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IUPD issues crime notice

By Grace Ybarra gnybarra@iu.edu | @gynbarra

IU Police Department issued a crime notice Wednesday after receiving a delayed report of rape that occurred during Welcome Week, the first week students arrive on campus each fall. IUPD Capt. Craig Munroe said the rape allegedly occurred on the night of Aug. 19 through the morning of Aug. 20 at Forest Quad.

It was reported the alleged victim met the suspect at a gathering in an on-campus residential housing facility. The suspect engaged in nonconsensual sex with the victim later that evening, according to the crime notice.

Munroe said IUPD doesn’t know the identity of the suspect. The crime notice said the suspect is believed to be a student or affiliated with IU. Munroe said the investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information about the crime can reach out to IUPD at 812-855-4111.

Bloomington gears up for reopening of Eskenazi

By Greer Ramsey-White gramseyw@iu.edu

Not only will the Eskenazi Museum of Art be reopening its doors after three years of renovations, but it will also present a MuseumFest with various arts activities and performances.

Nov. 7, reopening day, will feature activities from 4 to 8 p.m. Activities will include guided tours, pop-up talks of ancient art and impressionist paintings and “Poetry on Demand” from Bloomington’s Writer’s Guild where a poet will write a poem for attendees on the spot.

The day will also feature a behindthe-scenes conservation experience that museum goers must reserve tickets for on the Eskenazi Museum of Art website.

The following day, Nov. 8, will feature performances of “Ascension” – a dance choreographed by IU’s Contemporary Dance Department director, Elizabeth Shea. There will be multiple performances that last 20-30 minutes running from Nov. 8-12.

Festivities will continue into Nov. 9 as an open art studio will present “What is Art Therapy?”

The last day of the reopening festivities on Nov. 10 includes a presentation on “Rethinking the Modern Art Collection,” as well as a history of the museum tour.

For the full weekend schedule, visit the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art website at https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/reopening/.

‘We didn’t lose, but we

didn’t gain anything’ Workers return after General Motors strike.

It was the longest nationwide auto strike in 50 years.

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

BEDFORD — At each tent, a campfire fire burned, and the wind whipped the white soot and embers in all directions. Union workers, who had traded their T-shirts and sunglasses for sweatshirts and beanies, sat in camp chairs or stood around the fire, waving their signs when the occasional car passed.

It was late October, and it had been more than a month since the United Automobile Workers’ strike had begun at the General Motors plant, and autumn had arrived.

Drivers still honked and waved, and the Bedford Police still turned on their sirens in support.

The strikers wanted to go back to work, but they didn’t want the long weeks of no pay to be for nothing. They wanted their share of GM’s new wealth they believed they’d earned.

Around the fires, they talked about GM’s CEO Mary Barra’s nearly $22 million paycheck and watched the few people who are still working in the plant go in and out of the buildings behind the tall fence, pointing them out by name and position.

“He needs to pull his britches up,” one woman said as she saw a man she recognized walk out.

Some union workers would wave at the handful of people they knew who were still working on the other side of the factory fence.

Workers sometimes returned the wave and sometimes didn’t, fearing that if they showed support of the strike, they might lose their jobs.

The strikers also knew they were being watched. Cameras were pointed at the picket line, and

managers would peek out the windows to watch them.

Tension, frustration and hope intermingled on the picket line as national negotiations with GM dragged on. Kevin Hutchinson, president of Bedford’s UAW Local 440, was determined to stick it out for long haul if that’s what it took to get what they wanted.

“We’re in it now,” he said.

The strike would last six weeks, the longest nationwide auto strike in 50 years. * * * At 12:01 a.m. on Sept. 15, Hutchinson, or “Hutch” as everyone calls him, walked into the Bedford GM plant carrying the blue and gold flag of the worker’s union.

Word spread quickly on the factory floor, where workers were casting aluminum to make engine and transmission parts and assembling Corvette chassis.

They shut down their die cast machines and semi-permanent molds, cleaned up their work stations and walked out of the factory doors, simultaneously starting a strike with nearly 50,000 GM workers across the country.

As they marched out together, union and American flag leading the pack, Hutch got goosebumps.

For more than 70 years, the Bedford GM plant had provided the best paying jobs in the area.

Jobs with enough pay to start a family, own a house and retire comfortably. But now, good jobs were no longer a guarantee. Before GM filed for bankruptcy in 2009, the UAW gave up worker benefits to keep GM afloat. Since then, GM had bounced back financially but had been slow to give back the benefits and level of pay union

workers enjoyed before the bankruptcy.

The union also agreed to let GM hire more temporary workers after they filed for bankruptcy, positions that have ended up being not so temporary.

Temp workers, many of whom have worked for GM for several years, perform the same jobs as permanent employees, are paid a little more than half of what a permanent employee makes, have significantly less health insurance, receive three unpaid vacation days a year and must give 24-hour notice before taking those days. They are not guaranteed a certain number of hours a week, and the union can do little to protect them. Their hourly pay starts at $15 an hour and is capped at $19 an hour.

One temp worker got his wisdom teeth pulled and wasn’t given permission to stay home after the surgery. Instead, he was given a bag to spit blood in as he worked.

Hutch has a keen eye for corporate greed and cutting corners, and not just in the auto industry. He rants about how little employees get paid at Walmart, what teachers are paid at schools and what the catering workers at Los Angeles International Airport who went on strike this past June made.

Hutch thought about what Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto allegedly wrote after the attacks on Pearl Harbor: “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”

He wonders if Mary Barra feels the same way.

As GM tries to tighten its spending to compete with foreign car companies, job security is the deepest concern among many workers. GM closed three plants in the past year to cut expenditures

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Kevin Hutchinson talks to union workers on the picket line at Bedford’s General Motors plant. The union workers recently ended a six-week long strike.

and invest in self-driving cars and electric vehicles, which the company sees as the future of the industry. These vehicles, by nature, will require fewer human hands to put them together and will result in the loss of many jobs.

In the meantime, employees of shuttered plants get transferred to plants around the country, becoming “GM Gypsies” and leaving homes and families behind.

President Donald Trump promised to keep manufacturing jobs in America in his 2016 campaign and even visited the workers of the now-shuttered Lordstown, Ohio plant, and told them not to move or sell their houses, that he would fight for their jobs.

Hutch, who doesn’t even like to call Trump “president,” said while union workers generally vote blue, he knows workers who voted for Trump because of his promises and now regret it.

“I think there’s huge things that could have been done to help the auto industry,” Hutch said.

But those things didn’t happen.

In the blustery autumn wind, union workers threw more wood on the fire, making sparks fly.

Older workers on the picket line reflected on the struggle each generation of autoworkers has made to secure good paying, permanent jobs for the generation after them.

It was their turn to do that now, but was it even possible?

