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It goes without saying but this summer was anything but ordinary.

From virtual classes to the closure of most campus buildings, summer in Bloomington was nothing like the ones of the past.

One thing that hasn’t changed, though, is our commitment to you, our readers. This edition of the IDS is a look back at the summer – our continued coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, the protests for

racial justice around our state and IU’s plans for the fall.

Speaking of the fall, we know this fall will look different, too. We’ll keep bringing you the news you need to know to stay safe and upto-date on the election, the coronavirus, the local response to calls for police reform and any other news from around Bloomington.

As always, thank you for reading the IDS.

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Big Ten cancels fall sports season

By Matt Cohen mdc1@iu.edu | @Matt_Cohen_

The Big Ten announced Tuesday it will cancel the fall sports season, including football, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

"The mental and physical health and welfare of our student-athletes has been at the center of every decision we have made regarding the ability to proceed forward," said Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren.

"As time progressed and after hours of discussion with our Big Ten Task Force for Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Big Ten Sports Medicine Committee, it became abundantly clear that there was too much uncertainty regarding potential medical risks to allow our student-athletes to compete this fall.

The Detroit Free Press broke the news Monday, and is now confirmed by the Big Ten's formal announcement.

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Libraries expanding curbside hours

By Emily Isaacman eisaacma@iu.edu | @emilyisaacman

Local libraries will offer daily curbside pickup hours and open technology stations by appointment starting next week.

“The community has definitely shown or expressed a desire for us to expand our hours,” Mandy Hussey, Monroe County Public Library spokesperson, said.

Library goers can pick up books from the public library's main branch on Kirkwood Avenue or its Ellettsville branch by appointment from 11 a.m.-7p.m. Monday through Thursday, 1-5 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2-4 p.m. Sunday.

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Two adults, one child dead after driving into Monroe Lake

By Ally Melnik amelnik@iu.edu | @allylm1

Two adults and one child died Saturday night after driving into Monroe Lake. Their deaths are still being investigated by Indiana Conservation Officers.

Witnesses reported seeing a vehicle drive down the Paynetown State Recreation Area boat ramp and into the water around 10:30 p.m., according to a press release from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. The release said the driver called for help, but witnesses were unable to rescue the people in the vehicle before it submerged.

The Monroe County Dive Team recovered the bodies of an adult male and female. A male child was rescued but died after arriving at IU Health Bloomington.

The adult male was later identified as Alejandro HernandezHuerta, 31, and the adult female as Estella Huerta, 67, according to an updated press release. Both were residents of Lawrence, Indiana.

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IU President Michael McRobbie talks to the audience at the annual State of the University address. IU President Michael McRobbie announced his retirement Friday, effective June 30, 2021.

McRobbie announces retirement

By Avraham Forrest ahforres@iu.edu | @Avraham_Forrest

IU President Michael McRobbie announced during the Board of Trustees meeting Friday that he is retiring June 30, 2021. McRobbie, IU’s 18th president, has been in his position since 2007.

He will continue to serve as president through the year, saying in a university-wide email that he is committed to helping overcome the challenges presented by the coro-

navirus pandemic.

McRobbie started working at IU in 1997 as the first vice president for information technology and chief information officer. In 2003, he took over as vice president for research and in 2006 was named interim provost and vice president for academic affairs.

In the email, McRobbie acknowledged his pride in his work with IU’s bicentennial and pointed to the For All: The Indiana University Bicentennial Campaign and the Bicen-

tennial Strategic Plan.

During his tenure he also oversaw the renovation of many major campus buildings, the 2012 creation of the IU Online program, growing international engagement and study abroad programs among other efforts, according to an IU press release.

"I am immensely proud of all that has been accomplished over the period I have been president," McRobbie said in the press release. "All the change and effort has, I believe,

City Council discusses proposed ‘rainy day’ budget at hearings

By Mel Fronczek mfroncze@iu.edu | @MelissaFronczek

City government officials overcame laggy video, accidentally muted audio and some clumsy attempts to use Zoom’s screen-sharing feature on Monday evening during the first formal presentation of the city’s proposed budget for 2021.

The $166 million budget is about 4% smaller than the one for 2020, due to the city’s need to recover from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Mayor John Hamilton said this is the first time in many years that the city plans to use reserves while bringing in little revenue.

In a Friday press conference, Hamilton said the city has reserves for more than four months of annual expenses and that he feels confident in his $8 million Recover Forward initiative to get Bloomingtonians through 2021 and 2022.

Hamilton said Monday that based on state estimations, property taxes will increase by about 4% for 2021. This is a positive, he said, because property taxes are the biggest source of revenue for the city’s largest fund called the General Fund.

All departments that presented Monday budgeted for a slight increase in the personnel category because of a 2% increase in wages for non-union employees and related benefits, according to the budget proposal. Many departments also requested money for pandemic-related items, such as technology for employees to work from home more easily.

At the budget hearings, the Bloomington City Council discuss-

es each department’s proposed budget and hears public comment. In the interest of time, both council and public comments are limited to three and two minutes, respectively.

The city council also conducts do-pass votes at these hearings, which gauge members’ feelings about the budgets now. The council will discuss budget-related legislation at the end of September and is scheduled to finalize the budget in mid-October.

This week, though, budget hearings will continue through Thursday. Agendas and links to join the Zoom calls are available on the city’s website.

Here’s a breakdown of the proposed 2021 budget by department: Office of the Mayor The mayor’s office requested about $984,000 for 2021. This is 2% more than the office received in 2020, according to the budget proposal.

The bulk of the budget, about $872,000, is allocated to personnel expenses such as salaries.

Among other issues, the mayor’s office budget aims to promote equity and inclusion. Deputy Mayor Mick Renneisen said the mayor has asked the Board of Public Safety to appoint a community task force to create a vision for what policing should look like in Bloomington.

Council member Isabel Piedmont-Smith expressed suspicion about the board’s involvement.

“You’re starting out with five people who were hand-selected by the mayor, and they then can select whoever they want to be on

this committee,” she said. “It just seems like, perhaps, there may be a broader, more inclusive way to form this committee.”

Renneisen said there is some precedent for this selection process, but the task force hasn’t been created yet so there’s still time to decide how to handle its development.

Council member Matt Flaherty echoed Piedmont-Smith’s sentiment that it’s crucial for the selection process to be fair and inclusive of all community members.

The city is also looking for an entity to provide all city departments with antiracism training, Renneisen said.

When it comes to policing, Renneisen said the administration is reducing the number of available positions for sworn Bloomington Police Department officers from 105 to 100. In their place, the administration will hire two more neighborhood resource specialists, two more police social workers and a data analyst. This change is accounted for in the police department’s budget, which will be presented Tuesday evening.

Community member Cathi Crabtree said during the public comment time that it’s important to think of public safety from a variety of perspectives such as those of people of color, poor people and people with disabilities.

“Public safety will be enhanced when we consider the needs of all folks in our community,” she said.

The council made its initial dopass vote 9-0 in favor of the office’s budget.

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consolidated and elevated IU's position as one of America's premier and leading research universities.”

Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb praised McRobbie in a Friday Twitter thread.

The board was informed of his retirement several months ago and approved the formation of a search committee for his replacement during Friday's meeting.

Trustees Harry Gonso and Melanie Walker will serve as cochairs in the search.

IU works with Big Ten schools to offer free classes

By Avraham Forrest ahforres@iu.edu | @Avraham_Forrest

IU undergraduate students are eligible to take one online course per semester from six other schools in the Big Ten Academic Alliance during the 2020-21 academic year.

The fees and tuition costs associated with the selected classes will be waived for students in participating schools if they choose to take one of these classes.

“The new Big Ten Academic Alliance initiative is designed to enhance educational opportunities for students during the COVID-19 crisis,” an IU press release stated.

The institutions involved are University of Maryland, Michigan State University, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, The Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University and Rutgers UniversityNew Brunswick.

The course options cover a number of topics, ranging from design thinking and creativity to insect biology.

The program will also work with IU’s increase in the credit hours available for students’ tuition costs from 36 to 40 under the flat tuition rate. While this increase was made before the initiative, it will work alongside the new Big Ten program.

“Students may now take up to 40 credit hours across the fall and spring semesters, as well as the new winter session,” the release stated.

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Vauhxx Booker attacked at Monroe Lake

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

The Monroe County Prosecutor’s Office is investigating an assault on Vauhxx Booker, a Monroe County human rights commissioner.

Booker, who is Black, and others online are calling the partially videotaped encounter an attempted lynching.

The encounter happened on the evening of the Fourth of July near Monroe Lake, and Booker posted about it on Facebook on Sunday.

In the post, he said he was jumped from behind by men with confederate flags from a group that had been blocking people getting to a campsite for a lunar eclipse event that Booker was attending, claiming to own the land, and yelling “white power.”

Booker said the group then pinned him to a tree and attacked him, hitting his head, ripping his hair out and at one point, jumping on his neck. Booker and witnesses said one of the people said “get a noose”

and other racist slurs.

The videos posted with the story on Facebook show multiple people pinning Booker against a tree while he’s on all fours and men yelling racist slurs while flipping off people videotaping them. Booker was the only Black person in his group of friends.

“When they saw a Black man is when they went into a rage of racist slurs,” Booker’s lawyer Katharine Liell said.

Witness Steven Cox said Booker’s neck was being held against the tree by the group of people, and they were holding him down by his hair. Cox and several of the others who went looking for Booker after he did not return to the campsite were threatened for filming the scene. The people assaulting Booker took Cox’s phone away.

“They were telling us all to leave and they were going to keep him,” Cox said.

Booker called 911 after the people who arrived at the scene got the attackers off of him. Witnesses say it took

one to two hours for Department of Natural Resources officers to respond.

Liell said although witnesses did experience trauma and their timelines may not be reliable, video evidence shows the sun had gone down by the time the DNR officers arrived. The encounter occurred around 7 to 7:30 p.m. and sunset was 9:16 p.m Saturday.

The officers did not make any arrests upon arrival, which Liell said is standard if the officers did not witness the attack. When this happens, the prosecutor decides whether arrest warrants should be issued after hearing the officers’ reports.

However, Liell said officers did not attempt to collect the video evidence that witnesses had, and she said she believes the prosecutor’s office was misled to believe the encounter was less serious than it was.

“Obviously the police weren’t taking it very seriously,” Liell said.

She said the prosecutor’s office called in the two

DNR officers who responded to the incident to question them this morning. Liell said she is also attempting to work with the prosecutor’s office to provide evidence, videos and names of witnesses. She said from her experience in criminal law, arrest warrants will be issued soon.

Booker said in an interview Sunday night that he and his friends, who had gathered at a beachfront campsite on public property to watch the lunar eclipse Saturday night, did not end up staying the night because they felt unsafe. Cox said DNR officers gave people boat rides back across the lake so they did not have to walk past the other group of people again.

On Sunday afternoon, Booker went to the emergency room when he continued to experience symptoms of a concussion. He said he was diagnosed with a minor concussion, abrasions, bruises and some ripped out hair patches. The ER doctor contacted the DNR with his diagnosis.

“It’s disturbing, it comes in waves,” Booker said about his mental Vauhxx processing of Booker the incident.

“There was a moment when someone said, ‘don’t kill him.’”

He said he has thought about the many other Black people who must have listened to people discuss their murders right in front of them and not lived to tell the story.

“I didn’t want to be another hashtag,” Booker said.

He said he has no doubt that if he had attacked someone the way he was attacked, he would have been arrested.

The DNR has jurisdiction over Monroe Lake and recently received public criticism after another racially charged event. DNR officers arrested a man who allegedly was interfering with an investigation into a complaint made by boaters who were flying a Trump flag. They reported a boat of

IU football players after the players yelled profanities at them. The players, who were black, claimed they were racially profiled.

Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton issued a joint statement with city clerk Nicole Bolden denouncing the assault and another alleged racial profiling by a sheriff deputy who arrested a Black resident walking on his/her street during the Fourth of July weekend.

“On behalf of the City of Bloomington, we would like to express outrage and grief relating to two apparent racially motivated incidents reported in our community over the July 4 weekend,” the statement said. “These separate incidents exemplify the persistence of racism and bias in our country and our own community. They deserve nothing less than our collective condemnation.”

Booker’s case is still under investigation, and no documents are publicly available at this time.

This story was originally published July 6, 2020.

Woman drives her car into BLM protesters

By Katharine Khamhaengwong kkhamhae@iu.edu | @katharinegk

A car drove through a crowd and hit two protesters just before 9:30 p.m.

Monday night as Bloomington residents were dispersing on Walnut Street after three and a half hours of peaceful protest. The pro-

test was in response to the attack on Vauhxx Booker at Lake Monroe on the Fourth of July.

The bright red Toyota Corolla carried a woman and a man on its hood for two blocks, from the intersection of Walnut and SEE PROTEST, PAGE 3

Woman arrested for driving her car Protesters demand justice for Booker into protesters SAM HOUSE | IDS

Protesters march July 7 up Kirkwood Avenue toward the Sample Gates. Instead of turning onto Dunn Street like the evening before, the group marched all the way to Indiana Avenue before turning right and right again onto Third Street.

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A day after a still-unidentified woman drove through protesters and caused one to be taken to the hospital, protesters were back on the streets.

The protest, co-led by Enough is Enough, Black Lives Matter Bloomington and other Black community members, started at 5:30 p.m. and ended around 9 p.m., much like Monday’s protest.

This time, however, protesters left without any threats to their safety.

The organizers demanded justice for Vauhxx Booker, who was assaulted on the Fourth of July at Monroe Lake by people who allegedly said “get a noose” while holding Booker down and were caught on video saying racist slurs. Booker’s attorney announced Tuesday afternoon that the FBI had opened an investigation into Booker’s attack as a hate crime.

Caleb Poer, an IU political science student, artist and activist with Enough is Enough, was one of the speakers at the Monroe County Courthouse before the protesters marched around town. He thanked everyone who was at the protest Monday night and helped try to find the car that was driven into protesters or helped the woman who was injured.

But Poer was disappointed in the ultimate focus in the media on the driver’s attack on protesters instead of the peaceful protest and the demands they made.

“I saw the brave people of this state and this community come together, I saw solidarity, I saw peace and most of all, I saw a change, a change being vocalized,” Poer said. “But unfortunately a violent couple of racists stole the narrative from right under our feet.”

