June 3, 2021
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How to vote for Board of Trustees
Players honored for IU baseball
By Phyllis Cha cha1@iu.edu | @phyllischa
By Aiden Kantner
IU graduates can vote for two members of the Board of Trustees for 2021. The election opened June 1 and closes June 30 at 10 a.m. Eastern Time, according to the IU Alumni Association’s website. The 2020 trustee election was canceled due to the pandemic. This year two trustees will be elected by alumni. The candidate with the most votes will serve a normal three-year term. The candidate with the next highest number of votes will serve an abbreviated two-year term. Nine candidates are listed on the IUAA website with descriptions of what the candidates background and goals are. The Board of Trustees, IU’s governing body, has nine members. Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb appoints six while IU alumni elect the other three. All trustees typically serve a three-year term, except for the student trustee who serves two years. The Board of Trustees determines the tuition and fee costs of attending IU and also addresses policies, budgets, faculty tenure and promotion, capital improvements and the conferral of degrees, according to their website. Graduates can vote online or request a paper ballot. To vote online, graduates will have to authenticate themselves with their name, date of birth and either the last four digits of their Social Security number, their alumni ID or university ID. For a paper ballot, IU graduates should contact Amy Cope, the alumni trustee election coordinator, at truselec@indiana.edu or 812-855-6610. Any graduates who have voted by paper ballot in the three prior trustee elections will have received a ballot June 1, according to the IU Alumni Association. If mailing a paper ballot, graduates should sign the envelope, otherwise the ballot will be declared void.
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Freshmen Carter Tran and Allison Being walk Aug. 24 near Showalter Fountain. Most masking and physical distancing requirements are lifted for the fall 2021 semester, according to IU.
'Unmasking' IU masking and physical distancing mandates mostly lifted for fall 2021 By Phyllis Cha cha1@iu.edu | @phyllischa
Most COVID-19 restrictions regarding masks and physical distancing on IU’s campus are gone for the fall 2021 semester, according to a press release from the university. IU released a guide on health and safety Tuesday about how IU will function from Aug. 1 to Dec. 31 during its in-person semester. For those who are fully vaccinated, wearing a mask on campus will be optional. Physical distancing won’t be required in any campus facilities. Classes will be held in person in regular classroom settings and will return to pre-pandemic capacity. Cafeterias, dining halls, fitness centers and public transportation may also return to pre-pandemic capacity, according to recommendations from IU’s
Restart Committee. Cleaning and disinfecting of public spaces and high-touch surfaces will continue, according to the release. Events with more than 250 people in attendance will go through a review process and the report recommends large events be held outdoors. For large indoor events with non-IU attendees, everyone will be required to wear a mask. Students, faculty and staff who are fully vaccinated will not be subject to mitigation testing but may be asked to participate in surveillance testing to monitor for outbreaks. According to the release, surveillance testing will be at lower levels than last year’s mitigation testing. Symptomatic testing and voluntary asymptomatic testing will still be available. If fully vaccinated, indi-
viduals won’t have to quarantine if contact traced. However, anyone who tests positive for COVID-19 will need to isolate for ten days or until symptoms improve and they are fever-free for 24 hours, whichever is longer. Those who are exempt from the vaccine or those who are not fully vaccinated will have to wear a mask on campus and will have to participate in mitigation testing, according to the release. If a student living on campus is not fully vaccinated or exempt, they will be tested on arrival. Vaccinated individuals will be guaranteed a vaccinated roommate, according to the release. During move-in, visitors will be required to wear a mask. According to recommendations from IU’s Restart Committee, exemptions will include, religious exemptions, medical
exemptions with documentation from a provider, medical deferrals, such active pregnancy or breastfeeding if a provider requests an exemption, immunocompromised patients and those who are enrolled in online-only programs and are not located in Indiana. Individuals can file for an exemption using an online form. Those receiving the vaccine are no longer required to upload documentation, such as with a vaccination card. This comes days after Attorney General Todd Rokita’s non-binding opinion that said IU’s requirement to show documentation of a vaccine violated state law. Special incentives will be offered to those deciding to upload documentation, according to the release. Details on the incentives will be announced later this week.