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Anderson Cooper visits IU for Union Board lecture series

By Kyra Miller kymill@iu.edu | @kyra_ky94

Anderson Cooper, anchor of Anderson Cooper 360˚ and correspondent of 60 Minutes, gave a lecture on his experiences in reporting across the globe and on being in the national spotlight.

The lecture was accompanied by a Q&A Sunday night at IU’s Musical Arts Center as a part of the Lou Mervis Distinguished Lecture series.

Cooper has been reporting around the world for the past 27 years without any formal journalism education. Cooper graduated from Yale in 1989 with a degree in political science but said he had always been inspired by war correspondents, traveling and telling stories.

Cooper was able to get his first official story by faking a press pass and sneaking into Myanmar to tell the story of students fighting against the government.

“I knew then that this is what I wanted to do for the rest of my life,” Cooper said.

Since the inception of his journalistic career in Myanmar, Coo-

per has traveled and reported in more than 50 countries. He traveled to Somalia in 1992 and witnessed war and famine. He told a story of a mother and father who watched all four of their sons die.

Cooper said he was reminded of the importance of journalism in Somalia.

“I could not stop the starvation, and I couldn’t save people’s lives, but I could bear witness to their struggles,” Cooper said. “I could learn their names and tell their stories.”

Even though Cooper witnessed some of the darkest things while reporting abroad, he said he also saw the best in humanity. Cooper spoke about how he saw everyday people put their own lives at risk to help others during events such as Hurricane Katrina, the tsunami in Japan and the earthquakes in Haiti.

“In the midst of tragedies and disasters, I’ve seen so many acts of bravery and selflessness by individuals,” Cooper said.

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Anderson Cooper, anchor of CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360°,” speaks Oct. 27 in the Musical Arts Center. Cooper talked about IU’s motto, “Light and Truth,” and how it relates to good journalism practices.

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Bloomington immigrants share stories at ACC

By Carson TerBush cterbush@iu.edu

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The United Way building is seen Oct. 28 on West Second Street. Sophomore Madeline Garcia, president of Student United Way at IU, which is a branch of Monroe County United Way, sees United Way’s theme, “change begins with you,” as the idea that just one person can create change.

United Way continues annual campaign season

By Lyndsay Valadez lvaladez@iu.edu | @lynds_val

Madeline Garcia said she started serving people in her community of Avon, Indiana, through United Way her sophomore year in high school. Now a college sophomore, Garcia is the president of Student United Way at IU. This year’s theme for United Way is “change begins with you.” Garcia sees it as the idea that just one person can create change.

“You are the spark that lights a fire,” Garcia said.

“You are the person that can catalyze change.”

Her personal goal for this year is to create change by getting around 10 students to commit their lives to service, she said.

Garcia said she thinks an important part of the campaign this year is IU’s Bicentennial. She said she hopes with all of the celebration going on this year, IU can give back and smooth the pathway of giving for the next 200 years.

This year is Jennifer Piurek’s second year as campus co-chair of the United Way campaign. Piurek is the communications director for the Office of the Provost and Ex-

ecutive Vice President. Piurek said the campaign theme means to her that people can not change the community alone, but with others, they can.

“If we individually take action, then collectively it’s very powerful,” Piurek said.

Piurek said this year she wants the campaign to be more personal and for people to be more engaged.

This year’s campaign will include a variety of events and activities that faculty, students and community members can take part in, Piurek said.

“To be able to give back

and help those that are not fortunate enough to attend the university or that work for the university is something really cool,” Garcia said.

Piurek said some of the events include cabinet meetings, supply drives, making baby baskets, assembling literacy kits and Friday brunches.

The brunches, which will take place in the Indiana Memorial Union’s State Room East, include free food and a panel. A Nov. 1 panel will focus on assessing the community’s important issues, and a Dec. 6 panel will focus on disability inclusivity.

RPS opens food trucks for IU Dining

Bloomington community members will share their immigration stories over cookies and tea Wednesday at a panel discussion titled “Remembering our Beginnings: Stories of AAPI Immigrants.”

The free event, part of the Over a Cup of Tea discussion series, will be from 5-6 p.m. at the Asian Culture Center and will allow students of all backgrounds to gain insight into immigration stories in a way that is difficult to do in casual conversation, program associate Sarah Stamey said.

“Come for the chance to hear people’s stories that you might not have an opportunity to hear otherwise,” Stamey said. “It’s just kind of like a window into other people’s experiences, and then maybe it will get people to reflect on their own experiences and thoughts.”

Stamey said the discussion will feature five panelists, including IU staff and Bloomington community members who have immigrated from Asian countries.

Christine Peralta, a postdoctoral scholar with the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society, will moderate the discussion by asking the panelists questions about their immigration experiences.

“For the students, since this panel is with slightly older people, it’s to understand how even in one and two generations, how immigration stories are still similar and how they’re different,” Stamey said.

The panel members include Counseling and Psychological Services staff psychologist Wilson Hsiao, local physical therapist Cindy Berin, Hartzell’s Ice Cream owner Hartzell Mar-

tel, Kinsey Institute director of libraries Liana Zhou and assistant professor of speech and hearing sciences Rita Patel.

Daniel Park, a graduate assistant at the Asian Culture Center and an immigrant himself, said he plans to attend the event. Park said immigration stories may help international students transition into living in a new country.

“It will be a great opportunity for people, even if you cannot relate to the stories of journeys from immigrants,” Park said.

Cindy Berin, a local physical therapist who was chosen to be on the panel, said she immigrated from the Philippines in 1997 on a worker’s visa and ended up in Bloomington after getting a job at a nearby hospital. Berin said she and her husband have helped Filipino students transition into IU since they moved here, building a supportive community for Filipino immigrants in the area.

“How we actually kind of got them into our little community is, ‘Hey, get out of your dorm and have Thanksgiving dinner at least,’” Berin said. “That’s how we’ve helped. We can’t help them in terms of their papers, we help them by providing them a culture away from home.”

Berin said the sacrifices she and other immigrants make are important to discuss for international students, second generation immigrants and non-immigrants alike.

“When my dad died, my green card was still in the process, so I couldn’t at that time just leave, I had to do my grieving here,” Berin said. “I think it’s important for students to know that, so that they don’t take their parents for granted.”

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Residential Programs and Services introduced two food trucks to IU Dining roughly three weeks ago to provide students with more options and easier access to food.

The two trucks are named Gloriana’s and Stripes. Gloriana’s offers breakfast food, and Stripes offers internationally inspired food. Stripes is open from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and from 4:30 to 7 p.m., and Gloriana’s is open from 7:30 to 10 a.m.

IU Dining Executive Director Rahul Shrivastav said RPS took inspiration from the popularity of the Traveler at the Goodbody and Bookmarket Eateries, which offer international food, when developing the menu for Stripes.

Shrivastav said the food options at the trucks are designed to add more variety to IU Dining.

