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'Making change loudly' IU QB Tattoo artist fights to make space for Black people in Bloomington FOOTBALL
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By Ty Vinson vinsonjo@iu.edu | @ty_vinson_
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erin J.D. starts his tattoo sessions by telling his client he’s going to waste more of their time than anyone else ever could. On Sept. 24, he was scheduled to create a custom tattoo for Phoebe Powell, 19. It was the day after dozens of people gathered in People’s Park just down the street from Cry Babies Electric Tattooing to protest the Kentucky attorney general’s decision not to charge the officers who killed Breonna Taylor with anything related to her death. Taylor was a Black woman who was killed by police March 13 in her home. Terin had planned to record portions of that day’s tattoo process for a documentary project, which probably would have been about the protest if he had been able to go. But before Terin sat Phoebe down to start sketching out the new permanent installation of neotraditional art on her arm, a darker shade of melanin Terin specializes in tattooing, he needed her to do something for him. “Today we’re giving her a lot of Black business,” Terin said in reference to one of the previous owners of Moon Stones, a local gem, rock and jewelry shop. He handed Phoebe a few bucks and asked her to go buy something at the bohemian shop and mention she was getting a tattoo next door. Terin has been in what he calls a “petty war” with the neighboring local business. It started when a woman who had previously owned the store, upset that Moon Stones’ designated spot was taken, parked behind some other cars in the lot with her light gold Mercedes SUV. It was a sort of deal the current owners of Moon Stones made, according to current owner Cheyenne Kollum — if someone parks in their spot, they’ll block the person in and hope they come into the store to be unblocked. It really blew up on Sept. 14, when, as Terin was cleaning his shop and preparing it for the day, he watched the SUV park in the alley separating his shop from Moon Stones. Terin stood up from his stool and apologized for what he was about to do. “It’s like the most petty thing I’m doing right now,” he said, rummaging through signs and canvases in the corner of the room. Before the woman could get out of her car, Terin was out there, standing up against the wall holding a white canvas spray painted with the words “My parking” with an angry face drawn next to it. He wanted the message to be obvious: The sign was making fun of the owners of the store for getting so mad when someone was in the spot. When she got out of her car, she asked, “Can I help you?” He told the woman that blocking people in with her gold Mercedes SUV was the most disgusting example of white privilege he’s seen. She took out her phone and asked him to repeat that, so she could post it on Facebook. He went inside to grab his professional camera to do the same. She drove off. So when Phoebe walked into Moon Stones 10 days later, she did what Terin said and told the woman she felt like popping by to peruse the gems before getting a tattoo at the shop out back. The woman said she’d never heard of the shop out there and asked if Phoebe knew of this other, women-run tattoo place instead. She then asked Phoebe what kind of tattoo she was getting, in which Phoebe responded with “A mom tattoo.” “Is your mom dead?” she recalled the woman asking. “No, I just love my fucking mom,” Phoebe responded.
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Sophomore quarterback Michael Penix Jr. is out for the season after suffering a torn ACL, IU head coach Tom Allen announced in a Zoom conference Monday. “Our heart breaks for Michael, and his family is here with him," Allen said. "Really feel for him, all he's worked for.” Penix suffered the injury in the third quarter of IU’s game against Maryland on Saturday after he landed awkwardly while running out of bounds. Penix leads the Big Ten with 1,645 passing yards and 14 touchdowns in six games this season. He set a career high in passing yards against Ohio State on Nov. 21 with 491yards, the second highest in program history. Sophomore Jack Tuttle, a transfer from the University of Utah, is expected to start against Wisconsin on Dec. 5.
Terin said the idea is to scare the owners of Moon Stones with Black business — that if he keeps this up for a year, any internalized racism she may have as a white woman will make her think something bad is going to happen if she’s continuously getting Black business, bringing her bias to the forefront, Terin hopes. He later sent some of his shop helpers and apprentices over to keep it up. He loves testing white authority in Bloomington. “You don’t change culture by being quiet,” he said. “The only way you change a market like Bloomington is loudly.” * * * ABBIE GRESSLEY | IDS
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nce Terin sat Phoebe down for her tattoo, they started to talk. As Terin pierced her skin, his needle feeling like nails digging into a raw sunburn that would leave a permanent shrine to Phoebe’s mother, he asked her about growing up as a Black woman in Bloomington. She told Terin of the conversations she had with her mom about Bloomington not being a good place for Black people to raise families. Terin agreed, saying it’s hard for people to see that when there are louder voices drowning out those of minorities. “It’s always white people saying they don’t feel that way,” Terin said. “White people cancel Black talking points here because white people are more respected here, no matter your level.” The city’s history shows just that: Narratives have been created about Black people in Bloomington, and oftentimes they don’t match up with what people have actually experienced. Accounts of some Black neighborhoods are nonexistent, harmful nicknames have been glamorized and Black people have been beaten blocks from their homes, according to documentation from the Monroe County History Center. The Black community has constantly been forced out of spaces in Bloomington, but Terin is trying to fix that. At 31, Terin has been tattooing for seven years and has lived in Bloomington for 10. He grew up in Indianapolis with a religious mother and a complicated relationship with his father figures, so he changed his last name to “J.D.” He’s a high school dropout. He was the kind of kid to be talkative in class and get yelled at for it, clad in black leather jackets, Hot Topic band tees and pink gem gauges. He loved pushing the boundaries of what it meant to be a Black man and identify as such. He said he loves being beaten up for his beliefs. Terin ended up going back to school and getting into IUPurdue University Indianapolis in 2010 where he felt more at home than he ever did in high school. There were Black weirdos, guys who would pierce their noses in class. All
Top Terin works on a client’s wrap-around snake tattoo Oct. 28. He wears a light on his forehead to see the tattoo better while keeping the lighting of his studio aesthetically pleasing. Middle Terin shows his apprentices different skills while tattooing a client Oct. 9. His apprentices have started to play a bigger role in the shop and even take walk-ins. Bottom Phoebe Powell, 19, got a tattoo from Terin a few weeks ago. It was a surprise tattoo for her mom in honor of the support she shows for Phoebe.
the Black artsy kids went to IUPUI, and the Afro punk scene wasn’t hidden in the shadows. One day Terin was stopped by a woman at the store after she noticed his IU shirt. She asked him if he went there, and out of panic, he said yes. She asked him about the Memorial Stadium construction and how it’s supposed to be more like a horseshoe, and she asked him what dorm he lived in. He told her it was one of the big ones.
“To be a leader in Bloomington you got to let go of something special. After you lead and everything else, it’s a community that will never thank you. It will only come for you, try to destroy you, try to take everything from you.” Terin J.D., local tattoo artist
Never before had IU really been on the plate for him; it was a big university, something he felt he didn’t belong to. But that didn’t stop him from applying — and getting in. He moved here in 2011 at 21 and finished his bachelor’s degree in studio art. But Terin has noticed a lack of a scene in Bloomington for Black art students, artists and Black people in general. His business gets a lot of outside foot traffic. He said he constantly sees people stop and grimace at the “Support Black Artists” posters on the windows. When he first moved into the building on East Grant Street in 2018, surveillance cameras showed people tearing down the signs and throwing things at the building. And it’s right down the street from People’s Park, a place for
gathering and activism, and a home for many, that was once a Black market bathed in culture and shattered by racist violence. These instances of overt racism have happened since the city’s inception. Terin said it’s easy to see Bloomington as a progressive oasis because it at least isn’t as bad as other communities. “We don’t have Black people dying in the streets,” he said. “It’s easy to sit on your high horse and say, ‘We’re a great community. I’ve never seen a cop kill a Black person here.’” Bloomington’s safe, Bloomington’s easy, he said. You don’t have to worry about getting called out for being racist because there aren’t any minorities to do the calling out. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bloomington had an estimated population of more than 85,000 in 2019. Around 80% of the population is white, and only 4.3% is identified as Black or African American. The City of Bloomington explains the history of Black people in the city and key points that shaped the city’s diversity much differently than Black and Brown people do. According to the City of Bloomington’s African American Walking Tour pamphlet, two Black men bought land the year the city was founded in 1818. The pamphlet gives their names, William Cooley and Aaron Wallace, but that’s all. No more information is available for their families. The pamphlet also talks of a neighborhood on the east side of Bloomington that was “commonly called ‘Bucktown.’” According to a 2007 written history of Black people in Bloomington in 1922 by Dan Combs and Dr. James Madison, Black leaders in the community didn’t call it Bucktown, other than a couple “bad houses.” Official records
of life in this area are practically nonexistent, aside from oral histories and writings from residents. One account describes the “Bucktown” neighborhood in 1903, when a group of white men called “whitecappers” abducted a young white woman and a Black man, took them to what is now known as Dunn Meadow at IU, stripped them naked and whipped them with barbed wire. Megan MacDonald, research library manager at the Monroe County History Center, said there isn’t much of a collection on diversity in Bloomington. “Part of the reason being that Bloomington just wasn’t a historically diverse town, or at least not diverse enough that white folks felt the need to preserve history outside their own,” she said. The Monroe County History Center is located on Sixth and Washington Streets, where what used to be “The Colored School” stood in the 1800s. It was a segregated school for Black elementary students until 1915, when the increasingly white neighborhood it was located in wanted a Carnegie Library. The students were then moved to a temporary school and then to the Banneker School on the west side, where it stayed segregated until 1951. Despite these often misleading narratives from the city, there are some residents who have taken it upon themselves to document the stories of people who have actually lived here and faced oppression.
