March 10, 2022

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'An intimidation tactic': How IU intimidated a student pushing a critical open letter

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The Musical Arts Center is seen March 1, 2022, on Eagleson Avenue. A Jacobs School of Music student said he felt the university intimidated him after he was told that an open letter he was involved with could yield student code of conduct violations.

By Cate Charron catcharr@iu.edu | @catecharron

Editor's Note: This story includes mention of sexual assault.

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U student Brendan KellerTuberg said he felt the university intimidated him after he was told that an open letter he was involved with could yield student code of conduct violations.

Keller-Tuberg, a jazz graduate student, had spoken out regarding IU jazz student Chris Parker’s sexual assault allegations and questioned why Parker was allowed back into the school after a suspension violation.

He signed an open letter in opposition to Parker and the university’s handling of the situation and passed it along to other students he thought may be interested. This version of the open letter contained a call for Parker to be

expelled. Keller-Tuberg was neither a writer nor an organizer.

The open letter, which published Feb. 3, was critical of the university’s response and handling of a sexual assault case related to Parker.

IU found Parker responsible for sexual assault in 2016, but Parker later violated his resulting suspension. If he did, he should have been expelled or received police charges, or both, according to a document obtained by the Indiana Daily Student. Neither happened. Parker was readmitted to the university in 2020, and six years later, his continued involvement still affects the Bloomington and IU jazz community.

After university encroachment, Keller-Tuberg said he felt silenced by the potential student code violations that limited his freedom of speech.

He and those involved said they believe this action was

meant to pressure him and other students from speaking out.

In response, he and the only other current student who signed the letter both took their names off in fear of university discipline. ***

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eller-Tuberg said he had no reason to believe the open letter would break any part of the student code of conduct. However, in December 2021, he received an email from Libby Spotts, senior associate dean of student affairs and director and deputy of sexual misconduct & title IX coordinator, mentioning Jeremy Allen, Interim Jacobs School of Music Bicentennial Dean.

“Dean Allen and I have been made aware of an issue regarding interactions with other students and also that you may have information as

a witness about possible violations of the code of conduct,” the email read.

Though the email did not reference a specific allegation or concern, Keller-Tuberg said he knew it was about his opposition to Parker. The email said he was not being charged with a violation, but she and other university officials wanted to talk and “come to a resolution.” He said he wondered if faculty members actually wanted to hear people’s concerns.

In the email, Spotts told him the Office of Student Conduct scheduled a meeting later that week to meet.

Keller-Tuberg emailed back asking for more specific information on what the meeting was about. Spotts responded saying it was regarding a petition and two more administrators would join the meeting.

Though the email tried to reassure he wasn’t in trouble,

he said he was confused and intimidated by what was being alluded to.

Spotts did not respond to the IDS request for comment. ***

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he IDS obtained an audio recording of the meeting. It was in this meeting that Keller-Tuberg alleges university officials intimidated him and said his actions were edging on violating university harassment policies.

It wasn’t expressed to him that he could have another person attend with him until he was told at the start of the meeting.

“If you want to have somebody with you, that's more than okay,” Spotts said in the meeting. “I would just need to know, we'd need to know who's with you and double check that there's no conflict of interest there.”

When Keller-Tuberg

logged onto the Zoom meeting, Spotts told him this was a forum for him to express his concerns as well as for administration to tell him about a part of the student code.

Keller-Tuberg expressed his aforementioned concerns and told them there was another alleged victim in the jazz community. Keller-Tuberg did not tell faculty her identity, but he was referring to Elena Escudero, a jazz alumna who alleges Parker raped her in 2017 and spoke to the IDS in the “Dissonance in due process” investigation. Since Keller-Tuberg has been in Jacobs since 2017, he said he has friends who were directly involved.

No other current students in the program have that experience, he said.

“I was speaking the facts of the article, and nobody was prepared to listen,” Keller-TuSEE CONDUCT, PAGE 9

Local pantries struggle to keep shelves stocked

By Meghana Rachamadugu megracha@iu.edu

Local food pantries are experiencing shortages after the pandemic increased demand and decreased donations.

“We ran out of food for the first time a couple of weeks ago,” Cindy Chavez, the director of Pantry 279, said in an email. “We have come close a few times, but never ran out.”

Chavez said the staff started packing boxes very lightly since the new year because the demand more than doubled during the pandemic, going from serving approximately 3,500 people a month to between 6,000 and 8,000 people a month.

Chavez said more than half of their inventory comes from the Hoosier Hills Food Bank, but a considerable amount also comes from private donations, some cash donations and Midwestern Food Bank contributions.

“No one is safe in this world we are in,” Chavez said in an email. “Rising costs of food, shortages, lack of labor, so many challenges face today's families.”

Recalling the recent shortage, Chavez said the Ellettsville community re-

sponded immediately.

She said that organizations, schools and churches bought several items to donate and sent cash instantly.

“Very much restores your faith in humanity,” Chavez said in an email.

Monroe County United Ministries provides another local food pantry that depends on donations to serve the community. The pantry is open from noon-4 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

Erin Vaughn, MCUM selfsufficiency coach and director, said the pantry mostly runs on donations, but the center will buy food with grant funds when inventory is low.

Clients can come and shop for their groceries and other items such as cleaning supplies and hygiene products once every month, Vaughn said.

“It’s hard to manage because you want to be able to give clients everything you can, but you also may not have the funds to do so,” Vaughn said.

Vaughn said the facility saw more donations around the holiday season and this time of year, because of tax returns.

However, the pandemic

Hinkle-Garton Farmstead will hold Indiana Maple Syrup Weekend on Saturday

By Lexi Lindenmayer lindena@iu.edu | @lexilindenmayer

The Indiana Maple Syrup Association will conduct its annual Indiana Maple Syrup Weekend on Saturday at the Hinkle-Garton Farmstead at 2920 E. Tenth St. The event is free and open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Every spring, Indiana maple syrup producers open up their sugar camps around Indiana for visitors to attend and enjoy. This year, there are 16 sugar camps all across the state, according to the Indiana Maple Syrup Association website.

Guests visiting HinkleGarton Farmstead for the event will be able to tour the

sugaring operations and learn about the process. They can also purchase maple syrup made onsite, maple cream and maple candy, do-ityourself maple tree tapping kits and books about maple syrup.

Inside the farmstead’s main house, visitors can enjoy maple tea and refreshments made with maple syrup. Jams and jellies made on-site by volunteers will also be available to sample and purchase.

The farmstead often hosts exhibits and classes, and it typically offers a museum open day on the last Saturday of the month. The HinkleGarton Farmstead’s event page will post the upcoming activities at the farmstead.

and other external factors like inflation have increased prices and decreased donations, Vaughn said.

“We've run low before but never to the point where we felt like we completely ran out of almost everything, at least not since I've been here,” Vaughn said.

Vaughn said she hopes the staff finds a way to manage this problem of increased need and decreased ability to donate. She said the community is doing the best they can to support the pantry.

“I feel like every time we do put a call out or ask for certain things, especially on our Facebook group, we receive some sort of response,” Vaughn said. “It may not be a lot, but I think people are contributing what they can and that is incredible, especially when they don't have to do that.”

United Ministries now has an online ordering and delivery system to provide food to those in quarantine or homebound for other reasons.

“I can't remember who started it, but I would see people come weekly and stop at this little shelter that we have and contribute,” Marta Hall, the president of

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The empty shelves of Pantry 279 located in Ellettsville are pictured. Pantry 279 recently closed its facility on Feb. 19 for regular services and delivery due to supply issues.

the Bloomington Housing Authority Residents Council, said. “People put food and books and other activities for kids in there, just to help out.”

She said the pantry gets a weekly delivery from Hoosier Health Food Bank on Thursdays and volunteers

help her categorize the groceries into sections.

“We get some donations but not a lot,” Hall said. “Recently, we got a mini food grant, but we haven't been able to utilize it because we don't have transportation to go pick up the food.”

She said having a desig-

nated shuttle for the pantry would help with food pickups and taking residents shopping at healthy grocers and farmers markets for fresher foods.

