December 8, 2022

LETTER

IU infringes on the IDS's right to public information.

It needs to respond with transparency.

the past year,

After a string of denied requests, a state opinion siding with the IDS over IU and an investigative editorial, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression reached out to IDS leadership to advocate for our press freedom and right to public information.

The IDS supplied materials and spoke with FIRE staff. This letter was culmination of those efforts:

Dear President Whitten:

The Foundation for Indi vidual Rights and Expression, a nonpartisan nonprofit dedi cated to defending freedom of speech and of the press, is concerned by Indiana Uni versity’s lack of transparency when responding to public records requests by student journalists. IU’s practice of belated and incomplete re sponses to requests posed by journalists at the Indiana Daily Student cripple the rights of the university’s independent student press. FIRE calls on IU to approach its relationship with IDS with transparency, not only in a way that follows the letter of the Indiana Access to Public Records Act, but that also reflects the university’s own commitments to trans parency and truth.

I. Indiana University Delays Responses to Records Requests

During the 2021–22 aca demic year, Indiana Daily Stu dent journalist Kaitlyn Radde investigated IU’s responsive ness to records requests, in cluding by requesting a log of all requests the university completed. IU responded to that request with a log of re quests submitted to the uni versity, but did not include any information on the disposi tion of those requests. While a log including both what re cords had been requested and how the university responded to those requests exists, IU claimed it was not subject to release because a university attorney maintains it.

More questions than an swers resulted from this in vestigation. So, Radde took to the pages of IDS to criticize IU’s purported commitment to transparency contrasted against its stonewalling ap proach to records requests.

In another example, IDS

reporter Evan Gerike submit ted a series of records requests on Feb. 23, 2022, only to have IU ask him to narrow the re quest a month later on March 25, 2022. But even with Gerike narrowing his request, it was not until after Radde’s edito rial about IU’s lack of transpar ency appeared on May 3 that — within a day — the univer sity finally responded, inform ing Gerike that three of his four requests had been denied un der exceptions for privileged records, attorney work prod uct, confidential records and/ or inter-agency deliberative materials.

In another public records matter involving IDS, in No vember 2021, Indiana Public Access Counselor Luke Britt issued an opinion holding that IU violated the APRA when it inappropriately cited FERPA in declining a request by IDS reporter Cate Charron for a disciplinary record and Title IX case file.

IDS editorial staff reports that it continues to face diffi culties obtaining records from the university.

II. The APRA and IU’s Own Commitments Require IU to Deal with Student Journal ists in a Transparent Manner

There is no question that IU is a public agency under Indiana’s public records stat ute, nor does IU dispute this. Instead, IU appears intent on, at best, minimally comply ing with the law, and at worst, outright violating it. Yet, even as IU flirts with minimal com pliance, it certainly does not live up to its motto of “Lux et Veritas” (Light and Truth). In IU’s own words, this motto is meant to “evoke the light of inquiry—an exploration of truth and a turning away from ignorance” — in other words, transparency.

And yet, IU’s track record on public records requests,

perhaps especially those origi nating with student journal ists, instead reflects a culture of shadows and silence.

A. IU’s Responses to IDS’s Records Requests Demon strate a History of Violating the APRA

In at least two recent cases, IU violated the APRA in its dealings with IDS. In the first example, in which the Pub lic Access Counselor already found a violation, IU denied a request by IDS journalist Cate Charron. When Charron re quested a student’s disciplin ary record and a Title IX case file, IU claimed disclosure of such records is prohibited under FERPA. Despite FERPA making clear that it does not “prohibit an institution . . . from disclosing the final re sults of any disciplinary pro ceeding . . . against a student who is an alleged perpetrator of any crime of violence . . . or a nonforcible sex offense,” IU refused to determine if any re cords responsive to Charron’s request constituted final re sults of such disciplinary pro ceedings and instead outright denied the request.

In a second recent violation of the APRA, IU’s delayed re sponse to Gerike’s request did not reflect provision of records “(w)ithin a reasonable time.”

While the APRA does not de fine “reasonable time,” the Public Access Counselor has explained that “what is a rea sonable time . . . depends on the public records requested and the circumstances sur rounding the request.” In a recent opinion, the Public Ac cess Counselor held an Indi ana town violated the APRA by “waiting months before releas ing the first document,” which was “not reasonable by any objective standard.” This was true despite the fact that the underlying request was com plex and may have included

voluminous responsive docu ments.

It took IU took an entire 30 days just to determine that Gerike’s requests were not “reasonably particular” under APRA, and as such required narrowing. It strains credu lity to conceive of a reason able justification for taking an entire month to read a series of requests and determine they lack specificity. Following that substantial delay, Gerike narrowed his requests, but IU waited another two months before notifying him it had no responsive records to one of those requests. It similarly is outlandish that the univer sity would need two months to search emails between two individuals to determine no such emails existed.

Even as to Gerike’s remain ing three requests, which IU declined on the asserted ground that all responsive records were either privi leged, attorney work product or inter-agency material, it is unlikely the university reason ably needed two months to make this determination. The timeline of responsiveness becomes more dubious when one realizes IU responded only after its APRA practices came into question due to Radde’s editorial on May 3.

IU must revise its public records practices to comply with the APRA by respond ing within a reasonable time and by more readily disclosing documents rather than taking months to determine if it can twist any APRA exemptions into assertedly justifying non disclosure.

of IDS’s

B. IU’s Handling

Records Requests Violates the Spirit of the APRA and Its Own Commitments to Transparency

Precedent mandates in terpreting APRA with “a presumption in favor of dis

Indiana men’s soccer cruises to College Cup

By Matt Press mtpress@iu.edu | @MatthewPress23

The accolades are well documented. The talent, that has soared to Major League Soccer and beyond over the program’s 50-year history, has written the story of Indiana men’s soccer.

After a decisive 2-0 win over the University of North Carolina Greensboro in the NCAA Elite Eight on Dec. 3,

the Hoosiers’ will continue dancing into the College Cup for the 22nd time in school history. The tradition of excel lence — which is synonymous with the legendary father-son duo of former Indiana coach Jerry Yeagley and current coach Todd Yeagley, along with former coach Mike Fre itag — continues to make a stamp on sport.

“The Yeagley’s have put together a dynasty,” junior

goalkeeper JT Harms said af ter the match. “It’s a tradition of excellence, and that’s where SEE COLLEGE CUP, PAGE 4

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closure” consistent with its purpose to “promot(e) govern ment transparency.” This goal mirrors IU’s own “Lux et Veri tas” motto, which the univer sity posits is a reflection of its value in an honest search for truth. IU also considers among its “highest standards of ethi cal conduct and integrity” the value of “(d)iscovery and the search for truth.”

While the APRA may not always require absolute trans parency, IU is ethically obliged to stand by its own values and policies.

Unfortunately, student journalists seeking to uphold these values by investigating and publishing the truth face obstacles established by a university apparently intent to work in the shadows, despite claiming that its “Principles of Ethical Conduct” seek to promote the goal of “transpar ency.”

III. IU Must Commit to Trans parency in Future Dealings with Student Journalists

IU’s record on transparen cy is dubious at best, and no where is that clearer than in an inspection of its relationship with student journalists from the Indiana Daily Student. In order to both comply with state law and demonstrate that its commitments to truth and transparency are not empty words, IU must improve its process for responding to pub lic records requests.

We request a substantive response to this letter no later than the close of business on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022, confirming that IU will make necessary revisions to its pub lic records policies in order to comply with the APRA and its own promises of transparency.

By Mia Hilkowitz mhilkowi@iu.edu

Pryor, an IU Maurer School of Law graduate, will be the first Black judge from Indiana to serve on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

‘Leave no broad behind’

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Indiana Daily Student reporters and editors have faced significant issues with IU when trying to access publicly available information through the state of Indiana's public access law.

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Then-freshman forward Samuel Sarver celebrates the win against Northwestern in the semifinals of the Big Ten Men’s Soccer Tournament Nov. 10, 2021, at Bill Armstrong Stadium. Indiana men's soccer will move on to compete in the NCAA College Cup beginning Dec. 9.

Pryor to serve as first Black Judge from Indiana on Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals

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Sincerely, Lindsie Rank Student Press Counsel, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression

MCCSC buys Herald-Times building

No referendum money was used in the nearly $3 million purchase

By Emma Uber emmauber@iu.edu | @EmmaUber7

Monroe County Commu nity School Corporation will purchase the Herald-Times building for $2,977,500. MCCSC school board mem bers unanimously approved the recommendation from John Kenny, MCCSC direc tor of business operations, to make the purchase, dur ing a board meeting Nov. 15.

The property, located at 1900 S. Walnut St., will become a family welcome center, community meeting area and building services space, according to a MCC SC press release.

Members of the “Bloom ington, IN – What’s Go ing On?” Facebook group expressed concern about the decision being made just one week after Monroe County residents voted to pass the MCCSC referen dum.

However, no referendum funds were used in the pur chase of the Herald-Times building. The MCCSC ref erendum is classified as an operating referendum, meaning the funds must be used on daily operating costs such as teacher sala

ries and cannot be used on facilities.

