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2020 VOTER GUIDE The Indiana Daily Student sent a list of questions to the candidates in contested elections in the region and state.

Below are excerpted responses from three races— you can find the candidates’ responses in full, and responses for races including Monroe County Council and Monroe County District Court, at idsnews.com/2020voterguide.

Governor

Eric Holcomb

Woody Myers Donald Rainwater

Eric Holcomb (incumbent) Holcomb is running for reelection as the Republican candidate for governor. He has served as Indiana's governor since 2016 and is the former chairman of Indiana Republican party. Holcomb was also the adviser, deputy chief of staff and 2008 campaign manager for former Gov. Mitch Daniels.

Holcomb did not respond to the IDS' questions.

Woody Myers Myers is the democractic challenger in the race. He is a physician who served as the Indiana State Health Commissioner from 1985 to 1990 and as New York City’s Health Commissioner from

1990 to 1991. He is also the owner of Myers Ventures.

How long should Indiana continue to require masks?

Indiana should continue to wear masks until the number of cases have dropped significantly and we meet the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention requirements when released by the new Biden/ Harris CDC Director for easing restrictions.

Are you prepared to close businesses again if need be?

Yes. Businesses did not have to suffer as much as they have during this pandemic.

What’s your top priority if elected?

Indiana needs new lead-

ership that puts people first, not politics, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. My top priority is to lead Indiana safely though the health and economic recovery we face.

Do you support reallocating police funds to other services?

I support investing in our communities so that there are fewer opportunities for negative interactions with law enforcement. We should reallocate a portion of our tax dollars to utilize intersectional approaches in public safety. We can put more funding in the hands of local communities to prioritize their needs and expand investments in

low-income neighborhoods and minority-owned businesses.

Do you support legalizing marijuana?

I support legalizing medical marijuana and decriminalizing minor possession charges.

What is the most important thing Indiana should do to address climate change?

We can protect our environment by transitioning our workforce away from fossil fuels to good-paying jobs in renewable and sustainable energy sources.

As governor, I’ll update Indiana’s renewable energy standards and set a new clean energy goal to renew SEE GOVERNOR, PAGE 6

US House of Representatives Indiana District 9

Trey Hollingsworth

Andy Ruff

Tonya Millis

Trey Hollingsworth (incumbent) Hollingsworth has served as the District 9 representative since 2017. He is the founder of Hollingsworth Capital Partners, a multimillion-dollar real estate investment firm.

Hollingsworth did not respond to the IDS' questions.

Andy Ruff Ruff, the Democratic candidate, served as a Bloomington City Council member for 20 years and is a part-time country musician. He developed Indiana’s first Living Wage Ordinance.

Do you support a mask mandate on a national level?

In that context, a federal mask mandate may sound like a no-brainer, but there are potential problems, not the least of which is the constitu-

tionality of such a mandate.

An alternative solution may be for Congress to instead attach conditions to federal funding that induces states to enact (and enforce) local mask mandates.

What’s your top priority if elected?

For democracy to function properly we must end the corrupting influence that Big Money has on our elections and lawmaking. That’s why my top priority on day one in Congress will be to support HR 1, the anti-corruption, pro-democracy reform bill passed by the House in 2018.

Do you support reallocating police funds?

There is no doubting that we need to reimagine policing. That does not, of course, mean “defunding” police departments, as so many on the

right like to claim. But it does mean using tax-payer dollars — money that is often spent on military-grade vehicles, weapons and body armor — and diverting it into under-funded public social services like mental health, housing and education.

Should the Senate wait until after the election to confirm Amy Coney Barrett?

This is not a partisan issue — well over half of Americans believe that the Senate should wait to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat until after a new president has been elected.

What is the most important thing Congress should do to address climate change?

This includes market incentives for green technologies and products; zero-emission and carbon-neutral policies for the government and military;

protecting our public lands from fossil fuel production and further exploitation; fighting theattempts of fossil fuel companies to influence politics through political spending and lobbying; strengthening the Environmental Protection Agency; supporting relief and rebuilding plans for disaster victims and climate refugees; all the while addressing with the closest attention the needs and grievances of minority and marginalized communities, who will be most affected by climate change.

What is your position on abortion rights?

I am pro-choice and would strongly oppose any federal legislative attempts to curb that freedom.

How will you address rising

for unemployed Hoosiers to access health care through the ACA exchanges. It would also strip away coverage for the estimated 168,000 Hoosier families who currently rely on the exchanges for permanent coverage and would jeopardize funding for the state’s HIP 2.0 program, which covers more than 500,000 Hoosiers.

Do you support reallocating police funds?

As a former mayor, the idea of defunding the police is nonsense. We need to invest more dollars in public safety to rebuild trust in our communities. That means more and better training for officers, new technology like body cams for all police departments across the state and creating a more fair and just criminal justice system that recognizes the hu-

manity in each of us.

Do you support legalizing marijuana?

While this is a decision for the Indiana General Assembly, I support decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana, much like is happening in Marion County. I also support the use of medicinal marijuana.

What is the most important thing Indiana should do to address climate change?

As attorney general, I will go after those that violate our environmental laws and put Hoosiers and our communities at risk. I will also be an advocate of common-sense reforms that keep our communities and citizens safe and healthy.

What is your position on abortion rights?

I believe Roe v. Wade is settled law.

How will you address rising student debt?

Using the office's consumer protection division, I would go after any organization that attempts to take advantage of students using predatory or dishonest practices.

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Indiana Attorney General

Jonathan Weinzapfel

Todd Rokita

Jonathan Weinzapfel Weinzapfel is the Democratic candidate for attorney general. He served as the mayor of Evansville, Indiana, for two terms from 2004 to 2011.

Do you support Gov. Eric Holcomb’s mask mandate?