“Bloomington is such a wonderful town, and I just want people to thrive here,” Hall said.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Indiana loses 74-67 in Big Ten Championship

By Matt Sebree masebr@iu.edu | @mattsebree

Indiana women’s basketball was defeated 74-67

by Iowa in Sunday’s Big Ten Championship game in Indianapolis. The game was close until the final minutes, but by the time the buzzer sounded

and the confetti fell from the Gainbridge Fieldhouse rafters, Iowa had pulled away to secure the conference championship.

The game was incredibly close throughout, with neither team ever leading by more than 7 points. Iowa entered the fourth quarter

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The Indiana bench reacts as time expires against Iowa in the Big Ten Tournament Championship on March 6, 2022, at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. Indiana fell to Iowa 67-74 in the game Sunday.

ahead by just 4 points, but both times Indiana cut Iowa’s lead within a single possession, Iowa quickly answered before Indiana could tie or retake the lead.

Senior center Monika Czinano took over for the Hawkeyes in the fourth quarter. She scored 10 of her 30 total points in the final frame to help her team close out the game. Czinano finished with a doubledouble after pulling down 10 rebounds in the game.

“As far as Czinano goes, she’s one of the best post players in the country for a reason and she’s surrounded by really good players,” senior guard Grace Berger said. “She’s just so good at getting positioning and easy shots that she’s hard to stop.”

Czinano’s play in both

the championship game and throughout the weekend earned her a spot on the Big Ten All-Tournament Team.

She was joined by teammate sophomore guard Caitlin Clark, who scored 18 points and grabbed seven rebounds in the Hawkeyes’ win. Clark was also named the Most Outstanding Player of the tournament by the media.

Despite not being the team’s leading scorer, Clark made her presence known by collapsing Indiana’s defense with drives to the hoop and drawing fouls to put Hoosier players in foul trouble.

That foul trouble plagued Indiana as the game came down to its closing stages.

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NEWS IU Russian community members condemn war in Ukraine

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By Luzane Draughon luzdraug@iu.edu | @luzdraughon

Dmitry Romashov, IU lecturer and Russian citizen, said he felt grief when Russia first attacked Ukraine. He said it’s important the world and Russian leaders hear the voice of Russian citizens like him who are against the war.

He doesn’t know what else he can do.

“I’m not a hero,” he said.

“I’m not a rebel.”

Romashov grew up in Moscow, and while many of his friends and family live in Russia, he has friends in Ukraine too. It’s easy to imagine the situation reversed as Ukraine is so close to Russia culturally, he said.

“Russia has a long history of terror against its own people,” he said. “It is not impossible, in my opinion, that the times of yet another round of terror have come.”

Many people in the Russian community at IU do not agree with its government’s actions.

A lot of citizens in Russia lack a clear understanding of the war due to the massive spread of misinformation and independent media getting blocked, Romashov said. Many people are tired of the aggressive and toxic content they receive, he said.

Romashov said although he’s heard others encourage Russians in the country to protest their leaders’ actions, people are scared.

“I’m very thankful that I’m not there right now,” he said. “I don’t know how I would act.”

Any Russian citizen who expresses a form of disagreement about the war or supports Ukraine humanitarian efforts is considered a traitor in their country, Romashov said. Russia’s parliament passed a law March 4 sentencing those who spread what Russian leadership perceives as false information about the military to up to 15 years of jail time, according to Reuters.

“People feel bound,” he said. “They feel helpless.

They feel that they cannot protest because they have

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Ukrainian national Alla Chebanenko looks on with one of her daughters during a protest on Feb. 25, 2022, at the Sample Gates. Reuters reported Monday that at least 406 civilians have died in Ukraine since the start of the invasion.

their families, children, jobs.”

Romashov said many Russians are facing a moral dilemma about how to support the Ukrainian people without wishing pain or defeat on Russian soldiers.

“The only right way to deescalate this conflict would be to stop the war, and Russia should stop the war,” he said.

Romashov fears Russian leadership may become desperate which would lead to further escalation. He said Russia’s current demands, which include the Ukrainian army surrendering and the annexation of Crimea, are unacceptable. Pacifying a tyrant would set a bad precedent, he said.

“This conflict is very toxic and it’s very dangerous,” he said. “Not only for Ukraine, not only for Russia, not only for Europe, but for all of us.”

Romashov has not been back to Russia since he left in 2015.

“The main reason why I didn’t want to go back was fear,” he said. “My worst concerns and my worst fears are coming true right now.” *** Andrey Yushkov, IU Ph.D. student and Russian citizen, said his family, both inside and outside of Russia, are united against the war in Ukraine.

“We all know that innocent people live there and they suffer dramatically,” he said.

Yushkov is fearful of Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s threats of a nuclear war. He said he hopes Russian officials prevent Putin from taking such action. Yushkov said he thinks the negotia-

tion process is the only way to de-escalate the conflict.

However, every Ukrainian is prepared to fight, he said.

Sanctions could also play a role in de-escalation as Russia is one of the biggest exporters of oil and gas to Western countries, Yushkov said.

Several of Yushkov’s friends, among other young, educated citizens, are leaving Russia because they disagree with the war.

“They cannot tolerate it,” he said. “They don’t want to be associated with this regime, with Putin’s regime.” *** Tatiana Saburova, IU lecturer and Russian citizen, said she first felt shame when she heard about the war. As a Russian historian and citizen, she said she felt

Study shows COVID-19 boosters offer strong protection, effectiveness wanes over time

By Salome Cloteaux scclotea@iu.edu | @salome.c.3

COVID-19 booster shots offer higher levels of protection against serious illness, but their effectiveness wanes over time, according to a study published in February by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The study looked at the number of COVID-19 related visits to hospitals and emergency departments during the Delta and Omicron variant spikes, co-author of the study Shaun Grannis said.

It compared the immunization status of those people to measure the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and boosters over time.

“This is called a realworld evidence analysis, where we’re using the actual data generated in the course of health care to understand what the effectiveness might be now,” Grannis, who is also vice president for data and analytics at the Regenstrief Institute, said.

The goal of the study was to provide data to help people make their own decisions about whether or not they should get the booster, Grannis said.

“This was one of the first studies to provide evidence

to support the claim and support the rationale for getting the booster,” Grannis said.

The study was done by a coalition of 10 sites led by the CDC, Grannis said. IU and the Regenstrief Institute were one of the 10 sites. The study involved monitoring more than 400,000 people, study co-author Brian Dixon said.

The study found during the Omicron period, vaccines after receiving two doses were 71% effective, and after a third dose they were 91% effective.

During the Delta period, the study found vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 related hospital visits was at 96% for the first two months after receiving a booster vaccine, but dropped to 76% after four months since receiving the booster.

A similar decrease in effectiveness over time occurred during the Omicron period, when vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 related hospital visits was at 91% for the first two months after a third dose but dropped to 78% after four months.

People become more susceptible to getting the virus and experiencing severe

symptoms over time after receiving the vaccine, Dixon, who is also the director of public health informatics at the Regenstrief Institute, said.

“Being vaccinated is better than not being vaccinated, but we did see what we call waning immunity,” Dixon said.

Dixon said he encourages people to get a booster even though hospitalization rates are decreasing. He thinks there could be more variants and subsequent boosters in the future.

“Because we’re seeing waning immunity, this does open the possibility of a fourth dose,” Dixon said.

“What we’re likely to see is we’re going to move toward

probably annual boosters of the vaccines.”

Thomas Duszynski, epidemiology education director at the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, said he is not surprised about the waning effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and boosters. He said there are boosters for other illnesses like measles and mumps.

Duszynski said he hopes COVID-19 will get to an endemic stage and people will receive annual COVID-19 shots, like the flu.

“I don’t think we’re there yet,” Duszynski said. “We just have to be hopeful and hold our breath a little bit to see what the virus is going to do next.”

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Then-junior Bryce Asher receives a COVID-19 vaccination April 12, 2021, at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention proved the COVID-19 booster shots provides protection, but its effectiveness decreases over time.

Thrive campaign declared winner of IUSG election

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The IU Student Government office is located in the Student Activities Tower of the Indiana Memorial Union. The Thrive ticket received 1,289 votes while the Unite ticket received 786 votes in the IUSG presidential and vice presidential election.

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The Thrive campaign won the IU Student Government presidential and vice-presidential election, according to preliminary results from the IUSG Election Commission on Thursday morning.