According to the MCCSC press release, no money from the education fund used to pay teachers and finance education-related expenses will go toward pur chasing the new building.

The $2.9 million price

was determined by taking the average between two separate appraisals of the building. According to In diana law, school districts must not purchase a proper ty for more than the average of two appraisals.

The Herald-Times news paper has operated out of

the building since 1961, but it moved all of its printing and production operations to Indianapolis in January 2020, according to a story from WFIU/WTIU News.

The sale of the newspa per’s longtime home comes after mass layoffs across Gannett-owned papers, in

cluding the Herald-Times’ recent loss of a local sports reporter and local education reporter. The newspaper currently names just seven people in its newsroom di rectory — one news direc tor, four news reporters, one sports reporter and one photographer.

How to avoid the ‘tripledemic’ this winter

By Kathleen Tran trankat@iu.edu

Experts and doctors are expecting what they call a “tripledemic” to arrive this winter. This is due to a surge of COVID-19, influ enza and respiratory syncy tial virus (RSV) cases.

“All of these viruses can cause infection in IU stu dents and can result in in creased morbidity, loss of time from work or school and risk of transmission to others,” Tom Hrisomalos, medical director of infec tion protection at IU Health South Central Region, said. “Being aware will allow stu dents to take actions to de crease their risk.”

According to an article by NBC News, it was re ported that 76% of pediatric hospital beds nationwide were full due to respiratory virus infections.

“Influenza cases have markedly increased this fall and the early spread of influenza is unlike what we have seen in many years,” Hrisomalos said. “Likewise, there has been an increase

in RSV cases in infants and children and an increase in hospitalizations.”

In the past two years, there has been decreased exposure to RSV and influ enza because of transmis sion precautions such as mask mandates. Now that these precautions have been loosened, there is an increase in respiratory ill ness, Hrisomalos said.

Sophomore neurosci ence student Katelyn Wo volunteers at the IU Health Bloomington Hospital. Her main responsibilities in clude directing patients to their appointment, helping those in wheelchairs get to their cars and visits and as sisting hospital staff when needed.

“As a volunteer, I don’t know too many specifics about the status of different resources around the hos pital, but just from an out side perspective, it definite ly seems like there has been an influx of the amount of people coming into the hospital for visits in the last month or two,” Wo said.

Since September, nearly

4,000 students have re ceived flu shots at the Stu dent Health Center. How ever, Rupp said this num ber is less than previous years.

“We have had an in crease, especially in flu cases, in November, and we have seen an increase in COVID-19 cases this week after the holidays,” Beth Rupp, medical director of

the Student Health Center, said. “I don’t know how many people have RSV, but I am sure it is also cir culating and causing some respiratory symptoms in some people. Plus, there are many other upper re spiratory illnesses circulat ing besides these three, so there are a lot of people that are sick right now.”

Hrisomalos suggests the

easiest and most effective way to stay safe from the “tripledemic” this winter is getting vaccinated for both COVID-19 and the flu. He says the bivalent COVID-19 booster works to decrease the risk of getting affected with the illness and the severity of the symptoms. Rupp encourages students to continue hand washing and covering coughs.

Deputy mayor to run in 2023

By Salomé Cloteaux scclotea@iu.edu | @CloteauxSalome

Bloomington Deputy May or Don Griffin, Jr. filed paper work Dec. 2 to become a can didate for mayor of Blooming ton in 2023.

Bloomington City Council President Susan Sandberg and former Monroe County Habi tat for Humanity CEO Kerry Thomson are the two other de clared candidates for the may oral nomination of the Demo cratic party. Both launched their campaigns in November after formally indicating inter est in running in June.

Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton announced two weeks ago that he will not be running for reelection in 2023, after serving two terms and eight years.

Griffin has served as depu ty mayor since April 2021 after being appointed by Hamilton. He oversees 16 city depart ments and 850 employees implementing the Hamilton administration’s policies, ac cording to a news release from the city in 2021.

Griffin, a Bloomington na tive, founded and owns real estate agency Griffin Realty Holdings Inc., according to the release. He has served as president of the city’s Rede velopment Commission and vice president of the Monroe County Branch of the NAACP. He co-founded and served as president of the Monroe County Black Democratic Caucus.

Griffin served on the board of local nonprofits organiza tions such as the Eskenazi Museum of Art, the Monroe County History Center, the Bloomington Board of Real tors, The Project School, Habi tat for Humanity of Monroe County and Lotus World Mu sic Festival.

Griffin and Sandberg have filed paperwork with the Mon roe County election division to establish a campaign commit tee, and Thomson filed to form a principal committee to run for mayor. The three mayoral candidacies will not be official until declarations of candidacy can be filed in January 2023.

Antisemitism is at an all-time high, how do we combat it?

By Sophie Goldstein goldsso@iu.edu

Editor’s Note: This sto ry includes mention of antisemitism.

Across the country this year, there have been 1,497 incidents of antisemitism. This is a 34% increase since 2021. With these incidents being at a record high, the Indiana University Helene G. Simon Hillel Center, the Jew ish cultural center on cam pus, is working to combat antisemitism.

Rabbi Sue Laikin Silber berg, executive director of the Hillel Center, said Hillel has a student-run task force, that meets weekly, develop ing projects and events to help combat antisemitism.

“A project started last year was the Red Mezuzah Project where they bought

thousands of Mezuzahs and painted them red with a sticker that said, ‘I stand with my Jewish friends’,” Silber berg said.

The task force also devel oped proactive education about what Judaism is and what antisemitism is, and they plan to go to different sororities and fraternities to teach about combating an tisemitism.

Silberberg said antisemi tism is truly at an all-time high right now and particu larly college campuses have been targeted.

“There have been a lot of antisemitic acts across the country on college campus es which has been extremely hard for the Jewish students,” Silberberg said. “Many of them really have never faced antisemitism, and certainly not to a great level.”

Letting people know an

tisemitism is real and is hap pening is the most important thing to do, Silberberg said.

“We have to provide as much education as possi ble,” Silberberg said. “There is often a stereotype that all Jews are white and rich, when neither of those are true. Because of that, many people think Jews can’t be discriminated against. No matter what, it still hurts, be cause it is something so inte gral to us and who we are.”

Founded in 2009 by pro fessor Alvin H. Rosenfeld, the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism offers courses and pursues high-level scholarly research into present-day manifesta tions of anti-Jewish animos ity.

Dr. Günther Jikeli, an as sociate professor at the In stitute for the Study of Con temporary Antisemitism,

said the institute was created when Rosenfeld saw that antisemitism was not just something of the past.

“We conduct conferenc es, workshops and webinars to help inform people of the antisemitism acts going on all around us,” Jikeli said. “Along with that, we have conducted our own research and have established a book series all related to antisemi tism and its history.”

Jikeli said the shift in an tisemitic acts in the United States didn’t start to increase until the terrorist attack of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in 2008.

“When that attack left 11 people dead, it was the first time in Bloomington, and around the country, that synagogues started to change their security mea sures and reconsider open door policies,” Jikeli said.

State abortion ban still blocked due to religious freedom

By Carter DeJong cadejong@iu.edu | @dejong_carter

Marion County Superior Court Judge Heather Welch ruled against Indiana’s neartotal abortion ban on the grounds of religious freedom Dec. 2.

The ban has been tempo rarily blocked since Septem ber 2022 after a ruling from Monroe County Judge Kelsey B. Hanlon.

The plaintiffs in that case argued that the abortion ban would violate the Indiana

Constitution, according to a September 2022 release from the American Civil Liberties Union.

According to a release from the ACLU, the court blocked the ban a second time on the basis that it likely violates Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Indiana was the first state to pass an abortion ban after the U.S. Supreme Court over turned Roe v. Wade earlier this year. Under the law, abortions are not allowed unless a preg nancy poses a serious health risk to the mother, the preg nancy is a result of rape or in

cest or the fetus is diagnosed with a lethal abnormality.

Jikeli said the best way of helping to combat anti semitism is to speak out, no matter how big or small the incident may be.

“This is a problem going on. The acts can come from anyone, even minorities, as we saw with the recent Kanye West incidents,” Jik eli said. “We just must speak out and talk about it when we see it. We must stop nor malizing these things and truly it depends on those who speaks out.”

Alvin H. Rosenfeld, di rector of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary

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Antisemitism, told News at IU that the most important part in combating hate is to educate.

“Educate, educate, edu cate,” Rosenfeld said in the release. “It’s my own sincere sense that most people in America are decent people. They’re not antisemitic, but many just don’t live close to Jews, don’t mix and mingle with Jews, don’t know Jews, don’t know very much about Judaism. And they hear things that are just misin forming and misleading, so the more contact one can have the better.”

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The IU Health Center is located at 10th Street and Eagleson Avenue. Medical professionals urge individuals to get a flu shot to combat an upcoming “tripledemic” consisting of RSV, COVID-19 and the flu this winter.

BLOOMINGTON GOVERNMENT Deputy Mayor Don Griffin, Jr.

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Monroe County Community School Corporation board members discuss matters March 27, 2018. MCCSC will purchase the building that has housed the Herald-Times since 1961.

