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‘We have seen the worst’

Bloomington nurses face pandemic burnout, pushing some to leave or change roles in hospitals

Teenager arrested after threat of school shooting

By Haley Ryan

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Bloomington Police Department officers were called to Bloomington High School South on March 30 in response to a Snapchat video of a 17-year-old boy waving a handgun and threatening a school shooting, according to the Herald Times.

The suspect is not a student in the Monroe County Community School Corporation district, according to a MCCSC official.

A sheriff’s deputy and BPD officer responded to a call from the school at 1:53 p.m. A school resource officer learned about the video from students who received it via social media, accord-

ing to a police report.

According to the Herald Times, it was determined the suspect lived within city limits, and BPD officers went to the teenager’s home and arrested him at 3:35 p.m. Wednesday. Officers found the teen at home with his mother, confiscated a handgun and took him into custody.

BPD Capt. Ryan Pedigo said a report filed in the case didn’t say if the gun was loaded or if any ammunition was found at the apartment.

The 17-year-old was charged with intimidation with a deadly weapon in juvenile court and was transported to the Southwest Indiana Regional Youth Village, according to the article.

President Biden to extend pause on federal student loan payment

By Marissa Meador

marnmead@iu.edu | @marissa_meador

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Margie Clouse gets off a 12-hour shift as an Emergency Room nurse at IU Health Bloomington on March 2, 2022. "We're not seeing the numbers that we were, so I'm praying that it's almost gone," she said.

By Nic Napier

npnapier@iu.edu | @nicnapier1

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rooklyn Alm remembers the sweat pouring from her face working in the orange zone.

The nurse said it felt like 100 degrees in that portion of the old IU Health Bloomington Hospital, as she and a team of nurses moved from patient to patient all sick with a virus that was spreading across the globe.

She was in her usual hospital getup, except this time she was also outfitted with a N95 mask and a surgical mask over the top, along with a gown, a face shield or eye goggles, and a hair cap.

This section of the hospital was dedicated to COVID-19 patients and those showing symptoms of the virus. She remembers the constant change in guidelines for nurses, as confusion spread rapidly throughout not only the hospitals but the country. One day gowns could be kept on during the work day. The next, they had to be switched out as nurses visited each and every room.

“It was like hell being over there,” Alm said.

In December 2021, Alm and her boyfriend Robert Lowry, who is also a nurse, decided to leave their job at the Bloomington hospital after facing burnout and exhaustion from the relentless nature of the pandemic.

They now live and work in Texas as travel nurses and

used the time off between the job switch to briefly step away from the stressors within the hospital.

As the COVID-19 pandemic has battered America, nurses are desperately seeking a change of scenery.

Many of them are even giving up the roles that once brought them so much joy.

IU Health Bloomington Hospital is one of many hospitals across the country that has seen change among its staff, as nurses lament over the devastation of the coronavirus pandemic which has pushed several of them to the brink. They have dealt with everything from rising case numbers, abuse from patients and fast-paced shifts, all leading to burnout and exhaustion.

Some switched hospital roles, moved to other departments, took significant time off or have even left the profession altogether.

According to a 2021 article from Morning Consult, a company which evaluates data and business trends, nearly one in five healthcare workers have quit their jobs during the pandemic.

For those healthcare workers who remain in their positions, 31% of them have considered leaving the profession, according to the article. As more nurses and other healthcare workers leave, staffing shortages in hospitals can worsen.

According to a blog post from the University of St. Augustine for Health Sci-

ences, the U.S. is currently experiencing a nursing shortage which is expected to continue through 2030.

As demand for more nurses rises, projections provided in the blog show that by 2030, in California for example, demand will outpace supply by over 40,000 nurses. These numbers wax and wane depending on the state, but they show a bleak future for an already depleted nursing workforce, especially as the country continues navigating new COVID-19 variants and pandemic complications.

Since the pandemic began in 2020, the United States has recorded more than 975,000 deaths and almost 80,000,000 cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Monroe County, there have been over 270 deaths and more than 27,000 cases, according to the Indiana COVID-19 dashboard.

One of the recent COVID-19 variants, Omicron, recently inundated the Bloomington healthcare workforce with a new record high number of cases and hospitalizations in January of 2022. Even though those numbers have now significantly lowered and Indiana’s public health emergency has expired, the exhaustion and emotionally taxing nature of the pandemic persists. *

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lm said her mother will tell people a story where a young Alm was watching television and a St. Jude commercial flashed across the screen.

Alm doesn’t remember this moment, but she said her mother recalls her announcing she wanted to be a cancer doctor that day, the first inkling of Alm’s future in the medical field.

Alm personally said she remembers being pulled toward the medical field starting once her father was involved in an accident when she was young. He had broken his back and needed to spend a significant amount of time in the hospital. She remembers the nurses being the ones who really connected with her father, making his time at the hospital a more bearable experience.

“It was the nurses at the bedside that really mattered,” Alm said.

When she was deciding how she would spend her future career, Alm remembered this moment and knew she wanted to be a nurse. She received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from IU and took a capstone her senior year focusing on the Emergency Room department. Spending most of her senior year in the Bloomington ER, she fell in love with the practice and never looked back. She was hired right out of college SEE NURSES, PAGE 7

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President Joe Biden intends to extend the pause on federal student loan payments through Aug. 31, according to the Associated Press. The announcement marks the fifth extension of the payment moratorium since it first began in March 2020.

Federal student loan debt affects 41 million Americans and totals nearly $1.7 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve. The Department of Education says that the pause saves borrowers $5 billion a month.

Democratic lawmakers have continued to push Biden to use executive action to forgive student loans. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-MA, along with Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, wants Biden to cancel up to $50,000 in student debt per borrower.

Biden, although in sup-

port of some form of student loan forgiveness, has insisted that debt cancellation should be initiated by Congress, according to USA Today.

However, debt cancellation is not supported by all in Congress. House Republicans on the Committee for Education and Labor took a stance against the policy in a recent statement. Americans for Tax Reform, a conservative advocacy group, sent a letter to the Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona urging an end to the payment freezes, believing the policy to be wasteful to taxpayers and worsen inflation.

Despite the obstacles to broad student loan forgiveness, the Department of Education has announced loan forgiveness programs for certain borrowers. For example, changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program are expected to clear $6.2 billion in debt for 100,000 borrowers in October.

IU Asian Culture Center to lead passport art event

By Tory Basile

vlbasile@iu.edu | @torybasilee

The IU Asian Culture Center will lead the Passport Photo Project — an art making event welcoming students of Asian descent — at 4 p.m. April 6 and 14 at the IU Asian Culture Center on 10th Street.

During the event, students will make art using their passport photographs.

They should bring a physical copy of their passport photograph with them if possible. If they don’t have a physical copy, a photograph will be created on site. Students do not need to

bring their official passports to the event.

The event is offered for students of Asian descent who want to share their personal stories through art.

All art supplies will be provided to students. Light refreshments will be available. Any students interested should contact the Asian Culture Center.

Inspiration for the event came from IU visiting assistant professor Vivek Vellanki’s ongoing work on his Passport Photo Project. At IU, Vellanki works with local South Asian youth to explore photography, migration and culture.

BASEBALL

Indiana comes up short in ninth-inning rally, falls to Evansville

By Matthew Byrne

matbyrne@iu.edu | @MatthewByrne1

For the second time in four days, Indiana hitters strode to the batter's box in the ninth inning, facing a seven-run deficit.

Despite three consecutive one-out singles and a wild pitch pushing three runs across the plate, the Hoosiers fell 8-4 on the road against the University of Evansville on April 5.

The near four-hour midweek clash was halted in the second inning for over thirty minutes due to an unorthodox mound fixture delay.

The field issue was only recognized once Evansville hitters swiftly knocked Indiana starter Nathan Stahl out of the game with two leadoff singles and two walks in the second tinning.

Evansville players and coaches tried multiple solutions, including packing the ragged landing spot with sand, placing another turf slab on top of the original mound and adding water. Indiana head coach Jeff Mercer helped, holding a shovel and a broom at separate points during the delay.

"It's been a different day, but you never know what you're gonna see when you come to the ballpark and today's no different," Mercer said during an in-game interview in the middle of the fifth inning with the broadcast crew.