IU track and field Task force created to review policing sends 8 to Nationals
Seven IU baseball players were honored with All-Big Ten honors Sunday afternoon. Sophomore center fielder Grant Richardson was the lone IU player to make FirstTeam All-Big Ten. Richardson led the team with a .320 batting average and was second with 32 RBIs and seven home runs. Sophomore starting pitchers Gabe Bierman and McCade Brown were Second-Team selections. In the conference, Bierman was third in ERA at 2.68, fourth in opposing batting average at .179, and ninth with 74.0 innings pitched. Brown’s 3.39 ERA was eighth in the Big Ten. He was first in opposing batting average at .164 and total hits allowed with 35 and fifth with 97 total strikeouts. Junior third baseman Cole Barr made the Third-Team as an at-large selection. Barr led the Hoosiers with 8 home runs and 35 RBIs, and was second on the team with a .292 batting average. Three IU players made the All-Freshman team. Second baseman Paul Toetz, right fielder Morgan Colopy and relief pitcher John Modugno were all honored. Toetz led the Big Ten with 18 doubles, and was third on the team with a .281 batting average. Colopy was fourth on the team with a .274 batting average. Modugno started four games and had 16 appearances for the Hoosiers, finishing the season with a 2.09 ERA. The right hander went 3-1 on the season, striking out 40 batters in 38.2 total innings. IU finished their season at 26-18, fourth in the Big Ten. It awaits the NCAA tournament selection show on Monday, where the NCAA will announce the 64 team field for the NCAA tournament.
How to pretend you watched the Indy 500
By Phyllis Cha
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By Aidan Kunst akunst@iu.edu | @aidankunst
IU outdoor track and field competed in the 2021 NCAA East Preliminary Round in Jacksonville, Florida, from May 26 to May 29, sending 35 student-athletes to the regional finals. The Preliminary Round saw eight Hoosiers qualify for the 2021 NCAA National Championships in Eugene, Oregon. For the men, sophomore Nathan Stone got the team off to a fast start on day one, clearing a height of 5.35 meters in the pole vault to take seventh place overall and advance to nationals. The sophomore, competing in his first ever outdoor regional meet, took ninth place in the March indoor national finals. On the third day of competition, the Hoosiers saw two additional men secure their spots in Eugene. Leading the way once again was senior Ben Veatch, who advanced to Nationals for the second time in his career with a time of SEE TRACK, PAGE 6
A resident-led task force has been created to review and make recommendations about law enforcement in Bloomington and Monroe County, according to a press release from the City of Bloomington Tuesday. The Future of Policing Task Force will work to make policing “inclusive of diverse community voices” and “equitable in its implementation of policies and procedures regardless of race, age, gender, gender identity, economic, health or housing status” while providing protection for residents, visitors and law enforcement officers. The task force will evaluate the policies, practices and protocols of local law enforcement agencies using focus groups, surveys and other tools to find the best practices in policing, according to the release. The Future of Policing Task Force is a community-based collaborative effort to address systemic racism and other forms of discrimination in Bloom-
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The IU Police Department crest is displayed on the gas tank of an IUPD motorcycle at the “Touch a Truck” event on July 2, 2018, in the Chick-fil-A parking lot on East Third Street. The City of Bloomington created a task force to review and make recommendations for policing, according to a press release Tuesday.
ington, according to the release. This is part of greater city’s efforts to reduce racial inequities as outlined in Mayor John Hamilton’s Recover Forward Initiative. Members of the task force include Carolyn Calloway, Kevin Farris, A’ame
Joslin, Treon McClendon, Malik McCloskey, Amy Makice, David Norris, James Sanders, Jim Sims and Garfield Warren. The group will meet for the first time this month and will offer reports to the community within 90 and 180 days. Within
a year, the task force will present a report to community leaders, the City’s Board of Public Safety and law enforcement agencies with recommendations to fix inequities described in the report. The report will also be available for public review and comment.
By Bradley Hohulin bhohulin@iu.edu | @BradleyHohulin
The Indianapolis 500 is the greatest spectacle in racing and, depending on how good the NBA playoffs are, roughly the fourth greatest spectacle in sports on the last Sunday in May. Jokes aside, there’s a reason this competition captivates such a large audience every year for three hours despite receiving relatively little national hype during the other 8,757. IndyCar is adrenaline incarnate, a modern-day chariot race in which humans hurtle past one another at 230 miles per hour in deceptively aerodynamic metal death traps. Nevertheless, sinking a full afternoon into the 500 can be daunting for a casual viewer whose closest encounter with motorsports is a jaunt on Rainbow Road. If you’re afraid your friends from Indianapolis are going to shun you for your indifference, here are some tips guaranteed to make it sound like you were at the oval on race day. SEE INDY 500, PAGE 6