Voting began at 10 a.m.

Tuesday and closed 10 p.m.

Wednesday. According to the IUSG Election Commission, Thrive received 1,289 votes while the Unite ticket received 786 votes. This means Thrive commanded

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sia right now, because it’s really suppressed,” she said.

Saburova’s daughter lives with her in the United States.

Her parents in Russia are having a more difficult time understanding the war because for most of their lives Ukraine was a part of the Soviet Union. Her daughter speaks with them daily and offers them sources to help understand the war, Saburova said.

Saburova said her main concern is stopping the war and the suffering of the Ukrainian people who are hurt, dying and fleeing their homes.

“It’s a human tragedy in Ukraine,” she said. “We definitely stand with Ukraine, not with Russia at this war, because it’s impossible in any way to defend this war, or to justify this war. It’s unprovoked.”

a responsibility to prevent the war.

A global war can be easily started by one conflict, Saburova said. She said NATO and the U.S. administration are careful with their involvement because they don’t want to start a nuclear war.

“If you have a nuclear war, that’s probably the last war on the planet,” she said.

Saburova said she admires the Ukrainian people’s bravery in defending their country. Many Russian people support Ukraine and are demanding the end of the war, she said.

“It’s important to understand that we don’t have mass protests in Russia now, not because the Russian people support this war, but because it’s really hard to make any mass protest, any anti-war movement in Rus-

62.12% of the total 2,075 votes cast in the election.

The Thrive ticket features two sophomores: preliminary president Kyle Seibert and preliminary vice president Bell Pastore. Seibert currently serves as a resident assistant, while Pastore is a co-director of the IUSG FirstYear Internship Program.

The election results now must be certified by the IUSG Supreme Court. According to the IUSG Bylaws, the deadline to file complaints is 48 hours after polls close, meaning 10 p.m. Friday.

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DA’NASIA DID IT

The anti-lynching bill in the U.S. House of Representatives is long overdue

By Da’Nasia Pruitt pruittd@iu.edu | @danasialp

Editor’s Note: This story includes mention of violence.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Feb. 28 to make lynching a federal hate crime.

The bill’s full title is “Emmett Till Antilynching Act.” It’s named after Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy who was lynched in Mississippi after being falsely accused of flirting with a white woman.

After the incident, Till was kidnapped by family members of the woman who accused him. They brutally tortured and mutilated him and threw him into the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi. Till was beaten to the point where he was unrecognizable.

Till’s death, the acquittal of his murderers, and the national outcry for justice essentially was the surge which developed into the Civil Rights movement.

Decades later, there were still several stories like Till’s.

This bill is long overdue.

Lynchings, which mostly occurred in the southern region of the United States during the 19th and 20th

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centuries, were often perpetrated by white mobs to terrorize and instill fear in Black people.

These lynchings were essentially public entertainment for crowds of white people to watch Black people get tortured and murdered.

Other people of color were victims of lynching and even some white people who attempted to aid Black people. However, Black people made up about onefourth of lynching victims.

There have been over 200 failed attempts since 1918 to approve legislation which

would make lynching illegal, according to the Washington Post.

This century-long battle to outlaw lynching signifies the United States’ vile participation in anti-Black violence and negligence of Black people.

While the bill is long

overdue, there are still people who want to see it fail.

Three Republicans voted against the bill even though the bill itself was sponsored by both major parties.

No matter how much the country seems to progress, there are still people who would rather see it stay stag-

nant for the preservation of whiteness. The preservation of whiteness is what essentially allowed lynching to not be outlawed for all these years.

To most, it may seem as if lynchings aren’t happening during the 21st century.

They are still happening but are oftentimes unreported and called by other names.

There have been several modern-day lynchings of Black men within the past 10 years, one of them being Ahmaud Arbery.

Arbery was followed by three white men in a truck on a jog. The men shot and killed him during a confrontation. Recently, the three men were found guilty of federal hate crimes based on their history of racial bias.

Once the anti-lynching bill becomes a law, the hate crime will hold up to a maximum of 30 years in prison, according to the bill’s text.

Black people have waited for generations for the country to finally acknowledge the harm of lynchings.

While the bill will not and cannot make up for the centuries worth of terror inflicted on Black people, it may be a start in ensuring people are in some way held accountable for their crimes.

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Moving on isn’t always such a bad thing

By Amani Gates amagates@iu.edu | @amani_gates

The loss of a friendship or a relationship feels terrible. When you’re constantly surrounding yourself with someone, you create a bond and remain hopeful that the person is in your life forever.

I remember when I met my first “real” best friend.

We went to the same grade school and were in Girl Scouts together.

Our friendship continued to grow throughout Girl Scouts.

We spent literally every day together. Whether it was on the weekend — when we had our troop meetings — or at school, we were always together.

Inseparable.

It wasn’t until middle school that I started to notice we were growing apart.

As scary as middle school was, we were trying to figure out where we fit in.

We stopped doing Girl Scouts, because, back then, it was considered lame to still be in it. So, we found other extracurricular activ-

ities to get involved in.

We would always speak to each other when we were in passing periods.

But that didn’t last.

Once we went to different high schools, our friendship really started to fade. Because of distance, we had lost our connection to each other.

Although we followed each other on social media, once we began to make new friends, we really started growing apart.

It took me a while to realize it, but growing apart isn’t a bad thing. In fact, I’m glad we did. When life happens, and we start figuring ourselves out, it’s natural to grow out of things.

Just like we grow out of our old shoes and clothes, we grow out of people — as harsh as it may seem.

Being separated from someone that you spent so much time with, you have to adjust to their absence.

The feeling of sadness and anger overwhelms you because of how you wish things were different.

As our friendship ended, I often look back at

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what we could’ve done differently to prevent certain things from happening, regardless of whether we wanted it to end or not.

Should I have worded what I said better?

Maybe I should have done X, Y and Z. But we are human. We make mistakes and have our faults. It’s what you choose to do after that really matters.

I learned to allow myself

to grieve an ending. Afterward, I take time to reflect on how I can do better in future situations, move on and look forward to new and better things coming my way.

Some of the future relationships I will form are either meant to be for a reason, season or a lifetime.

It is up to me to figure out which category they belong in.

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Black Student Union focuses on the best interest of Black students on campus

The state of Georgia honors the life of Ahmaud Arbery

By Garrett Simms gasimms@iu.edu | @garrett_simms22

The Black Student Union is a safe haven for Black students trying to find more opportunities to get involved at IU. It can be hard to find Black faces and make connections on campus and BSU helps bridge this gap by getting students more involved.

BSU President and IU senior, Ariyonna Cousins, and political action chair and IU junior, Tateana Cutter, talked about the important work BSU does to look out for the best interest of Black students on campus every year.

This year, Cousins focused on improving the mental health of all Black students on campus, no matter their situation. She has given Black students on campus a space to be comfortable in their skin and gain fellowship. Cousins talked about these initiatives in an interview with the Indiana Daily Student last semester.

“Our main initiative is focusing on mental health in the Black community,” Cousins said in the interview. “For students returning to campus after being in their rooms, first-generation students, and just being a

Black student who saw the Black Lives Matter protest happening in the summer, we want to focus on fellowship.”

In the last week, BSU hosted events on campus to bring those plans to fruition.

The events included a Black history three-course dinner for invited members of BSU where the history of the dish was given in each course.

There was also a trap and paint event where students were able to paint and listen to trap music.

Cousins said the turnout for BSU events has been higher this year than before.

The first year back to mostly in-person classes after a shaky year due to the pandemic could be a possible reason for students wanting to get more active on campus.

Cousins has been a part of BSU since her freshman year at IU and has seen it progress over time. She hopes BSU continues to create programs and events to bring Black students on campus together after she graduates this semester. One role she wants to be created in BSU permanently is a health and wellness chair to make the work done with mental health available all the time.

Cousins said BSU has allowed her to become more of an effective leader and bring her out of her shell.

Tateana Cutter knows about the opportunities BSU provides. She comes from a small mostly white town in Indiana and knew once she came to IU she wanted to be active in the Black community. She liked a lot of the positive things she saw BSU doing her freshman year and decided to join.

“I’m incredibly passionate about aiding Black women and members of the LGBTQ community,” Cutter said.

