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'World's Greatest College Weekend' falls silent, page 4 NFL DRAFT

IU guard selected in sixth round

By Caleb Coffman calcoffm@iu.edu | @CalCoff

RideOn rides century for Little 500

By Evan Gerike egerike@iu.edu | @EvanGerike

The RideOn women’s cycling team rode 100 miles Friday to commemorate the 100 laps they would have rode in the Little 500.

The century ride is four times as long as the 25-mile women’s race, which is also divided among four riders.

Junior rider Brooke Doxtator took over IU’s Instagram page to document her seven-hour journey in her hometown of Covington, Indiana.

“It went great,” Doxtator said. “I say that meaning I finished.”

Doxtator said the last 10 miles were the hardest she’s spent on the bike, but her year of training for the race helped tremendously.

“It’s a mental game, being by yourself,” Doxtator said. “Just listening to your thoughts and your body telling you you can’t, but you know you have to keep going.”

Doxtator said she had never

ridden a bike longer than 80 miles before this ride, and even that was indoors, without wind or distractions. Weather played a much bigger role outside. She said fog delayed the start of her ride by two hours.

She said she took plenty of breaks and made sure she wasn't off her bike for long. By taking too long of a break, fatigue catches up, and motivation disappears.

Doxtator came up with the idea to bike 100 miles and shared it with the rest of her team, who all immediately jumped on board.

“We were all looking forward to the race so much,” Doxtator said.

“We were looking forward to that challenge, and we didn’t want to just sit around on race day without getting active, getting on our bikes.”

RideOn had high hopes for this year’s race. The team finished in the top 10 in 2017 and 2018. In 2019, two RideOn cyclers broke their collarbones, one became sick and the team wasn’t able to compete. This

season was going to be their redemption — the riders were going to surprise everyone.

That opportunity was wiped out due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The team’s two returning riders, both seniors, saw their chance to finally ride in the Little 500 disappear. Doxtator was sitting on her couch in Bloomington when she got the email that it was canceled.

“I just started crying,” Doxtator said. “It was more out of frustration that I’d been training almost a year for something that isn't going to happen.”

Before any official word came out, the team was optimistic, believing Little 500 could still be held without spectators. Now, Doxtator realizes how unrealistic that was.

“We kind of knew it was coming, we just didn’t want to think about it,” Doxtator said. “We just wanted to keep training as if it was happening.”

Doxtator said the team lost motivation, but still tried to get on their bikes to stay in shape before

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Junior Brooke Doxtator prepares to start riding her bike. The RideOn women’s cycling team rode 100 miles Friday to commemorate the 100 laps of the Little 500.

coming up with the plan to ride the century.

Doxtator made a plan with her coach, Carl Field, for when to rest and what to eat. She carb-loaded before the ride and said she made sure to consistently drink water.

She ate Clif Bloks every thirty minutes during the ride for carbohydrate fuel.

She kept in touch with her team to make the ride easier, talking to teammates Kelly Garrison and Karly Sutton on the phone. Her teammates finished before her and texted her words of encouragement while she rode her last 10 miles.

“It was the most grueling day on the bike that I’ve had, but it was also somehow the most rewarding,” Doxtator said.

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Jacobs hires opera singer

By Joey Bowling

Hunter Bloomington Properties removed washers, dryers and other appliances Monday from three apartments in Bloomington where tenants have been unable or refused to pay rent, according to emails obtained by the Indiana Daily Student.

The washers and dryers were taken from tenants in the Bloom Apartments complex on South Adams Street because they haven’t paid April rent and haven’t responded to emails asking them to set up rent payment plans, according to the emails. After the IDS asked a Hunter Properties regional manager Tuesday afternoon about the removals and blowback on social media, the property management company walked back its decision and called it a mistake.

TVs and cable boxes were also removed from the apartments. Hunter Bloomington Properties reinstalled all the appliances Wednesday.

Hunter Properties regional manager Tracey Walker said the company regrets the decision to remove the appliances. Appliances were only removed from three tenants’ apartments in the Bloom Apartments complex who had not responded to emails concerning payment plans for unpaid rent, Walker said.

“We have tried very diligently to work with all of our residents on all of our properties to help them during this difficult time for all for them paying their rent,” Walker said.

“When we make a mistake, we're humble enough to admit it.”

Some tenants have also received notices for not complying with their lease, stating the company intends to file for evictions when Gov. Eric Holcomb’s eviction moratorium ends. The moratorium is scheduled to end when the state of emergency is lifted.

As the sixth round of the NFL Draft neared an end Saturday, IU offensive gaurd Simon Stepaniak was selected by the Green Bay Packers with the No. 30 pick, No. 209 overall. The Hoosiers have had a player drafted in each of the last seven years.

Stepaniak, 22, caught the attention of many teams at the NFL Combine in February, benching 37 reps in the 225-pound bench press, second only to Netane Muti from California State University, Fresno. However, the fifthyear senior couldn't participate in any drills during the combine after suffering an ACL tear in late December.

Stepaniak was hopeful he could showcase his progress in rehab to NFL teams during IU’s pro day before it was canceled due to the coronavirus. Despite these setbacks, Stepaniak said he is confident that he will be ready for the fall.

“My knee is progressing phenomenally,” Stepaniak said on a conference call after being drafted.

“The timeline as of right now is to be ready for camp, which is definitely promising. My rehab has been attacking it so there’s no letup on it, and it’s going really well.”

At IU, Stepaniak was a team captain and a three-year starter for the Hoosiers, starting in 31 games over his career. While anchoring the offensive line as a fifth-year senior and being named third-team AllBig Ten, he logged 458 snaps in pass protection and only allowed one sack and 14 total pressures, according to Pro Football Focus.

“There weren’t plays I was taking off last season,” Stepaniak said. “Just

By Lauren McLaughlin lrmclaug@iu.edu | @LaurenM30831042

“It would not be fair for us to provide essentially Indiana taxpayer money in subsidizing outof-state tuition,” Carney said.

But out-of-state tuition this summer will be less than it was in 2019, he said. IU has combined summer tuition and mandatory fees to create a per-credit cost, and mandatory fees have decreased by 20%. If students take 12 or more credit hours throughout the summer, they’ll receive a 10% discount.

In addition, the university has removed the late scheduling fee and late registration fee for summer classes to give students more flexibility. The late schedule fee

Professional opera singer Russell Thomas will start as an associate professor of music in voice for the Jacobs School of Music in Russell Thomas August.

Thomas will be teaching the applied voice class through one on one lessons with six students. He has not yet had a university teaching position. He said he is excited to teach at IU. “IU, for the school of music and for other reasons, is a historic school and one that is very notable,” Thomas said.

“It’s a great opportunity to teach at a school with such notoriety.”