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Redshirt sophomore quarterback Michael Penix Jr. prepares to throw the ball Nov. 28 at Memorial Stadium. Penix will miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL.
IU offers winter COVID-19 tests By Matt Cohen mcd1@iu.edu | @Matt_Cohen_
imilar to Terin, Liz Mitchell, 67, hated Bloomington when she first came here. She and her husband Jim moved to
IU announced Tuesday it will begin a voluntary asymptomatic COVID-19 testing program on the Bloomington and IU-Purdue University Indianapolis campuses. The announcement says 500 testing slots will be open each week and filled on a “first-come, first-served basis.” The tests will all be free. However, the release states these voluntary testing slots will only be available during IU’s intersession — Nov. 30 through Feb. 8 — when far fewer students are in Bloomington because all classes have moved online. All on-campus housing is closed for the entirety of the intersession. In his weekly webinars, Dr. Aaron Carroll, IU’s director of mitigation testing, has gotten many questions about whether IU will offer voluntary testing. He has said at some point that may happen with the school’s own labs opening. With the labs now running, IU is able to offer this program. Previously, the only way to get a test through IU while asymptomatic was being selected for mitigation testing. Students could only request a COVID-19 test if they had symptoms, which required going through an online screening with an IU nurse who then determines if the student would get an ap-
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New women’s shelter to open 4 more city
workers test positive, total 32
By Helen Rummel hrummel@iu.edu | @HelenRummel
A winter contingency shelter will be opening to serve up to 40 women experiencing homelessness through a collaboration between Wheeler Mission, Monroe County government and the City of Bloomington. The shelter will open sometime this month and will likely remain open until March 2021 to serve the community during the coldest months of the year. Beverly Calender-Anderson, director of the Community and Family Resources Department, is a part of the group that planned the center after performing outreach work to determine the community’s need for such a center. The group consists of the major shelter directors in the Bloomington area and representatives from the Bloomington Police Department, Bloomington Board of Health and IU Health Bloomington Hospital. Calender-Anderson said the group had been asked by Mayor John Hamilton to review the needs of groups at risk during the pandemic. “We know the pandemic disproportionately affects our most vulnerable residents — and our social service agencies have been working tirelessly to serve their needs,” Hamilton said in a press release about the shelter. Shelter directors and shelter outreach workers from the Bloomington area compiled their lists of women they knew who currently do not have a place to live. Through this, they determined around 40 women are currently living in tents in the Bloomington area, most
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Wheeler Mission is collaborating with the City of Bloomington to create a winter contingency center for women.
of them over the age of 45. “Sometimes people need shelter for a week and they go stay with family and sometimes there may be people who stay there the entire winter,” CalenderAnderson said. “Like most of the shelters in town, the ultimate goal is to help people become self-sustaining.” Wheeler Mission can also offer case management staff to help with employment opportunities and other goals. The creation of this temporary shelter comes after the closure of Wheeler Mission’s Center for Women & Children in Bloomington in July. The center was forced to close its doors due to a shortage in funds and stopped serving the 25 to 30 women it typically would. “It was really just a question of what was going to happen because we don’t have the women’s shelter anymore,” Calender-Anderson said. The COVID-19 pandemic
has forced local shelters to cut down on occupancy to allow guests to socially distance. According to the press release from the city, there has been a 25% drop in occupancy across the emergency shelters in the area. Wheeler Mission will continue to practice the health protocols they had been using at their Center for Men. Guests and employees at their shelters have their temperature taken every day. Social distancing guidelines and mask wearing is enforced. “Wheeler Mission is an excellent teacher of COVID-19 hygiene protocol,” Calender-Anderson said. “They really will keep women healthy and safe and warm.” Chris-Michael Morrison, Wheeler Mission’s director of advancement in the Bloomington area, said they have only recorded one COVID-19 case among their guests since the start of the pandemic.
“We recognize the importance of keeping our guests safe, keep them well and to give them a step forward toward stability and independence,” Morrison said. Wheeler Mission is currently hiring for certain positions at the women’s shelter. The center can open once the last positions are filled this month. In addition, they are seeking donations of items such as blankets, pillows, washcloths and hand warmers. Donations can be left at the Wheeler Mission Bloomington Center for Men at 215 S. Westplex Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, or made online here. “I love when people collaborate and get things done,” Calender-Anderson said. “This was one where we could all agree on the goals and how to do it.” Women interested in resources at the contingency center can visit Wheeler Mission’s Center for Men from 5 to 9 p.m.
Hogan helped turn Georgia blue By Madison Smalstig msmalsti@iu.edu @madi_smals
Scott Hogan, executive director of the Democratic Party of Georgia and a Biden campaign senior strategic advisor, said he moved to Georgia in 2019 because he saw an opportunity to flip the state from red to blue and change the national electorate. In the 2020 general election, he saw his hard work pay off as the majority of Georgia’s voters submitted ballots for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and 16 key electoral votes were awarded to the Biden campaign. Hogan grew up in Bloomington and attended Edgewood High School. He went to the University of Southern Indiana for his undergraduate degree and later attended IU for his graduate degree. Following Election Day, Hogan’s job continues as the two January runoff elections, which will determine if the majority in the Senate is Democratic and Republican, inch closer. “The moment has never been bigger,” Hogan said. “At no time in my lifetime has so much ridden on one election.” Hogan said although he and the rest of the team are tired, they are still pushing to educate more people, make voting more accessible and campaign for the two Senate races. Trav Robertson, chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party, said the runoff election is more about turnout than persuasion because there are many people that feel they have already fulfilled their civic duty during the original election and sometimes do not return to vote. However, Robertson said Hogan knows how to work during trying times and get people to turn out. “They’re very fortunate that they’ve got Scott Hogan down there in Atlanta who’s an experienced hand in bringing order to the chaos,” Robertson said. While the team and Hogan are experiencing some fatigue, Hogan said they are excited at the idea of sending Democrat Jon Ossoff and Democrat Raphael Warnock to the Senate.