He reiterated the demands of the protesters including ending the war on drugs, ending over-policing, more community oversight of the police, independent investigations on police misconduct and selling Bloomington Police Department’s armored

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Protesters march July 7 up Kirkwood Avenue toward the Sample Gates. Instead of turning onto Dunn Street like the evening before, the group marched all the way to Indiana Avenue before turning right and right again onto Third Street.

vehicle and reinvesting the money into the community.

Salina Tesfagiorgis, IU student and a leader in Enough is Enough, said close to 200,000 people have contacted the Monroe County prosecutor’s office about Vauhxx Booker’s attack, urging Monroe County prosecutor Erika Oliphant to take action.

“It’s time to get to the DNR, who have presented multiple counts of racism, not just the two that we heard about recently,” Tesfagiorgis said.

A couple speakers talked about Denver Smith, a Black IU student who was shot multiple times and killed by Bloomington police officers in 1983 after being reported for acting in a threatening manner and taking an officer’s gun, according to an account by the New York Times based on the police record.

They also spoke about Joseph Smedley, a Black IU student whose body was found in Lake Griffy with a backpack strapped to his chest with over 60 pounds of rocks in it. His death was ruled a suicide but his family has expressed doubt that the investigation was complete.

Speakers said they deserve justice too.

IU professor Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, a historian of the Black female experience in the United States, told protesters to think hard about why they were there.

“I know y’all have been locked up for several months because of COVID, but this

does not substitute going out to the restaurants or you know, your frat party, can I just be clear?” Myers said.

“Because some of us, we don’t get to put this shit away because this is a life-long endeavor.”

Indiana District 3 Senator Eddie Melton, who is Black, was at the protest to show support and talk about the governor’s inaction on legislation aimed at banning police choke holds and racial profiling. He urged people to make sure state officials take action.

“I commend the organizers for having the demands put forth to local government, county government, but don’t forget about our state government,” he said.

Many speakers also urged people to vote in the coming election.

As protesters marched around town, some people stood along the route to clap, wave signs and raise fists in support. Maria Garcia was one of them. As a Mexican immigrant, she said she feels connected to the cause because immigrants experience racism too.

“We come from Mexico, and we come to work,” she said. “Some people say we come here and take jobs but, no, we’re coming to work.”

The volunteer security group Citizens Protest Response and Safety was again present at the protest with several armed men walking with protesters. Others, some connected to CPRS and

some not, were in cars and on bikes blocking off streets that intersected with streets the protesters were walking on. Some protesters gawked at the size of the armed CPRS security volunteers’ guns but resident Andrew Hutchings was thankful they were there in support.

Hutchings was riding his bike in the protest with his 14-year-old French bulldog Luna in the crate attached to the front. Hutchings is a recent transplant from Chicago and said it’s common there for bikers to participate in protests and stop in intersections to protect protesters from drivers.

“I like seeing all these other guys out here with assault rifles that are actually on the side of the Black Lives Matter movement, rather than have a bunch of Billy Bob redneck racists with their guns trying to intimidate people,” he said.

One of the leaders of CPRS who identifies himself as Bear said the group is from Indianapolis and formed because of its participation in the protests there.

“We all came together from the protests and being tear-gassed and firsthand witnessing the brutality of the IMPD and the state police,” Bear said to the crowd. “We are here for you guys 100%, we are here to keep you safe.”

Richard, another leader of CPRS, said the security team made changes to their plan for Tuesday to try to ensure no one would get hurt like Monday night. They offered escorts back to cars or homes after the protest was over.

One of the protest organizers Patrick Ford tweeted a statement Wednesday saying he did not ask or give permission for armed CPRS security volunteers to be at the protests Monday and Tuesday. He said on both days, he was only informed they were coming or were already there. At the protest Tuesday, Ford introduced the security volunteers as people who were there to keep protesters safe.

This story was originally published July 8, 2020.

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Bloomington police arrested Christi J. Bennett, 66, at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Scottsburg, Indiana, for offenses related to hitting protesters Monday according to a police press release.

Bennett was charged with two counts of criminal recklessness and two counts of leaving the scene of an accident, one resulting in bodily injury and one resulting in serious bodily injury. She is now out of jail on a $500 bond, which is a standard bond amount set for the felony levels of her charges, Sgt. Dana Cole said.

The police found Bennett at Mariann Travel Inn Motel about 68 miles from Bloomington. Bloomington Police Department Capt. Ryan Pedigo would not release information on how police found Bennett but credited investigators for their work in finding her.

“The investigators that were working on this case, they worked pretty tirelessly to locate this vehicle and this woman and man involved,” Pedigo said.

According to the press release, investigators determined Wednesday that the registered owner of the vehicle that hit protesters was staying at a motel in Scottsburg, Indiana, and located the 2015 red Toyota Corolla when they arrived at the mo-

tel. Investigators then saw the owner of the car, later determined to be Bennett, and a man exiting a motel room and detained them.

Police interviewed the man and released him. Officers took Bennett into custody and transported her to BPD to be interviewed by detectives. Bennett and her legal counsel chose not to speak to them, and she was then taken to the Monroe County Jail.

Police took the car involved in the attack to collect evidence.

Bennett hit two people Monday night around 9:30 p.m. when she accelerated through protesters blocking her car. She fled the scene and was not located by police until Wednesday night.

Pedigo said it was especially difficult for investigators to locate Bennett because she was staying at a motel. The address on the vehicle registration was also no longer valid.

“We thank our police detectives for their tireless work over the last three days to identify and apprehend the driver,” Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton said in a press release Thursday.

According to Bennett’s criminal record, she has been convicted of stalking with a deadly weapon in Monroe and Morgan counties three times since 2004.

This story was originally published July 9, 2020.

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Fourth streets to the intersection of Walnut and Sixth streets, where the car turned and both were thrown from the vehicle. Geoff Stewart , 35, suffered abrasions on his arms and was not in need of medical assistance but said that when he got up to check on the woman who had also been on the front of the car, she was unresponsive.

Bystander Peter Oren said he knew the woman, who later identified herself as Chaz Mottinger, 29, in a social media statement late Monday night. He was talking with police and said that he had heard she was conscious but had received an isolated head injury. Mottinger was taken away on a stretcher, and a pool of blood was left in the street, which emergency response officials promptly covered with a gravel-like substance.

The protest began at 5:30 p.m. with several hundred people gathered at the square holding signs, wearing masks and listening to speakers from various community activist groups and individuals share their stories and demands. The Uptown Cafe set up a table with cups of cold water for protesters, and chants of “How much hate are you willing to tolerate?” drifted across the street.

People associated with activist groups including Black Lives Matter Bloomington and Enough is Enough said that the protest had not been organized by any one group but was more of an organic reaction to Booker’s attack. Booker was at Monroe Lake on Saturday when he and other witnesses say he was attacked by a group of men with Confederate flags who talked about getting a noose as they beat him up.

“The first thing they tell

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Left Vauhxx Booker speaks to reporters July 6 in front of the Monroe County Courthouse. Booker was the victim of a racist attack July 4 near Monroe Lake.

Right Paramedics, firefighters and law enforcement officers tend to a protester who was struck by a car July 6 just after the conclusion of the protest in downtown Bloomington. The car sped off after hitting multiple protesters and carrying them on the hood of the car before they were eventually flung off.

you about Bloomington is that it’s this little blue dot in Indiana, that it’s a safe place,” said Caleb Poer, an IU political science student, artist and activist with Enough is Enough. “I knew it wasn’t when I was in elementary school and a kid told me he couldn’t be my friend because his mom said I was Black.”

Two members of the Black Lives Matter Core Council, who do not speak to the media as named individuals, said they had come to the protest to ensure that the focus was on systemic problems rather than solely on Booker’s individual incident.

“We’ve seen a series of escalating instances, and the next one might end up with someone dead,” one council member said. “To prevent that, we need to address the system now.”

The instances they were referring to were a series of events that began June 24 when a group of IU football players claimed they were racially profiled after they were reported for yelling profanities at a boat flying a Trump flag. Then, local basketball player Darwin “Dee” Davis tweeted that July 2 a sheriff stopped and questioned him while he was walking around his Bloom-

ington neighborhood.

The council members said that these recent incidents were symptoms of a longerterm problem, though, and mentioned a 2012 Ku Klux Klan rally on the same courthouse lawn as the protest and the ongoing controversy about vendor at the city farmers market with ties to a white supremacist organization.

“If we had addressed it properly back then, we would have never gotten to this place,” said a core council council member. “But white liberalism, white civility didn’t want to deal with it.

And now the chickens have come home to roost.”

At around 7 p.m., the protesters marched around downtown, blocking roads as they walked down Kirkwood Avenue, past city hall and pausing for a while in front of the jail before returning to the square. Chants included, “If you’re racist on these streets, you will get your ass beat,” “Say his name. Vauhxx Booker” and “Blue lives don’t exist,” among many others.

After returning to the square, protesters sat in the middle of Walnut Street while leaders gave final remarks. Patrick Ford, a local organizer and IU alumnus, told people to head home around 9 p.m. because he

wanted to end the night on a high point. Just minutes later, as the crowd was clearing out, the driver drove into protesters walking away from the square.

Stewart was carried two blocks on the front of the car before he was thrown off with Mottinger. Stewart said that 15 years of judo had prepared him to fall off and he had only minor scrapes and bruising, but he was shaken by the event.

He had been helping direct traffic away from the dispersing protesters when the red car came into the intersection of Fourth and Walnut streets. Stewart said that one of the people directing traffic spoke to the driver, who witnesses Milo Hicks and Tess Given said was a white woman in her 40s. Stewart said the driver ignored the alternate route suggestion, and someone else said they saw the driver mouth, “I’m gonna run them over” before the driver began driving the vehicle into the people directing the flow of traffic, knocking over an electric scooter.

He said a man, also identified by Hicks and Given as white and in his 40s, then got out of the passenger side and threw the scooter. Mottinger, who was later thrown off the car, was standing

in front of the car with her hands on the hood at this point, and Stewart said he heard the driver rev the car’s engine so he stood in front with her. He does not personally know her.

The driver then hit the gas, carrying both of them on the hood of the car up Walnut Street at a high speed, running three red lights.

Stewart said that he held onto the driver’s side mirror and the windshield wipers trying to block the driver’s view so that she would slow down, and then they were both thrown away from the car as it turned right down Sixth Street.

Protesters in cars, on bikes and scooters and on foot tried to follow the car as it sped away. Bystanders said that one woman had an asthma attack while running, which led to initial confusion about where the injured woman, Mottinger, was.

Law enforcement stopped a different red car on SixthStreet with two young Black women in it, but protesters quickly told them it was the wrong car. The identities of the driver and passenger are currently unknown, but the car’s license plate number was recorded.

Members of a group called Citizens Protest Response and

Safety based in Indianapolis worked with local groups to coordinate safety efforts during the protest. Several cars with Black Lives Matter labels and red crosses parked between the protesters and traffic while CPRS members and others directed passing cars to turn. However, the cars in this protective role had dispersed when the red car drove through.

One CPRS member, who would only give his name as Richard, carried a large gun that he said was intended to deter white supremacists. He added that he felt guilty because the organization was there to protect people, and he said that in the future, the defensive cars would stay until all protesters and pedestrians were off the streets, even after protests had officially ended.

“This isn’t the end,” he said. “We’re going to learn from this.”

One of Mottinger’s friends started a GoFundMe to raise $10,000 for medical expenses. In three hours, it had received over $10,000 from 220 individuals. The friend tweeted that Mottinger was OK and that tests were being run and called on people to identify the driver. The GoFundMe was later updated to note that the woman had a concussion but would be OK and to say that any excess funds would be donated to BLM and other Black-led organizations.

In a late-night Facebook post shared by a family member on Twitter, Mottinger said that she is fine and does not want to take attention away from Booker. She said that she jumped in front of the car without thinking because she was scared they were going to drive into other protesters. She also called on people to continue to support Booker and other Black Bloomingtonians.

This story was originally published July 7, 2020.

IU delivers statement after attack against Vauhxx Booker

By Joy Burton joyburt@iu.edu | @joybur10

Indiana University released a statement July 6 on Twitter following the Fourth of July attack of Vauhxx Booker near Monroe Lake.

“Even as we have been collectively and actively discussing the persistence of racism, a local incident

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reminds all of us in the IU Bloomington community that awareness is not enough,” James Wimbush, IU vice president for diversity, equity and multicultural affairs, said in the statement.

Wimbush said IU stands against racism and commits to combating it persistently in the future.

“We must work to fight

against these ideas until all in our community feel safe,” Wimbush said.

The IU statement came prior to events Monday resulting in two protesters being struck by a car in downtown Bloomington. The car carried the victims two blocks before throwing them off.

One of the victims in the

incident, IU Studios photographer Chaz Mottinger, was taken to the hospital and suffered a concussion.

The driver in Monday’s incident has not been found.

The FBI opened a case Tuesday to investigate Booker’s attack. According to a Facebook post written by Booker, he was jumped by a group of men who alleg-

edly yelled racial slurs and pinned him to a tree. One of them yelled “get a noose,” Booker said.

Booker sustained a minor concussion from the encounter, according to the post.

The Facebook post included videos of the encounter and gained the attention of national news outlets such

as the Washington Post and NBC News. Conversation at a national level continued to escalate after the car crashed into protesters Monday.

Protesters flooded the streets in solidarity for the victims of recent incidents again Tuesday in downtown Bloomington.

This story was originally published July 8, 2020.

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Indiana cities join nationwide protests BLM protesters gather at courthouse, jail in Bloomington

Indianapolis protest started peacefully, escalated quickly

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Logan Collins was surprised when around 150 people turned up outside the Monroe County Courthouse at 6 p.m. in response to a Facebook event he made titled “Justice for George Floyd!”

“I just couldn’t sit at home again tonight and watch the live feed,” said Collins, a transplant from Indianapolis and produce supervisor at Bloomingfoods.

The live feed he referred to was from Minneapolis, where protests have continued since George Floyd died May 25 while being restrained by police.

Only 11 people liked the page he created, but one post about the protest was shared over 80 times in the “Bloomington, IN - What’s Going On?” Facebook group.

The Bloomington protest was not organized by any group, and various attendees took turns leading chants such as “Say His Name! George Floyd,” “No racist cops, no KKK. No fascist USA!,” “Down with the cops, down with the klan!

We can’t bring them back, but we do what we can!” and “Say Her Name! Breonna Taylor,” referring to a black woman killed by police in March in Louisville, Kentucky, on March 13.