Thomas is a graduate of New World School of Arts in Miami, Florida. He has performed in opera companies around the world, including the San Francisco Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Washington National Opera and the Canadian Opera Company, according to a statement IU released in March. Thomas said he has performed for more than 20 years.

"Students will learn directly from a practitioner and a pedagogue who has given great thought to the practice and the art of singing," Gwyn Richards, dean of Jacobs, said in the statement.

He will join 15 other members of the voice faculty.

Brian Horne, chair of the department of voice, said he hopes Thomas will bring his real-world experience to the department and to his students.

“His presence, his connections, his experience and his ability and

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Out-of-state tuition still applies after IU’s online move. Here’s why.

By Emily Isaacman eisaacma@iu.edu | @emilyisaacman

Mark Leib pays out-of-state tuition for his daughter, an incoming senior from Los Angeles, to attend IU. He's looking for help from IU to pay for his daughter’s two online summer courses — six credits — as his work in the live music industry has been paused amid the coronavirus pandemic.

So he wrote to IU President Michael McRobbie’s office April 10 to ask about cutting out-ofstate tuition completely this summer and partially for the academic year given the financial hardship families are facing.

“It would be the olive branch most parents are looking for,” Leib wrote.

Leib is one of many parents and students across the country who are asking universities for tuition changes or refunds. Class action lawsuits have been filed against at least five institutions for refunds on spring semester

tuition and fees, according to Inside Higher Ed. With students off campus, Leib said he doesn’t see a difference between his daughter attending classes from California and others taking classes in Indiana. He thinks the school should consider waiving out-of-state tuition for the summer sessions, which start May 12.

On the phone with the bursar’s office last week, Leib was told the office has been inundated with calls about concerns similar to his. The office has received 40-50 questions per week about tuition, and it estimates that makes up 8-10% of its total call volume, IU spokesperson Chuck Carney said in an email.

The in-state and out-of-state tuition distinctions are the same regardless of whether classes are in person or online, Carney said. Out-of-state tuition is more expensive because IU receives funding from the state , which comes from Indiana taxpayers.

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Tulips bloom at sunrise April 21 in front of the Sample Gates. Out-ofstate tuition distinctions will remain the same despite the effects brought on by COVID-19, according to IU spokesperson Chuck Carney.

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IU Health to reopen May 4 for surgeries

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IU helps with summer internships

By Shelby Anderson anderssk@iu.edu | @Shelby_Andy_

IU Health Hospitals plan to reopen for elective surgeries on May 4. Until then, the hospitals will be implementing steps, such as mask requirements, to ensure the patients with COVID-19 and the surgical patients are not cross contaminated, according to an Indiana Public Media.

The hospital will start out at 25% of its usual surgical capacity, IU Health Bloomington President Brian Shockney said in the release. When they feel confident that it is able to do that well it will consider increasing the amount of surgical patients.

By easing back into surgeries the hospitals will be able to test how many surgeries they can handle on top of the patients with the coronavirus .

They are doing this to help the patients who are living in pain every day whose surgeries have been backlogged, Shockney said in the article.

Gov. Eric Holcomb’s stay-at-home order postponed all elective surgeries until May 1.

Everyone who is entering a facility, both inpatient and outpatient, is required to wear a surgical or isolation mask, according to the IU Health website. Cloth masks are no longer allowed Visitors are only allowed in specific areas and situations during this time, including obstetrics and delivery, outpatient surgery, outpatient office appointments, inpatient surgery.

Patient caretakers, guardians for a minor patient and one legal guardian for a patient in Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health are allowed, according to the website.

For neonatal intensive care units and end-of-life, two designated visitors may be allowed.

All patients and visitors must be screened for the coronavirus.

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A car drives April 22, 2019, past the Monroe County Courthouse. Jennifer Schepers, director of the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs Career Hub, said students in the school are supposed to have 120 hours of internship credit through the school in order to graduate.

By Ben Price beprice@iu.edu | @bbenpprice54

The coronavirus pandemic has upended students’ summer plans.

Some jobs and internships were converted to remote work, and others were canceled altogether.

While people are seeking to adhere to social distancing guidelines, students are becoming concerned, as many are looking for internships or need them in order to graduate.

Jennifer Schepers, director of the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs Career Hub, said students in the school are supposed to have 120 hours of internship credit through the school to graduate.

She said when the semester went online, she worked with colleagues in the school and across the nation to come up with proj-

ects, such as conducting in-depth research and creating their own professional development plans, students could do to gain hours in place of internships.

Some students in SPEA have either had their internship offers rescinded or couldn’t find one in general due to the pandemic, Schepers said. She said for students who need to get their 120 hours of credit, there will be a class offered during the summer, fall and spring semester to help students develop skills they would ordinarily get in an internship. The class will also count toward their required 120 internship hours.

“The biggest parts of internships that are most important for students, is that they get that skill development and really enhance their resumes,” Schepers said. “In this class we are going to work really hard to help them develop

some of those skills.”

Schepers also said the school is partnering with Parker Dewey, an organization that connects college students with work opportunities, to advertise short-term, professional assignments called micro-internships, which will help students to work toward their 120 required internship hours.

Sarah Cady, an associate director of employer relations in the Walter Center for Career Achievement, said the center is taking steps to help ease stress of students regarding summer internships and employment after graduating.

Along with calling all of the College of Arts and Sciences graduating class to check in with them, she said the Center has created a now-hiring list on the Center’s website with up-to-date information on internship positions and

Friendships kept alive on Zoom,

IUPUI tests 5,000 in COVID-19 study

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IU-Purdue University Indianapolis began testing about 5,000 Hoosiers on Saturday for a study to measure the spread of COVID-19 in the state, according to an IU press release.

The testing is a collaborative effort between the Indiana State Department of Health and the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI. The IU team developed the scientific plan, will analyze the study results and interpret the data to the state.

“Having the ability to not only test the presence of this virus, but also to learn more about people who have been exposed in the past and might have antibodies that indicate past infection, will help us fine-tune our work to keep Hoosiers safe from this pandemic,” State Health Commissioner Dr. Kris Box said in the release.

The study will include random sample testing in phases for the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, according to the release. More testing phases will happen in May, October and next April, and the team expects to test at least 20,000 Hoosiers total.

Any members of the public could be randomly selected to participate to ensure the sampling represents the population. Participants do not have to show symptoms of the coronavirus to be chosen.

People who are selected will be notified by phone, email or mail and told to go to the testing site closest to their home if they choose to participate, according to the release. They will have a code to show at the testing site.

Testing will happen at eight fixed and 10 mobile sites around the state from Saturday to April 29 for this phase, according to the release.

The testing will include swabbing and blood drawing, according to the release. The swabs will be tested within 72 to 96 hours. Blood will be tested later for antibodies to see if an individual has had the coronavirus before.