“The opportunity to not only flip a state for the presidential but then potentially to positively move the U.S. Senate towards the Democrats is an honor,” Hogan said. Hogan worked to get the majority of the voting population of Georgia, which had been red for the last six presidential elections, to vote for Biden and the other Democratic candidates. One of the key factors to flipping the state was combating voter suppression Hogan said. He said one of his first roles when he stepped into the executive director position was building a voter protection team. This team worked to educate the general public on different ways they could vote, worked against legislation that would have limited access to ballots and fought for more early voting locations and extended voting hours. The inadequate investment in polling locations, specifically in high-traffic areas and areas with a high density of people of color, is one of the biggest contributors to voter suppression in Georgia, Hogan said. Some lines for the 2020 primary election had about a ninehour wait because of the lack of polling locations, he said. In comparison to the 2016 election, there were 27 more early voting locations and voters had 1,210 more hours to cast their ballots in Fulton County, which is the county Atlanta is located, in the 2020 election according to data compiled by Hogan and his team. About 1,500 hours were added in Dekalb County, 1,320 in Gwinnett County and about 1,200 in Cobb County. About 5 million Georgia residents voted in the 2020 general election, while about 4.1 million voted in the 2016 general election, according to the Washington Post. Hogan said he attributes this increase in voter turnout to the additional polling locations and hours. In addition to making sure that people are able to vote, Hogan was also in charge of helping Democratic candidates campaign. This year, Hogan and the rest of the Democratic Party had to rely more on calls and virtual events than in-
person ones because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “There’s no roadmap for what we’ve experienced over the last six to eight months,” he said. “It’s required so many people to rethink how we communicate and how to communicate and message effectively.” However, communication is communication, whether that is in person or through different mediums such as Zoom, social media and phone calls, Hogan said. He also said because the Democratic Party has not been meeting in their office, more people have been able to get involved with the organization by working from home. Hogan said he wanted to work in Georgia because the state had become more diverse in political representation and started to lean more toward liberal ideas. Hogan said Stacey Abrams’ gubernatorial campaign in 2018, although unsuccessful in obtaining the position, gave him hope for future Democratic candidates in Georgia. “It became abundantly clear as I thought through this and had conversations with people before I said yes that we could flip the state,” he said. “We had a real opportunity to do something special.” Hogan said he didn’t have to think much before he accepted the advisor position for the Biden campaign because he has a connection with Biden. Hogan’s first political work was done for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2007 and 2008, so he said he feels as if Biden is a part of his political family. “There was not really ever a decision to be made for me,” Hogan said. Hogan was living in Missouri and working in finance when he first volunteered for the Obama campaign. He said he was inspired by Obama and how he seemed to stop the country from going in what Hogan saw as a bad direction. While he couldn’t quit his day job, he decided to volunteer in his free time. After working in this space, he decided he wanted to study politics further and went to graduate school at IU’s School of Public and
Environmental Affairs to earn a master’s degree in public affairs and public policy. Hogan said he credits IU with changing the directory of his professional career. “Going back to grad school allowed me to rethink my path and gave me the ability to search out a new option, something that I could commit myself to with respect to service,” he said. Since graduating from IU, Hogan has worked with several campaigns including Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, the Everytown for Gun Safety campaign and a South Carolina gubernatorial campaign in 2018. Robertson said Hogan stepped in as the campaign manager for the gubernatorial campaign in June, after they had already been through two campaign managers, and was able to help increase turnout at the election. Even though the Democratic Party did not have a strong gubernatorial candidate that year and lost that election, Robertson said Hogan also helped to protect the public image of Democratic candidates running in lower positions. “He understands people,” Robertson said. “At the end of the day campaigns and politics are still about people and he understands that.” Hogan said he enjoys working in electoral politics because he believes that if the right people are elected to government positions, those people can make change for the better. Hogan said there is a direct tie between electoral politics and important issues. “This is where I have decided to kind of spend my time on how I can, not to be cliché, but change the world,” Hogan said. This year especially, there were a lot of important issues at stake on the ballot including the COVID-19 pandemic and issues surrounding race and racism, Hogan said. “The race for president was one where everything we cared about was on the ballot, regardless of which side you were on,” Hogan said. “Unequivocally, this was the most important election of my lifetime.“`
Four city employees tested positive for COVID-19 between Friday and Monday, according to a Monday press release from the City of Bloomington. The employees work at the City of Bloomington’s Public Works Department, City of Bloomington Utilities and Bloomington Transit. Since the start of the pandemic, eight CBU employees and five BT staff, four of whom are drivers, have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the release. The total number of positive diagnoses in city workers since the beginning of the pandemic has risen to 32, including employees of municipal corporations CBU and BT. The PWD employee, who is the first member of the Street Division to test positive, experienced symptoms Nov. 24, was tested Wednesday and Friday and received a positive result Saturday. The employee has been on leave and self-isolating since Nov. 20, and no close contacts were found in the employee’s coworkers or members of the public, according to the release. The employee does not normally interact with the public while working. Two CBU employees tested positive, according to the release. An employee at the Blucher Poole Wastewater Treatment Plant took a viral test Nov. 24 and received a positive result while asymptomatic Friday. The other employee, who works in the city water utility’s Transmission and Distribution Division, started experiencing symptoms Nov. 22, was tested Nov. 24 and received
a positive result Monday, according to the release. Neither employee interacts with the public in the course of their work and the employees are currently isolated on paid leave, according to the release. Both CBU employees’ coworkers who were identified as close contacts within Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines have been notified and cleaning protocols have been completed at each employee’s work site. The employee working at the Blucher Poole Wastewater Treatment Plant who tested positive was not identified as a close contact of the city water utility’s Transmission and Distribution Division employee, according to the release. A BT bus driver started to experience symptoms Nov. 23 and received a positive viral test result Friday. The driver has not worked since Nov. 23 and is currently on paid leave, according to the release. The employee drove on Routes 1, 2, 3, 6, 8 and 9 between Nov. 9 and 23 and had no close contact with passengers for more than 15 minutes or within six feet. The employee was also separated by a plexiglass shield, according to the release. Passengers, except those in wheelchairs, mobility devices or those who need the front door kneeling feature, are required to board busses through rear doors, a measure made effective Nov. 23. All vehicles are cleaned twice a day with special disinfecting equipment, according to the release. An additional City employee received a positive antibody test result, according to the release.
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Monroe County Public Library on Kirkwood Avenue will return to only providing curbside pickups due to a higher number of COVID-19 cases in Monroe County.
Library returns to curbside only By Helen Rummel hrummel@iu.edu | @HelenRummel
The Monroe County Public Library will move to curbside services only beginning Monday in response to rising COVID-19 cases, according to Communications and Marketing Manager Mandy Hussey. “Ultimately, we looked at the numbers in the local area and we’re seeing things start to trend upward,” Hussey said. “With the holidays, we know that in general a lot of people are going to be choosing to travel to see family and friends.” The library does not expect to reopen the building to the public until early to mid-2021, according to a Nov. 23 press release. The drive-up window will also be closed during this time, but patrons can continue to checkout materials by scheduling an appointment. The library’s hours will be unaffected by the
change. The public had been permitted in the library since September at limited numbers however, meeting rooms and teen spaces were still closed. Hussey said about 25% of their normal guests were returning in recent months. One library employee tested positive for COVID-19 on Nov. 24. The employee did not interact with the public and the library discovered the case after the decision was already made to move to curbside services. While closed to the public, library employees who are not protected under the Family and Medical Leave Act will still be expected to work in the building. “We’re all here and we’re going to continue to be here as long as we have all of our safety precautions in place,” Hussey said. “I think those have worked extremely well for us.”
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Thanksgiving travel points to COVID-19 surge From Tribune News Service
Coronavirus infections are already reaching unprecedented levels throughout the U.S. Now with Thanksgiving in the rearview mirror and Christmas and New Year’s just around the curve, the question is: Just how much worse is the pandemic going to get? The latest travel data out Monday suggest that things are looking grim. Between 800,000 and 1.1 million people flew in the days leading up to and after the holiday, according to data released by the Transportation Safety Administration. Though those numbers are a fraction of typical Thanksgiving travel patterns, they are far higher than public health officials and epidemiologists hoped to see. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday that the U.S. may be about to see “a surge upon a surge.” On CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said that Americans who traveled this past week should “assume that you were exposed and you became infected.” She urged those that traveled to get tested within the next week. The number of new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. topped 200,000 for the first time Friday. There have been more than 265,000 deaths. Last Wednesday, as millions had already begun their holiday travel, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention forecast as many as 21,400 new deaths due to the virus over the next four weeks. Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health, said he suspects those numbers are not high enough. “Every time I look at the data, it’s worse,” he said. Jha says he expects the number of new deaths to be more in the range of 25,000 to 30,000 in the Thanksgiving aftermath. “Things are going to be so
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Thanksgiving travelers walk through Terminal 3 on Nov. 25 at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago.
bad over the next month,” Jha said. Exactly how bad it will get is difficult to say. Americans not only flew, but also drove to Thanksgiving celebrations. Before the holiday, the American Automobile Association predicted significant declines in bus, train and cruise travel, but only a slight drop in car travel. AAA said it would not have travel figures for the holiday anytime soon. Car travel was projected to fall 4.3% from last year’s prepandemic level, to 47.8 million travelers. With less travel this year by public transportation, AAA estimates driving will account for 95% of all holiday travel. On Monday, AAA said travel may have been less than initially forecast because of climbing infection rates and public health warnings. U.S. gasoline demand decreased 7.3% in seven days ending Nov. 28, according to GasBuddy, the travel and navigation app.
