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IU law student remembered as strong, compassionate By Natalie Gabor natgabor@iu.edu | @natalie_gabor

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IU Maurer School of Law Student Purva Sethi died Feb. 8 after being struck by an SUV in Bloomington as she crossed Third Street to go south on Washington Street, four blocks away from campus.

IU law student Purva Sethi died Feb. 8 after being struck by an SUV in Bloomington as she crossed Third Street to go south on Washington Street, four blocks away from campus. She was 25. Originally from India, Sethi came to the United States in 2018 to study law. She wanted to be a clerk for a judge and work for a judicial system after gradu-

ation. She was set to graduate in May and had accepted her dream job in December. She completed her undergraduate degree at O.P. Jindal Global University-Sonipat, located in the Indian state of Haryana. After she passed, people took to Facebook to share positive memories. “She always showed how much friendships meant to her, setting an example for all of us to live by,” wrote Vilasini Venkatesh, a childhood friend of Sethi.

In a Feb. 10 post on the International Students Association at Maurer School of Law Facebook page, she was described as more than a board member. She was a friend to everyone. “I am thankful to ISA board for bringing us together and glad I met you and was able to experience your kind soul, your tenacity and thoughtful conversations,” Mudia Edosomwan, a friend from the law school, wrote on her own Facebook page. Friends and family told the

Indiana Daily Student she will be remembered as a kind-hearted and compassionate person who put others before herself. Siyu Li, a friend of Sethi, said although she was soft and kind, she was also strong. “Her first priority was to make others around her comfortable,” Li said. “She wanted others to be happy above her own happiness.” She said Sethi had multiple SEE SETHI, PAGE 3

Finishing what he started County

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In 1997, Bruce Smail fought for the LGBTQ+ Culture Center. Now he’s its interim director. JOY BURTON | IDS

Bruce Smail is pictured Feb. 26 in a conference room in Bryan Hall. Smail is the interim director of the IU LGBTQ+ Culture Center and special assistant to the Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs. By Carson TerBush cterbush@iu.edu | @_carsonology

Bruce Smail fought for LGBTQ and minority rights at IU as a graduate student in the ‘90s. He helped draft demands, organize a 1,000-person protest and convince the university to prioritize diversity. This semester, Smail has returned to campus but instead of fighting for those rights as a student activist, he plans to do so as the interim director of the LGBTQ+ Culture Center.

The center has gone through a lot of changes since it started in 1995. So has Smail. In 1990, Smail came out publicly as bisexual. In 2003, he was diagnosed with HIV. He has moved around four states, an island and Washington, D.C., working for four colleges, three HIV/AIDS organizations and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Smail is also serving as the special assistant to the Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Multicultural Affairs. Yolanda Treviño, assistant vice president of DEMA, said she knew Smail when he was studying at IU in the ‘90s. “He was, and continues to be, an insightful individual who

listens carefully and offers attainable recommendations and solutions,” Treviño said in an email. Smail will be the interim director for the next 3 ½ years. Through his career, he has worked to support black, LGBTQ, HIV/AIDS and other minority communities, and this work will influence his approach to IU's culture center. * * * In 1997, Smail was part of a student coalition at IU that staged a 1,000-person protest on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to bring attention to a list of diversity-related demands for the university. According to a Jan. 21, 1997,

article in the Indiana Daily Student, the demands were as follows : 1. The approval and implementation of a Latino Studies Department 2. The appointment of an Asian American Advocacy Dean 3. The maintenance and possible expansion of the Office of Diversity Programs 4. The funding and permanence of the GLB Student Support Services Office 5. The creation of an Asian culture center 6. An increase in both nonwhite and women faculty

As the coronavirus continues to spread internationally, the Monroe County Health Department recommends citizens review their emergency plans and suggest citizens focus on being prepared instead of being afraid. The department released a statement Feb. 28 with recommended safety tips for the coronavirus, as well as other viruses that are common this time of year February. Penny Caudill, a health administrator at the Monroe County Health Department, said there are no confirmed cases in Indiana, but she would not be surprised if at some point the virus did reach the state. “We need to do the things we can do to control our own situations,” Caudill said. The department recommends planning how to get food and necessities without going outside for two weeks and stocking up enough food to stay inside on short notice. According to the release, thinking about the possibility of working from home and planning for daycares to be closed are parts of the emergency plans people can consider. Caudill said the department deals with outbreaks on a somewhat regular basis, but it is prepared to adapt its typical response because of the new virus and the difficulty of knowing what to expect. The Monroe County Health Department is doing what it can to reSEE VIRUS PLANNING, PAGE 3

COVID-19 leads IU to Beach Boys bring 'Good Vibrations' to concert ban travel to Italy, Iran Smail's HIV talk, page 2 Check out how the interim director shared his experiences with HIV last week at a talk on campus.

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Nashville, Indiana, saw a break from near-freezing temperatures this weekend as it welcomed a dose of California sunshine. The Beach Boys performed twice Saturday at the Brown County Music Center. The setlist included classic number-one hits “I Get Around” and “Help Me, Rhonda.” Groups of grey-haired concertgoers huddled outside the venue before event doors opened. Before the show, attendees enjoyed special Beach Boys-themed drinks like the Fun, Fun, Fun, inspired by the band’s 1964 hit single. The event drew fans from across the country. Florida resident Liz Pickering attended the concert while visiting family in Indiana. She said she hasn’t seen the Beach Boys perform since the 1960s. “My favorite album was ‘Pet Sounds,’” Pickering said. “That was the age of Jan and Dean and a lot of beach groups. That was our age.” Californian Rose Serot said though she’s been listening to the Beach Boys for over 50 years, this was her first time seeing them perform live. Jacobs School of Music senior lecturer Andy Hollinden attended Saturday’s concert with his daughter Sazi Shields, who Hollinden said became a fan of the Beach Boys when she took his class MUS-Z405: The Music of the Beach Boys. Hollinden said his favorite song at the concert was “Don’t Worry

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The Beach Boys perform Feb. 29 in the Brown County Music Center. Bruce Johnston and Mike Love are the only two members of the 1965 band that are still touring as the Beach Boys.

Baby.” He said the song is about a possible car crash and when he saw the band perform in 2012, Shields had just gotten into a car crash. “She told me ‘Baby, when you race today Just take along my love with you And if you knew how much I loved you Baby, nothing could go wrong with you’” — The Beach Boys "Don't Worry Baby" “I could hardly keep from crying because I knew my daughter had just totaled her car and was lying in the hospital in really bad shape,” Hollinden said. “I was today sitting next to that same daughter, and she got to hear them sing that song. And she’s all healed.”

The lineup also featured the songs “Pisces Brothers” and “Here Comes the Sun,” as tribute to the Beatles’ George Harrison. The Beach Boys' singer-songwriter Mike Love wrote “Pisces Brothers” after Harrison died in 2001 because both he and Harrison are Pisces. The song was accompanied by footage of Love with the Beatles in Rishikesh, India, when they attended a Transcendental Meditation training course under the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1968. Love said Harrison appreciated Indian culture, meditating frequently and learning how to play the sitar. Hollinden and Shields went backstage after the concert and talked to band members Mike Love, Bruce

Johnston and Scott Totten. Hollinden asked if the band had plans for its 60th anniversary, which is next year. Love said they planned to keep touring. When Love was on stage, he joked about how the Beach Boys’ members have aged since they formed nearly 60 years ago in 1961. “What we’d like to do is take an intermission and then a nap,” he said 20 minutes into the concert. Hollinden said he finds it heartwarming to see the Beach Boys still performing after so many years. “I think what the Beach Boys do live is a continuation of love, and it just spreads joy internationally,” Hollinden said. “The Beach Boys’ music is so achingly beautiful that it just makes me want to weep.”