The protesters started out on the east side of the square, at the intersection of Walnut Street and Kirkwood Avenue before heading down to the intersection of College Avenue and Kirkwood Avenue, blocking traffic from getting through College Avenue.

People watched from nearby restaurants.

“This is what democracy looks like,” the protesters chanted.

“This is what idiots look like,” one onlooker responded.

“All lives matter,”another observer shouted.

While protesters were blocking traffic, most cars turned, but two tried to make their way through the crowd. A man driving a large black pick-up truck ran over the foot of Willow Armstrong, a recent high school graduate who moved to Bloomington nine months ago from Florida.

Armstrong said she was trying to persuade the driver to take another route home when he decided to force his way through, running over her foot.

She said he allegedly looked at his tire on her foot, backed up and then ran over it again before police showed up and he drove away.

Armstrong added that she would go to a doctor after the protest, saying that it was not worth leaving even though her foot was swollen and getting progres-

The second day of protests in Indianapolis brought several hours of peaceful protest, but quickly escalated as the sun set, culminating in one person being shot and killed and at least two others others being shot according to the IndyStar.

The crowd at the Indiana War Memorial went up the stairs and spilled across the street into nearby University Park at 7 p.m. Two women stood on the hood of a car and yelled the names of Black people who have been killed by police.

“Justice for Trayvon Martin, justice for Michael Brown, justice for Sean Reed.”

A black woman with two young girls in tow pushed through the crowd.

“You gotta keep up, you’re not a baby, you’re a big girl now,” she told the smaller of the two.

Over 1,000 people attended the march Saturday evening to protest the killing of George Floyd on May 25 by a Minneapolis police officer, who’s death sparked protests nationwide. Sean Reed, an Indianapolis man killed by police May 6 and Breonna Taylor, a Kentucky woman killed by police March 13, and others who have been recently killed by police were also on protesters minds. The protest started out peacefully, but escalated sharply around 9 p.m.

Protesters broke windows and police used tear gas to disperse the crowd, but the order of events was unclear to our reporters.

At 7:30 p.m., protesters began marching. They made loops on blocks east of the war memorial for almost two hours, passing boarded up

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Protesters gather May 30 at the Indiana War Memorial. The protest, which was in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on May 25, began at the memorial before the group began marching through the streets

businesses from the previous night’s looting. People leaned out of windows and over balconies, taking photos and videos.

“If you can watch, you can walk,” one woman shouted.

Most people who attended were from Indianapolis but some, like Portia Smith from Kentucky, were from out of town.

“I’m here to support,” she said.

Gygy Oliver, 42, attended the march as a frustrated mother of two Black daughters and a black stepson.

She brought her 13-year-old daughter Jendayi Oliver.

“It’s getting hard, as someone who’s raising their kids right and educated and to be polite and have manners and to do everything right and still feel like it’s not enough,” Oliver said. “That they could still get killed or beat up or harassed by police. It’s getting difficult.”

DiQuan Craig, 26, works with students at the Indianapolis Job Corps Center

and attended the march in response to recent police brutality events.

“We just want to be loved, man, and shown the respect everybody else is getting, that’s all it is,” he said.

Nick, a white recent IU graduate, locked arms with other white protesters at the intersection of Delaware Street and Massachusetts Avenue.

“I don’t want anyone to get hurt,” he said. “I’m a white body, they’re not going to hit a white body.”

Aaron Nell, who does nonviolence training in prisons, ran along the crowd, writing phrases like “Hero’s don’t Kill” in pink chalk on sidewalks and concrete walls.

“The killing of people of color and the racist attitudes that are being shared from the high levels all the way down to the average person are leading to people dying,” he said. “And I want to be in solidarity with those who say it has to stop.”

Cheryl John, 41, heard about the protest on TV and

decided to attend for “justice and peace.” It was her first protest and she said she only was going to support it if it stayed peaceful.

It didn’t.

Tensions began to rise as protesters turned onto East Market Street from North Delaware Street. Protesters banged on the City County Building with their hands and others began getting into shouting matches with drivers trying to pass through the crowd as well as fellow protesters for detracting from the peaceful protest.

Protesters continued down East Market Street to where it intersected North Alabama Street, blocking off traffic. Police made their way to the intersection, and suddenly banging sounds were heard and tear gas filled the air. People began running as tear gas canisters were thrown and shot through the air.

There is much uncertainty as to who began the conflict with the police.

Some protesters say the

police shot off the gas first, others say a protester threw something at police which provoked them.

Jake, a protester who was within the intersection, later recounted that he did not see anything thrown at police but got tear gas in his eyes twice as police cleared people who were blocking the streets.

“It’s not much of an excuse, I would say,” Jake said.

The police continued north on Delaware and Alabama Streets with tear gas, and protesters broke glass in several storefronts on Alabama Street.

Protesters with tear gas in their eyes struggled to find the friends they had lost in the run to escape the gas. One person frantically asked around for an inhaler. Many were talking on phones, trying to reconnect with fellow protesters or assure others they were OK. “It’s fucked up down here,” one man said into his phone. “Real fucked up.”

This story was originally published May 31, 2020.

‘I am tired, but I am not broken’: Student-organized protest draws thousands to Bloomington

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

Around 7,000 people of all ages attended a protest led by IU students Friday to protest police brutality and the recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery.

The protest began in Dunn Meadow, where people were able to spread out over the large grassy field.

Medics walked around with marked shirts, and attendees were offered decorated signs and free masks. Temperatures soared into the high 80s, and free water was everywhere.

Jaylynn Burney worked one of the snack tables on Seventh Street, handing out chips, granola bars and water. She said the Black community in Bloomington came together to put the event on when Selena Drake, one of the main organizers, put out the idea.

“Really everyone just stepped in,” Burney said. “It was very well organized, very well advertised, as well as the intentions behind being very

well communicated.”

Protest leaders successfully carried out their intention to be peaceful, and there were no incidents of violence during the event.

The police also did not have a heavy presence. The protest’s mantra, chanted over and over again by leaders and protesters, was one of defiance and unity: “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

Speakers, including Rev. Jimmy Moore from St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, Shatoyia Moss, the city’s safe and civil director and several IU students and alumni spoke to the crowd in Dunn Meadow before they marched to the courthouse.

“This day, shall we breathe out fear and breathe in courage, breathe out secrecy and bring things into the light of day, breathe out hate and bring in love,” Moore said.

Moss called on the crowd to take action in their indi-

vidual lives.

“I have cried all the tears, I have prayed all the prayers,” she said. “I am tired, but I am not broken.”

John Legend and Common’s “Glory” played through speakers and a drumline kept the beat as protesters moved toward Seventh Street chanting “No justice, no peace.”

The size of the crowd that filled Dunn Meadow on Friday afternoon was surprising to many, with students gone for the summer and coronavirus still a concern.

IU chemistry professor Caroline Jarrold, who is white, walked on the edge of the crowd in heels and a bright orange dress. She said she was very concerned about the virus and being in large crowds but decided she needed to come after the recent killings of Black people by police officers.

“I had to show up to show that black lives matter to me,” she said. “This is atrocious.”

Jennifer Belton marched with her 17-year-old son Justus Belton, both wearing shirts that said “My skin color is not a crime.” Justus won

one of the city’s 2020 Outstanding Black Leaders of Tomorrow Awards, plays soccer for Bloomington High School North and is an Eagle Scout candidate in Troop 121.

“It gives me anxiety and unrest when I see all this on TV, that my son doesn’t matter,” Jennifer Belton said.

She and Justus made a plan for if things got violent at the protest. Luckily, they didn’t have to use it.

When protesters got to the square, they spread out in the courthouse lawn and along each of the bordering streets.

Timothy Jessen, a former pastor, sat with his wife watching the crowd. Jessen, who is white, saw former President Barack Obama speak three times in Bloomington in 2008 and thought society was progressing in the right direction when Obama was elected as the first Black president. But now he believes the U.S. still has a long way to go.

“Twelve years and we’re back facing this, so how far have we come?” he said.

“Young people are going to have to lead the way. The old

generation is hanging onto these old prejudices and biases.”

Elaine Johnson and her two children, 7-year-old Zach and 10-year-old Chelsea, attended the protest after talking about the recent events of police brutality all week. Chelsea made signs with the words “Enough is enough” and “BLM” drawn on them in marker. Johnson, who is white, said she wanted to bring her kids to the protests despite concerns about safety.

“We’ve been talking about how this is not OK and that they have a voice,” Johnson said.

Sarah Lubienski and her 20-year-old daughter Anna held a sign with “Mennonites for Human Rights” written on it and a list of police brutality victims’ names.

“Mennonites have a history of protesting violence, so it fits in very well with our pacifistic tendencies,” Sarah Lubienski said.

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Farmers market coordinator Veldman to resign after 24 years

By Wei Wang daviwang@iu.edu | @DavidWazman

Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market coordinator Marcia Veldman will spend the last day in her position at the City of Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department on Thursday according to her email to vendors at the market. Her resignation ends her 24 years of overseeing the market’s operations.

“This has been an incredibly difficult decision in large part because of the great respect I have for you and the work you do not only to provide healthy food to our community, but to do it with great care for the customer,” she wrote to market vendors.

Leslie Brinson, community events manager of the parks department, said the market coordinator position won’t be filled for a while, but in the transitional period a group of staff in the parks department will take over the tasks of the position.

Veldman’s resignation comes after a controversial year at the market. Last summer, evidence surfaced that tied Schooner Creek Farm co-owner Sarah Dye to the American Identity Movement, formerly Identity Evropa, which the Southern Poverty Law Center designates as a hate group.

Dye has denied being a white supremacist but identifies herself as an identitarian.

The SPLC says the identitarian movement is racist and antiMuslim.

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sively more painful.

“It would have been great to see more people come and speak out,” Armstrong said.

Sheriff and police officers rushed to the scene when cars were attempting to make their way through the crowd but disbanded after forcing the drivers out of the intersection and directing traffic around the protesters.

Some drivers honked in support or raised fists out their windows while driving by, while a few in large trucks revved their engines and drove past the protesters aggressively quickly.

At around 7:30 p.m., protesters walked north on blocked-off College Avenue to the county jail.

At the jail, protesters stood in the street and chanted “We love you! We support you! You are not alone!” while people inside of the jail banged on windows in response.

Near the end of the protest, the protesters kneeled in silence, some with fists raised, for seven minutes, representing the seven minutes that some reports say Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin allegedly kneeled on Floyd’s neck for, protesters said.

Javier Cardona, an IU doctoral student in arts education from San Juan, Puerto Rico, said he was surprised when he arrived in Bloomington three years ago and saw a white person standing at the intersection of Walnut and Kirkwood with a “Black Lives Matter” sign. On Friday, he once again found himself in a crowd of mostly white people protesting police

More recently in June, the Broadening Inclusion Group, a subcommittee of the Farmers’ Market Advisory Council, was dissolved following widespread criticism over its statement condemning Blackon-Black violence. The statement addressed the death of George Floyd and other Black people killed by police and the protests following Floyd’s death. Veldman was the liaison to the BIG. Over the past year, activists and community members have called for Veldman’s resignation for her lack of action despite being a leader of the market. At the end of 2019, there were talks about privatizing the market, but the market remains under city management after a vote by the Board of Park Commissioners.

Abby Ang, founder of No Space for Hate Bloomington, is in favor of privatization. She said she has been very frustrated with Veldman’s leadership and that Veldman should have done more to address issues of white supremacy at the market with her status and connections in the farming community.

“People listen to her, and people respect her,” she said.

But Brinson said Veldman was caught in a difficult position.

“It can be stressful trying to do what’s best, trying to balance city government with requests from the public,” she said.

Veldman said in an interview that the challenges brutality.

“The killing of men and women of color is an epidemic — at least for people who look like me,” Cardona said. “I jog, I ride my bike; I’m always wondering if people are going to look at me like a dangerous thing.”

Garrett Barrasas, a theater technician at the Cardinal Stage who just moved here from Hobart, Indiana, said he was attending for similar reasons.

“I’m tired of standing around and watching our world go to shit,” he said.

“I’m a person of color, and stuff like this happens to people like me.

You’re hunted if you go for runs, hunted like dogs. I’m afraid.”

A different protest is being organized for next Friday by people affiliated with the Indiana University Black Student Union, several of whom posted on Twitter saying that today’s protest was a “white movement,” that no black organizations were aware of it and that people should not attend.

Michelle Chase, a Black automotive supervisor from Bloomington, said the last time she had been to a protest like this one was in 1997 with her children, protesting the 1992 killing of Malice Green by Detroit police.

“I raised four sons — I’m trying to do this without crying — and I care about them. The police are here to serve and protect, not to brutalize us,” she said. “I don’t think it has anything to do with Trump versus Obama, Democrat versus Republican. I think it has to do with the culture of policing in America.”

This story was originally published May 30, 2020.

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People walk through the aisles of vendors at the Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market near City Hall in 2018. A group of staff in the parks department will take over the duties of the farmers market coordinator in the interim period after longtime coordinator Marcia Veldman’s resignation.

over this past year made her increase her time commitment at the market while she also needs to spend time growing and selling food for her own farm. She said she had originally planned to leave her position earlier but decided to stay longer to help the market through several transitions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Veldman, an IU alumna who grew up in South Bend, moved to Los Angeles after graduation but moved back to Bloomington permanently in 1995 to accept the market coordinator position and live closer to her family, who had moved to Bloomington. For 24 years, she has worked with the market’s vendors, customers, staff, stakeholders and community partners as a city official.

“When the position managing the market opened up, I was delighted for the opportunity to work on building a stronger, fairer local food system,” she said.

Her leadership led the Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market to grow into one of the largest, and at one point the largest, farmers markets in Indiana, Brinson said.

In 2002, Veldman and community members started the Plant a Row for the Hungry program, through which she said farmers have donated over 400,000 pounds of produce to the Hoosier Hills Food Bank. Over the years, she has also helped establish multiple food stamp and nutrition programs that benefit low-income people.

“She’s extremely passion-

ate about food security and local food and food safety,” Brinson said. “She brings both a wealth of knowledge and passion and great commitment to the market.”

“I’ve always felt that she had our best interest at heart,” said Janice Lehman, co-owner of the Olde Lane Orchard and vendor at the farmers market. “She really worked hard to help the farmers succeed at the market.”

Lehman said she and her husband, Chester, are good friends with Veldman, who called the couple before emailing all the vendors about her resignation.

“I think my first words were, ‘No,’” Janice said. “I cried.”