The Democratic Party does not represent the interests of the working class

Jared Quigg (he/him) is a junior studying journalism and political science.

Is the title too obvious?

My friends on the political left have long known it to be true that the Democrats don’t represent the interests of the working class. The Republican Party doesn’t represent work ers’ interests either, but only their most dishonest mem bers would claim otherwise.

So, if the left already knows the Democrats don’t stand with labor, and if the Republi can Party knows deep down in their cold hearts the contempt they feel for labor, for whom is this column meant? It is meant for those dangerous compromisers – the liberals.

The liberals that make up the Democratic Party must be shown to be the frauds that they are. President Biden has said he intends to be the most pro-union president leading the most pro-union adminis tration in U.S. history. He had a chance to prove this on the issue of a potential nationwide rail strike. Instead of standing with the railway unions, he capitulated to the rail compa nies.

Our nation’s rail workers currently receive zero days of paid sick leave. This has been a main point of contention between rail unions and car riers. The Biden administra tion helped broker a tenta tive agreement between the unions and the carriers in September to avoid a possible strike. The agreement would

increase pay for rail workers, amongst other things, but would provide just one day of paid sick leave. Four of the 12 rail unions – representing a majority of all the total rail workers – voted to reject this agreement.

And instead of support ing a majority of the workers, Biden called on Congress to force the tentative agreement upon them, once again in or der to prevent a strike. Con

gress did just that, with over whelming bipartisan support for disregarding the wishes of workers.

Even the so-called “pro gressives,” the “democratic socialists,” voted to impose the tentative agreement on the workers.

But, you might say, “these ‘socialists’ also voted for an amendment which would grant seven days of paid sick leave to the rail workers.” A

separate amendment was doomed to fail in the Senate, which it did.

It must be Charlie Brown making this argument. Nancy Pelosi pulled this same trick by separating the 2021 in frastructure bills – the weak bipartisan bill passed and Build Back Better failed. Now, the rail agreement the work ers rejected passed, and the separate amendment failed. An agreement the workers

rejected should have been voted down. Silly progressives! You’ve allowed the football to be pulled away from you once again!

The liberal media have been the Democratic Party’s accomplices in crushing the rail workers. All one can read about the potential rail strike is how apocalyptic it would be for the economy. Supply lines would shut down, prices would soar, jobs would be lost

Advertisements are everywhere and are negatively affecting everyday consumers

I was working on my homework at the library and noticed that the person next to me seemed stressed.

I didn’t think much of it mainly because that’s a usual occurrence for a col lege student. However, af ter a quick glance at their screen, I saw there was an ad playing. Then another played – like on a YouTube video when they shove two ads before the video begins for 20 seconds without let ting you skip. Eventually, the student passed the ads and could watch the main video – possibly for an as signment – and then the student seemed calmer once the video began to play.

It made me wonder, to what extent do ads affect people? We see them each day, more than we may re alize, seemingly out of no where. Like a person who continues to yell your name from across the room for at tention when you're busy in a conversation, ads can

make someone feel uneasy or perturbed.

What I’ve found is that ads have the power to af fect someone’s sense of belonging and influence the prevalence of things like sexism or comparisons made between the indi vidual and the one on the screen. Sexism in ads has been prevalent for years now and is mainly carried out through portrayals of women belonging in the kitchen or men being told to not be allowed to work in the kitchen because it’s a “woman's work.”

Ads also have the power to make someone compare themselves to the advertis er. It’s been found that the people on the screen are edited to make them more attractive, so the standards that people compare them selves to are oftentimes un attainable.

Ads can be so irritating because they are often out of our control. An example can be seen with the stu dent mentioned before who just wanted to finish their assignment but had to watch ads for their video. It turns out there’s a science

behind ads that make them so enticing to watch.

Edward Bernays was the nephew of Sigmund Freud and used war propaganda during his time as adver tisement for companies. However, instead of deem ing it as “propaganda,” he named it “public relations.” His sales were well known, especially his promotion of lucky cigarettes, naming them “torches of freedom” for women. He made things seem enticing, even if they weren’t.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Really, there should be a relationship between a consumer and its adver tiser. Before we had a world of electronic advertise ments, there were less op portunities for ads to show up in your life. Maybe there was a newspaper or signs in windows, but not the con stant pushing for you to buy things whenever you look somewhere on social me dia or on the internet. It’s as though ads are the sacrifice we have to make for being able to Google things or talk to friends anytime we want. Today, it seems that the no tion of having a relation

ship between a consumer and the advertiser has been forgotten. There’s a lack of respect for the consumer to not want to “consume” anymore.

This is not to say ads cannot be lighthearted or well intentioned.

Some ads can be light hearted, such as the Super Bowl commercial with the puppy and the horse made by Budweiser. An exam ple includes the dancing Puppy Monkey Baby ad for Mountain Dew. These two ads stand as examples that things can be less serious than they have to be.

So, with ads that are de signed to get our attention, it’s hard to not be pulled into the void of shopping, comparing and watching. I think that with phones, it’s easier for people to have their days filled with un necessary pulls of atten tion. Advertisers need to begin to respect the con sumers space, and they need to make it easier to skip ads or close them out in order to keep peace of mind.

all in time for the holidays.

CNN’s Poppy Harlow had the audacity to pose this ques tion to a labor leader: “Do you believe a strike is worth it if it cripples the U.S. economy?”

This is, of course, the wrong question, or, at the very least, posed to the wrong per son. Why aren’t the rail com panies being asked if denying rail workers paid sick leave is worth crippling the U.S. econ omy? Why are the workers be ing cast as antagonists in the media?

The answer is because the media, like both Democrats and Republicans, serve the capitalist class.

It’s very funny to me when liberals critique various social ist societies for their one-party states. Sure, many of these states could stand to be more democratic. But the U.S. is a one-party state as well. Where is the choice for American workers when both parties are capitalist? With regards to the economy, is there truly a fun damental difference between Democrats and Republicans?

I, for one, have heard enough meaningless words from fake socialists and “prolabor” presidents. A worker’s party must emerge, one that actually seeks to represent the interests of labor. I don’t think such a party currently exists in America. Now is the time to build one. If the Democrats won’t serve labor, then labor must look to itself to create a party that will.

Pulling all-night study sessions is not as productive as you think

Ravana Gumm (she/her) is a freshman studying journalism.

As finals week approach es, many students will start to panic about their semes ter grades. This panic can often lead to studying for fi nal exams for hours on end. While it might seem like more time spent studying will guarantee better results, this dangerous habit of over studying will not only hinder exam performance but also damage your physical and mental health.

According to a Scholars article, common symptoms of overstudying include mental distractions that make it challenging to retain information, withdrawal from social activities, a lack of sleep or change in sleep patterns, headaches and di gestive issues.

These symptoms under mine one’s ability to do well on the exams they are study ing for, and those intense study sessions will result in feelings of disappointment and wasted time.

Overstudying can also lead to worsened anxiety and depression, according to Student Anywhere. The need to perform well can be extremely overwhelming, and the fear of feeling inad equate can lead to people, especially college students, compensating through study guides and excessive notes. Trust me, I’ve been there. It can seem as though more studying has to be bet ter, but it is actually quality over quantity that leads to the best results come exam day.

Now, I am not trying to say that people shouldn’t study. Studying is extremely important and helpful in order to perform well on exams. But I am saying that there are more productive

means of studying. Make sure to take breaks while studying. This will help prevent mental exhaustion and burnout. If your body is telling you that it needs a break, listen to it. Taking a break will help you refocus your mind and get back at it!

Also, do not wait until the day before the exam to start studying. Cramming the day before an exam — as opposed to studying in frequent intervals the week leading up to the exam — is only going to put further stress on you and is less ef fective in understanding the material.

Prioritize sleep! Pulling an all-nighter the night be fore your exam is sure to do more harm than good. An article from Sleep Founda tion said eight to 10 hours of sleep is ideal for peak physi cal, mental and school per formance. If you don’t un derstand a concept the night before your exam, you are most likely not going to be able to fully learn it in time. It’s better to get enough sleep to make sure you’re well rested and ready than to spend the night trying to learn new material and compromise your overall performance on the exam.

Finally, finding the study habits that work best for you is a process. When you get into that exam room, all you can do is answer every ques tion to the best of your abil ity. After the exam, you will be able to gauge how well you did and change your study habits if needed.

Remember to be kind to yourself during exam sea son. Be sure that your study habits never interfere with eating, drinking, sleeping and relaxing regularly. Be prepared, not panicked.

Carolyn Marshall (she/her) is a sophomore majoring in media studies with a focus in TV, film and dig ital production and a minor in English.

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President Joe Biden signs bipartisan legislation averting a rail worker strike Dec. 2, 2022, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House.

we are right now.”

Despite a rocky regular season marked by defensive inconsistencies and a murky goalkeeping situation, In diana has clicked from the outset of the NCAA Tourna ment. With three consecutive clean sheets, the veteran back line captained by redshirt se nior Daniel Munie has stifled multiple powerful offensive forces.