Italy and Iran have joined the list of countries IU has restricted travel to, according to a Saturday public safety advisory email sent to students. IU also announced required self-quarantines for people returning from China, Iran, Italy, Japan and South Korea. IU banned travel to China, Iran, Italy and South Korea, according to Protect IU’s website. All four are Centers for Disease Control and Prevention level 3 travel alert destinations, which means there's an ongoing outbreak of respiratory illness caused by coronavirus, and the illness can be spread. The CDC recommends that travelers avoid all nonessential travel to China and Iran. Entry of foreign nationals from China and Iran has been suspended, according to its website. The CDC also recommends travelers avoid nonessential travel to Italy and South Korea. Anyone returning from a country with a confirmed case of coronavirus must complete the IU Traveler Information Form before returning to IU. Anyone traveling back from a country with a CDC level 2 or 3 travel alert will be required to selfquarantine off campus for 14 days before returning to IU, according SEE TRAVEL BAN, PAGE 3


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Bloomington event helps endangered bats By Joey Bowling jobowl@iu.edu | @joeybowling8

Grunts of frustration and excited cheers of success echoed through the air as attendees got to work on their wooden creations. Connecting the parts and pieces together, eventgoers admired the bat boxes they constructed. The Build a Bat Box event Sunday, organized by the Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department, drew about 35 people to Switchyard Park. The event was meant to educate people and spur conservation efforts for the Indiana bat population, said Rebecca Jania, Bloomington Parks and Recreation natural resources coordinator. Attendees learned about dangers facing the 13 different bat species located in Indiana and had a hand in combating those problems. Jania said the main theme of the event was education. She said many people are familiar with vampire bats, the mammals that drink blood from livestock, but not many know about other species. “We wanted to not only encourage bat conservation and the topic as a whole, but also educate people on these amazing, fine mammals,” she said. Pesticides and herbicides

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Bloomington residents Joan Hagen and Andy Morrison assemble a bat box March 1 at Switchyard Park. The wood that participants used at the event was repurposed from trees cut down by the city.

are also factors, that are are detrimental to bats’ health, Jania said. When trying to get rid of garden insects and pests with chemical deterrents, people may unwittingly expose bats to high levels of toxins by poisoning their

food source, which affects the food chain. Drake said some of the problems facing the bat populations throughout Indiana are deforestation, wind turbine farms and White-nose Syndrome, which is char-

acterized by a white fungus around the bats’ muzzles and wings. Jania said there are many benefits to having a bat box on a property. The creatures get a home and a food source: common pests such

as mosquitoes and moths. She said one cool feature of the bat boxes is they’re created from repurposed wood from trees that were cut down by the city this year. Sandy Drake, Bloomington Parks and Recreation De-

partment natural resources education specialist, said she first fell in love with bats when she was young. Drake said there’s a strange, childhood fear associated with the winged creatures, but she said it’s hard to stay frightened once someone sees them fly. “I love them a lot,” Drake said. “They’re the night birds.” The event spurred from Drake’s own love of bats and desire to promote their inclusion into people’s lives. “I’ve always wanted a bat box on my property, so I thought, ‘Hey, why not build some?’” Drake said. Box placement is an important consideration for helping the bat population, Drake said. Making sure the box isn’t too low to the ground to avoid predators is an important factor. They must position it at least 10 feet above the ground. Bats are odd compared to other mammals, Drake said during her presentation during the event. Drake said some bat species, such as the Hoary bat, give birth upside down. One species, the Eastern Pipistrelle, gives birth primarily to twins, taking up more than half of the mother’s weight. “Connecting people with nature is definitely a day-today goal of mine,” Jania said.

Smail shares experience living with HIV Luddy School

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Bruce Smail was unknowingly tested for HIV in 2003 because of a paperwork mistake at a doctor’s appointment. The test came back positive, changing his life and professional advocacy work to this day. Smail is now bringing his HIV activism to IU as the interim director of the LGBTQ+ Culture Center. The center had its first discussion event in its Lunch & Learn series, titled “Let’s Talk About HIV with Bruce Smail,” at noon Thursday. Smail said he makes a point to be open about his HIV status despite stigma because public appearances bring attention to the need for HIV education. “You struggle with the reactions people have when you’re open about it, so there isn’t an incentive for people to be open because a lot of times there is a rejection,” Smail said. Smail brought attention to several advocacy issues during the Q&A including stigma against those who are HIV-positive within the health care industry. When he moved to Bloomington to work at IU, Smail said he met with a primary-care physician in Greenwood, Indiana, who was listed as gay-friendly. However, when he showed up at her office, he was asked questions such as “Are you gay?” and “How did you get HIV?” “Asking someone ‘how did you get it’ is almost a useless question because you

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Bruce Smail speaks at a discussion titled “Let’s Talk About HIV” on Feb. 27 at the School of Education. Smail is the interim director of the IU LGBTQ+ Culture Center and special assistant to the vice president of Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs.

probably don’t know,” Smail said. “There’s no guarantee that you know where you got it or who gave it to you, and there’s no use in going down that road.” Smail said while condoms are effective in preventing HIV, it’s important to educate people about alternatives. PrEP, or preexposure prophylaxis, is a pill taken daily that prevents HIV transmission through sexual content 99% of the time and through needle sharing 74% of the time, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Smail also mentioned PEP, postexposure prophylaxis, which lowers HIV risk when taken for 28 days starting within 72 hours of a sexual encounter, according to the CDC. “People need to make decisions for themselves in terms of how to protect

themselves,” Smail said. “There’s more things that are available, whether you’re using condoms or you’re using PrEP.” Black patients received 16,017 HIV diagnoses in 2018 in the United States, the most within one ethnic group, according to the CDC. The next most prevalent group was Hispanics and Latinos, with 10,097 diagnoses. Smail said while these communities are the most affected by the virus, they often receive the least HIV education and access to preventative drugs. “How do you work on a plan to end HIV when the community that is most targeted is not engaged?” Smail asked. Danielle Hernandez, graduate and programming assistant at the center, said the timing worked well for Smail to speak at the first

event in the series since National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day was Feb. 7. “It was not too long ago, his own anniversary of finding out that he was HIV positive, and he’s very open about that,” Hernandez said. “I think that made it a salient time for him to share his own story, and I believe in a lot of his previous work he’s done a lot for HIV/ AIDS.” Mara Bernstein, LGBTQ+ Alumni Association board member and IU alumna, attended the event and said she values open discussion about topics like HIV. “He was very generous with his time and his energy to do this talk, and I’m really looking forward to these kinds of conversations happening in the future,” Bernstein said. “There’s so much to get out of it.”

Black Knowledge Bowl informs at the end of Black History Month By Nick Telman ntelman@iu.edu | @telmonster_11

Students delved into black history at IU and in general as they answered questions, debated answers and discussed opinions Thursday during the Black Knowledge Bowl at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center. The Black Knowledge Bowl is an annual event organized by the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center toward the end of Black History Month. This marked the last official event from the center for Black History Month. “It’s all about black people and black culture is all about the arts and music, so we incorporated all those things that we thought was important,” said Gloria Howell, associate director of Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center. Senior Johnnie Allen Jr. and doctoral student Tislam

Swift put together the event. The game’s categories included: Things Black People Say, Black IU, Black Music, Recently Departed Ancestors, Blackity Black Black and Black Cinema. “It started in the late 1980s, and Dr. Portia Maultsby, who was also founder of the IU Soul Revue, was instrumental in getting it started,” Howell said. “We’ve had a lot of losses in our community this year, so we wanted to honor those folks as well with the recently departed section.” Questions delved deep into black IU history. Competitors were asked about the second black student body president and the first black IU football player to be drafted into the NFL. These questions gave students an opportunity to learn more about the informal black history of IU. “Students are experienc-

ing and engaging in history every time they walk through this building,” Howell said. “For all the black IU questions we asked, we have photos that represent those people on our walls.” Teams representing the Black Student Union, African Students Association, the IU chapter of NAACP, National Pan-Hellenic Council, Black Collegians and audience members not part of a team all competed. “It was a good way for all the girls in Black Collegians to get to know each other since we are going to be on executive board together,” junior Naudia Thompson said. The event brought laughter, debate and recollection from audience members and participants alike with some of the questions seeming to require deep reaches into participants’ memory banks.