“Data is key in guiding our response in the fight against COVID-19, and our partnership with Fairbanks School of Public Health researchers will provide high-quality information to help shape our decision-making,” Gov. Eric Holcomb said in the release.

full-time offers.

“I would tell students to get in touch with their career services office to help navigate through all of the searching,” Cady said. “Their offices are there to help.”

IU freshman Wade Fletcher said he knew finding internships was going to be a problem for students, so he created an aggregator, which is a database that has remote internship listings, called Covintern.

Fletcher said he posted the aggregator on Linkedin and found and uploaded the first 20 internship offers to the aggregator. Recruiters can email him to update the list or they can go into the website and directly list a job on it.

“At the time of the extended spring break, I still did not have an internship,” Fletcher said. “I knew that was a problem other students were going to experience too.”

Since the creation of Covintern, Fletcher has been hired to do software engineering remotely. He said he hopes Covintern will help other students to find internships as well.

“I’m glad I’ve been able to help people during this weird time,” Fletcher said.

IU freshman Owen Worple said his summer internship was canceled Wednesday. He was going to be working with individual startup companies.

“I wasn’t surprised the internship got canceled,” Worple said. “With everything going on, I thought it was coming.”

Worple said he is concerned, as he is at a loss of what to do this summer because there is only a little over a week before the end of the semester.

“I want to find a job, so I’m looking for another internship now,” Worple said. “I want to have something to do to put on my resume.”

International students adjust to new realities

By Wei Wang daviwang@iu.edu | @DavidWazman

When IU went online for the semester, international students had to quickly decide if and how to go home.

IU freshman Veer Singh soon booked his flight back home to Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, in India after the announcement.

“I had to make sure I had a seat on the flight back home,” Singh said.

“And at the same time, India was planning restrictions on travels from abroad.”

Singh arrived home on March 17. Five days later, India banned all inbound and outbound international flights. The travel ban is ongoing and there is a nationwide lockdown.

Roads are empty and people are not allowed to leave home unless they are an essential worker.

Singh said the pandemic gives people the opportunity to learn new things, exercise or read a book.

Although in a completely different time zone from Bloomington, Singh said he doesn’t have to wake up at crazy times for his online classes. His professors uploads recordings of lectures on Canvas, so he can watch them any time.

“I would still like inperson classes better because they are more interactive,” he said.

IU freshman Urawee Samanworakit’s trip back home to Bangkok, Thailand, took three flights

and two layovers. On the thirteen-hour flight with a friend from Chicago to Tokyo, she said she was frightened that she might catch the coronavirus.

Samanworakit said she feels happy to be home but has had trouble getting work done.

“When you’re pushed into a schedule, you’re more productive,” Samanworakit said. “But when I don’t have a schedule, nothing’s working out.”

Her parents continue to work, and so does her sister, who lives in downtown Bangkok. Samanworakit said she feels like everyone who is working right now is risking their lives.

“I just want to say thank you,” she said. “Because they don’t have a choice.”

IU freshman Amy Zhang decided to stay in Bloomington instead of going home to the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in China. One of the reasons was that she would be able to complete the rest of her semester in the same time zone as domestic students, but she also wanted to avoid the strict quarantining she would face if she traveled back.

“I would have to fly to Guangzhou. Once I touch down, it’s fourteen days of quarantine,” she said.

“Then I will fly back home to Inner Mongolia and it’s another fourteen days, as I flew back from Guangzhou. For a whole month, I’ll have nothing.”

Now, Zhang and her

boyfriend, IU freshman Mikhail Khvan, are staying at a subleased apartment at The Monroe. Although they feel content at their new home, they said the process of moving out of the residence hall was challenging. They had to move everything to the new apartment and couldn’t find help.

“That was a pretty dark period of time,” Zhang said. “Not even a friend would be willing to come out to help you. Not even if you pay them. I asked a lot of people, but none of them were willing. At the last minute, Zhang found a friend who offered to drive from Columbus, Indiana, to help.

The two said some of the most challenging experiences they’ve had come down to being Asian during the pandemic. At one point, Zhang and Khvan said they were refused service by an Uber driver because of their ethnicity.

“I was upset,” he said.

“Like, I mean, we are Asians – and so what?”

But life has begun to resemble some normalcy for Zhang and Khvan.

They go outdoors only three times a week, one of which is for groceries. They cook their own meals. Khvan sometimes plays online billiards with friends.

“Chill,” Zhang said.

“Calm down. Keep up with your routine. Keep doing classes. Life has to continue.”

The interview with Amy Zhang is translated from Chinese.

Most students can no longer see their college friends in person due to online classes and stay-at-home orders, and many have turned to virtual hangouts. From movie nights to making new friends, students are quickly adapting their everyday lives to a virtual world.

Senior Alexis Vonye Taylor and her friends would participate in Wing Wednesday at Brothers Bar and Grill. Now, they do Wing Wednesday over FaceTime.

“The last time I went out was Wing Wednesday, and I wanted to carry on the tradition,” Vonye Taylor said.

Three to five of her friends get on a call around 8 or 9 p.m. Sometimes, their friend Nick Tanzymore DJs, playing his signature set with songs such as “Cater 2 U” by Destiny’s Child. Vonye Taylor and her friends sometimes play games including truth or dare or “never have I ever.”

“If I knew the last time I partied would be the last time I partied, I would have partied a little harder,” Vonye Taylor said.

Junior Alexis Muñiz uses Zoom, FaceTime and Snapchat to keep up with his friends. He said he and eight of his friends share one person’s screen on Zoom to watch shows and movies together.

Recently, they’ve watched “Glee” and “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.”He said he liked both because they were very dramatic.

Muñiz said it’s fun, but it’s far from the same as watching something together in person.

“We talk sometimes, but it’s more about enjoying each other’s company,” he said.

“When you screen-share, it’s hard to hear people, so we did have to pause it to have conversations,” Muñiz said.

“In person, I make comments about the movie. They are great comments and I want them to hear them.”

Senior Paige Drane said she uses Snapchat and FaceTime to keep up with friends. She said regular conversations can be strained when not in person.

“It’s kind of difficult to maintain conversations, and the calls are not always as long if there’s not a sole focus of the conversation,” she said.

However, Drane said there are some advantages to the virtual hangouts. Anyone with an internet connection can join, and it’s easy to make connections with new people.

She said she’s even made some new friends remotely, one who enjoyed yoga and another who wanted résumé advice. Drane said her friends introduced them to her.

“There are so many connections to be made online,” she said.

Drane said talking to her friends online is even weirder because she’s a senior. The thought of not seeing her friends is sad, especially with graduation postponed.

“I was OK with online classes because I thought I was going to come back to campus,” Drane said. “I’m sad because my last opportunity with the people on campus that I had known for the past four years is gone, and I didn’t realize it would be my last moment with those people.”

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would usually charge students $8.60 per day to adjust their schedule two days or more after their initial registration, and the late registration fee can charge students at least $60.