Against the Spartans, de spite another near flawless performance from junior goalkeeper JT Harms and his defenders, it was the Hoosiers’ attack that paved the way for the victory. Coach Todd Yeagley’s squad has displayed potent goal-scoring ability throughout the season, but a newfound insatiable press has unleashed the group of dy namic forwards.

“I feel really good. You want this to happen,” Yeagley said regarding the team peak ing come tournament time. “You see what’s happening now. Some of the players that maybe were inconsistent in the first quarter, or third, of the year are now really putting

in consistent shifts.”

From the first kick on Sat urday night, Indiana was in control. As the Hoosiers con tinued to stuff the Spartans into a deeper defensive block, dangerous chances were fre quent. UNC Greensboro ju nior goalkeeper Niclas Wild made brilliant efforts to fend off shots, but in the 16th min ute, Indiana found the break through.

Senior forward Maou loune Goumballe, whose combination of strength and speed have earned him a spot in the starting rotation for the tournament, put his physicality on full display as he received a throw in at the edge of the box. He flicked the ball to his right, and with a de fender on his hip, fired a vol ley into the upper right-hand netting.

The highlight-worthy strike was Goumballe’s first goal of the season. Despite a lack of regular season produc tion, his undeniable talent is showing when the Hoosiers’ needed it most.

“Seeing it on the pitch I couldn’t believe it,” Harms

said. “I was in disbelief. That’s a special moment and that’s a moment that wins you big games. And a player like that, he puts in all the work (and) a lot of what he does on the field goes unsung. I’m so happy for him.”

Harms, who is a roommate with Goumballe, spoke on the forward’s humble nature.

“I always knew him as a workhorse,” Harms said. “I know him as a hard-working kid, humble, lead by example type of player and a kid you want to go to battle with.”

Though largely ineffective in the win over Saint Louis, sophomore attacker Sam Sarver has played an integral role for the second consecu tive contest. His blistering speed and quick changes of direction are a nightmare for opposing defenders, and he drew a handful of fouls in the early segments of the match.

In the 64th minute, sopho more midfielder Patrick Mc Donald dispossessed a UNC Greensboro player around midfield. McDonald sent a through ball to his left, and like a bullet, Sarver burst

down the pitch and slotted away a breakaway goal.

“Once you slip Sammy through, no one’s going to catch him. He’s the fastest guy on the field in any given game,” McDonald said. “I knew he was going to beat the guy and get a one-on-one with the keeper, and in my head, I was just saying please score, please score, please score. He did, and it was awesome. The celebration matched the goal.”

To Yeagley, no one de served the goals as much as Sarver and Goumballe.

“Two guys that really needed goals that were play ing well were Maouloune and Sammy,” Yeagley said. “That’s going to propel us to this next game even more so. I’m really excited about those two get ting those goals.”

As the Hoosiers now em bark on their 22nd College Cup, the group’s confidence is truly beginning to take shape. Indiana will travel to Cary, North Carolina, to take on the University of Pittsburgh next Friday, Dec. 9, in a rematch of the 2020-2021 semifinals.

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How gender-affirming care affects the lives of four IU students

By Dominick Heyob dheyob@iu.edu | @dom_heyob Photos by Haley Ryan haryan@iu.edu | @haley__ryan

Xan Smith pulls a fresh shot of espres so into their coffee mug one Thursday morning.

Their partner Randall gives them a quick kiss good bye as he steps out the front door. The birds start chirp ing and light slowly shines through the home’s front windows. Xan picks up their mug and makes their way to ward their office to get their medicine. It’s just about time for their weekly hormone in jection.

From a nearby shelf, they grab a red and white striped paper bag. You can see the IU logo near its center. Inside are needles and small vials of clear liquid — testosterone. Xan takes a wrapped needle and one of the small vials.

Xan is a 31-year-old grad uate student at IU. They are a Ph.D. candidate at the Media School, studying the applica tion of gender in video game avatar creation. They’ve lived in Bloomington for nine years and got married to Randall in fall 2021.

Since the second grade, Xan has felt different from other kids. Relationships were hard for them. At the time, Xan was sure they were a girl. They just thought they had to express that identity differently. When they wore nails or dresses, it was up setting and didn’t feel right. They used to like these things when they were little, but they didn’t like how nails and dresses made people perceive them. They weren’t sure why.

Xan enters the bathroom,

sets their mug down on the vanity, unwraps the needle, pokes it into the vial and starts filling the syringe up with testosterone. They take a quick glance at themselves in the mirror. They’ve started to grow facial hair, and their voice is lower too. Their stu dents use their correct pro nouns, and they have a good support system. It took their whole life to get here.

About 0.5% of the popula tion of Indiana identifies as transgender. That is around 25,800 people, according to data collected by the Wil liams Institute. For the trans community, coming to terms with your identity means in terfacing with systems and people that feel owed an explanation. As a practice, gender-affirming care asks for no explanation. It builds acceptance. It saves lives. For four students at IU, genderaffirming care has helped them gain access to neces sary therapies, surgeries and support. But red tape, insur ance issues, and unqualified professionals can make get ting this care more difficult.

These students receive care at the IU Student Health Center through the Gen der Affirming Care Team, but gender-affirming care is more than just doctor visits and medicine. It is a partner who supports and loves you unconditionally.

People spend their whole lives learning about and ac cepting who they are. The work of trans people is no different. It is the work of a lifetime, one day at a time.

• • •

Dr. Laura Knudson leads IU’s Gen der Affirming Care Team, which strives to influ ence the health center’s pro tocols and operations to be as gender affirming as pos sible.

“Gender-affirmative health care can include any single or combination of a number of social, psycholog ical, behavioral or medical (including hormonal treat ment or surgery) interven tions designed to support and affirm an individual’s gender identity,” according to the World Health Organi zation.

For the health center, that care includes training nearly all of the center’s employees, including janitorial staff, in being gender affirming.

Knudson works closely with center’s transgender clients. Her office is full of visual cues to comfort her patients. On the walls are stickers representing differ ent sexual orientations. She has a diagram mounted in a frame titled the “gender unicorn.” It delineates the differences between gender identity and gender expres sion. In another corner of the room hangs an art piece with flowers, captioned with the phrase “grow your own gender.”

Xan decided they wanted to start hormone replace ment therapy at the health center in October 2021. From there, it took two weeks of blood tests and consulta tions until they could access the medication. Two weeks may not seem like a long time, but those two weeks were predicated upon over 10 years of work.

“Once you get in the mind of ‘I want to start this,’ then it’s agonizing waiting,” Xan said.

The health center has eliminated some of the boundaries other organiza tions and administrations fall into with gender-af

firming care, Knudson said.

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process how they felt inside. They said subconsciously they felt they were a feminine gay man.

“But I wasn’t. I was in a female body. I didn’t know why,” Xan said.

Growing up in that envi ronment meant being out wardly trans didn’t feel like an option.

“The only other option was to fully deny it.”

time, they could express themselves free of judgment. Their instinct about Earlham was right.

As the night wrapped up, Xan wanted to sleep over, but that wasn’t the plan. At first, they didn’t want to stay be cause of their panic attacks. However, some instinct was telling them it was going to be okay, so they stayed.

date the care. These logisti cal trappings made it much harder to gain access to care, especially with low-income students. Now at the center, HRT is based on informed consent, so letters aren’t nec essary. Trans people can also get informed consent HRT from Planned Parenthood.

Family therapist Deborah Pardue said gender-affirm ing care saves lives. A recent study shows about 40% of transgender individuals have attempted suicide. Pardue said that rate is even higher when factoring in those who succeed. That same study indicates 82% of trans peo ple have thought about it at some point.

“Once they get gender-af firming care, rates of suicide, depression and anxiety go down because they’re mak ing progress to be who they are,” Pardue said. “It’s really relieving for them.”

However, being gender affirming takes more than just providing medical care. Knudson takes time to de sign the environment she works in so it is welcoming to her patients. Gender-affirm ing care requires profession als to step out of the binary understanding of gender, she said.

“Those kinds of changes are really necessary in health care to make sure that ev eryone is being served,” she said.

• • •

Gender-affirming care was not as widespread in fall 2008 when Xan was in high school. When they were 17, they didn’t know how to

Around that time, Xan developed a panic disorder. They still don’t fully know the reason why the disorder de veloped, but the attacks kept them up most nights. By se nior year of high school, they said they felt like a husk.

They weren’t particularly enthused to go on their col lege search. Like every kid, they were overwhelmed by new places, new people, new everything. The last place they toured was Earlham College in Richmond, Indi ana.

Xan said the tour was typical, but something about Earlham was different. Ev erything felt more accepting and less expectant.

That night on the dorm floor, Xan saw two girls ask ing students if they wanted their nails painted.

“I always admired people with fun nails,” they said. “But when I did it it felt like people were seeing me as a woman doing it.”

From very early on, Xan learned nails were a signifier, something that girls wore. Even though they loved nails, they couldn’t bring them selves to try them on. But at Earlham, gender norms were treated differently. There were masculine women and feminine men. Nails weren’t weird or presumptive of one’s gender.