“My favorite category was Blackity Black because it was more experience than knowledge,” Thompson said. “When you were a kid everybody’s mom told them they smelled like outside. That’s an experience, and I think that’s funny.” As contestants pondered questions, the “Jeopardy!” theme song played. Students decided to remix it and hit tables in lunch-room table style beats to the classic theme song. “I liked the sense of community,” said Salina Tesfagiorgis, junior and vice president of the African Students Association. “You never see all of these orgs together in one space, and I really enjoyed that.” The IU chapter of the NAACP won the event, to the dismay of their competitors and cheers from the audience.

Dean of the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering Raj Acharya will step down in mid-March to participate in an artificial intelligence research initiative. Acharya said the school will hire an acting dean to replace him and then conduct a national search to find a permanent dean. Acharya launched the Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering in 2016 and has been dean since July 2016. He will now be associate vice president for research with the specific task of promoting artificial intelligence. In this position, he will work with government agencies and the Department of Defense. IU alumnus and namesake of the school Fred Luddy donated $60 million in October 2019 for the research initiative, which will start in March and be conducted through the Luddy Center for Artificial Intelligence. “This school is at the cutting edge,” Acharya said. “It’s almost like the future is being done here.” Prior to working at IU, Acharya was the founding director of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and head at Penn State University for 14 years. He said he was also part of the research lab at Penn State and worked on military defense projects. Acharya said he hopes the Luddy School will be a global leader by investing in the technology and science of the future. The Luddy Center for Artificial Intelligence facility will begin construction this spring and is expected to be completed by fall of 2021, according to the Luddy School website. Vice Presi-

dent for Research Fred Cate said the center will focus on interdisciplinary research, such as con- Raj Acharya necting animal and human cognition to artificial intelligence. Cate said he has worked with Acharya since their lines of work overlap. Cate said the AI research initiative is a big project for the university with lots of pieces including work in Indianapolis, on the IU-Bloomington campus and at the Luddy Center for Artificial Intelligence. The goal of the center is to make the technology for artificial intelligence require less computing power and data, Cate said. He said he hopes to see more opportunities for people to engage in the real-world application of these skills. Cate said Acharya will also work to develop a collaboration space, separate from the new Luddy Center for Artificial Intelligence, where people from the university can work with others in the AI industry in order to develop solutions to critical problems in artificial intelligence technology. Haixu Tang, director of the Data Science Academic Programs at IU said he thinks the research initiative is a great opportunity. Tang said artificial intelligence research is important and useful. He said he’s excited to see how this research can be applied to medical and chemical data. Tang said he appreciates that Acharya has been involved in many research projects and activities to benefit the Luddy School. “I think he has a good, positive impact to our school,” Tang said.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 7. The University-wide recognition of Martin Luther King Jr. Day An article in the next day’s paper read, “Demands Met, 100%.” The student coalition's changes established what is now the Asian Culture Center and DEMA . IU also began its annual recognition of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and revised faculty-recruitment strategies to more fairly consider female and non-white applicants. Smail said he was one of the six students who met with Kenneth Gros Louis, then-IU vice president and Bloomington campus chancellor, to reach these diversity goals. “I was one of the few LGBTQ folks that were sitting on this committee,” Smail said. “I think we were successful because we came across from a very intersectional standpoint. We had all of the communities involved — we had international students, LGBTQ students, I think we even had students with disabilities that were on the committee.” Smail identifies as a bisexual black man, but he said the Latino side of his family also contributes to his cultural identity. At IU, he said he wants to improve support for intersectional identities, allow-

ing students to feel comfortable discussing multiple parts of their identity at any culture center. “I’ve always celebrated all of my identities,” Smail said. “I have many, and we all do, but I’m not sure that we all celebrate that.” This sense of identity has guided Smail’s advocacy since the beginning of his career. * * * Smail was born and raised on Saint Croix, a tiny territory in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Its population count in the 2010 census was 50,601. According to university data, IUBloomington’s spring 2020 student enrollment is 41,294. Saint Croix’s entire area is 84 square miles. It takes about an hour to drive from one end of the island to the other, left to right, according to Google Maps. Top to bottom, the drive is only 20 minutes. “I can walk down the street right now in Saint Croix and people would say, ‘You’re Juanita Smail’s son,’” Smail said. “People know you. You’re very visible.” He said LGBTQ issues are rarely discussed on the island, largely due to a lack of openly gay residents. When he was growing up, he only remembers seeing three LGBTQ islanders, all of whom were trans women. Smail said these women

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Above Senior Glenn Murphy holds up a sign that reads, "Jan. 20, 1997 The Revolution Begins.” An estimated 400 protesters marched by Ballantine Hall and chanted, "The students united will never be defeated.” Bruce Smail, interim director of the LGBTQ+ Culture Center, was part of the Student Coalition when he was a graduate student at IU. MATT MCCLAIN | ARBUTUS FILE PHOTO

Below Then-freshman Johanna Meadows (left) waits in the cold Jan. 20, 1997, at the Sample Gates where the protest ended. The coalition protested for better diversity support from the university.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 facets to her personality. She was fierce and passionate while also professional and dedicated to her academics. Li said during a public memorial for Sethi, Sethi’s fiance Jordan Saner shared their last text message conversation, which was about Sethi giving a woman experiencing homelessness donuts for breakfast

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duce the risk of an outbreak in the county by working with IU and others to review safety plans. They update people and inform them about precautions they can take. Caudill said people should also focus on keeping surfaces that are frequently touched

at a bus station. “I think that really shows how she was as a person,” Li said. Vikas Broka, Sethi’s uncle, attested to her selflessness as he spoke of Sethi’s work in retirement and geriatric communities. “In India, she used to have a very important agenda,” Broka said. “Every birthday or special day of her life she used to spend at old-age homes.” clean, such as cell phones. According to the release, residents can take action to decrease the risk of all viruses by following the three C’s: covering your coughs or sneezes, cleaning your hands often and containing your sickness by staying home when you are ill. “The more prepared we are the calmer we can be,” Caudill said.

were the only impression of LGBTQ people he remembers from the time. “They were called ‘anti-men,’” Smail said. “They were the image of someone who was gay.” Smail left the island after high school. He attended The College of New Jersey, earning a bachelor’s degree in history in 1983 and a master’s degree in counseling and personnel services in 1987. He soon started working at Boston University, coordinating programs for the university’s Minority Affairs Office. His next job at Colorado State University’s Black Student Services director involved similar work. At the time, he focused mainly on supporting black students. His interest in working on LGBTQ issues came after he came out as bisexual. * * * Smail dated a man in college, and he came out privately to himself and his partner. However, he didn’t come out publicly until he was almost 30 due to a combination of traditional island customs and the widespread misunderstanding of the LGBTQ community in that time. Smail said he has always had a strong connection with his family. Though his five siblings are spread out across four states, they try to get together frequently, and he often brings up extended family members in conversation. His siblings grew up with the same limited impressions of the LGBTQ community as he did, and Smail was hesitant to share his sexuality with them. In 1991, Smail’s father was in critical condition, and he and his siblings gathered to be with him while he was in the hospital. Smail tried to help his siblings cope with not knowing the results of their dad’s medical tests by using a personal metaphor. He had recently taken an HIV test, which took two to three weeks for results. He told them waiting for the results was like waiting for an HIV test — it’s helpful to think of the worst case scenario while you’re waiting, just like how they were waiting to hear results about their dad’s health. His siblings asked why he had taken an HIV test, and the conversation turned to Smail’s sexuality. Smail told them he was bisexual for the first time, and he said their reactions weren’t supportive. “‘Did you sleep with someone that was a prostitute or something? Does that mean you’re going to start wearing dresses?’” Smail recalled his brothers asking. Smail said his siblings didn’t understand much about HIV/ AIDS or LGBTQ issues, and they assumed he had HIV and was gay, even though his HIV test results were negative and he is bisexual. “They felt that they must have done something wrong that I be-