Indiana left-hander Ty Bothwell, who entered the game for Stahl, attempted to warm up multiple times. AfETHAN LEVY | IDS

Freshman catcher Brock Tibbitts swings at a pitch against Purdue Fort Wayne on March 9, 2022, at Bart Kaufman Field. Indiana lost 8-4 to the SEE BASEBLL, PAGE 4 University of Evansville on April 5.

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MEN’S TENNIS

Indiana goes 0-2 against No. 2 Ohio State

By Emma Pawlitz

epawlitz@iu.edu | @emmapawlitz

The Indiana men’s tennis team started off April with a Big Ten doubleheader against Ohio State on Friday and Penn State on Sunday.

The Buckeyes were the Hoosiers’ most dominant opponent to date this season, as they currently hold a national ranking of No. 2, according to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. Two Ohio State doubles pairings are also among the country’s best — junior Robert Cash and senior Matej Vocel hold the No. 1 spot, while junior Justin Boulais and senior James Trotter sit at No. 10.

Indiana rose to the occasion and made the doubles round extremely competitive. The Hoosier pairing of senior Carson Haskins and sophomore Jagger Saylor lost at the No. 2 spot to Vocel and Boulais 6-3. Then, Indiana sophomore Ilya Tiraspolsky and senior Patrick Fletchall were able to even the doubles score with a thrilling 6-4 win over Trotter and junior Andrew Lutschaunig.

Although the Hoosiers put up a valiant fight, the doubles point ultimately fell in favor of the Buckeyes after Indiana junior Luka Vukovic and sophomore Michael Andre dropped a tight 5-7 match at the No. 3 spot to Cash and sophomore JJ Tracy. Still, Friday’s doubles match was some of the most competitive tennis the Hoosiers have played all season.

The Buckeyes’ decorated singles lineup made the second half of the match just as arduous for the Hoosiers.

Five of the six Ohio State singles players have ITA rankings in the top 65.

Haskins was tasked with facing Vocel, the No. 7 player in the country, and fell by a score of 6-4, 6-0 in the top singles matchup. The No. 11 player, Tracy, fended off Vukovic in the second set by winning 6-1, 7-5 at the No. 3 position. Boulais defeated Indiana sophomore Nishanth Basavareddy at the No. 6 spot 6-1, 6-1.

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Senior Carson Haskins attempts to return a serve against Princeton on Feb. 6, 2022, at the IU Tennis Center. Indiana lost 4-0 to No. 2 Ohio State and 4-3 to Penn State at home over the weekend.

Buckeye players No. 10 junior Cannon Kingsley, No. 42 Trotter and No. 63 Cash were all in the lead in their singles matches against Fletchall, Andre and Saylor, respectively, before the Buckeyes clinched the deciding point of the match.

Despite the loss, head coach Jeremy Wurtzman said he was proud of the Hoosiers for playing up to their competition and avoiding a blowout.

“I thought we played at a very, very high level,” Wurtzman said. “We had chances

there in a lot of those matches.”

Sunday’s match could not have been any closer, as a tiebreaker in the third set of the last singles match decided the match for the Nittany Lions and the Hoosiers fell 4-3.

The match started off in favor of the Hoosiers, with the team of Tiraspolsky and Fletchall winning at the No. 1 doubles position and Vukovic and Andre taking the No. 3 match to clinch the doubles point. However, a sudden injury plagued their

hopes of victory for the second weekend in a row.

Haskins went down with an ankle injury in the middle of his match against Penn State sophomore Miko Eala and required medical assistance.

Haskins managed to return to finish the No. 1 singles match, but despite staging a comeback with a 5-3 lead in the second set prior to the injury, he did not win a game after. His ankle became a major liability toward the end, as he lost the second set 5-7 to drop the

at 6-6 with junior Charl Morgan in the third set, which meant a tiebreaker was required.

The crowd watched the back-and-forth affair that decided the match, and ultimately Morgan sealed Penn State’s victory with a 7-5 tiebreaker win.

“We fought really hard, and it’s just unfortunate that things didn’t go our way in the end,” Wurtzman said. “At the end of the day, when you compete like that and play hard, that’s all you can ask for.”

match.

The Hoosiers still won singles matches at the No. 2 and 3 spots, but the Nittany Lions evened out the series with wins at No. 5 and 6.

Sunday’s match came down to Tiraspolsky competing for the Hoosiers at the No. 4 singles spot.

The Indiana sophomore lost his first set 2-6, but climbed back and took the second by a score of 6-4.

By the time Penn State had evened out the match score to 3-3 with other singles results, Tiraspolsky was even

SOFTBALL

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Indiana falls to 2-4 in Big Ten play Indiana takes down Purdue 4-2

By Will Foley

wtfoley@iu.edu | @foles24

Indiana softball went 1-2 in its three-game series at Wisconsin this weekend. The results move the Hoosiers to a 19-10 record this season and a 2-4 record in Big Ten play.

The Hoosiers’ first two contests of the series were split 1-1 in a doubleheader Friday evening.

The first game saw Indiana jump out to an early 3-1 lead after the first inning, but Wisconsin chipped away before gaining control.

Wisconsin junior infielder Fiona Girardot hit an RBI single to tie the score 3-3 in the third inning, then hit a two-run home run to put Wisconsin ahead 5-3 in the fifth inning.

The Hoosiers scored once in the sixth inning, but the Badgers responded with two more runs to extend the lead to 7-4. Indiana tacked on one more run but ran out of time, losing 7-5 in the series opener.

The second game of the doubleheader resulted in a stronger performance down the stretch for Indiana. Wisconsin jumped out to a 2-0

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Then-freshman pitcher Macy Montgomery swings the bat March 28, 2021, at Andy Mohr Field. Indiana fell 1-2 in its weekend series against Wisconsin.

lead in the first inning, but a four-run third inning gave Indiana a lead it wouldn’t relinquish.

A two-hit, four-RBI outing from Hoosier freshman outfielder Taylor Minnick sparked Indiana’s 7-4 victory to tie the series. Sophomore pitcher Macy Montgomery nearly pitched a complete game, going for 6.1 innings and striking out nine Wisconsin batters. Freshman pitcher Heather Johnson pitched the final two outs for the Hoosiers.

Indiana’s series finale

Sunday afternoon was an eventful game. The first run of the game didn’t come until the top of the third inning, when Indiana sophomore outfielder Aaliyah Andrews hit a single and stole second, third and home base to put the Hoosiers up 1-0.

In the same inning, Indiana sophomore infielder Brooke Benson and Wisconsin sophomore catcher Christaana Angelopulos collided at home plate as Benson attempted to score, and the play resulted in an out. Indiana head coach

Shonda Stanton was ejected from the dugout for the game after arguing with the umpires about the result of the play.

Angelopulos responded for the Badgers by hitting a solo home run to tie the game 1-1 in the bottom of the third inning. After a few more innings of what became a pitcher’s duel between the two teams, Angelopulos homered again — this time a three-run shot. A few batters later, senior infielder Kayla Konwent sent another ball past the fence, giving the Badgers a 6-1 lead.

Minnick was able to drive in a run in the top of the seventh inning for the Hoosiers, but that was all they could produce in the finale. In the 6-2 loss, Indiana left eight runners stranded on base, while all six of Wisconsin’s runs were driven in by home runs.

The results bolstered Wisconsin’s record to 20-8 overall and 5-1 in Big Ten play.

Meanwhile, Indiana is still searching for consistency.

Next on the schedule for Indiana is a return to Bloomington for a three-game series against Rutgers on April 8-10 at Andy Mohr Field.

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By Kevin Vera

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Indiana women’s tennis responded from a loss to No. 51 Nebraska last weekend with a comeback win against in-state rival Purdue on Saturday. The Hoosiers played the Boilermakers at the IU Tennis Center for their third consecutive home game and secured a 4-2 win over the No. 65 team in the country.

Indiana is now 2-3 against Big Ten opponents as the team improved its overall record to 9-9 this season.