Much to their own sur prise, Xan got their nails painted.

“I remember my head be ing like, that is the last thing I would ever want to do,” they said. “But then I just said yes.”

They don’t remember what color, but they know it was something dark — a black or purple perhaps. It didn’t matter. For the first

How to get hormone therapy at IU Student Health Center

The timeframe between the first and second appointments can be as little as one week or as long as two months, depending on patient comfort levels and provider schedules. Check-ups can also be more frequent if the hormones cause negative side effects. After the first year of treatment, hormone ther apy check-ups reduce in frequency to every six to 12 months.

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Back in their house in Bloomington, Xan scours the house for one of their old journals, the one they knew they wrote on the day they left Earlham.

Randall sits back and watches from the living room couch, smiling the way one smiles toward someone they truly love. He wears an easy smile, one predicated upon years of experiences of hard ships and good times.

“I appreciate hear ing a lot of this because so many things just track really strongly for me, where I’m like ‘oh yeah, that’s you,’” Randall said.

He says he can see how these moments helped form who Xan is now. But he knows these things aren’t so one-to-one.

Xan eventually found the journal. Written on the bot tom of the page is a simple message.

Looking back, Xan said their time at Earlham through undergrad was healthy, but they say it also postponed their transition. They were still operating as though they were a woman.

The years between Earl ham and now were tumultu ous, filled with further denial and some of what Xan con siders internalized transpho bia. It wasn’t until after their wedding in 2021 when Xan started HRT.

Xan drops the needle in a bottle on the vanity. It is just another week.

Originally, hormone

pies were not based on in formed consent and instead required letters from mental health professionals to vali

“Once you get in the mind of ‘I want to start this,’ then it’s agonizing waiting.”

Xan Smith

Xan Smith and their husband Randall have been playing Dungeons and Dragons with their friends since 2016. Xan said “And all of my characters have been a form of me trying to define myself as a woman. And so I finally have a new character that is a very flamboyant, femme man, femme nonbinary person and that feels great.”

‘Leave no broad behind’ Darla refuses to let people be forgotten.

By Marissa Meador marnmead@iu.edu | @Marissa_Meador

When most of the world is asleep, Darla Jones wan ders through the dim halls of Miller’s Merry Manor nurs ing home, fighting to stay awake.

It is eerie at night, buzzing with an unnatural quietness. Moonlight sifts through the blinds, pooling on the floor as Darla attends to her du ties. She goes from room to room changing her residents’ briefs, slipping the fresh one between their legs, turning them over and securing the sticky tabs from back to front.

A call light flashes, beck oning Darla to another room. The woman asks her for a Pepsi.

The woman is capable of the small tasks, but she is always pressing the call light. While other nurses think she is just lazy, Darla searches within and chooses empa thy. She imagines this is what she might do if she were here, if she were lonely but too proud to say it aloud.

She takes the woman to the nurse’s station and sets her in a recliner. Darla brings her cookies and sits next to her. She explains as she folds laundry that she has a sweet tooth — sugar has replaced alcohol in Darla’s newly so ber life.

Darla talks endlessly, occasionally pulling other nurses into the conversation, filling the night’s silence with the stories of a life filled with adventure, heartbreak and horrible dates. Her stories never resolve; they dance around a meaning, crash into a sudden turn and end with another beginning, ceasing only when the sun rises and the fluorescent lights come on and Darla collapses at home, ready to get some sleep. • • •

In the mobile home park where Darla lives, chil dren play football in the road and relish the breezy autumn weather. Cars roll obediently through the park, slowing as they approach the speed bumps and pulling into patchy gravel driveways with lawns full of flags: the Stars and Stripes, “Don’t Tread on Me” and “Fuck Biden.”

In a town of 9,000 nearly halfway between Bloom ington and Indianapolis, Mooresville, Indiana, is not the usual place for Darla, who has traveled most of her life, living chunks of it in Califor nia and Washington.

Darla was born near the end of the baby boomer gen eration, making her 60 years old. She reminisces as “Sweet Child O’ Mine” blares, filling every inch of her living room with electric guitar.

“I can still remember when that song had just come out,” she says.

Darla leads her two dogs, Looney and Sweet Pea, be tween landmines of steel wa ter bowls and coffee tins full of dog food. She takes them to her bedroom, which is across from a wall plastered with an American flag and a row of unhung frames, which Darla calls her “Wall of Fame.”

Darla’s beloveds include former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Judge Judy and Elton John. A photo of Donald Trump, complete with a fake auto graph, is placed right next to a photo of Barack Obama — she doesn’t want people to think she is too much of a Republican.

Darla enters the kitchen and pours fresh coffee into a teacup she got from the lo cal antique store. She is talk ing about her philosophy on nursing homes and old age when she hears a muffled shout from outside.

“Hey, you need to get your dogs!”

Darla freezes: “Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God.”

She hurries out the door, yanking Looney inside. Slob ber is dripping from her teeth to the floor. Darla runs across the street, where a kid wails on the ground.

Looney, in his excite ment and trepidation, has nipped the child. His parents are here, soothing him and checking the injury while Darla apologizes.

“She got him a little bit worse than I thought,” the kid’s dad said. “It just kind of got his butt cheek.”

He asks if Looney has all her shots, and Darla says she does.

Back inside, Darla types quickly on her computer.

“Hold on, I just need to look up something about ra bies real quick.”

She double-checks that the shots haven’t expired and breathes a sigh of relief.

“Looney, Looney, Loo ney, Looney,” she mutters. “Crazy dog.”

It’s time to visit her friend Judy, so Darla swaps her blue slides for boots and slips into an American flag jacket.

Darla loves animals; the two saddest places a person can be, she says, are a pedi atric ward with children who have cancer and an animal shelter. She fills a third steel bowl with water for the dogs, just in case something hap pens to her while she’s out.

In her Dodge Ram truck, Darla drives around the park once to check if there’s any thing good in the dumpster and to give her phone num ber to the family of the kid in case anything happens when she’s gone.

“Put it this way — public relations.”

• • •

Before Darla Jones was a certified nursing assistant, she was a journalism major at San Di ego State, a stripper at Paddy Murphy’s Irish Pub, a singer for her friend’s band Tight covering Pat Benatar and ZZ Top and an employee in a group home for juvenile of fenders.

Her friends describe her as vivacious, impulsive and loud but also sensitive. From her days as a topless dancer to a certified nursing assis tant, Darla has always had a big heart.

Earlier this year, Darla’s heart led her to create the Hot Old Broads’ Society, a group of 144 mostly single, middle-aged to elderly women. The group’s goal is to make sure no woman ever feels lonely.

Darla writes in the de scription of the group on Facebook:

“We can have fancy teas one day and get muddy in the creek the next day. We can be benevolent on Mon day and then hit the dance clubs on Saturday night.”

She continues: “It’s a new club that will unfold as time goes by. Or not. It might be a fat flop. LOL.”

One member of the HOBS is Darla’s friend and favorite resident Judy. Darla loves her job but hates to see her resi dents suffer.

“Once you’re in a nurs ing home,” she says. “You’re fucked.”

Darla envisions HOBS as a vessel for helping her nursing home residents. By making the group fun for its members, the tone is differ ent from a volunteer group — and she doesn’t want the residents to feel like a charity case. If she ever ends up in a home, she wants HOBS to be there in case she gets lonely.

“There is no such thing as a selfless good deed,” she says with a chuckle.

• • •

“Knock knock!”

Darla says. “I’m here to see you Hot Old Broads.”

The residents of the nurs ing home sit at white-table clothed tables with fall deco rations and half-drank cups of lemonade and iced tea. They each push a runny pile of stuffing around on their plates with plastic spoons, staring at the air.

On the front desk, there is a bouquet of carnations from the family of a man who has just passed.

“It’s already too quiet in here,” Darla says as she sits next to Judy and leans back.

Judy is thin and delicatelooking, with eyes like jade pieces. Darla jokes about kidnapping her, and Judy smiles.

“That’s why I like her,” Judy says.

Darla sets her sights on a group of ladies sitting at a

table across from her.

“How about we get some male strippers in here?” she hollers.

One of the ladies recounts a time where she confused the Chippendales, a troupe of male strippers, with the cartoon chipmunks Chip and Dale. Gentle laughter erupts from the table.

There is a sense that here, among death and silence, Darla’s personality is a gift. She is not like the other nurs es, who don’t peel back the packets of butter and jam for breakfast and take too many smoke breaks.

At some point, Darla be gins talking about a recent

wheel and stares at the road as it rolls beneath her. She re calls thinking as she debated sobriety: “Do I have to kill someone before I stop?”

She made the decision to quit alcohol, marking her journey by scribbling the number of days on her kitchen calendar in between notes reminding her to mow the lawn. When her dates offer her a drink, she firmly declines.

“There’s no such thing as ‘just one drink,’” she says.

But Darla’s sobriety is only half the battle.

In mid-October, four months after the incident, Darla was charged with two misdemeanors alleging driv ing under the influence. Her blood alcohol level was over 0.15.

fee straw and sealing it with clear nail polish. Another HOBS member, Jo, pulls out several hollowed-out gourds that have been dried to the texture of wood and de scribes the process of carving designs and wrapping pine needles around the gourds. The broads laugh and take pictures and forget about the last-minute cancellations.