Broka said the next 20 years will be very hard on Sethi's family, as no parent should experience the pain of their child dying. He said that is the toughest thing to bear. Charles Gardner Geyh, a professor at the Maurer School of Law, met Sethi last fall during his seminar teaching judicial conduct. He said although they only discussed classwork, he spent lots of time talking with her about

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A page from the Jan. 21, 1997, issue of the Indiana Daily Student. The Student Coalition protested for better diversity support Jan. 20, 1997.

came this way,” he said. In the years after he came out, Smail worked in several HIV/ AIDS and LGBTQ advocacy positions. He said when his family saw his advocacy work, they gained a greater understanding of both Smail’s identity and LGBTQ issues as a whole. He said they are much more accepting today. “I felt like there was this huge barrier that was broken around discomfort around LGBTQ issues,” Smail said. * * * Early in 2003, Smail went to a physical exam he thought would be routine. He didn't know that his doctor had recently tested him for HIV due to a paperwork misunderstanding. The test had come back reactive, a possible positive result that required further tests. Fifteen days later, it officially came back positive. On his blog, Smail described his initial reactions to his HIV-positive status.

the course subject and her interest in working with judges. Geyh also said Sethi faced many challenges while studying at IU and trying to find jobs in the United States. “There’s no denying that she was not a U.S. citizen," Geyh said. "She was an immigrant, she was South Asian, she was a woman. All those served as impediments for her getting from point A to point B.” But Geyh said that none spiratory illness. The CDC recommends older adults or those who with chronic medical conditions consider postponing travel to level 2 alert destinations, according to its website. Hong Kong is at a CDC watch level 1, which means travelers do not need to cancel or postpone travel, but they should practice

“There was nothing I could do to change my status at that point — there was nothing to feel guilty about — and I knew this was an opportunity to share yet another aspect of my life,” Smail wrote. “Despite the challenges I knew I would face as a person living with HIV, I also knew that I still had to love myself, share my story, and help others put a face to HIV.” Smail’s HIV-positive status led him to work at multiple HIV/AIDS organizations, most recently as the deputy director of the Black AIDS Institute in Los Angeles. He said he shares his story about living with HIV to decrease the stigma surrounding the disease. He advocates for those living with HIV who aren't able to share their stories, he said. While Smail makes it a priority to be open about his HIV status in the workplace, he said people in less diversity-focused jobs may still fear consequences if they disclosed this information publicly. SEE SMAIL, PAGE 4

of these roadblocks stopped Sethi in the pursuit of her passions. Because she was not a U.S. citizen, many jobs were not available to her, but Geyh said she was determined to not let that stop her. Around a month before she died, Sethi landed a postgraduate job working for the Allen County Superior Court in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Although Geyh said she will be remembered for her

kindness and decency to others, he said what will be most remembered is her strength, determination and grit. “She was not someone that would let something get in the way of her goals,” he said. “She does have a legacy: a way of looking at the world today and not being deterred by the barriers.” She is survived by her fiance, mother, father and younger brother.

“usual precautions,” according to the CDC website. The CDC lists Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand as destinations where there's a risk of the virus spreading. This means people have been infected with the virus, and some don’t know how or where they became infected. However,

the extent of virus spread is not sustained or widespread enough at this time to meet the criteria for a travel health notice. IU recommends referring to the CDC and U.S. Department of State’s websites for the most up-todate advisories.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 Smail said his openness about HIV has at times put him in difficult and even dangerous situations. More than 20 years after Smail left his small island for college, he returned as the CEO of an HIV/ AIDS organization in Saint Croix. One day when Smail was walking to a bakery around the corner from his house, a man yelled an anti-gay slur and threatened to kill him. Smail ignored the man and continued into the bakery, but the man yelled at him again on his way out. Smail reported the incident to the Saint Croix police, but he said the police officer didn’t seem to understand why he’d be reporting such an incident. They never did anything about it. “I guess I need to be killed first before you would do anything about it,” Smail remembers thinking. Smail said he knows of one LGBTQ islander who was killed during his time working there. He said the police did not view it as a hate crime. “It was just one of those things that they wanted to kind of brush under the rug,” Smail said. Smail said his and his coworkers’ presence at the HIV/AIDS organization was important in bringing visibility to LGBTQ individuals on

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GENEVA, Ohio — In a pack of cream and crimson, IU men’s track and field circled the SPIRE Institute’s indoor track in celebration Saturday. Junior Cooper Williams, head and shoulders above most of his teammates, brought up the rear. He was not the center of attention, nor did he command it after falling short in the men’s 800-meter finals on the second day of the Big Ten Indoor Championships. A fourthplace finish in his primary individual event left Williams frustrated and mute. But there was still one more race for him to run. Williams ran the second leg of the 4x400-meter relay — his fourth event of the weekend — and contributed three scoring performances for the team. He helped IU tally 120.5 points to win its second Big Ten Indoor Championship since 2017, while Iowa finished as the runner-up. “I always want to run as much as possible in order to get the points that we need,” Williams said after the two-day meet. “It’s tough sometimes when it doesn’t go your way in the individual event, but you got other races to go.” Before the meet, IU head coach Ron Helmer said Williams would compete in multiple events to earn as many points as possible, hoping to secure a

team championship. Williams needed to be a leader, compete hard and inspire his teammates to do the same. That mentality starts with his preparation. Williams is an athlete that tries to keep practices light-hearted. By smiling and laughing with his teammates, he hopes they forget about the stress and pain of collegiate running. “The biggest thing with running is when it gets to the point that it feels like a job, then you come in and you don’t have any fun with it,” Williams said. “When you’re just going through the motions, you’re not going to produce the times you want.” Last season, Williams said he took his races too seriously sometimes. Self-doubt used to pour into his mind. “Well before the race, I would only be able to think about the race and how I’d feel,” Williams said. “Then I would also look at the guys I’m racing against and think ‘these guys have been up there a long time. Should I be there?’” He lacked complete confidence and struggled because of it. Williams was coming off his first NCAA Outdoor Championship in 2018 when he placed 13th in the 800-meters and earned Second Team AllAmerican honors. Yet it wasn’t until a week before the Big Ten Indoor Championships last season that he recorded a time fast enough to qualify for the national indoor meet. But on March 9, 2019, Williams lined up next to two All-Americans at the start of the

NCAA 800-meter indoor finals. The University of Kansas junior Bryce Hoppel was to his left, and Texas A&M University junior Devin Dixon was to his right. Since then, something clicked. “Who cares what happens, just get out in front and go,” Williams said. “I’ve carried that mentality where there’s no doubt — with anyone that you race — you have to feel confident. It gets into you, and it makes you race better.” He’s adopted a more carefree mindset. He has fun. But Williams still trains like one of the top runners in the country and sets the standard for the team’s middle-distance runners. “There’s never an effort on his part to have an easy day,” Helmer said. “He’s going to get the most out of every workout that he does and when he does that, then he’s always putting it out there for the rest of them to chase — to aspire to.” Williams earned the top time in the 800-meter preliminary races and ended with another 800 meters during the third leg of the distance medley relay Saturday. Alongside freshman Matthew Schadler, junior Teddy Browning and senior Dushawn Tunstall, Williams and the distance medley relay team placed first with a time of 9:41.36. After two races, he was tired. Williams said he was going to focus on getting rest, eating food and, if time allowed, watching another episode of Netflix to decomDexter on Netflix press before bed. Williams lined up at the 800-meter start line Saturday with the number nine on his hip. As his name was announced, the crowd was reminded that Williams was the