Yes. In fact, I was the only candidate to come out and support Governor Holcomb's mask order. I believe in science and listening to public health experts.

What’s your top priority if elected?

As attorney general, my top priority will be protecting Hoosier's health care. On day one of my administration, I will remove Indiana from a partisan lawsuit that seeks to destroy the Affordable Care Act. If successful, the lawsuit would eliminate the option

Todd Rokita Rokita is the Republican candidate for attorney general, and won against the incumbent, Curtis Hill, in the primary. He has served as the Indiana Secretary of State and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He ran for U.S. Senate in 2018, but lost the primary.

Rokita did not respond to the IDS' questions.

IU cases decrease in update

By Matt Cohen mdc1@iu.edu | @Matt_Cohen_

After a slight increase in mitigation testing COVID-19 positivity rates in last week’s update, IU reported a decrease in the Bloomington campus’ rate in Wednesday’s update, the lowest single-week rate of the school year.

Wednesday’s update covered testing over the week of Oct. 11 to Oct. 17. The Bloomington campus’ data showed a 0.7% positivity rate in last week’s mitigation testing.

This is the first week Bloomington has had a rate below 1%.

That 0.7% rate is made up of 64 positive tests and 9,904 negatives.

The overall mitigation testing positivity rate is now 2.7%. There are 1,983 positive mitigation tests out of 73,825 tests taken.

Live-in greek students, dorm residents and non-greek affiliated off-campus students all saw decreases in their mitigation testing positivity rate. There was also an increase of total tests administered to dorm residents and live-in greek students.

Live-out greek students, however, had positivity rates increase slightly from 2.5% the week prior to 2.7% last week.

Live-out greek students are the only group with a positivity rate above 2% and have consistently had the highest positivity rate out of the four main groups IU looks at after the initial wave among live-in greek students began to decrease.

The symptomatic testing positivity rate increased slightly to 28.3% last week in Bloomington, but there were 53 tests requested — 15 positives, 38 negatives. That is the fewest number of requested symptomatic tests since the week of Aug. 2.

Symptomatic tests are not assigned by the school for students to take like mitigation testing. Students who are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 go through an online screening before an IU Health nurse gives the student an appointment to be tested.

IU East had a large increase in positivity rates jumping from 2.4% the week prior to 4.5% last week.

The dashboard claims there is no detection of spread in classSEE UPDATE, PAGE 6

IU Acacia member dies after shooting

By Ally Melnik

IU ballet program adjusts to COVID-19

By Lauren McLaughlin lrmclaug@iu.edu | @l_mclaughlin8

Sarah Wroth, chair of the IU ballet department, said she is determined to not let ballet die during the COVID-19 pandemic. When the pandemic began in the spring, the IU ballet department had to adjust swiftly.

Once the ballet faculty found out IU classes were going online, they met virtually to develop a new online curriculum, Wroth said.

They included as much as they could — conditioning class, technique class, pointe class and some repertoire.

“We just took this idea of education and ballet and made it fit like water in a new vessel to the online form,” she said.

Wroth is also an associate professor of music in ballet at IU. She came to IU in 2017 after 14 years of working as a professional dancer with the Boston Ballet Company.

Working on Zoom in the spring

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A ballet student rehearses in front of Sarah Wroth, chair of IU's ballet department.

All IU ballet students are required to wear masks during in-person class.

was exhausting, she said. It was harder to address students as a group to correct them, and faulty Wi-Fi connections affected faculty teaching from home.

Dancing ballet at home is not

equitable to in-person class because students have different resources and space, Wroth said.

Senior ballet student Sam Epstein said working in the home environment is difficult without

sprung flooring, which is traditionally used in dance studios.

“There are certain things like jumps that are much harder on the body inside a home environment,” he said.

Some ballet students bought squares of marley flooring, which allow dancers to turn better, Epstein said. He said the department provided some ballet students with marley squares if they did not already have them at the beginning of the 2020-21 school year.

Wroth said despite the hardships, the online curriculum was still rewarding and effective.

“There is always something to work on in ballet,” she said. “To explore how we could challenge the students to be their best selves and get even better in the at-home space was pretty exciting.”

This semester, some classes were taught in person with some SEE BALLET, PAGE 6

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An IU Acacia fraternity member died last Friday night after being shot early that morning while visiting the University of Alabama, family friend Tearrah Terry said in a text message.

Schuyler Bradley was sent to DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, after he was shot, and he died in the hospital, Terry said. He was 19 years old.

Bradley was with friends when he was shot once around 2:30 a.m. Friday morning on the Strip, an entertainment district near the University of Alabama, according to a WVTM 13 article. Zachary Profozich, 22, was arrested later in the day for attempted murder in relation to the shooting.

When Bradley died, the charges were upgraded to murder, according to a WVUA 23 Facebook post.

Terry said Bradley’s friends got in an argument with Profozich’s friends and Bradley was trying to stick up for one of his friends when he was shot.

Terry started a GoFundMe to help pay for Bradley’s hospital bills and transportation and housing costs for his family. More than $42,000 has been raised so far.

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Monroe County approves greek house capacity appeal

By Matt Cohen mdc1@iu.edu | @Matt_Cohen_

The Monroe County Health Department approved an appeal from Theta Chi last week that allows more students to move back into the house, pushing its capacity above the standard 75% limit.

Monroe County Health Administrator Penny Caudill said Theta Chi will be granted 80% capacity because the house came off quarantine and new cases inside the house dropped.

“It’s now a time where we have to be a little more thoughtful and specific for each house,” Monroe County legal counsel Margie Rice said.

Monroe County created the 75% capacity limit during IU’s first week of classes but recommended houses stick to 50% capacity. The Health Department believed limiting the density of students in the house would decrease internal COVID-19 spread.