Even with a surge in online sales, some Americans still hit the road to shop. Chains with lines out the door included Lululemon Athletica Inc., Bath & Body Works and Urban Outfitters. Shoppers camped overnight in some locations of GameStop Corp., one of the few retailers to do brick-and-mortar releases of new video game consoles. “This does have the potential to turn into another superspreader event,” Doug Stephens, founder of consulting firm Retail Prophet, said of the shopping weekend. The Trump administration had been sending out widely varying guidance on holiday travel in the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving, and only in the final week did the CDC overtly urge people to stay home. Many health policy experts say that was too little guidance, too late. “We have not done nearly good enough a job in helping
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people understand the risk,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota and a member of President-Elect Joe Biden’s virus taskforce. “The force of the virus right now is like a hurricane. But we are in control. We can flatten that curve.” In Canada, which celebrated Thanksgiving on Oct. 11, the average number of cases diagnosed each day more than doubled after the holiday, growing from 2,000 cases per day in mid-October to an average of 4,776 cases daily in the past week. In the U.S., cases have risen after previous other holidays since the pandemic began. “That does not bode well,” said Caitlin Rivers, a professor at Johns Hopkins University who researches public health preparedness. “The winter holidays will just accelerate the winter trends we have al-
ready seen.” The CDC’s forecast is an ensemble model that combines projections from 36 separate groups. Those forecasts range from 10,600 to 21,400 new deaths by Dec. 19. But Osterholm pointed out the numbers of deaths often lag by several weeks. “The next three weeks are already a part of history,” he said. “The challenge is what happens after that.” One group, the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, publishes projections for further afield. It forecasts the number of deaths continuing to grow, reaching more than 470,000 by March 1, 2021. Projections that far out are subject to revision. Still, that’s almost double the number of Americans the pandemic has killed so far. Hospitals in many regions of the country, including the hard-hit Upper Midwest, are already near or beyond
capacity. Anticipating a further surge, many have begun prepping tents and other temporary spaces to handle an influx of cases. Reports of doctors and nurses retiring early due to the pandemic are another worrisome signal. Even as equipment shortages have eased, some areas around the country now face a shortage of specialists who know how to operate vital equipment, such as breathing machines. “Before the holiday we were already crowded in the hospital,” said Janis Orlowski, chief healthcare officer for the American Association of Medical Colleges. There are already as many as 90,000 people hospitalized due to the virus, she said, and that number is expected to climb past 100,000. That’s almost twice as many as there were on Nov. 1. “We don’t know how big of a bump we’re going to get, but we’re bracing for a big bump,” she said.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Bloomington in the late 1970s. She was a post office worker and he was a state trooper. “I went to Indy every weekend just to find my people or even sit at the mall just to see Black people,” she said. She didn’t feel at home here. She would go all over the city to find a place to get a haircut, but most of the time she had to go up to Indianapolis. Black people were seen as inferior customers or bad business, so no barbers wanted their business, not even Black barbers. There was one white barber who would cut Black hair, but he only knew how to cut it short — Army style. When Liz and her husband bought the house they’re in now, Liz said a real estate agent told the elderly white woman next door she should sell her house because the neighborhood was going to turn Black. After that woman moved out, a family with kids and a dog moved in. One day
their dog got out and the kids were running around the neighborhood calling out its name. The dog was black, and its name was a racial slur, Jim said. Their mom tried to tell Jim and Liz its name was Digger, but the Mitchells knew what they heard. Just two summers ago, Jim and Liz said they weren’t served at Fairfax Inn, a restaurant on South Fairfax Road near Monroe Lake. They said when they walked in, the server wouldn’t come wait on them. There were men at the bar who were giving them a look. They felt it was clear they weren’t welcome. But for a while there, Jim and Liz had a place they could go to escape white bigotry and be with like-minded people on the west side of Bloomington — Pollard Lodge, better known as The Hole. “Having that here my first year helped save me,” she said. “I needed to be with my people. I just needed to breathe.” The two described The Hole on West Seventh Street
as a social place where you could get soul food and share stories and experiences with other people of color in the city. There was always music playing. It was a place for people to connect to their culture. The Hole started out as exactly that, a hole in the ground. There was a door that led to a basement. It wasn’t until years later a story was added on top of the basement. It started up during segregation as the Black Elks Club. Back then, clubs and organizations were heavily segregated. White people had the Masons, the church and lives outside of those things as well. Black people had two Black churches and The Hole. But as the club grew more and more popular with white people looking for a good time, the neighborhood The Hole was in became more sought after by younger white families, according to a 2018 Bloom Magazine article about the history of The Hole. Houses were cheap at the time, so it was easy for
families to get mortgages and start changing the demographic of the neighborhood. More noise complaints were being filed about The Hole, more fights were breaking out. A white couple who lived in the neighborhood in the 1990s was quoted in the Bloom Magazine story saying, “There was a lot of loud partying at all hours. It was definitely out of hand. It got worse as time went on.” Then in 1997 there was a shooting at the club. A man from Gary, Indiana, got in a fight and shot two rounds into the crowd. The security guard at the time, a former city police officer, shot the man to death. With the west side neighborhood becoming whiter and rent increasing, the Black owners of The Hole couldn’t keep up with payments. In the Bloom Magazine article, current city council member Jim Sims deemed the circumstances The Hole was facing “the perfect storm.” The Near West Side Neighborhood Association was
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then informally organized by white newcomers and a few of the long-established Black residents, according to the Bloom Magazine article. They didn’t like the type of people who hung out at The Hole. Bill Baus, a white resident on the west side, told the magazine, “Some of us decided it was time for them to go. African Americans, or Africans for that matter, could go to any club in town, so they didn’t need it.” The property was sold in 2006 to a white couple who planned to turn it into apartments. They never did, and the space sits empty today. “A place to call our own is lacking,” Liz said. “I think it’s needed.”
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 pointment to be tested. Carroll said in the release this voluntary option should be used by those who have not been selected for mitigation testing, know they could see people they haven’t been around in a long time or live in a higher risk environment. The release also states those who have symptoms, have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 90 days or are currently in quarantine as a close contact should not sign up for these tests. It is unclear if this program will continue after inperson classes resume in February. The release said these are the same saliva tests IU has already been using for mitigation testing. This means these voluntary tests will not be rapid response. The voluntary tests will be administered in the same sites where mitigation tests are being done already.
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OPINION
Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020 idsnews.com
Editors Kyle Linder and Allyson McBride opinion@idsnews.com
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RUSS’ RESPONSES
Demonizing dating apps is fatal for the LGBTQ+ community Russ Hensley (he/him) is a sophomore in mathematics, political science and international law
As I watched Simon Spier kiss his first boyfriend on the Ferris wheel in the concluding scene of the LGBTQ+ film, “Love Simon,” I dreamed of the day I started dating as an openly gay man. I soon realized that dating as a gay man differs immensely from Hollywood blockbuster. As a freshman at IU, I was introduced to a seemingly fundamental aspect of the gay dating scene — dating apps. Popular dating apps today, such as Tinder, Grindr and Hinge, are subjects of severe scrutiny in the media. The propagation of “dating app fatigue” and the capitalization of sharing frightful dating apps stories in magazines such as Cosmopolitan and People normalize negative connotations associated with online dating. But demonizing dating apps is fatal for the gay community, proving to stigmatize a safe alternative to the perils of expressing one’s true identity in a world engulfed with homophobia. To highlight queer perspectives and experiences with online dating, I spoke with queer students at IU,
asking them to anonymously share their personal thoughts and experiences. Firstly, two students shared similar views when discussing the importance or needfulness of dating apps in the queer community, revealing the hardships of a dating pool that makes up only 4.5% of the United States. One student said, “Dating apps are crucial for LGBTQ+ dating. Otherwise, it’s sometimes very difficult to meet other queer people.” “For me personally, it is impossible to find people to talk to in a romantic way without dating apps — absolutely impossible,” said another student. Sardonically expressed in a recent TikTok trend, queer creators break down the reality of dating within a small community. For example, the population of Bloomington is 85,755, leaving roughly 4,000 LGBTQ+ individuals if you use the 4.5% estimate. For a gay man, only 50.31% of Bloomington is male, which implies about 2,000 gay men in Bloomington. When taking individual preferences such as age, personality type, common interests and more into account, there lies a tumultuous journey in finding a suitable partner. Dating apps expand the range of queer dating, con-
necting the queer community in a finite space with disclosed identity. A space is created to unabashedly express one’s identity and shelter from the bigotry of a prejudiced world. In the LGBTQ+ community, security is vital. According to the FBI’s 2018 Hate Crime Statistics report, more than 1,300 — or nearly 19% of hate crimes — stemmed from antiLGBTQ+ violence. There is a sense of security established in platforms composed of individuals sharing the same identity. “Yes, they make me feel safer meeting a partner because just walking up to someone & flirting feels to risky/dangerous to me as a queer person,” one student said. And when asked broadly what students wanted me to contain in this article, one responded, “How important dating apps are for queer people and how much harder and more dangerous it is for queer people to approach romantic or sexual relationships than for heterosexual or cisgendered people.” One Cosmopolitan article containing horror stories in heterosexual dating describes unfortunate events such as a man’s card declining on the first date, or
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A phone screen shows the dating app Tinder.