In 2019, 56.3% of IU’s freshman class was Indiana residents, according to IU’s Office of Admissions. The remainder were from other U.S. states or other countries.

Daniel Hickey, a professor with the Learning Sciences program in IU’s School of Education, said there's no reason that tuition would decrease when classes move online. In fact, there are several arguments why costs would rise to account for added resources such as instructor support and educational consultants.

“Doing high-quality online teaching is a lot of work,” Hickey said.

Comparing IU’s tuition to the costs of universities that typically operate completely online would also be misguided, Hickey said. Many of these schools would be more accurately called “distance learning” rather than “online learning,” he said.

Distance learning programs are usually not interactive — they wouldn’t use Zoom meetings, online

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discussion forums or feedback from classmates and instructors like IU courses, he said.

Because the transition was forced toward the end of the semester, the educational experience now will likely differ from online learning during the summer, when the course format will be consistent from the start, Hickey said.

“It’s a pretty big shift,” he said. “We have to be patient.”

Public colleges nationwide are encountering financial difficulties as the coronavirus pandemic forces the U.S. into a recession. IU may request a $600 million to $1 billion line of credit in case of a revenue delay. The university will also receive more than $60 million from the Department of Education through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act. Still, Leib said he feels the school’s concessions seem like a Band-Aid on a wound.

The bursar’s office told him to take out a loan to pay for his daughter’s summer tuition. If nothing changes, he doesn’t think he’ll have another choice.

“I’m not looking for more debt,” Leib said. “I’m looking for some forgiveness.”

Editor's Note: The graphic in this story was updated to reflect a change in tuition costs for summer 2020.

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With the Packers, Stepaniak will likely play as a guard on the offensive line, but said he can play any of the three interior spots. While used almost exclusively as a guard for the Hoosiers, Stepaniak was originally slotted as a center until making the switch just before week one of his sophomore year.

The initial reactions were positive from analysts following Stepaniak being selected.

During the live broadcast of the NFL draft, NFL Network analyst Daniel Jeremiah said he believed Stepaniak could develop into a rotational lineman as a professional.

He had initial concerns about his technique after watch-

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Fifth-year offensive lineman Simon Stepaniak lifts sophomore running back Stevie Scott III on Sept. 21 at Memorial Stadium. Stepaniak was picked by the Green Bay Packers in the sixth round of the 2020 NFL Draft.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 just what he has learned from singing around the world will be accessible 100% to us,” he said.

Thomas said he will only have six students in his class instead of the traditional 18 so he can still perform.

“It’s going to be a bit of a juggling act,” he said.

The students will primar-

ing the game film, but after watching more, the fifth-year guard grew on him.

“He’s just really strong with his hands when he keeps them inside," Jeremiah said.

"When his hands get wide, he gets in trouble.”

For now, Stepaniak said he is eager to finish his rehab and prove himself to Green Bay on the field.

“I’m excited to give everything I have for this fanbase and for this team and for that locker room,” Stepaniak said. “I’m excited just to get to work.”

ily be graduate students, Horne said.

Thomas will eventually ease into a full-time position, Horne said. He said they hire faculty from the performance field who gradually decrease performance commitments so they can work their way up to the full class load.

“To hire the kind of people we want to hire, it’s impossible for them to just stop their career on a dime and

come here,” Horne said. “Everybody in that field has commitments that are going two or three years out.”

The applied voice class requires one hour instruction time per student, Thomas said in an email. He said when he is not available in person, he will be available virtually.

Horne said students should not worry about not earning enough hours or not

receiving enough instruction.

He said the music school is receiving a professional with real-world connections and that he thinks Thomas working his way up to a full-time position is a fair trade-off.

“I think there would be some people who would look at the situation and think, ‘Well, I don’t want a teacher who’s not here full time,’” Horne said. “They would be missing the point about that.”

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Walker defended the notices. He said it was within the company’s rights and in line with the governor’s order.

Tenant Rachel Jones' appliances were removed Monday.

Maintenance workers came into the apartment in hazmat suits and began work on removing her appliances. The washer and dryer were removed first. Next, maintenance workers unscrewing the TV from the wall, disconnecting cords as they went. The process took only 13 minutes, according to a video Jones sent to the IDS. Jones said she was unsure where she was going to do laundry. She could go to her boyfriend’s apartment, but it was communal. The laundromat was also an option, but it posed the same problem.

Jones' appliances were removed despite emailing the company April 5 to set a date to pay rent, according to emails sent between Jones and Hunter Bloomington Properties reviewed by the IDS. The company also asked for a note from Jones’ doctor to ensure the maintenance workers wouldn’t be exposed to COVID-19 when they removed the appliances.

Jones said she was especially annoyed that Hunter Bloomington Properties took her TV because she pays the electric bill. The washer and dryer were taken because the company pays the water bill

with the tenant’s rent, and Jones hasn’t paid it.

Jones sent an email to Hunter Bloomington Properties on Monday about her washer and dryer, saying the company was violating Indiana law, which requires landlords to provide and maintain various utility systems such as sanitation and plumbing. She also told the company she was planning to take legal action if her appliances were removed.

“Shaking down tenants under a global pandemic won’t keep you from getting sued,” Jones said in an email Monday.

The company’s reply

was brief, stating that maintenance employees would come get the appliances.

“Okay then we will see you in court,” the company responded.

Jones, 20, was working as a nanny for a Bloomington family, but when Holcomb’s stay-at-home order went into effect March 24, she lost her job. She said she’s been working online to help pay bills.

She was planning to pay rent Wednesday, but now Jones is withholding rent in solidarity with the tenants who can’t pay, she said. She’s also helping organize a rent strike to bargain with Hunter

Bloomington Properties.

Jamie Sutton, executive director of the local low-cost legal team Justice Unlocked, said after looking at a Hunter Bloomington Property tenant’s lease, he’s sure what the company did is illegal. There was no provision or clause in the document giving them power to take away appliances for not paying rent.

Sutton said by reinstalling the appliances, Hunter Bloomington Properties will most likely avoid a lawsuit.

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By removing people’s means of doing their laundry, it would force people to go to public laundromats or friends’ and families’ apartments, Abplanalp said. They could easily be exposed to the coronavirus depending on how frequently tenants do their laundry or where they go to do it.

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A Hunter Bloomington Properties sign stands in the grass April 6 outside Bloom Apartments.

Hunter Bloomington Properties removed washers, dryers and other appliances Monday from three apartments in Bloomington where tenants have been unable or refused to pay rent.

Abplanalp said he can see both sides of the situation when it comes to tenants paying rent and landlords needing it. On one hand, lots of people are unable to afford rent. On the other hand, mortgages, bills and maintenance doesn’t stop in a pandemic.

