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Former members of Hope Presbyterian Church in Bloomington allege abuse, cover-up Content warning: This article includes descriptions of sexual harassment and abuse.

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The founding pastor of Hope Presbyterian Church was charming and charismatic, many agree on that much.

Several former members of the Bloomington church said those traits enabled Dan Herron, their pastor, to abuse his power.

Some say he sexually harassed them, while others allege exploitation and intimidation.

Seeking justice within the church’s government, five accusers wrote a letter in 2019 to the Central Indiana Presbytery outlining allegations against Herron. None of the accusers brought the allegations to police, citing low conviction rates for sex crimes and fear of retraumatization. The Presbytery’s court system has the power to revoke Herron’s ordination and prevent him from working within the Presbyterian Church in America again, but it has no legal authority.

An Indiana Daily Student reporter

reached out to Herron over the phone and offered to provide him with a list of allegations, which Herron declined.

In a written statement to the Indiana Daily Student after the phone call, Herron said, “With regard to the specific accusations brought against me that I am aware of, I strongly and unequivocally deny any wrongdoing attributed to my actions, words, motivations, and character.”

To report this story, the IDS spoke to three accusers — Abigail Harris, Kara Million and her husband Chris Baker — and reviewed documents including church court files and emails.

Million said she has met or spoken to at least 10 other people with various accusations of abuse against Herron since sending the original letter. Those accusers, mostly couples, made their allegations anonymously to the church’s government. Million and Harris, who know their identities, said the anonymous accusers did not wish to be identified to the IDS to be contacted for comment.

Nearly two years after the investigation into Herron’s alleged abuse began, the PCA’s

highest court called for the CIP to restart the investigation process.

Herron’s accusers believe the initial investigation, which closed in February 2020 and found Herron had “no strong presumption of guilt,” was intentionally mishandled to protect him.

A spokesperson for the CIP said he could not comment for this story because the new investigation, which began in February, is ongoing. Every person named in this story and each member of the original investigation commission was contacted several times for comment. Most of the 14 people contacted did not respond, and most of those who did said they could not comment because of the ongoing investigation.

Bob O’Bannon, who was the chair of the initial investigation, responded to “emphatically deny that there was any coverup by the commission.”

The Sunday after the IDS reached out for comment but before this story was published, a Hope member told the IDS there had been a congregation meeting earlier that day where Hope leaders made congregants

aware of this story. According to that member, the Hope leadership did not confirm nor refute any of the allegations in this story at the meeting.

The next CIP meeting is on May 14, where there will be a vote on whether there is enough evidence against Herron to move to trial. If the committee does not find sufficient evidence against him, Herron will be exonerated in the church’s government for good.

Because of his role as an elder in the CIP, Herron can vote on all investigations — even those into his actions. Women, however, are not allowed to be elders and thus cannot vote.

Herron resigned from Hope in January 2020 but retains his role as an elder. He is still ordained as of early May. Herron began a yearlong, paid sabbatical after resigning.

The accusers allege leaders within the CIP enabled Herron and protected him throughout the investigation. The same leaders who voted on the initial investigation will vote on the findings of the new one.

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Above Kara Million, 31, poses for a photo April 14 outside of the Biology Building. Million is one of five accusers who wrote a letter to the Central Indiana Presbytery containing accounts of sexual harassment, intimidation, exploitation and other allegations against Hope Presbyterian Church pastor Dan Herron in 2019.

Previous page top Kara Million, 31, poses for a photo April 14 outside of the Biology Building . Million is one of at least 10 other people she has talked to that have detailed accusations of sexual harassment, intimidation, exploitation and other forms of abuse within Hope Presbyterian Church in Bloomington.

Previous page bottom Abigail Harris, 27, poses for a photo April 19 on College Avenue. Harris moved to Bloomington from Oklahoma in 2017 and attended Hope Presbyterian Church on Sundays before leaving the church in 2019.

Part 1: First Years at Hope

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PCA: The Presbyterian Church in America is a ara Million, 31, was raised in Huntsville, church body within the overall Presbyterian church. It is one of four denominations Alabama, in a conservative, Presbyterian within Presbyterianism.

The Central Indiana Presbytery is the household. She was homeschooled, where her CIP: local governance of the PCA churches in central Indiana. According to the CIP’s there are 15 churches within parents taught her creationism and that women website, this subsidiary of the PCA. Most are in the Indianapolis area. aren’t supposed to have leadership roles in churches. She went SJC: The Standing Judicial Commission is a nationally operating group of the PCA which effectively serves as its supreme court. to church every Sunday and grew up feeling like she couldn't GRACE: The Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment is a group dedicated question church doctrine. to combating abuse in churches. It often serves as an independent investigator for In 2015, Million came to IU to pursue her Ph.D. Her 34-year- cases like the one described in this story. old husband, Chris Baker, came with her.

Beginning in 2016, Baker interned at Hope Presbyterian Church, which is located in the Monroe County Convention Center. He worked there for three years while he was studying to become a minister. Baker said he thought working for Herron, the founding pastor at Monroe County’s only PCA congregation, would give him necessary experience.

Million and Baker’s first two years attending Hope were positive overall, they told the IDS. Herron was Baker’s boss. Million and Baker said Herron helped them move into their Bloomington apartment. They both said their first impression was that Herron was a kind, helpful, charming person.

Million could see why people might be drawn to his church.

But during their first two years at Hope, Million and Baker noticed several members of the church’s core leadership leaving. They didn’t know why.

Million and Baker said Herron talked negatively about those who leave the church, labeling them “dissents” and “gossips.”

On Feb. 1, 2018, Million posted on Facebook in support of Rachael Denhollander, the first woman to publicly accuse former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar of sexual abuse.

After the sentencing, Denhollander told Christianity Today, “Church is one of the least safe places to acknowledge abuse.”

Million posted an excerpt from Denhollander’s interview and wrote that she was tired of the church blaming “‘our sexually obsessed culture’” for sexual abuse instead of perpetrators.

Soon after her post, Million said she received a text from Herron asking if she wanted to get coffee, which was unusual to her.

The church’s belief system strictly regulates relationships between men and women, and Million said Herron had always reached out to her husband before contacting her.

Herron was her pastor and her husband’s boss. She couldn’t not respond, she thought. She recalled replying that she was happy to meet but asking why he wanted to talk.

Herron told Million he had seen her Facebook post — though Million said the post was private and Herron did not follow her — and that he had mentioned Denhollander in a recent sermon, Million said. She said he wanted to talk to her to make sure he hadn’t offended her, so they set a time to meet at Needmore Coffee Roasters.

Million said she walked to Needmore alone and arrived early. She said Herron was already there, seated at a table with his coffee, his laptop open and a Bible in hand.

“I knew I was in trouble the second I walked in,” Million said.

Million said Herron was immediately aggressive and eventually shouted at and insulted her, which Herron later denied.

Million said Herron argued with her, saying she and Denhollander were wrong to say churches are not safe for survivors.

Million said Herron told her that her support of Denhollander was because of traumatic incidents Million experienced in the past — incidents Million said she’d talked to Herron about before. Herron used Bible quotes to bolster his points.

Herron said sexual abuse is rooted in pornography, Million remembers. She responded that sexual abuse is rooted in power.

Million said she felt ambushed and that it hadn’t been the conversation she was anticipating. She said it seemed like she was supposed to cave to what Herron said and SEE CHURCH, PAGE 3

“I basically had zero power and Dan had all of the power.”

— Kara Million, former member of Hope Presbyterian Church

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In an 18-page letter written to the investigation commission upon learning of the allegations against him, Herron confirmed the meeting at the coffee shop occurred. In that letter, he portrayed Million as the one who was “condemning, accusing, and abusive” toward him.

Herron’s letter confirmed he wanted to explain why he disagreed with Million’s post, that he referenced the Bible and that they talked about their histories of trauma, but he denied being aggressive or abusive.

Million recalled bystanders looking on but not doing anything.

“I could just feel myself going into shock and dissociating because I had just never seen this before in any pastor,” Million said.

“I had never seen this side of him. So it was really scary. He’s a large man and I’m a tiny woman.”

Suddenly, Million said, Herron’s tone and body language became flirtatious and tender. Million said he seemed to realize his anger was making her uncomfortable.

She says he told her she was clearly confused and broken — and that he could help her.

Herron then solicited a one-on-one

“mentoring” relationship with Million, she said. She said he told her he was good at mentoring women.

“I know that you’ve been burned by other pastors,” Million recalled Herron said, indicating to Million he’d been collecting information about her. She said she had never told him anything about her past pastors.

“But I’m not like the others, I want to be your pastor, Million,” he allegedly continued. “You don’t have to have an answer for me right away.”

Million recalled him pausing and turning away coyly. Then he turned back.

“Unless you do have an answer for me.”

Herron did not directly address this

part of Million’s allegations in his letter or in communications with the IDS, but in his statement to the IDS he denied any wrongdoing.

Million, still feeling stuck to her chair, knew she had to find a way out of the situation, but didn’t feel confident outright rejecting the offer. She said she did not respond to his suggestion of a mentorship.