Chester said when their farm had no fruit harvests for the season in 2011 be-

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member Jim Sims, community activist Charlie Nelms, Monroe County Democratic Party chairwoman Jennifer Crossley and other local leaders and students at the courthouse.

Angelica Smith, an IU alumna, held a sign with colorful balloons floating from strings above it wishing Breonna Taylor, who was killed in March by a Kentucky police officer, a happy birthday. Friday would have been her 27th birthday. Smith is also turning 27 this year.

“I really just wanted to honor her life,” she said.

“Breonna is not going to get to wake up for her birthday because of police brutality.”

She knew there would be plenty of signs saying “Defund the police” and “Black lives matter,” but she wanted to take a different angle.

Sami Atassi, an English literature graduate student at IU, stood on an elevated planter at the corner of College and Kirkwood avenues.

His shirt said “Arabs for Black Power” and in Arabic underneath “revolution until victory.” He wore a red, white and blue bandana and waved a white, green and black flag with red stars on it, the Syrian opposition flag.

Atassi, a Syrian-American, said he sees many similarities between the Syrian revolution and the Black Lives Matter movement happening now, as well as similar tactics being used to diffuse protests by authorities.

He said America needs to listen to black people in order to move forward.

“Our future depends on it as a nation,” he said.

This story was originally published June 5, 2020.

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“There’s just a few people in this world that have an open-home policy, that use their homes and their resources to really help people in quiet ways,” he said.

“And she was one of those people.”

Although the resignation came abruptly for many in the community, Veldman said a few years ago, she had already been planning for the next phase in life. She said after she leaves her position, she will spend some time off gardening and biking while exploring her next steps. She will also continue to work as the state coordinator for Citizens’ Climate Lobby, which she had to give up last year because of her increased time commitment at the market.

“Ultimately I want what’s best for continuing to build a strong local food community,” she said about the future of the market. “I want to see a higher percentage of dollars spent on food in this community stay in this community and help farmers and food artisans be successful in their business. We’re facing serious environmental change, and developing a resilient local food system will enhance food security for all of us into the future.”

This story was originally published July 21, 2020.

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Two cars reportedly hit a 21-year-old Indianapolis man in protests yesterday on the intersection of Kirkwood and Walnut Avenues around 9:16 p.m., Bloomington Police Department Capt. Ryan Pedigo said. The man was not seriously injured.

Officers were informed the man was blocking traffic on Walnut Avenue when a black car tried to get through the crowd. The man told police that he jumped on the hood of the car and rode on it for a short time. The driver of the black car did not injure him.

A white truck pulling a boat approached the crowd shortly after and attempted to drive through the protesters. The truck did not hit the man, but the boat it was pulling struck him in his lower back. IU Health medics treated him on the scene but he did not want to be transported to the hospital.

No one at the scene saw the license plate number on the white truck, and the incident was categorized as a hit and run.

Pedigo said he understands the motives of protesters who block streets to get the attention of drivers but voiced his concern for peoples’ safety.

“It’s just so dangerous to try and block vehicular traffic with your body,” Pedigo said. “It can often result in injury.”

This story was originally published June 1, 2020.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ries of meetings among Big Ten presidents and other conference leaders over the last week. Smaller conferences canceled their seasons last week as well, though the Big Ten is the first of the Power 5 to halt sports this fall.

This all comes just several days after the Big Ten announced its revised football season schedule, and IU announced its plans to allow season ticket holders and students into the stadium.

Over the course of the summer, there have been slow steps to re-open athletic facilities with voluntary workouts. IU reached the second stage of its reopening plan, which included football as well as men's and women's basketball workouts.

However, IU was one of many programs across the country that had to pause workouts over the summer because of positive

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 People can also print up to 20 double sided pages per week for pickup during these hours.

The main branch's in-person technology services will open Aug. 27 by appointment during pickup hours. People can reserve a computer, scanner, fax machine, copier or printer once a week for up to 90 minutes. They can book appointments starting Aug. 24.

Plastic skins will cover computer keyboards and

COVID-19 tests. IU football had played five days of fall camp.

On Saturday, the third day of camp and one month from the first games, the Big Ten announced that practices would be conducted with only helmets and no pads. IU did practice with pads Saturday, as the announcement came in the middle of practice.

It was the first step by the Big Ten in rolling back football activities before canceling it entirely.

The cancellation calls into question athletic department budgets with football providing a significant portion of funding for most programs. Many smaller schools have had to cut non-revenue sports to save finances.

Both former IU athletic director Fred Glass and current athletic director Scott Dolson have said eliminating programs is not being discussed, but that came before the cancellation of fall sports. mice. Users must throw them away and wipe down surfaces after their session, according to the library’s website.

While the library's physical operations are closed, its virtual resources include ebook rentals, an online book store through the Friends of the Library foundation and programming such as trivia nights.

Library officials haven’t set a reopening date for the building, Hussey said. They’re monitoring case numbers in the county and following guidance from local health officials.

While this is the first year of the new program, IU is interested in offering this opportunity for future semesters.

“It’s great to have, given the circumstances, with tuition and fees waived from these courses. We would certainly consider trying to continue this,” Chuck Carney, IU spokesperson, said.

IU is optimistic on the program's development, Carney said.

“It’s the inaugural cohort, and we have seven Big Ten institutions that are a part of this, so there’s always room for growth,” Carney said.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Information & Technology and Services Department The IT department requested about $3.5 million for 2021. This is 0.4% less than it received for 2020, according to the budget proposal.

Most of the budget is for personnel expenses, but the second-largest category with almost $1.3 million budgeted is “other services.” This includes an almost $47,000 initiative to centralize cellphone billing, an expense offset by corresponding decreases in other city departments, department director Rick Dietz said. Also in this category is an approximate $30,000 for software maintenance, such as upgrades in Google G-Suite and Zoom.

The department also requested $46,000 in another category for audiovisual and IT improvements to city meeting rooms, including the Common Council Chamber at City Hall. Council member Steve Volan said he hadn’t received recent updates about these improvements and would like a report soon .

Council member Ron Smith expressed confusion about the department’s increase in funds requested from various city funds. He said he would follow up with Dietz via email.

The council voted dopass 7-0-2 on the department’s budget. Volan and

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Smith abstained.

Office of the Common Council The office of the city council requested $1.3 million for 2021. This is a 2% increase from 2020, according to the budget proposal.

Most of the budget is for personnel expenses. The nine council members next year will each receive just less than $18,700. The council president and vice president will receive about $1,000 and $800 in additional compensation, respectively.

During public comment, community member Daniel Bingham said council member positions should be fulltime to allow for more balance in city government.

“The American system of government is based around coequal branches that are supposed to perform different functions but also provide some type of check and balance on each other,” he said.

Council member Piedmont-Smith said she agreed that it would be nice to be a full-time employee in regards to responsibility and pay.

The council voted dopass 9-0 on the office’s budget.

Office of the Controller The office of the controller, or the city’s chief financial officer, requested about $1.9 million for 2021. According to the budget proposal, this is 16.3% less than what the office received for

2020.

Most of the 2021 budget, about $1.2 million, is for personnel, according to the budget proposal.

Separate from the budget, the office also requested $114,000 in operating costs to be funded by the Recover Forward fund. This will allow the office to provide general administrative and accounting support for all Recover Forward initiatives, said Deputy Controller Jeff McMillian.

The city council made a unanimous do-pass vote in favor of the controller’s office budget.

The council voted 8-0-1 in favor of the office using $400,000 from the Vehicle Replacement Fund that the controller’s office manages but is separate from its budget. Piedmont-Smith abstained.

It also voted 9-0 in favor of both the $1.5 million police and the $2.2 milion fire pensions, which are not included in the office’s budget because they’re state-funded. McMillian said there are 97 pensioners from the police department and 58 from the fire department who get paid directly by the state’s Public Employees’ Retirement Fund. He said 39 retired police officers have an older plan, so the city pays their pensions but gets reimbursed by the state the following year.

Human Resources Department

The department requested about $775,000 for 2021, which is 19% less than the amount it received for 2020, according to the budget proposal. Personnel expenses and supplies expenses were cut, and its “other services” category expenses stayed the same.

During her presentation, director Caroline Shaw said one of the department’s goals is to increase diversity in city job application pools.

She also said all city employees will need to partake in bias training.

The council voted dopass on the human resources budget 8-0-1. Council member Smith abstained.

Office of the City Clerk The city clerk’s office, mainly responsible for record keeping, requested about $292,000 for 2021.

This is a 3% increase and is all being put toward personnel, according to the budget proposal.

The council’s do-pass vote was 9-0 in favor of the city clerk’s budget.

Legal Department The department requested about $2 million for 2021, which is 2% more than 2020, according to the budget proposal. The increase is almost entirely in the personnel category, Corporate Counsel Philippa Guthrie said.

The nine council members voted do-pass unanimously on the department’s budget.

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Editors Jerrett Alexander and Kaitlyn Radde opinion@idsnews.com

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JAC’S FACTS

The ACLU is suing Indianapolis over IUPD needs an accountability board tear gas use. Others should follow.

Jaclyn Ferguson is a senior in journalism and African American studies.

Kaitlyn Radde is a junior in political science.

In recent weeks, at least 100 law enforcement agencies around the U.S. deployed tear gas to disperse largely peaceful protests against police brutality, which occurred in the wake of many high-profile police killings of Black Americans.

One such agency was the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana is suing Indianapolis for IMPD’s use of tear gas, specifically regarding May 29-31.

According to the ACLU of Indiana’s official statement, the lawsuit was filed on behalf of Indianapolis’s Black Lives Matter chapter as well as individual protesters, and it seeks a court order barring the use of chemical agents and projectiles against protesters. The statement specifically mentions tear gas and pepper pellets. This kind of legal action is badly needed everywhere that tear gas is used.

The protests in Indianapolis were largely peaceful.

The police fired tear gas with no warning into a crowd that was angry, perhaps uncivil, but not violent. The ACLU characterized the IMPD’s actions as “violent and unwarranted” and taken “against peaceful protesters who were not engaged in any unlawful activity.”

It is unclear what provoked the sudden deployment of tear gas. Physical escalation — namely, breaking glass — did not occur until after police deployed tear gas. As in many other cities, escalation occurred in response to police violence, rather than as a provocation of it.

Police in Lafayette, Indiana, and in Fort Wayne, Indiana, also deployed tear gas May 31. Balin Brake, a

Fort Wayne protester, lost his eye to a tear gas canister after dispersal orders were given, reminding us that not only the gas but also its vehicles are dangerous.

As in the Fort Wayne case, dispersal orders and curfews around the country often serve as a way to criminalize otherwise lawful activity. They make violent police actions, including the use of tear gas, suddenly and arbitrarily legal, even if those same violent actions were illegal just moments earlier.

The book “Tear Gas” by Anna Feigenbaum is the first and only comprehensive history of tear gas. Tear gas causes tearing, gagging and burning by design, but as Feigenbaum shows through her meticulous historical account, it has also caused countless miscarriages, loss of eyes and limbs, other permanent injuries and deaths.

There is no legal obligation to report tear gas-related deaths and injuries, which is part of why such a damaging chemical weapon maintains the label “non-lethal” or “less lethal” and why the aforementioned damage remains literally countless.

There is also no legal obligation to report the deployment, export, purchase or environmental damage of tear gas.

Furthermore, the misuse of tear gas, such as firing it into enclosed spaces or at faces, is often done to intensify repression. Do not assume that improper deployment is accidental. Perhaps more importantly, do not assume that proper deployment is harmless. And always assume that tear gas is worse than you think.

We should not tolerate any form of atmospheric policing. We should not accept the premise that tear gas is “non-lethal” or “less lethal” when no data leading to such a conclusion exists. In

fact, the data that has been scraped together by nongovernmental researchers and advocates leads to the opposite conclusion.

More actions like the ACLU lawsuit against Indianapolis should be taken nationwide. Tear gas is illegal for battlefield use, yet it is used in our streets indiscriminately — meaning too often, too liberally and with no regard for bystanders or those particularly at risk to tear gas’s adverse effects, such as children and people with respiratory conditions.

Given all of this, the question is not whether the police should be sued over tear gas use. The question is why more suits are not already underway and why we allow the police to use tear gas in the first place.

This is not just true in the U.S. It was true in Greece in 2008 and in Hong Kong in 2019. It is true in Chile, where over 200 people have suffered severe eye trauma and lost eyes to tear gas canisters and rubber bullets since the beginning of a protest movement last fall. Tear gas has been used constantly and unpredictably against Palestinians for years, as it was used against colonized peoples who wanted freedom throughout the 20th century.

As in so many political struggles, we should look to domestic and international history and news for guidance and solidarity. Some similar actions, such as a class action lawsuit out of Richmond, Virginia, and an individual lawsuit out of Columbia, South Carolina, are being taken. More victims should follow suit, and we should not rest until tear gas is out of American streets for good. kradde@iu.edu This column originally published June 22, 2020.

George Floyd. Mike Brown. Oscar Grant. Philando Castille. Eric Garner.

Stephen Clarke. Freddie Gray. The extreme police brutality in the U.S. has created a distrust and disconnect between police departments and people of color.

Now more than ever, the corrupt nature of police departments is being exposed. Fed up citizens have gone to protests, only to be met with excessive force in situations where force is not necessary.

A start in mending these relationships and ensuring police officers are held accountable is to create a police oversight board.

Indiana University Police Department needs a police accountability board in order to best serve students on campus. This will increase transparency with the public and help foster positive relationships between officers, students and faculty members.

Police officers must be held responsible for protecting citizens, and there shouldn’t have to be days of protests and rioting for basic justice to be served.

There is a stark, understandable disconnect between the Black community and police officers. Change starts locally, and this police accountability board can aid in creating a precedent nationwide.

A 2016 study by Pew Research study found that only 14% of Blacks have a lot of confidence in their local police.

The 2017-2018 Indiana University Diversity Report found that IU-Bloomington’s student body is 6% black. Black people are a minority at Indiana University and often experience both overt and covert discrimination.

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The IU Police Department crest can be seen on the gas tank of one of the IUPD motorcycles at the “Touch a Truck” event Monday in the Chick-fil-A parking lot at 3020 E. Third St.

A police accountability board is a right of the community and will foster constructive relationships between IUPD and students, but specifically students of color on campus.

According to the National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement, these boards improve a department’s internal investigations of misconduct.