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‘World’s Greatest College Weekend’

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Top Bill Armstrong Stadium sits empty on the day the 70th Men’s Little 500 was supposed to race. On March 15, race director Andrea Balzano announced that men’s and women’s races were canceled for the first time in history due to COVID-19 concerns.

Bottom left Two riders ride around the track April 25 at Bill Armstrong Stadium. While the 2020 Little 500 race was canceled, riders found their own ways to celebrate the weekend.

Bottom right The scoreboard stands at the back of the empty track Saturday at Bill Armstrong Stadium. Fans and riders were forced to stay home this Little 500 weekend amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Riders Women’s Army ROTC bike eligible team loses opportunity to race next year

By Audrey Hausberger

auhaus@iu.edu | @AudreyHausberg1

By Tyler Tachman ttachman@iu.edu | @Tyler_T15

The 2019-20 Little 500 season will not be counted as a year of eligibility for riders, according to an email sent by race director Andrea Balzano on Thursday.

One year of eligibility is lost when a student is listed on a team’s qualification list or final four race day list, according to the 2020 Little 500 Manual. Since this year’s qualifications and races were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, riders didn’t use one of their four years of eligibility.

Seniors have the ability to return next year to participate in the race. However, athletes who have graduated are considered ineligible to compete with the exception of international students who are completing a one-year exchange program as an undergraduate.

In order to exercise their extra year as a rider, athletes would need to be scheduled to graduate in May 2021 or later.

“Little 500 riders are students first and athletes second,” Balzano said in the email to riders and coaches. “It is the hope of IUSF that you continue on with your path to graduation as planned.”

April 24 would’ve been race day. It would’ve been the day the cadets on the women’s Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps bike team raced in their first Little 500.

Despite early morning cycling sessions, Army training sessions, a case of mono, a broken nose, a concussion and a hip injury, the allrookie women’s Army ROTC Little 500 team was fully prepared to race before the cancellation of “The World’s Greatest College Weekend” was announced March 15.

Sophomore Josephine Froelich began to organize the team in the fall with help from her fellow cadets and was later named captain by her teammates. The rookie cadets reported to the higher ranking senior cadets and the cadre members to ask for permission and assistance in forming a team.

The cadre members actively serve and are stationed in Bloomington to run the IU ROTC program.

Froelich had help from their coach, Rob Mathioudakis, a former ROTC cadet who rode for Black Key Bulls when they won the men’s Little 500 in 2017.

Together, they led five freshmen cadet riders, Kaye Terryberry, Bret King, Sara Grossniklaus, Marisa PatelO’Connor and Lauren Alexander, through training for would have been the first women’s Army ROTC team in the race since 2005.

Froelich also led one

non-ROTC member, freshman Ashley Alcala, through her first Little 500 training experience as well. Froelich said Alcala was the first rider she recruited to the team because she said she knew Alcala would put in the work to train. Both knew each other from the Arabic flagship class that they had together.

“It’s a real honor to lead these girls because they are all super strong and super dedicated,” Froelich said before the races were canceled. “It’s a really great feeling to say this is my team, and we are here to represent ROTC.” Training for the race brought challenges. Injuries were so prevalent with this team that Terryberry said one of the cadre members referred to it as “the death team.”

Froelich would have been unable to ride in the bike race due to her case of mono she contracted after winter break. She had a fever for the whole month of February, and the weekend before rookie week, her doctor told her she could not participate in any physical activity.

Her doctor warned that any physical activity could rupture her enlarged spleen.

Froelich was unable to finish any of the required 17.5 riding hours.

“I was really disappointed, but there’s nothing you can do about it,” Froelich said.

Froelich was not the only teammate who wouldn’t have been able to race. A

hip injury early in the fall semester during Alexander’s ROTC training would have also prevented her from competing.

King was concussed during rookie week after she was cut off by another rider on the track. She fell head first from her bike into a gutter.

“It was a little dangerous, not going to lie,” King said with a smirk across her face.

Patel-O’Connor broke her nose after a faulty bike exchange. Both she and King would have been able to recover in time to race.

Women’s teams have ridden under Army sponsorship in years past, but an ROTC sponsorship has been absent for the last 15 years.

Since 2014, no women’s Army team has qualified for the Little 500.

Chester Ciudad is the human resource assistant for IU ROTC and started working with the ROTC program in 2011. He said this would have also been the first time since he joined that female cadets have been allowed to race.

While the team was training as a rookie team for the Little 500 race, it also carried the pressure of riding under the Army ROTC name.

“Since we are branded as Army ROTC, we have a name to live up to,” King said. “It is not easy coming in as an all-rookie team and already having that label high above our heads to perform at our ultimate level.”

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Little 500 was doomed even before we faced a pandemic Patrick McKay is an IU senior in biology.

On March 15, IU was officially notified that the Little 500 was canceled.

Although it was a shock to most, those of us in the community have been preparing for this all year.

It is important to know that the Little 500 is more than just two days in April.

The races are the highlight of the year for the students and fans. For riders and IUSF volunteers though, there are numerous events that happen in the fall and the beginning of the spring that add to the Little 500 experience. This was especially true this year: It is not only IU’s bicentennial year, but it also would have been the 70th running of the men’s race. No small feat.

The sad truth of the matter is, as riders, we have grown accustomed to let downs this entire year. As a member of Rider’s Council, it is our job to teach and aid rookies as they learn to ride on the track safely. A huge part of this is completed in the fall race series and skills clinics.

Whether it was poor planning or just a complete lack of common sense by those in charge, the construction at Bill Armstrong Stadium over the summer caused sand and debris to be mixed in with the cinders on the track. This made it so that when it was wet, it felt like riding through deep

mud. Due to these unrideable track conditions, we were forced to cancel all of these critical events.

With the Little 500 community incredibly upset from all of these complications, it would have been nice to ease their minds and let them know that there was a plan in place to make sure the spring went off without a hitch. There was no plan, and if there was, we were not privy to it. Furthermore, there was no sense of urgency by those in charge to rectify the situation.

Rider’s council was left completely in the dark as to whether the track would be fixed in the spring. So I and many others were left thinking at the end of the fall semester, “Is the race even going to happen?”

Rookie Week was met with even more complications. This is the last chance for rookies to gain experience of crucial skills on the track that will be utilized in a matter of weeks. Once again, the construction hindered our ability to teach effectively.

There was no running water, therefore no bathrooms or ability to fill up water bottles. Construction hit a line, causing the track lights to be inoperable for days. Without the lights, we could not safely hold the late sessions and were forced to teach inside.

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Newlyweds Briana and Garrick John share a laugh April 4 during their wedding. The couple eloped in their friend’s backyard.

Couple elopes after canceling wedding due to COVID-19

By Lauren McLaughlin lrmclaug@iu.edu | @LaurenM30831042

Among a myriad of postponements and cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, one engaged couple in Monroe County found a way to still have their wedding day.