Instead, she told Herron she wasn’t going to agree with him regarding Denhollander, and they went their separate ways.

“My head was spinning,” Million said.

“I was just in shock. I was trying to process what had even happened and what it meant.”

Part 2: Other accusers come forward

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illion said she didn’t tell anyone what happened at the coffee shop at first. Not even Baker, her husband. She felt alone.

“I basically had zero power and Dan had all of the power,” Million said.

Million temporarily shut down her Facebook account and tried to handle the intense trauma she felt by attempting to get away from it. When she brought the account back online about two months after the coffee shop conversation, she said she immediately blocked Herron and his wife.

Million now alleges multiple people were communicating about her to Herron without her knowledge, but at the time, she said she didn’t know that was happening. When she privately told CIP elder Jeff Childress in January 2019 she was upset because one of her students died, she had an email from Herron within the day.

“It was very isolating,” Million said. “Especially when he started escalating his behavior over time — recruiting other people to help keep tabs on me and get access to me — I didn't even know who to trust.”

Million calls the people who talked to Herron about her social media posts and conversations with them “flying monkeys,” referencing the monkeys in “The Wizard of Oz” who spied for the Wicked Witch of the West. Million alleges there were three of them: Childress, CIP Coordinator of Church Planting Tim Kirk and Hope Director of Music Rebecca Cullison. The IDS reviewed emails confirming Childress talking to Herron about Million, but not the other two.

In the letter, Herron briefly mentioned consulting Childress about Million before they met at Needmore, but he does not mention consulting the others.

Million said Herron’s inappropriate behavior toward her came at events hosted in the homes of those who were talking about her to Herron. She alleges Herron cornered her and forced her to talk to him by using his body to not allow her to walk past at multiple Hope events in 2018. In his letter, Herron wrote he did not recall ever cornering anyone, but did admit he does “tower over a lot of people” and has a “physical presence.”

In summer 2018, more than three months after the coffee shop meeting, Million and Baker attended an event at Cullison’s house.

Million sat on the couch next to Baker, trying to prevent Herron from sitting next to her. But Herron slid in front of her to pick up books that were sitting on a coffee table. Million alleges he leaned over, reached down slowly and pressed his body flush against her breasts — right in front of Baker. Baker and Million allege Herron stayed pressed against her for 10 to 15 seconds.

Neither Million nor Baker did or said anything in that moment. They both watched, stunned.

“It just felt like it was never going to end,” Million said. “I could just feel myself going numb.”

Sexual misconduct has long been an issue in churches. The Catholic church’s epidemic of sexual abuse is most commonly known. But because of power imbalances inherent to churches, sexual misconduct is not limited to Catholic churches. A report from the Presbyterian Church (USA) in October 2020 found more than 130 reported incidents of sexual and physical abuse over the past 40 years.

Million said her church participation severely declined while she was being harassed by Herron. She was afraid of him.

Zoe Peterson, director of IU’s Kinsey Institute Sexual Assault Research Initiative, said sexual harassment and assaults are vastly underreported because of fear like Million’s.

Sexual misconduct, Peterson said, can involve pervasive unwanted sexual comments, unwanted touching and unwanted flirting after the person has expressed a lack of interest.

Peterson spoke in general about sexual misconduct and did not comment specifically on the allegations in this story.

Before Herron allegedly pressed himself against Million’s chest, Million had only told

Abigail Harris, 27, poses for a photo April 19 on College Avenue. “I just had no idea that it would take this long, or it would be this horrible,” Harris said.

Baker pieces of what had happened at the coffee shop. He knew there was some sort of disagreement between Million and Herron, and she felt uncomfortable around Herron, but that was all.

Throughout 2018, Baker alleges Herron repeatedly and more frequently asked him while at work about why Million didn’t like him and that he needed to make her like him. After Herron’s meeting with Million at the coffee shop, Baker said Herron passed over him for potential promotions.

In his letter, Herron claimed Baker was an “incompetent” employee who failed in his duties at work.

“It’s a very awkward position because Herron is essentially responsible for signing my paychecks, which we needed to survive,” Baker said.

Peterson said sexual harassment can be more threatening when it comes from someone in a position of power, such as a pastor, because that person can harm the person’s career or create a negative environment.

“It creates an environment that doesn’t feel safe and is very distracting and prevents people from doing whatever they’re supposed to do in that environment, whether it’s get an education, do their job or practice their spirituality,” Peterson said.

At the time, Baker said he was in charge of setting up Hope events. While he was busy working on the logistics at one event in 2018, Million was left alone, which Baker believes was purposeful so Herron could interact with her.

Baker said Herron’s alleged retribution toward him, including not paying him what he was owed, began in summer 2018. Herron denied this was retribution, and denied paying Baker less than he was owed. He claimed Baker, who had to find sponsors to pay his salary, did not raise enough money.

In a lawsuit against Hope filed in December 2020, Baker alleged he was not paid what he was owed for his internship from September through December of 2018, according to Monroe County court documents.

Baker filed a small claims lawsuit against

Kara M. Million February 1, 2018 • Facebook post

"Church is one of the least safe places to acknowledge abuse because the way it counseled is, more often than not, damaging to the victim. There is an abhorrent lack of knowledge for the damage and devastation that sexual assault brings. It is with deep regret that I say the church is one of the worst places to go for help. That’s a hard thing to say, because I am a very conservative evangelical, but that is the truth. There are very, very few who have ever found true help in the church.”---Rachel Denhollander I’m so glad this interview came out. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people (even pastors!) hijack this woman’s voice to plug conservative family values and how “God can make something amazing happen through a horrible tragedy”. I would be mortified if my assault stories got passed around as proof of “our sexually obsessed culture” (as if the abuse and commodification of women is somehow new and unique to our culture), and that if people would just get married “the biblical way” this wouldn’t ever happen to those poor, poor women. She was 15 years old.

I was 8. That was the time for you to speak up for us, and you were silent.

You don’t get to swoop in after the fact and put a pretty Jesus-y spin on this just to make your sermon sound good. *Listen* to her.

Hope, the CIP and the Reformed University Fellowship in December 2020 for $8,000 for lost wages and fees, interest and other relief.

The case was ultimately settled outside of court, and Baker received $1,000, according to Herron’s letter. In that letter, Herron described the $1,000 as a “gift.”

Baker said he began to look for work elsewhere throughout 2018, but he didn’t want to use Herron as a reference.

“Even being associated with this man is potentially affecting my job prospects,” Baker said.

Baker and Million left Hope when Baker’s three-year internship ended in December 2018. They have not been a member of any church since.

“There are three types of people: prophets, priests and kings,” Baker alleged CIP Coordinator of Church Planting Tim Kirk told Baker while meeting in early 2019 to talk about his internship. “And Dan, well, he’s a king. And well Chris, you’re not a king, and you’re not fit to work with a king like Dan in ministry.”

Kirk did not respond to multiple requests for comment. * * * Abigail Harris, 27, came to Bloomington from Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2017 after her partner Josh Harris was accepted into IU’s Germanic studies Ph.D. program.

They, too, went to church every Sunday.

They found Hope while looking for a Presbyterian church in Bloomington.

And like Million, Harris alleges Herron asked her to meet with him one-on-one.

Like Million, Harris found this odd because Herron would normally speak with a woman’s husband before reaching out to her.

Harris taught piano lessons for Herron’s daughter. She remembers having a positive relationship with his daughter and wife.

One day in summer 2018 after a piano lesson, Harris remembers standing out on Herron’s driveway, one step below him.

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checking her out in a way that made her feel uncomfortable.

Another day in 2018, Harris alleges Herron leaned into her row during a church service and pressed his body against hers.

“With regard to the worship service experience — I do not recall this, and you have my recorded testimony of this,” Herron wrote in his letter. “But, in reflecting on that possible scenario, yes, I could have approached it differently.”

Herron said in his letter he did touch congregants on the shoulder, mostly during communion. He said he would only touch people he knew personally.

Harris said she became increasingly uncomfortable around Herron over time. She tried to only teach lessons on days Herron would not be home and ultimately stopped teaching his daughter altogether in September 2019, according to emails between her and the CIP. Harris and Million became friends in 2019 after Million left the church. As they became closer, Harris told Million her story, thinking Million wouldn’t believe her.

“No, I believe you, because it happened to me too,” she recalled Million saying.

Since Million and Baker left the church, they say they’ve met Harris and at least 10 other people who have made allegations of misconduct against Herron. Those 10, Million said, were anonymous in letters to the church

“No, I believe you, because it happened to me too.”

— Kara Million, former member of Hope Presbyterian Church

and did not wish to comment for this story.

At a party in 2019, Baker met with a friend who had also left Hope. The friend told Baker that Herron had asked him which women at Hope he thought were hot, Baker said. When the friend didn’t participate, Herron allegedly began listing off the women he thought were hot. Million and Harris were among them. Herron allegedly said he liked to get into one-on-one mentoring relationships with women he’s physically attracted to.

“Dan not only knows exactly what he was doing to me and to these other women, but he was bragging about it,” Million said.

After hearing what Baker had learned, Harris decided it was time to write a letter to the CIP.