“These are the items that we don’t offer in the dining halls,” Shrivastav said. “We differentiate that a little bit in the food trucks so students get excited about what we have to offer in different areas.”

Shrivastav said the food trucks are located in areas that will most benefit students.

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Stripes food truck cashier Jessica Williams hands freshman Misha Rekhter his Crimson Card on Oct. 28 in front of the Showalter Fountain. Stripes is one of two food trucks operated by IU dining.

“We want to be of service,” Shrivastav said. “That’s the most important thing for us.”

RPS has been determining which locations are best for the food trucks through trial and error. They have been receiving a lot of traffic near the Showalter Fountain.

Junior Amanda Drobek is a cashier at Stripes. She said the truck served more than 100 customers between 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. when it

was parked near the fountain.

Shrivastav said he wants to use the food trucks to help fill food deserts on campus.

Students can find the location of the trucks through social media. Each truck has a Twitter, a Facebook and an Instagram account.

Freshmen Mehar Guleria and Anshuman Punj ordered from Stripes for the first time Friday. They both said they liked that the trucks provided

more variety of food than is available in the dining halls.

“We were eating the same thing at the dining halls pretty often,” Punj said.

Shrivastav said the food trucks have been doing well so far. Gloriana’s is looking to expand its menu to food other than breakfast.

“The folks who are getting food from them have nothing but great things to say,” Shrivastav said.

Ivy Tech offers FASFA help at College Goal Sunday

By Claire Peters clapete@iu.edu | @claire_peterss

College application season can be stressful for families, but College Goal Sunday events aim to ease the financial stress.

The College Goal Sunday event will be from 2 to 4 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Ivy Tech Community College in Bloomington. Students and their families can attend to get free help filling our their Free Application for Federal Student Aid. “Too many families across Indiana miss out on financial aid they didn’t even know they were eligible for,” said William Wozniak, College Goal Sunday co-chair. “They walk away from education because they think they can’t afford it.”

The event started 31 years ago when the Indiana State Grant Division recognized a

need for assistance, as many students were not completing the application. Sue Allmon, one of the founders of College Goal Sunday, said they approached the Indiana Student Financial Aid Association and created the event, which started with three locations in Indianapolis.

This year, there will be 37 sites around Indiana having an event this year. Wozniak said, according to past data, they are expecting to help around 15,000 families in Indiana.

But Indiana is not the only state that organizes these events, as they have spread nationwide.

“It started right here in Indiana 31 years ago, and it caught fire,” Wozniak said.

“Now there’s events across the country.”

If students are planning on

attending the event, they and their parents need to bring income or benefits information such as 2018 tax information and bank statements. But it is open to anyone who is heading to college, not just high school students.

Students older than 24 and older can bring their completed 1040 IRS tax return from 2018.

Students who attend the event and submit their applications are also entered into a drawing for a $1,000 scholarship.

Financial experts will also be at the events to make sure all families are being helped.

Some sites, including Bloomington, also have a Spanish interpreter for families who need it.

“It’s very important, make sure the family is comfortable and get their questions an-

swered,” Wozniack said. “We don’t want students to overpay or take on too many loans because of financial reasons that often can be fixed by filing the FAFSA.” The first College Goal Sunday event of the school year is Nov. 3, but another is scheduled for February.

“We have about the same number of students who come for the fall and spring; it’s almost an even split,” Allmon said. “The goal is for the family to come in, complete the form and submit it in the same afternoon.

She said she estimates there will be at least 100 students coming to the Sunday event in Bloomington .

“We need to provide opportunities as no cost until we get 100% of our students filing financial aid forms on an annual basis,” Allmon said.

Citizens Police Academy members met Tuesday night at the Bloomington Police Station to learn about domestic violence issues via a PowerPoint presentation.

Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Pam Gladish lectured on the dangers of domestic violence along with the cycle that it tends to follow.

Gladish said the definition of domestic violence has changed since 2016. She said until 2016, it applied only to spouses. Since then, when the law changed, it is now more of an umbrella term that includes if the people are dating, blood-related or related by adoption.

Prior to 2016, before the law was changed, Gladish said in the event of domestic violence involving a samesex couple, it could only be called a battery. Monroe County was one of the first counties in Indiana to make domestic battery arrests with same-sex couples.

Gladish then explained the cycle of violence, which is the pattern domestic violence usually follows.

It begins with the tension

phase, followed by the explosion phase and finishes with the honeymoon phase. The tension phase is when the tension rises, the explosion phase is when physical abuse happens and the honeymoon phase is when no other incidents are occurring.

“Abusers want to be in control of their partner 24/7,” Gladish said.

Some reasons a person may stay in an abusive relationship are financial insecurities and religious reasons, Gladish said.

“I can give the survivor as much information as I want, but I cannot make them make a decision,” Gladish said.

Gladish said when officers arrive at the scene of a domestic violence call, the officers have to be quick on their feet. Officers try not to park in front of the residence as well.

Once inside, officers identify every person in the home, remove weapons and take statements from the people there.

If you are experiencing domestic violence, call the 24/7 Help and Crisis Line for the Middle Way House, 812-336-0846.

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Miscommunication from IU leads to student petition

Researchers adapt telescope technology to study glaucoma

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IU limited a section of the CH6 parking area outside of Briscoe Quad on Oct. 28. Students with a CH6 parking pass were emailed about the change Oct. 25, three days before cars were forced to move.

Students were given access to parking at the corner of 13th Street and Fee Lane and designated areas near the stadium.

Angered and unprepared for the change, students started a petition, freshman Kaylie Demaree said. It was signed by over 380 people as of Oct. 29.

Demaree, who works late nights, said she uses the Guardian App, texts her friends at night, carries pepper spray and stays near other people when she walks from her car to Briscoe.

“I do everything I’m supposed to do,” Demaree said.

“This just makes it even harder to be safe.”

Freshman Laura Stancato said she expected more from the university.

“I paid extra to park here so I could be safe when I walk in the dark,” Stancato said.

The Office of Parking Operations did not give students as much information as it should have about the parking change, Amanda

Researchers at the IU School of Optometry recently used adapted telescope technology to capture the first undistorted images of the eye structure related to glaucoma called the trabecular meshwork.

Dr. Thomas Gast, a coauthor on the study, and his team are the first to use this technology, called adaptive optics, to study trabecular meshwork, the part of your eye that drains fluid. The purpose of this research is to learn the causes and possible treatment methods for glaucoma.

Adaptive optics arose out of a need for better instruments to see into the eye.

This technology has been in development since the early 1990s, but this is the first time adaptive optics has been used to study a part of the eye other than the retina, said Dr. Donald Miller.