IU reported Theta Chi has had at least 38 COVID-19 cases since Aug. 19. Theta Chi members tested between Aug. 30 and Sept. 5 had a positivity rate of more than 76% — the third highest percentage of all greek houses that week.

Dr. Aaron Carroll, IU’s director of mitigation testing, has said in multiple webinars greek houses are not designed for living in a pandemic.

The appeals process was approved at an Oct. 8 Monroe County Health Board meeting. It allows houses to request higher live-in capacities now that many houses have had quarantines lifted.

Only one house — Delta Phi Epsilon — is in quarantine as of Monday. Officials initially said it was unlikely any appeals would be granted.

The board only discussed creating an appeals process because a previously unnamed house requested last week more students move back in. Caudill confirmed Wednesday that Theta Chi made that request.

Health Board members and IU public health officials have said the blueprint of the individual house greatly influences how high its capacity should be. Some houses are better equipped to space out students and create separated quarantine and isolation rooms.

“The Alpha Iota Chapter has the ability and appropriate space within the chapter house, if needed, to isolate and quarantine residents,” Theta Chi said in a statement to the Indiana Daily Student.

The statement said Theta Chi plans to work with IU and Monroe County to make sure safety procedures are followed. Dr. Lana Dbeido, a member of IU’s Medical Response Team, said those include wearing a mask, keeping distance within the house and avoiding common spaces.

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The Alpha Iota chapter of the Theta Chi Fraternity’s house is located at 1440 N. Jordan Ave. The house will be allowed to return to 80% capacity.

Caudill said the Theta Chi request stated since the house had so many COVID-19 cases, more students should be allowed back because a large number have recovered from the coronavirus and are within a supposed 90-day period of immunity.

Multiple greek houses have suggested they may have achieved herd immunity. Dbiedo said that is not

necessarily possible. There will always be a large number of students in the house who do not have antibodies.

“For this infection I don’t think we can talk about herd immunity because this immunity is not long lasting, so it’s not really a true immunity to infection,” Dbeido said.

Dbeido said it is possible to be reinfected within that 90-day period.

Theta Chi’s appeal was

submitted as a letter to the department. Caudill expects there to be a formal appeals document soon.

Caudill said no other house has submitted an appeal, and she does not expect many requests to come because of how soon students are going home for Thanksgiving.

Monroe County does not currently have a plan for capacity restrictions during the

spring semester, but Caudill said that’s the next step for the board.

Caudill and other Health Board members believe there should be adjustments to the original 75% limit because of decreased positivity rates and fewer new cases per week at IU, especially inside greek houses.

“We learned a lot,” Caudill said. “There’s always room for improvement.”

Students, family share memories of deceased IU student

By Avraham Forrest ahforres@iu.edu | @Avraham_Forrest

A vigil for late IU student Schuyler Bradley was held in Dunn Meadow on Sunday night. Bradley was shot early Friday morning in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and died later that day.

At 8 p.m., more than 100 students holding candles gathered around the park’s stage to listen to loved ones speak about Bradley. A microphone was set up next to a large picture of the late student, candles and flowers set underneath.

“In Loving Memory,” the picture read.

Then, friends of Bradley spoke onstage expressing their grief for his passing and appreciation for the turnout for him.

“This is the first place

besides my home that I’ve been since he’s passed, and honestly I didn’t want to come,” Bradley’s mother Daphne Groff said. “But I was sort of excited because I knew people were going to be here but I didn’t think it was going to be this many people.”

Bradley was a member of the Acacia fraternity. A post on the fraternity’s Instagram page said they are no longer whole without him.

“Schuyler was a bright light in this world. He had an impact on everyone he met, and this is evident in the overflowing love and support we have seen for him and his family while he was fighting,” the post said.

Bradley played football for Carmel High School, ac-

cording to an Indianapolis Star article.

“I never ever thought at 41 years old that my son wouldn’t be here,” Groff said to the crowd. “I didn’t think he was going to give up.”

Bradley’s mother described memories of him, as well as his final moments in the hospital.

“I walked over and I put my face on his face, and I kissed my baby,” Groff said.

“And I said, it’s OK, you can go.”

She remembered her son’s dimples that she said could light up a room and green eyes that would make people stare.

Much of Bradley’s family attended the event, mourning the late IU student along with other students.

PHOTO BY ETHAN LEVY | IDS

A candlelight vigil for late IU student Schuyler Bradley takes place Oct. 18 at Dunn Meadow. Bradley died last week after being shot in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Ghiche Bradley, Schuyler’s older brother, said his late sibling was a good person and that people noticed it.

He said his brother was a hard worker and loved his

family.

“We were best friends,” Ghiche Bradley said.

Support for Bradley and his family was seen at the event and through the Go-

FundMe page, which has raised more than $56,000 dollars.

“He loves hard,” Ghiche said. “He loves his friends, loves his family.”

Two blocks of Kirkwood Rainbow Coalition speak on Avenue closed to traffic 24/7 demands for IUSG at rally

By Helen Rummel hrummel@iu.edu | @HelenRummel

The blocks from Dunn Street to Grant Street and Washington Street to Walnut Street on Kirkwood Avenue will be reserved for pedestrian traffic during the entire week for the remainder of the year, according to a press release from the City of Bloomington on Oct.16.

The city decided to expand upon a June 9 decision from the Bloomington Board of Public Works that closed off Indiana Avenue to Grant Street and Washington Street to Walnut Street from vehicular traf-

fic. The original ordinance only enforced the decision from Thursday afternoons to Monday mornings.

The city extended the pilot in hopes of creating economic growth in a safe setting during the COVID-19 pandemic. Restaurants can continue to offer outdoor dining options for customers who may not be comfortable with indoor seating.