Briana John, formerly Briana Tomlinson, and Garrick John told the IDS in March that they considered postponing their April 4 wedding until July. Instead, they decided to elope on their original date.

Briana said they decided to elope after they found out they could not have their wedding at their venue with their original guest list of 114

people. They planned to do an elopement ceremony with about 40 guests, but that fell through as well.

Their solution was a smaller ceremony in their neighbors’ backyard with about 14 attendees, including parents, the officiant and a few other relatives. Briana said they also made the decision because they still wanted to get married on April 4.

“It was still our special day,” Briana said. “It was more just for us.”

Their officiant was Garrick’s long-time best friend, Logan Moscrip, who said they have known each other since they were about seven or eight.

He said Garrick asked him

to officiate for the original wedding on the day of the proposal.

“I was more than grateful to do it,” Moscrip said. “Having the honor to marry them and kind of help on their journey to do all this, I thought that was pretty amazing.”

Moscrip said despite the trimmed guest list, the ceremony went well.

“It was still outside and very beautiful,” he said. “Either way, it was pretty good.”

Briana said she loved the way the wedding turned out.

“It was actually the most fun, blooper-filled, genuine time ever,” she said.

She said the yard had a small, beautiful pond. They decorated the area with

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rose-gold-painted wine bottles with flowers in them.

There was an arch adorned with eucalyptus and curtains. They set up an aisle with a sheer aisle runner, but it was too windy for either the arch or aisle to stay down by themselves.

“I guess my parents put it down, and it started flying away, and they started throwing my bottles on top of it,” Briana said of the makeshift aisle.

They suspected there would be rain because it started sprinkling that morning, she said.

“The sun actually popped out right for the ceremony and all of the pictures,” she said. “It was really nice and

warm.”

The couple planned for the elopement ceremony to be casual, but Briana decided to surprise everyone.

“I kind of had my first bridezilla moment just because I was a little sad I wasn’t going to get to wear my dress,” she said. “I ended up actually wearing my dress and surprising all the parents with it.”

Garrick did not expect the dress either.

“I was really happy to see her,” he said. “She was really, really pretty in the dress.”

Garrick said they were concerned about inviting people during the pandemic, but they asked their guests if they had felt sick in the past 14 days. Everyone they asked did

not show symptoms, Briana said.

Briana said they plan to do a mock ceremony and gathering for other family members and friends when possible.

Even though the ceremony was not what was expected and the couple had limited guests, she said it was fun.

“Given the circumstances, I was actually really okay that it turned out the way it did,” she said.

Briana said now that they are married, they are excited for the next chapter. Garrick said married life has been awesome so far.

“I love being married,” he said. “I wouldn’t change it for the world.”

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Reopening Indiana on May 1 is Governors’ decisions affect who dangerous. Holcomb must do more first. lives. Pay attention to state politics.

Christian Sayers (he/him) is a senior in mathematics and economics.

Gov. Eric Holcomb announced Friday that Indiana’s stay-at-home order would be extended from its original end date of April 22 to May 1.

Indiana’s caseload and death count continues to rise, with more than 12,400 cases and 660 deaths as of Wednesday. Though some Hoosier voices, such as Rep. Trey Hollingsworth, have called for an end to social distancing, ending the stayat-home order in early May would be a disaster for the state.

Before Indiana reopens, we need stronger containment strategies, including face mask requirements and expanded testing.

Given the uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, many Americans have turned to statistical models in order to understand when their state may face the brunt of the virus.

The University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation provides one of the most influential COVID-19 predictive models. Even the White House has cited it. The model suggests Indiana likely has already reached its peak in daily deaths.

But this forecast can be misleading.

The model assumes that Indiana continues heavy social distancing through May 20 and makes tests widely available. However, Holcomb’s current order only lasts until the beginning of the month, and Indiana has not met the testing assumptions, rendering the forecast unreliable.

Not even Indiana officials agree with IHME’s projected timing of the peak. At an April 13 press briefing, State Health Commissioner Kristina Box said she expects a peak in Marion County at the end of April and in the rest of the state in early May. Holcomb has been issuing the stay-at-home extensions in two-week intervals, and he may do so again. But Holcomb also stated in a press briefing Thursday that he thinks the state would be ready to reopen in early May. The research is clear that reopening the state on May 1 would endanger Hoosier lives.

A March study from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine studied the effects of social distancing in Wuhan, China — the

site of the first major COVID-19 outbreak. One of its results indicated that lifting restrictions would lead to a dangerous secondary surge.

I’m sympathetic to those who want to get the economy moving again. After all, more than 22 million Americans lost their jobs in four weeks, according to U.S. unemployment data.

But prematurely ending the stay-at-home order is not the way to address economic concerns. Instead, Holcomb and state officials need to implement stronger containment strategies.

One such suggestion is a state order that mandates wearing face masks in public.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends wearing face masks in public to help slow the spread of the virus.

But face masks are only recommended, not required, in Indiana. Other states such as New York and Pennsylvania are requiring citizens to wear face masks when venturing into businesses or in the close proximity of others.

Indiana should do the same.

Holcomb should also push to more aggressively test Indiana citizens. Harvard University researchers estimated last week that a minimum of 152 tests per 100,000 people per day need to be conducted before the economy can safely reopen.

Over the last week, In-

diana has tested about 45 people per 100,000 per day — less than one-third of the level necessary to ease social distancing.

The state’s testing guidelines require individuals to meet strict criteria to be tested, including showing serious symptoms. Indiana needs to loosen these restrictions in order to test more citizens.

More tests will also allow us to conduct contact tracing — identifying who else may have been infected by someone with a positive COVID-19 diagnosis. Techniques such as these will greatly improve our ability to contain the virus.

Increasing testing capacity will allow us to safely reopen faster. To achieve higher capacity, Holcomb will need to secure more testing kits.

Holcomb can follow in the footsteps of Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, who announced April 20 a push to greatly increase the testing capacity of his state, including 250,000 new tests in the “coming weeks.” Holcomb can do the same by expanding public-private partnerships with businesses such as Eli Lilly.

An extension of the stayat-home order to May 1 will not defeat COVID-19. We need stronger containment strategies before we can safely open the state. casayers@iu.edu

Allyson McBride (she/her) is a sophomore in English and political science.

The coronavirus is a global threat, but most COVID-19 responses in the U.S. are led by state and local governments.

A bipartisan group of Midwestern governors, including Gov. Eric Holcomb, announced Thursday it will be working together. Northeastern and western states have also formed coordinated response efforts.

State politics should not be overlooked. Governors’ choices to issue stay-at-home orders and work with other states have a tremendous influence on the outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ideally, state and local policies allow responses to be tailored to meet specific areas’ needs, but in some areas, ideology and political expediency seem to be playing a bigger role than science.