Age is the number one thing that affects the trabecular meshwork, Gast said. As someone gets older, the pathways inside the trabecular become blocked or closed up. Pigment dispersion syndrome can also affect the meshwork because excess pigment cells can be shed, causing blockage and fluid buildup. Fluid buildup causes pressure to build in the eye, which can lead to glaucoma.

Glaucoma currently affects more than 3 million people in the United States alone, according to the Glaucoma Research Foundation. A study done at the Singapore Eye Research Institute estimates that 111 million people worldwide will be affected by glaucoma by 2040.

“Normally, clear fluid circulates inside the eye to keep it ‘inflated’ to its normal shape,” said Dr. Brett King, who co-authored the study. “Alterations of the trabecular meshwork elevates pressure in the eye, leading to glaucoma. The problem is the meshwork can only be seen poorly with the normal instruments.”

To view the trabecular meshwork, researchers modified an existing laser microscope with a programmable mirror which is able to adjust in real time to correct for the eye’s imperfections, according to an IU press release. The mirrors in telescope technology allows for higher magnification and a clearer view of the eye structure that cannot be seen by the human eye.

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A sign stands Oct. 28 in the Briscoe Quad parking lot. IU limited a section of the CH6 parking area outside of Briscoe Quad on Oct. 28.

Turnipseed, IU director of parking operations, said.

Turnipseed said contrary to what students have heard by email, the lot is not closed. Instead, workers are planning to add a construction fence where some parking spots were located before.

Turnipseed said there will be signs later this week to indicate where students can still park. Until signs are up, students with CH6 passes will not receive citations there. She said about 40 cars

will fit in the lot.

Construction on the parking lot will continue for 18 to 24 months, Turnipseed said. The CH-6 lot behind Foster is now EM-S parking only.

IU Parking Operations learned about the parking lot changes less than two weeks ago, Turnipseed said.

She said students were told about the changes last-minute because parking operations was in a rush to find alternative parking.

IU Parking Operations

is offering refunds for the remainder of the semester for students who wish to return their CH6 pass.

The original price for CH6 passes was $236, and students would be refunded about $177 to account for the fees of the rest of the semester, Turnipseed said.

“We understand this has been very challenging and frustrating for students,” Turnipseed said. “We want to make sure this project causes as little pain as possible.”

A tick bite led to former senator’s death.

Here’s what is known about the virus.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Former U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan died Monday at age 66 – nearly three years after she was first hospitalized with what doctors later said was encephalitis.

The cause? Powassan virus, a relatively rare tickborne disease.

Encephalitis is an inflammation of the brain often caused by an infection like the Powassan virus, according to the Mayo Clinic.

The recovery process for viral encephalitis varies by case with differing impacts on the brain, speech, vision, memory and muscle control, the Raleigh News & Observer reported, citing the University of Maryland Medical Center.

For Hagan, it was a three-year struggle.

The former North Carolina senator was taken to an intensive care unit in December 2016, according to the News & Observer. But

the specifics of her condition were kept under wraps at the time.

Two months later, her family informed the public she was recovering from encephalitis.

“It hit her hard,” Hagan’s husband, Chip, told the newspaper after she was hospitalized again in 2018 with pneumonia. “However, you know she is a fighter.”

In one of her last public appearances, the Greensboro News & Record reported Hagan attended a ceremony for an air traffic control tower at Piedmont Triad International Airport on June 5.

Chip Hagan told the newspaper her speech was still limited, as was her muscle movement.

They were “just now beginning to get her back out and around a little bit so she can see her friends,” he said.

But Hagan died in her sleep at her home in

Greensboro on Monday, family members told the Observer.

WHAT IS THE POWASSAN VIRUS The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes Powassan virus as an illness spread by the bite of infected ticks.

“Most cases in the United States occur in the northeast and Great Lakes regions from late spring through mid-fall when ticks are most active,” according to the CDC. “There are no vaccines to prevent or medicines to treat Powassan virus disease.”

It’s known to cause encephalitis or meningitis, the centers said.

People infected reported feeling sick anywhere from one week to one month after being bitten – but many don’t have symptoms at all, according to the CDC. Those that do reported fevers, headaches, vomit-

ing and weakness.

One in 10 people diagnosed with a severe disease such as encephalitis after contracting the virus will die, according to the centers.

Half of those who survive cope with long-term health problems.

HOW IT’S TRANSMITTED Ticks can be infected after feeding on groundhogs, squirrels, mice or rodents carrying the virus in their blood, according to the CDC. But it’s a one-way street.

“Infected ticks can then spread Powassan virus to people and other animals by biting them,” the CDC said. “People do not develop high enough levels of the virus in their blood to infect biting ticks. As a result, people are considered ‘dead-end’ hosts for Powassan virus.”

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millionths of a millimeter, which is precise enough to visualize single cells or measure blood flow inside the retina. This is important because the trabecular meshwork is a very small portion of your eye, hidden in the corner and usually covered by skin and your cornea.

“End stage glaucoma is worse than closing your eyes,” Gast said.

Glaucoma is usually a slow-moving illness, and can take several months or years before someone’s vision is completely obscured. Glaucoma slowly kills the axons in the optic nerve, which controls vision. These cells are destroyed in a specific pattern, usually from the inside of the nerve outward.

This pattern causes the slowblindness that glaucoma is known for. In this process, the peripheral vision goes first and slowly encroaches to the center, Gast said.

Currently, there are no perfect treatments for glaucoma, Gast said, and treatments vary in every single country. There are several eye-drop treatments for glaucoma. Some patients can use one type of eye drop, but some need to use multiple different drops to relieve pressure in the eye. However, these treatments are almost always temporary. The eye drops work for a while, but the fluid and pressure in the eye will continue to rise. This treatment method is usually the first option for patients in the U.S. There is also a surgical option, called a trabeculectomy, that can cure glaucoma but does not work on everyone. This surgery is never the first treatment option in the U.S. and can only be performed once, Gast said. This surgery works best on patients who are showing only mild symptoms. It involves making microscopic cuts through the eye and the trabecular meshwork to create a pathway for the fluid to flow.

Additional authors on the study are Ting Luo and Dr. Kaitlyn A. Sapoznik, both Ph.D. students in optometry, as well as Dr. Steven Burns, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs. The work was funded in part by the National Institutes of Health’s National Eye Institute and an Allergan Foundation Research Grant from the American Academy of Optometry.

“Professor Burns’ use of adaptive optics is remarkable,” Miller said. “I see his work as really transformative and will likely be a whole new subfield of adaptive optics use.”

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 * * * From day one of the strike, Hutch was at Union Hall and on the line seven days a week, sometimes for eight to twelve hours each day. He credited his strike captains for keeping everything running smoothly, but he also did his own rounds.

He stopped at each of the eight tents that surround the factory, listening to concerns, answering questions, giving updates and making sure everyone has enough firewood for the night and food and water for the day.

He gave hugs and handshakes and knew many of the people by name.