a man calling the women a different name. The fear of publicly dating in the queer community, though, contradicts this reality. Queer individuals are constantly reminded of the risk of public affection. 2020 had the highest death rate for transgender people since records began, and anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes are rising. A card declining is a small price to pay in comparison to a fear of murder. Although dating apps provide an efficient and
safe method of communication for queer individuals, online dating cannot be seen as a certain solution to discrimination against the queer community. “The issue is rarely the individual and almost always the culture in which we must operate,” said a student. No matter the community developed on dating app platforms, discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community will continue. The problem lies in the blatant homophobia expressed by
the Trump administration. The problem lies in the call to strip rights form samesex couples in Indiana. The problem lies in LGBTQ+ hate crimes, appallingly high murder rates for transgender people and disproportionate suicide rates amongst LGBTQ+ teens. The problem is the continual stigmatization of the LGBTQ+ community — not online dating. The demonization of dating apps must stop. ruruhens@iu.edu
KEEPING UP WITH KATIE
A few seconds are left and America needs a Hail Mary: class solidarity Katelyn Balakir (she/her) is a junior in policy analysis and world political systems
The 2020 election revealed the direness of prioritizing class solidarity above political affiliation. We have become complacent towards an antiquated, oligarchic two-party system fueled by indefinite political hostility. The very backbone of our political system relies upon constant feuds among the lower and middle classes. Let’s talk about political victim syndrome Rarely do we criticize politicians across party lines. As a Democrat, it is far easier to label former President George W. Bush a war criminal than to acknowledge former President Barack Obama’s at least 473 airstrikes throughout the Middle East, which independent sources estimate killed six times more civilians than the administration claimed. Doing so would require you to admit you enabled a war criminal and are no better than the “other” who voted for Bush. I am here to remind you war crimes should not be dismissed as an expected feature of the American presidency. War crimes are always unacceptable. A president who murders individuals using a transgender inclusive military is no better than one with a ban on transgender service members. If your criticisms do transcend political affiliation, you are likely familiar with the forceful reminder from your fellow party members insisting you be grateful because Candidate X is not Candidate Y. Under no circumstance are we beholden
third-party voters alike are dissatisfied with American political institutions. Only 20% of Americans trust the federal government. Consequently, political orientation alone is not enough to analyze problems shared by the 81% of Americans who make up the lower and middle classes. For example, an overwhelming majority of Americans support limits on political campaign spending. It may sound counterintuitive to pay political affiliation little mind when discussing public problems. Giving more attention to class is imperative to acknowledge the shared grievances of all Americans.
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Tsehaitu Abye, center, Pennsylvania organizer for One Fair Wage, chants during a rally as part of the national Strike for Black Lives on July 20 in Philadelphia. The group was demanding legislation that would provide PPE, essential pay and extended unemployment benefits.
to politicians. This classic “lesser of two evils” line reflects a fatal misconception shared by the lower and middle classes, a political victim syndrome of sorts. Although the actions of elected officials are too often tainted by corporate interests, their claim to office is not some predestined reality beyond our control. In fact, we the people have the full power to directly decide the fate of every elected official. However, the evergrowing political polarization prevents the lower and middle class from realizing the power of their vote as a collective. Taking political frustration out on members of the
opposing party may appear to be a logical response in a variety of instances. But when every viable candidate is a war criminal distinguishable only by the color of their tie, these attacks are rarely productive. They cause us to lose sight of the real enemy: the millionaire club which dominates American lawmaking. Class solidarity is therefore critical in helping the lower and middle classes realize their power. It is clear millionaires seldom share the same American experience as the average individual earning $68,000 annually. How then do we promote class solidarity in a
way that transcends political friction? 1. Ditch your ego This step is perhaps the most difficult. It is not easy to admit you supported a candidate who unapologetically led airstrikes throughout the Middle East, killing thousands and perpetuating an indefinite conflict, because you believed they were better than the alternative. The false dichotomy at the ballot box between Democrats and Republicans is nothing more than a social construct. We could have acknowledged the legitimacy of a third-party candidate decades ago.
In order to move towards greater class consciousness we must be willing to first admit we played a role in building and preserving the American oligarchy whether or not we viewed the decision as voluntary. 2. Adopt a class conscious approach to politics Instead of constantly using political affiliation as a means to explain societal issues, we must adopt a class conscious perspective. Prioritizing class during political discourse offers much greater insight into the causes and subsequent solutions pertaining to societal issues. There is no debate that Democrats, Republicans and
3. Familiarize yourself with political theory It pains me to suggest anyone should navigate the perplexing realm of theory even as a political science minor. Nonetheless, understanding the varying approaches to political thought offers insight into alternatives to the American capitalist model. After all, it is difficult to unite the classes under a premise with no clear solution. I suggest beginning with the following scholars: A. F. K. Organski, Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, Alexander Wendt, Amitav Acharya, Barry Buzan and Immanuel Wallerstein. There is much work to be done beyond these three steps if the lower and middle classes wish to dismantle the American oligarchy. However, our future efforts will fall short unless we work now to build a strong foundation for the massive undertaking and prioritize class solidarity. kbalakir@iu.edu
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Join the Citizens’ Climate Lobby in the fight against climate change Amanda Mejia is an assistant professor in the IU-Bloomington Department of Statistics
The will to solve climate change is growing. In 2021, we’ll face a historic opportunity to craft a bipartisan legislative solution at the national level. Students’ participation in this process matters. Democracy really does work, and we can make a difference in what the United
States chooses to do over the next few years. Citizens’ Climate Lobby, a nonpartisan, grassroots organization, invites you to participate in “Call Congress Day” on Dec. 3. You can help make history by asking members of Congress to support the Energy Innovation Act, a bipartisan bill to introduce a carbon fee and dividend, which will immediately begin to
curb climate emissions. Studies show it could reduce carbon emissions by at least 40% in just 12 years. It would also add more than two million jobs to the American economy. To participate, use this link to the CCL website in order to call your representatives. Here’s how the site works. When you enter your voting address, the names and phone numbers of your rep-
resentatives show up, along with a suggested script you can use when a staff member answers. It will take just a minute, and when you’re done, ask a friend to do the same. Ready to do more to solve climate change? Register for CCL’s free, virtual conference occurring Dec. 5 and Dec. 6. The conference features speakers on key issues, including what the 2020 elec-
tion results mean for climate policy in 2021, and why a carbon fee and dividend is among our most effective solutions. There will also be several breakout training workshops, including one focused on student activism, one on reaching out to conservatives and one aimed at creating a welcoming space for BIPOC. You’ll hear about success stories from climate advo-
cates around the country. The program will equip us with the knowledge, tools and encouragement to go out and make our voices heard by our legislators. Following the conference, trained CCL lobby teams will meet with Congressional representatives from Dec. 7 to Dec. 10. The conference is free and open to all. afmejia@iu.edu
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SPORTS
Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020 idsnews.com
Editor Caleb Coffman sports@idsnews.com
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Slow start derails IU in loss to No. 17 Texas By Caleb Coffman calcoffm@iu.edu | @CalCoff
Archie Miller walked back toward his stool on the sideline with his palms to the sky, shaking his head. Freshman forward Jordan Geronimo slipped while rushing up court as University of Texas guard Brock Cunningham swiped the ball from behind. Cunningham didn’t even have to take a dribble as he looked up to find Matt Coleman III near the right corner who drained the open 3-pointer. “Texas a little bit stunned our guys in the first four to five minutes of the game,” Miller said. “They imposed early on how physical and tough they were going to play and I thought it played a roll and knocked us on our heels. Defensively they are very good with great length, and honestly they did a great job making things difficult.” Coming into the Maui Invitational, IU head coach Archie Miller said his biggest concerns were the team’s shooting, limiting turnovers and rebounding. In the Hoosiers’ 66-44 loss to the No. 17 Longhorns, all of those were areas of weakness. From the opening tip, IU’s offense was disjointed while the team made mistake after mistake, never falling into the same type of rhythm seen the day before against Providence College. The Hoosiers rely on their forwards to provide a large portion of the offense, but sophomore Trayce Jackson-Davis and junior Race Thompson struggled to have any success near the rim against Texas’ size and
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IU men’s basketball head coach Archie Miller draws on a whiteboard Dec. 1 during the game against No. 17 University of Texas.
you’re struggling are the ones you need to get.” The rest of the offense wasn’t much help while IU made just one bucket in the final 8:40 of the first half and mustered just 19 points, the second-lowest amount since Miller arrived in 2017. The Hoosiers had nearly double the number of turnovers compared to made shots with nine and five, respectively. IU finished the game with 14 turnovers and only 11 made field goals.
strength. Both forwards combined for just eight points on two of eight shooting, six rebounds and committed six turnovers in the first half. Jackson-Davis after the game said he was rushing some of his shots and was disappointed he missed some easy ones he’s expected to make. “I think he’s trying to get fouled rather than just playing and scoring,” Miller said. “The easy ones, the ones you gotta be able to count on when
“We didn’t execute our offense,” Jackson-Davis said. “That wasn’t our offense that you saw today. We were really soft with the ball, so we need to be stronger with the ball and set screens hard. We let their pressure get to us.” After a strong start to the second half, IU was able to shrink the deficit to 11 points with just under 17 minutes remaining on a 3-pointer from the top of the arc by sophomore Armaan Franklin, the team’s first of the game.