The Hoosiers fell behind quickly in Saturday’s match after the Boilermakers took home the doubles point to get out to an early 1-0 lead. Indiana junior Alexandra Staiculescu and sophomore Laura Masic earned singles matches wins in the second and third singles matches, which helped the team earn two points.

A 6-4, 6-3 win by Purdue senior Seira Shimizu

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against sophomore Sayda Hernandez tied the match at 2-2, but Indiana continued to dominate in the singles matches and picked up another pair of wins. Freshman Lara Schneider won the first singles match 6-1, 6-3, and was followed up by junior Mila Mejic, who took her match to three sets and won 6-0, 7-6 (7-3) over Purdue freshman Juana Larranaga.

With the victory, Indiana secured its second Big Ten win of the year after defeating Iowa at home on March 26. The team also snapped its four game losing streak against Purdue.

Before Saturday’s win, the Hoosiers’ last win against the Boilermakers came on April 1, 2017, while the last time they won against the Boilermakers in Bloomington went back to March 14, 2014.

Indiana will be back in action on Friday to conclude its four-match home stand, facing Penn State before going on a three-match road trip.

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BLACK VOICES

Getting to know former IU student Joseph Smedley

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By Tiera Howleit

thowleit@iu.edu | @officialtiera

Joseph Smedley was born on March 27, 1995. He is remembered as being a bighearted and sweet person, his older sister, Vivianne Bernas, said one day after his 27th birthday.

On Oct. 2, 2015, Bernas and her family’s lives changed forever as her brother’s body was found in Griffy Lake with 66 pounds of rocks on top of him in a backpack.

Smedley’s case remains a mystery as his death was ruled a suicide by the Monroe County Coroner on Dec. 4, 2015. His sister does not agree with this ruling.

Bernas is advocating for her brother, and his case to be reopened and for an investigation to be conducted.

She created an Instagram account, @justice4joseph, but she has still been left in the dark about what exactly happened to her brother.

Smedley was a wonderful person, according to those who knew him, and his sister provided a glimpse into his world.

“I want the world to remember him as the guy who was always looking out for other people,” Bernas said.

“All he wanted to do was succeed in life. He was on his way to accomplishing great things.”

Aside from his wonderful personality, Smedley had a great taste in food. Bernas said her brother loved Chinese food, but he also loved to cook.

“He was really intelligent and had a lot of friends,” Bernas said. “He was always outgoing and the life of the party.”

Bernas said her brother was also involved in wrestling growing up and was dedicated to it throughout his life. Smedley was a trombone player and had a deep passion for jazz music as well.

“He always wanted to go down to New Orleans,” Bernas said. “This was his dream

BLACK VOICES

Free the coils

By Abriana Herron aoherron@iu.edu | @abri_onyai

IU senior Deja Bush walked into her stress and resilience class with a different hairstyle her peers were not used to seeing, a natural hair puff — an updo commonly worn by people with Afro-textured hair.

At the end of class, her professor asked her, “Is that all your hair?”

Bush smiled and gave a short answer of, “Yes, it is.”

It’s been two years since that day, and while the lecture may be a distant memory to her, the encounter with her professor and the uncomfortable feeling she had as she walked out of the classroom remain with her today.

“I was stunned,” she said. “I understand Black people’s hair can change quickly, but it doesn’t always have to be commented on in that way.”

Hair discrimination is used to prohibit natural hairstyles and justify removing Black people from professional settings, according to NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. To combat the hair discrimination many people have undergone, the CROWN Act — which stands for Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair — was created and passed in many states such as California and New York.

The CROWN Act was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on March 18, and the bill now heads to the Senate for review, bringing the bill one step closer to becoming federal law.

“If you want, show them your true authentic self,” Bush said. “Free the coils. We are coming into a new era. I feel like it is not appropriate to bash wom-

en of color and other ethnicities because of their hair. It doesn’t deem them unprofessional or unfit to do their job in a professional setting.”

Campus Curls and Coils, a student-led organization at IU, was created for Black students who are interested in natural hair and to inform other people of the importance of natural hair. Current executive board member Anaijah Dunn believes this organization can also be viewed as the result of hair discrimination in the professional realm.

Coming to college, Dunn heard a lot of stories from her friends about their experiences with hair discrimination when looking for jobs, internships and other professional experiences to put on their resumes.

“Most of the hairstyles, if not all of the hairstyles that are discriminated against are all hairstyles worn by African Americans and people of color,” she said. “Even something as simple as hair is still targeting a group that has been targeted for so long.”

Dunn herself had not explicitly experienced judgment because of a hairstyle. However, she did acknowledge there have been instances where she could have been judged for her hair texture and style but did not even know it.

“Even though I haven’t experienced it personally, it doesn’t change the fact that it affects people like me,” Dunn said.

IU senior T’Kai Isidahmen expressed feelings of internalized hair discrimination.

The last time Isidahmen could remember herself wearing her natural hair out in public was in high school.

“I don’t give people the

chance to even (discriminate) against it,” she said.

Since then, Isidahmen keeps her hair in protective hairstyles, disallowing many people the chance to see her natural hair and judge it. Protective hairstyles are methods in which a person styles curly hair to protect it from stressors, such as heat manipulation, while also reducing tangling and/or breakage of the hair.

Some common protective hairstyles among the Black community are box braids, twists, cornrow braids, Bantu knots, wigs and locs. However, some of these protective hairstyles, such as locs, have a long history of being discriminated against in the workplace and at school.

During a 2018 wrestling match in New Jersey, Andrew Johnson, a Black teenager, was forced to cut his locs after the referee told him he would forfeit the match if he did not cut them. Instances like this are the reason the Black community finds these protections, such as the CROWN Act, to be important.

Although Isidahmen does not wear her natural hair in public, she too sees beauty in Afro-textured hair and the people who embrace their natural hair and features.

“Black is beautiful,” Isidahmen said. “Love your hair and love your Black features even when Eurocentric beauty standards are being upheld.”

While the CROWN Act still has yet to be approved by the U.S. Senate and signed into law by President Joe Biden, Isidahmen believes it is important to embrace your natural hair and show your unapologetic self to the world, whether that be wearing a protective hairstyle or an afro.

trip because of the food and the jazz.”

Smedley’s life goals revolved around the sciences and healthcare.

“He has always had an eye for science, and as a kid, he wanted to be a nurse,” Bernas said.

Bernas said her brother came to IU to study biochemistry and was on a pre-pharmaceutical track.

Outside of his studies, Smedley loved watching “The Boondocks” and cooking shows. Bernas said growing up, they would watch “Tom and Jerry” together.

Bernas received text messages that said he was leaving the country. She also re-

ceived a similar note supposedly from her brother before he disappeared, which she said was strange.

“The letter left was written hastily and looked like someone who was left-handed wrote it,” Bernas said. “What really stands out is it was signed by Smedley, and he never went by Smedley and never liked the name.”

Bernas said the only people to call her brother “Smedley” were his roommates and his fraternity brothers in Sigma Pi, who was among the last people to have seen him alive.

Bernas has been raising awareness through a podcast about her brother and

his case, “A Heavy Weight”, alongside the host and creator, Stacy Jane.

IU’s NAACP created a call to action to ask the Bloomington Police Department to reopen Smedley’s case, Feven Araya, IU senior and member of IU NAACP, said.

“Don’t think this case is far removed from you, because it happened here at IU and Joseph Smedley walked and went to the same places you do,” Araya said.

Joseph Smedley deserves to be here. His life matters.

To learn more about Smedley, listen to “A Heavy Weight,” which can be found on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

BLACK VOICES

The war against women in Afghanistan continues

By Amani Gates

amagates@iu.edu | @amani_gates

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

For months now, the Taliban has once again implied multiple restrictions on Afghan women’s rights. In August of last year, the Taliban took back power in Afghanistan, and despite the group claiming to be less extreme, they have brought back a slew of restrictions against Afghan women.

In the past two decades, these women have been fighting against the history of their religion and expanding opportunities for Afghan women to go to school, work and travel abroad to find work in other countries.

Before the Taliban came back into power and were then defeated in 2001, there was a measurable improvement in women’s rights and their position in Afghan society. Since then Afghanistan has seen more women in politics, teachers, doctors, business owners and more. This change came with the help of the international community to help

spread awareness of how these women were treated under the Taliban’s control.