Big Ten Indoor runner-up in the event last year. Now, he had the top time from the preliminary races and stood next to seniors Shane Streich of Minnesota and teammate Adam Wallace with a chance to take first place. Once the gun fired, the race was off, and it started quickly. The top runners in the field dashed out ahead of Williams early, and he got stuck in the middle of the pack. Williams said he thought he would sit behind and relax, but he couldn’t make any strategic moves during the race to put him out in front. Williams found himself out in the second and third lanes attempting to pass the runners ahead of him. He couldn’t move up, and in the final 60 meters, Williams didn’t have enough energy to make up lost ground in a sprint. Despite an attempt to extend his tall, lengthy frame for third place, he placed fourth with a time of 1:49.13. Head down, hands on his hips, he was disappointed. But IU needed him for the 4x400-meter relay because Iowa was making a run toward the top of the team standings. He had to move on from defeat and prepare while continuing to support his teammates. “He’s still that goofy kid that we all know,” junior Ben Veatch said. “He’s weird, he’s funny, he’s just lovable. But at the end of the day, he’s really taken responsibility for his role on the team.” IU led the meet by 7.5 points over Iowa with two events left. There was a chance the winner would be decided in the final race. Instead, Veatch and senior Kyle Mau placed second and third in the 5,000-meter run to score 14 points. They clinched the victory for the Hoosiers.

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Junior distance runner Cooper Williams and senior sprinter Dushawn Tunstall compete in the 4x400-meter relay race Feb. 28 during the Big Ten Indoor Championships at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio. The men’s team placed first in the Big Ten Championships.

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Junior distance runner Cooper Williams competes in the 800-meter preliminary race during the Big Ten Indoor Championships at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio. Williams contributed three scoring performances for the team.

Williams and the team’s 4x400meter relay followed with a fourth-place time of 3:10.35, scoring five extra points. Their teammates leaped and cheered on the edge of the track while they raced toward the finish line. On the second leg, Williams took the baton at third place in the heat but closed the gap on the competition, and nearly took the lead before the next leg. IU placed first in the opening section before Iowa took first overall in the event. After four races, his weekend was over. Williams said after the meet he was ready for every relay opportunity. He wanted to be a reliable leg no matter what. Individual recognition may have evaded Williams, but he did whatever IU men’s track and field asked of him. It was a team effort that won the meet, and Williams will have a chance to redeem himself in the 800-meters March 13-14 at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Albuquerque, New Mexico. “He’s the ultimate team guy,” Veatch said. “He knows he didn’t do his best today, but we had his back.”


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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Lander’s coach talks about his commitment By Matt Cohen mdc1@iu.edu | @Matt_Cohen_

Mike Adams, the boy’s basketball head coach at Francis Joseph Reitz High School, knew from a young age Khristian Lander was special. Adams has been the head coach at Reitz for 27 years. He’s seen talented players come through his doors for decades. But when Lander attended Adams’ camps as a child, there was something different about his talent. And on Tuesday, Lander, 17, decided where that talent would take him. The five-star recruit and the No. 1 point guard in the country according to 247Sports, committed to IU. Lander is a junior at Reitz, but he’s been around the program for longer than he’s been able to wear the uniform. In seventh and eighth grade Adams told Lander he could stay after his own practices to work out with the high school team. He always stayed. “He’d make plays against our high school guys when he was seventh, eighth grade,” Adams said. “You just knew, you knew he was special.” When he began his freshman year Lander started for the team immediately. He was the star of his team from the first day he stepped on the floor. Now in his junior season, Lander averages 20 points per game. And he’s doing that with an ankle sprain. Lander re-injured his ankle during a game this season. He only played two minutes and didn’t score, and his average still stayed right around 20 points per game. The IU-commit leads Reitz in scoring, steals, assists and even rebonds as a point guard. He’s quickly approaching 1,300 career high

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F.J. Reitz High School’s Khristian Lander looks to make a pass Jan. 17 around Benjamin Bosse High School’s Ty’Ran Funches during the Banterra Bank SIAC Tournament semifinal at Reitz High School in Evansville, Indiana. Lander has committed to play basketball at IU.

school points, as a junior. “He’s not a high volume guy, he doesn’t have to take a lot of shots to do that,” Adams said. “He’s a complete player. I think the thing I’ve enjoyed about coaching him is in practice, games, the effort is just incredible.” Adams praised Lander’s passing ability, speed and many different ways he can score. Adams said while Lander is shooting 37% on 3-pointers now, he expects that to go up once he gets to college and defenders have to account for other players, too.

Adams said he helped guide Lander through the recruitment process, though never telling him what to do. So instead Adams gave him advice, trying to get him to buy into what he calls the “three H’s”: humility, healthy and hungry. The Hoosiers stood out to Lander for the extra effort they put in. IU head coach Archie Miller came for two of his games last season, other IU assistants such as Tom Ostrom visited practice and Lander made several visits to Bloomington. And after he visited IU for

its game against then-No. 9 Penn State on Sunday, Lander made his decision. “My advice to him was if you already know what you want, there’s nothing wrong with committing early,” Adams said. “There’s no need to wait. If you know this is what you want, grab it. Grab it.” With Lander committing so early on in his high school career, the potential of reclassifying — leaving high school a year early to begin playing in college sooner — has been discussed. Adams said Lander will speak with his counselors and his

parents will come in for a meeting as well to discuss the possibility. Adams isn’t sure if Lander will be able to reclassify, and while he supports his player, he doesn’t know if it would necessarily the right thing to do. “He’s 17 years old, there’s still some maturity things that can happen and there are certain things in his game that could get better,” Adams said. “I personally just don’t think he’s quite ready.” Adams talked about Lander chasing the Evansville scoring record and the potential to be an Indiana

All-Star. He wouldn’t be able to do that with a reclassification to play at IU a year early. Lander first needs to examine the possibility of if he even can reclassify, Adams said. It’s something Adams only knew of as a rumor at first, and didn’t was realistic until the last few days after his commitment. Lander has said he would prefer to reclassify if the opportunity presents itself. Adams said he knows what Lander ultimately has his sights set on. “He loves the game,” Adams said. “And his goal is to play in the NBA.”

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IU wins Big Ten Championship By Matt Smith mrs30@iu.edu | @mattsmith1401

Wise stands out on senior night By Will Trubshaw

IU track and field competed in the Big Ten Indoor Track and Field Championships at the SPIRE Institute from Feb. 28-29 in Geneva, Ohio. The men’s team took home its first Big Ten Indoor Championship victory since 2017, including many individual Big Ten champions. “Everyone went about their business today and supported everyone in everything we did,” senior Adam Coulon said. “We’re one big family, and that makes it so much more fun to compete.” The men’s team won the meet, winning with 120.5 points. The next closest was Iowa, which scored 107 points. The women’s team took fourth place with 74 points. Ohio State emerged victorious with 104 points. Coulon won pole vault and set a new conference record with a mark of 5.56 meters. He is the previous champion in the event. Junior Brock Mammoser placed second and freshman Nathan Stone placed fifth. “It was a really fun day,” Coulon said. “This is what you dream of when you’re training with your teammates.” In the 5,000-meter, junior Ben Veatch placed second with a time of 13:50.33 and senior Kyle Mau placed third to score some points for the Hoosiers. Junior Jyles Etienne became a Big Ten Champion in the high jump with a personal record of 2.23 meters.

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Junior distance runner Ben Veatch looks at the race results after running the 3,000-meter run Feb. 14 in Gladstein Fieldhouse. IU won the Big Ten Indoor Championship Feb. 28-29 in Geneva, Ohio.