“Th is a d ditional closure period wi ll allow businesses to invest in outdoor in f rastructure to help them serve custom ers during the colder months,” said Talisha Cop-

pock, president of Downtown Bloomington, Inc., in a press release.

To help with parking needs in the area, the city suggested employees and customers use the IU parking lots in the area. Th e IU lots offer free parking each night after 5 p.m. and on weekends.

The city also encourages the use of the pickup/ drop-off parking spaces that have been in effect since Aug. 1 in more than 50 location s. Th e spaces are available for 15 -m in u te increments to primarily assist restaurant customers.

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Restaurant customers sit at tables Aug. 29 on Kirkwood Avenue. Kirkwood will remain closed for pedestrian traffic during the entire week for the remainder of the year, according to a press release from the City of Bloomington on Oct. 16.

By Phyllis Cha cha1@iu.edu | @phyllischa

More than 70 students demonstrated at the “Unite to Ignite rally” at the Sample Gates on Friday with a list of demands for IU Student Government. Students held a large sign reading, “We are not asking for a seat at the table, we built our own.”

The rally was organized

by Rainbow Coalition at IU, a new coalition of different multicultural groups on campus that are seeking change, organizer Ky Freeman said. Their demands include more representation for underrepresented students, more transparency with IUSG and creating hazard pay relief for resident assistants.

“We deserve to be heard,” Freeman said in a speech to the crowd. “Students from underrepresented communities do not always belong at the diversity table.”

IUSG executives refused to meet with students in a group, instead insisting on one-on-one meetings, organizer Lindsey Batteast said.

She said Rainbow Coalition wanted to meet as a group because there are many problems from people with different perspectives. Organizer Evelyn Sanchez said one-on-one meetings felt tokenizing.

Batteast said she feels like IUSG and IU administration have been complicit in depriving students of color a seat at the table. She said students wouldn’t have to organize and rally if power was truly in their hands.

Batteast said she hopes the rally encourages IUSG to meet with underrepresented students in a group setting. She said the Rainbow Coalition will fight for more representation.

“We will not just bring our own seat to the table, but we will bring our own table,” Batteast said.

Ruby Flores, a resident assistant at IU, spoke about the difficulties of being an RA. She said many RAs she knows struggle with mental health, academics and financial needs. While RAs put their heart and souls into their residents, Flores said, that comes with a price.

“That price is being overworked with little compensation, that price is the mental health of my friends, that price is feeling undervalued and not heard,” Flores said.

Sanchez said a major frustration students have

with IUSG is that Student Body President Rachel Aranyi and Student Body Vice President Ruhan Syed receive a $3,000 stipend.

As president of Latinos Unidos, Sanchez said she works for free and doesn’t see why IUSG executives can’t.

Junior Christina Colón said she was attending the rally because she wants to support students who don’t have access to resources and is hoping reallocation of the IUSG budget can help them, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

She feels like this year’s administration hasn’t followed through with many of their promises, she said.

Freeman said he hopes IUSG members hear their demands and take them seriously.

“Now they know we have the power to mobilize,” he said.

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City council approves $166 million budget for 2021

By Mel Fronczek mfroncze@iu.edu | @MelissaFronczek

Although council members weren’t satisfied with the entirety of the proposed 2021 city budget, the Bloomington City Council approved it in a 7-1 vote Oct. 14.

“Every one of us, no doubt, can point to something in this budget that we might like changed or different,” Mayor John Hamilton said in an opening statement. “But I believe it very well embodies our community’s values in the face of these times, and it is a prudent and effective investment for a better future for our community.”

The $166 million budget, which is 4% less than what was budgeted for 2020, has been in the works for about six months, Hamilton said. City Controller Jeff Underwood said if the council hadn’t passed the budget, the city would have to go back to its previous budget and ultimately lose about $1 million in revenue due to a different structure in funds.

That would’ve resulted in cuts to the budget to make up for it, as well as cuts to make up for the proposed salary raises in 2021 throughout various city departments.

Matt Flaherty was the only council member who voted against the budget, citing a lack of collaboration between the council and administration and an inefficient budget process.

“I don’t feel like I’ve impacted this budget at all,” he said. “Of the six or seven specific items or changes that I’ve asked for, none were incorporated or really meaningfully discussed.”

Council members Isabel Piedmont-Smith and Kate Rosenbarger also said they were dissatisfied with the process and lack of collaboration. Many other council members expressed this sentiment at a meeting two weeks ago.

Steve Volan was absent from the meeting Oct. 14, but the council member made a recommendation vote against the budget two weeks ago.

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The Bloomington City Council met Oct. 14 over Zoom and approved next year’s proposed $166 million city budget in a 7-1 vote. Mayor John Hamilton said the budget has been in the works for six months.

Council member Susan Sandberg said the council has a responsibility to make sure the city has a budget.

“We always must keep the big picture in mind,” she said. “And so in spite of my differences with what had been proposed, I will make it my responsibility to continue to work on those things throughout the year and throughout the next budget cycles.”

Community member Molly Stewart said during a public comment period that she’s displeased with the council’s handling of the Bloomington Police Department budget.

“Only the requests of police officers and civilian staff and their families have been met,” she said. “A compromise has not been reached. No defunding is occurring.”

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Stewart said it seems like the city is promising more resources to the police department and disregarding marginalized community members. She cited the mayor’s initiatives to give housing stipends to incentivize officers to live within city limits and to allow officers who don’t live in the city to take home patrol cars.

Council members Sandberg, Sue Sgambelluri and Dave Rollo said they were concerned about BPD being understaffed and the effects that has on officer morale.

Sandberg and Sgambelluri proposed fully funding 105 sworn officer positions, which contrasts with the mayor’s plan to fund 100. It passed 5-3.