Part 3: 'No strong presumption of guilt'

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illion and Harris felt they had to be strategic about how they came forward, or their allegations might not have been investigated.

Accusers told the IDS that because Herron was the founding pastor of Hope and was picked with the goal of growing the congregation, they believe the CIP’s main goal was to keep him as pastor. The accusers believe the CIP saw Herron as necessary to Hope’s success.

On July 2, 2019, Million, Harris, Baker and another couple who did not wish to comment for this story sent an initial letter with allegations against Herron to the CIP. Those allegations included inappropriate behavior, sexual harassment and stalking Million described the other couple’s experience as “horrific” and said there was sexual abuse by Herron involved in their testimony.

The group of five emailed the letter to the CIP pastoral steering committee, the leaders of the women’s ministry and the campus minister for the Reformed University Fellowship at IU. “We just figured if more than just those same guys were hearing about this, maybe something would have happened differently this time,” Million said. “Things did go differently, but they were still a disaster.”

On July 5, 2019, the CIP responded to their letter. Five days later, Million and Harris were interviewed by Scott Dean, a member of the CIP church planting team, which oversees the establishment of new churches. Dean declined to comment for this story.

On July 22, 2019, Kris Holroyd, the senior pastor at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis — part of the CIP — replied to the email apologizing for the pain the accusers had endured and saying he would confront Herron. Holroyd said in an email to the IDS that he could not comment on any allegations because an investigation is ongoing.

According to emails between Holroyd and Million, Holroyd read the allegations to Herron on Aug. 15, 2019, but no formal charges were made within the CIP. Three days later, Herron delivered what Million called the “Taylor Swift sermon.” The accusers believe the sermon was in reference to the allegations against him.

“Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play,” Herron can be heard saying in the sermon. “And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. Baby, I’m just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake. Shake it off. I shake it off.”

Herron went on to define what a “hater” is, using a definition from Urban Dictionary.

In September 2019, the CIP voted to create a commission to investigate Herron. The commission was composed of elders in the CIP, all of whom knew Herron before the investigation.

Bob O’Bannon, the senior pastor at New Life Presbyterian Church in Yorktown, Indiana, was selected to head the commission.

His selection immediately raised concerns for Million and Harris, because of a tweet and retweets in which he claimed Christine Blasey Ford might have been politically motivated in her accusations of sexual assault against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Million and Harris emailed Holroyd about O’Bannon’s tweets after they found out who was on the commission in October 2019. Holroyd responded that two women would be on the commission as advisers, and that would be enough to “mitigate against the intimidation [the accusers] undoubtedly will feel.”

The commission wrote a report of its findings. Then, the elders voted on whether to deliver the findings to the CIP.

Women in the PCA cannot be elders. The two women serving as advisers to the investigation commission were not allowed to vote on the report.

The CIP could have affirmed the report, issue pastoral corrections — including preventing Herron from being a senior pastor at his next job — asked for another investigation or found Herron guilty and stripped him of his ordination.

Just over two weeks after Million and Harris raised concerns about his tweets, O’Bannon sent an email to Million suggesting it could be beneficial for the investigation to reveal the names of those who came forward anonymously — including potentially sharing that information with Herron — in advance of an Oct. 30, 2019, testimony in front of the commission. The accusers refused to do so.

Million and Baker said they saw Herron multiple times while out in Bloomington during this process. They were scared to go out in public. After Herron was informed of the allegations, Holroyd told Million to call the police if she saw Herron at her house.

Herron — who was not told the identity of his accusers, according to emails — named many people he believed were testifying against him in his letter. He wrote that he believes the accusers had a large desire to harm him and that he felt “sexually objectified, harassed, and abused by this group.”

“I just had no idea that it would take this long, or it would be this horrible."

— Abigail Harris, former member of Hope Presbyterian Church

Kate Ebert, one of the two women working as advisers on the commission, was in the Oct. 30, 2019, meetings where Herron and the accusers testified. Herron testified separately from the accusers. She recalled the committee “grilling” Million and Harris with tough questions but not having the same attitude with Herron.

“It seemed like they knew each other, which I found out later they did,” Ebert said of Herron and the commission members. “I was confused what was happening because it didn’t seem like we were there to question his testimony. But we were definitely there to question the accusers.”

After the accusers testified in October, witnesses spoke to the commission throughout November 2019.

The investigation commission's February 2020 report said its six male members voted unanimously that it found no “strong

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Pastor Dan Herron preaches a sermon Sept. 24, 2017, at Grace Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois. Herron has been accused of sexually harassing members of Hope Presbyterian Church in Bloomington, where he was previously a lead pastor.

presumption of guilt” for Herron, and the accusations did not rise to the level of chargeable offenses, according to the commission’s report.

However, he was issued pastoral recommendations, including attending counseling, attending trainings on gender dynamics in the workplace and not transferring to other Presbyteries in a head pastor role.

CIP elders voted to uphold the commission’s findings.

Ebert, who couldn’t vote on the report, disagreed with the outcome.

The ruling also frustrated CIP elder Steve Marusich, who works at Trinity Church in Brownsburg, Indiana. Marusich did not want to speculate on guilt but told the IDS there were clear flaws in the ruling — saying the commission ruled there wasn’t enough “presumption of guilt” to move to a full trial, but the commission was also going to issue “pastoral corrections” to Herron.

“I was like, ‘Wait, it’s one or the other,’” Marusich said. “If he’s innocent, you can’t correct him. If you think he’s guilty, or you think he might be guilty and there’s enough evidence to point to that, then we need to be having a trial.”

In July, Marusich filed a complaint with the Standing Judicial Commission — in essence, the PCA’s supreme court, whose rulings are final.

The SJC reviewed whether the investigation commission made a mistake in its ruling of no presumption of guilt for Herron and not releasing the full report of its investigation.

The IDS reviewed both the original and edited reports from the investigation. The original report provided a general assessment of the commission review of Herron’s actions, which the edited version did not.

The original report described pastoral recommendations for Herron, which the edited version did not. The original report was three pages, and the edited version was one.

The original report also claimed Herron “was placed in an awkward situation” because he didn’t know the identities of his accusers.

The edited report was one page and said there was not a strong presumption of guilt.

It did not elaborate on a review of the allegations nor detail the pastoral recommendations issued to Herron.

In February 2021, the SJC determined the investigation needed to be sent back to the lower court and restarted before the case could be brought to trial.

In a March meeting, Marusich proposed that the new investigation be conducted by an outside group, the Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment — an organization that seeks to prevent and independently investigate abuse in Christian communities.

At the same meeting, Herron proposed that the standard church investigation process be followed, and that GRACE only be

brought in if a church trial found him guilty.

It is unclear what GRACE’s investigation would do at that point.

Marusich’s motion did not pass. Herron’s did.

The CIP will vote on the new investigation’s report on May 14.

If he is not both found to have a “presumption of guilt” by the investigation commission and then found guilty in a trial, Herron’s case will be closed. * * * After nearly two years, the group of accusers feel skeptical they’ll ever see justice, in part because of all the barriers women face in the PCA. They’ll find out if Herron could face consequences just after Million’s graduation. She hopes to be able to move on in more ways than one — from school, from Bloomington, from Hope.

Harris said she doesn’t regret sending the letter to the CIP in 2019, but she didn’t think this would consume her time in graduate school.

“I just had no idea that it would take this long, or it would be this horrible.” Harris said. “Coming out with this information, the investigation, how we’ve been treated and how they’ve conducted everything has been far more traumatic than the incidents themselves.”

While the initial investigation continued and Herron moved to Carmel, Indiana — Indianapolis’ wealthiest suburb — Million and Baker had no income. Million said she and Baker were virtually “eating out of a dumpster.”

Baker is now a general manager at a Jimmy John’s in Bloomington. Baker said he put his dream of being a pastor on hold because of Herron.

“All of his prospects in this denomination got completely blown up behind his back,” Million said.

Baker has applied for many pastoral jobs. He can’t get any. He believes Herron tarnished his reputation, and even being associated with Herron is why he’s working in a Jimmy John’s and not a church.

“I don’t hate my Jimmy John’s job,” Baker said. “I’d just rather be someplace else.”

After being taught creationism as a child, Million will receive her Ph.D. in evolutionary biology. Once she graduates in May, she and Baker will leave Bloomington. Million’s dream is to study darter fish in Tennessee.

Baker doesn’t care where they end up, but the further from Herron the better. That’s the only way Baker will get a job in ministry again, he said.

None of the three accusers who spoke to the IDS have been to church in months, a choice they said has nothing to do with the COVID-19 pandemic. At some point, when she’s far away from the CIP, Million would like to go back to church.

For now, she’s too scared.

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Fight for justice continues despite Chauvin outcome Tiera Howleit is a junior in political science.

On April 20, a jury decided to convict Derek Chauvin of unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. However, this verdict did not necessarily serve as an act of justice for Black Americans, allies and most importantly, George Floyd’s family.

While Chauvin is an example of what the justice system looks like when it actually works, the system has actively worked against Black and Brown individuals when it comes to state-sanctioned violence.