Now as the political action chair, Cutter informs the BSU board and members on political initiatives and problems on campus, the city of Bloomington and in the state. She also works to promote political activism and engagement for the Black community on campus.

In her senior year, Cutter wants to actively facilitate and bring more awareness to women and LGBTQ growth within BSU. “Next year I would love to facilitate more events focused on how the organization can better advocate and provide resources for Black women and LGBTQ students,” she said.

By Thursday Currence tcurrenc@iu.edu

Editor’s Note: This story includes mention of violence.

In the state of Georgia, Feb. 23 will now officially be recognized as Ahmaud Arbery Day. This date also marks Arbery’s death date.

Arbery was only 25 years old when he was violently killed in the suburban town of Brunswick, GA. On Feb. 22, 2022, the three men responsible for Arbery’s death were all charged with a hate crime for the murder, among other charges. The jury decided after just one day of deliberating. The conviction came a day before the second anniversary of Arbery’s murder.

The conviction of Arbery’s murderers finally gave the Black community a small but significant sense of consolation.

To commemorate Arbery, the Georgia House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring Arbery and urging people to jog 2.23 miles annually to advocate for racial equality.

The first-ever Ahmaud Arbery Day was celebrat-

ed with a ceremony in downtown Atlanta at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. The day honoring Arbery was a thoughtful gesture from the state. Arbery’s family fought hard for their loved ones’ justice.

Arbery’s family has also honored him with the Ahmaud Arbery Foundation.

Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, announced at his ceremony the foundation will be giving out six scholarships in his honor. Both of Arbery’s parents Wanda CooperJones and Marcus Arbery said their family’s fight for justice was a tough one. Cooper-Jones refused to accept anything but a guilty conviction even though the courts tried to convince her to be content with her son’s murderers accepting a plea deal.

This victorious case for the Arbery family has not been a common outcome for Black families in similar situations. The guilty conviction took a lot of fight from Arbery’s family, but eventually, the state of Georgia did its duty in the court of law.

It’s time for other states and court systems to follow suit and not be com-

placent in the face of racism.

In recent years it has been brought to attention that the United States and its court systems have failed Black victims of senseless hate crimes tremendously. Kentucky failed Breonna Taylor, her family and her loved ones.

Illinois did the same to Laquan McDonald, and the list goes on.

The beauty of Ahmaud Arbery Day is remembering him as an active young man with a bright future and not just another Black person who was killed for simply existing. Arbery was an athlete, a kind friend, a brother and a son.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Berger picked up her fourth foul early in the fourth quarter, but did not immediately exit the game because she led Indiana in scoring and kept her team in the game offensively.

When she fouled out in the final minute, she had a teamhigh 20 points.

Junior forward Mackenzie Holmes also struggled with foul trouble on Sunday.

She never fouled out, but she picked up her fourth foul in the third quarter and had to

adjust her defensive intensity for the rest of the game. Because Holmes had the responsibility of guarding Czinano most of the time, Czinano took advantage of her Indiana counterpart’s cautious defending late.

In addition to its foul trouble, Indiana struggled shooting the ball at every level. The Hoosiers shot only 38% from the floor compared to Iowa’s 50% mark and only 21% from 3-point range. As a result, In-

diana finished with 11 more shot attempts than Iowa but made three less. “(We) didn’t shoot the ball particularly well today,” head coach Teri Moren said.

“Whether it was a little bit of fatigue and tired legs, I’m not sure. We got some really good looks that didn’t go down for us. And sometimes that just happens in a game.”

Berger and graduate student guard Nicole CardañoHillary joined Czinano and

Clark on the All-Tournament Team. The play of both players helped lead the Hoosiers throughout the weekend with consistent scoring and strong defense.

In Sunday’s championship game, Cardaño-Hillary filled up the stat sheet. She scored 19 points, grabbed seven rebounds, dished out three assists, snatched four steals and recorded two blocks, all while guarding the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player,

Clark. “(Cardaño-Hillary) did a tremendous job on Clark today. She held her at bay,” Moren said. “I think she made her uncomfortable for most of the 40 minutes. But we had no answer for Czinano.”

Sunday’s matchup marked Indiana’s second-ever appearance in the conference title game after having won the tournament in 2002. With the loss, Indiana enters the NCAA Tournament with a 22-8 re-

cord.

Despite the loss, Indiana has put itself in a position to have Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall serve as a likely host site in the first two rounds of the tournament, a goal Moren has talked about achieving throughout the season.

Indiana will wait until next Sunday to see what seed it gets in the tournament. The selection show will take place at 8 p.m. and will be televised on ESPN.

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OPINION

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Editors Natalie Gabor, Curren Gauss opinion@idsnews.com

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SEAN’S SYNOPSIS

Parents needs to stop forcing their kids into college Sean Gilley (he/him) is a senior studying political science and economics with a certificate in informatics.

I’m sure I’m not the only student who wasn’t truly given much of a choice when planning for the four years following high school graduation. From early in my teens, my parents instilled the plan of attending college.

In their minds, there was no alternative path for me.

I don’t want to sound ungrateful. My parents encouraged me to pursue this path because they truly believed college to be in my best interest and I appreciate it. In my time here, I’ve made some lifelong friends, encountered great opportunities which allowed me to explore some latent interests and given me experiences that I will not soon forget.

However, through my studies and other experiences while enrolled, I have also had the opportunity to see the broader landscape of the college experience, not only through the eyes of a student, but from a more analytical perspective as well.

I study political science

and economics, and within these disciplines I focus on the statistical and computational aspects of understanding complex social and political issues. Basically, I spend the majority of my week looking at long data sets and formulating them into graphs.

One area we have focused on specifically in my economics class is post-graduate annual earnings.

To give you a quick run down, this data was gathered from the Education Data Initiative and the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

While the average starting salary for a college graduate with a bachelor’s degree has not varied, the cost of attendance and the subsequent student loan debt these graduates incur has skyrocketed. The average starting salary for graduates has even dropped 5.7% from 1970 to 2020 while the average cost of tuition has increased 283% and average student loan debt has also shot up by 322%.

The bottom line? The average college graduate is not the commodity they once were. If you do a simple com-

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parison between the investment college requires with the expected starting salary, it’s clear that employers don’t value a college degree as much as they did previously.

Many of my friends are double majoring, going into graduate school or completing supplemental certification just to stay competitive.

One of my friends is even triple majoring with four minors and planning on going

to law school later this fall.

Coupled with the climbing rates of student depression and anxiety, students are faltering under the current stress of keeping up with school, not to mention learning throughout a global pandemic, climate crisis and now increased international relation turmoil.

So what needs to change?

A lot, but it’s complicated.

Given the current U.S. political landscape and

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presidential administration, hopes of our government canceling or even alleviating chunks of federal student loan debt are higher than they have been in recent decades. Even though it may not seem like President Joe Biden has adequately addressed the issue within his first year in office, he is still able to ask Congress to push a bill through or institute the change himself via an executive order.

This could be a while though, so until then parents need to take a step back, assess the current landscape and have an honest conversation with their children.

Stop coercing them into believing college is the only path to a financially fruitful future.

Yes, your generation may have been able to “work your way through college,” but if you paid more attention in your undergraduate microeconomics class, you would understand the true financial strain of attaining a bachelor’s degree in today’s economy. It’s cool that you were able to pay for college working a fast-food job, but now most individuals can’t even support themselves doing the same. Times change, and so must we.

Parents need to get out of the way and understand that what may have worked for them may not work the same for their children. They need to keep an open mind and not reject any option outright until thoroughly considering its potential benefit for their child. spgilley@iu.edu

THE VALADEZ VIEW

Trans people aren’t new, and they aren’t Having no opinion on current events is going anywhere better than having an uninformed one Jared Quigg (he/him) is a sophomore studying journalism and political science

German physician Magnus Hirschfeld founded the Institute of Sexology, a research space for human sexuality studies, in 1919. It was one of the first medical facilities to perform gender affirmation surgeries for transgender people, and it collected a copious amount of research on LGBTQ community members — transgender people even worked on the staff.

But in 1933, the Nazis shut down the institute, burning more than 20,000 books they took from its shelves. The LGBTQ community was relentlessly persecuted in the ensuing Holocaust.