The ladies soon move from crafts to chatting over ice cream. Darla eats her ice cream — salted caramel truf fle and peanut butter cup — in the biggest bowl they have with a fork she brought from home. Small next to her, Judy stays mostly quiet and eats her butter pecan ice cream.

event, but Darla reassures her.

“What’s sad is if some body doesn’t come because they’re too afraid,” she says. “I don’t want anyone to feel like they don’t have options.” • • •

Although HOBS helps women around Darla’s age find com munity, Darla was thinking about her residents when she made the group. HOBS is about aiding people in cri sis, and if you’re in a nursing home, you’re in a major cri sis, Darla says.

drunken driving accident that occurred a few weeks prior in her hometown, where the driver hit a girl as she was crossing the street to board the school bus. Darla understands the girl and her family can never forgive the drunken driver, but Darla feels sympathy for him — sympathy for the way he must live forever knowing what he’s done.

“I had to stop drinking because I couldn’t keep my self from driving,” she says to no one in particular.

Deep down, Darla is grateful that it wasn’t her that hit the girl.

• • •

Alittle over three months ago, Darla found herself stuck in a ditch. Instead of calling for help, she sat in her car for hours and drank.

When the police arrived in the middle of the night, glowing fluorescent red and blue, she let them take her to jail and braced for a DUI charge. But for months, she heard nothing.

Darla was disappointed. A DUI charge would be a sign that her drinking had gone too far. She would be forced to confront the dissonance between her preaching about the dangers of speed ing and tailgating with her own dangerous habit.

The stakes are high, too. In 2020, there were 11,654 alcohol-impaired traffic deaths. Darla knows some one who killed a person and injured a family while driving drunk but says the woman continues to drink. In the same month that the kid in Darla’s town was struck by a drunk driver, a drunken driver in Bloomington killed an IU student on an electric scooter.

Driving now as she details the accident, Darla grips the

Darla plans to plead not guilty, arguing there is not enough evidence to prove she was driving drunk since she was drinking in a stopped car that she could not get out of the ditch. But in the courts, Darla’s journey to sobriety will be outweighed by the question of her past — where the difference be tween innocence and guilt could mean jailtime.

On her 100th day of sobriety, Darla wheels her nursing home resident and friend Judy, dressed in an all-denim outfit and sunglasses, to a Hot Old Broads craft event at an ice cream shop.

The broads are a bit dis appointed with the turnout; several people canceled last minute. The person who was supposed to bring craft ma terials — Hope — got sick and couldn’t come.

But these are not ordinary women: they are HOBS. Ab sent of Hope, they will get by with grit.

The women pull out random materials and halfbaked ideas — a wide roll of shimmery ribbon with gold decoupage, plastic dye gloves, candy pumpkins, a broken fall decoration.

Shelley, Darla’s neigh bor, cuts up a magazine into strips and shows the group how to make paper beads by rolling the strips on a cof

As she snacks on a sun dae, Shelley suggests an idea for an event where groups speak to the HOBs about safety in dating.

“How many of our HOBs are still dating?” Shelley asks.

“Dating?” Angie, another HOBS member, asks. “Well, I’m not really trying … I mean, I would like to, but … ”

“These kind of topics could still be good for us,” Shelley says. “Especially when you’re getting into on line dating and stuff and you haven’t dated in 20, 40 years.”

“Or even just safety being a woman out in public,” An gie adds.

All the broads seem to agree they enjoy being single.

“I used to think I wanted a boyfriend who would give me really good sex, and now I’ve decided what I’m really looking for is a handyman,” Shelley declares.

Others chime in:

“I’m focused on my kids and grandkids now.”

“I don’t care about sex anymore.”

“But it would be nice to have somebody to go to the movies with, or out to eat.”

A fact of life, one HOB says later, is it gets harder to make friends as you age. But HOBS has changed that for her. At the core of the Hot Old Broads’ Society is the radical notion that a woman can be both old and hot. A notion that anyone, at any age, can have friends and have fun.

As 4 p.m. approaches, the broads collect their purses and tote bags. One laments the low numbers for the

Some residents have reached a stage of accep tance of their condition.

Others, wracked with grief, refuse to take their medica tions. As they wrestle with the idea of death, their ail ments cause them to be treated as less than human.

Darla recalls the group’s motto: leave no broad be hind.

On a visit to Miller’s to see her residents, Darla sees a woman sitting alone in the corner of the lunch room.

“The people over there need meal assistance,” Dar la says. “But other people call them ‘feeders,’ which I just hate. We’re not feeding the squirrels.”

She gets up and wheels the woman who needs meal assistance over to her table. She takes a Styrofoam box of chocolate cream pie and readies a forkful, scraping some of the filling on the sides of the box. She lifts the fork to the woman’s mouth.

“Here ya go, doll.”

The lunchroom is nearly empty now, absent of the nurses’ chatter and shuffle of the residents. Darla con tinues to talk, pausing only to gather the whipped fill ing with a steady hand. The woman loosens her jaw, and Darla Jones feeds her a sweet bite of pie.

Darla Jones, founder of the Hot Old Broads, poses outside her home Nov. 5, 2022, in Martinsville. Jones started the group to bring people

together and have fun with other middle-aged women.

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Darla Jones, front left, poses with other members of Hot Old Broads Oct. 2 near the end of their crafting event. They are gathered in an alcove of the shop decorated to mimic Central Perk, the coffeehouse featured on the show “Friends.”

“We can have fancy teas one day and get muddy in the creek the next day.”

Darla Jones

“I don’t want anyone to feel like they don’t have options.”

Darla Jones

Futile effort allows Rutgers to topple Indiana 63-48

to the end.”

and 17 total.

By Evan Gerike egerike@iu.edu | @evangerike

No. 10 Indiana men’s basketball needed someone to step up against Rutgers on Saturday.

With eight minutes left, the Hoosiers were reel ing from a 17-point Scarlet Knight run. They were out of sorts. Nobody took charge and for the first time all sea son, it was too steep a climb to manage in a 63-48 loss.

Indiana started sluggish and clumsy against Rutgers and never improved, shoot ing just 30% and 6-for-25 from 3-point range. Its los ing streak to Rutgers is now six games.

“We just got out-toughed tonight,” head coach Mike Woodson said after the game. “From the beginning

A nine-point run set In diana up with a lead midway through the second half. For the first time all game, In diana had the momentum and was in the driver’s seat, but it didn’t last.

Rutgers freshman guard Derek Simpson took over for the Scarlet Knights. After a 3-pointer put Rutgers back in the lead, Simpson ripped off a personal 10-0 run amid Rutgers’ game-shifting 17-0 streak. Indiana never clawed back in.

All 14 of Simpson’s points came in the second half.

Rutgers crashed the boards well, outrebound ing Indiana 47-33. It was especially prolific on the offensive glass, grabbing 11 offensive rebounds early on

“I thought that was the difference in the ballgame,” Woodson said. “That was the cushion that they needed because from an offensive standpoint, even though we missed shots, they weren’t running off anywhere. Our defense was decent. It was just the extra opportunities for them.”

Indiana played with out freshman guard Jalen Hood-Schifino, who was dealing with back tightness in the pregame warmup. His absence loomed large for the Hoosiers. Senior guard Xavier Johnson played poorly, turning the ball over six times and making two of his 11 field goal attempts.

With Hood-Schifino ab sent, Indiana had no one else to reliably handle the

ball. Junior guard Trey Gal loway started in his place but went scoreless in 30 minutes.

Three days ago, Galloway and Hood-Schifino spurred Indiana to victory over the No. 18 University of North Carolina with a combined 25 points. On Saturday, they were invisible on the scoresheet and emblematic of Indiana’s failure.

“My theme has always just been next man up,” Woodson said. “We just didn’t have it tonight.”

One other stat showed the futility of Indiana’s trip to Piscataway, New Jersey — for the first time in his 101game career, senior forward Trayce Jackson-Davis fouled out. Jackson-Davis, who recorded the 35th doubledouble of his career with a

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Indiana overcomes rebounding struggles, beating Illinois

By Matt Sebree masebr@iu.edu | @mattsebree

Entering Sunday’s mati nee matchup against Illinois in Bloomington, Indiana women’s basketball had routinely won the rebound ing battle by wide margins this season, grabbing nearly six more rebounds than op ponents on average through eight games. However, in its Big Ten season opener, the Hoosiers struggled mightily on the boards, allowing the Illini to outrebound them by 10 in the first half and by seven in the game.

Although Indiana pulled off the 65-61 victory to move to 1-0 in conference and 9-0 overall, it didn’t come easy as Illinois continued getting extra possessions through out the game to keep the Hoosiers on their heels.

Before the game, gradu ate student forward Alyssa Geary was in a walking boot after injuring her ankle in practice Saturday. Geary is Indiana’s tallest rotation player at 6’4” and is usu ally the first forward off the bench for the team.

After the game, head coach Teri Moren said Geary is day-to-day and will be back.