When trying to understand the history of police violence, especially against Black and Brown people, it is important to understand where the system began.

The police system in the U.S. began with the institution of slave patrols to catch runaway slaves and return runaway “property” to white slave owners. The foundation of the policing system has proven to be oppressive toward Black and Brown people.

Black people have fought for many years to be seen and understood, but many feel that the disease of racism and

state-sanctioned violence may never end.

IU sophomore Nikki Oladenide said she doesn’t believe the fight for Black people to be seen as human will end anytime soon.

“Sadly, I don’t feel the time will come in my lifetime,” Oladenide said. “Schools just became desegregated around 60 years ago, so it is going to take a few generations for this to happen.”

Oladenide said allies who claim to stand with Black and Brown people staying silent helps keep the current system in place.

“I have unfriended many people all because they have stayed silent,” Oladenide said.

“People have told me they want to keep their social media out of political matters, in reference to BLM.” The work people do on the front lines in the fight for justice is important, but advocacy can be achieved in many different ways. Social media activism can help spread awareness and engage people in conversations about systemic racism in United States society.

IU junior Antonia Walker said advocacy is a learning process.

“For me, advocacy starts with education,” Walker said.

“You cannot effectively ad-

vocate for any cause if you are not knowledgeable about the issue and how others can work with you on them.”

To truly understand and advocate against social injustice and state-sanctioned violence, allies must place themselves in a mindset in which they are open to constantly learn from others.

Walker said a big issue with ally-advocacy is performative activism by people claiming to be allies.

“More times than I came to see, people have made themselves seem like they support Black Lives Matter and truly are a part of the mission,” Walker said.

Performative activism places a barrier on authentic allyship because it is sometimes difficult to understand who is a real ally. When thousands of people show up at a BLM protest or rally, it looks like change really is coming, but the number of people advocating for Black lives behind the scenes needs to be just as large.

Walker said non-Black individuals need to speak up when they observe acts of injustice.

“I have always said that Black people are not going to be the ones to solve racism,” Walker said. “It is going to take allies and other non-

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Black individuals to tell their peers it is unacceptable to let people continue to be treated unfairly.”

Regarding the Chauvin case in particular, advocacy from allies helped bring more awareness to the murder of Floyd.

IU freshman Da’Nasia Pruitt said there is more to justice than simply convicting someone of a crime they committed.

“You can’t hold the system

accountable when they are the ones responsible for the injustice,” Pruitt said. “The reason George Floyd was murdered was because of the system.”

Pruitt said justice was not served in the conviction of Chauvin.

“If there were justice, then George Floyd would not have lost his life,” Pruitt said “The whole issue surrounding this case is he lost his life when he did not have to.”

Pruitt said true change starts from within, and it is important to challenge our personal biases and think about how they affect others.

“We need to individually interrogate our views, perspectives, and thoughts,” Pruitt said. “People need to ask themselves what they are doing that is harmful to others and work on changing that.” thowleit@iu.edu

BEAUTIFUL WITH A LITTLE DOSE OF AWKWARD

Climate change is real. How might it affect Bloomington’s spring?

Agness Lungu is a freshman in intelligent systems engineering, mathematics and journalism.

When I first arrived in Bloomington from Zambia last December, I was shocked to see trees without flowers or leaves. In Zambian weather, our trees have leaves all year because it has a tropical and subtropical climate.

I remember thinking, “What have they done to the trees here in America?”

My friends told me the leaves would come back one day. Whenever I walked through campus during the

first weeks of this semester, I’d check and look for the leaves. Nothing.

I woke up one day in April to find tender colorful petals on trees in different colors — pink, white, purple and red.

It was magical. One day the trees were gloomy, and the next they were blossoming with the brightest colors.

I love this fascinating pattern of the trees: total death followed by sudden bloom.

However, this pattern too might be threatened by climate change.

Spring is measured by the appearance of the first tiny leaves on the trees and the first crocus plants peeping

through the snow. According to the USA Phenology Network, in parts of Kansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, spring came days to even weeks early this year.

Mallory Barnes, assistant professor of Environmental Informatics in the O’Neil School of Public and Environmental Affairs, said she worries for the future of the insects such as bees that depend on the flowers in Bloomington.

“Spring is coming earlier in general, and trees know when to bloom because of the temperature. And since it’s warmer, trees are bloom-

ing faster,” Barnes said.

“Even though spring is coming earlier, the day of the last frost is not coming earlier, and that means sometimes the flowers come out, but then there’s a frost.”

Barnes said the frost can kill flowers that are frost sensitive, which could affect insects dependent on those flowers.

“I am more concerned about the bees and bats and all those animals that depend on the flowers being around at a certain time to survive,” Barnes said. “It’s always a concern when things are changing quickly.”

IU professor Lisa Sideris,

who teaches religious studies, has written extensively about environmental ethics and environmental law and also voiced concerns about Bloomington’s plant life adapting to the cold.

“The pink magnolias were destroyed by frost this year and I think last year, and I wonder how much they can adjust to such changes,” Sideris said. “If you walk around Bloomington, you can see that the magnolias were all destroyed. It might not destroy the tree, but if this coming year after year those trees might stop growing here.”

Sideris said individuals

should put more pressure on their leaders and put in place legislation to bring about systemic change.

“There’s lots of things that individuals can do to avoid climate change like lifestyle changes,” Sideris said. “I think people should drive less, but I also think that the main thing is changing the system. That means political engagement, it means the kind of legislation that Biden is trying to put forward right now in rejoining the climate accord because there’s only so much that individuals can do.” slungu@iu.edu

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Should sports stay out of politics?

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LeBron James prepares for a news conference in a classroom July 29, 2018, at the I PROMISE School in Akron, Ohio. James has faced backlash for a controversial tweet he posted targeting the police officer, Nicholas Reardon, who shot and killed 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant on April 20 in Columbus, Ohio.

RJ Crawford is a junior in journalism.

On April 20, 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant called 911for help in a situation which would ultimately result in her death. The Columbus Police Department shot and killed Bryant outside of her Ohio home. A day which should have been spent celebrating the conviction of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd was used to mourn the loss of Bryant. Another Black body has dropped and has been causing quite a stir in the community —as it should.

The day after Bryant’s death, NBA player Lebron James posted a tweet insinuating the officer who shot and killed Bryant would end up facing the same fate as Chauvin. The tweet, which has been deleted, was simple.

Since the tweet, many people have been ranting about and criticizing James for his words.. But maybe

they’re taking it the wrong way. As a Black man, James simply may be tired of seeing Black people being senselessly killed, especially Black youth. When he posted that tweet, the verdict for Chavin had just been announced; perhaps he just wanted to shift focus, so another police man could be held accountable. I believe James meant no harm.

The following day, former NFL player Jake Bequette talked about the influence politics has on sports and the military during an appearance on Fox and Friends.

According to Fox News, Bequette said he feels it is tragic how politics are injected into sports and the military, in reference to the tweet from James. He said he believes these two entities should continue to rise above race, class and background without politics.

“They’re not gonna stop until they’ve taken over ev-

erything,” Bequette said on air.

Former President Donald Trump also interjected himself into the matter with reference to James’ tweet. On April 22, Trump released a statement suggesting Lebron James focus on basketball and not dividing the country.

“LeBron James should focus on basketball rather than presiding over the destruction of the NBA, which has just recorded the lowest television RATINGS, by far, in the long and distinguished history of the League,” Trump said in his statement, which he issued through Ben Jacobs on Twitter. “His RACIST rants are divisive, nasty, insulting, and demeaning. He may be a great basketball player, but he is doing nothing to bring our Country together.”

More recently, LAPD veteran Deon Joseph slammed James on his Facebook page, calling his tweet “off base and extreme.” Joseph said

he feltt James was forming predisposed accusations about police officers before really getting to know them and their job. In his Facebook post, Joseph said, “Your tweet that targeted a police officer in Ohio who saved a young woman’s life was irresponsible and disturbing.

It showed a complete lack of understanding of the challenge of our job in the heat of a moment.”

“The heat of the moment” is a widely used phrase which shrinks tragic events.

Although Bryant was holding a knife at the time of her death, she was the one who called the police for help, and she did not deserve to die.

At the end of the day, all of the blame cannot be put on James and the things he decides to say. People say what they think on the internet all day, every day. Social media is becoming a public forum in which people are using their First Amendment rights.

James should not be punished for one tweet he made in the heat of the moment.

Hours after James posted the original tweet, he deleted it and tweeted again to explain his reasoning behind his first tweet. James discussed how he did not want his original tweet to be used as a medium to create more hate, he just wants to see more accountability.

“I’m so damn tired of seeing Black people killed by police. I took the tweet down because it’s being used to create more hate. This isn’t about one officer it’s about the entire system and they always use our words to create more racism. I am so desperate for more ACCOUNTABILITY,” James said. @rjcrawfxrd

A tweet from LeBron James, that has since been deleted, appears April 20. The tweet addressed police officer Nicholas Reardon, who shot and killed 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant April 20 in Columbus, Ohio.

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University Players perform during their outdoor production “Bright Star.” To maintain IU’s COVID-19 protocol while performing, University Players purchased hand sanitizer, a thermometer and implemented other safety measures.