It increases transparency in police departments and gives the community a larger voice in how the department functions. They can help reduce public concern for incidents within the department and validate community members.

It also serves as a way for public officials to show they care about the quality and transparency within their police force.

Various cities around the country have police accountability boards that serve as a way to ensure police officers are protecting and serving the community in equitable ways. Concerns are reviewed externally, which helps to hold police departments accountable for officers’ actions.

Some colleges have already implemented similar programs. In 2014, Univer-

sity of California at Davis created a police accountability program to “develop and promote accountability, trust, and communication between the campus community and the UC Davis Police Department.” The board includes students, staff and faculty.

IU-Bloomington’s board should consist of students, faculty and staff as well. To ensure diversity of thought, there must be quotas so all races and ethnicities have representation.

Student representatives from centers around campus should be on the board, such as Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, La Casa Latino Cultural Center, LGBTQ+ Culture Center, First Nations Educational and Cultural Center and the Asian Culture Center. People should be able to file complaints in areas such as harassment, excessive force, discrimination and improper force.

IU students and faculty deserve transparency. This is a realistic and important first step. Sign the petition if you agree. jaraferg@iu.edu This column originally published June 4, 2020.

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‘I can’t be silent’

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IU wrestling coach Angel Escobedo cheers on IU on Feb. 2 at Wilkinson Hall. Escobedo was hesitant at first to make a public statement in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin but felt that he couldn’t remain silent.

The unwavering voice of Angel Escobedo

By Tyler Tachman ttachman@iu.edu | @Tyler_T15

Angel Escobedo said he felt it in his soul.

The third-year IU head wrestling coach was scrolling through his Twitter timeline when he paused at the video of George Floyd.

Escobedo saw a man being pinned against the pavement. He watched a grown man cry for his mother. He said he knew Floyd understood that this was his last moment.

Escobedo saw a man that looked like him.

George Floyd was killed by police officer Derek Chauvin on May 25 in Minneapolis. Soon, his death was replayed around the world.

“I see a lot of passion,” Escobedo said. “I see a lot of hurt. I see a lot of frustration and anger. All the emotions that we as humans feel.”

Escobedo is half Black and half Mexican. He’s also a head coach in a sport where in 2019, 93% of head coaches were white, according to a study by the NCAA. He’s a father of three kids who have white, Black and Mexican heritage.

In 2014, protests spread after Eric Garner was choked to death by a police officer in New York City. In the same year, Michael Brown, an unarmed 18 year old Black man in Ferguson, Missouri, was killed by police. Then, Alton Sterling was killed by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

“We’re replaying situations over and over and it’s just a vicious cycle,” Escobedo said. “I want change not only for my kids, but other kids out there. For people of color. We should be together, unity.”

Escobedo knew he had to do something. At first, he was hesitant.

If he made a public statement, he knew some people would swiftly dismiss him.

Escobedo is a four-time high school state champion from Gary, Indiana. He stayed in his home state for college and suited up for the Hoosiers, where he’s the program’s only four-time All-American. He came back to IU to coach.

Fans’ respect for him could dissolve with one tweet.

“I can’t be silent,” Escobedo thought to himself.

Growing up, Escobedo admired Martin Luther King Jr. Escobedo idolized King’s peacefulness even though people were filled with enough hate to pull the trigger on him. Escobedo respected Muhammad Ali, who was despised for stepping out of the ring and into the political sphere.

Two days after Floyd’s death, before many other sports figures chose to speak out, Escobedo posted on Twitter to his audience of more than 10,000 followers.

“We need unity and we need to accept each other’s differences,”

Escobedo wrote in a long message.

“We all can make a positive difference in this.”

He sent out the tweet and then shut off social media to block out negativity. Escobedo reads to escape from stress. He recently finished a book on leadership titled “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.” He frequently studies successful people and their philosophies.

Later, Escobedo would log back on, conveying his beliefs of love, peace and acceptance. The hate stays away.

At the forefront of it all, Escobedo contributed to a discussion that has been ongoing for hundreds of years.

“No matter how uncomfortable race is, the subject, it needs to be brought up,” Escobedo said “That’s the only way we gain knowledge and understanding. Asking me or someone of color ‘How do you feel through all this?’ and ‘What has gone on in your life?’”

Sometimes, people tell Escobedo they don’t see color. His response is always the same.

“I want you to see color,” Escobedo said. “I want you to see my color and be accepting of it. Teach your kids to see color. Teach your friends to see color. That’s life. That’s the reality of who we are.” * * * Escobedo remembers it clearly.

It was his freshman year at Griffith High School. He was coming off an undefeated state championship season.

At the time, his hair was braided into cornrows. There was a girl he wanted to ask out, but he didn’t feel comfortable with how he looked to go through with it. So, he got a clean cut.

“Maybe, they would accept me,” he thought.

After their first night out, the girl told Escobedo it would be their last date.

“My parents don’t want me dating a Black person,” she said.

Escobedo was 14 or 15 years old.

He couldn’t make sense of it.

“You just think that once you accomplish all these things that maybe you wouldn’t be vulnerable to those things, but that wasn’t the reality,” Escobedo said.

More than a decade later, during his time at Iowa State University, he still couldn’t evade the shadow of racism.

For three years, Escobedo was an assistant for the Cyclones under head coach Kevin Jackson, who is Black.

One year, the team had more African-Americans than most programs -- with about 30 percent. After a team event, Escobedo was driving a recruit’s parent back home.

“You know what, I’m actually

loving it,” the parent said.

“Oh really,” Escobedo responded. “What did you think before you were coming here?”

“I’m not going to lie,” the parent said. “I thought, and I heard, that the Iowa State wrestling team has a bunch of thugs on it.”

Escobedo was taken aback, but had to stay calm. Guys on the team were graduating. No one was getting arrested. They were doing the right things.

“Why would anyone think that?”

Escobedo responded. “I don’t understand where that thug concept came from because that’s far from the truth.”

Internally, he was infuriated.

Despite his answer, he knew exactly why the team had been given that label.

“They’re young men trying to do the best that they can,” Escobedo said. “For people on the outside to break them down just because the color of their skin is upsetting. These kids are working extra hard to break that viewpoint other people have.” * * * There were times when Escobedo felt alone. Attending a predominantly white high school, he’d hear jokes that made him uneasy. Gazing around a classroom as a student at IU, most people he’d see didn’t look like him. He’d brave “the looks.”

There were times when he was afraid.

“You wish that you can explain it,” Escobedo said. “But, sometimes you feel like you can’t.”

DJ Washington, a rising redshirt freshman on the IU wrestling team who is Black, texted Escobedo last week. Last season, 7% of Division I wrestlers were black.

“This is kind of crazy,” Washington wrote. “How do you feel about this whole situation?”

Escobedo told Washington they were in this together. That he supports Washington no matter what.

That the Escobedo residence is always open.

“There’s going to be situations where maybe he loses friends or girlfriends or family members or whoever might judge him for the color of his skin,” Escobedo said.

“I’m trying to help him understand that it’s not his fault if people feel that way. All he can do is be the best person that he can be.”

Escobedo is more than 10 years older than Washington. Time has passed since he donned a singlet.

But, he said he still relates to how Washington feels.

In the Big Ten last season, IU was the only wrestling program with both minority head and assistant coaches. In the conference’s meetings, Escobedo would survey the room and, again, see people that didn’t look like him.

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Angel Escobedo (second from right) poses with his Griffith High School wrestling teammates. Escobedo went on to wrestle for Team USA from 2010-11, 2013-14 and 2015-16.

IU assistant coach Mike Dixon is part of the 19% of nonwhite assistant coaches in the country, according to a study by the NCAA. Dixon’s great-great-grandfather was a slave in North Carolina. His grandfather couldn’t vote. His father went to a segregated school.

“This country has come a long way,” Dixon said. “You should never be at a finished product where you think that everything’s OK. You should always be progressing to be better. As a society, we can be better.”

Part of the reason they both got into coaching was to help young men like Washington navigate life.

“My job right now is not just to teach wrestling holds,” Dixon said.

Throughout last season, Escobedo repeatedly stated he wanted the program to feel like family. He invited the team over to his house to meet his kids. He ate lunch with wrestlers in a one-on-one setting to get to know them better.

That culture allowed Washington to be comfortable talking to his head coach about race.

Escobedo and Dixon spoke last week about the recent events around the nation. In a time of turmoil, their main focus was figuring out how they can continue to support their community and the team.

They want to be “a beacon of light” as Escobedo describes it. Next year, they plan for the wrestling program to collaborate with the local Boys and Girls Club.

“A lot of times it’s about giving back to people that maybe can’t give you anything back,” Escobedo said. * * * Escobedo fears for his children.

His youngest, Zoe, is 1.

Zoe’s favorite song is “Baby Shark.” A close second is Drake’s hit single “Toosie Slide.” Sometimes, she’ll stretch out her tiny fingers

and point to the family’s Alexa device, signaling Escobedo to flip on the melody. He dances while Zoe swings her small legs.

Escobedo hopes Zoe will never be judged based on the color of her skin.

The middle child, Saniyah, is 3.

Saniyah loves princesses. She wears dresses and gets her nails painted.

Escobedo hopes Saniyah will never feel like she has to be someone else to be accepted.

The oldest, Malachi, is 4.

Malachi has already started to learn wrestling moves from his champion father. He adores the Avengers and superheroes.

He sports a red Power Rangers costume around the house.

Escobedo hopes that Malachi will never be viewed as a threat because of the color of his skin.

Escobedo doesn’t want them to go through what he felt.

Rather, he wants them to invest in their community.

He wants them to accept others.

He wants them to be vulnerable and build relationships.

“What can we do as humans to help our fellow humans out?” Escobedo said.

The names of those slain are etched in history: George Floyd, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Alton Sterling and many others.

This year, after the killing of more unarmed citizens, more voices are emerging.

“Right now this is the story of the day,” Dixon said.

“On July 4, what are we going to be talking about then? Is there going to be change?”

Escobedo and Dixon are trying to preserve a dream left by a man that came before them.

In 2020, it’s still unfulfilled.

This story was originally published June 7, 2020.

Peyton Hendershot pleads guilty to criminal trespassing

By Grace Ybarra gnybarra@iu.edu | @gnybarra

IU redshirt junior tight end Peyton Hendershot pleaded guilty Tuesday to misdemeanor criminal trespass following his arrest in

February.

His remaining charges of domestic battery, criminal conversion and criminal mischief were dismissed.

Hendershot was arrested Feb. 22 after he allegedly assaulted a 22-year-old woman he was

previously in a relationship with, according to a press release from the Bloomington Police Department.

Under the conditions of Hendershot’s plea agreement, he is required to complete a mental health evaluation and a one-year

probation.

Following his arrest, Hendershot was placed on a 24-hour hold at the Monroe County Correctional Center.

IU football head coach Tom Allen suspended Hendershot indefi-

nitely Feb. 24 from all team activities.

On an April 22 Zoom call, Allen said that Hendershot had been brought back in a "modified" way.

This story was originally published June 9, 2020.

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How IU’s softball coach unified a community Tyler Tachman ttachman@iu.edu | @Tyler_T15

There’s a commotion coming from IU softball coach Shonda Stanton’s front yard.

Her property is covered in gym equipment. Miniature orange cones dot the pavement. Agility ladders stretch across the road. Scooters lay aimlessly on the curb.

It’s 2 p.m. in Stanton’s neighborhood, and a group of about 10 kids eagerly waits.

That can only mean one thing: Class is in session.

The schools in Monroe County are closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The students at IU have been sent home. The softball season has been canceled.

Stanton slips on a pair of sunglasses, suits up in a crimson windbreaker and sets out for her driveway.

It’s P.E. time.

In late March, just as coronavirus was shutting down normal life, Stanton had a conversation with her neighbor Coleman Kavgian in her driveway.

Stanton, a mother of three, and Kavgian, who has two daughters, talked about how their kids would adjust to school. And how, as parents, they would cope.

“Coleman, I’m doing P.E. everyday,” Stanton said.

When Kavgian got home later that night, she shot a text to Stanton.

“How about a Coach Stanton P.E. class?” Kavgian typed. “Can we come over?”

The next day, Kavgian and her two daughters, Grace, 11, and Vera, 10, headed over

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IU softball head coach Shonda Stanton, right, leads exercises for kids in her neighborhood. Stanton's sessions have drawn children of a wide range of ages from her 14-house neighborhood.

to Stanton’s house. The first group consisted of Stanton’s son Josiah, 9, and the two girls. They made sure to abide by the social distancing guidelines.

“All right, give me 10 jumping jacks,” Stanton called out.

Grace worked her way through the set. After a couple more exercises, she was out of breath and gulped down half of her water.

“Okay, good warm-ups,” Stanton said.

Grace couldn’t believe it.

That was just warm-ups?

Next, they sprang over hurdles. They scurried up a rope ladder. They finished with jogging on a trail.

When Grace got home, she splashed the rest of the water on her face and laid in bed until dinner.

Grace was assigned to write an “I survived” paper for her fifth grade class. Her story was titled: “I survived Coach Stanton’s gym class.”

Soon, word of Stanton’s

sessions spread around the single-street, 14-house neighborhood.

Grace bragged to one of her friends about being able to workout with a Division I coach. Her friend wanted in. Others saw the lively crew outside.

Stanton kept it up almost every weekday. She put her class through ladder drills, ball handling skills, sprints and games of Simon Says.

“These kids are committed, I tell you,” Stanton said.

“It gets the coaching juices

in me flowing.”

To finish, they would circle up and share something about the day or what they were thankful for.

“It really got us through the quarantine,” Kavgian said. “It strengthened our neighborhood community.

We’re so grateful for investing that time in our kids.”

In total, six families joined in. Parents who didn’t know each other besides a wave bonded. Kids got a break from online

coursework. They stopped being “Zoombies,” as Stanton calls it.

A wide range of ages took part. Five year olds wobbled through a workout.

“I see you,” Stanton would say to motivate them.

Rainy days became the worst days. Everyone stayed home.

“We’re all on this earth running that relay race of life and living during this time,” Stanton said. “There’s a lot of people that this is a really traumatic time for. What can we do to get out from behind our laptop? Maybe it’s just picking up the phone and calling someone and saying ‘Hey, how are you doing.’”

In the softball program, they use the Chinese expression jiayou. The literal meaning is to pour oil into another person’s lamp. It’s a concept that Stanton, who is in her third year as head coach, has made one of the foundations of the program.