But now, their progress and hard work have been set back.

The Human Rights Watch reported in October that the Taliban has restricted women from furthering their education beyond primary school and are closing secondary schools.

Since then, women and young girls have been protesting near the Ministry of Education in Kabul. Wearing their uniforms and bringing their textbooks, they gathered and brought signs reading “Education is our fundamental right, not a political plan.” When the Taliban showed up, they fled in fear of being beaten.

The Taliban has shown up to multiple protests where women have been peacefully protesting and been accused of killing women, mutilating their bodies in the process.

There are also rumors of gang rapes.

UNICEF estimates that 129 million girls are not in school worldwide, but their findings revealed girls’ education leads to higher national growth, lower rates of child marriages and

child mortality, and increased lifetime earnings for women.

Western governments and the United States administration are outraged at the Taliban’s decision to cut women’s education. The administration in Washington has canceled meetings which could impact bilateral contact and engagements with Afghanistan.

If the Taliban doesn’t reverse its decision, “it will have an inevitable impact on the Taliban’s prospects of gaining political support and legitimacy either at home or abroad,” a joint statement with U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and other foreign ministers of the United Kingdom read.

This could harm Afghanistan’s prospects for social cohesion and economic growth.

Afghan women are looking at every possible avenue to flee their country in fear of the future under Taliban leadership.

Some want to move to further their education at a U.S. university and study abroad. Others want to renew their passports, but with government officials denying their travel with no explanation why they are left hopeless on what to do next.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ter a lengthy discussion between the head coaches and the umpires, the mound was deemed playable.

However, Bothwell threw a wild pitch to the second batter he faced and a runner scored from third base to extend Evansville's lead to 2-0.

Eventually, Bothwell escaped the prolonged inning without allowing another run.

Indiana sophomore Bobby Whalen, in the leadoff spot, countered in the top of

the third inning with a deep solo home run to left field for his second of the season. The deep drive snapped Evansville's lead in half to make the score 2-1.

"Bobby's a great player," Mercer said. "He has good at-bats, (can) hit for a little bit of average, hit for a little bit of power. I'm glad he's a Hoosier. That's for sure."

By the middle of the fifth inning, the score remained unchanged. After Bothwell

threw the wild pitch, he and fellow left-handed reliever Ryan Kraft kept the Purple Aces at bay. "(Evansville's) had some baserunners, and our guys have managed their way through it and made quality pitches when they had to," Mercer said during his midgame interview. "Hopefully we can continue to do that."

But not even a half-inning later, Evansville pounced on incoming pitcher junior John

Modugno. Evansville’s Brent Widder homered down the left-field line in the bottom of the fifth inning to extend his team’s lead to 4-1.

In the sixth inning, Simon Scherry hit a three-run home run off Modugno to left field to give the Purple Aces a 7-1 advantage. However, the three runs were unearned because what should have been the final out of the halfinning turned into a fielding error, allowing Scherry to

come up to bat and clear the bases.

Evansville tacked on another run in the eighth inning off another wild pitch to bring its final run tally to eight. Indiana's pitching staff recorded 14 strikeouts but also walked nine and hit four Purple Aces.

Evansville’s two home runs in the middle innings provided enough insurance, and the hill was too steep for Indiana to climb by the time

it tried to claw its way back in the meager ninth inning.

Indiana falls to 11-16 on the season with the loss and splits the regular-season four-game series against Evansville 2-2.

The Hoosiers will head to West Lafayette, Indiana, this weekend to take on rival opponent Purdue in its second conference series of the season. The first pitch of the series is slated for 4 p.m. on Friday.

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Editors Natalie Gabor, Curren Gauss opinion@idsnews.com

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THE VALADEZ VIEW

Society hates to see big girls win

ILLUSTRATION BY DONYÁ COLLINS

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

Lizzo holds a plethora of titles. She’s a singer, a fat acceptance advocate and one of the only people who makes music that can motivate me while working out.

Now, she’s the mastermind behind the new shapewear line “Yitty.”

The official launch of “Yitty” is on April 12, but it’s already sparking controversy. The various judgments of the creation of “Yitty” stem from the fact that Lizzo seems to be a champion of body neutrality and acceptance, but she has now created articles of clothing that are meant to

hide the body.

The irony of the current judgment Lizzo is facing is that people have body shamed Lizzo since she rose to popularity.

Although her creation of “Yitty” isn’t a response to criticism, people still aren’t happy that she’s doing something that would seemingly appease their fatphobic minds.

It seems that no matter what “fat” people do, someone’s going to have a problem. But in reality, anyone in a bigger body should be able to exist without judgment.

It’s imperative to understand that Lizzo didn’t create this line out of self-consciousness. Rather, she cre-

ated it as a response to her typically negative experiences with “sad, restrictive” shapewear in her childhood, when her nickname was “Yitty.” That nickname comes from her aunt, who Lizzo describes as “full-figured” with “beautiful energy”—something she hopes her brand will embody.

In high school, I never wanted to go to school dances because of how uncomfortable the idea of communal dancing made me and how alienating being around hundreds of skinny girls was. I remember going to a few different stores before I was able to find shapewear that I could actually squeeze into.

I wore shapewear to

SEAN’S SYNOPSIS

Small-town America is dying, and our smaller communities are at risk

help me feel more comfortable in a dress, something I felt entirely uncomfortable in. I didn’t wear it because I thought it would make the fact that I was bigger disappear.

Everyone knows that Lizzo isn’t a size two. But there’s absolutely no reason to shame an established and beautiful woman for trying to make her own mark in shapewear.

When Kim Kardashian launched SKIMS in 2019, a clothing line mostly focused on shapewear, no one batted an eye. There were comments made about prices and availability, but there weren’t any second guesses about Kardashian’s credibility in cre-

ating shapewear.

There’s no reason Lizzo shouldn’t be treated with the same respect. If Lizzo is a true champion of body activism, then “Yitty” is another wonderful extension of that.

“Yitty” is about loving you “in real time.” It’s not about covering up your fat or trying to hide under clothing. It’s about embracing every inch of your skin and making you feel comfortable, whatever that means to each individual who wears it.

I love Lizzo, her music and her ability to be unapologetically true to herself. Her creation and aspirations for “Yitty” are something to be adored,

not criticized.

It takes so much mental and emotional strength for a plus size person to simply exist in a fatphobic society — and it takes much more energy to exist in it, be bold and take action. But that’s exactly what Lizzo’s doing.

We should all use this “Yitty” controversy as a lesson. A lesson to not pass judgments on groups of people we don’t share experiences with. A lesson to not ostracize those who are already judged by society daily. And mostly, this should all be taken as a lesson to leave big girls alone.

We are just as deserving of respect as everyone else. elivalad@iu.edu

CLEAR CUT

Be prepared to put your mask on again Chris Sciortino (he/him) is a junior studying theater and public relations.

ILLUSTRATION BY JACK DONNELLY

Sean Gilley (he/him)

is a senior studying political science and economics with a certificate in informatics.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, rural areas account for 97% of the country’s land area but only about 19% of the population. And these areas are beginning to decline in population for the first time in our nation’s history, according to The Hill.

I understand wanting to relocate and live somewhere a little more lively. Most of my high school friends shared this desire to go to college, get a degree and move to a big city where they have more options, professionally and socially.

But we cannot forget about our smaller communities. We cannot abandon and leave them to wither away. This decline in population and habitation just increases the disparity between individuals on a social, economic and political level, causing heightened polarization in our society.

When I was growing up, I was lucky enough to have a grandfather who encouraged me to get involved and try new things. He was a member of our town’s local Optimist Club, a civic and service organization that assisted children and teenagers in their education

and career aspirations by providing scholarships and guidance into a career path.

I remember he would get up at 5 a.m. every Friday just to drive into town to attend these meetings. I’ll never forget because I went with him every so often, and although I never quite understood what it was that got him out of bed each of those mornings, I’m glad I went with him.

He instilled the importance of community in me, supported me in all my extracurricular activities and encouraged me to get involved. And if it weren’t for these groups and activities, I probably wouldn’t have understood and appreciated my community, no matter how small.