Arts organizations reflect on fundraising during COVID-19

By Nadia Scharf njscharf@iu.edu | @ nadiaascharf

Bloomington Delta Music Club was founded in October 2019. The group of 11 musicians played for only five months before the COVID-19 pandemic hit Bloomington.

This year, they’ve managed to find their footing and work with the situation — but they’re still searching for the money to keep going.

“We’re a music club,” said co-President Sam Boland.

“That requires musical equipment. You can sound great as a musician, but if people can’t hear you, it doesn’t matter.”

They’re not alone in their financial need. Be it music, theater, dance or anything in between, the pandemic has left many student arts organizations looking for ways to adapt past in-person fun-

draisers such as donationbased performances, selling apparel and playing at fundraisers to a virtual world.

In the past, Bloomington Delta performed at other organizations’ fundraisers, where they would receive a percentage of the money earned. When the pandemic hit, these fundraisers stopped, leaving the group without a revenue source.

The musicians needed equipment to perform, Boland said. As their list of missing instruments continued to add up in the new school year, they tried new types of fundraisers. They increased their dues, Boland said, and began to perform in university-sponsored open-air shows.

Boland and co-President Elliott Obermaier said the virtual fundraiser that meant most to them was their Spotify

launch fundraiser. For each dollar donated, the donor would be entered into a drawing where they could pick a song for the organization to cover on its Spotify page. The fundraiser ultimately raised more than $200.

“I think that was a moment when we realized that, yeah, it was a fun idea, but people do care about this,” Obermaier said. “They’re invested in our success moving forward.”

University Players had similar struggles. A studentrun theater organization, the group is trying to maintain as much normalcy as possible. Where they’re finding difficulty is in keeping their performances safe, Financial Director Kabir Gandhi said.

To maintain IU’s COVID-19 protocol while performing, University Players purchased hand sanitizer, a

thermometer and other safety measures. This allowed them to perform and have other outdoor fundraisers, but also meant they had to spend the money they did raise on safety precautions rather than their performances.

“There has been a little bit of that fiscal cost to making sure that our events are safe,” Gandhi said. “That the students who are running it, performing in it, and attending it are too.”

Movement Cooperative, a dance organization that provides students the opportunity to take classes and choreograph dances, has taken a different route, instead focusing on involvement and outreach.

Unlike Bloomington Delta and University Players, Movement Cooperative’s events are mostly volunteer-based, Trea-

surer Chelsea Kummeth said.

The dance group often partners with volunteer teachers to give its members access to classes.

“It was different than other organizations, where fundraising is the main focus,” Kummeth said. “The goal this year was to just encourage people to attend and to provide a community for all people to come in and move and enjoy spending time with each other.”

Movement Cooperative is considering fundraising to bring in teachers from further away in the future. They’ve considered selling apparel or putting on a donation-based performance, Kummeth said.

Gandhi predicts University Players won’t go back to normal next semester, and that they’re likely going to have to continue solely outdoor fund-

raisers.

“We just want to provide opportunities,” Gandhi said.

“And, unfortunately, opportunities like producing full-scale shows with the costumes, sets and props, it does cost money.”

Bloomington Delta said that they’ve learned a lot from the changes they’ve made for the pandemic. While they miss the house shows they used to play, being forced to slow down has helped them to grow their organization and make it stronger, the co-presidents said.

“I’m very thankful that the club survived it and that we’re thriving through it,” Boland said. “The pandemic kind of forced us to take stock in what we have and how we manage it as opposed to just doing as it came along, which I’m thankful for.”

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1. A student walks May 4 on campus. The last day of regular classes was April 30.

2. Graduates and married couple Ryan and Gretchen Hercamp stand for graduation pictures May 4 in front of the Sample Gates. Ryan is graduating with a master’s in special education and Gretchen received her degree in business administration.

3. An IU graduate poses for a photo May 5 in front of the Sample Gates.

Graduation commencement will take place May 8.

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4. A sign commemorating the 8,380 COVID-19 cases on IU’s campus since July 2020 appears May 3 in Dunn Meadow. The sign is meant to honor those who died from COVID-19, and it commends students and faculties for staying strong through the pandemic.

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What to know about fall 2021 classes

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For the first time since classes switched to majority online instruction more than a year ago due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students can plan on attending in-person classes again. The fall 2021 semester will be inperson, potentially without social distancing or masks, Dr. Aaron Carroll said in an interview Friday.

IU President Michael McRobbie announced in February that the university is set to return to mostly normal operations for the fall 2021 semester because of lower COVID-19 positivity rates on campus and the availability of vaccines.

Carroll, IU’s director for mitigation testing, said he doesn’t think mitigation testing will be necessary in the fall.

“There probably is no need for mitigation testing, it would shift just into more surveillance,” Carroll said. “If we saw outbreaks we might increase testing in areas just to try to catch it and slow it down, but I think it will not look like mitigation testing.”

Carroll said he thinks social distancing might not be necessary in classrooms and thinks there’s a possibility masks might not be required, but only if the university re-

ceives data showing most students are vaccinated.

“I’m hopeful that we can go back to normal classroom numbers, and perhaps even no masks for classes,” Carroll said. “But all of this is dependent on how safe it is, and we don’t know that yet. None of these predictions are declarations of 100% surety.”

Molly Rosenberg, an epidemiologist at the School of Public Health, said students attending in-person classes during the 2020-21 school year weren’t at higher risk for getting COVID-19. She contributed to a study that showed COVID-19 transmission did not correlate with the amount of in-person credit hours a student took during the fall 2020 semester.

“I anticipate that some safety precautions are going to need to remain in place and we’ll continue to monitor cases that might be linked to classrooms, even though we haven’t seen any indication that cases are linked to classroom settings,” Rosenberg said.

Current guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say people who are fully vaccinated can gather indoors with other vaccinated people without social distancing or masks.

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A U-Haul truck crashed into the northernmost side of Evil By The Needle, a Bloomington tattoo and piercing shop, Sunday evening. The crash injured two women inside the shop, but the injuries were not believed to be life-threatening, Captain Ryan Pedigo of the Bloomington Police Department said in an email Monday.

The Bloomington Police Department responded to the scene, the intersection of Hillside Drive and South Walnut St. around 4:40 p.m., Pedigo said.

The U-Haul was entirely inside the building when police arrived. It appeared the

truck was traveling southbound on Walnut Street before swerving off the road and into the building, Pedigo said.

The driver, a 77-yearold Bloomington man, was trapped in the truck and could not open the driver’s side door when police arrived, Pedigo said. Police assisted the driver out of the truck and the building.

The driver did not report any injuries and said he had fallen asleep while driving on Walnut Street, Pedigo said. Officers did not see signs of impairment.

Police assisted one of the women out of the shop, Pedigo said. The other woman had already left the building. The two had some injuries, mostly cuts and bleed-

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Junior Tyler Richardson takes a picture of senior Max Eslava for their photography class Feb. 8 outside of the IU Fine Arts Building.

IU President Michael McRobbie announced in February that the university is set to return to mostly normal operations for the fall 2021 semester because of lower COVID-19 positivity rates and the availability of vaccines.

indoors with unvaccinated people from one other household without distancing or masks as long no one has increased risk for COVID-19. To be fully vaccinated, a person must wait two weeks after their final dose of the vaccine, according to the CDC. Both Carroll and Rosenberg said they don’t know if guidelines will be different for IU students who have been vaccinated compared to those who haven’t because it’s hard to implement policy dividing the two. The university hasn’t determined yet if it can legally enact different requirements.

Carroll and Rosenberg also said they’re hopeful students will get vaccinated so the campus can reach levels of herd immunity, which would require a majority of the student population being fully vaccinated.

Freshman Joeli Hamilton said she’s excited for inperson classes next semester because she thinks they will better engage her learning.

“I have severe ADHD so this year has been incredibly hard for me,” Hamilton said.

“I hope that going to class, getting out more and having a classroom to learn in will positively affect my learning next year.”

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ing, according to Pedigo. It is believed one of the women lost consciousness before police and medical personnel arrived, Pedigo said.

Kian Rio, the owner’s daughter, was not present at the time of the accident, but she said the two individuals in the shop were a customer and a piercer. The two were pushed to the opposite wall by the U-Haul. Rio said the two individuals appeared to be conscious when she arrived and were transported to the hospital.

A blood sample from the driver is required by law in these types of crashes, Pedigo said. The driver gave a blood sample at the hospital, as the crash was considered a serious bodily injury crash, Pedigo said. No citations

were issued, he said.

Ken’s Westside Service and Towing arrived and towed the U-Haul away.

Brittney Davis, an employee of MONON Rentals LLc / ALF LLc, the company that manages the property, said she got a call about the accident at 4:45 p.m. She said the maintenance workers were going to board up the shop after they had cleared the sidewalk of debris.

Davis said the company would have to wait for insurance information before repairs.

Rio said she and other members of her family were collecting valuables such as jewelry and equipment from the shop to avoid theft.

Mallorey Daunhauer contributed reporting.