In the 800-meter, junior Cooper Williams placed fifth with a time of 1:49.13 and senior Adam Wallace placed seventh. Sophomore Rikkoi Brathwaite took home silver in the 60-meter with a time of 6.67 seconds. Fellow sophomore Matthew Schadler placed second in the mile with a time of 4:07.35. The Hoosier distance medley relay team claimed first in the event. The team included senior Dushawn Tunstall, junior Teddy Browning, Williams and Schadler. Veatch and Mau were on the podium again for their performances in the 3,000-meter, with Veatch taking second in the event with a time of 8:13.65 and Mau placing fourth. The women’s team had multiple standout performances with upperclassmen setting new personal bests

and some capturing individual titles. Sophomore Bailey Hertenstein and senior Leah Moran claimed individual titles in the 3,000-meter and the long jump, respectively. Hertenstein had a time of 9:23.25 in the 3,000-meter, which also stands as her new personal best. Moran reached a mark of 6.26 meters in her championship-winning jump, 0.19 meters ahead of the second place finisher. Moran also took second place in the triple jump with a mark of 12.94 meters. Senior Megan Grabowski recorded new personal bests in the preliminaries of both the 60-meter and the 200-meter with times of 7.34 and 24.05, respectively. “I had set the goal for myself at the beginning of the year to reach the finals in both events,” Grabowski said.

“It felt really good to accomplish them.” Grabowski placed fifth in the 60-meter final and seventh in the 200-meter finals. Senior Khayla Dawson and junior Maddy Pollard placed third and fourth respectively in the shot put. Dawson had a mark of 17.31 meters, while Pollard had 17.24 meters. Senior Joely Pinkston took third place in the 800-meter finals with a time of 2:06.47. “As a team, we really came together,” Grabowski said. “We could’ve easily been in the middle of the pack rather than towards the top and I’m really proud of my team for that.” The team will have a twoweek break before heading to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where qualifying members will compete at the NCAA Indoor Championships.

No. 22 IU women’s basketball ‘s upward trajectory started when it won the Women’s NIT at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in March 2018. That team featured former IU standouts Amanda Cahill and Tyra Buss and was IU’s best team yet under head coach Teri Moren. Waiting to take over for the graduating Buss and Cahill were redshirt transfers Ali Patberg and Brenna Wise. Wise, now a senior, and Patberg, a junior, figured to be the logical replacements as leaders for the Hoosiers. On Thursday, Wise showed that leadership. The lone senior was honored in IU’s 81-53 Senior Night victory over Nebraska. Wise finished with three points, eight rebounds and an assist in her final regular season game at Assembly Hall. When she hit her only basket on her only attempt of the game at 3:25 in the third, the crowd rose to a standing ovation. When she drew a charge at the 3:53 mark in the fourth as IU led 73-45, the crowd cheered equally as loud as her three and only surpassed in volume when she checked out of the game two minutes later. “Brenna Wise is going to be hard to replace,” Moren said. “It has nothing to do with what she does between

those lines. It’s everything about what she does inside that locker room.” Wise was a key piece on the IU team that made it to the second round of the NCAA tournament last season. This season, even with her scoring down from last season’s 12 to 8.3 points per game, IU managed to break the program’s regular season record for wins at 22, clinch a double bye in the Big Ten Tournament and set itself up for an even deeper run in the NCAA tournament. “We haven’t reached our peak yet,” Wise said. “I think that’s a great time to be close to your peak as tournament time starts. We’re gonna continue to take this momentum.” Wise’s senior letter was put into a video tribute played Thursday that was more than seven minutes long. In the video she thanked her teammates, coaches, family and staff, all individually and almost all by name. She also made it clear in the video that she feels her team is far from done and there is still plenty of work to do. “What Brenna has done for our program, and the example that she set every day, she set the bar very high,” Moren said. “That’s going to be her legacy. That’s when I can go back and say ‘Brenna Wise was the kid that did all these things.’ How can we go out and we find another Brenna Wise?”

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IU places third in Big Ten Championships By Aiden Kantner akantner@iu.edu | @aidenkantner

For the first time since 2017, the Big Ten men’s swimming and diving champions were not wearing cream and crimson Saturday night. It was the 41st conference championship for Michigan. Ohio State ultimately edged out IU for second. Michigan finished with 1,548 points, Ohio State scored 1,329 and IU had 1,321.5. Michigan also beat IU in 2016, the last time the Hoosiers didn’t win the conference. The Hoosiers were in third for the majority of the meet. They closely trailed behind Ohio State by less than 10 points after Thursday, Friday and Saturday night. IU rallied on Saturday with the 100 freestyle, where IU had three swimmers in the top four. Junior Bruno Blaskovic led the way at 41.88 sec-

onds, the second-best time in the country and an NCAA A-cut time. But a strong Saturday wasn’t enough to overcome the Wolverines and the Buckeyes. Blaskovic was named the 2020 Big Ten Swimmer of the championships, winning six gold medals and one silver. “It’s a great honor, of course,” Blaskovic said. “A lot of credit to the coaching staff, the trainers and the fans. This is our house. I hope we made you guys proud.” Along with Blaskovic, sophomore Zane Backes and junior Gabriel Fantoni set A-cut times to qualify for the NCAA championships in the 100 breaststroke and 100 backstroke, respectively. “Obviously, this isn’t the result as a team we were looking for,” IU head coach Ray Looze said. “But individually, I’m really proud of all of our guys. A lot of them set fantastic times going into the NCAAs.”

Coach Looze was particularly impressed with his relay teams, which all finished with A-cut times in their respective races over the week. “They carried us,” Looze said. “They’ve been near the top all season, and those wins racked up a lot of points for us.” Blaskovic, Fantoni, Backes and freshman Brendan Burns opened up the competition Wednesday in the 200 medley relay, with a 1:23.07, a pool record and the top time in the country this season. The same four also set a pool record in the 400 medley relay, with a 3:02.27, which is the third-best time in the country this season. To close out the event, the Hoosiers picked up their fifth straight Big Ten championship in the 400 freestyle relay, posting a 2:48.43. Blaskovic said the IU 400 free team is invincible after the race in an interview after the race with

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Big Ten Network. “We’ve not lost this event in years,” Blaskovic told Big Ten Network. “And there’s years to come when that we’re not going to lose it.” IU racked up 17 medals in the championships: nine gold, three silver and five bronze. Eight Hoosier swimmers were named to the AllBig Ten First Team: Backes, Blaskovic, Fantoni, Burns, senior Mohamed Samy and sophomores Jack Franzaman, Brandon Hamblin and Van Mathias. IU now looks ahead to the NCAA Championships from March 25-28 in Indianapolis. The Hoosiers accumulated ten NCAA A-cut times over the course of the championships, which means all of the swimmers with those times will automatically qualify for the national championships. The full list of participants in the championships will be determined in the next couple of weeks.

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Junior Ali Patberg embraces senior Brenna Wise after giving a speech Feb. 27 in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. No. 22 IU beat Nebraska 8153, and Wise was honored as the only senior on the team.

Knight returns to Assembly Hall again By Sam Bodnar Sbodnar@iu.edu | @sgbod13

Bob Knight returned to Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall on Thursday for the second time in 20 years to watch No. 22 IU women’s basketball in its final regular season home game against Nebraska. Knight was honored during the IU men’s basketball halftime game against Purdue on Feb. 8 in his first return to Assembly Hall

since his firing in 2000. On Thursday, Knight sat at the southwest corner of the arena away from the spotlight while holding a bucket of popcorn. Knight coached the IU men’s basketball program to three national championships and five Final-Four appearances during his time as head coach. Knight was let go by IU for violating the zero tolerance policy. He left the game with 3:14 left in the third quarter.

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Bloomington chose to protect white supremacy in Schooner Creek debacle Liam O’Sullivan, he/him is a senior in film.