In Geary’s absence, freshman forward Lilly Meister was the only for ward to get minutes off the bench on Sunday, though she only recorded one re bound and commit two turnovers and two fouls in five minutes.

Starting senior forward Mackenzie Holmes also un characteristically struggled rebounding the ball, par ticularly in the first half. Holmes entered the game as the team’s leading rebound er with more than seven per game. But in the first half against Illinois, she only managed two.

Holmes’ first half strug gles on the glass were repre sentative of Indiana’s issues as a team. After 20 minutes of play, Illinois had a 22-12 rebounding advantage in cluding a 7-0 edge on offen sive rebounds.

Junior guard Chloe Moore-McNeil said the team knew at halftime they had to improve on the boards in or der to win the game.

“We have enough expe rienced players to huddle in and talk amongst ourselves in the locker room before the coaches come in, telling each other what we need to focus on and the battles that we're losing,” Moore-McNeil said.

Moren said the Illini did a good job of forcing Indi ana to continue rotating of defense which drew Hoosier players away from the paint for rebounds.

“In the first half I thought

(Illinois junior forward Ken dall) Bostic did a great job of just being around the basket,” Moren said. “And again, number three, (Il linois junior guard Makira) Cook puts pressure on you because she requires anoth er person to rotate over."

Bostic and Cook fin ished as the game’s leading rebounder and scorer with 14 boards and 33 points, re spectively.

Moren said once she and the coaches come into the locker room for halftime, they also pointed out the need to improve at boxing out and crashing the glass.

“We had a discussion at halftime, I just pointed out that they were plus-(10) on the boards at that point. We needed our guards. We needed Scalia to get in there and Yarden to get in there,” Moren said. “(Junior guard Sydney Parrish) really did a

good job of getting in there, especially late as the game progressed.”

Parrish was Indiana’s leading rebounder, record ing a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds — seven of which came in the second half. Holmes also recovered from her first half struggles to grab four boards in the fourth quarter alone to help Indiana close out the win.

Though a minus-seven rebounding deficit usually results in a loss, the Hoosiers were able to pull out the win and survive, but they will need to perform better on the glass moving forward if they want to achieve their goal of a Big Ten champion ship.

“You just have to kind of get grimy and you hope that your grit shows up and you make just enough plays to win the game,” Moren said.

13-point, 10-rebound per formance, struggled might ily while Rutgers doubleand triple-teamed him in the post.

“I’m used to doubles, but they were really honing in,” Jackson-Davis said. “They were sending two guys and then they had one at the rim. I think I rushed things. A few turnovers, but at the same time shots just weren’t falling for us.”

Indiana’s lone bright spot was senior forward Miller Kopp, who scored 21 points on 8-for-12 shoot ing, including a career-high five makes from deep. Kopp only took three shots in his last two games but found his stroke early for the Hoosiers.

“I was just trying to shoot the ball when I was open and make the right play,”

Kopp said. “As a team, we have to get better offensive ly.”

But his style of play as a mostly immobile 3-point shooter on offense couldn’t provide Indiana with the spark it needed.

In the aftermath of Indi ana’s convincing win over North Carolina, JacksonDavis was asked to dream about Indiana’s potential and what it is capable of this season.

His answer was concise and pointed.

“What we’re capable of is playing our next game, which is at Rutgers,” Jack son-Davis said.

Yet on Saturday, Indiana was outplayed for nearly 40 minutes. If it was capable of playing, it was hardly capa ble of winning.

Indiana rises to No. 4 in AP Poll, ties program record

By Will Foley wtfoley@iu.edu | @foles24

Indiana women’s bas ketball moved up to No. 4 in the AP Poll Monday after noon. Its No. 4 ranking ties the program high, which was held during the second and third weeks of the 202122 season.

The Hoosiers climbed one spot following a pair of wins this past week. ThenNo.5, Indiana impressively routed then-No. 6 Univer sity of North Carolina 87-63 on Thursday night and de feated Illinois 65-61 yester day afternoon, earning its first conference win of the season.

Indiana jumped over then-No. 3 University of Connecticut, who lost to then-No. 7 University of Notre Dame. UConn fell to No. 6, and Notre Dame rose to No. 5.

Big Ten foe Ohio State moved up to No. 3 in the rankings, one spot ahead of Indiana. The top-5 pro grams will face off twice this season in Big Ten play – in Bloomington Jan. 26 and in Columbus on Feb. 13.

The Hoosiers only play once before the next rank ings are released, as they will travel to University Park, Pennsylvania to take on Penn State in conference play.

Kaitlin Peterson parts ways with Indiana

By Matt Sebree masebr@iu.edu | @mattsebree

Sophomore point guard Kaitlin Peterson is departing the Indiana women’s basket ball team, a team spokesman told the Hoosier Network on Dec. 1.

Coming out of high school in Eufaula, Alabama, Peter son was ranked the No. 41 overall recruit by All Star Girls Report and No. 54 overall by Prospects Nation. On Dec. 7, Peterson announced on her Twitter that she was entering the transfer portal.

As a freshman last year at Indiana, Peterson played in 21/33 games and averaged 5.5 minutes and 1.5 points.

Her best game came on Feb. 9 in a 93-61 victory over Illinois where she played 19 minutes and hit three 3-pointers to fin ish with 11 points, all careerhighs.

Through seven Indiana games this season, Peterson

has appeared in six and aver aged 12.7 minutes and four points. Her departure leaves 13 players on the roster, with only 11 healthy as graduate student guard Grace Berger and junior forward Kiandra Browne continue to recover from injuries.

Two players also left the Indiana team midseason last year: guard Keyarah Berry and forward Caitlin Hose.

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Freshman guard Yarzden Garzon pushes a University of Illinois player out of the way Dec. 4, 2022, at Simon

Skjodt Assembly Hall. Indiana continues its winning streak after defeating Illinois 65-61.

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Graduate forward Race Thompson guards and graduate guard Miller Kopp look to grab a rebound Nov. 30, 2022, at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana. Indiana lost to Rutgers 63-48 on Saturday.

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Sophomore guard Kaitlin Peterson dribbles the ball against Kentucky Wesleyan University Nov. 4, 2022, at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. It was announced that Peterson would no longer be a part of the team on Dec. 1.

Rose House LuMin- Lutheran Campus Ministry at IU 314 S. Rose Ave. 812-333-2474

lcmiu.net

Instagram: @hoosierlumin facebook.com/LCMIU

Sunday: 8:30 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. @ St. Thomas Lutheran Church 3800 E. 3rd St. Tuesday: 6:30 p.m. Dinner & Devotions @ Rose House LuMin 314 S. Rose Ave.

Rose House is an inclusive Christian community that offers a safe space for students to gather, explore faith questions, show love to our neighbors through service and work towards a more just world. Rose House walks with students to help them discern where God is calling them in life.

Rev. Amanda Ghaffarian, Campus Pastor

St. Thomas Lutheran Church 3800 E. Third St. 812-332-5252 stlconline.org facebook.com/StThomasBloomington Sunday: 8:30 a.m. & 11 a.m.

We are the worshiping home of Rose House Lutheran Campus Ministries. As disciples of Christ who value the faith, gifts and ministry of all God's people and seek justice and reconciliation, we welcome all God's children* to an inclusive and accessible community. *No strings attached or expectations that you'll change.

Rev. Adrianne Meier Rev. Lecia Beck

Independent Baptist

Lifeway Baptist Church 7821 W. State Road 46 812-876-6072 lifewaybaptistchurch.org facebook.com/lifewayellettsville

Sunday: 9 a.m., Bible Study Classes 10 a.m., Morning Service 5 p.m., Evening Service

Barnabas College Ministry: Meeting for Bible study throughout the month. Contact Rosh Dhanawade at bluhenrosh@gmail.com for more information.

Steven VonBokern, Senior Pastor Rosh Dhanawade, IU Coordinator 302-561-0108

bluhenrosh@gmail.com

*Free transportation provided. Please call if you need a ride to church.

Canterbury Mission 719 E. Seventh St. 812-822-1335 IUCanterbury.org facebook.com/ECMatIU

Instagram & Twitter: @ECMatIU Sun.: 3 p.m. - 7 p.m. Mon., Wed., Thu.: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Tue.: Noon - 8 p.m. Fri., Sat.: By Appointment

Canterbury: Assertively open & affirming; unapologetically Christian, we proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ by promoting justice, equality, peace, love and striving to be the change God wants to see in our world Ed Bird, Chaplain/Priest Jacob Oliver & Lily Dolliff student workers

Unitarian

Universalist

Unitarian Universalist

Church of Bloomington 2120 N. Fee Ln. 812-332-3695 uubloomington.org facebook.com/uubloomington Sunday: 9:15 a.m. and 11:15 a.m.

We are a dynamic congregation working for a more just world through social justice. We draw inspiration from world religions and diverse spiritual traditions. Our vision is "Seeking the Spirit, Building Community, Changing the World." A LGBTQA+ Welcoming Congregation and a certified Green Sanctuary.