The persecution of trans people in the United States is not yet, and hopefully never becomes comparable to Nazi crimes, but we should take steps to make sure we don’t move in that direction. But in Florida, the “Don’t Say Gay” bill seeks to effectively eliminate LGBTQ topics in education. While not as extreme as book burning, it serves the same purpose: the concealment of information some don’t like.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott instructed state agencies to investigate families who provide gender-affirming treatments to their children, calling it “child abuse.” Most lawmakers in Florida and Texas don’t want children to transition or even learn about transitioning.

Georgia Republican House candidate Mitchell Swan called for a reinstatement of Donald Trump’s transgender military ban

last week. He said allowing trans people to serve in the military sends a message to our adversaries that “we are more focused on social experimentation than on the defense of our nation.”

Social experimentation.

This is what happens when transgender history is not widely taught in schools: it leads to the bigoted notion that being a transgender person is simply a trend, an experiment that can be legislated out of existence.

Rejection of binary gender norms is not an American social experiment, but something that’s occurred throughout the world for thousands of years.

For example, ancient Hindu texts refer to a group of people called hijras, who are neither male nor female. Today, they are legally recognized as a third gender in India. Some hijras identify as transgender, but many do not and consider themselves something entirely different. Regardless, they exist outside of rigid, repressive gender binaries.

When the British colonized India in the 19th century, hijras were persecuted. The British named them criminals in 1871, declaring they were against nature.

Traces of hijra persecution as a result of colonization can still be found in India today.

The same can be said of Two-Spirit, an umbrella term used to describe indigenous people from various tribes who are said to have both a masculine and feminine spirit. Two-Spirit people were historically involved in masculine roles such as battling as well as those usually assigned to women such as weaving.

Two-Spirit and transgender people are not the same thing, but both defy the notion gender is binary and biologically determined.

When North America was colonized, Two-Spirit people were demonized.

The colonists couldn’t conceive such understandings of gender, and so they tried to eliminate it. They failed.

Even in our precious “western culture,” trans people have a long history.

Ancient Rome was once ruled by Elagabalus, who was assigned male at birth but dressed as a woman, had male lovers and always referred to herself as a woman. Historians have interpreted Elagabalus to be a trans woman, but constantly refer to her as “emperor.” I hope in the future this error is corrected.

Reactionaries who uphold the “supremacy” of the West always ignore facts like these. How embarrassing it must be for them!

They despise trans people yet praise an empire ruled by them.

To summarize, trans people have always existed and will continue to exist.

Conservative efforts to suppress them will fail — and they should. Trans people are human beings, and their history is ours, too. Though some might try to deny the existence of trans history by dismissing trans identity as a “social experiment,” they are nothing more than uninformed bigots.

Every historical effort to destroy trans people has failed, and it will fail in the U.S. as well. A pleasure it will be to help that failure along. jaquigg@iu.edu

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Elizabeth Valadez (she/her) is a freshman studying English and political science.

Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 Eastern European Standard Time, and, as per usual, Twitter went crazy.

Suddenly, everyone was either an expert on international relations or was spreading false narratives about the conflict — especially those extremely distanced from it.

One Ukraine native took to Twitter to criticize the people who were “coping” with the thought of World War III while others’ lives were and are still in danger.

Unfortunately, this critique of the chaos that ensues in times of international crisis is rather uncommon. While concern is valid, uncontrollably sharing uninformed opinions isn’t.

It’s easy to feel like we need to have an opinion on everything, whether we’re young adults in higher education or have years of life experience.

But, we don’t have to — especially if that opinion is unknowledgeable.

I understand the desire to have an opinion. When something important such as the war in Ukraine or COVID-19 comes up in conversation, it’s normal to want to be able to relate to other opinions. When

it’s what everyone on campus is talking about, we want to fit in.

But when these opinions are uninformed, it does more harm than good. An ignorant opinion is dangerous and can be the product of misinformation, disinformation or it can be completely conspiratorial.

Though it’s possible the person who holds the uneducated perspective is unaware of its falsehood, that doesn’t stop its propensity to go viral.

Psychologically, misinformation is more attractive because it’s something people wanted to believe in the first place.

A falsehood can spread from person to person, creating an echochamber of sorts.

In a digital space, it can be even more harmful. These distortions are 70% more likely to be retweeted and spread six times faster.

Releasing ourselves from these echo chambers seems difficult, but I’d argue the solution is quite simple. If you don’t have something informative to share, don’t share anything. If you aren’t spreading awareness, don’t spread anything.

In our day-to-day lives, it’s easy to not think twice about the information we’re consuming. But in a matter of a few seconds, we can see a seemingly informative post

about how to help Ukraine and add it to our story for all of our followers to see. We can see an intriguing Tweet about mask mandates and retweet it. We can hear something in passing and tell the next person we see about it.

Though none of these actions are inherently bad, they aren’t always the most thought out. The fact of the matter is if we don’t know what we’re talking about, then we don’t need to talk.

If you want to be involved, do research. Running a factcheck and doing a bit of digging before you share something to your feed is so simple.

The share button is a click away, but so is the Google search bar.

International crises are already chaotic enough. Those immediately affected have enough information to sift through. Sometimes the best thing the average person can do is simply spread awareness.

If you’re not an epidemiologist, don’t act like one regarding COVID-19. If you’re not a political scientist, don’t act like one when it comes to the Russian invasion. Stay as informed as you can but understand that it’s OK to not know it all. elivalad@iu.edu

OLIVIA’S OUTLOOK

Your pronouns aren’t shameful Olivia Franklin (she/her) is a junior studying journalism with a minor in political science.

When I came to IU, I never had been asked what my pronouns were, but I didn’t take it as an insult and answered appropriately.

Over the last few years, many people have started putting their pronouns in their social media bios. I have transgender friends who asked me to publicize my pronouns because for them, it helps social media become a safe space so the world can feel a little more inclusive.

To some, being asked their pronouns is just a question they answer and move on. For others, it means the world to know someone would take the time to refer to them as they are. Although I have never personally felt this way,

I know a lot of people who go by different pronouns than what they were given at birth.

Putting your pronouns in your social media bio is a harmless thing everyone should do, unless you are unsure about yours or are not out to the bulk of your followers.

The movement likely gained traction through transgender and nonbinary people asking cisgender LGBTQ people and allies to put their pronouns in their bios. It initially protected trans people, as one way to target them was to look for people whose pronouns were different from their gender assigned at birth.

Freshman Noah Fears said it is something people do out of kindness, but it is not a requirement.

“I don’t require it of my friends, my friends just do it,”

Fears said. “I don’t necessarily look down on people that don’t, but it could be a sign that maybe I wouldn’t want to associate with that person.”

Recently, I have noticed more teachers asking students their pronouns on the first day of class or to put their pronouns on Canvas. When we started classes in fall 2020, I first noticed people putting their pronouns next to their names on Zoom. Fears said for them, doing this depends on what type of class it is.

“If it’s an (economics) class, I am not necessarily going to promote that because I don’t know how safe of an environment it is,” they said.

“Another class I took, ‘Race, Gender and Class,’ people in there should already be somewhat aware of it so it feels like a safer place. It just depends on the environment

I’m going into.”

Fears discussed the safety aspect of teachers asking students what pronouns they use.

“When you ask someone their pronouns, you also have to make sure ‘Is it safe to use this in all contexts?’” Fears said. “‘Should I just use it with people who are close to me who would get it or is it okay if I do this in public?’”

There is definitely a generational gap regarding pronouns. My writer bio has my pronouns, and when I send my articles to family members, they would ask me why I have them there. Not all older people are against it, but some just don’t understand why it is something people do now. If one of your family members asks you about it, explain it to them.

If you are someone who

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does not have their pronouns in their social media bios, consider adding them. If that is something you are not comfortable with, try to be a good ally in other ways. If I could take anything away from

learning about this issue, it is that having pronouns on your social media is important — it means a lot when people see it there. orfrankl@iu.edu

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SPORTS

March 10, 2022 idsnews.com

Editors Amanda Foster, Kamil Gut sports@idsnews.com

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Indiana has everything to play for in NCAA Tournament

By Amanda Foster amakfost@iu.edu | @amandafoster_15

Head coach Teri Moren struck an optimistic tone in her opening statement to the press, despite Indiana women’s basketball’s 74-67 loss to No. 2-seed Iowa in the Big Ten Championship on Sunday.

