading off to camps and going on recruiting trips, Love was heading off to job interviews and going on job listing websites.

First, he worked at a Speedway. In his short time managing, he found himself enjoying delegating and finding ways to make people’s days. Even now, customers from his neighborhood ask when he’s coming back.

Brown-Rockett said being personable is part of who Love is.

He’s always trying to help others, to make their days better. He built a rapport with teachers from his high school, who now keep his youngest brother in check with threats of updating Love.

When Love was a teenager, Brown-Rockett said money was sometimes tight. One Christmas, Love told his mother to save the money she would be using on him.

“He said ‘Momma, I want you to make sure you get my brothers something for Christmas,’” Brown-Rockett remembered. “‘You don’t have to get me anything for Christmas. I’ll go without.’”

For Love, family has always been first. * * * Love was close to D’Juan Nunn Jr. from the beginning.

The two were best friends, even when they lived across the country from each other.

Nunn, Love’s half brother, was two years younger than him.

When Love was 7 and Nunn was 5, they found out they had different dads. Nunn’s parents started a custody battle, leaving Nunn with his father in Virginia.

When Nunn turned 18, he decided to come back to live with Love’s family in St. Louis.

Brown-Rocket was concerned about how the custody battle would affect their relationship. She said it was messy, and the two of them had barely spent time together while they were raised in different households.

“If you look at the home videos back when we were kids, we were always just joined at the hip,” Love said. “And then we were forcibly split up, we weren’t talking as much, just because it hurt. Then we got back together and were joined at the hip again.”

On July 6, Nunn was playing pickup basketball and said he felt tired. The doctors said that the moment he laid down is likely the moment he died.

That day, Love was in Indianapolis and got a FaceTime from a friend Nunn was playing basketball with. Soon after, he was on Interstate 70, speeding toward St. Louis. He got another call while he was driving. Nunn didn’t make it.

Nunn had fibrosis of the kidneys, and the doctors said it was bad enough they were surprised he wasn’t in pain and needing to be on dialysis. The stress on his kidneys led to additional stress on other vital organs, including his heart. Nunn’s heart swelled and he overexerted it the day he died.

Love felt like he was already in a position where nothing broke his way, no matter what he tried. Now he had to grieve the loss of a younger brother, one he never expected to lose. It was like God was testing him.

“I had already been dealing with some anxiety and depression before he passed,” Love said. “We had both been dealing with some things. We were able to pick each other up a lot because we knew and related to everything that the other was going through. So once he left, it was like, ‘Oh, man, I don’t even know if I can do this anymore.’”

At the funeral, Love gave the eulogy.

He stood at the podium above his brother’s white casket and told the crowd to focus on the beauty of Nunn’s life, not

the duration of it. He told them to look around and see how many lives he touched. His goal was to make people laugh because that’s what Nunn would have wanted.

When Love is struggling, he’ll ask himself what Nunn would do. The answer is usually to put a smile on and to laugh.

“I just try to keep pushing in hopes that something great is going to happen one of these days,” Love said. * * * Love left Speedway and moved on to working in warehouses. First Amazon, then HomeGoods.

Quickly, Love realized the money wasn’t worth the work.

Love hates answering to other people, like he’s just a cog in the machine. He feels expendable, rushed to be as good as others too quickly, even though he’s never worked in a warehouse before.

“At the end of the day those people are just a number,” Love said.

He’s also afraid of the sustainability of that type of heavy lifting. His knees are fine after his two surgeries, but they may not be that good forever. The man who trained him at Amazon, who had been working in warehouses for 30 years, could no longer walk straight.

“I just try to keep pushing in hopes that something great is goin gto happen one of these days. ” DaVondre Love, former IU football player

He should be at home with his wife, Love thought. He should be enjoying his life.

Love doesn’t want to get to that point. He wants to do something meaningful, not lift boxes in a warehouse.

He sat down and brainstormed with his mom, trying to think of a purposeful career, something that falls under the umbrella of his minor.

“I was thinking more like being a cop,” Love said. “But I didn’t want to be in law enforcement whatsoever, which is funny because I mean, my minor was criminal justice.”

Originally, Love intended on getting a degree in education, and maybe coaching while he taught. But when the class schedule for education didn’t sync up with football, Love didn’t hesitate to push it aside for something else.

Brown-Rockett suggested he become a correctional officer, or something within social work.

Shortly after, he got a call from Mike Pechac, IU’s director

of player development. Pechac was a father figure for Love at IU, someone who was always checking in with him and talking about the future.

Often, the two would discuss Love’s future plans and goals.

Pechac told Love he would make a good correctional officer. * * * Pechac is a glimpse into what Love could be.

He played college football at Mount Union College, where he was a part of two national championship teams.

He graduated and started searching for a career. He coached high schools and colleges, got married and helped coordinate community events.