“I will commit to adding more sworn officers in the future because I think that when you have a strained police force that’s when

mistakes get made,” Rollo said.

Piedmont-Smith, who voted against the proposal with Flaherty and Rosenbarger, said she doesn’t think adding more officers will solve community problems such as poverty and addiction.

“Let us look at ways to reduce their workload, not by hiring more police officers but by addressing the problems that lead people to call the police,” she said.

Greg May, an administrative director at Centerstone mental health facility, said he supports BPD for the work the downtown resource officers and the police social worker do with Centerstone.

“There’s a high level of collaboration and cooperation, making sure that vulnerable citizens in

this community have care and resources provided to them that meet their needs,” May said.

Piedmont-Smith asked the council to formally recognize a petition started in part by local social worker Donyel Byrd that denounces the placement of social workers in police departments. The council obliged in a 8-0 vote.

Byrd and the petition makers listed six reasons why they oppose police social workers: The position fails to address the sources of crises, leaves many vulnerable community members still untrustworthy of the police, deters independent social workers from operating due to police expansion, utilizes resources preexisting underfunded agencies could use and could foster racial and data biases.

Multiple community

members expressed concern about BPD’s $3,000 budget for less lethal weapons during public comments. Some spoke about injuries caused by rubber bullets, which ranged from bruises to loss of an eye.

Piedmont-Smith said the $3,000 is for bean bag rounds and sponge rounds, and BPD doesn’t use rubber bullets. The police department has also budgeted $15,000 for gas masks. Piedmont-Smith said Chief Mike Diekhoff told her the masks would be used in the event the police deploy tear gas or need to respond to a chemical accident.

Piedmont-Smith said she’s working on legislation to ban BPD from using tear gas because she said it’s classified as a weapon of war and shouldn’t be used on civilians.

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IU’s residential staff are at a breaking point Rebekah Amaya is a junior in law and public policy and critical race and ethnic study.

Brian Hancock is a senior in law and public policy and international political economy.

Resident assistants and community educators are the front-line workers that operate IU’s residence halls and apartments. Hundreds of students and staff work tirelessly to create safe environments conducive to a positive living and learning experience for IU’s residents.

The COVID-19 pandemic makes an already demanding job more taxing. Residential staff are unknowingly exposed to infected residents on a routine basis. On top of that, mismanagement and lack of transparency from IU’s Residential Programs and Services has sowed chaos in IU’s coronavirus response, further endangering residents and staff alike.

If we claim to be “in this together,” then we need to protect and compensate the workers who risk their health everyday to uphold the IU student experience. Many of the concerns shared in the following testimonies are not new. Rather, they are a reflection of long-standing frustration among staff, brought to fruition by a university that opened its residence halls during a pandemic.

Rumors of not being allowed to speak to press circulate within residential staff circles. While no such policy exists on paper, residential staff understand the risks of gambling the job that gives you a place to sleep. To respect this, some of the following sources have been kept anonymous in order to safeguard the jobs and livelihoods of IU’s residential staff.

The Indiana Daily Student spoke to two former and 10 current RAs. This is the RA experience, in their own words.

COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many unprecedented challenges to IU’s residence halls. Despite IU’s policies and safety measures to combat the spread of the virus, there are many shortcomings. Residential staff are not notified by IU when one of their residents is diagnosed. Quarantine measures using Ashton Hall have been loosely enforced.

“So many times we knock on doors, and people just aren’t wearing masks. We have to tell them to put on masks, and they just don’t.

One time, we had residents who said they didn’t need to wear masks because they had COVID-19 before.

Freshmen are usually the most egregious violators of COVID-19 policies, when it comes to parties and things like that.”

“We had a scenario where a resident contacted another RA saying their COVID-19 positive roommate was able to get back into their dorm room. They’re supposed to lock out residents with COVID-19 once they get reassigned to Ashton. That didn’t seem to happen.”

— Current RA, first year “The thing is, though, we’re busting our butts off.

We have to not only deal with typical situations that we have to do in RPS but also COVID-19 situations, which is extremely dangerous.”

“One time, there was someone getting loaded up for quarantine. I asked a simple question, ‘Is someone getting transported to quarantine?’ They kind of snapped back at me, saying ‘We can’t answer that for you.’”

— Current RA “Last weekend, an infected resident came in from Ashton, and one of the RAs had to go up with them to their room, and we know they have COVID-19. They were wearing a [hazmat] suit and the RA had to go up in the elevator with him and open the doors for him. Why

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are we supposed to be exposing ourselves that much?”

— Current RA “Sanitation is not sufficient. Some bathrooms in the hall have been skipped on proper sanitizing or even routine cleaning. No increase in sanitation has happened in rooms with reported positive results or in shared places when positive results have been confirmed.”

“Also, information is not provided to staff. Each time that someone on the floor got a positive result, I would only be informed if they told me.

Many times, contact tracing would not contact individuals who were around infected individuals or that frequently shared spaces such as bathrooms with them. Public health announcements can’t be sent out to help promote the safety of other residents.

Information only comes about by chance.”

— Current RA Mental health and working conditions It is important to recognize that residential staff are still students, with classes, families and extracurricular involvements. Juggling a demanding job along with the normal responsibilities that come with being a student is burdensome for anyone.

Poor working conditions coupled with lack of support for residential staff disregards the importance of mental health.

“My first year as an RA, I was a first responder to a student suicide. After the fact, I was given no support from anywhere within the organization for three days. I had no contact with my supervisor during that time until he called me into his office, threatened to fire me and told me that my response to the trauma I had experienced was inappropriate.

Contained in this threat was the implication that he could make me homeless and take away my access to food overnight, two weeks before final exams, and that there was nothing I could do about it. It was not until I appealed this to the head of RPS, nearly five days after the student’s death, that anyone asked me how I — or the students I was responsible for — were handling the situation.”