“You want to peak in March,” she said.

The final score is not a representation of the way the game was played, as Iowa never had a lead larger than 7 points and Indiana held the lead for almost 10 minutes. The third matchup of the season between the Hoosiers and Hawkeyes featured on-brand physicality and aggressiveness, but was uncharacteristically lowscoring compared to the two regular-season contests.

The Hawkeyes entered Sunday’s game averaging 85 points per game with 7.5 made 3-pointers, but went below those totals with 74 points and a 2-14 mark from beyond the arc against the Hoosiers.

Sophomore guard Caitlin Clark, who averages 28 points and three 3-pointers per game, scored 18 points and went 1-7 from 3-point range for the Hawkeyes. “(Nicole) did a tremendous job on Clark today,” Moren said of graduate student guard Nicole CardañoHillary’s defense. “She held her at bay (and) made her uncomfortable.”

While the mood surrounding the Hoosiers after the game was clearly somber, there was an even clearer mindset present — they have much to be proud of, and the season is not over yet.

In making it all the way to the conference title game, Indiana effectively solidified a spot to play its first-round matchup of the NCAA Tournament in Bloomington.

While being in the tournament was already guaran-

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Senior guard Grace Berger shoots as the shot clock runs down in the Big Ten Tournament Championship on March 6, 2022, at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. Berger had 20 points in the loss to Iowa on Sunday.

teed, sitting as one of the No. 4 seeds or higher puts Indiana in an even more favorable position to make another Elite Eight run or better.

Playing in front of one’s home crowd can never be overlooked, and it showed in Indiana’s Big Ten Tournament run. In Gainbridge Fieldhouse, the site for the tournament, the team was surrounded by fans who made the hour-long trip from Bloomington to Indianapolis for the four days of play.

“It’s really special for us to see how excited people are about Indiana women’s basketball,” senior guard Grace Berger said. “It really means a lot for us, and we hope that they’re here for us when we

host (games in) the NCAA tournament.”

In the final two weeks of regular-season play, there was no definitive answer as to whether the Hoosiers would play any postseason games in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. They lost four of their five final regular season games and seemed to be in a skid entering the Big Ten Tournament.

“The stretch was hard,” Moren said. “You’re playing five games in 10 days. You’re traveling, you do four oneday preps. That’s hard.”

Then, Indiana stepped up to the occasion demanded of national championship contenders in the month of March and played four

games in four days, winning three.

The Indiana team that took to the floor in all four games of the Big Ten Tournament was reminiscent of the team fans saw in the first half of the season — one that didn’t lose a game in the entire month of December.

“I’m not surprised that we came to Indy with a new, fresh perspective (and) a new feel,” Moren said. “This is a new season for us.”

The Hoosiers competed with the Hawkeyes for the entirety of Sunday’s title game, but were bogged down by missed shots and foul calls in the closing stages. The Hoosiers finished shooting 38% from the field, and Berger

fouled out of the game with 50 seconds remaining.

Despite Indiana’s inability to close out in the final minutes and bring home its first Big Ten Tournament title since 2002, Berger said fatigue didn’t play a factor in the result.

“We’re in better shape than any team in the country,” Berger said.

Indiana has maintained a “24-hour-feel-bad” policy throughout the season after losses before regrouping and preparing for future games.

The team will have a week between the title game and Selection Sunday, on March 13, when seeding for the NCAA Tournament will be announced.

The Hoosiers likely won’t play in the tournament’s first round until Friday, March 18, giving the team plenty of time to rest and regroup.

Moren said the players will take one or two days off before getting back to work, with a focus on getting junior forward Mackenzie Holmes back to top shape in her continued recovery from a knee injury.

But the biggest thing Moren will emphasize to her players is to keep their heads and hopes high.

“Obviously they’re going to be disappointed, but we’re never going to be discouraged,” Moren said. “I know this: they’re one of the best teams in the country.”

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Indiana wins first series of Explosive performance sparks the year with 2-1 weekend Indiana in weekend sweep

By Will Foley wtfoley@iu.edu | @foles24

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Freshman catcher Brock Tibbitts celebrates as he touches home after hitting a home run against Miami University on March 1, 2022, at Bart Kaufman Field. Indiana beat Missouri State on March 6 10-4 in Springfield, Missouri.

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Coming off a home-opening day win against Miami University on Tuesday, Indiana baseball traveled to the Queen City to face Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri, in a threegame series over the weekend.

The Hoosiers dropped the opening game against the Bears on Friday, but turned around the series with improved batting to win the final two games of the series on Saturday and Sunday.

In Friday’s opener, Indiana freshman Josh Pyne hit a double with the bases loaded in the second inning to give the team an early two-run lead. Later in the same inning, graduate student Tyler Doanes grounded out into a fielder’s choice to bring home the Hoosiers’ third run.

Indiana scratched two more runs across before the fifth inning, with Bobby Whalen scoring on a double play by Morgan Colopy in the third and a misplayed ball by the Missouri State infield in the fourth. The Hoosiers seemed to be in control of the first game, but the Bears strung together seven runs in the fifth inning to steal the lead.

A three-run home run by Missouri State junior Mason Greer cut Indiana’s lead to two, and a bases-loaded RBI single followed by a walk helped the Bears tie the game at 5-5. Senior Mason Hull then broke the deadlock with a two-run single, handing the Bears a lead they wouldn’t give back.

Indiana continued to leave runners on base, stranding seven teammates en route to the 9-7 loss Friday.

Although the Hoosiers dropped the first game of the series, their bats stayed hot for the rest of the weekend.

In Saturday’s game, the team scored 12 runs to tie the series at 1-1.

Indiana’s comeback effort in the series came through another dominant first inning on Saturday. The Hoosiers drove in five runs in the first inning and two in the second to jump ahead 7-0.

Ellis led Indiana with seven RBIs in the second game.

Freshman Brock Tibbitts led the Hoosiers in hits, finishing 4-for-5 at the plate for a quarter of the team’s 16 total hits, the most in a single game this season. Missouri State only recorded four hits on the night alongside three errors.

Head coach Jeff Mercer said he was happy with the approach the Hoosiers had at the plate in their win Sat-

urday.

“The ability to have a long at bat, the ability to work into a court that we can manage is great, but we also be aggressive with pitches that we can hit,” Mercer said. “The guys did an awesome job competing, extending at bats and (putting balls) in play.”

Senior Bradley Brehmer, who transferred over from Wright State University in the offseason, started his first game as a Hoosier in Sunday’s series-clinching victory. Brehmer earned his first win of the season after a six-inning, three-earned runs performance.

Indiana’s offense didn’t let Brehmer’s debut go to waste, scoring 10 runs to secure its first series victory of the season. The Hoosiers’ bats gave Brehmer a big lead to work with from the start, scoring six runs in the first inning.

The key to Indiana’s success over the weekend were fast starts, as the team scored 11 combined runs in the first inning between the final two games of the series.

The Hoosiers brought in 31 runs over the three-day span. Next, the Hoosiers will face the University of Cincinnati and Purdue University Fort Wayne on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, for a two-game home stand in Bloomington.

Indiana softball took part in the Hoosier Classic in Bloomington this weekend, sweeping its four contests against Valparaiso University and Western Illinois University. Junior transfer Cora Bassett played a big role in doing so, managing nine hits in twelve plate appearances, earning six RBIs and crushing two home runs.

Indiana’s weekend started Friday afternoon against Valparaiso, and Indiana found itself down early.

Down 2-0 in the first inning, Bassett got herself on base and was later brought home off a Grayson Radcliffe single. This was one of four times Bassett made her way around the bases for a run in the game, and her three stolen bases set her teammates up to bring her home from scoring positions.

“I hope as a leadoff I can start the game off strong for everyone and get that spark started,” Bassett said of her hitting success. “I’m just happy I can do whatever I can for this team.”

Going 3-3 from the plate and drawing a walk, Bas-

sett’s RBI single in the 6th inning gave the Hoosiers a 6-4 lead they wouldn’t look back on. Bassett came around to score again, and Brittany Ford added a 2-run home run to give Indiana the deciding score of 9-4.