Rev. Connie Grant, Interim Minister Rev. Emily Manvel Leite, Minister of Story and Ritual

Stoneybrook Community Church of God 3701 N. Stoneybrook Blvd. stoneybrookccog.org facebook.com/StoneyBrookCCOG

Sunday: 10:30 a.m.

10:00 a.m. Coffee & Treats

Stoneybrook Community Church of God is a gathering of imperfect people learning to follow Jesus. We invite you to join us on the journey.

Mitch Ripley, Interim Pastor

Evangel Presbytery

Trinity Reformed Church 2401 S. Endwright Rd. 812-825-2684 trinityreformed.org facebook.com/trinitychurchbloom Email us at office@trinityreformed.org

Sunday Services: 9 a.m. & 11 a.m. College Bible Study: Contact us for more info.

"Jesus answered them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.'" Proclaiming freedom from slavery since 1996. Only sinners welcome.

Jody Killingsworth, Senior Pastor Lucas Weeks, College Pastor

Bahá'í Faith

Bahá'í Association of IU 424 S. College Mall Rd. 812-331-1863 bloomingtoninbahais.org facebook.com/BaháíCommunity-of-BloomingtonIndiana-146343332130574

Instagram: @bloomingtonbahai Regular Services/Devotional Meetings: Sunday: 10:40 a.m. @ Bloomington Bahá'í Center Please call or contact through our website for other meetings/activities

The Bahá'í Association of IU works to share the Teachings and Principles of the Founder, Bahá'u'lláh, that promote the "Oneness of Mankind" and the Peace and Harmony of the Planet through advancing the "security, prosperity, wealth and tranquility of all peoples."

Karen Pollock & Dan Enslow

Inter-Denominational

Redeemer Community Church 111 S. Kimble Dr. 812-269-8975 redeemerbloomington.org facebook.com/RedeemerBtown Instagram & Twitter: @RedeemerBtown Sunday: 9 a.m. & 11 a.m.

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

Chris Jones, Lead Pastor

Baptist

University Baptist Church 3740 E. Third St. 812-339-1404 ubcbloomington.org facebook.com/ubc.bloomington YouTube: UBC Bloomington IN Sunday: 10:45 a.m., Worship in person & live streamed on YouTube

A welcoming and affirming congregation excited to be a church home to students in Bloomington. Trans and other LGBTQ+ friends and allies most especially welcome!

Annette Hill Briggs, Pastor Rob Drummond, Worship & Music Minister

Lutheran ChurchMissouri Synod

University Lutheran Church and Student Center 607 E. Seventh St 812-336-5387 indianalutheran.com facebook.com/ULutheranIU instagram.com/uluindiana

Sunday: 9:15 a.m.: Sunday Bible Class 10:30 a.m.: Sunday Worship Wednesday: 7 p.m.: Wednesday Evening Service 7:45 p.m.: College Bible Study Student Center open daily, 9 a.m.-10 p.m.

We are the home of the LCMS campus ministry at Indiana. Our mission is to serve all college students with the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ. Located on Campus, we offer Christ-centered worship, Bible study and a community of friends gathered around God’s gifts of life, salvation and the forgiveness of sins through our Senior Jesus Christ. Richard Woelmer, Pastor

University Baptist Church

A welcoming and affirming congregation excited to be a church home to students in Bloomington. Trans and other LGBTQ+ friends and allies most especially welcome!

Sunday: 10:45 a.m., Worship in person & live streamed on YouTube

Society of Friends (Quaker)

Bloomington Friends Meeting 3820 E. Moores Pike 812-336-4581 bloomingtonfriendsmeeting.org Facebook: Bloomington Friends Meeting Sunday (in person and by Zoom): 9:45 a.m., Hymn singing 10:30 a.m., Meeting for Worship 10:45 a.m., Sunday School (Children join in worship from 10:30-10:45) 11:30 a.m., Light Refreshments and Fellowship 12:45 p.m., Often there is a second hour activity (see website) Wednesday (by Zoom only): 9 a.m., Midweek Meeting for worship 9:30 a.m., Fellowship

We practice traditional Quaker worship, gathering in silence with occasional Spirit-led vocal ministry by fellow worshipers. We are an inclusive community with a rich variety of belief and no prescribed creed. We are actively involved in peace action, social justice causes, and environmental concerns. Peter Burkholder, Clerk burkhold@indiana.edu

3740 E. Third St. 812-339-1404 ubcbloomington.org facebook.com/ubc.bloomington YouTube: UBC Bloomington IN

Non-Denominational

Calvary Chapel of Bloomington

3625 W State Road 46 812-369-8459 calvarychapelbloomington.org facebook.com/calvarychapelbloomington YouTube: Calvary Chapel Bloomington IN

Sunday: 10 a.m.

Tuesday: 7 p.m., Prayer Wednesday: 6:30 p.m.

Hungry for God's word and fellowship with other believers? Come as you are and worship with us as we grow in the knowledge of His love, mercy, and grace through the study of the scriptures, and serving those in need. May the Lord richly bless you!

Frank Peacock, Pastor Alissa Peacock, Children's Ministry

Christ Community Church 503 S. High St. 812-332-0502 cccbloomington.org facebook.com/christcommunitybtown Instagram: @christcommunitybtown Sunday: 9:15 a.m., Educational Hour 10:30 a.m., Worship Service

Jubilee 219 E. Fourth St. 812-332-6396 jubileebloomington.org jubilee@fumcb.org

facebook.com/jubileebloomington

Instagram: @jubileebloomington

Sunday: 9:30 a.m., Classic Worship & 11:45 a.m., Contemporary Worship Wednesday: 7:30 p.m., College & Young Adult Dinner

Jubilee is a Christ-centered community open and affirming to all people. We gather on Wednesdays at First Methodist (219 E. Fourth St.) for a free meal, discussion, worship and hanging out. Small groups, service projects, events (scavenger hunts, bonfires, etc.), mission trips and opportunities for student leadership are all a significant part of our rhythm of doing life together.

Markus Dickinson, Campus Director

Mennonite

Mennonite Fellowship of Bloomington 2420 E. Third St. 812-646-2441 bloomingtonmenno.org facebook.com/MennoniteFellowship-ofBloomington-131518650277524 Sunday: 5 p.m.

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

John Sauder mfbjohn@gmail.com

We are a diverse community of Christ-followers, including many IU students, faculty and staff. Together we are committed to sharing the redeeming grace and transforming truth of Jesus Christ in this college town.

Bob Whitaker, Senior Pastor Adam deWeber, Worship Pastor Dan Waugh, Adult Ministry Pastor

Church of Christ 825 W. Second St. 812-332-0501 facebook.com/w2coc

Sunday: 9:30 a.m., Bible Study 10:30 a.m. & 5 p.m., Worship Wednesday: 7 p.m., Bible Study

We use no book, but the Bible. We have no creed but His Word within its sacred pages. God is love and as such we wish to share this joy with you. The comprehensive teaching of God's Word can change you forever.

John Myers, Preacher

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

citychurchbloomington.org facebook.com/citychurchbtown Instagram: @citychurchbtown

Sunday Service: 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.

*Always check website for possible changes to service times.

City Church is a non-denominational multicultural, multigenerational church on Bloomington's east side. 1Life, our college ministry meets on Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m.

David Norris, Pastor Sumer Norris, Pastor

United Methodist

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Episcopal (Anglican)

Church of God (Anderson Affiliated)

Annette Hill Briggs, Pastor Rob Drummond, Worship & Music Minister

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Today is a 6 — Reach a Full Moon turning point with a partnership. A challenge requires adjustments. Clean messes. Adapt for new solutions. Support each other with heavy lifting.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Today is a 7 — Nurture yourself for restored energy, strength and vitality. Experts support a health challenge. Prioritize good food, exercise and rest.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

Today is a 7 — Redirect a creative project. Fantasies dissipate. Your vision may not match a work in progress. Inspiration could fade. Clean something. Restore beauty where missing.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)

Today is a 7 — Listen and learn, especially with family and housemates. Make domestic adjustments and improvements. Clean, sort and organize. Restore harmony. Feed all worker bees.

Aries (March 21-April 19)

Today is a 7 — Communication channels seem unreliable. Slow and repeat. Apologize when appropriate. Observe details. Take notes. Make lists, rough drafts and sketches. Patiently edit and clarify.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Today is a 7 — Wait for better conditions to sell, buy or negotiate terms. Simplify to reduce expenses. Reconsider financial strategies. Manage responsibilities despite challenges. Persist.

Gemini

Cancer

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Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is an 8 — Adapt with team changes over two weeks. Follow a strong leader. Social changes require adjustment. Communication is vital. Shared support builds community strength.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is a 7 — Manage a professional puzzle. Find what you need nearby. Simplify and refocus. Career transitions reorient. Redirect efforts and talents toward passion and purpose.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Today is a 7 — The Full Moon illuminates a shifting educational directions. Experiment and explore over two weeks. Change seems inevitable. Align your course with your core values. Adjust itineraries.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Today is a 7 — Resolve financial changes with your partner. Work out the next phase together. Start a new campaign. Realign your plans. Patiently listen. Invent new possibilities.

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