Many IU international students have been thousands of miles away from home over the past school year. They have experienced homesickness on top of trying to protect themselves from COVID-19 and adjusting to remote learning.

IU junior Devanshi Goenka spent her fall semester at home in Kolkata, India, taking online classes only and returned to Bloomington this semester. She said although all her classes are still online, she prefers being back in Bloomington.

“I think the overall experience was better, because there was no time difference, and I could be with my friends,” she said. “I could study with them, do group study sessions and stuff like that, which I didn’t have back at home.”

Goenka said she misses her time at IU before March 2020 when she could party, eat out with friends and go to IU sports games. She said she feels her campus experience is missing and is excited for next semester’s return to inperson instruction.

IU freshman Susan Tang said one of her disappointments this school year is not knowing her classmates or building new friendships.

She said remote learning has made building connections difficult.

“Freshman year should have been a year when it’s easiest getting to know friends and classmates, but it feels like my classmates and I are separated far apart from each other geographically,” she said.

Tang said she has been cautious in Bloomington to not be infected with COVID-19. She said she rarely goes outdoors and always wears a mask when she does. She said she’s also refrained from dining in at restaurants with her friends, instead ordering pickup to bring home and eat.

“What I think is I can’t control what other people do, so all I can do is take the necessary precautions to protect myself well,” she said.

Tang went to high school in the U.S. before coming to IU. She said her American host family’s grandmother

caught COVID-19 and passed away in a nursing home. This made her feel the pandemic was not just on the news but something near to her, she said.

“It’s like what they say during the Great Recession, that it hits you differently when you watch the news versus when you see people around you going broke and losing their homes,” she said. “When you see your neighbors, people around you and those close to you being hurt because of it, you feel it’s really near to you.”

IU sophomore Sean Han, Malaysian Student Association president, said he hasn’t been home in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, since he came to college in fall 2019. He said he won’t return this summer either because of high ticket prices for international flights and uncertainties with international travel restrictions.

“Knowing that I miss home and I can’t do anything about it was the toughest thing I’ve experienced,” he said.

Han said it has been scary to see the racial discrimination and violence against Asian Americans as an international student. He said his parents have tried to convince him to go home, but he knew going back would be difficult and told them not to worry.

“There are so many factors that just didn’t allow me to go home,” he said. “The last thing I want to do is to make my parents worry from the other side of the world.”

Han said he has tried to stay optimistic during a period of uncertainty with COVID-19 and international traveling. He said he appreciates IU’s weekly mitigation tests because it’s comforting to always know whether or not he has been infected with the coronavirus.

He said the pandemic has allowed him to focus more on himself and be appreciative of small things in life.

“Even though we are all stuck in a pandemic, there’s always going to be good things,” he said. “And I really hope that all students keep their hopes up and never give up during a time like this.”

The interview with Susan Tang is translated from Mandarin Chinese.

IU organization to offer free mental health training npnapier@iu.edu | @nicnapier1

Monroe County residents can receive training in mental health first aid and recognizing signs and symptoms of mental health issues this summer for free through Prevention Insights.

Prevention Insights is a nonprofit organization through the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington that was established to focus on drug abuse prevention but has expanded to offer other mental health services.

There are two virtual training dates each month, running from June to August, with some sessions for those who work with individuals aged 8 to 18 and others who

work with adults. The training sessions run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

You can sign up for a training session at an online form.

Albert Gay, a certified trainer for the Prevention Insights mental health first aid program, said the training sessions help people be aware of how common mental health issues are and help reduce the stigma surrounding these issues.

“Stigma is such a wall that prevents people from going forward to get help,” Gay said.

He said the pandemic has increased the need for these training sessions because people have not been able to be physically present with others who can provide

support.

“Isolation is one of the key contributing factors to those things that propagate or allow mental health challenges to go unnoticed,” Gay said. “Whenever people aren’t able to get together sometimes, along with stigma, people are less able to get the resources, and people really need the support.”

Heather Dolne, the Mental Health Awareness Training project director, said Prevention Insights was able to offer this training for free through grant money awarded to the program by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. She said free training has been offered for the past several years and hopes it

can continue in the future with more grant money.

Before the pandemic, the training sessions had occurred in person, but the model has now shifted to a virtual format, Dolne said.

She said these training sessions are not meant to teach people how to diagnose mental health issues, but to focus on connecting with others and helping refer them to mental health professionals if needed.

“Really the emphasis is on ‘Let’s be that in-between that people feel comfortable coming to us and then we can help work through some of the feelings they are experiencing,’” Dolne said.

She said the training sessions have an action plan

called ALGEE, which helps individuals know what to do in situations involving mental health issues.

ALGEE stands for assess for risk of suicide or harm; listen nonjudgmentally; give reassurance and information; encourage appropriate professional help; and encourage self-help and other support strategies, according to an IU news release about the program.

Rachael Cohen, a discovery systems librarian at the Herman B Wells library, said she participated in a group mental health first aid training session in January 2021 available for those at Wells.

“As a public services librarian, I figured it would be a good opportunity to be

more up-to-date about mental health issues, the signs and services you can offer our students, staff and faculty as well as my co-workers,” Cohen said.

During the training session, Cohen said she learned that her role in mental health situations is to listen to the other person and then help refer them to a mental health professional if needed. She said the session helped her to also see the scale of how many people were affected by mental health issues and the signs indicating someone may need help.

“I think everybody should take this,” Cohen said. “All students, staff and faculty I think would benefit from it.”

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Washington wins Junior Nationals

By Tristan Jackson tripjack@iu.edu | @tristan_jackso

IU wrestling redshirt freshman DJ Washington won the UWW Junior Nationals tournament in the 79 kg. weight class this weekend. Eleven Hoosiers total competed in the tournament, and sophomore heavyweight Jacob Bullock was an All-American with a seventh-place finish.

Washington secured a spot on Team USA with a tournament win, and he will compete in the Junior World Championships in Ufa, Russia, in August. Washington will compete against 18-20-year-olds on the world stage and train with the Olympic team in lead-up to the world championships, which IU head coach Angel Escobedo said will be invaluable for Washington as a leader of IU’s team.

“Not everyone is going to be able to have that experience, but if you have a guy that goes out there he can bring it all back,” Escobedo said. “He’s one of our captains, so guys look up to him and he’s a leader, so he’s going to be able to lead them in the right direction.”

Washington won all seven of his matches this weekend, outscoring his opponents 65-8 on his way to the championship. All 8 points he gave up came in the championship round, when he gave up 4 in each of his two wins in the best-two-of-three series.

He wrestled Lehigh’s Jake

IU’s Johnson selected by Broncos

By Patrick Felts patfelts@iu.edu | @patrickjfelts

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IU sophomore DJ Washington and Michigan State redshirt senior Drew Hughes face off during their match on Feb. 6 at Wilkinson Hall in Bloomington. Washington won the UWW Junior Nationals tournament and will compete with Team USA in the Junior World Championships from August 16-22 in Ufa, Russia.

Logan in the championship, who was ranked No. 31 in the 174-pound weight class at the NCAA Tournament in March, and won 5-4 then 10-4.

Washington finished 10-7 last season for IU and placed sixth in the Big Ten Tournament. He was named Big Ten Wrestler of the Week after beating eventualNCAA Champion Carter Starocci from Penn State.

He was the No. 9 seed in the NCAA Tournament and would finish 1-2 there.

“That nationals really hurt him not being All-American and I could tell, he’s just hungry, you know, wanting to be the best,” Escobedo said. “He saw the guy he beat earlier

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in the season win a national title and he never stopped working, he never took a day off and he’s been wrestling every single day to get better.”

Bullock secured AllAmerican honors at the tournament. His season was cut short after he tore his meniscus against Nebraska on Feb. 6, and he finished the season 1-3 for the Hoosiers in 2021.

Escobedo said Bullock didn’t get the experience he wanted this season because of the injury, and he wrestled in this tournament to acquire that experience and not let the other guys on the team pass him up. Bullock was still dealing with his meniscus injury coming into the tournament, but Escobedo

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said Bullock told him he was ready to go.

“I felt like this season he was a little timid, you know with COVID he didn’t train as much as he should have,” Escobedo said. “But after the season, same thing with him, the season didn’t go the way he wanted it to and instead of shying away he just was in there everyday rehabbing his knee … And at this tournament I saw his confidence.”

Washington has a busy summer ahead of him. He will compete with Team USA in the Junior World Championships from August 16-22, then he’s set to compete in the Junior Pan Am Games from September 15-18 in Cali, Colombia.

Former IU safety Jamar Johnson is heading to Denver after being picked 164th overall in the 5th round by the Broncos in the 2021 NFL Draft.

Johnson, a first-team AllBig Ten selection by the media in 2020, had 43 tackles, four interceptions, one forced fumble and one sack during the eight-game season. He intercepted Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields twice in the team’s 42-35 loss Nov. 21, 2020. Fields had not thrown an interception all season before that game.

Johnson spent his junior season in 2019 at husky, a

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Then-senior defensive lineman Michael Ziemba and and then-junior defensive back Jamar Johnson tackle an opponent Oct. 24, 2020, at Memorial Stadium. Johnson was taken by the Denver Broncos with the 164th overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft on Saturday.