The second game Friday against Western Illinois proved to be more of the same. Bassett hit 2-2, drew a walk and knocked in two runs in the 5th inning in a 7-1 Indiana win.

Another matchup against WIU on Saturday morning may have been Bassett’s best of both the weekend and the season.

From the leadoff position, she crushed a first-inning home run to deep center field to give Indiana a 1-0 start just a few pitches in. In her next plate appearance, with Kinsey Mitchell on base, Bassett did it again in the same spot and with the same power. The two home runs were the sole hits for Indiana the entire game, but they proved to be enough as Indiana held on for a 3-1 win.

“I don’t really ever think about hitting a home run when I’m at the plate,” Bassett said. “I mean if it hap-

pens, it happens, and it was awesome.”

Bassett capped off her stellar weekend by going 2-4 from the plate and scoring a run in a 9-0 win over Valparaiso. She set season highs in several categories both offensively and defensively, as her glove proved to be just as effective as her bat.

“She sets the tone at the top of the lineup and did a great job going yard and swiping bags,” Indiana head coach Shonda Stanton said.

“For her it’s just a mindset, and that’s what I want the rest of our hitters to learn.”

After the weekend, Bassett is up to 17 hits in 38 plate appearances for a batting average of .447 on the season. She has 10 RBIs, five doubles, five home runs, seven stolen bases and only three strikeouts.

Through 13 games Bassett leads the team in onbase plus slugging (1.506), runs scored (17), hits (17), doubles (5), home runs (5), slugging percentage (.974%), walks drawn (8) and batting average among those over the threshold of two plate appearances per game (.447).

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Junior catcher Desiree Dufek hits the ball against Western Illinois on March 5, 2022. IU swept the weekend tournament winning all four games.

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COLUMN: This isn’t the end for Indiana, and the Hoosiers know it

By Luke Christopher Norton lcnorton@iu.edu | @ByLCNorton

Long streams of confetti descended from the rafters of Gainbridge Fieldhouse with haste before curling up as they landed on the court below. Flakes twirled and spun as they slowly floated down before settling onto the stands and players.

Both sets of confetti came in black, blue and white — the colors associated with the Big Ten conference.

Their fall to the center of the court was interrupted by a swarm of black and yellow Iowa jerseys as the Hawkeye players cheered, hugged and smiled. Then, the confetti met the stage, quickly assembled to honor the 2022 Big Ten Tournament Champions’ 74-67 victory over Indiana women’s basketball on Sunday.

The confetti’s fall was likewise halted around Indiana’s bench as the Hoosiers closed in for a huddle around head coach Teri Moren. The flecks of white, blue and black were met with tears streaming down the Hoosiers’ faces as they fell upon the red of Indiana’s jerseys.

But now was not the time to mourn the team’s performance down the stretch, and Moren knew that. She let her players know their coaching staff was proud of them, and that their season is far from over.

“There’s three hundred plus teams that today could’ve been it for them,” Moren said in a postgame press conference. “It’s not the end for us.”

She’s right, you know. The Hoosiers have a sure spot in the NCAA Tournament and likely locked up the chance

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Senior guard Grace Berger attempts to dribble out of a double team in the Big Ten Tournament Championship on March 6, 2022, at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. Berger had 20 points in the loss to Iowa on Sunday.

to play home games at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall with their performance in the Big Ten Tournament.

But that doesn’t mean that this moment of defeat isn’t painful.

Senior guard Grace Berger has a gaze more than capable of intimidating opponents when their eyes meet hers. She had done so on multiple occasions throughout Sunday’s title game after knocking down shots from mid-range or lowering herself into a defensive stance on the other end of the court.

But now, as she took a seat at the postgame press

conference, her eyes were red with the residue of tears.

They remained locked to the table she sat at as Moren gave her opening statement.

At least, that’s how Berger looked at first. Her posture began to improve as the press conference went on, and her eyes became more willing to meet those of the reporters asking questions.

Berger, like her coach and the rest of her teammates, knows that there’s more basketball to be played.

Yes, this loss is going to sting, but Indiana had to fight to get here in the first place. The Hoosiers did so

after a regular season-ending stretch of three games in five days, all of which resulted in losses. Two of them came at the hands of this same Iowa team.

The road to the third matchup with the Hawkeyes was paved with rigid competition. The Hoosiers had to get past Rutgers, which has the No. 1 scoring defense in the Big Ten, in the second round. They did. Next was Maryland, the reigning conference champions. Another win. The tournament’s No.1seed, Ohio State, awaited Indiana in the semifinals. The Hoosiers prevailed again.

When you look back on this tournament run, don’t underestimate how difficult it was for Indiana to get to the championship game in the first place. After playing four games against wildly different opponents in as many days, the Hoosiers came out of it with three wins to one loss.

On top of that, Indiana’s second leading scorer, junior forward Mackenzie Holmes, still wasn’t back to her usual self, Moren said. That played a hand in Iowa senior center Monika Czinano’s dominant performance.

Between 30 points and

10 rebounds, Indiana simply didn’t have an answer for Iowa’s monster in the middle.

A healthy Holmes could’ve challenged her, having held Czinano to 36 points combined in their two matchups during the 2020-21 season while scoring 47 points of her own.

The scoring didn’t end with Czinano. Indiana also had to handle the Big Ten’s most feared scorer and Most Outstanding Player of the Tournament, per the media’s vote — Iowa sophomore guard Caitlin Clark. She was held to her lowest scoring output of the tournament, a still-impressive 18 points, by graduate student guard Nicole Cardaño-Hillary.

The tension between the two guards was clear, evidenced by Clark shoulder checking Cardaño-Hillary between plays in the fourth quarter. Clark called Cardaño-Hillary a great defender after the game, but said the Big Ten is full of great defenders in general.

But the result is the result.

The fight was there for Indiana, but the victory wasn’t.

The Hoosiers have earned a week off to rest before the NCAA Tournament starts, and Moren said it’s a break she’ll absolutely give her players in the next few days.

Remember, this isn’t the end.

Berger’s eyes, though they may be teary today, will soon be locked with those of an opposing player. She could be pulling up for a mid-range shot or locking them down on defense.

Either way, the Hoosiers will play in front of their home fans again, and they’ll be playing for far more than a conference trophy.

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COLUMN: ‘The Batman’ is a spellbinding masterpiece of grungy, neo-noir cinema

By Erin Stafford ecstaffo@iu.edu | @erincstafford

“The Batman” is a horrifying tale of madness and mystery. In a masterful reinvigoration of film noir and hardedged crime, director Matt Reeves uncovers the darkest knight yet.

Underneath the coalstained cowl of Batman’s suit lies a broken detective. While the investigative nature of the masked vigilante’s vengeful spree is criminally underused in previous films, “The Batman” examines what it means to be the world’s greatest detective.

Almost two years into Bruce Wayne’s quest for retribution, he meets a formidable and psychotic serial killer hell-bent on exposing Gotham’s most corrupt officials. In a series of haunting murders, the Riddler leaves clues at each crime scene for Batman to solve.

In a career-defining performance, Paul Dano is sickening as the Riddler. In a dark

green balaclava, the masked sycophant is maniacally killing his victims in bloody yet moving displays of cruelty.

Like all of Gotham’s deadliest villains, he is powerful because he has nothing to lose.

In “The Batman,” it turns out that accountant Edward Nashton is the Riddler’s real identity. In a new backstory, it is revealed that he grew up parentless at the Waynesponsored orphanage funded by the Wayne family’s project for Gotham City’s renewal.

When Bruce’s father dies after enlisting in the help of mob boss Carmine Falcone, the orphanage’s funding falls through. The Riddler resents Bruce for his status because despite being an orphan, Bruce will never be alone like the penniless Riddler.

It’s so poetically twisted how the Riddler and Batman are on opposite sides of the same coin. As orphans, the two are consumed by a lonesome rage and determined to make Gotham’s elite pay for

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their crimes. Their approach is different, however, as the Riddler believes maleficent destruction is the only way to help Gotham and Batman believes its inhabitants are deserving of redemption.

A younger, less refined Bruce Wayne also makes audiences privy to the cynic’s demons. Rather than depict an arrogant playboy commit-

ted to keeping up appearances, Robert Pattinson’s Bruce Wayne is raw, gritty and angry. He doesn’t just stay out of the public eye — he detests it.