After more than a month of hard work and encouragement from Stanton, Grace noticed that the workouts got easier.

The small neighborhood has become more tightlyknit. They are planning baseball and kickball games. Last Thursday marked the last day of online school. Stanton gifted certificates and Tshirts for their final class.

Before the gathering, Josiah turned to his mom.

“Let’s work them hard,” he said.

And that’s what Stanton did.

This story was originally published May 13, 2020.

FOOTBALL

Aubrey Burks plans to be IU’s next Florida star Tyler Tachman ttachman@iu.edu | @Tyler_T15

Auburndale High School head football coach Kyle Sasser can tell countless stories about Aubrey Burks. But, his favorite memory of Burks, who is IU football’s most recent 2021 commit, originates from last summer.

The Fourth of July was approaching, and Sasser gave his team the week off. There was no lifting, no film sessions, no voluntary walk-throughs.

Burks was hanging out with his cousin Malichi Lowery, who is also a defensive back on the Auburndale football team. Lowery’s father took a picture of the two lounging in the house and sent it to Sasser.

At the time, Sasser had some yard work to take care of at his house. So he picked up Burks and Lowery, figuring they could help out.Under a canopy of shrubs, Burks and Lowery took turns chopping down a tree with an ax. It was Burks’ first time attempting to slice down lumber.

“It was a thick tree, too,” Sasser said.

By the time their hands were covered with blisters almost three hours later, the wooden high-rise finally took a tumble.

“Those guys came over when they had the week off,” Sasser said. “Not a lot of kids are going to do that. That sums up the kind of guys that

we have around here.”

On June 26, the IU football team added the 6-foot, three-star, lumber-chopping safety from Auburndale, Florida, to its 2021 recruiting class. Burks became the 10th 2021 commit.

When Sasser was announced as Auburndale’s defensive coordinator back in Burks’ sophomore year, the young defensive back was the first person to introduce himself. Sasser quickly understood why Burks had earned the starting job as a freshman and was already gaining attention from college coaches.

After meeting his new coach, Burks peppered Sasser with questions.

“I need the playbook,” Burks told Sasser. “What do you guys do for trips? What do you do if there’s a tight end?”

“He had this thirst for football knowledge,” Sasser said.

One time, Sasser was introducing a new cloud coverage where the safety roams behind the linebackers. Burks didn’t understand why he would be drifting further away from his man.

“I’m not even close to this No.1 receiver,” Burks pointed out. “Why do I have to cover him vertically?”

Sasser explained that they were disguising coverage to confuse the offense.

“Oh, Coach, that makes sense,” Burks said. “It’s like chess.”

When Burks has down

time in school, he watches a film of Auburndale’s next opponent. He picks three of the team's most frequent running plays and strategizes how to crash the offensive line.

Sometimes, he’ll examine each individual matchup between his teammates and the offensive players.

Burks also asks the same question to multiple coaches to see how they respond.

“You get a better understanding of football, no matter who you play,” Burks said. “The more questions you ask, the more you know and the more you can pass along to the next generation coming up.”

In a game near the end of his sophomore year, Burks’ shoulder was knocked back while he was going in for a strip. He finished the season but had constant aches.

In December after his sophomore year, after talking with Sasser, Burks decided to accept a spot on IMG Academy’s football team. Shortly after arriving, an MRI on Burks’ shoulder showed that there was damage, and surgery was imminent. It was just a matter of how long he wanted to put it off.

Burks was slated to start for IMG, but an injury could leave him tumbling down the depth chart. Around the same time, Sasser was named the head coach at Auburndale.

Two months after transferring to IMG, Burks returned to

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Burks is ranked No. 761 nationally in the 2021 class.

Auburndale and underwent surgery on his ailing shoulder. Meanwhile, the attention from college coaches slowed.

While he was sidelined in the spring, Sasser recalls that Burks came to every practice, every workout and every seven-on-seven jamboree.

After a couple months of physical therapy, his shoulder had fully healed. Burks noticed progress in his lifting and added muscle to his frame.

Last season, Burks bounced back from his injury with 63 tackles, 17 of which were for loss, while totaling six sacks. He also added three forced fumbles and two interceptions to his stat-line.

Burks’ most impressive performance may have come in week three against Pasco High School.

During Pasco’s first offensive drive, Burks toed the right side of the line. The snap bounded over the quarterback’s head, and Burks accelerated past the offensive line in pursuit of the pigskin.

As the quarterback retreated, Burks shoved him to the turf while swiftly scooping up the ball and rolling into the end zone for a touchdown.

On the next possession, Burks moved toward the line of scrimmage, then dropped into coverage to confuse the offense. He snagged an interception and took it back for

another touchdown.

“His eyes are his most valuable asset because he sees things fast and almost before they happen,” Sasser said. “It’s really interesting to watch.”

Later, the Pasco running back cut outside of the tackle and Burks patiently bumped past a blocker to stuff the play. While wrestling him to the ground, Burks plucked the ball cleanly out of the running back’s arms and gained possession.

Auburndale won 50-0.

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Khristian Lander stood outside the Evansville Bosse High School gym and spoke with excitement in his voice.

It was late February and only three days after verbally committing to IU, Lander was already entertaining the possibility of skipping his senior year at F.J. Reitz High School to suit up for the Hoosiers in the 2020-21 season.

With a sweat towel slung over his neck after a one point loss to Evansville Bosse in the final game of the regular season, Lander wanted to talk about then-freshman IU forward Trayce Jackson-Davis.

“I feel like if I can get ahold of Trayce, we can dominate the Big Ten,” Lander said.

Lander was anticipating that Jackson-Davis, who averaged 13.5 points and was named to the All-Big Ten Freshman team last season, would be gone for the NBA after his sophomore year. In that hypothetical situation, Lander and Jackson-Davis’ time at IU wouldn’t overlap.

Lander didn’t want to put that in jeopardy. On Monday, he officially announced that he would be coming to Bloomington for the 2020-21 season.

Jackson-Davis didn’t hesitate to express his glee on Twitter shortly after the announcement.

“This year just got scary,” Jackson-Davis wrote.

Before reclassifying, Lander was the No. 1 point guard in the 2021 class, according to ESPN. Now, Lander is the No. 25 prospect in the 2020 class.

The 6-foot-2-inch point

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guard will provide more depth to an experienced backcourt of rising senior Al Durham and rising junior Rob Phinisee. Last year Durham, who isn’t a true point guard, was tasked with a major role as a ballhandler while Phinisee was on the bench.

Some of IU’s troubles last season stemmed from the inability to consistently score and shoot at a steady clip. The Hoosiers averaged just over 71 points per game, ranking them 165th in the country. As a team, IU shot 32% on 3-pointers, leaving them at 219th in the nation.

Lander is capable of converting those into more efficient numbers. At 165 pounds, he displays quicktwitch speed and the ability to score the ball on all levels.

The lefty has a quick, recoiling jumpshot and understands how to use his body

to shield defenders when finishing in the paint. Lander also utilizes backdoor cuts when he’s off the ball to enhance the offensive flow.

On that day in late February, Lander carried on about the combination with Jackson-Davis.

“I feel like the pick and roll would be crazy,” Lander said.

The pick and roll with Jackson-Davis could be the key to the uptick in offensive production for the Hoosiers.

The 6-foot-9-inch JacksonDavis showed his efficiency near the basket last year with many powerful dunks. That scenario with Lander, who said he has been working on pick and rolls since seventh grade, could open up more rim-runs for Jackson-Davis and lead to easy points.

As a result, opponents may be forced to send perimeter defenders to crash the paint and help converge

on Jackson-Davis, allowing Lander to facilitate elsewhere. Rising sophomore guards Jerome Hunter and Armaan Franklin, along with Phinisee and Durham could have more open looks from beyond the arc.

Last year, Hunter shot 30% from three, Phinisee finished at 33% clip and Franklin ended at 26%. Freshman guard and Indiana Mr. Basketball winner Anthony Leal can also step into the shooting role.The Hoosiers will need to convert on the opportunities that Lander's versatility can create.

Lander's decision has pushed IU into some early preseason rankings. In ESPN’s most recent list, the Hoosiers sit at No. 23.

For Lander and the Hoosiers, the high expectations will come a year early.

This story was originally published May 21, 2020.

tion, one forced fumble, one fumble recovery and two touchdowns.

He was on the field for 15 total defensive plays.

“That is probably by far the most productive I’ve ever seen a player play,” Sasser said.

IU came calling with a scholarship offer last fall.

Burks didn’t know much about Bloomington or the Hoosiers and didn’t think he’d consider them.

Burks was in contact with IU defensive backs coach Kasey Teegardin and IU safeties coach Jason Jones. Every other week they would watch film, and, of course, Burks would ask his share of questions. The coaches explained how Burks would fit into their 4-2-5 defensive scheme. The alignment includes a roaming husky position that serves a run defense and pass coverage hybrid.

“As more coaches started talking to me, and they started breaking everything down as far as how they can use me, they got in the rotation of me possibly going there,” Burks said.

Burks racked up more than 30 offers, but cut his list down to seven schools in May: the University of Louisville, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of South Florida, Mississippi State University, West Virginia University, Georgia Tech Institute of Technology and IU. As 2020 came around, Burks started speaking regularly with IU head coach Tom Allen.

“If someone tried to commit at the husky position right now, we would call you first to give you a chance to commit,” Allen told Burks.

Another major key was when Burks saw the recent Florida to IU pipeline, with seven IU players making their way north from the Sunshine

state in the 2019 recruiting class. Among them was defensive back Tiawan Mullen, who was named a freshman All-American by The Athletic last year and was also a former three-star recruit.

“They weren’t going up there for no reason,” Burks said.

“I sat down, and I knew Indiana was where I wanted to be.”

Burks verbally committed to the Hoosiers without ever stepping on campus.

After the announcement, junior defensive back Devon Matthews and senior defensive back Raheem Layne, both of whom are from Florida, reached out to Burks.

Senior Marcelino Ball, who features at the husky position for IU, also messaged Burks.

Burks isn’t the most heralded prospect in the 2021 class. Four-star quarterback Donaven McCulley is the highest ranked, while Burks hangs in the middle of the group at No. 761 nationally.

“He’s looking to prove something,” Sasser said.

“The kid just has an instinct for the game. He puts in the work and watches the game.”

Burks plans to visit IU in December, where he’ll see Memorial Stadium and the Bloomington campus for the first time in-person. While preparing for his final year of high school, Burks has already set goals for when he arrives in Bloomington.

“Come in, and make an impact," Burks said.

"Even if I’m not a true freshman All-American, just see the field, learn about Bloomington, make friends and enjoy college.”

But the inquisitive, instinct-driven, budding lumberjack also put his hopes into simpler terms, alluding to a fellow Floridian.

“What Mullen did.”

This story was originally published July 8, 2020.

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Arrest at Monroe Lake spurs discussions

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A complaint of passengers on a boat yelling profanities directed at another boat with a flag supporting President Donald Trump on Monroe Lake ended Wednesday with the arrest of a man who wasn't on either boat.

Passengers of the reported boat, including IU football players, spoke out on Twitter about how they felt they were racially profiled.

The concerns led other IU athletes to speak out on the matter as well, including IU basketball’s rising sophomore Trayce Jackson-Davis.

IU football defensive back Bryant Fitzgerald said on Twitter that boat officers responded to him and his friends out on the lake enjoying his girlfriend's birthday after passengers on another boat started racially profiling them.

Indiana Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement received a complaint from a 46-year-old woman who said people on another boat were screaming profanities and flipping her off, according to a report provided by law enforcement.

According to the DNR incident report, the woman told Indiana Conservation Officer Kaley McDonald there were approximately 23 people on board, noting they were mostly Black men with a few white women.

According to the report, the woman told McDonald the boat approached hers a couple of times and the passengers said, “Fuck Trump!

Fuck you and your kids.

Your kids are ugly.”

McDonald and ICO David Moss waited for the boat to dock and then boarded to interview its passengers.

One of the passengers interviewed was Andrew Hartman, who told McDonald they did shout at the boat and flip them off, but the boat with the Trump flag did the same to them first. Hartman said the other boat started the argument

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Indiana State Road 446 crosses Monroe Lake. IU football players, including defensive back Bryant Fitzgerald, were involved in an incident Wednesday on the lake in which they felt they were racially profiled.

by saying they didn’t want them on the lake, according to the report.

During their interviews with the passengers, a witness from a third boat told the officers the passengers of the reported boat they were responding to didn’t start the argument.

Carson Compton, an acquaintance of the witness and a white man, boarded the boat to ask officers what was going on. McDonald said Compton, 23, was intoxicated and wasn’t involved in the original incident.

Compton’s friend Henry Willhite said in an interview that Moss physically shoved Compton down the ramp and pushed him really hard.

Willhite said the third boat he was on with Compton and the witness yelled similar phrases and flipped off the boat with the Trump

flag, too. But, Willhite, Compton and the witness' boat was not reported.

“But my boat was filled with a bunch of white kids,” Willhite said. “So that's why we were like, we both did the same thing yet we're not getting in trouble for it.”

Moss asked Compton to leave three times and then escorted him off the boat and asked him and his friends to leave the area or he would be arrested, according to the incident report. After leaving the boat, Compton continued to yell at the officers, calling them racists.

“I think he was just mad because he (the officer) got called a racist and he probably looked like an idiot,” Willhite said. “I mean, I don't know if he's racist or not, but like, I mean, it just definitely felt like discrimination.”

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Willhite said he felt obligated to stay and watch the officers investigate because of the reality of prejudice against Black people within law enforcement.

“I think we all just thought we should stay here and observe,” Willhite said.

“If something bad's going to happen, we need to intervene if we can, and if not, at least be there to be a witness so that they don't get away with it.

After the officers started threatening to arrest Compton again, Willhite said he and Compton started walking to their car. He said they were about 10 yards from their car when the officers ran up and arrested Compton.

Willhite understood why the officers would’ve arrested Compton since he was yelling on the boat, but said he was confused about

why they arrested him while they were leaving.

“The fact that they said ‘leave or we’re going to arrest you’ and we did leave,” Willhite said. “And while we’re in the process of leaving, and he’s not saying anything, then they come arrest him.”

Moss arrested Compton on charges of public intoxication and disorderly conduct. Willhite said he was arrested before they had even administered a breathalyzer test.

“I don’t care, just fucking arrest me then,” Compton yelled at officers while in the parking lot, according to the report. He blew a 0.176 into the breathalyzer and was transported to Monroe County jail, where he blew a 0.206. He was released at 3 a.m. Thursday.