Hutch has been working for GM for 43 years and has been UAW president for two.

He’s 65 and has four grown sons and five grandchildren.

His hands are rough, and his fingers are stubby. He wears clear hearing aids that barely show, but that everyone teases him about it. He lost his hearing from the factory noise and now reminds the younger workers to wear their ear plugs so they won’t end up like him.

His usual outfit is blue jeans and a UAW red T-shirt.

One says “Kicking Ass for the Working Class” on the back.

“This should have happened earlier, and it got out of hand,” one man said as Hutch stopped to talk.

“Well, now it’s time,” Hutch said. “Now it’s going to happen, you know?”

In small towns like Bedford, the solidarity of the community has been key to the strike’s success. In a back room at Union Hall, a food pantry was started for families struggling to get by on the $250 UAW workers receive each week while on strike.

The hall became a hub for workers not on picket duty.

Kids weaved in and out of the chairs in the main meeting hall and women carried in donations of diapers, feminine products and food.

A whole corner of the main room was occupied by cases of water bottles and Gatorade. “UAW On Strike” signs laid on tables and a Rosie the Riveter poster kept

watch over the snacks.

Outside Hutch’s office at Union Hall, a whiteboard was crammed with names of people and community groups and donated items, ranging from Clarisa Guy’s apples and cookies to Georgia Wood’s muffins, danishes and 30 pounds of ground beef.

While many of the strikers were permanent employees, they were on strike in large part for their temp worker “brothers and sisters,” many of whom are the younger generation of the community — sons and daughters, neighbors and friends — who are trying to start families and build their savings.

Because their pay has been so low, the strike hit temp workers hardest.

Zach Jones, 27, is a temp worker at the Bedford plant.

He started working there a year and a half ago and doesn’t plan to leave — it’s the best job around here, he said. But right now, there’s no way for him to climb the ranks with temp pay capped at $19 an hour.

He’s been dipping into savings like everyone and said he could probably make it another month without pay. Jones was getting paid between $15 and $16 an hour before the strike.

“I at least want a pathway to becoming full time,” Jones said. “Instead of going out there blind and wondering if it’ll ever happen.”

Jones stood in the chilly air, his hands deep in his sweatshirt pockets, not talking as much as the other workers at his tent. He was quiet but frustrated.

Under a different tent, Marquita Deckard sat in a camp chair embroidered with her name that she uses at her horse races. She’s a barrel racer and during the barrel season, she lives in her horse trailer on competition weekends.

Deckard was once a temp worker who went on strike to get hired as permanent worker. In 2007, the UAW worked to get temp workers hired as permanent workers and got what they wanted — and quickly. The strike lasted two days.

Deckard was one of the last temp workers who got hired as a “Tier 1” perma-

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Kevin Hutchinson talks to union workers on the picket line at Bedford’s General Motors plant. The union workers recently ended a six-week long strike.

nent worker. Tier 1 workers got a starting wage of $28 an hour and make up to $33 an hour now, while anyone hired after 2007 is a Tier 2 worker, has a starting wage around $17 an hour and can make only up to $28 an hour after eight years of working.

“I just got lucky,” Deckard said.

For picketers, there was more to being outside 24/7 than just keeping cool or warm. After dark, they had gotten quite a few furry visitors. One tent backed up to a tall fence with grasslands on the other side and one night, picketers saw a coyote, two deer and two skunks.

“We said, ‘Well, let’s just cut a hole in this fence and have a drive-thru zoo, charge a little admission fee and get by on the strike a little longer,’” one man joked.

Steve Haefke transferred to the Bedford plant five months ago from the closed plant in Lordstown, Ohio.

Lordstown and three other GM factories in the United States were “unallocated,” or unofficially closed down, this the past year, a move by GM that angered the UAW because it went around the 2015 contract that said no plants were to be closed during the four-year contract.

Haefke, who has worked for GM for 25 years, wore a black Carhartt jacket with the UAW symbol embroidered in silver thread over his heart.

He moved to Bedford with

his wife, but his whole family is back in Lordstown. But he considers himself lucky.

“It’s not easy, but we’re only six hours away,” Haefke said. “Some of our guys are 21 hours away. You know, guys we worked with, girls we worked with, they ended up in Arlington, Texas, and scattered all over the country.”

GM Gypsies have become the norm in Bedford and factories across the country. At almost each tent on the Bedford picket line, at any given time, there is a worker who has been displaced by factory closings. Some are on their fifth or sixth plant. They are a product of an industry that is is being forced to evolve.

After plants close, workers have no choice but to move or quit. Haefke said this phenomenon has caused divorces and broken families.

* * * * * * When she wasn’t on the picket line, Deckard took care of her seven horses and slept in with Grizzly Bear, her German shepard. Her barrel racing season is over now. Every year, she rests her horses for the winter and works overtime at the plant.

Two weeks ago, she got a new 6-month-old-colt named Crimson.

“He’s just a baby,” she said. “So I’m starting to work with him.”

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Anderson Cooper, anchor of CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360°,” drinks a bottle of water during his speech Oct. 27 in the Musical Arts Center. Cooper talked about IU’s motto, “Light and Truth,” and how it relates to good journalism practices.

After long days of keeping up morale on the picket lines, the bench-press at Hutch’s favorite gym, the Iron Pit, was his place of peace.

“I get in there, and if I’m mad about anything, I’m mad at the weights,” Hutch said.

He has placed and often won competitions in world and national powerlifting championships.

At the Iron Pit, metal clangs and clinks. Hutch works his lats on a machine by pulling down a heavy handlebar attached by pulleys to 180 pounds of weights. He pulls the bar down and exhales quickly on each yank. Eight pulls, then rest. Eight pulls, then rest.

“There is a lot of truth in, ‘If your mind believes it, your body will achieve it,” he said.

tions we see as rock solid to crumble completely.

Searching for the answer to stop this from happening, Cooper said he found the answer right here in the motto of IU, “Lux et Veritas,” which means “Light and Truth.” These are the two values we must hold dear, Cooper said.

Cooper said we live in a time where news is called fake and journalists are called enemies of the people. In a generation where there has never been more access to information, it is more important than ever to know where information is coming from and where the facts are checked, he said. It has never been more important to be an intelligent consumer.

“Too often I think we dwell on the things that separate us rather than the bonds that tie us to one another,” Cooper said. “Those bonds are at the core of who we are.”

At the beginning of the fifth week, Hutch was called to Detroit for a meeting. No deal had been reached, but a few days later, as Hutch stopped on the way to Detroit to shake hands with workers on the picket lines at the Fort Wayne pickup truck plant, he got the news. A tentative agreement had been made.

In Detroit, Hutch’s meeting about the contract that was meant to be about two hours dragged on for six.

Back in Bedford, workers were unimpressed by the contract that has just been released.