When Pattinson’s Batman emerges from the shadows to bring reckoning upon Gotham’s most gruesome criminals, audiences see Bruce Wayne in his truest form.

He’s not holding his punches.

Rather than hide in the dark, this Batman embraces it.

Through visually-elusive cinematography and a haunting musical score from Michael Giacchino, every movement in “The Batman” has a purpose. A blend of gothic architecture and digitally-enhanced skyscrapers are juxtaposed beautifully

with the high-class city of Gotham and its dark underbelly of criminal activity.

“The Batman’’ will also captivate comic book readers as it combines the stories of intricate villains and antiheroes in a single, spine-chilling narrative.

Colin Farrell is unrecognizable as the Penguin, a scarred mastermind and right hand to mob boss Falcone. In a fiery car chase with Batman, the seedy nightclub owner is exposed as a grimy source of criminal corruption.

The equally chilling yet hopeful and seductive Catwoman works alongside Batman in this story after he enlists in her help to investigate the Riddler’s string of victims.

Zoë Kravitz is intense and elegant as superfighter Catwoman, and the chemistry between Kravtiz and Pattinson isn’t just passionate and magnetic — it’s consuming.

If film is a mirror of society, “The Batman” unearths humanity’s violent core.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 possible. Over Thanksgiving break, Keller-Tuberg said he texted three or four people he thought may be interested in signing onto the open letter as a way for them to speak out and be in solidarity with survivors. From that action, he thinks word spread about his involvement in the department.

During the meeting, he apologized and said it was not his intention to create a tense environment. Keller-Tuberg said in an interview he doesn’t know who the students are, but he assumes Parker is one of those who reported him to the university.

Keller-Tuberg also made it clear he had no leadership role putting this letter together.

Spotts said during the meeting they thought he had a larger role with the open letter.

“What has happened is I am the only current student in the jazz department who has signed this letter,” Keller-Tuberg said during the meeting . ***

berg said in an interview. “It was interpreted as an instigation, or I was stirring the pot or taking aim at people which, in a way I was, but it was very based on actual information.”

The open letter at this time called for Parker to be expelled.

To spread ideas that Parker should be expelled could result in a violation of the university code concerning harassment, Spotts said in the meeting. All students enrolled at IU have rights to go to school free from harassment, she said, and Keller-Tuberg pushing the open letter could result in a hostile environment for a degree-seeking student.

“They're targeted, and the goal is to remove them from a degree program or from their educational opportunity and that behavior becomes persistent, severe or pervasive to the goal is to remove them,” Spotts said in the meeting. “That is something that can fall under harassment.”

It is unclear what part of IU’s code of conduct Spotts was specifically referring to.

However, the nearest-aligning section says a student is free from harassment with, “the purpose or effect of unreasonably creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment for academic pursuits, housing, or participation in university activities.”

Talking about how the university became aware, Spotts said in the meeting they heard from some students that they felt uncomfortable and pressured when Keller-Tuberg approached them to sign the open letter.

Last semester, Keller-Tuberg had conversations with a few students about Parker, cautioning them and recommending dissociation if

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our administrators attended the meeting, including jazz studies department chair Tom Walsh, Spotts, Allen and Lissa May, who is the associate dean for instruction, interim guitar department chair and professor of music education.

May is good friends with the Parker family, said Shailey Ostlund, who is the woman who reported Parker to the university for sexual assault, prompting the university investigation and hearing. For someone who has known Parker and his family for so long, she didn’t understand why the meeting was called and why May was there.

Ostlund was involved in the open letter and heard

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about Keller-Tuberg’s meeting and May’s involvement.

Keller-Tuberg did not know of May’s background with the Parker family until he spoke with Ostlund afterward.

May also wrote a letter supportive of Parker which was read aloud at the 2016 title IX hearing, Ostlund said.

It seemed to not be written in her capacity as a university administrator and was from her personally, Ostlund said. May was not present at the 2016 hearing, she said.

“It's a complete conflict of interest,” Ostlund said. “As someone who's still trying to make some sort of waves in Chris's favor, especially even after all of this has come out, is really distressing.”

Keller-Tuberg’s situation and May’s involvement within it reminds her of how her title IX investigation went, which she says the university was “happily quiet” about. She said the university accommodated Chris during her sixmonth investigation, alleging the university prolonged it for Parker to finish his semester.

She said the university’s behavior has not changed. It’s frustrating and disappointing, she said, but not new.

“I don't even know how anyone in my position who has been a survivor of sexual assault can begin to process that,” she said.

May did not respond to the IDS’s request for comment.

In the meeting, May spoke three times: to introduce herself, to speak on the university’s process and to say goodbye.

“I just reiterate that the process works,” May said. ***

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e felt ganged up on in the meeting, Keller-Tuberg said, and the meeting left him no choice but to keep his thoughts to himself and remain silent. It crippled the jazz student body from organizing and raising awareness of a present, unsafe situation, he said.

Administration said during the meeting that wasn’t their intention.

“I know that it can be kind of intimidating to see like this many administrators on a call,” Spotts said. “So I want you to know that's not our goal.”

For a significant part of the meeting, Keller-Tuberg and jazz faculty members asked Spotts questions regarding the university’s sexual assault reporting and hearing system, including the question of what to do if the system is believed to be faulty. Spotts said the best option is to have a conversation internally with the Office of Institutional Equity. ““We have come to a place where we, to a certain extent, distrust the processes because of the ways and the outcomes that were reached.” Keller-Tuberg said in the meeting. “That we believe were not simply unethical but actually were a mis-implementation of the processes themselves.”

The university was acting extrajudicially to try to stop exposure to this issue, Abby Malala, IU jazz alum and letter organizer, said. Especially considering how no specific lines of the IU code were listed as possible infractions, she said she feels like empty threats were launched with ulterior motives.

“It sounded immediately to me like an intimidation tactic,” Malala said. “I do think that the university was border-

line abusing its power to try and protect its own reputation and its own interests.”

Malala approached Garrett Spoelhof, an audio engineering student at Jacobs, to sign the letter after local music festival RealFest on July 17, 2021, in Dunn Meadow. She decided to draft the letter in response to Parker’s inclusion in the festival, which Spoelhof helped organize. Spoelhof was the other current IU student signed onto the letter prior to Keller-Tuberg’s meeting.

Spoelhof said he felt responsible for putting people in a dangerous situation, and he needed to rectify it. Since, he has signed onto the letter and released a public statement with the festival.

Though Keller-Tuberg was the one pulled into the meeting, Spoelhof said he was afraid of potential consequences.

Keller-Tuberg called Spoelhof immediately after the meeting since they were the only current students involved in the letter and any code violation would affect them. In December, they both decided to take their names off the letter.

When trying to find more current students to sign the letter, Malala said she was worried students would need to juggle their personal academic standing with their willingness to speak up. The students she spoke to prior to the IDS investigation largely wanted to remain neutral on the situation, she said.

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*** The wording of the open letter was revised to remove any request for Parker to be expelled and focused on making systematic changes to en-

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sure cases like this don’t happen again, Spoelhof said.

“When the wording of the letter was changed to express disappointment with the system, I think that was almost more effective,” Spoelhof said.

“It allows focus to be cast not only upon the problematic current situation.”

Additionally, once the IDS published its investigation Jan. 27, Malala said it was easier to rally support since much of the information was published and the students began to band together. KellerTuberg, Spoelhof and multiple other current students signed their names onto the revised letter, which jumped from less than 20 signatures to 55 in a week.

Neither Keller-Tuberg nor Spoelhof have heard anything from the university regarding policy violations following the publishing of the open letter in early February.

Keller-Tuberg said the investigation completely changed the climate around this issue, and many who were close to Parker cut ties. He no longer feels like he is outnumbered and has confidence to speak within his community.

“The university is hoping that this will just die down and that people will forget what's happened,” Malala said. “I hope very much that that doesn't happen.”

Editor's note: Abby Malala previously worked for the Indiana Daily Student.

The IDS is continuing its investigation into the sexual misconduct within the Jacobs School of Music and the Bloomington jazz community. Any news tips can be forwarded to Cate Charron at catcharr@iu.edu.

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