Eight Republican governors have resisted implementing statewide stay-athome orders. These states are showing signs of trouble, and that trouble is not going to stay within state lines.

Some of these states without stay-at-home orders could be transforming into coronavirus hot spots. There was a 53% increase in cases in Oklahoma, 60% in Arkansas, 74% in Nebraska, 82% in Iowa and 205% in South Dakota over the past week, according to Johns Hopkins Univer-

sity. These may be underestimates of the actual number of infections due to low levels of testing.

While these rural states are less densely populated than many others being hit the hardest, such as New York, these outbreaks can still lead to disaster in small communities.

The rest of the country is heavily dependent on agriculture and manufacturing located in the heartland.

Inaction by governors in these states could lead to increased prices or widespread food shortages. In Iowa, for example, two Tyson food processing plants have been closed due to outbreaks that led to the deaths of at least two workers. If this becomes a trend, the whole country could face the consequences as food supplies run short.

Statewide orders are important because personal responsibility is not enough to keep people home.

California was the first state to implement a stayat-home order on March 19, and it appears to be flattening the curve of infections.

The number of daily cases has decreased, and the expected peak of the outbreak was moved two weeks earlier, according to models from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

Governors are now deciding when they will lift the stay-at-home orders. President Donald Trump claimed

he would decide when the economy would reopen last Monday, only to walk back his statement the next day after constitutional experts warned that stay-at-home orders were under the states’ jurisdiction.

“The President has no formal legal authority to categorically override local or state shelter-in-place orders or to reopen schools and small businesses,” University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck tweeted.

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday that beaches in Florida could begin to open with social distancing guidelines in place. Hundreds of people were at the beaches the next day, and photos of crowded beaches appeared on social media.

The Trump administration released guidelines Thursday for states to reopen their economies. The administration recommended that before this process begins, there should be a decline in COVID-19 cases over a two-week period, a testing program in place for highrisk health care workers and enough protective gear and supplies at the state level to treat patients.

The health and economies of neighboring states are closely intertwined.

People might travel across state lines for work, visiting friends and family or shopping, which could potentially spread the coronavirus. It’s vital that states work together to make sure everyone is safe.

However, the federal government can’t make governors do this, just like governors can’t be forced to issue or lift stay-at-home orders.

Many of the decisions that will arguably affect you the most are being made by your governor.

This demonstrates the importance of state elections.

Indiana is one of 11 states with gubernatorial elections this fall. COVID-19 will likely continue to play a major role in politics as concerns about a second wave are rising.

This makes candidates like Dr. Woody Myers, the Democratic former Indiana state health commissioner, attractive because an understanding of the medical field will be crucial for governing in the foreseeable future.

It’s important to research candidates and vote in state elections, especially during a pandemic. The person elected governor will make decisions that could mean the difference between life and death for you or a loved one.

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Monroe County should mail absentee ballots to all residents Ian Nowlin (he/him) is a sophomore in law and public policy.

The Indianapolis CityCounty Council passed an ordinance last week giving $1.1 million to mail absentee applications and ballots for primary elections to all of Marion County’s 645,000 registered voters.

Monroe County is encouraging voters to vote by mail, but the county’s Board of Elections has not decided if it will mail absentee applications and ballots to every registered voter. In-person voting in Monroe County is still scheduled to occur on June 2 with early voting starting May 26.

Protecting public health during this crisis is paramount, but we cannot allow our democracy to fall by the wayside. The Monroe County Council should mail absentee applications and ballots to all registered voters in the county to ensure that voters and our democracy are protected.

Free and fair elections cannot occur if elderly and immunocompromised voters have to risk their lives to vote in person — or if young-

er voters have to decide between voting and possibly infecting a relative.

Contested races on the primary ballot in Monroe County include Democratic races for Indiana’s 9th U.S. Congressional District, Indiana State Senate and Monroe County Council.

In ordinary times, American voters face long lines and lost wages from taking time off work to vote in elections. Without fundamental reforms, these hurdles will only be intensified by the presence of an airborne pathogen such as the coronavirus.

“We are highly considering mailing absentee ballot applications to all eligible voters,” said Monroe County Election Supervisor Karen Wheeler.

Mailing absentee applications and ballots to the nearly 100,000 registered voters in Monroe County would guarantee all residents have an equal opportunity to exercise the right to vote without risking infection.

Before Monroe County allows in-person voting it must learn lessons from the Wisconsin primary. Wisconsin continued with in-

person voting for its primary election two weeks ago, and since then, at least seven people have contracted the coronavirus through voting or volunteering at polling places. One person with COVID-19 is likely to infect two others, even without showing symptoms.

Wisconsin’s infections could have been prevented if a comprehensive vote-bymail system was in place.

At the Monroe County Board of Elections meeting Monday, board members expressed wishes to avoid the chaos and public health risks that occurred in Wisconsin.

The board will meet privately Wednesday to work on lowering the number of poll sites from the originally planned 34, Wheeler said.

But this would lead to long lines and crowds at polling sites if the county fails to encourage enough people to vote-by-mail.

Even if the polling sites comply with the recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including disinfecting voting machines and keeping voters six feet apart, a simple oversight by a poll

worker could allow COVID-19 to spread.

The county does not have a concrete number of poll workers.

“I believe that we will have less poll workers because a lot of my poll workers are 65 and older,” Wheeler said.

The consensus at the meeting of the Monroe County Board of Elections on Monday was that an entirely vote-by-mail system is worth pursuing — but only if it is affordable.

Hal Turner, the Republican chair of the Board of Elections, said at Monday’s meeting that he estimates mailing and tracking absentee ballots could cost the county between $300,000 and $400,000. Turner added that without tracking the ballots it would cost substantially less.

Wheeler said that to mail every registered voter in Monroe County an absentee application, the postage alone would cost up to $50,000.

The Monroe County Council has already allocated $230,000 in its 2020 budget to absentee and early voting, as well as $189,668

for a general emergency fund.

The county can draw from emergency funds to make up for some additional costs.

Congress could also help states finance vote-by-mail elections. The CARES Act gave Indiana over $9.5 million to help administer voteby-mail elections, according to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Hopefully more aid will be given in the future.

The state and county governments have constitutional and moral obligations to administer free and fair

elections despite the circumstances. The health risks to voters and poll workers should outweigh any shortterm financial costs.

The question facing the Board of Elections and the Monroe County Council is no longer of feasibility, but of political courage.

COVID-19 does not discriminate along party lines, which is why Democrats and Republicans must come together to ensure the right to vote in fair elections is upheld in Monroe County. ianowlin@iu.edu

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Freshman Bret King rides during training for Little 500 on March 14 at Bill Armstrong Stadium. King was one of five freshmen training on the women’s Army ROTC Little 500 team.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 Grossniklaus said that once other teams associate them with being from the Army, they automatically become intimidated because of the physical reputation of an Army cadet. However, the team comes from various athletic backgrounds including powerlifting, boxing, rowing and soccer.