However, Texas put the game out of reach after going on a 14-4 run in which IU made just one field goal in almost 10 minutes. The Hoosiers finished with the lowest total points and field goal percentage (23.9%) for the team in the past 10 seasons. “Our offense in general got taken off its rails today,” Miller said. “Yesterday we had a good push, we had good execution, and I think Texas amped up their level today and took things away
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IU’s great big COVID-19 experiment How one of the nation’s largest universities kept its doors open through spiking cases and daily uncertainty By Matt Cohen mdc1@iu.edu | @Matt_Cohen_
This story was originally published online on Nov. 22. From the moment he wakes up around 6:30 most mornings, his mind is already consumed with tension and concern. He's immediately thinking about COVID-19 spread, nervously checking his iPad for case numbers even before he gets outs of bed, or reading the latest news story that makes him wonder how low rock bottom could possibly be. And in the nation's worst wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, there's a new low everyday. "There is no bottom," Dr. Aaron Carroll, IU’s director of mitigation testing and most public leader of the school’s COVID-19 response, often tweets. Carroll used to take walks as the sun rose. He'd check his email and plan for the day. But more recently, his doctor recommended focusing on strength training over aerobic exercise. Now he spends his mornings in his basement, following workouts from an app on his phone. It’s his stress reliever, the few moments every day where he isn’t focused on the pandemic. During his workout on the Tuesday before IU’s students would go home for Thanksgiving, Carroll was looking forward to his week off. It was the final day of data collection before the latest IU COVID-19 dashboard update — which showed large increases in positivity rates for greek-life students and more than 150 new cases. But even with students going home, Carroll still feels responsible for taking care of students, especially with new cases on the rise in Indiana and the country. His father passed away last week, but Carroll’s world couldn’t stop to properly mourn. His father’s death was not related to the coronavirus, but the pandemic prevented Carroll from having a funeral or being in Las Vegas with his mother and brother. “It’s just trying to live in COVID,” Carroll said. “It’s hard.” The COVID-19 pandemic has taken from all of us, even the ones who are supposed to lead us through it. When his father died, he and his family needed each other the most, Carroll couldn’t be there. He was still at home in Indiana, not taking any days off, shouldering all the other lives he’d never been a part of that relied on him anyway. * * * It’s a difficult experiment, really, devising a plan to bring 40,000 college students from across the country back to one small town. Conflicting research makes decisions arduous throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s difficult to know if any decision is the right one. As IU’s COVID-19 response committee worked over the summer determining how to open the school, roughly 150,000 Americans had already died from the coronavirus. Today, that number is past 250,000. The total deaths from the disease would fill up Assembly Hall almost 15 times. More than 3,000 positive tests have been collected by IU-Bloomington, which doesn’t include the many students who tested positive at non-IU facilities. In deciding whether to bring students back, public health officials thought about their own college years. They knew they’d want to return to their campuses and see their friends. They’d want to go to the restaurants or bars that would become settings for stories shared across dinner tables decades later. But public health protocol would suggest dispersing the population, closing down gathering spaces and that reopening a major state university was likely not the best idea. Even after all those years in school spent learning why opening a college in a pandemic goes against all public health guidance, university experts made the
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A student walks in front of a tunnel while submitting a saliva sample for COVID-19 mitigation testing Oct. 15 at Memorial Stadium. Both Memorial Stadium and Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall were used as sites for mitigation testing in the fall semester, in addition to a site at Franklin Hall.
call: IU would open its campuses for fall 2020. Over the summer, IU’s COVID-19 restart team — led by Jay Hess, dean of the IU School of Medicine — debated how to do that safely. Each member saw their selection of the committee as their duty, as the highlight of their careers. The committee members had worked in epidemiology, hospital wards and public health. But they had never carried the weight of more than 40,000 lives with every decision that they made. The reopening plan was released in May. It detailed social distancing policies, dorm arrangements, contactless dining, a new academic calendar, mandated mask wearing and strategic classroom set ups. The report covered down the smallest details: water fountains, what direction students could walk in a given hallway and hand sanitizing stations at every door. As the summer progressed, the committee composed what Carroll described as one of “the most robust testing systems,” on a college campus. Carroll and other committee members said the question was never whether or not to bring students back, regardless of what they thought was the right thing to do. They said they knew students were coming anyway, and they had to find a way to make it safe. Many students said IU was not doing enough. IU's testing program is among the nation's largest, but it isn’t even the biggest in the Big Ten. Other students say IU is testing too much, complaining of being selected repeatedly. At this point, only one student is known to have been hospitalized with COVID-19 according to Carroll. There are no known COVID-19 deaths from IU students.
“There is no bottom,” Dr. Aaron Carroll, IU’s director of mitigation testing and most public leader of the school’s COVID-19 response, often tweets. With students heading home for Thanksgiving, Carroll and IU have completed the first part of their COVID-19 experiment. The campus never closed. It wasn’t always easy to tell if a decision the committee made was the right one. IU reopening in the fall was a clear risk. Medical leaders constantly had to choose from options where some group would feel attacked or unhappy. IU couldn’t give
parents clear answers on how safe their children were. At points, Monroe County had to step in and take action where IU could not. Yet somehow, college life resumed in Bloomington this fall. * * * Between his comic book collection, unrivaled joy for video games and his dog named after a Marvel villain, Carroll, 48, pretty much fits your definition of a nerd. He’d call himself such, too. His life before the pandemic surrounds him at his desk at home in Carmel, Indiana. There are the many books he’s written and the many more he’s read. More than 20,000 comic books rest within his stacks of books. On the other side of those office walls are his wife and three children, Jacob, Noah and Sydney. His life as a husband and a father that often gets put on hold for the lives of thousands of students he’s never met. From his office, Carroll pilots a pandemic response at one of the nation’s largest universities. He is the face most people around IU understand to be the leader of IU’s COVID-19 team. But Carroll calls himself an introvert. Despite his tens of thousands of Twitter followers and more than 300,000 YouTube subscribers, Carroll would much prefer to seclude himself and read. He loves video games too, playing many first-personshooter games. He plays Contagion — a pandemic game — on his phone and bought the Pandemic Legacy board game for his family to play. In a way it’s like real life, but without real lives at stake. That’s especially so for Carroll, who said he is immunocompromised because of his ulcerative colitis, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease. Before the pandemic, Carroll’s work fit into three main categories — health policy and decision making, mentorship programs and science communications. While his specialty is in pediatrics, he rarely does any clinical work. Most of his pediatric work is within IU. Carroll called himself “nerd famous.” He appeared on "The Colbert Report" in 2009 and created a YouTube channel in 2013 called Healthcare Triage. He partnered with author and vlogger John Green, who also lives in Indianapolis, to create the channel. In 2014, he began a health care column to the New York Times. His columns now focus on COVID-19 and how he believes the nation should approach the pandemic. He’s written about preparing to live with the pandemic for another year and why kids should still go trick-or-treating. He’s criticized the government’s response to the pandemic.