On July 25, 2019, IU professor Cara Caddoo was arrested for protesting a vendor run by white supremacists at the Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market based on informal rules against organizing on market grounds. After Caddoo took legal action against the city, these informal rules were formalized at a Bloomington Board of Park Commissioners meeting Tuesday. This points to an uncomfortable truth: Bloomington would rather protect white supremacists than civil rights. In 2019, the Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market attracted protests after it was revealed that vendor Schooner Creek Farm was run by Sarah Dye, who has ties to white nationalist group American Identity Movement, formerly known as Identity Evropa. As a result of the protests, new rules passed Tuesday will be enforced during the market to limit where and how activists can spread their message. The meeting attracted its own protest, with activists taking time to comment on every agenda item ahead of the market rules item itself. “If a white supremacist from the American Identity Movement shot someone in the market, would IU Health be tasked with mopping

up the blood?” said activist Charles Bonds during an allotted two-minute speaking time on the subject of IU Health insurance plans. The meeting reached a fever pitch, to the point that a ten-minute break was called in order to rearrange agenda items such that the farmers market rule change could be addressed sooner. “What we’re seeing here is a calamity of errors,” Trent Feuerbach said. “The city government tried to silence Cara Caddoo, and now she’s a political problem for them.” Feuerbach is a candidate for Indiana State Senate, District 40. According to an email from No Space For Hate, Sarah Dye will likely return to the Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market in June. This means further protests are probable, though with the new rules, more arrests are also to be expected. Dye is an active member of both the Bloomington farmers market and the white nationalist group, American Identity Movement. While Dye has posted online implying a desire for white separatism, the group she’s a part of is much more blunt with its racism. The American Identity Movement is the reformed Identity Evropa. In 2017, Identity Evropa orchestrated the posting of white supremacist posters around IU, specifically targeting the Latino Studies,

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Tom Westgard carries a sign Nov. 9 through the Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market in protest of Schooner Creek Farm, whose owners have been tied to a white nationalist group.

and the African American and African Diaspora Studies departments. Additionally, Identity Evropa was involved in organizing the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally, also in 2017. That rally is infamous for a terrorist attack that killed activist Heather Heyer, a counter-protester who came to the rally to oppose the white supremacists and neo-Nazis. Just in case the point hasn’t been made clear enough, the American Identity Movement

is identified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League. Multiple activists said Tuesday that Dye may be actively recruiting for her white supremacist organization even if she’s not allowed to distribute physical propaganda, and that free protest is the only way they have to counter those efforts. “I think white supremacy is a terrible ideology, and it’s an aberrant thing when it aris-

es,” said Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton in an interview with WTIU. Hamilton was not in attendance at the Tuesday meeting. Feuerbach said he would love to see more politicians speak out about the issue. If the mayor truly thought white supremacy was aberrant, then the city wouldn’t be taking steps to protect Schooner Creek from protest. If people of color and those who stand with people of

color are not allowed to exercise their right to free speech in opposition to racism in Bloomington, then Hamilton is catastrophically failing his own principles. ”Our friendly, safe and inviting environment embraces visitors and ideas from across the globe,” reads the Bloomington city website. Among the ideas being embraced, apparently, is white supremacy. liamosul@indiana.edu

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Warren’s and Sanders’ plans fix damage done by the war on drugs

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Kyle Linder, he/him is a junior in journalism and international relations.

It’s been nearly a month since the first votes were cast in the Democratic presidential primaries. But if you’re a resident of the Hoosier state, you’ll have to wait until May 5 to make your voice heard. This is because our current primary system is a drawnout process that takes place over several months, with some states voting earlier than others. This disparity in when states vote disadvantages Hoosiers and devalues their votes. States that vote earlier in the primary calendar have outsized influence on voters’ decisions in other states, research indicates. A 2010 Brown University study found that Iowa, which votes first, has about 5 times more influence on primary outcomes than states that vote on Super Tuesday — the voting date on which most delegates are available. Super Tuesday will take place this year on March 3. Indiana votes approximately two months after Super Tuesday, making its influence even lower. This is despite the fact that Indiana is more representative of the American electorate than early voting states. If all 50 states were ordered by how representative they are of the national Democratic electorate in terms of race, ethnicity and education, Indiana would vote eighth, according to an analysis from FiveThirtyEight last year. New Hampshire and Iowa, the first two states in the primary calendar, would vote 34th and 42nd respectively. This ordering forces Indiana voters to pick between options determined by voters in other states. Consider the 2016 Republican primary. Indiana polling in December showed candidates such as Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fl., and former neurosurgeon Ben Carson polled at over 15% long before any votes were cast. Yet after other states voted — and Hoosiers waited to be heard — both candidates dropped out.

President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs in the 1970s, vastly increasing the federal government’s drug enforcement capabilities. The policy relentlessly targeted minority communities and resulted in a massive expansion of the United States prison population. Today, Americans appear prepared to dismantle parts of Nixon’s 50-year war on drugs. According to the Pew Research Center, two-thirds of Americans support marijuana legalization, including a majority of both Democrats and Republicans. Any plan to end the war on drugs, however, must seriously address its lasting consequences. Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders’ proposals do that better than any other 2020 presidential candidates. The war on drugs was racially and politically motivated from the start. Nixon’s domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman said in a 1994 interview that the policy was designed to target the White House’s enemies: the antiwar left and African Americans. To an alarming extent, their strategy worked. The U.S. prison population grew from under 200,000 in 1970 to nearly 1.5 million in 2017, disproportionately incarcerating nonwhite men. Black men are 6 times more likely than white men to be incarcerated, and Hispanic men are 3 times more likely, according to a

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By the time the Indiana primary rolled around, only three candidates were active: Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and former Ohio Gov. John Kasich. The diversity in candidates, which was present at the beginning of the primary was suddenly winnowed to fewer choices, all without our input. This process is undemocratic. American democracy is built on the idea that one person gets one vote. But the unequal influence of Indiana and earlier voting states represents the disenfranchisement of the Hoosier primary voter. A better solution is a national primary: one day, every state, every vote with the same influence and every voter with an equal say. This solution has popular support. A January poll of Democratic voters showed that 58% of Democrats support a single-day national primary. A single day of voting across the country is a closer approximation of what the candidates would face in the general election. Whether you lean Democrat or Republican, this idea represents a boon to your party. A national primary more closely mimics a general election, and the candidates who emerge victorious would be better suited for election day in November. Some prominent figures, such as Nate Silver, founder and editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight, defend the current primary system. Silver asserts that a benefit of the long primary is the many challenges candi-

dates face. “The point of a long primary campaign is that you have to survive lots of tests. Debates, opposition research/rough news cycles, polling slumps,” he tweeted last week. But there is no reason a national primary cannot feature the same challenges. In the 2016 general election, both Trump and Hillary Clinton weathered negative news, polling changes and debates. A national primary could easily incorporate the same factors by simply having a similar multi-month runup. Another critique of a national primary is it fails to build a majority. In a crowded field, such as this year’s, it may be the case that a candidate “wins” the primary by earning a small plurality, and winning with 15% of the vote is far from ideal. But voting systems such as ranked-choice voting, in which voters rank candidates by preference, could solve this problem. If no one wins a majority, votes are recounted with the lowest candidates eliminated until someone reaches a majority. By design, this process builds a majority and disposes of this critique. It’s clear that the current primary system isn’t working for the Hoosier state. Our votes deserve the same influence in choosing candidates, and a national primary would be better than what we have now. It’s time for Indiana to be heard in the primary process. casayers@iu.edu