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The Broncos finished 25th in the NFL in total defense in 2020 and 15th in total pass defense. Johnson joins a safety group that features Kareem Jackson, who re-signed a one-year deal with the team in March, and Justin Simmons, who was named a second-team AllPro in 2019 by the Associated Press.

With the pick, IU has now had a player selected in eight consecutive NFL Drafts.

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IU stands alone atop the Big Ten as season ramps up

By Luke Lusson llusson@iu.edu | @LukeLusson

Just about all season long, it’s been a three-horse race for the Big Ten. IU baseball, Nebraska and Michigan have flip-flopped spots all year in the top three while managing to maintain distance from the rest of the pack.

Now, it’s IU’s turn to sit atop the rest of the Big Ten. After a 2-1 home series win over Iowa this weekend, the Hoosiers are at 20-9, a game in front of the Cornhuskers in the loss column. IU’s gradual improvement at the plate is a big reason why it’s rattling off wins.

“For the last several weeks, we’ve shown some signs of growth throughout,” head coach Jeff Mercer said about his team’s hitting.

“This is about the time of the year when you have a

chance to settle your lineup in and spend a lot of time with guys in the mid-week diagnosing. We are getting a lot better offensively, and it’s beginning to show.”

A big part of IU’s offensive improvement has been redshirt senior catcher Collin Hopkins. Usually known for his defense, Hopkins has made more plays hitting next to the plate than he has fielding behind it.

He’s in the midst of a fivegame hitting streak that includes three games with three or more hits. This follows a rough start to the season that had him hitting below .100 until late April.

“My swing is in a really good spot thanks to the coaching staff,” Hopkins said.

“I’m just really trying to stay simple and short and quick to the ball.”

IU, Nebraska and Michi-

gan have had their respective hot and cold spells. For the Hoosiers, a blistering 8-1 start to the season was cooled off after some positive COVID-19 tests came among the coaching staff.

A five-game losing streak in the middle of the year left the team with some ground to make up, which it has thanks to their current fourseries win streak.

As for Nebraska, a sevengame win streak from March 20-April 2 had the team in control of the conference race at the time. Now, the Cornhuskers have lost four of five and are in a battle to regain the top spot in the Big Ten. Michigan’s season began with series win after series win, including a six-game win streak from March 7-March 14. But a series loss against Rutgers two weekends ago and a series split against Il-

linois this past weekend now has Illinois at 21-11, a half game behind IU. None of the three teams have gotten a crack at each other yet, but that’s about to change in what will be a crucial stretch of baseball in determining the conference champion. After playing Rutgers twice to start this weekend, IU will play Nebraska twice, Michigan three times and Nebraska twice more, all in consecutive weekends.

Nebraska and Michigan won’t meet until May 28 in what is expected to be a dramatic final series of the regular season for both clubs.

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Redshirt senior catcher Collin Hopkins high fives sophomore outfielder Grant Richardson after scoring against Iowa on Sunday at Bart Kaufman Field. The IU baseball team went 2-1 this weekend against Iowa at home.

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Non-Denominational

Quaker Bloomington Friends Meeting

H2O Church Fine Arts Building, Room 015 812-955-0451

h2oindiana.org facebook.com/h2ochurchiu/ @h2ochurchiu on Instagram and Twitter Sundays: 11:01 a.m.

Small Groups: Small group communities meet throughout the week (see website for details) H2O Church is a local church especially for the IU camus community to hear the Good News (Gospel) about Jesus Christ. We are a church mostly composed of students and together we're learning how to be followers of Jesus, embrace the Gospel and make it relate to every area of our lives.

Kevin Cody, Pastor

City Church For All Nations 1200 N. Russell Rd. 812-336-5958

citychurchbloomington.org facebook.com/citychurchbtown/ @citychurchbtown on Instagram Sunday Services: 9:30 a.m. and 11:15 a.m.

Mon. - Thu.: 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.

City Church is a multicultural, multigenerational, and nondenominational Christian Church. In addition to our contemporary worship experiences on Sundays at 9:30 a.m. and 11:15 a.m., we also have a college ministry that meets on Tuesdays at 6:00 p.m. We would love to welcome you into our community.

David Norris, Senior Pastor Lymari and Tony Navarro, College ministry leaders

High Rock Church 3124 Canterbury Ct. 812-323-3333

highrock-church.com Facebook: highrockchurch Instagram: highrockbtown

Scott Joseph, Lead Pastor

West Second St. Church of Christ 825 W. Second St. 812-332-0501

facebook.com/w2coc

Sunday: 9:50 a.m. Hymn singing 10:30 a.m. Meeting for worship 10:45 a.m. Sunday School (Children join in worship from 10:30-10:45) 11:30 a.m. Fellowship after Meeting for Worship 12:15 p.m. Often there is a second hour activity (see website) Wednesday (midweek meeting): 9:00 a.m. Meeting for worship 9:30 a.m. Fellowship after Meeting for Worship

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

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

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

John Myers, Preacher

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

uublomington.org facebook.com/uubloomington Sunday (currently): 10:15 a.m. via livestream Sunday (when in person): 9:15 a.m. & 11:15 a.m.

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

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

A LGBTQA+ Welcoming Congregation and a certified Green Sanctuary.

Reverend Mary Ann Macklin, Senior Minister Reverend Emily Manvel Leite, Minister of Religious Education and Congregational Life

Jubilee is a Christ-centered community open to all people. We offer both virtual and in-person community events on Wednesdays for a free meal, discussion, worship and hanging out. Small groups, service projects, and events are all a significant part of our rhythm of doing life together and avoiding isolation.

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

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

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

10 a.m. Sundays: Classic Worship via Youtube Live 11:15 a.m. Sundays: Interactive Bible Study via Zoom 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays: Virtual + InPerson Meeting at First Methodist Email: jubilee@fumcb.org Markus Dickinson, Campus Director

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

ecm.so.indiana.edu twitter.com/ECMatIU • facebook.com/ECMatIU @ECMatIU on Instagram

Sundays: 4 p.m. Holy Eucharist with hymns followed by dinner

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

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

Tuesday, Thursday: 9 p.m.

Bible Studies and Music Services: See our Social Media

Chris Jones, Lead Pastor

Rev. Patrick Hyde, O.P., Administrator and

We aspire to offer a safe and welcoming home for all people. We are a blend of people of different ages, genders, sexual orientations, ethnicities and countries; we are students, faculty, staff and friends. We pray, worship and proclaim the Gospel.

We also promote justice, equality, inclusion, peace, love, critical thinking and acting as agents of change in our world.

Independent Baptist

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

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

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

Mennonite Mennonite Fellowship of Bloomington

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

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

Wednesday Night Bible Study: 7 p.m.

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

Barnabas Christian Ministry Small Groups: Cedar Hall 2nd Floor Common Area, 7 - 8 p.m., meetings start Thursday, Sept. 5.

We will meet every other Thursday during the school year.

Steven VonBokern, Senior Pastor Rosh Dhanawade, IU Coordinator

Wednesday Bible Study: 7:00 p.m.

We use no book, but the Bible. We have no creed, but His Word within its sacred pages.

God is love and as such we wish to share this joy with you. The comprehensive teaching of God's Word can change you forever.

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Sunday Bible Study: 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship: 10:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

219 E. Fourth St. 812-332-6396

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by Zoom only; email us at bloomington.friends.website@gmail.com to request our Zoom link.

Sunday: 11 a.m.

We are a Bible-based, non-denominational Christian church. We are multi-ethnic and multi-generational, made up of students and professionals, singles, married couples, and families. Our Sunday service is casual and friendly with meaningful worship music, applicable teaching from the Bible, and a fun kids program.

Jubilee

3820 Moores Pike 812-336-4581

302-561-0108, barnabas@indiana.edu barnabas.so.indiana.edu * Free transportation provided. Please call if you need a ride to church.

Lutheran (LCMS) University Lutheran Church & Student Center 607 E. 7th St. 812-336-5387

indianalutheran.com facebook.com/ULutheranIU Instagram: @uluindiana Sunday: Bible Class 9:15 a.m.

Divine Service 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday & Friday: Morning Prayer 8 a.m.

Wednesday: Midweek Service 7 p.m.

LCMSU Student Fellowship 7:30 p.m.

Thursday: Grad/Career Study & Fellowship 7:30 p.m.

University Lutheran is the home LCMSU at Indiana. Our on-campus location creates a hub for genuine Christ-centered community that receives God's gifts of life, salvation and the forgiveness of sins through Jesus Christ.

"We Witness, We Serve, We Love."

Rev Richard Woelmer, Campus Pastor

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

333 S. Highland Ave. 812-334-3432

myinstitute.churchofjesuschrist.org Facebook: Bloomington Institute and YSA Society

2420 E. Third St. 812-646-2441 bloomingtonmenno.org • Facebook Join Zoom Fellowship Sunday Evenings at 5 p.m. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7055210574

Currently restricted hours:

Meeting ID: 705 521 0574

Wed nights for class, 6:50 p.m. to 8:40 p.m.