“I swear to God this is the busiest I’ve ever been in my life,” Carroll said. “I was busy before I knew what busy was, and this is different.” Carroll was selected to aid in IU’s COVID-19 response because of his infectious disease experience. He has training, too, in epidemiology. His research into health care policy often covered infectious disease and it has long been a topic on his YouTube channel. Carroll denied all in-person interview requests from the Indiana Daily Student, saying he wanted to set a good example. Carroll is still learning how to do his job with every new challenge that comes with the pandemic. Research and practice are two different categories. He’s playing real-life Contagion. * * * On Jan. 21, Graham McKeen, IU’s assistant university director for public and environmental health, sent an email to IU staff members about the original outbreak of COVID-19 in China. At 9:42 a.m. that day, McKeen reported a low risk to the U.S. and all the unknowns of the novel coronavirus. But he wrote the disease warranted the school’s attention. At 3:48 p.m. that same day, McKeen sent a second email. “Wasn’t anticipating an update today, but the following has occurred since the previous message,” the message read. “The US has confirmed an imported case in Washington State. Atlanta and Chicago airports have been added to the list of US airports screening arriving travelers. The CDC increased the alert level to – Alert 2 –Practice Enhanced Precautions – recommending travelers to Wuhan avoid contact with sick people, dead or living animals, and animal markets.” McKeen has continued to monitor the pandemic everyday from a spare bedroom which has become his makeshift command center. To him it feels like a closet. He has four screens — two desktop monitors, a laptop and an iPad — set up on a table. The light of screens reflects off his face and his eyes dart around to all the data in front of him. On one screen is testing data, another contract tracing interviews and, on the iPad, Zoom calls. There’s too much to keep track of at once. The restart committee knew students were going to come back to campus regardless of the pandemic. But in July, they began to worry. As the nation reopened and new cases began to spike, there was concern over whether it would be possible to have students return to IU. At one point, IU took a line of credit in case it wouldn’t be able to open in the fall. Whereas many universities planned to be fully online for the fall or have only symp-
tomatic testing programs if they opened campus, the risk mitigation subcommittee pushed IU administrators to fund its large testing program. They would have a test available for any student that needed one. They would test every student when they arrived and randomly select roughly 10,000 students for mitigation testing every week. But IU’s testing plan isn’t even the largest in the Big Ten. The University of Illinois has conducted more than 800,000 COVID-19 tests — roughly eight times more than IU. It administers roughly 10,000 tests every week. “Universities that have had regular testing programs, effective isolation, students that are cooperative and willing to play along have done well,” said Howard Forman, a professor of public health and director of Yale's health care management program. When Forman says regular testing, he is describing multiple tests per week. IU does not currently have that, but it plans to in the future. Forman also said it’s hard to judge IU’s program right now since Indiana is going through one of the worst outbreaks in the nation. IU said it required students to test negative in onarrival testing to come on campus, but enforcement was only strict for on-campus residents. The school had little control over what its offcampus students did. Committee members said IU’s administration was willing to take any cost for testing to open school. But it is conducting far fewer tests at this point in the school year than originally planned, despite now-opened on-campus labs that were supposed to dramatically cut testing costs. By testing on such a large scale, the school had data on where the cases were spreading, how they were spreading and thus how to focus its response efforts. IU conducted 33,000 onarrival tests as students came back to Bloomington. Only 346 came back positive, a rate of around 1%. But while IU believed there were not many infected students on campus to start with, students who partied and gathered at bars the week before classes had yet to begin experiencing symptoms. IU said it was prepared to handle an early semester spike, but Carroll, McKeen and others were surprised and alarmed by the reality. Most committee members contacted for this story wouldn’t say if they wanted to bring students back. McKeen, however, was clear: Public health guidelines certainly would not advise bringing the vast majority of the student body back to Indiana. His biggest fear was students would spread COVID-19 into the community. So far, McKeen and IU have said that hasn’t happened.
But with cases rising as students go home, McKeen still worries. “Any time we have people traveling and moving about during a pandemic, we have a concern for increased spread, especially given that the overwhelming majority of us have yet to be exposed to this virus,” McKeen said. * * * Tommy Reynolds, a freshman from New York, thought IU treated Ashton — the quarantine and isolation facility for on-campus residents — as a threat. He said he was told if he didn’t follow protocol, he could get sick and be sent to Ashton. That would be his punishment, it seemed. As an out-of-state student, he faced a dilemma. Reynolds lives in McNutt, and he didn’t know anyone at IU. Should he stay in his room, and lose pivotal early weeks in the year to make new friends? Or should he risk getting sick and disciplined simply for trying to not feel so lonely? He chose the latter and eventually tested positive for COVID-19. “Necessary risks with being on campus,” Reynolds said, speaking from six feet away during his daily outdoor time while isolating at Ashton in late September. Reynolds still wants to rush a fraternity, the same greek houses that had massive spikes in cases early in the school year due to Weeks of Welcome parties — IU's replacement for the traditional Welcome Week — and the simple reality of living in a communal house. More than 30 of the houses had been placed under quarantine. During the first weeks of the semester, new cases rose at a rate IU struggled to control. On Sept. 8, IU’s COVID-19 dashboard reported a nearly 25% positivity rate among greek house residents and more than 700 total new cases. This was the second week of IU’s mitigation testing, new cases had tripled and almost all of them were in greek houses. The school knew the houses would have high positivity rates — such is the nature of communal living — but houses opened anyway. IU alone does not have power to shut down the greek houses. IU’s plan early in the semester was less to limit new cases and more to endure whatever was to come. The school’s own team of contract tracers worked 80hour weeks with greek houses at the start of the school year, though that has lessened with an increasing staff and fewer cases. No matter how IU chose to handle the greek houses, they knew their choices would anger someone. But sometimes, administrators said, the unpopular choice SEE EXPERIMENT, PAGE 8
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had to be made to keep classrooms open. Students quarantined in greek houses complained IU and Monroe County’s policies were too strict, that they couldn’t go on walks and that whole houses had to be shut down because a few members were sick with coronavirus. Some even saw getting the virus, and the 90-day so-called immunity that comes with it, was their only way out of the locked-down greek houses. Some students reportedly shared a Juul with a student who had COVID-19, purposefully trying to get the coronavirus themselves. Students in greek life felt IU made them a scapegoat. It was easy to blame them for new cases when the university released data specific to each house but never any of its own dorms. That testing data was aggregated and analyzed by Cole Beeler, IU’s director of symptomatic testing, along with the rest of IU’s Medical Response Team. Beeler handles most of the 16 metrics IU considers when making decisions. But the school does not publicly release all of its data. The MRT analyzes testing data and contact tracing interviews. They look for themes where positive cases are occurring and make recommendations when they think a house needs to be shut down. They have a direct line of communication to IU President Michael McRobbie when a larger decision has to be made, such as purchasing necessary materials for building up on-campus labs and facilitating arrival and departure testing. But slowly, toward the end of September and into October, houses came off IU’s quarantine list. By sectioning off the highest infected population from the rest of campus, the spread was contained, and new cases began to decline in the houses. Only one house is currently quarantined, Beta Sigma Psi — which is in its
second quarantine period. Ashton dropped below 10% occupancy. Positivity rates in greek houses dipped below 2%. IU’s overall positivity rate dropped too as students spent more time in Bloomington. IU only reported one student hospitalization — an IUPUI student Carroll only heard about after they were discharged. IU’s weekly positivity rate hasn’t gone above 2% since the week of Sept. 20. The MRT was pleased. It believed its plans were working. “We’ve been able to ring fence it and prevent it from taking down the rest of campus,” said Adrian Gardner, IU’s director of contact tracing. But positivity rates are rising again right before Thanksgiving, especially in greek houses. IU's 1.72% positivity rate in the final week of mitigation testing before Thanksgiving is the highest since the Sept. 8 update. Eight houses were given cease-and-desist orders — nearly all for hosting large gatherings, especially Halloween parties — and two were shut down for the academic year. In the spring semester, Carroll and the MRT expect more students in greek life wanting to move back into their homes. It’s unclear if the homes will be allowed to open in the spring. House directors want them open. Only the individual housing corporations and Monroe County itself can close the houses. IU has no control. “The people who were going to get exposed were going to get exposed no matter what,” Beeler said. * * * Even in the supposed haven of his office, Carroll is not insulated from the pandemic and its skyrocketing cases. Carroll’s family had its own scare with COVID-19 in early November when his daughter exhibited symptoms. She was not allowed to return to school until her test result came back, nor was her brother, who would have been a close contact. Carroll has
always been focused on limiting his close contacts, but he can’t distance from his family. Ultimately, her test came back negative. Carroll still argues with his daughter, telling her why she can’t go to sleepovers. He tells her if restrictions are loosened in some areas, like allowing her to attend high school in person, they have to be tightened in others. It’s a new dynamic on the classic parent-teenager arguments on freedoms and allowances, especially when that means “Dad” becomes “Dr. Carroll.”