In “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community,” author Robert Putnam discusses at length the collapse of the American community and with it our social networks. He argues the importance of formal connections — such as those made at churches, unions, civic organizations and even bowling leagues — as well as the more frequent informal connections, such as getting drinks after work or chatting with neighbors.

“Our evidence suggests that across a very wide range

of activities, the last several decades have witnessed a striking diminution of regular contacts with our friends and neighbors,” Putnam wrote.

This is where folks talked shop, chatted about how the family is doing and discussed politics. However, these sorts of social phenomena are becoming a relic of the past.

These groups bind smaller towns and cities together — cities that may not have robust infrastructure or economic capital begin to wane without the support of tight-knit civic and community organizations.

Especially during a time where we are cautiously reentering a more normal world and can grow our social networks in person once again, there’s no better time to invest in social capital.

Again, I understand smaller communities don’t have as much to offer professionally and socially, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t options — you may just have to dig a little deeper. And if you can’t find a community you fit in well enough with, I implore you to start one. That’s what these small towns need now more than ever: social and community growth.

spgilley@iu.edu

On Feb. 25, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Americans living in counties with decreased COVID-19 community transmission could visit public indoor places without their masks on. At the time, that encapsulated 70% of all Americans.

This wouldn’t be the first time the CDC has changed its mask guidance. In May 2021, it dropped its recommendation of mask-wearing for vaccinated adults. A cycle seems to be repeating.

As case numbers ebb and flow, the agency is more likely to revise its mask recommendations.

But this begs numerous questions. What if cases don’t stay down? What if a new variant emerges? Will mask guidance change again?

The short answer is yes, mask guidance will likely evolve as we adapt to mutations of the virus. And as we revert to maskless public interaction, we must be willing to put our masks back on if guidance changes.

We’ve already seen requirements change in the wake of new variants. When delta became the primary variant in the U.S. last summer, it was apparent that vaccinated people were still transmitting the virus.

This was contradictory to prior CDC knowledge, and chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said the situation had changed since the revised policy was announced in May 2021. After just a few weeks of freedom, masks were once again recommended.

I remember being some-

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what frustrated that I had to put my mask back on. I had just visited New York City and traveled a bit in the early summer months, and I hadn’t gotten sick. Why was it any different now?

What I failed to realize is that COVID-19 mutates quickly, and with mutations come additional precautionary measures. The delta variant stunned health professionals because of how much more transmissible it was than previous dominant strains of COVID-19.

To slow case numbers in a variant that was still infecting vaccinated people, the CDC was in a compromising position, forcing them to revise previous recommendations.

We saw the same thing happen with the omicron variant this past winter. My primary source of excitement when getting the COVID-19 vaccine was that I could spend time with family and friends without worrying about getting them sick. Dr. Fauci even made a statement in October 2021 reassuring Americans that we could safely enjoy Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas with our families.

But the rapid spread of the highly-transmissible omicron variant in Decem-

ber 2021 posed a new risk to gathering with loved ones. The variant cast a shadow over holiday excitement. When I returned to my hometown, many plans got canceled and parties got rescheduled as people attempted to ward off any sickness. Health officials’ recommendations seemed to tighten restrictions once again.

That said, we must remember mask guidance has changed before and it will change again. The CDC has acknowledged that as cases and hospitalizations rise and fall, specific sections of the country will face adjusted mask recommendations.

In an age when Republican representatives call mask mandates “draconian” on the floor of the House of Representatives, I worry not every American will be willing to re-mask if asked. But I urge people to take the time to understand the logic behind newly recommended precautions.

I am growing just as tired of pandemic life as everyone else, but if donning a mask in the future will keep others from getting sick, I will wear my KN-95 with pride. csciorti@iu.edu

Indiana Daily Student

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NEWS

April 7, 2022 idsnews.com

Editors Emma Herwehe, Nic Napier, Emma Uber news@idsnews.com

Community tells IU Jacobs School ‘time’s up’

ETHAN MOORE | IDS

IU alumna Abby Malala speaks to the crowd of demonstrators April 2, 2022, in front of the Jacobs School of Music’s East Studio Building. Malala helped organize the Saturday protest to demand the university takes more action to protect victims of sexual assault.

By Cate Charron

catcharr@iu.edu | @catecharron

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

A group of students dressed in all black armed themselves with umbrellas and hand drawn signs.

They bore the dropping temperatures and drizzling rain outside the East Studio Building to protest with more than 150 other students and community members who are demanding change in their institution’s policies.

Those in the crowd held up posters with messages like: “Jacobs times up,” “hold predators accountable” and “follow through on policies.” Drivers of cars passing by on Eagleson Avenue slowed down, rolled down their windows and hollered in support.

Members of the Jacobs School of Music and Bloomington community voiced their disdain and anger Saturday night regarding how the university dealt with current music student Chris Parker’s sexual assault allegations, investigation and sanctions, and the effect it has left on the greater music community.

The protest was spurred by the findings of an Indiana Daily Student investigation. Parker was found to have been allowed back as a student twice after violating the no-trespass order of his suspension given after he was found responsible for sexual as-

sault in 2016. Now, he remains a student, who completed his senior recital March 29, and will finish his degree at the prestigious music school after 6 years and two suspensions.

During the protest, a letter from Shailey Ostlund was read aloud to the crowd. Ostlund was the woman who reported Parker to the university, which resulted in a Title IX investigation that found him responsible for her assault.

The university treated her case with little respect, she said, and its actions, or lack thereof, allowed an alleged “known abuser” back into the community. The silencing of survivors as well as the lack of response is unacceptable on the university’s part, Ostlund said.

“I never thought people would fight with me, or that by the time I left my community, I would have people willing to stand by my side,” Ostlund wrote. “I am so lucky that I was wrong.”

Organizer and IU alumna Abby Malala briefly studied in the jazz studies program with Parker. During her time in the department, she said she was abused herself by another student. She said it was the way Parker was celebrated in the community that made her decide to not report her own abuser to the university.

“Because their endorsement of Parker and the culture he thrived in filled me with the fear that if I spoke out about being abused, no one would believe me,” Malala said. “Even if they

did believe me, they wouldn’t really care enough to do anything about it.”

Especially in the music school’s culture, she said it is difficult for survivors like herself to continue to pursue their music, what they considered their passion, without trauma. All the while, Malala said she, like other survivors, watch their abusers applauded and continue their lives without repercussions for stunting another’s.

“Why do abusers get the second, third, hundredth chances that survivors are never afforded?”

— Abby Malala

Jacobs sophomore Cristina Sarrico said she struggled with how the university and her professors treated her when she was sexually assaulted by another Jacobs student. Through this experience, she said her passion and identity in music had become something that felt terrifying and unsafe.

“To IU and Jacobs administrations, we need to take the issue of sexual violence in our communities seriously,” Sarrico said. “It’s prolific, and unfortunately, my experience is not unique.”

She said it was incredibly difficult to find resources and have informal accommodations made for her situation. In classes, she asked for different seating arrangements, personal boundaries with touching and trigger

ETHAN MOORE | IDS

The crowd of demonstrators listen to Kyle Brooks, a Jacobs School of Music graduate student and the secretary of B’Town Jazz, speak April 2, 2022, in front of the Jacobs School of Music’s East Studio Building. “It is our absolute responsibility down to the individual level to be a force for positivity, growth and inclusion within our own walls,” Brooks said.

warnings. When she was trying to find help, she said she was forced to tell her story over and over, sometimes in excruciating detail.

She wants more to be done on the university’s end. Sarrico said this includes hiring more staff to both support survivors and work through Title IX investigations, increasing faculty sexual assault education and generally facilitating conversations with those in the community to find a solution to this prevalent problem.

“If they don’t know the answers to everything, that’s okay,” Sarrico said.

“It’s not an excuse of not knowing what to do to not do anything.”

Shatter the Silence representative Shibani Mody asks why the university continues to protect perpetrators of sexual assault. She said IU administration is not doing enough and doesn’t care to do so when addressing the rise of sexual assaults on campus.

“We deserve to feel empowered on campus and that’s the only thing that you should be focused on is protecting students.”