(Subject to change based on COVID-19 developments)

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

The Insistute building is a place to gather on campus for a break from academic rigors.

Small library for quiet study, kitchen area for snacks and eating lunch, room to socialize, come play pool, ping pong or foosball. Games and puzzles available as well. A place to feel spiritually recharged and learn more about the Savior, Jesus Christ. Parking available when enrolled and attending a class. Church meets 11:30 on Sundays, at 2411 E. Second Street.

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

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

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

Friday: 7 p.m.

Saturday: 6 a.m.

Praise the Lord! Do you need a True Friend?

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

Jason Pak, Pastor

John Sauder mfbjohn@gmail.com

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

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

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LIVING HIGH-RISK

‘My greatest nightmare’: COVID-19 left me with grief and long-term symptoms Izzy Myszak (she/her) is a sophomore in journalism.

My cellphone buzzed all day Jan. 21, 2020. Missed calls, text messages, news alerts. I was too terrified to look. I knew they were about the coronavirus hitting the U.S., and I wasn’t ready to accept that.

I was in the Indiana Daily Student newsroom when the story broke. I sipped my coffee, picked up my phone and typed: “What’s the likelihood that a Type 1 diabetic could die if they caught COVID-19?” I took a deep breath.

I panicked as the results popped up: I was high risk.

I’ve had Type 1 diabetes since I was 16-years-old. I was old enough to understand the severity of my illness, but young enough to want to act like I was perfectly healthy. Yet I imagined the worst every time I got a cough, a fever or the slightest pain. I knew a cold could send me to the emergency room.

COVID-19, however, was my greatest nightmare. People were dying by the thousands – many of them people like me. My family avoided going anywhere unless we had to and when we did we wore masks and made sure to sanitize our hands over and over.

We had one common goal as a family – don’t let Izzy get sick. It turned out we had more to worry about. *

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Everything was going fine. I moved back to Bloomington in August, lived with my roommates and went to classes. We did not go out with large groups, we wore masks and we made sure to follow all the guidelines. We thought we were going to be safe.

My mom, Angie, works in the front office at a high school. She is around people everyday. The inevitable happened.

I planned to come home to Scottsburg, Indiana, from Bloomington one weekend in late October. I was driving to my in-person class when my mom called me. I expected to hear her cheerful voice, but she was crying.

“Hey Izzy, I need you to not come home this weekend,” she said.

“Why?” “I have COVID and I need you to stay away from me so we don’t get you sick,” she said.

I told her I loved her and would call her later. I parked the car and sunk back in my seat. I stared out the window, tears rolling down my cheeks.

The virus then took over my household: My 17-year-

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Sophomore Izzy Myszak poses for a photo April 30 on IU’s campus. Myszak’s great-grandparents died from COVID-19 in 2020.

old sister Chloe tested positive. Then my 49-year-old stepfather Anthony.

Part of me thought that would be the end of it.

On Halloween my mom texted me: my great-grandfather was infected. Two days later, my great-grandmother had it as well. He was 88 and she was 85, and both had been healthy. Now they were in the hospital at the same time.

Early one morning my mom called me.

“Izzy, it’s not good, we are driving to the hospital now, they are going to let two of us in to say goodbye,” my mom said.

They were too late. My great-grandfather died before they got there.

There was no going to the hospital to visit my great-grandparents, no one to be there to hold my greatgrandfather’s hand as he was put on the ventilator.

No relatives to console my great-grandmother as she was told her husband was dead.

She knew loss like this before. She lost her first husband and married my greatgrandfather eight years ago after his first wife died.

This time was different.

She had been losing her memory over the last year.

When she was told her husband was dead she would soon forget, so she was told again. She had to relive his death over and over.

My great-grandmother

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Living high risk during a pandemic is lonely. Fear overwhelmed me as I moved through my day. It wasn’t only me – my entire family felt the same fear.

My parents and my sister made it through the virus without getting hospitalized.

After their isolation period, I came home for my greatgrandfather’s funeral. My family was no longer contagious, but I was still scared when we hugged.

We sat down for dinner three days later and I took a bite of pasta – and tasted nothing, even when I took a second bite. I grabbed a piece of garlic bread and still nothing. My family went silent as they watched me take a bite of everything.

I couldn’t taste a thing.

I told my mom and she sighed as she closed her eyes and shook her head.

“Are you 100% sure you can’t taste it?” she asked.

“I’m sure,” I said. “I’ll go get tested in the morning.”

I couldn’t sleep that night.

I went through a whole container of mints, hoping I would be able to taste one of them, but I couldn’t.

My stepfather drove me to the test. It was quiet. We were scared. For some reason we had this false presumption that I would be safe from the disease’s grasp.

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Anthony, Angie, Izzy and Chloe stand for a picture Dec. 25, 2020. All four contracted COVID-19 in 2020.

“You’re going to be fine,” he said. “It is probably just a cold.”

I shook my head. I knew better.

At the doctor’s, a nurse did a nose-swab and left me for what seemed like hours. I sat there and prayed.

God, I beg. I know the results won’t change, but I beg for peace and to understand the why of this.

The door opened and my doctor walked in with the paper. I could see the “positive” in the top right corner.

“I’m sorry Isabella,” she told me.

I tuned out the rest of the conversation. I knew the drill:

self-isolate, call close contacts, keep in touch with your doctors.

We didn’t talk on the way back. I played the song “Way Maker” by Mandisa on repeat.

Promise keeper, light in the darkness. My God, that is who You are.

Over the next two weeks I developed shortness of breath, a fever, a cough and I completely lost my sense of taste and smell. I was exhausted for the next month.

But that wasn’t the end of my COVID-19 story.

Five months later, I still have long-term symptoms.

Going up the stairs to my apartment leaves me panting

and exhausted.

The feelings were not only physical. Having the high risk label made me feel like I was a target from the beginning. It has left me with grief and resentment towards those who have not taken it seriously.

Finally, the vaccine has allowed me to take a breath and sit down for a moment.

“Chloe, we’re eligible,” I said to my sister when the vaccines became available for those over 16 in early April.

“I know,” she said. “This is the moment we have been waiting for.” imyszak@iu.edu

NOTHIN’ BUT NAT

Dating is hard, and the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t made it any easier Natalie Gabor (she/her) is a junior in journalism.

Because eye contact makes me wildly uncomfortable, and I’d sooner go cliff-diving than approach potential romantic partners in public, I’m what Tinder would probably consider a “heavy user.” I rarely end up actually meeting anyone, but the inherent thrill in swiping left or right keeps my account active nonetheless.

To be clear, I absolutely hate Tinder. The reality of meeting new people in any capacity is terrifying and seems to be much more trouble than it’s worth. At least, that’s what I tell myself to justify my unwillingness to actually do so.

If you’re shy like I am, approaching or talking to others is daunting. I find myself stuck between revealing enough of my personality to be likable — perhaps even dateable — but not wanting to expose myself emotionally to a potentially unfit partner.

The COVID-19 pandemic has only compounded this

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fear because I, like most others, haven’t even had many opportunities to meet anyone or go on dates. I’m out of practice.

But even though we’re still very much in a pandemic, better days are in sight. My “living in a panoramic’’ excuse will soon run thin.

Social media, group chats and online dating apps allow

me to feel a sort of pseudoconnection to others, giving me an excuse to avoid opening up or making actual plans. I can feel like I’m making the effort without any real exertion on my part.

There are various reasons why some people might be anxious about dating during or post-COVID-19. Unsurprisingly, my reasons are

not only due to fears of being known or getting hurt, but also the obvious health risks of meeting new people faceto-face.

Excessive caution in the face of a public health crisis isn’t inherently my fault, though.

This phenomenon evolved in the human psyche as the “behavioral immune system,”

or an unconscious set of emotional responses to infectious disease, according to a dating behavior study conducted by McGill University in Montreal.

Because pathogens have recurred throughout history, humans have developed certain social behaviors to reduce the threat of imminent disease such as being more guarded and avoiding eye contact.

Nevertheless, it is still important to engage with others and pursue platonic or romantic relationships, as human connection is an integral part of the human experience.

Even though online forums pale in comparison to direct physical communication, pandemic-induced remote socialization garners one positive: The inevitability of predate vetting from cautious individuals.

By sitting back and really ascertaining what’s important to prospective daters before actually doing the thing and meeting up, they are more likely to “develop extensive skills in social emotional intelligence and com-

munication,” according to Laura Murray, a clinical psychologist and senior scientist in mental and international health.

Messaging or video chatting before an in-person meetup can ensure participants have compatible priorities and avoid awkward miscommunication or lack of connection.

The hardest part, I think, is simply reaching out to begin with. I understand being rejected in any context — especially if the other person doesn’t know you at all — is like microdosing heartbreak, but it’s essential to redeveloping interpersonal skills that have become greatly impaired due to the pandemic.

To be transparent, I feel rather underqualified to weigh in on this. Asking me about dating is like the blind leading the blind. But considering what I’ve learned from friends who’ve found genuine connections amid the pandemic, I’m hopeful — and others should be too. natgabor@iu.edu

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