“I think we’ve constructed a very robust response to the pandemic that I would put up against any other school in the country,” Carroll said. “And I still think we’re doing pretty well.” The MRT members all said the pressure of their jobs can be overwhelming. There is barely enough time in the work day to eat lunch. Every decision is criticized. Calls and emails come in daily telling the leaders they are not doing enough. Others say they are doing too much. The studies Beeler reads every day often conflict. Carroll said in an Oct. 15 webinar schools are making things up as they go with information changing so rapidly. It’s hard to make decisions at times when there still is so much unknown about the pandemic. Students, staff and parents alike want solid answers, and the MRT can’t always provide that. “I’ve gone through phases where I’m like, ‘What am I doing,’” Beeler said. “It’s so disheartening.” The hours are not healthy. All the MRT mem-
bers have their normal jobs that haven’t gone away, but the responsibility of responding to a pandemic that has killed over 250,000 Americans is now on top of it. They all have families, but family consistently gets sacrificed for work. McKeen’s 15-month-old daughter pushes the door open and barges into his office during meetings. She’s just learning to walk, and McKeen doesn’t get to play with her as much as he’d like. “You feel like less of a parent or you’re not parenting enough,” McKeen said. Gardner moved back to the United States from Kenya in late March because of the pandemic. He stayed with his family in Boston before renting an RV to drive to Indiana. He, his wife and three kids lived in an Airbnb for months before closing on a house they never toured. His kids have to enter new schools and make new friends in an environment not conducive to meeting people, just like college freshmen. “Indiana’s terrible, we can’t go hang out with friends,” Gardner’s kids say. “That’s not an Indiana thing, that’s a COVID thing,” Gardner replies. When Beeler gets home, he crashes. He called himself a vegetable. He can’t eat. His eyes burn from looking at screens. Beeler goes to bed at 8:30 every day to make sure he has some amount of energy to get up at 4 the next morning. When he can, he tries to read his young children bedtime stories. But he doesn’t think he’s doing his job as a husband. He doesn’t think he’s doing his job as a father. He doesn’t work from home, and in getting up before the sun rises and going to bed as it sets, he barely sees his family at all during the day. Even for the fleeting moments he’s physically with them, he’s not there mentally. “I’m very mindful of the fact that I'm probably letting my family down constantly,” Beeler said.
* * * Carroll always smiles when he’s asked when IU will shut down. He doesn’t understand why the question is “when.” And as Thanksgiving break begins, he’s proud IU withstood every spike in cases, never closing or going fully online. “I think we’ve constructed a very robust response to the pandemic that I would put up against any other school in the country,” Carroll said. “And I still think we’re doing pretty well.” While Indiana entered Stage 5 of its reopening, new single-day case increase records began occurring ever more frequently. After averaging 825 new cases daily when Stage 5 began, Indiana is now averaging more than 6,500 new cases every day. Even as the nation faces its worst wave of the pandemic, Carroll still believes he and the MRT have a working plan to combat the pandemic. Now, instead of quarantining greek houses, the MRT is now focused on parties, cold weather and COVID-fatigue leading to spread, as well as how it will safely bring students back this coming February. “I would love to loosen restrictions, but our surrounding environment is on fire,” Carroll said in a Nov. 4 webinar. “We’ve created a reasonable bubble at Indiana University.” That bubble, however, has been endangered with multiple IU fraternities throwing big, unmasked Halloween parties in the fall. Delta Upsilon was shut down by Monroe County. Some students were suspended for celebrating historic IU football wins on Kirkwood Avenue or outside Memorial Stadium. Many students have asked why the school brought them back in the first place if they were going to punish them for acting like college kids. But the MRT believes students are less at risk to the coronavirus on campus than in the community. IU’s positivity rate — albeit rising — is still far lower than the rest of the state. Carroll
has said all semester his goal was to make it safer to be a part of the IU community than not. Carroll has said he doesn’t see many more inperson classes happening in the spring. He said classroom settings are only safe because of the current protocols, and opening more would be a detriment to that. When in-person classes begin in February, Carroll plans on-arrival testing and administering significantly more total tests every week. And as cold weather and flu season begin and a third wave continues in Indiana, IU’s plan for the future isn’t totally clear. Carroll has seen his own life open up this fall. In a Nov. 4 webinar, he has taken walks distanced from neighbors and had friends over in his backyard. He bought space heaters so they could sit outside safely. He was in the stands as IU’s resurgent football team defeated Michigan for the first time since the Reagan administration. Carroll admits he doesn’t always know the right thing to do because he doesn’t always know what’s coming. It’s hard to tell parents there isn’t concrete evidence on what will work, but after completing the first trial of its experiment, IU believes it has a working plan. IU thinks it is doing the best it can. Carroll thinks he’s doing the best he can, too. Whether the plan will continue to work remains unclear. Such is the nature of the pandemic. It’s all an experiment. Thanksgiving will be Carroll’s first chance for a break in months. He won’t see his relatives as they mourn his father’s death thousands of miles apart. Instead, Carroll hopes to get the PlayStation 5, start the new Spiderman game and geek out where, at least for a little while, he can try to think about something other than new coronavirus cases. “Schools are making this up as we go,” Carroll said in an Oct. 15 webinar. “We’re all in the veil of ignorance.”
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they’ve come back to normal you want to make sure that they are 100% aware of what’s going on because after a seizure someone can be very disoriented and confused. So stay with them,” Edwards said. In a normal year the organization would have five different Walk to End Epilepsy events in various cities across Indiana. However, this year, they were only able to have a walk in Evansville, Indiana, in May and in Indianapolis in September and both were virtual, Edwards said. During November, Epilepsy Foundation Indiana would normally have an annual Epilepsy and Seizure Wellness Expo which would include a day of sessions covering various topics relating to epilepsy and seizures such as insurance or CBD treatments, Edwards said. This November, the virtual version did not have the registration numbers they were hoping for so they are planning to try again in early 2021. Edwards said they focused this month on raising awareness about the diagnosis, what it means to have epilepsy and helping people who have the condition know that they are not alone. “Someone that has epilepsy and seizures, you’re not going to know that they are struggling with that condition unless you see them have a seizure,” Edwards said. The Epilepsy Foundation of Indiana tries to raise awareness about proper first aid for someone who is hav-
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National Epilepsy Awareness Month is normally celebrated with walks, programs and purple ribbons during the month of November. However, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, many events became virtual or did not happen at all. Epilepsy is a condition which causes a person’s brain to have seizures. According to the National Epilepsy Foundation website, one in 26 people will develop epilepsy at some point in their life, meaning roughly 3.4 million people in the United States have epilepsy. There are many misconceptions about epilepsy, said Alyssa Edwards, program coordinator at Epilepsy Foundation Indiana. Among these are that epilepsy is contagious, which it is not, or thinking people should restrain someone who is having a seizure, which can actually cause more harm. Edwards said Epilepsy Foundation Indiana tries to educate people on what epilepsy is and give people the necessary information to help someone having seizures. But due to the pandemic, many of their events this year had been canceled. There is a difference between having seizures and having epilepsy, Edwards said. Everyone has a threshold for seizures, meaning someone with a lower threshold can have a seizure just by having a high fever, for example. “Even if they seem like
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ing a seizure, which involves turning them on their side if they have collapsed and are unconscious but do not try to restrain them in any way or put anything in their mouth. They offer training to a wide range of people, including law enforcement and people who work in schools. They are also able to rework their training for any group that has requested it. “We always tell people to cater your seizure first aid to whatever situation you’re in but generally you’ll want to do ‘Stay, Safe, Side,’” Edwards said. The “Stay, Safe, Side” process means one should not leave a person alone when they are having a seizure, turn them on one of their
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sides if they are unconscious and keep a person safe if they are having seizure that has not caused them to fall to the ground but has made them unaware of their surroundings. Dr. Robert Blake, an epileptologist with Riley Hospital for Children, said there are many different kinds of seizures and different kinds of epilepsy itself. Epilepsy can be caused by brain injuries, brain tumors, genetics or a malformation of the brain, Blake said. The multiple potential causes of seizures means there is a lot of variability between each patient. For example, some people are diagnosed as children and outgrow the condition, while other people do
not begin having seizures until adulthood. “About half the cases of epilepsy have an unknown cause,” Blake said. “Meaning even when we look at all of our tests, we still don’t know why that person has seizures.” Blake said seizure medicines are the main form of treatment but they only work for about 60-70% of patients. Some patients are able to control their seizures with dietary therapy such as switching to the ketogenic diet or variations of it. In some cases, surgery is also an option. “Indiana University Health, including Riley Hospital for Children, is the only level four epilepsy center in
the state of Indiana,” Blake said. “So we are the only center that is able to offer all the different treatment options for children with epilepsy.” Patients may need to be cautious with activities such as swimming, riding bikes or climbing to high places because these could become dangerous situations if the person were to have a seizure. However, once the seizures are being controlled by a treatment, they can have a normal life, Blake said. “The good news is, many kids with epilepsy can get their seizures controlled in which case they would be allowed to do normal activities such as driving and working, ” Blake said.
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