They combated this perception from other teams even though the race was just as new to them as other rookies.

The team did not see its cadet status as an advantage over other teams, but

its army training and Little 500 training complemented each other.

“Here we are in this one program where you are expected to be above and beyond as an athlete,” Terryberry said. “You come into this competition for biking, but just because you can run a fast two miles does not mean you can ride a bike really fast.”

Perhaps the biggest connection between the two styles of training was endurance. The rookies said both workouts tested their endurance levels and built upon each other.

For three days each week, the cadets had physical training where they had

to be in formation at 5:45 a.m. They would finish body weight workouts by 7 a.m. that consisted of exercises such as pushups, burpees and squats. Froelich said sometimes they would also be required to run up to five miles.

To counteract the demanding workouts, the cadets used stretching to take care of their bodies.

“ROTC is very aware of injury prevention and taking care of your bodies,” Froelich said. “So they work us hard, but then they make sure we are okay.”

On Thursdays, the cadets have a lab day where they train near the cross-country courses by the new hospital

being built and work on tactical skills and missions. One of their lab day trainings involved a game of paintball.

For the cadets’ Little 500 workouts, Mathioudakis designed workouts around their ROTC training. Most of the time was spent on the bikes. If they were not on the bikes, the team was doing core and short sprints.

“It has been a great learning experience with learning how to balance our life with the Army, our academics and the Little 5 while not over doing it,” Terryberry said.

Despite all the challenges it juggled, including the cancellation of the race, the team is excited for a second

attempt to qualify. There’s more time for the riders to focus on their fitness and the skills they learned during rookie week. Froelich said the team is maintaining a positive attitude.

While this rookie team will not be competing this spring, Froelich said every woman who was planning to race this year is ready to put in the work again for next year’s race.

“I think for us, we have to keep in the back of our heads that we are a rookie team, and that is OK,” Froelich said. “With all the things that come with being new, you need to figure it out together and not stress about winning first.”

be taught on the track, not through a PowerPoint.

Rider’s Council proposed a number of options in order to use the daylight we had to get both the men and the women out on the track.

All were shot down, and we were again left in the dark.

Now that some time has passed, I have thought about how this might have actually been a good thing. With so many unprepared rookies, the field would have been especially hazardous this year. Although crashes are a part of the race, our chances of minimizing and mitigating them were eliminated throughout the year.

The races were supposed to take place this Friday and Saturday, and if you go to Bill Armstrong Stadium now, the only thing you will be met with is a sea of construction.

They were never going to have the new stands completed by the race, and I can only imagine how the coverage would have looked: The camera following the riders in the back stretch, and all that can be seen is a mess of a construction.

This doesn’t seem very fitting for such a monumental year. The coronavirus might have taken away the race, but those in charge took away much more.

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To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Today is a 9 — You’re especially clever over the next few weeks, with Mercury in your sign.

Make solid plans. Share and express your arts.

Your creativity seems boundless.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Today is an 8 — Expand your territory. Connect with your partner on a deeper level, with Mercury in Taurus. Creative brainstorming produces exciting results. Talk about shared goals.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Today is a 7 — You’re especially practical, introspective and quiet, with Mercury in Taurus.

Resolve old messes and disagreements. Listen to your dreams. Think before speaking. It’s profitable.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Today is a 9 — Work with health and fitness experts for maximum performance, with Mercury in Taurus for three weeks. Balance mind, body and spirit. Build strength and endurance.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) Today is a 9 — Take charge. Communication and collaboration come easily, with Mercury in Taurus. You work especially effectively with groups. Your friends are there for you. Coordinate and connect.

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Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is a 9 — Make profitable deals over three weeks, with Mercury in Taurus. Accept more responsibility. Your communication skills advance your career. Discuss what you want to achieve.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is an 8 — Teamwork wins. Fall in love with a fascinating subject, with Mercury in Taurus for three weeks. Dream of distant shores.

Pay attention to long-distance connections.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Today is a 9 — Take care of business. Cash flow increases into shared accounts through communication channels, with Mercury in Taurus. Brainstorm financial strategies. Coordinate your collaboration.

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Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Today is an 8 — Express your love. Passion surges over several weeks, with Mercury in Taurus. Creative collaboration carries you away.

Share your heart with someone dear.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is an 8 — Rest to reduce stress. Fix up your place, with Mercury in Taurus. Talk with family about home changes you’d love. A little paint works wonders.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Today is an 8 — Focus on a passion. Follow a fascination over three weeks, with Mercury in Taurus. Write reports, posts and articles. Share the news. Express your heart.

Aries (March 21-April 19) Today is an 8 — Household issues require attention. You’re going through a financially savvy phase for three weeks, with Mercury in Taurus. Profitable ideas abound. Make lucrative connections.

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Damezi Anderson to enter transfer portal

By Matt Cohen mdc1@iu.edu | @Matt_Cohen_

IU sophomore forward Damezi Anderson announced Thursday he will be entering the NCAA Transfer Portal in an Instagram post.

“I want to say thank you to my brothers, all the managers and the coaching staff for allowing me to be apart of an amazing University,” Anderson wrote in his Instagram post. “After some long talks and coming to an agreement as a family, we feel that entering the Transfer Portal is what’s best for us, Love Hoosiers.”

Anderson came to IU as a four-star recruit by 247Sports from South Bend, Indiana.

He is the leading scorer in South Bend and St. Joseph County basketball history.

He averaged 1.5 points per game as a freshman for IU, playing sparingly toward the bottom of IU’s rotation aver-

aging 9.6 minutes per game.

Anderson was anticipated to make big improvements during his sophomore year as a forward who could become a reliable 3-point shooter.

That never happened.

Anderson’s sophomore year started with promise in November as he scored double-digit points in two of IU’s first three games. After a strong start, Anderson’s production dropped off exponentially, and his playing time virtually stopped.

After scoring two points in IU’s Dec. 10 win over the University of Connecticut, Anderson didn’t make a shot for the rest of the season. His playing time drastically decreased at the start of 2020, dropping by roughly seven minutes per game during the new year. He didn’t play in any of IU’s final seven games.

Anderson played two minutes and missed his only shot in a Feb. 16 loss to Michigan

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Then-freshman forward Damezi Anderson guards a Chicago State player in 2018. Anderson announced Thursday on Instagram he was entering the transfer portal.

in his final appearance as a Hoosier. .

Anderson’s departure leaves just two players

— sophomores Rob Phinisee and Jerome Hunter — left from IU’s 2018 recruiting class, which was ranked top

10 in the country. IU now has two scholarship spots available for next season’s roster. IU five-star class

of 2021 commit Khristian Lander would fill one of those spots should he successfully reclassify.

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