— Shibani Mody

Kyle Brooks, a Jacobs graduate student and B’Town Jazz secretary, said Parker continues to be served special opportunities to continue his education. After the IDS investigation was published, multiple sources say Parker supposedly decided to study off campus for the remainder of his semester.

Through not completing his inperson attendance, Brooks said Parker is being allowed to skate by requirements for all Jacobs students.

He said this sets the example that students who are found responsible for sexual misconduct can still graduate by doing less than those who show up to class attempting to just achieve a passing grade.

Brooks said people should call out those who are progressing a dangerous culture where sexual violence is not treated seriously. Not enough has been done at IU, he said, to strike down this issue to limit the threat of possible sexual abusers being allowed within the music school community.

A problem he called a cancer festering in the walls.

“When you benefit from an art form like jazz, which was born out of the legacy of black resistance, if you choose to opt out of the conversation of oppression, then you are part of the problem.”

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

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 and worked at the Bloomington ER up until December 2021.

Unbeknownst to her upon entering the nursing industry, the pandemic would consume her career in the hospital’s ER department.

Before her work began each day, she would make her ritualized trip to Starbucks around 7 p.m., grabbing a much-needed iced dirty chai, double shot, with nonfat milk and vanilla.

Both she and Lowry worked the night shift at the Bloomington hospital, and they liked to get to the hospital early. After arriving, she would scan the ER department, mentally preparing for the day by noting the number of patients in the waiting room and the number of nurses she could visibly see just standing.

“If you see no one, that’s bad. If you see nurses who have time to stop at a computer, it might be a decent day.”

- Brooklyn Alm

Once she arrived at the break room, she filled her pockets with necessities, including things like pens, trauma shears and Coban, what she and her boyfriend call the duct tape of the nursing world. By the end of her shift, she said her pockets are usually full of random items picked up throughout the day.

Once her shift began, she would head to what she called the huddle room where the charge nurse gave an update about the state of the ER department. This includes everything from the number of beds available, number of patients and how many people are on staff.

“Basically, how fucked you are for the shift,” Alm said.

She also would check the staffing grid, where she analyzed what rooms she would be taking care of that night along with what other nurses would be on her team.

Day shift nurses would begin to let their patients know they were leaving and introduce Alm as the nurse for the nighttime, updating her about their condition and any other important details.

From that point on, she focuses on the patient’s ABC’s: airway, breathing and circulation, prioritizing patients by who needs the most care at the moment.

Alm then locks in for the long haul.

Once she had her assignments, she became entrenched in a cycle of meeting new patients, checking on ones already admitted and holding down the hospital ER with her co-workers during a pandemic. These 12 hours came with little to no down time due to the fast-paced nature of the work. Alm and Lowry said their co-workers and they were lucky if they got five minutes to scarf down pizza from Aver’s or Domino’s.

Alm repeated this process three times a week, for a combined total of 36 hours. Due to staffing shortages, the last 15 weeks of 2021 turned into 48-hour weeks with four shifts, she said. Alm said sometimes the shift would turn from 12 hours into possibly 16 hours depending on the state of the hospital.

“On day four of the week, you get a triple shot,” Alm joked about her coffee order.

Alm and Lowry sometimes went to Runcible Spoon with some of their co-workers after shift, relaxing with a nice breakfast

after a long and exhausting day at work.

“I genuinely think talking about your shift instead of just going home alone,” she paused. “Like, you sleep better.” *

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lm has been a nurse for about three years now working in the ER, and she said the morale in the hospital has been very low during the pandemic.

“We have staff members that are out sick,” she said.

“We're working extra. We're just at our wits' ends. It doesn't seem like this is ever going to end which is really difficult.”

When hospitals overflowed with patients, nurses who had already reached their limits had also been attacked and criticized due to a political battle over a vaccine many have chosen not to take. According to the CDC and health experts across the country, the COVID-19 vaccine is a safe and effective way of protecting oneself from the coronavirus. Regardless of what doctors have repeatedly recommended, political divisions over this shot have heightened tensions in the hospital.

Alm has personally struggled with handling unvaccinated patients, who have yelled, attacked and emotionally drained her throughout her work.

Alm said she did not become a nurse to judge people, and she will care for anyone regardless of who they are, but the abuse from patients has taken a toll. Patients, usually those who are unvaccinated, have been particularly abusive during the pandemic as they refuse to wear masks, to acknowledge the severity of COVID-19 or to be conscientious of the health and safety of those in the hospital, she said.

When Alm worked at the former Bloomington hospital, she recalls a patient arriving at the hospital for a non-COVID-19 related issue. Since the hospital had a policy that everyone must be tested for the coronavirus, the patient was tested and the result came back positive. The patient then proceeded to purposely cough directly on Alm once she told them the results.

Nurses have also faced complaints about wait times, which skyrocketed during the pandemic as hospitals work with fewer nurses and more patients.

Alm said people don’t always recognize that nurses are humans too, just trying to do their best and get people through the hospital as quickly as possible. People don’t understand when they enter the ER, patients are not seen on a first-come, first-served basis, she said.

Nurses are trained to evaluate everyone in the ER as a whole, and they sometimes have to move those who are in need of more immediate care to the front of the waiting list.

“We're trained as nurses to take your vital signs and look at you as a whole and recognize when you were actually dying,” Alm said.

Lowry said he recognizes it can be difficult to sit there and wait, especially

“These are people who don’t believe that this is a real thing but aren’t in the hospital seeing people suffocate and die from it. It feels like all of our emotions are being invalidated.”

- Brooklyn Alm

if you are in pain, but everyone needs

to receive treatment, some quicker than others.

“If I am not in your room, that’s a good thing,” Lowry said. “It means you’re not dying.”

During the winter months in 2020, Lowry estimated that he would see between one and five COVID-19 cases during his shifts. He said with the Omicron variant and the large uptick in cases and hospitalizations around December 2021, he was surprised if someone came to the hospital and their COVID-19 test would return negative.

Lowry said nurses are struggling with shortages in the hospitals when these waves of variant cases hit and the hospital receives a higher influx of patients, which has become a consistent pattern. Lowry said a fully staffed ER at the old Bloomington hospital was around nine nurses. Due to COVID-19 and a shrinking workforce, he remembers nights where there would be only six nurses working.

Lowry said the typical number is four patients to a nurse, but numbers sometimes rose to around six patients for him some nights. *

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argie Clouse has navigated the pandemic in multiple positions, working as a flight nurse, ground paramedic and an ER nurse.

Like Alm and Lowry, Clouse has been in the thick of the pandemic. She has seen it from varying angles and shares many of the feelings Alm and Lowry experienced. It is difficult for her to speak about her job without shedding tears.

“We have seen the worst,” Clouse said.

Clouse said in the beginning of the pandemic it was difficult as patients had little to no contact with their families while trying to fight off COVID-19. She remembers speaking with her mom, who she limited contact with because Clouse spent most of her work day surrounded by sick patients.

Her mom didn’t understand at first why Clouse wouldn’t come to visit her, even as Clouse explained to her mother if she gave her COVID-19 there was a likelihood she would be put on a ventilator due to her respiratory issues.

Clouse called her mother one night and told her a story about one of her patients.

The patient was brought into the hospital, not articulating full sentences because they were struggling to breathe.

The patient was alone with no family by their side due to hospital precautions.

Clouse said she took care of the patient, but they died within just a few hours after leaving her care.

Clouse sat on the phone pleading with her mother.

“She had nobody with her to hold her hand other than a nurse she had never met before,” Clouse said.

“So that's whenever I call my mom and I'm like, ‘This is what I've been trying to tell you. I don't want to be the reason that you're on a ventilator. I don't want to be the reason that you don't go home.’”

Hospitals have begun letting people see their loved ones now while receiving treatment, but new challenges have arisen with each new wave.

“We’re tired. We’re really, really tired,” she said. “It’s almost like we don’t know if there is ever going to be an end to this COVID.” She said she feels much of the nursing workforce has become hardened in some respects, having spent the last few years

watching

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Margie Clouse, right, and her daughter Sierra King, a pediatric nurse, on the night of March 2, 2022, get off work at IU Health Bloomington. They work the same shift, but on different floors. The two were in nursing school at the same time, but in different programs. "She's one of my dearest friends," Clouse said of her daughter.

from this virus.