Although it gave temps a clearer path to becoming permanent workers, preserved their good health insurance and raised the pay of some workers, it would take time for some of the policies to be implemented.

It also included the permanent closing of three of the four unallocated plants, including Lordstown.

Private booths were set up at Union Hall and the fairgrounds where all union workers marked their vote on a slip of paper over the course of two days. They voted the contract down 60-to40, but nationally, it was approved on Friday, officially ending a strike that lasted six weeks.

To many of the older workers, it felt like the strike was just a fight to keep what they already had.

“We didn’t lose, but we didn’t gain anything, and I lost a lot of money,” Deckard said.

For Hutch, the strike was worth it, but the closings of the plants deepened his frustration with GM and his commitment to standing up for workers.

“They don’t care about families, they don’t care about people,” he said.

“We’re just tools, so that’s why we have to fight.”

After the vote was announced Friday, workers would be allowed to go back to work voluntarily and starting Sunday night, everyone would be back to work officially.

Deckard went back for the first time at 6:30 a.m. Saturday morning. It would take a few days for the semi-permanent-molds she worked with to be warmed up and running smoothly again.

“It’s going to be a long week,” she said.

The smokestacks in Bedford will again be filled with white smoke this week, and cold machines will be coaxed out of their slumber.

For now, life will go on until the next contract comes up or the next plant closes.

“They could still close plants over the life of this agreement,” Hutch said.

“There’s no guarantees.”

IUPD confirms no threat after flyer circulates

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The IU Police Department has confirmed there is no threat to campus Wednesday after a flyer circulated digitally claiming a former student was threatening mass violence at the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

“There is no threat on campus,” IUPD Capt. Craig Munroe said.

The flyer contained an image and name of a man.

The flyer identified him as a former student and directed those who read it to call 911 if they see the man on campus. A picture of the flyer was also shared digitally that said the man was planning

an act of mass violence at SPEA. Munroe confirmed the man named in the flyer was not in Bloomington as of Wednesday afternoon. If the man or anyone else was threatening campus, Munroe said IUPD would send out notifications.

IU spokesperson Chuck Carney said SPEA was made aware of the man’s identity last week but reiterated that there was no threat to campus.

Munroe said IUPD did not disseminate any information about the man and was unsure where the information was coming from.

If someone does see the man, Munroe said he or she should notify IUPD.

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Author Tim O’Brien described memories as, “starbursts in the darkness” — when recalling a memory, you cannot remember every distinct detail, only short fragments of it. O’Brien mentioned you probably couldn’t remember everything that happened just yesterday, let alone something that happened one day in 2008.

O’Brien spoke Tuesday at Franklin Hall where he discussed the themes of remembering and forgetting that are present in his memories from childhood and the Vietnam War. The talk was part of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Themester 2019. Following the talk, O’Brien had a book signing.

O’Brien, now 73, did not have his first child until he was 58. His new memoir entitled, “Dad’s Maybe Book,” is a collection of letters to his sons that he described as “messages in a bottle.” While writing the book, he realized how much he actually forgot about his life, as most of his memories, if not all, were beginning to fade. O’Brien said he is too old to be around for his son’s college graduations or to see them blossom into fully grown adults, so he hopes to leave behind his voice for them whenever they need to hear it.

“True enough, most of the events of my early years, all the way through middle age and now into old age,

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Tim O’Brien, best known for his book “The Things They Carried,” tells a story about his family Oct. 29 at Franklin Hall. O’Brien spoke as part of The College of Arts and Science’s “Remembering and Forgetting” Themester series.

have gone wherever our lives finally go — maybe into a hole,” O’Brien said. “And it’s also true that my sons will experience the same melting away process. Still, like my own father, I hope to leave my sons with at least some sense of my enormous love for them.”

The award-winning author also retold some of the moments he remembered from fighting in the Vietnam War, like bullets zipping past his head and crouching behind a bush while a hand grenade was launched toward him. As he grows older, he struggles with the process of how his memories of the war went from being way too real to being hazy and

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almost too surreal to have even happened.

O’Brien is known for his Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times Book of the Century “The Things They Carried,” which documents linked semi-biographical recounts of his experiences in the Vietnam War. He is also known for another war novel entitled “Going After Cacciato,” which won the National Book Award in 1979. In 2013, O’Brien was awarded the Pritzker Literature Award for distinguished work in military writing.

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“Erasing from our thoughts that death awaits all of us.

Perhaps this is a necessary defense against the paralysis that might set in if we were to endlessly contemplate our own mortality.”

As O’Brien expressed his outrage, which in his definition meant “ferociously caring,” he stressed the idea that our memories will fade into oblivion and that what is going on right now will not exist in the future.

“Maybe forgetfulness is a defense against madness itself,” O’Brien said. “When it comes to finality, our own extinction, forgetfulness may be a help as we move through a world that can’t be survived.”

Kanye West has always been this interesting figure, detached from humanity and reality. He seemed omnipotent, all-powerful and full of zest and spirit. He was always this larger-than-life being. Now, with “Jesus is King,” he feels like anyone else.

I can now relate to Kanye, sort of.

I went to Catholic school.

I took various classes about religion and skimmed through the Bible. I know like six of the Ten Commandments. I used to remember whatever the hell the Beatitudes are.

I probably know the same amount of stuff about Jesus and God as Kanye does, which, actually, isn’t all that much.

This album doesn’t say a lot about faith or Jesus or anything really. It just exists.

It just is.

It’s full of random Bible verses, Kanye comparing himself to biblical figures and Kanye-isms that will make 14-year-olds sit slackjawed on the school bleachers saying, “Woah, that’s deep.”

Kanye thinks he’s saying something, but in reality he’s saying nothing at all. Kanye hasn’t said a lot of meaningful things, but on albums like “Life of Pablo” and “Yeezus,” at least the things he was saying were fun.

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This album just feels like something my youth pastor would put on while making sure the boys and girls stayed on opposite sides of the dancefloor.

It’s sanitized, which is fine, but the cleanliness just seems so awkward and disingenuous after hearing Kanye rap about bleached orifices.

The existence of “Jesus is King” itself is more interesting than any of the songs or production choices. It feels like a strange heel turn for West, but at the same time it feels extremely Kanye.

He compares himself to Noah. He says things like, “What if Eve made apple juice?” Both of those things sound like something he would say on past records. I guess the lack of cursing and sex references makes it seem like a massive departure.

This album is just weird; it’s confusing. “Closed on Sunday” features acoustic guitar and a haunting choir.

It sounds like it could be featured in one of the “Midsommar” trailers. But then he keeps saying “You’re my Chick-Fil-A.” It’s bizarre and just thinking about it too hard makes me pissed off.

Listening to “Jesus is King” fills me with complicated emotions. I can’t believe this is where Kanye is as an artist now, but at the same time I’m not surprised at all.