— Abigail Bainbridge, Former RA, Forest Hall “As a first year RA, I was excited to enter a role where I could help students. Unfortunately, my three months as an RA have not been like that. I have been gaslighted by my leadership team and the higher ups at RPS. I do not feel supported. We do so much for our jobs, yet it is never enough. They keep

adding more and more, and we are already busy enough with COVID-19 policy.

There is no policy in place for people who test positive.

Whenever we complain to our bosses all we hear is ‘We are here for you. We see you.

We appreciate you.’ In all my time here, however, I am not appreciated. My mental state has never been so low.

My leadership team will not communicate with me, and they are not willing to help.

I’m sick and tired of the conditions, but whenever we try to speak out we get beaten down.”

— Current RA, first year “Things I was being told to do were really counterproductive to what my own morals are. And that really drove home that I wasn’t there to help people. I was more there to help the corporation not lose money.”

“Bias training came in late November, or maybe early December, which is the end of the first semester. So nobody knew how to write bias incident reports before that. We were told verbatim, ‘The most important reason for bias training was so that future students still decide to come back.’ Our supervisor relayed a story about how someone saw a video of somebody at IU saying the n-word and that this student revoked their commitment to IU. That was the story that they gave me as the example of why bias incident reports are important, not because it actually affected that student, but because IU lost money.”

“I had never gotten a B in college, except for that semester. I got three, and that’s because I couldn’t actually get out of my bed to leave some days. Because it was just, it was weighing so heavily on me and the things that I was being asked to do and the work that I was being taught to do.”

— Nick Comer, former RA, Linden Hall “It’s just ridiculous how weekends are so stressful because you literally are up until 4 a.m., and then they expect us to log only two and half hours for work.”

— Current RA Mismanagement Communication between leadership and residential staff has been historically strained. Due to lack of direct representation in RPS decision-making, residential staff have little to no say in decisions that affect their dayto-day responsibilities. This mismanagement is reflected in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and in the seemingly ineffective training that has not addressed recurrent concerns from resi-

dential staff.

“Another frustration of mine is the lack of representation that we get in RPS. We don’t really get any say during their meetings or express what we have to say. We have our supervisors who go and take what we have to say, but by the time it gets through them it gets kind of washed down and made to seem like it is not a big deal. So that’s definitely frustrating, but that has been a problem forever.

The directors are always trying to pander to us and say ‘Oh, we support you,’ but it’s just words. There is no action.”

— Current RA “When I brought up the issues with COVID-19 procedures to my leadership team with other RAs, we were told to either quit for our health or go along with it. The higherups in RPS keep gaslighting RAs. They know RAs can’t do or say anything because our housing is tied into our contracts. No one wants to lose housing for saying their opinion, especially with everything going on.”

— Current RA, second year “But this year, it’s just become very transparent with how much they see us as sort of resources or just see us as labor as opposed to seeing us as human. They’re still pushing us to do all this curriculum and also enforce these policies. It makes it seem like they don’t really care about our humanity.”

— Current RA Pay The compensation residential staff receive for their work comes in the form of housing and a food stipend.

If this stipend were to be divided by the number of hours residential staff are expected to work it would come out to about $2 an hour. This semester — despite the increase in responsibilities that comes with an inevitable risk of exposure to COVID-19 — residential staff currently do not receive hazard pay.

“Our pay is not adequate.

Seven out of eight weeks I have worked over the ‘20hour stipend work week’ with an average of 24 and a half hours a week. That is four and a half hours a week that is over the stipend 20 hours a week, and the highest hour week was 32 hours. No hourly pay is being received.”

— Current RA “They switched up how we’re recording hours now.

Last year, they would let us do the whole seven hours because if you were on call that night you know you’re on call. Most jobs are still going to pay you because you’re technically working. So now

they’re telling us, ‘No, only report two or two and a half hours.’ That doesn’t sound right, and I know they’re doing it because they don’t want us going over those 20 hours a week. The reality is that we are working more than those 20 hours a week easily.”

— Current RA “I think we should have gotten better pay. I will always do my job no matter what, [but] I feel like a lot of RAs want that. I am there to support them since I am a co-worker.”

— Current RA “The amount of work RAs do is high. I am always around my residents but have been not paid fairly by the university. We are told we can only work 20 hours a week. Last year, we had an issue with people going over 20 hours a week all of the time.

RPS, this year, had a fix for that — lie about your hours.

— Current RA, second year “We are considered frontline workers because we’re basically interacting with everyone who lives in the residence halls. With us having duty twice as much as usual, that’s twice as much time walking around the entire building. Inevitably, we’re going to be exposed to people who are not wearing masks or not taking the proper precautions. Then we also have to enforce those policies, and we aren’t getting any hazard pay. So, morale has been very low.“ “My number one concern would probably be money.

Because I can’t say how they should change the job and obviously there has to be people doing our job. But if they really want to show that they value us as people, and not just like cogs in a machine, then they need to give us hazard pay. They need to give us enough to live off of. Yes, we get housing and a meal plan, but that housing puts us in the middle of a communal living situation so we’re more at risk.”

“I don’t want to stop doing my job. I genuinely like connecting with residents, even in a virtual setting. I think that this is a job that can and should be done during COVID-19. I don’t think the residence hall experience should be just obliterated, but we need to be paid enough and shown that they care about us. You know what I mean? As of right now, it just does not feel like they care about us at all.”

— Current RA IUPD Residential staff have constant contact with the IU Police Department. Many

scenarios require residential staff to call IUPD, even if the RA believes it to be excessive or unnecessary.