Willhite recorded Comp-

ton’s arrest and posted it on Twitter. Many of the passengers of the other boat shared the video with their thoughts on the matter.

IU Athletics did not allow student-athletes to comment on the incident.

Willhite said passengers from the other boat direct messaged him on Twitter to ask him to thank Compton.

He said Compton doesn’t regret a single thing.

Willhite said he wasn’t surprised when he found out that the complaint had been called in on the boat full of Black people and not his.

“That’s what makes me feel like it’s discrimination and not necessarily just on the officers’ part,” Willhite said. “But by the people who called the cops.”

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Piggy was first found by an officer after she was spotted roaming loose near Bloomington resident Cindy Chavez’s home. Chavez took the pig in temporarily but eventually created a post on Facebook seeking a new home for her.

Lost pig finds home with Bloomington couple A pig found abandoned in Ellettsville has a newly renovated basement home.

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A pig found wandering the streets between Bloomington and Ellettsville recently found a home with vegan Bloomington couple Brian O’Quinn and Natalie Levin and their two parrots.

O’Quinn, an electrician, said Levin, an IU medieval history doctoral student, jokingly suggested adopting the pig after seeing a post about it on social media in April. Shortly after declaring it “totally unrealistic,” they picked up the still-unnamed pig they usually call Pig or Piggy.

Cindy Chavez, a Bloomington resident and the director of Pantry 279, a food pantry in Ellettsville, said she was in the midst of a work call when the Monroe County sheriff ’s office contacted her in early April about a loose pig roaming near her home that they thought might be hers. Chavez has two pet pigs that she said are like children to her, and soon her family was receiving calls and Facebook messages from people around the neighborhood asking whether the loose pig was hers.

Chavez said that the sheriffs did not know how to deal with a loose pig and asked for help, so she went out with two of her daughters and lured it back to their house with the help of Cheerios and apples. It was a long and slow process.

“Picking up a pig is incredibly difficult — they’re very dramatic. They scream, and they’re incredibly strong,” Chavez said. “If pigs don’t want to move, they don’t move.”

Once at her house, Chavez’s daughters promptly cleaned and manicured the pig, temporarily naming it Paisley.

However, Paisley did not get along with one of Chavez’s own pigs, so Chavez decided she needed to find it a new home.

She posted about it on Facebook, where she said the pig went “semi-viral” and caught Levin’s eye.

O’Quinn said when they first took in the pig, they planned to house her only temporarily, but all of the local pig shelters were full. They have now had the pig for over two months, and O’Quinn has built her a bed in the basement, installed an underfloor ventilation system to make sure she is breathing clean air and reinforced the door to keep her in when she is in heat. He’s also preparing the ground outside to create a wallowing area with water and mud for her to keep cool in the summer months.

“I think she’s really attached to us now, and if we sent her away she’d get really depressed,” he said. “The pig is like the parrots — it’s really intelligent and also really needy emotionally.”

Chavez confirmed this concern, saying that having a pig is a commitment because they bond with their owners, and if they are separated, they sometimes stop eating and die.

Chavez and O’Quinn both noted that the pig was very unhealthy when she was found. Besides being elderly and missing most of her teeth, she was overweight and blind because her fat was blocking her eyes and had mange. She also had two nipples chewed off, evidence that she was used for breeding at some point in the past.

“We had no idea what to expect with this kind of animal,” O’Quinn said. “It’s definitely sucked up a lot of my time and energy, but it’s cool.”

In the beginning, they often asked Chavez and pig community Facebook

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Top Brian O’Quinn strokes his pig’s mane as she eats popcorn. Many of O’Quinn’s friends joke about whether he plans to roast the pig, but he said he finds the idea disturbing. He and his wife are both vegan.

Bottom left Brian O’Quinn puts his hand on the pig’s head as she rests in a hay bed in the basement of his home. The pig has a strong emotional attachment to O’Quinn and his wife, he said.

Bottom right Piggy’s snout is dirty with mud after playing in a puddle outside Brian O’Quinn and Natalie Levin’s home. O’Quinn said the pig enjoys eating “people food” despite not having any teeth. She loves bananas and dislikes onions, he said.

groups for help because, as O’Quinn noted, much of the information online is aimed at producing pigs for meat, which are killed after less than a year, and not aimed at producing healthy and long-living animals.

O’Quinn said in the early days of owning Piggy, she would try to bite them, testing them as she figured out her place in the herd hierarchy of their household. He also tried to make a harness for her, but said she would go “completely berserk” when they tried to put it on her, so he gave up.

Now, he said, she has learned the boundaries of their yard and spends much of her time sleeping. They feed her mini pig food pellets and kitchen scraps mixed with water so she can eat despite her missing teeth. O’Quinn said she likes beer, loves bananas and dislikes onions, though she will eat them when there are no other options.

He added that her skin has im-

proved, and she can see a little more than before, but not much. They cannot really tell if she has lost or gained weight because her body is such a strange shape. They wash her with shampoo intended for human use and buy straw for her bedding at Rural King. O’Quinn recently gave her a yellow snake-shaped toy, but he said he’s not sure if she’s interested in it.

The pig wakes up early, and O’Quinn said she has changed his sleep schedule. He takes her out in the morning, and Levin takes her in the evening. He said that so far all the neighbors think the pig is cool, and one neighbor, local jeweler Tim Terry, likes to visit the pig on weekends.

“I like the pig, it’s a nice pig,” Terry said. “Its movements are unpredictable.”

Terry added that he does not see having a pig neighbor as any different from the chickens down the street, and that he thinks that O’Quinn and Levin

are wonderful, conservation-minded people for saving the pig’s life.

“They’ve had to adapt their whole lifestyle, which is pretty bizarre,” he said.

“I’m a meat-eater, and of course Brian always makes me feel guilty.”

Both O’Quinn and Levin are vegan and O’Quinn has not eaten meat for at least 15 years. He said he’s tired of people making jokes about eating the pig, which occurs frequently. He describes the pig as “really hilarious entertainment” all on her own.

“I feel like she’s pretty happy right now.

She really just likes to be comfortable and petted,” O’Quinn said. “Once they know you’re in charge, they kind of calm down, and I think they kind of like it better, they know you’re taking care of them.”

“Everybody in the pig groups says ‘Pigs leave hoofprints on your heart,’” said Chavez. “And they do.”

This story was originally published July 3, 2020.

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‘The meter kept running’ A Bloomington couple struggles to keep their B&B alive amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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It was supposed to be their last job before retirement. A last big endeavor after a life full of adventure that had brought them from Indiana to the Rocky Mountains and back.

But Zack and Donna Malham, resident hosts of Wampler House Bed and Breakfast, now have their only source of income on the line. Having closed the house on March 17 due to coronavirus, the 68-year-old couple now live off social security while mostly relying on government grants to keep their business.

Located south of Bloomington, the Wampler House is a historic property built in 1857. Zack and Donna acquired the house in 2015 before they learned it was less than a quarter of a mile away from where they lived as newlyweds in 1977.

Bloomington was where the couple first met, dated and got married.

Here, Zack studied under a professional chef for three years, whom he said catapulted his career into becoming a corporate chef without attending culinary school.

“That just doesn’t happen anymore,” he said. “Opportunities like that don’t present themselves anymore.”

Zack got a chef position in Denver, Colorado, and he and Donna spent 40 years in the restaurant industry there. They dictated their own schedules, worked long hours and rewarded them-

selves by traveling across the United States.

But in these 40 years of what Donna calls a “side trip” in the West, the couple had always thought of Bloomington as home. Having planned to run a bedand-breakfast for 20 years, they decided to return to Bloomington in 2015. Before long, they purchased the eight-room Wampler House, already a B&B under its previous owners.

“That’s an absolute full circle – Halley’s Comet,” Zack said. “I mean, this was just meant to be.”

For the past five years, Wampler House has welcomed regional guests as well as Bloomingtonians looking for a stay-cation.

The couple lives on-site, and Zack said although there are high and low seasons, the business usually keeps them busy.

As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the U.S. in mid-March, the couple had to shut down the B&B, both being in the high-risk age group for the virus.

Brandon Howell, lecturer in the Department of Health & Wellness Design at the School of Public Health, said hospitality workers are frontline workers because they deal with the public directly. B&Bs also have more intimate settings than hotels with tighter living spaces and hallways and more interaction between the customers and innkeepers which makes it harder to socially distance.

Andrew Butters, assistant professor at the IU Kelley

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The Wampler House Boutique Hotel Bed & Breakfast Inn is located at 4905 S. Rogers St. Government emergency relief grants have helped resident hosts Zack and Donna Malham keep the business afloat.

School of Business, added that B&Bs might be less wellfunded to meet rising cleanliness standards and social distancing protocols. For Wampler House, the couple’s only reasonable choice was to shut it down.

Now entering the third month of the house being closed, Zack and Donna are struggling to balance their risk of exposure and running dry on money, like many small business owners throughout the country. Zack calls this “panicking in place.”

“Without heads in beds, we’re dead in the water,” Zack said. “We have no revenue.”

The couple’s personal living costs are now entirely dependent on social security, which includes mortgage and utility bills for their own residence separate from Wampler House.

“The meter kept running,” Zack said.

The expenses include money owed to vendors, utility companies, insurances,

mortgage plans and internet costs. Zack said he has tried to be transparent and reach out proactively to these businesses. Talking to people about money has become his daily routine.

But there have been glimmers of hope. Zack said people have been forgiving about money challenges.

“Everybody’s working with everybody to get people through this because this is real,” he said. “This is not a test.”

With the help of government emergency relief grants, they have managed to keep their business. A small proportion of the relief came from the federal Payment Protection Program, but Zack said what really took the pressure off of them has been the Monroe County Food & Beverage COVID-19 Virus Relief grant. It has substantially helped the couple pay for the mortgages and utilities of Wampler House.

“We are both prayerfully optimistic that we are going to be able to survive and ride out the pandemic,” Zack said.

Howell said that before the pandemic ends, the B&B experience will suffer from stricter health protocols.

“What’s sad about the whole thing is that hospitality is based on experience,” he said. “The people who work in these places are the product. If you put masks on, the challenge is we can’t see your smile.”

Butters said it’s hard to make predictions right now.

On one hand, more consumers might demand spacious, self-contained suites with amenities that would save the trouble of going to communal spaces, which would be hard for B&Bs to accommodate because of their intimate nature.

On the other hand, Butters suggested people might substitute plane travels with short weekend drives to closer, regional locations, which

B&Bs are well-suited for.

This possible trend is what makes Zack optimistic about restarting Wampler House in July. He compared B&Bs to drive-in theaters, which seized on the pandemic to make a comeback when they had been disappearing. He said customers may like a B&B’s smaller, environmentally-controlled setting, easily-accessible hosts and transparency in how everyday operations are conducted.

Currently, Zack plans to discuss with other Bloomington B&B businesses how and when to restart. He said they are committed to reopen Wampler House this summer and keep the business alive beyond 2020.

“If COVID has different plans, then so be it,” he said.

“But at least we’re fighting to stay afloat.”

“Safely fighting,” Donna added.

This story was originally published June 16, 2020.

Pygmalion’s Art Supplies to close after nearly 50 years

By Lauren McLaughlin lrmclaug@iu.edu | @l_mclaughlin8

Nancy Crenshaw ran Pygmalion’s Art Supplies after her brother, John Wilson, died last June. The business was doing well until February, when Crenshaw received her new lease agreement.

The property manager sold the building and land, and the increase in rent was 65%, Crenshaw said.

“Business was good, but not good enough to afford what they were asking,” manager Chase Lewandowski said.

Crenshaw said she looked into more affordable spaces in Bloomington, but there was no luck. The store had to close for about two months due to the pandemic. The decision was inevitable.

“I just finally felt like the only thing I had left to do was to close the store,” she said.

The plan is to close on June 30, Lewandowski said.

Pygmalion’s has operated for almost 50 years. The business has been in her family since 2007, when her brother purchased it. When Wilson died, he left the store to Crenshaw and her two sons in his will.

Despite living in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Crenshaw took on the responsibility.

“It was very important to him, and he was very impor-

tant to me,” she said. “When he died, I prayed with him.

I know he went to heaven, and I know there’ll be a day that I’ll see him again, and I certainly don’t want him to look me in the face and say, ‘What did you do with my store?’ I’ll tell him I treated his store right.”

The staff continued their jobs without an owner in Bloomington. By back-toschool season, they had a good handle on everything, Crenshaw said.

“I had a couple people look me straight in the face and say, ‘You’re a fool to try to run that store from Tulsa,’” she said. “It worked just fine for me.”

Crenshaw said she does not want to sell the domain name for the website yet.

She wants to sell it to someone who wholeheartedly wants to start the business from scratch in Bloomington. One of her suggestions was a smaller store for online ordering and delivery.

“I really think that it can be redone,” she said. “I really do.”

The famous Pygmalion’s sign with the cat on it will go to Tulsa with Crenshaw.

She said if someone does approach her about restarting the business, the sign will be part of the deal.

The store’s live-in cats, Alice and Kiki, were already adopted by two different families, she said. One of them is about 18 years old.

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She said she hopes anyone who restarts the business will do the same.

Jozlynn Mills, a Pygmalion’s customer for six years, said Bloomington is losing another beloved small business.

She said the local art community will be losing a common space to meet each other and find resources.

Lewandowski said one of the benefits is Pygmalion’s offers in-person service.

Customers can easily talk to a staff member who knows the store and can offer advice on projects.

“It’s something you can’t get going to Michaels or Hobby Lobby,” he said. “It’s a business, but it’s more than that.”

It is also a relaxing environment, Mills said. She would often go when she was an IU student.

“I was having a really hard day, so I walked downtown and got myself some ice cream from Hartzell’s and then walked to Pygmalion’s and just kind of hung out there,” she said. “I just wanted to walk around and look at supplies and hang out with the cats because it was just a very relaxing space to be in. Just being able to go there and kind of unwind after a really long day on campus was really nice.”

The store’s liquidation

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Top Signs reading “Store Closing” are displayed in the windows at Pygmalion’s Art Supplies on May 31 on North Grant Street. The store is closing after over 48 years of business.

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Right Then-owner of Pygmalion’s, John Wilson, pets the store’s cat Alice in 2010.

Wilson passed away in 2019.

sale started last week, Lewandowski said.