Finally, he came to IU, in a role where he helped young athletes like himself become accustomed to college football. He helps them set a path toward their future.

The players call him the team dad.

Thirty years ago, when he left Mount Union, Pechac never imagined he’d be working as a player development coach in college football. He’s come nearly full circle, to a position where he can share with the players the things that he was once told himself.

Pechac is a real father to three sons as well. Just as he would his own kids, he wants to check in on the athletes and make sure they’re doing alright.

He found a job he was passionate about, where he could help others. Now it’s where he’s directing Love.

“D-Love, that’s what we call him,” Pechac said. “He was just a great kid. I loved that relationship with him because we just talked about a lot of things. We just talked about life a lot, a lot of one-onones about what’s going on in life, how are you doing.”

Pechac works to help his players find something that motivates them in life. It may be money or it may be coaching, but he hopes his players find that light at the end of the tunnel.

So when he and Love talked about corrections, Pechac went to work.

Shortly after he left college, Pechac worked in the juvenile detention system himself. It was a part of his own journey between playing and coaching, and he thought a similar path might work for Love, too.

Since their conversation, Pechac has been trying to find someone who can make a connection.

Through his time coaching, Pechac has built circles around the country, connecting with coaches who have strong relationships within their community.

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drawn to being a correctional officer. For one, he likes watching prison shows.

His favorites are “60 Days In” and “Inside World’s Toughest Prisons.” But in those shows, the guards are hurting the inmates, not helping them grow.

Originally, he thought that he didn’t want to work in a jail or a detention center, but he realized he was looking at it the wrong way.

With social work, he can be the person who guides atrisk kids and helps improve their lives just by being someone that believes in them. He likes working with kids, which is part of the reason he originally wanted to be a teacher.

“I’m living proof that if you put your mind to something and you are willing to put in the work and do the right thing, you can get to where you want to go,” Love said.

“You don’t have to be a product of your environment.”

Love’s most recent job is in a sales position at Aldi.

He’s still far away from where he wants to be, but he’s figuring out what he doesn’t like.

Slowly, through trial and error, Love is piecing together a new dream.

As his mom puts it, he’s learning DaVondre.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 He’s been reaching out to people who know the reputation of IU’s program, hoping one can get Love’s foot in the door.

Pechac just wants others to find something they love, just like he has. For someone like Love, Pechac thinks that will include helping others.

“The only thing you can do for me is go help another kid,” Pechac said. “Go help another young person who’s went through the same struggles you went through. And if you do that, I’ll be more proud of you than anything.” * * * Love is still a long way from settling into a career. For now he’s just working jobs that pay, sometimes doing DoorDash.

He pauses, and takes the deep breath of a man lost in his ways. His dream died before it was supposed to.

“Basically, if I knew that football wasn’t going to work out for me, I would have put more time into exploring other options,” Love said.

But an idea is a good enough place to start.

There’s a few reasons he’s

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Then-fifth year DeVondre Love stands in between his brother Caleb Brown, left, and his half-brother D’Juan Nunn Jr., right.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

IU finds rhythm from three in win

By Grace Ybarra gnybarra@iu.edu | @gnybarra

The IU men’s basketball team defeated the University of North Alabama 87-52 in an all-around team effort Sunday afternoon, leading by as much as 39 points.

Despite 18 turnovers, the Hoosiers shut the Lions down on the defensive end totaling 41 defensive rebounds, seven blocks and forcing 18 turnovers. IU was led by sophomore Armaan Franklin, who recorded two career-highs with 19 points and five 3-pointers.

“I think it was just open looks, getting the rhythm, stepping into it with confidence,” Franklin said.

North Alabama went scoreless for the first four minutes of the game until sophomore forward Trayce Jackson-Davis was called for goaltending.

The Lions didn’t score their first field goal until the 14:56 mark.

While IU didn’t let North Alabama find the basket easily, IU couldn’t get much started on offense either in the first half.

The Hoosiers found ways to get to the free throw line, but shot just 12 from 22 from the line in the first half.

“We left a lot of points on the floor,” IU head coach Archie Miller said.

They also gave up 11 turnovers before halftime.

Miller said the team didn’t take care of the ball in transition and was too methodical on offensive against the zone.

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Junior guard Rob Phinisee scores a 3-point shot Dec. 13 at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. Phinisee scored eight of IU’s 87 points in the victory over the University of North Alabama.

Franklin stepped up to give everyone else the confidence to take those shots from beyond the arc, too.

Freshmen guards Anthony Leal and Khristian Lander followed and hit shots from 3-point range.

Since the schedule looks different than normal due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Miller said it’s been hard to get the freshmen the minutes they need to develop. But he said the four freshmen — Lander, Leal, Geronimo and Trey Galloway — did a really good job.