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1 Spot for a salt scrub 4 Aromatic evergreen 10 Wind with nearly a threeoctave range 14 Fresh from the oven 15 Collection of hives 16 Sullen look 17 Track 18 Halloween feeling in a warren?

20 Buffalo lake 22 Like the vb. "go" 23 Belly laugh syllable 24 Halloween feeling near a water supply?

27 Valleys 31 "Take Care" Grammy winner 32 "We've waited long enough" 34 Bebe's "Frasier" role 38 Overlook 39 Halloween feeling in the office?

44 Enjoy privileged status 45 Poise 46 It may get the ball rolling 48 Trio in "To be, or not to be" 53 "Borstal Boy" author Brendan 54 Halloween feeling in the yard?

58 Angel dust, initially

60 61 62 67 68 69 70 71 72 73

"Same here" Vehicle with a partition Mideast potentate Slowly sinks from the sky Those folks Confident words Suit part sometimes grabbed Unhealthy Nursery piece Narrow way Engrave Backslides Hitting stat Advance slowly Big club Koala, for example Game based on whist Living room piece Japanese art genre Carried on Big name in Indian politics Some GIs Monk's address Cured salmon Employ 31-Across genre Covert information source

"You wish, laddie!"

Put out Halloween feeling in the loo?

Summer hrs. in Denver Stood Paparazzo's gear Mature Lumberjacks' tools Gave it more gas Finch family creator

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8 9 10 11 12 13 19 21 25

Astute Bartender, often Fifth-century conqueror Soap unit Two (of) Cuba __ Brand of hummus and guacamole Actor Millen of "Orphan Black" Folk story Wheeler-dealer Feathery neckwear CSNY's "__ House" Many "Guardians of the Galaxy" characters Latest things Rockies bugler Sandwich source

Answer to previous puzzle

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JONAH’S JUSTIFICATIONS

ILLUSTRATION BY ANNE ANDERSON | IDS

It is necessary to understand the true meaning of the Second Amendment Jonah Hyatt is a junior in political science and philosophy.

The interpretation of the Second Amendment commonly accepted by many Americans is that the right to bear arms is necessary to maintain freedom against a tyrannical government.

However, when looking back at the historical context of why the amendment was passed, it is painfully obvious this was far from the intent of the founders.

The Second Amendment’s original intent was the disbanding of standing armies because they were viewed as a threat to a stable government. Following a war, the army would be forced to disband, forming local militia groups in their states.

This actually served to protect the government against a hostile takeover by a standing army rather than to empower the people to fight against a tyrannical government, the exact opposite of how many interpret the amendment.

Militias were regulated by the states and southern militias were referred to as slave patrols. In Georgia, for example, all white plantation owners or their white male employees were required by law to join the

Georgia militia, making regular inspections of slaves’ quarters to prevent uprisings.

The main concern at the time to many southern slaveholders like George Mason and Patrick Henry was that the proposed constitution’s general welfare clause (Article 1, Section 8) could be interpreted to eventually free the slaves.

The general welfare clause included giving the federal government the power the supervise and regulate the militias. This worried slaveholders due to the possibility that federal militias could absorb state militias, causing them to no longer be slaveryenforcing institutions.

There was precedent for thisconcept in the lead-up to the revolutionary war during which slaves were offered freedom in exchange for fighting for the British army.

To compromise with slave states, at the command of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison changed the original draft of the Second Amendment from reading “a well-armed and well-regulated militia being the best security of a free country” to “free state,” to be sure there was zero ambiguity as to the state’s right to regulate state militias.

So, to be clear, the Second Amendment was enacted to disband standing armies and to allow slave states to regulate slave patrols in order to enforce and maintain the institution of slavery. Nothing to do with fending off a tyrannical government.

Until the famous court case District of Columbia v. Heller, it was understood that the right to bear arms was primarily endowed to militias, including state defense forces and the National Guard.

This case redefined the right to bear arms to be expanded to individuals, interpreting “militia” to include all able-bodied men who were capable of being called to serve in one.

This controversial case was a turning point in how the Second Amendment was interpreted with regard to self-defense and non-military gun ownership rights, overturning decades of jurisprudence on Second Amendment cases.

Now that the legal interpretation of the Second Amendment has completely changed to individual gun rights, gun ownership has become a constitutional issue rather than a political issue like it had been previously.

Unfortunately, overturning District of Columbia v. Heller

is extremely unlikely and would have little effect on gun legislation.

Now that individual gun ownership rights have been grounded in judicial precedent, there will likely continue to be the endless expansion of gun rights by gun anarchists in groups like the National Rifle Association.

The intention of the Second Amendment was never to bolster individual gun ownership rights, but rather it was specifically passed to protect the federal government from a military coup and to prolong the institution of slavery.

By shifting the legal interpretation of the amendment to non-military gun ownership, this strays greatly from the main reasons the amendment was passed to begin with.

The U.S. today is plagued with substantial gun violence, and strengthening individual gun ownership rights and accessibility is proven to lead to more violence.

The U.S. cannot keep following this path of universal gun accessibility. It is a threat to public safety, and it was not the founders’ intention in the slightest. hyattj@iu.edu

NATIONAL COLUMN

Trump and friends revive loyalty attacks From Tribune News Service

In Donald Trump’s America, it seems that anyone who speaks against the president, even if they are speaking for their country, will be accused of treachery. These attacks, reminiscent of others waged in our nation’s past, reveal how little today’s conservative commentators understand patriotic devotion.

Even before Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman was sworn in to testify before Congress in the impeachment proceedings on Oct. 29, right-wing pundits and the president himself accused this decorated, Purple Heart veteran of disloyalty.

The night before, Fox News commentator Laura Ingraham and guest John Woo suggested that Vindman may have committed espionage as a double agent who served both the Ukraine and the United States.

They were joined by a cacophony of right-wing zealots and legislators who suggested that Vindman was unpatriotic. For his part, Trump branded him a “Never Trumper,” sans evidence.

These claims echo those made 100 years ago, as Congress enacted one of the most tightly controlled immigration policies the country had ever seen. A series of legislation — from the Chinese Exclusion Act to the JohnsonReed Act — rested on the presumption that some immigrants could not assimilate. These immigrants were

TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shake hands during a meeting in on Sept. 25 New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

ostensibly different from the rest of us, in that they lived with divided loyalties.

During World War I many immigrants from war-torn areas were seen as likely saboteurs whose allegiances could not be guaranteed. Immigrants were put in an impossible situation: They were expected to show their devotion to the country but because of fear-based misunderstandings would never be seen as truly loyal. These claims made

Americans distrustful of all immigrants.

Challenges to loyalty also came up during the Red Scare of the 1920s and McCarthyism in the 1950s, as thousands of Americans were accused, blacklisted, and even imprisoned due to reckless allegations based on flimsy or nonexistent evidence.