Clouse often hears nurses around her questioning why they chose this field amidst the chaos in the hospitals, even though they are making a significant difference in people’s lives.

Clouse said she knows other healthcare workers who have reached breaking points, and she has seen doctors step outside and take time to cry during difficult shifts.

“It just feels like it’s never ending,” Clouse said. “It’s always coming back with a vengeance.”

She said everyone in the hospital has been put on edge, and amazing nurses she has known are leaving the healthcare industry because of the emotional toll of the pandemic.

Clouse, like other nurses during the pandemic, has seen and faced abuse from patients, once having a catheter thrown at her face because she was discharging someone who didn’t want to leave.

Clouse once saw a patient who was furious he had not received his medication, even though other nurses were scrambling to help someone who was going into cardiac arrest. The nurse had apologized for the wait time and told the patient they were attending to someone in need of all the nurses.

“I don’t care,” Clouse remembers the patient saying. “My pain medication is more important.”

Clouse recently dropped down to part-time for onfloor work in the ER department, as the hateful words and actions she has seen while working shifts have been emotionally damaging. Stepping away from working on the floor has allowed her to pursue a leadership role and given her time to focus on other health programs within the hospital she is passionate about. *

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ecca Tucker, an intensive care unit shift coordinator at the IU Health Bloomington Hospital, has watched patients move in and out of her floor of the hospital, fighting for their lives against a virus the country continues to battle to this day.

She remembers the death counts being especially high during the spring and the summer of 2021.

“That was a really rough time,” Tucker said. “That was just body bags every shift. Nobody was being discharged. Nobody was getting better.”

She said ICU nurses are used to dealing with death in the hospitals, but

especially for those who are new nurses, the death totals have been a lot to deal with. One of the most difficult aspects of the pandemic though she said was when families would choose to keep loved ones alive, even though it was clear they were suffering. She said it felt like nurses were torturing these patients.

“These are the sickest patients that any of us have ever cared for,” Tucker said.

To give nurses a space to relax and share their thoughts and feelings, IU Health Bloomington has a hospital support group called Compassion Circles.

Tucker said nurses can show up and talk about how the pandemic is impacting them or anything else in their life. The meetings are led by a social worker as well as a chaplain much of the time. Nurses learn coping strategies there to deal with the emotional tolls of the pandemic and also have a chance to speak with fellow healthcare workers who are all sharing the same experience.

Tucker said she is grateful for this time, as she has rarely had time for more informal conversations with other nurses during her shifts in the pandemic.

She said once COVID-19 numbers would drop, surgery numbers would then pick back up because of how many had to be put on hold.

Patients who had the virus would still have to be in the hospital too as many faced post-COVID-19 issues.

“For so long, we just had no relief at all,” Tucker said. *

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ecent Monroe County numbers show a much brighter future for the country and for healthcare workers, with COVID-19 cases dropping to under 1oo a week after reaching 2,000 in January.

These numbers have given healthcare workers a much needed breath of fresh air.

Although cases have dropped, there is always concern of the next variant, which can unleash a whole new whirlwind of complications and unpredictable outcomes.

As she and Lowry begin their nursing contracts in Texas, Alm said she has accepted that COVID-19, similar to the flu, will most likely be a part of the rest of her

nursing career.

She said some of the most difficult moments throughout this pandemic amount to feeling helpless against the coronavirus. Patients would keep coming through the doors, and she began to question if she was even making a difference.

She understands the urge to leave the profession behind, especially when mental health takes a toll.

Alm and Lowry’s switch to travel nursing gave them a chance to take a break and recharge after two years spent battling the coronavirus. The couple used the down time as an opportunity to explore nature, having recently visited Hocking Hills in Ohio.

“It's been a huge blessing to have this time off between jobs and enjoy nature and kind of heal from a lot of the burnout, recharge before we dive headfirst again,” Alm said.

Margie Clouse thinks the lasting impact will be the fear that the next variant or next virus is just around the corner. She thinks it will permanently remain in the back of the minds of nurses for a long time to come.

“There is going to be that constant fear as to whether or not it is going to come back,” Clouse said. “I think we’re all going to be living on edge for a really long time.”

Clouse and Tucker both find solace in being with family and in the little moments amid the stress of the hospital. Whether it's walking their dogs, listening to music in the car before shifts or going for a swim, these nurses find ways to relieve stress outside of their shifts.

Before Clouse’s shift each morning, she remembers to kiss her husband and her son on the forehead. She texts her daughter too, reminding her each day that she loves her. As she gets ready to leave, she remembers the risks her job brings as she walks out the door.

The devastation and unrelenting exhaustion won’t leave nurses for a long time, even after the world starts to forget about the coronavirus. Cases may have dropped, mandates may have dissipated and people may throw away the masks, but the emotional and physical impact will always remain.

"You can’t care for people if you’re not caring for yourself.”

- Brooklyn Alm

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The southeast entrance of the IU Health Bloomington Hospital is seen on Jan. 20, 2022. The new hospital is located at 2651 E. Discovery Park Way.

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Dancers perform as Odette and Prince Siegfried in “Swan Lake” Act 2 on March 30, 2022. The excerpt was performed as part of the IU Jacobs School of Music Ballet Theater’s spring ballet “A Look Back.”

By Nadia Scharf

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The IU Jacobs School of Music Ballet Theater presented their spring ballet, “A Look Back,” on April 1-2 at the Musical Arts Center. The show brought together three pieces from ballets by famous choreographers, including Balanchine and Bournonville.

“We’re about performance education here at the Jacobs School of Music,” Sarah Wroth, chair of the Ballet department, said. “These three works — if you were designing a plate of food, these are nourishing elements of dancer training.”

The first excerpt of the production, “Swan Lake” Act 2, tells the story of Swan Queen

Odette, who was cursed to become a swan during the day and a woman at night, and Prince Siegfried, whose love for her will eventually break this curse.

On the MAC stage, audiences watched as Odette dodged the prince’s grasp with quick, birdlike movements before eventually coming together to dance a pas de deux, or duet. As the act progressed, the iconic swan corps, made up of a full stage of dancers in identical white tutus, came onstage to highlight the soloists and to dance themselves, both in smaller groups and as a whole.

IU senior Jack Grohmann danced the role of the prince on opening night. He said that, with a historic piece like this, the nuances and details of the choreography were important to get right. For him, the most challenging part was building the character through the choreography.

“It was challenging, but it

was fun, trying to figure out who I was inside of the character and how to bring that out through my movement,” Grohmann said. “Not necessarily just through choreography but how I did the choreography and how I told the story.”

The second piece, a pas de trois trio from choreographer George Balanchine’s “Agon,” was set to the complex and challenging music of renowned composer Igor Stravinsky. When the piece was first performed in 1957, it partnered Black dancer Arthur Mitchell and white dancer Diana Adams, which the Jacobs event’s program calls a “huge step forward for inclusivity in ballet.”

During IU’s performance, two female dancers and one male dancer combined classical ballet steps with modern movement styles and unpredictable rhythm to draw in audiences.

The final piece was a suite

by August Bournonville, a celebrated choreographer who established the Danish style of ballet. It featured five excerpts, ranging from a pas de deux to a pas de sept, made up of seven dancers, to a near-full cast piece from Bournonville’s “Napoli.” The suite ended with characters from each variation coming to dance together.

The Bournonville style is notably distinct. Dancer and IU junior Sarah Pfeiffer noted there are specific modifications to the usual Balanchinebased style, such as the way dancers hold their arms and turn their heads, and it includes different jumps.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, “A Look Back” is the first spring ballet for the freshman, sophomores and juniors. For the seniors, it’s their last.

“You see them getting emotional after these performances, after they culminate,” Wroth said. “That’s when all those feelings come out, as

they’re taking their bow, as they’re feeling the warmth of the lights on the stage hit their skin.”

As a junior, Pfeiffer said she loves watching the seniors dance together because they’re so comfortable with each other. She’s happy the seniors get to share their last ballet with each other and with the rest of the students.