The four freshmen combined for 29 points.

“It is big for our confidence,” Leal said. “We are a deep team and we have really high aspirations, so we all know that it is bigger than just any one of us.

So, we are all just ready to get in and do what we can with the minutes that we are given.”

Miller said his team needs to be more than willing to shoot, and that’s what happened in the second half. IU attempted 33 3-pointers against North Alabama — which is more attempts than the team had in any game last year.

After putting away a 35-point win, the Hoosiers will now move onto the Crossroads Classic against Butler University and conference play. Miller said he doesn’t think any team in the country feels like they are where they need to be. He said these last few games have been a good reality check for his team and what they need to do to get better.

minute timeout, Franklin had the ball stolen from him, but he hustled back down to the other end of the court to block freshman guard Detalian Brown in transition.

Even when they couldn’t take care of the ball, the Hoosiers made up for it on defense.

A few minutes later, Franklin knocked the ball out of the Lions’ hands and pushed it in transition to senior guard Al Durham, who missed a contested 3-pointer.

The opportunities were there for the Hoosiers, they just couldn’t finish in the first half.

With just two seconds left in the half, IU had a shot clock violation, giving the ball back to North Alabama.

But freshman forward Jordan Geronimo picked off

the Lions’ inbounds pass and made a driving layup at the buzzer.

Franklin said Miller got into the team during halftime, saying 11 turnovers is unacceptable.

“He just lit a fire under us and made a big emphasis to just take care of the ball,” Franklin said. “Once we take care of the ball, we will get easy looks.”

And that’s what they did coming out into the second half. The Hoosier had 30 field goal attempts — 20 from 3-point range — in the second half.

Junior guard Rob Phinisee opened up the half with two 3-pointers in less than five minutes, after the team only made four in the first half.

Shortly after Phinisee found his rhythm, so did Franklin. He hit back-toback 3-pointers just before the under-12 minute timeout.

Miller said Phinisee and

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Some wear and tear, but very sturdy. rakhasan@indiana.edu

Small window air conditioner, like new. $100. aaghighi@iu.edu

Large, white tile full length mirror. $80. markinde@iu.edu

Electronics 13 in. MacBook Air, like new, $800. wpinheir@iu.edu

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Appliances Keurig k-select coffee maker. Like new. $55. naykang@iu.edu

How important it is for all of us, esp. parents and children, to understand the basic words of relationships (stranger, acquaintance, friend, companion, etc.) and how they develop to the next word in the process; also discover the background and meaning of the word family; plus how to work smarter in what we do each day for our times in which we live. All this and more from Timeseyes Publishing LLC in Bloomington, IN. Also check out their fun colorful vacationing boardgame, 3 contemporary live Nashville studio recorded music CDs for all ages and a very touching heartfelt Christmas story about Webster the pelican and how he and his friends were greatly protected from a tragedy occuring in nature, flying north for Christmas. This comes in either a reading or coloring booklet of hand drawn pictures in nature.

See all these and more at: www.timeseyes.org

ProForm 400i treadmill: like new and has speaker. $300. elsaren@iu.edu

PlayStation 4, barely ever used, $265. jjwadswo@iu.edu

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Motorola wireless earbuds, brand new, $60. neesingh@iu.edu

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Automobiles 2006 Ford Focus Zx4, 145k miles, clean Carfax, good cond. $2,750. hvtavern@iu.edu 2014 Maserati Ghilbli, 40,900 miles, great cond. $25,700. luojinh12@126.com

Instruments 61 Keys Electronic Keyboard with Stand.

Great cond. $75. abatwal@iu.edu

Honda Accord EX 2007 2.5V, 220K miles. No accidents. $3,500. zhao18@iu.edu

Apple Watch Series 3.

Gently used w/ the charger piece and box. $150. dajapalm@iu.edu Computer host 4K display w/ Razer keyboard logitech 502 mouse. $1,200. fanzili@iu.edu FITBIT Charge 3 for sale.

Two band colors incl. $100. shehodge@iu.edu GoPro Hero 5, excellent cond., $175. ylimchou@iu.edu

Now Leasing for Aug 2021 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 BR Houses, Townhouses and Apartments Quality campus locations

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iPad 4th generation, only minor wear. Great cond. $115. annaevan@iu.edu JBL Charge 3, great cond., $100. ylimchou@iu.edu

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Zoom • Feb. 24 • 11 a.m. — 1 p.m.

Stop by and enter the Grand Prize drawing by visiting the Zoom link of at least 5 individual housing vendors and collect their unique prize-entry codes.

The Grand Prize includes: $50 Azzip Pizza Gift Card, $25 Crazy Horse Gift Certificate & $25 Gift Card valid at SmokeWorks, Social Cantina, The Tap and Yogi’s Bar & Grill

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