Now these same sorts of claims are being used to diminish Vindman’s testimony. Former Rep. Sean Duffy

(R-Wisconsin) suggested that Vindman’s loyalty was not to the United States but to Ukraine, from where he emigrated at age 3, declaring, “We all have an affinity to our homeland where we came from. Like me, I’m sure that Vindman has the same affinity.”

Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade also took part in this slanderous assault, suggesting that Vidman “tends to feel simpatico with the

Ukraine.”

Such assertions redefine patriotism in toxic ways: What matters is not serving one’s country in line with the Constitution, but remaining loyal to the current administration.

Patriotism has been contorted into something profane.

Trump and his allies hope to capitalize on the fear of divided loyalties. They aim to undercut Vindman’s testimony by highlighting his foreign ties. These claims are then

amplified by a network of farright social media users who act as if repetition can make accusations of disloyalty true.

Meanwhile, Trump is fighting against accusations of disloyalty that he refuses to address. His motives are crystal clear: self-preservation.

Yet, in his case, the GOP stalwarts and right wing pundits see nothing to criticize.

By Leslie Hahner Tribune News Service

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FOOTBALL

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Allen pleads to fans as IU prepares for Northwestern

By Caleb Coffman calcoffm@iu.edu | @CalCoff

ANNA TIPLICK | IDS

Freshman Armaan Franklin lays up the ball during the exhibition game against Gannon University on Oct. 29 at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.

IU defeated Gannon, 84-54.

Freshmen impress for Hoosiers in exhibition victory

By Phillip Steinmetz psteinme@iu.edu | @PhillipHoosier

It may only be October and it may only be an exhibition game, but freshman guard Armaan Franklin and freshman forward Trayce Jackson-Davis showcased how much of an impression they could make this season.

The small two-man recruiting class for the Hoosiers only ranked No. 53 in the country, according to 247Sports. But both could be asked to play an intricate part early on. In the 84-54 win over Gannon University on Tuesday night, the duo combined for 24 points, 17 rebounds and five assists.

Despite the contribution on the offense end, both showed how they could play key roles on the defensive side of the ball.

“Both guys have been very good from the first day

on campus to now,” IU head coach Archie Miller said.

“Neither guy is afraid. They’re going to add a lot of value.

They’re going to play a big role on this team.”

With senior guard Devonte Green and junior guard Al Durham sitting out due to injuries, the starting point guard job went to Franklin for the night. The usual starting point guard, sophomore Rob Phinisee, played 14 minutes but was used primarily to spell Franklin at times.

Miller mentioned how Franklin surprised him a little bit. He played out of position for the whole 34 minutes and didn’t know a single play at point guard.

As the lone guard in the starting lineup, Franklin was aggressive on defense early.

He made his presence felt by consistently attacking the passing lanes and getting up in the face of the ball handler.

Within the first 29 seconds, he had the opening bucket and a steal. His applied defense gave IU the ability to run the floor in transition where he’d find teammates like Jackson-Davis and junior forward Justin Smith for open shots.

“They played confident,” Smith said. “They were aggressive, and they really didn’t shy away from the competition or really try and be a little bit passive. They really went at it.”

For Jackson-Davis, he got lost at times in the transition defense but made up for it with a couple key blocks.

In the second half, he chased down Gannon senior forward DeAnte Cisero after an IU turnover.

Once he arrived in the paint, Cisero passed the ball off to his teammate trailing behind him, but Jackson-Davis quickly turned around and

palmed the ball with his left hand to stop the action within a split second.

It was just one of his three blocks, but each swat electrified the crowd and ejected energy into his teammates.

For a team that ranked third in the Big Ten with 154 blocks last season, JacksonDavis proved he can contribute on the defensive end even on nights where his offense isn’t there. It’s tough to buy much stock in an exhibition game, but Miller and his players are confident in how much Jackson-Davis and Franklin can already contribute.

“You thrust those guys in there and they get their feet wet. Next thing you grow up right before your eyes,” Miller said. “Those guys are competitive, they’re winners, they’re good teammates and they’re two really important pieces to what we’ve been trying to do.”

IU head coach Tom Allen stood at the podium Saturday following the Hoosiers’ 38-31 victory over Nebraska with tears filling his eyes, and his voice cracked with emotion as he spoke to the media.

The often-stoic Allen was full of emotion as he reflected on his team’s achievement after becoming bowl-eligible for the first time since taking over as head coach in 2017.

IU will play the first November night game in Memorial Stadium’s 59-year history on Saturday as the Hoosiers take on the last-place Northwestern Wildcats.

“I want a huge, huge crowd for this football team,” Allen said. “These kids have fought and fought and fought, and I want our fans to come and support this football team. I get it. I understand the frustration of the past, but I don’t care.”

On Saturday, IU will play its first regular season game with six wins for the first time since 2007. Now that the Hoosiers have accomplished their baseline goal of winning six games, the focus for Allen and the team shifts back to weekly improvement.

Last week, as the Hoosiers were hunting for their sixth win, junior quarterback Peyton Ramsey emphasized how the team wasn’t worrying about becoming bowl-eligible.

Now that IU has its sixth win in hand, the same mentality remains.

“Now we can just go back to the business of getting better every single week and trying to win our next football game,” Allen said. “We have not had a ton of conversations about bowl games and six wins. We just did not. They knew when we won the game that we were bowl eligible, but that was never the goal to just to get to six.”

IU knows that every game

is another opportunity to move up the hierarchy of bowls. To move up another rung on the ladder, the Hoosiers will have to go through Northwestern’s 32nd-ranked defense.

Redshirt freshman quarterback Michael Penix Jr.’s availability is once again in question for IU, and the Hoosiers may need to lean on Ramsey once again.

While Ramsey shined against Nebraska this past weekend, it may be a tall order to expect him to provide the same amount of production.

The Wildcats have the 14thranked pass defense that has only allowed 180 passing yards per game.

On the other side of the ball, Northwestern’s offense has been in a downward spiral as the Wildcats are currently ranked as the second-worst offense in the country, averaging a measly 266.4 yards per game.

The struggles for Northwestern’s offense have been wide spread as junior quarterback Aidan Smith has struggled this season, averaging only 75.5 passing yards per game, the seventh-worst out of eligible quarterbacks in college football.

This favorable matchup for IU’s defense comes at a good time as the Hoosiers 31stranked defense has been inconsistent this season.

After a strong showing against Maryland’s 73rdranked offense two weeks ago, only allowing only 383 yards, the Hoosiers struggled against Nebraska and allowed 514 yards to the Cornhuskers. This included 18 “chunk plays” of 10 or more yards.

IU is bowl-bound and looking to further bolster its resume as it take it one week at a time.

“I haven’t been here very long,” Allen said. “All I know is what we’re doing right now so come support this football team and help these guys do something special.”