“Our only guidelines for mental health emergencies are to call IUPD. I have had to do this twice. Both times, residents were taken against their will and put in a cop car and taken to the hospital. RAs are just cops who get paid less on this campus.

If you want to be an RA who isn’t mentally broken from being another cog in the police machine, you have to purposefully not do your job and hope you don’t get caught. There is no safety net put in place for our housing that so many of us are financially dependent on if we get fired.“ “Furthermore, RAs are supposed to call IUPD for all conduct situations with the exception of minor alcohol incidents. IUPD treats residents of color — specifically Black men in my experience — with less professionalism and respect. I have seen a white resident and a whitepassing resident given tickets and courts dates for marijuana, and I have seen two Black residents arrested for marijuana.”

— Current RA, second year Conclusion Most residential staff genuinely enjoy connecting with residents and being a resource for their peers.

Whether it be through latenight wellness checks, community building events or dozens of lost weekends spent monitoring the residence hall, RAs foster the experiences that make IU congenial. Fair treatment is a small price IU must pay for this work.

Residential staff want to make the university better.

But when they live in constant fear of retribution, it becomes impossible to discuss the hard issues that would improve IU’s residence halls.

To get out of this together, RPS must guarantee residential staff basic job security when grievances are raised.

Concerns that are raised should be treated with the credence and respect they deserve.

IU made the decision to put students into residence halls, and it must be held accountable in this. IU’s residential staff has the leadership and power to transform the environment of oncampus living. It’s time the university recognize this and work together with those that make the IU experience possible. ramaya@iu.edu brhancoc@iu.edu

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Life for IU’s greek house directors in quarantine

By Matt Cohen mdc1@iu.edu | @Matt_Cohen_

The front windows of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority house look over cars on Woodlawn Avenue and 10th Street, students still walking across campus to in-person classes and the expanse of the arboretum.

Yet even with daily routines that seem so normal just steps away from their home, members of the sorority spent two weeks confined inside. If they left for so much as a walk on campus, they faced repercussions from IU and Monroe County.

All the while, IU greek houses amassed more than 800 COVID-19 cases and Monroe County more than 3,000. Indiana reached more than 3,600 deaths. On Friday, Indiana reported a single-day record with more than 2,000 new cases.

Most sorority members, it seemed, expressed stress and anxiety over the quarantines.

Dozens left before the quarantine began to avoid being trapped. In some houses, contracting the virus was the only way to leave.

Their house directors, meanwhile, lived alongside the residents who stayed.

Over the course of September, 33 greek houses at IU were quarantined simultaneously.

Some had more than 40 total cases or weekly COVID-19 positivity rates above 80%.

Greek house directors live in the homes with their residents full time. They serve as supervisors and work to organize essential day-to-day functions of the homes.

Greek houses have been the largest challenge facing IU’s Medical Response Team.

Dr. Cole Beeler, IU’s director of symptomatic testing, said COVID-19 spread in greek houses was his biggest concern as campus reopened this fall.

The Monroe County Health Department set regulations for the houses to not surpass 75% occupancy. But it took many houses more than a month after the policy’s institution to get below that limit. Dr. Aaron Carroll, IU’s director of mitigation testing, has said communal living is not conducive to a pandemic.

And despite recommendations from IU leadership to close, almost all greek houses remain open and most of have been taken off quarantine.

Some house directors said they were not scared of the pandemic, though most are over 60 years old and in at-risk demographics. But they feel they did everything in their ability to make the houses safe. They felt targeted by IU’s increased testing focused on greek life.

The house directors voiced concerns over the way quarantines were handled by IU and Monroe County. Similar to louder student complaints, some directors believed the quarantine rules were too strict.

Most directors were in greek houses during their college days, and their fondest memories centered around the social aspects of house life. They didn’t want their residents to lose the opportunity to be together. Living together in a pandemic was a risk they were willing to take. * * * Jeanie VanMeter, Kappa

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Jeanie VanMeter, Kappa Alpha Theta’s house director, left, and Isabel Perry, Kappa Kappa Gamma’s house director alongside her dog Gizzy, right, stand for separate headshots in front of their respective houses. Sorority house directors lived alongside the residents who stayed in the houses during the quarantines.

Alpha Theta’s house director and president of all the house directors, didn’t understand why the silence had to be so overwhelming. She was a Theta sister herself, and she never knew the house to be without women chatting in the hallways, gathering for meals, studying in groups for exams and going out to parties. When she walked through the halls of the old sorority house during quarantine, the quiet was eerie.

She, like the other directors, was more focused on the safety of the women in the house above her own, despite being in an at-risk demographic. VanMeter, 72, was never worried about getting sick. She said she believes people are “on this planet to heal each other.”

The entire top floor of the house, which is closed off from the rest, was used for isolation rooms. VanMeter didn’t think the whole building needed to be quarantined, and if the Monroe County Health Department had ever inspected it, she thought they would agree.

When the residents moved back in, they were all organized into small pods of women who they could hang out with. That was meant for contact tracing. But VanMeter thought those pods would be quarantined together — not the entire building.

“I didn’t expect the house by any stretch of the imagination to be locked down,” VanMeter said.

She also didn’t think the house would enter quarantine as quickly as it did, beginning Sept. 2. Kappa Alpha Theta brought IU’s quarantine total to 30 houses — a story that quickly became national news.

VanMeter said she was never worried about the house closing due to the pandemic. Kappa Alpha Theta reported 13 cases — albeit one of the lower totals among greek houses — and VanMeter said only one resident had severe symptoms.

The house only had 11 residents during quarantine, VanMeter said. Some residents moved back in when

quarantine ended Sept. 23, bringing the number up to 47.

Monroe County rarely answered VanMeter’s questions about what they could and couldn’t do in quarantine. To her, being unable to get more information exacerbated the already anxious house.