2019 report from the Sentencing Project. Despite similar usage rates, minorities are far more likely to be arrested for marijuana charges than white Americans. Nearly half a million people are in prison for a drug law violation, but black Americans and Latino Americans account for 80% of people serving time for federal drug offenses. Warren and Sanders both propose using the president’s executive authority to declassify marijuana as a controlled substance, effectively legalizing it at the federal level. They also want to expunge all past federal marijuana-related convictions, reinvest additional tax revenue into communities affected most by the war on drugs and ensure people of color receive a fair share of the profits from the new marijuana market. Warren’s plan includes at least $500 million annually to repair damage done in communities that have been targeted by the war on drugs. Sanders calls for using marijuana tax revenue to establish a $20 billion grant program within the Minority Business Development Agency to fund marijuana businesses owned by entrepreneurs of color. He plans to provide formerly incarcerated individuals with job training and technical support for starting businesses. Both candidates emphasize minority ownership in the marijuana industry. Less than one-fifth of owners in the emerging industry were people of color in 2017, with black people accounting for

less than 5%. “We’re going to provide help to the African American, Latino, Native American community to start businesses to sell legal marijuana, rather than let a few corporations control the legalized marijuana market,” Sanders said during Tuesday night’s Democratic debate. Compared to other candidates, Warren and Sanders have the strongest platforms for ending the war on drugs. Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg supports legalizing marijuana and expunging past federal convictions, but he does not have plans to reinvest tax revenue or ensure minority ownership in the marijuana industry. Both former Mayor Mike Bloomberg and former Vice President Joe Biden are opposed to marijuana legalization. However, they favor decriminalization and expunging past federal convictions. While steps in the right direction, these candidates’ plans fail to specifically benefit communities most affected by the war on drugs. The legalization of marijuana requires reparations for the damage done by its prohibition and disproportionately racist enforcement. Warren and Sanders’ plans achieve this. Too often, racist policies are overturned without atoning for the harm they have caused. Unlike their rivals, Warren and Sanders both prioritize repairing the damage done and creating opportunities for those most affected. kylinder@iu.edu

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PRIDE film festival showcases LGBTQ+ films we have to try to portray,” Hesse said. Sophomore attendee Jessie Wang said this weekend was her second film festival. Wang said people learn a lot through media, so it is important to view media that includes LGBTQ+ people. “It doesn’t matter what group you define yourself as or your sexual orientation,” Wang said. “As long as you show up you are supporting the community.” Wang said she enjoyed the festival but felt there wasn’t enough Asian LGBTQ+ representation. She also said the only film from Asia, “The Handmaiden,” was not an accurate depiction of Asian LGBTQ+ people because the characters were fetishized and unrealistic. “Generally speaking, there’s not enough Asian representation within the LGBT community in Bloomington,” Wang said. “I feel like the film ‘The Handmaiden’ is a misrepresentation of Asian LGBTQ.” Wang said one scene where this fetishization was clear was when one of the characters read pornography to men, including her uncle. Graduate student Alyssa Shipman said showing LGBTQ+ films brings awareness to the many different gender and sexual identities. “The more people talk about it, the more normal it becomes, and the less stigmatized it becomes,” Shipman said. This was Shipman’s first

By Skye McLaughlin sdmclaug@iu.edu

As the credits rolled for the final film shown on the first night of the 2020 Bloomington PRIDE Film Festival, audience members silently stood up and walked out of the doors of the BuskirkChumley Theater. The silence resulted from the end of the film, titled “The Garden Left Behind,” when the main character, a transgender woman, is assaulted. The film follows undocumented immigrant Tina Carrera as she struggles to make a life for herself and provide for her grandmother. Aseret Hesse, sophomore and Cox Legacy Scholar intern for Bloomington PRIDE, said the film was their favorite from this year’s festival. “It is definitely the most difficult to watch because it is very honest about the sorts of issues that someone in the LGBT community might experience,” Hesse said. “It is pretty honest about the realities of hate crimes and difficulties with medical care as a transgender individual.” Hesse, who chooses the feature films along with the members of the Bloomington PRIDE board, said volunteers pick the short films. “We try to really include a lot of people in the decisionmaking process with diverse gender identities, sexual identities and different community backgrounds so that we can try to be considerate of all of the different lifestyles

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A sign for the Pride Film Festival sits outside the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. The festival ran Feb. 28-Feb. 29.

PRIDE Film Festival. Shipman’s favorite film from Saturday was “Changing the Game,” which follows three transgender high school athletes and the discrimination they face. Shipman said there is a debate over whether transgender athletes should

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compete with the gender they identify as, and the film addressed this topic from the athlete’s point of view, which is not typically articulated. “I think that it’s kind of a hot topic that a lot of people feel strongly about one way or the other,” Shipman said.

“I think it shares a perspective that a lot of people don’t usually hear.” Hesse said the festival’s primary goal is to serve the community by depicting realistic versions of LGBTQ+ people. They said Bloomington PRIDE doesn’t make any

money off the event. “This is where everybody is supposed to learn about culture,” Hesse said. “It is exclusively for the LGBT community and this local community. We think that you all deserve these representations.”

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APARTMENTS

Rechargeable Bluetooth Keyboard (for Mac), lightly used, $18. dahrendt@iu.edu

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1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 BR Houses, Townhouses and Apartments

Samsung 27’’ curved gaming monitor - good condition. $225,obo. mamurley@iu.edu Sony WH-1000XM3 wireless, noise canceling headset, $280. ag32@iu.edu

ICORE Marketing Book $15, good cond. aadhawan@iu.edu

Twin mattress and box spring, good cond. $350, obo. gnkhacha@iu.edu (317) 671-6090

Brand new MiniLab Music Device, $75, obo. tjarrell@iu.edu

Textbooks Ancient Greece textbook, for intro level Greek culture class, good cond. $12. whitekn@iu.edu

Memory Foam Mattress with gel (Full XL), $100. vinitab@iu.edu

Costumes

Ikea desk lamp, good condition, $10. most@iu.edu 426 E. 10th St. COMPLETE REMODEL!! 5 BR, 5 BA house, W/D, D/W, AC in unit, centrally located, 5 parking spots incl. $4,400/mo. 706 N. Washington St. FULL KITCHEN REMODEL! 5 BR. 4 BA, house, W/D, D/W, AC in unit, centrally located, beautiful back porch, 2 parking spots incl. $4,100/mo.

Salvatore Ferragamo black/gold sunglasses. Never worn. $100. saihaque@iu.edu

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Philips LED light bulbs (4 pack), new, $8. yiju@iu.edu

Almost brand new fullsize futon mattress (brown, 8-in. thickness). ibanka@iu.edu

Rice Cooker/Steamer/ Slow Cooker, great condition, $30. emjohns@iu.edu

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**REWARD** Missing student work, taken from IMU contact ktsarnas@iu.edu

TCL 32S327 32-Inch 1080p Roku Smart LED TV (2018 Model), $150, obo. bwerle@iu.edu

42” granite table top, stainless steel parsons base, $400. jkolesky@iu.edu

Galanz retro, light blue, mini fridge in good cond. $85 - rpioveza@iu.edu

HOUSING Grant Properties

North Face backpack, never been used, $95. jkutche@indiana.edu

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219 E. 8th St. - Ideal for group of 9. 3 separate units/leases: (1) 2-BR Carriage House, LR, full bath. (2) Main House (5 tenants), LR, 2 baths. (3) Basement unit (2 tenants), full bath. All w/equipped kitchens, private backyard, close to Campus. Avail. Aug., 2020. Contact Dan (812) 339-6148 or damiller@homefinder.org.

Appliances Dirt Devil 3-in-1 vacuum, $10. pw7@indiana.edu

2 BR Bungalow for rent at 212 E. 15th St. 2 blks. from Stadium, A/C, W/D, nice front porch, cherry tree, private. $1100/mo., no pets. Avail. now or for next year Call 812-339-6479 or Text 812-272-1209.

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TC Electronics Ditto Looper Effects Pedal w/ac pwr adapter, $125. jbarbry@indiana.edu

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Work Study Food service assistant job. Must be punctual and reliable! $12/hr. chabad@indiana.edu

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