Grohmann is a senior, and he said knowing the spring ballet is his last with IU has made it more sentimental for him. But he says that even now, he’s still discovering things about his dancing, particularly through his role as Prince Siegfried. While there’s more pressure with this show, he said he wanted to end with a bang.

“It’s nice to share this experience with seniors. We’re all kind of doing it together as one last hurrah,” Grohmann said. “That’s what I’m trying to take with me: my memories with them.”

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Students, local comedians to perform at Funny 501 comedy group from Ball State University.

Winnie Lyon, IU senior and one of the festival organizers, said having a comedy festival was a yearly tradition before the COVID-19 pandemic, although the name changed several times throughout the years. The last time it was held was in 2019 under the name Funtitled Campus Comedy Festival, Lyon said.

This is the first year the event is not being organized by the Indiana Memorial Union Board, Lyon said. The Funny 501 organizers received financial help from the

By Ethan Moore

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Campus comedy groups and other local comedians will perform at Funny 501, a student-run comedy festival, on April 8-9. The performances will be from 7-11 p.m. in Room 015 in the Fine Arts Building.

The lineup for the two-day event features all seven student comedy groups and several individual standup comedy acts. Both nights will feature headline performances, including regional comedians and Absolunacy, an improv

IU Funding Board to put the festival on.

Representatives from each student-comedy group met about two months ago to plan the festival, Lyon said.

She said members of all comedy groups have been excited about the festival and doing what they can to be involved in the planning process.

Lyon said this year’s festival is bringing in more local talent from around Bloomington compared to past years of the festival. The organizers are also giving additional time for group performances as they want the festival to be more

student focused.

“Everyone does shows all year and this is the first time we’re all together as a community, celebrating what we’ve done that year and just coming together for some fun,” Marlee Wiggington, IU senior and festival organizer, said.

Lyon and Wiggington are both members of Backdoor Comedy, an improv and sketch comedy student group.

Emma Sappington, an IU alumna and former member of the group, will be one of the headlining performances on the second night of the festi-

val.

Sappington said she performed at past iterations of the Funny 501 festival all four years that she was a student.

She said it is a great way for people to see different ways to get involved with comedy.

“It’s just kind of contagious to see how much fun everyone’s having on stage and it resonates with all the audience members too,” Sappington said.

She lives in Chicago now and said she does improv about three times a week. Her individual performances feature funny songs and stand up

jokes, which she is planning to do during her Funny 501 set as well.

Sappington said she has not been to Bloomington since she graduated in 2019 and is eager to come back.

Wiggington and Lyon said the comedy community at IU is also looking forward to the festival.

“I’m honestly really excited to see crowd reactions and see how excited the groups get about performing,” Lyon said.

“It’s really awesome to watch everyone enjoy one another’s comedy in a really cool, shared way.”

COLUMN: Red Hot Chili Peppers remain unambitious on ‘Unlimited Love’ The opening track is sophisticated in its lyrical commentary on Australia’s devastating bushfires in 2019 and 2020. An alluring guitar riff from Frusciante invites listeners in and covers “Black Summer” in a melancholic haze before frontman Anthony Kiedis intensifies the track with his thrashing voice.

On “Here Ever After,” Kiedis returns to his original, rapstyle delivery of lyrics to tell the story of a toxic relationship. While it’s clear that Kiedis hasn’t lost his energetic spunk, it’d be a far more compelling track if he debuted a sense of maturity through his ballad-built vocals instead.

The bass-driven chorus of “Aquatic Mouth Dance” is littered with references to the early days of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, as the title mimics the title for track “American Ghost Dance” from the band’s second album “Freaky Styley.”

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“Unlimited Love” is a facet of reflection for the Red Hot Chili Peppers as they revisit funky melodies and alternative rock after a six year hiatus.

The band’s return to rock feels familiar, as they reunite with prodigal guitarist John Frusciante for the first time since the release of their “Stadium Arcadium” album in 2006. Fans will rejoice as the musician’s smooth blend of staccato licks and percussive chord progressions accompany sharp production from studio legend Rick Rubin on this newest album.

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Child.” Juxtapositions of unusual pop culture figures perfectly match the song’s groovy rhythm as Kiedis raps, “Adam Ant and Robert Plant, the banter of a sycophant, enlisted by Ulysses Grant to record at the Record Plant.”

On later track “Let ‘Em Cry,” percussionist Chad Smith’s beautiful drum pattern compliments an infectious chorus as a series of horns encourage listeners to dance.

The album nears its end with “The Heavy Wing.” On this track, Frusciante graces listeners with a driving guitar riff that precedes verses in which Kiedis showcases his baritone voice, as he sings, “Trace me now through your innocence, tell me it’s part of the program I started.”

On “Tangelo,” slowed down acoustics bring the album to a close with despondent lyrics that are vulnerable, but overdone on previous al-

bums from the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

While “Unlimited Love” stands as a sentimental album for longterm fans of the

once-radical rock band, the Red Hot Chili Peppers fail to reinvent themselves with a repetitive feeling of nonchalance on this latest album.

WARNER RECORDS

After a six year hiatus, the Red Hot Chili Peppers released their 12th studio album “Unlimited Love” on April 1.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Today is a 9 - Your work is gaining attention. Polish portfolios, websites and resumes. Smile for the cameras. Discover fringe benefits. Your status and influence are on the rise.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Today is a 9 - Take advantage of lucrative conditions. Collaborate to harvest what you can. Stick to practical financial priorities to maximize savings. Build for the future.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is a 9 - Keep practicing. A dream lies within reach. Adapt and adjust with expert support. Nurture yourself for optimal physical performance. You’re building strength and endurance.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Today is an 8 - Enjoy a dreamy situation. Love and luck come together. Make longdistance connections. Discuss possibilities and align on the best direction. You’re learning something fascinating.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Today is a 9 - Love feeds your spirit. Pull together with your partner. Contribute to strengthen collaborative efforts. Support each other. Shared dreams can get romantic.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Today is an 8 - Creative muses inspire your artistry. Discover unimagined beauty. Fun and romance blossom naturally. Have fun with someone attractive and interesting. Share a delicious treat.

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1 Reminder trademark 7 1994 National Women's Hall of Fame inductee 12 One having a ball 15 Kia model 16 Magna cum __ 17 Get rid of 18 Bracketology event (Cambridge) 20 Narrow waterway 21 Soup served with chopsticks 22 Chill-inducing 23 Sensed 24 Series that included Bugs and Daffy (Augusta) 29 Paso __, Calif.

31 Radamès' love 32 Texter's "But ... " 33 Lured 36 Frat letter 39 Risky operations often with code names (Ann Arbor) 43 Tire pressure fig.

44 12-step offshoot 45 A, B or C, but not X, Y or Z 46 Move like water 47 Acted as an informant, in Ipswich

49 Science class visual aid (Joplin) 55 Second word of many limericks 56 "Cheers" server 57 More than -er 60 Pot part 61 Country leaders, and along with names in parentheses, a hint to 18-, 24-, 39and 49-Across 65 Group of scenes 66 Triumphant cry 67 Anti-anxiety med 68 Gun, as an engine 69 Player in 18-Across 70 Firmly held ideas

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23 25 26 27 28 29 30 33 34 35 36 37 38 40 41 42 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 58 59 61 62 63 64

French way Some taxi toppers Fellows "__ say it?"

Banish Rhythms NFL's Cardinals, on scoreboards OTC watchdog K-12, in brief __ kitchen "Balderdash!"

Numbers with a colon Lopsided win Publisher Chandler Game delay cause Writer Rand "If u ask me ... " Said goodbye to, with "of" Part of a pot Exploited Locker room powder MLB family name About Charge Milk for losers Carol opener It might be crowned Cooled by rocks, in a way High-def screen Flummox Choral platform World leader with a distinctive suit Assists, e.g.

Till stack Brand with a Grabbin' Grape flavor Laundry brand Mo. named for an emperor Pewter, mostly

Answer to previous puzzle

1 Fanfare 2 Large deep-water fish 3 The Blue Fairy helped Pinocchio escape from him, in the Disney film 4 Eye twitch, maybe 5 Arrival cry 6 They might hold chairs at a circus 7 iHeartRadio fare 8 "The Hunger Games" land

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