“We’ve been swamped with people,” he said. “People love this place, and they’re coming in and telling us how much they’re going to miss us.”

This story was originally published June 8, 2020.

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Arden Place adapts long-standing Fourth of July tradition

By Katharine Khamhaengwong kkhamhae@iu.edu | @katharinegk

Bloomington’s Arden Place neighborhood has had a Fourth of July parade every year since 1962. The neighbors rallied to keep their tradition alive this year despite the pandemic’s obstacles.

Carol Ebeling, a longtime Arden Place resident and retired teacher, said the parade began in the summer of 1962 when a local mother suggested that her bored, middle-school-aged children organize a parade to entertain themselves, and the idea stuck.

Ebeling and her husband Dave have participated in the parade since they moved to the neighborhood in 1976.

Ebeling said most years, the parade is held in the evening of July 3, so as not to conflict with the city’s parade, which was canceled this year due to COVID-19.

Typically, the neighborhood parade consists of a fire truck followed by a convertible with various dignitaries, such as the mayor, state legislators or out-of-town guests.

A local tractor with a wagon full of kids is usually close behind as well as a neighborhood dentist who always carries a large American flag and a variety of people on foot or bicycle, wearing costumes and pulling decorated wagons and dogs.

The paraders usually loop around the neighborhood before gathering in one of the larger yards for a cookout or dessert pitch-in, complete with costume contests, a food drive, an emcee and musical guests playing the “Star-Spangled Banner.”

“Most years there’s almost nobody watching because everybody walks,” Ebeling added. “It’s about as old-fashioned a tradition as you can find anywhere in America.”

This year, the production was more low-key. The fire truck made a loop around the neighborhood followed by a few families on bikes.

The tractor made a loop independently, pulling a bunch of kids in the trailer attached to the back like usual. Households decorat-

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Top Bloomington resident BJ Irvine waves two American flags in the air during the 58th annual Arden Place Neighborhood parade July 4 on East Arden Drive. “We love IU,” she said while cheering on parading families.

Bottom left Hattie Willis, 4, looks up at a bubble July 4 on East Arden Drive. The Willis family played with bubbles during the 58th annual Arden Place Neighborhood parade.

Bottom right The Bungers family dog Cash plays with his shadow during the 58th annual Arden Place Neighborhood parade July 4 on East Arden Drive. Cash was named after late country singer Johnny Cash.

ed the street with pennants and set up tables to pass out items that might normally be handed out from the parade, including water bottles, candy, glow sticks, rice cakes, Rice Krispies treats and one addition for 2020 — face masks. Families walked around in red, white and blue outfits, stopping to chat with old friends and to get to know new additions to the neighborhood.

The Ebelings offered a passing child on a bicycle a glow bracelet.

“You already asked me three times, and I said NO!” she yelled back.

Wendy Leutert and Yingtao Guo are among the neighborhood’s newer residents, having moved in on the last day of 2019. Leutert, an assistant professor in IU’s Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, said

being married to someone who is not an American citizen has made her aware of the symbolism and perceptions that come with displaying the American flag, so she and her husband had decorated with a more generic red, white, and blue banner.

She said they were enjoying seeing their neighbors, who had thus far mostly kept to themselves, first because of the winter weather and then

because of the coronavirus.

“This is the first time I’ve celebrated the Fourth of July where it felt like a whole community event, not a family one,” she added. “It’s been so nice to really see everyone; it’s been really special.”

Guo, a software engineer originally from Songyuan, China, agreed that the Arden Place celebration was pretty different from his experiences with the holiday in Phila-

delphia and Boston.

“It’s more relaxed, kind of like Halloween,” he said.

“People are so friendly.”

Neville Vaughn, the fireman who has been bringing the fire truck to the parade for over 20 years, is originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He said he was celebrating because he is lucky to be an American.

“We’re all immigrants here,” he said. “I’m living the dream in America, that’s me!”

His wife, Jennie Vaughn, the chancellor at Ivy Tech Community College Bloomington, said that the three households nearest to hers had all been participating in the parade for over 20 years, and the group of young adults standing and chatting in her yard had all grown up walking in the parade. She is originally from Phoenix and met her husband in San Francisco, but she said she didn’t feel the same sense of community in either of those places.

“It’s an Indiana hometown tradition,” she said. “It’s important to keep up traditions in times like this.”

This story was originally published July 6, 2020.

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By Kevin Chrisco kmchrisc@iu.edu | @beatsbykevv

On May 25, George Floyd was killed by Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis police officer. Black voices were amplified as protests surged across the nation.

On June 1, Indiana University’s Department of Theatre, Drama and Contemporary Dance made a statement addressing the nationwide reckoning with race institutions are now undergoing on its Instagram. The statement said the department was committed to creating a safe space for all voices, especially oppressed ones.

A frequent point of criticism is that the statement didn’t go into specifics, including not even using the word “Black.”

“It was vague,” Peter Ruiz, a third-year graduate student in the MFA acting program and diversity representative on the Student Advisory Board, said of the original post. “It was very much a blanket statement.”

Many students in the department took to the comments to criticize the statement. Adrianne Embry was the first to comment on the post.

“I’m not an advocate for the phrase ‘trying,’” Embry said. “I believe that if you’re trying, you don’t want it bad enough.”

Embry, a founder of the university’s Black, Brown and Beige Theatre Troupe, has spoken before about the department’s lack of diversity in race and theater. But speaking out has been hard, she said.

“I’ve been afraid to say something,” she said. “Nobody wants to get blackballed. I care so much about my career.”

Recent MFA playwriting graduate Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin felt disheartened when she first saw the post.

“I don’t think it talks specifically about Black lives and why they matter,” she said. “That

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The cast of “Hamlet” stands on stage Dec. 3, 2019, during the first act in the Ruth N. Halls Theatre. Director Jonathan Michaelsen cast more women than men in this production of “Hamlet.”

was pretty disappointing.”

The backlash led to a follow-up statement posted on June 3 that committed to systemic change.

The follow-up post commits to the following action steps in the 2020-21 academic year: Anti-bias training for faculty and staff, transparency regarding programming, a commitment that 50% of productions in the 2021-22 season will be written by women and/ or artists of color and a review of the curriculum by the Climate Committee will include the concerns of BIPOC artists and scholars.

“We stand in solidarity against these relentless and horrific acts of murder and violence,” the statement said. “Black Lives Matter.

We chose not to remove the original statement because we value your responses, and this is a teachable moment

for us. We recognize that this is not a one-time fix, but an ongoing process of anti-racist interventions that must be central to all that we do.”

The response to the statement was kinder, but members of the community are still skeptical.

“It’s definitely a strong step, but I honestly wish that’s where they started,” Garvin said. “I know students have been raising the idea of anti-bias training with the administration for a while now.”

Ruiz said that the statement was a step, but the department needs to be held accountable to follow through on their promises.

“What does it mean to go beyond 50% and to not just center white voices?” Ruiz asked. “And how do we do that in a way that is ethically responsible?”

They said this situation

isn’t unique to IU. “Here are the issues,” they said. “We’re naming them.

Now we’re finessing how we can actually move beyond that, which is sort of where everyone’s at currently in the theater world.”

The “and/or” in the commitment that 50% of productions in the 2021-22 season will be written by women and/or artists of color was a point of contention.

Garvin said she ran across a tweet that mentioned the phrasing could be meant as white women and people of color.

“That phrase, and the season being composed of women and people of color is not necessarily actually doing anything for women of color or nonbinary people of color,” she said. “I definitely think diversifying the season is a good first step and also making sure that

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the season when it is diverse is equal.”

Embry echoed this sentiment.

“I recognize that women’s voices are not heard as much as they need to be heard on IU’s stages,” she said. “But that wasn’t the issue at hand.

I feel like the 50%, absolutely, should be artists of color.”

As the department moves forward, there is hope that real change can be implemented. Students were optimistic when imagining what the department could look like in the future.

“What it should look like, what it could look like is that diversity and inclusion of all voices becomes cultural, rather than a plan,” Ruiz said. “That’s the move that we want.”

“I think the department can definitely take the steps they’ve already talked about,” Garvin said.

Embry talked about members of the department reaching out to her after her comments on the department’s June 1 post.

“They reached out to me like I’m the one with all the answers,” she said. “And I feel like that’s a trope we put on Black women.”

She likened it to a math teacher walking students through a math problem.

You’ll only retain the information if you do that work for yourself.

“I’m going to use the opportunity to use my voice to advocate for Black students and other students of color,” she said. “But the first step is to realize that I can’t, or other Black women or women of color cannot, hold their hands through all of this.

People are going to have to do that work for themselves.”

This story was originally published July 6, 2020.

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Marching Hundred director named

Jacobs School of Music dean to step down June 30

By Kevin Chrisco kmchrisc@iu.edu | @beatsbykevv

By Kevin Chrisco kmchrisc@iu.edu | @beatsbykevv

Gwyn Richards, the David Henry Jacobs Bicentennial Dean of the Jacobs School of Music, will step down June 30. Richards served as the dean for almost two decades, after being named dean in 2001. He will return as a faculty member of the choral conducting department.

“Dean Richards’ visionary impact on the sensational Jacobs School is already legendary,” Provost Lauren Robel said in a statement.

“His understanding of the uniqueness of the school and its importance to the world of the arts is what has driven his work. Everything he has done as dean has focused on excellence.”

Under Richards’ leadership, the Jacobs School added prominent musicians

like Wolfgang Brendel and Heidi Grant Murphy to the faculty and organized several world Gwyn premiere per- Richards formances.

The school also created many career development, community engagement and educational initiatives during Richards’ tenure.

These initiatives include Project JumpStart and the Fairview Violin Project which provides underserved classrooms with violin instruction.

Jeremy Allen, the Eugene O’Brien Bicentennial Executive Associate Dean of Jacobs, was named interim dean and will begin his tenure July 1.

This story was orginally published May 13, 2020.

Jacobs School of Music associate professor Eric Smedley has been appointed IU’s new director of athletic bands. This position includes leadership of the Marching Hundred, IU’s 300-member marching band.

Smedley is the former chair of the music school’s Department of Bands and the former associate director of the Marching Hundred.

“Eric Smedley is a Jacobs School of Music graduate and an alumnus of the Marching Hundred,” Rodney Dorsey, chair of the bands department, said.

“His tangible connection with the history of the organization and his clear vision for the future will serve our students well.”

Smedley served as a faculty member at Boise State University and Western

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IU Marching Hundred bass drummers play music before a football game against University of Connecticut Sept. 21, 2019, near Assembly Hall. Newlyappointed director of athletic bands Eric Smedley is an alumnus of the Marching Hundred.

Kentucky University before joining the Jacobs faculty in 2011. In addition to serving as an educator, Smedley has conducted in North America, Russia and Japan.

In 2018, his IU Symphonic

Band was selected to perform at the College Band Directors National Association North Central Conference.

Former director of athletic bands, David Woodley, will still serve as a faculty

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This story was orginally published May 19, 2020.

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

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Art gallery to showcase art from protests

By Kevin Chrisco

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The Banneker Community Center is located at 930 W. Seventh St. The community center will partner with the IU Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society to present a virtual art gallery featuring work from recent Enough is Enough protests and events.

kmchrisc@iu.edu | @beatsbykevv

The Banneker Community Center will hold a virtual art gallery featuring work from the recent Enough is Enough protests and events.

The center is asking for posters, flags, masks, written speeches or other artwork that will be photographed and displayed in the virtual gallery. The gallery will be available later this month on the community center website and the group’s Facebook page.

Enough is Enough, a local activist group formed in May after the death of George Floyd, has recently put on protests in Bloomington to protest racial inequities and celebrate Black lives.

Beyond the physical demonstrations, the group wanted to raise funds to contribute to the community and chose the community center because of its contributions to Black and brown residents. Funds were collected from individual attendees that participated in the events. The organization has received over $8,000 in donations so far, according to

its Facebook page.

Erik Pearson, program facility coordinator, said the community center has historically provided support for

Black and Brown families in the community. The center was established as a school for Black students in 1915 and rebuilt into a community cen-

ter in 1954.

“We are a direct response to the wants and needs of underserved residents in Bloomington,” Pearson said.

The community center is partnering with the IU Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society for the digital gallery. Any materials

they receive will be available to the community center to display and vice versa.

“We wanted to provide a visual archive of the protests to amplify those voices,” Pearson said. “We’re recognizing the significance of this moment in time in Bloomington’s history, specifically in the BIPOC community.”

The gallery will be available on Facebook and the community center website later this month.

Artwork can be dropped off this week and next week at the community center from the hours of 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Monday through Friday, or photos can be shared online.

Upon arrival, call 812-3493735, and a staff member will come out to pick up the artwork.

This story was orginally published July 12, 2020.

Cardinal Stage announces 2020 summer-fall programming atre into your lives in new and exciting ways and to provide opportunities for you to create art in the community,” a release from Cardinal Stage said.

The first event is the Social DisDance Party. Cardinal Stage is organizing, an outdoor and socially distanced dance party 7 p.m.

By Kevin Chrisco kmchrisc@iu.edu | @beatsbykevv

Cardinal Stage has announced its upcoming 2020 programming. The summer-fall programming is under the Artistic Adventures banner.

“The goal of this Artistic Adventure is to bring the-

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July 18 at Bryan Park Attendees can participate by learning a choreographed dance that will be performed at the start of the party.

Another program is Play Dates, which is a monthly book club but for theater.

Each month a new play or musical will be read and discussed. Purchasing the

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It’s not a good time to gamble. Find opportunities hiding underneath changes. Consider long-term career potential.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Today is a 7 — Ambiguities and vagueness abound. Aim for clarity with public and social interactions.

Share resources, and let others know what’s needed. Find solutions in your network.

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script is required, and meetings will take place at 7 p.m. the last Wednesday of every month on Zoom.

Additionally, with Cardinal at Home, Cardinal Stage is commissioning playwrights to create multiple short plays that can be performed with family and friends at home. The sug-

gested donation is $5-$10 per play, and the first play will be released in August.

Walkabout Radio Plays features downloadable, original radio plays and companion maps that contribute to the story. The suggested donation is $10-$15 per play.

Also announced was the

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New Play Commission. As a part of Cardinal Stage’s Diversity and Inclusion Commission, it will commission a new play from a rising playwright to be created and developed at Cardinal and set to premiere in the 2022-23 season.

This story was orginally published July 7, 2020.

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Get cooking.

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Avoid distractions or silly arguments over abstractions. Hunt for a lucky break and find one.

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