“We felt like we were punished,” VanMeter said.

She said there were also inconsistencies on the enforcement of quarantine lengths. Kappa Alpha Theta’s quarantine extended longer than expected, VanMeter said, with no reason from the county.

“Some of our girls felt like the way things were being handled, the only way to be able to go to class was to get COVID,” VanMeter said. “Get COVID, get over it and be safe to go to class.”

VanMeter said she knew of one sorority where members shared a Juul trying to get the coronavirus as a means to leave the house.

VanMeter said residents are stressed over the potential of a second quarantine.

Because of that, members continue to move out of the house. Moving out comes with either breakage fees or the expectation to pay the same dues despite leaving.

But for many, VanMeter said, those costs are worth it — they don’t want to be trapped again.

“The thought of not being able to finish their schoolwork in class is very stressful and causes anxiety,” VanMeter said. “Maybe going through another quarantine is more stressful than getting COVID.” * * * Isabel Perry, in her second year as the Kappa Kappa Gamma house director, said she felt like she was in a cage.

From Aug. 28 to Sept. 17, the Kappa Kappa Gamma house was in quarantine, and despite high case numbers, Perry felt the house was as safe as it could’ve been.

Though she felt trapped, she wasn’t afraid.

“I followed all protocols, recommendations made by Dr. Fauci and the medical

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community,” Perry said. “We had some of the tightest requirements — housekeepers seven days a week, 6:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., cleaning all high touch points three times a day.”

But Kappa Kappa Gamma had among the highest total positive COVID-19 cases in any IU greek home, totaling more than 35 since Aug. 19.

Plexiglass panels hung between each bathroom sink and residents received prepackaged meals like other houses. Perry put posters up telling the members they needed to follow the house’s COVID-19 policies to keep campus open. She believes in using consequences to motivate the residents, and in this case, the consequence would be the closure of campus.

“Regardless of our numbers, we’re not lowering the bar,” Perry said.

Perry said she doesn’t have long interactions with the women since her role has always been largely as property manager. Through quarantine, she stayed in her room most days with her 12-yearold Yorkie, Gizzy.

Members enjoyed Gizzy’s company. The women did workouts on the front porch in the mornings to spend time outside. Perry said despite the barriers of quarantine, she believes the situation led to stronger bonds between residents.

Perry said during that time, she missed some of the noise at night when residents would get back late from a party. She missed human interaction.

But like other house directors, Perry worries about the psychological effects of the house’s quarantine. Residents are stressed over an uncertain future. They don’t know if or when they’ll be moved out of the house while still having to pay dues — and trying to complete online school. * * * Nancy Russell, Alpha Omicron Pi’s house director of 12 years, wore her mask consistently and socially distanced from her members, but the

69-year-old was still concerned about getting sick. Her members were worried about her health, too.

She still felt she was suffering repercussions for their actions.

Russell spent her summer in Bloomington. She attended virtual webinars with information about safety procedures for the home. VanMeter said Russell’s safety protocols in Alpha Omicron Pi were stricter than what she had at Kappa Alpha Theta.

“It was no small feat to get them all in staggered and safe,” Russell said. “Then we had Welcome Week.”

During the week before classes began, Russell said, some members went to events with fewer than 15 people, but they didn’t wear masks.

They brought COVID-19 to the house.

From Sept. 3 to Sept. 17 Alpha Omicron Pi was under quarantine. Compared to other greek houses, its cases were relatively low. IU reported 10 cases in the house since Aug. 19. Through the first week of classes, the house’s mitigation testing positivity rate was just more than 5%. The week after, just more than 1%.

Alpha Omicron Pi had 88 women move into the house over the course of August.

They were staggered, with only two residents moving in at a time. Each had 90 minutes to set up their rooms before leaving, so the next group could move in. Once everyone had moved in, all the women could return to the house.

Russell said she worked to create directional walkways in the house to allow for distancing among the residents as they moved around the house. It was one of many safety precautions, which also included limited group gathering, less furniture in the house and prepackaged meals.

The Monroe County Health Department ultimately is in charge of telling the houses to quarantine. Quarantines last 14 days but reset with every new positive test.

As of Oct 15., only one house remains in quarantine — Phi

Kappa Psi. Two on-campus fraternities, Alpha Epsilon Pi and Sigma Phi Epsilon, have received cease and desist orders for violations of public health policies. Four total total greek organizations have been put on cease and desist. Alpha Epilson Pi was shut down entirely by the Monroe County Health Department.

During quarantine, the Alpha Omicron Pi house had 22 residents. Since the quarantine ended — as in many greek houses — dozens have moved back. There are now 60 members in the house.

This fall, Russell’s role in the house was largely unchanged. She still organized meals in the house, answered resident questions and worked with maintenance crews. She found time in her room to call friends and read books — mostly mystery novels — as a stress reliever.

Russell went to bed early each night. It was how she refreshed, and it was how she had the energy to get out of bed the next morning and do it all again.

The only time Russell interacted with her sick residents came during meals as they opened the doors to their rooms to receive deliveries.

Uninfected members would come to the dining room to pick up boxed meals. Meals were the only times where the rest of the residents could interact. They ate in small groups in lounges or outside.

“You can’t do without personal interactions,” Russell said. “Or at least I would be even more nuts than I already am.”

She tried to add fun elements to an otherwise stressful situation. At the end of each week, she had the house’s chef prepare a special dessert — the chef quarantined in the house as well.

When the quarantine ended, they had a chocolate cake with strawberry cream cheese frosting.

“There was a huge celebration,” Russell said. “It was more ‘Gosh I got to go to class today and I am never going to complain about having to go to an in-person class again.’”

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our commitment to a cleaner future. I’ll inventory our greenhouse gas emissions and develop realistic reduction targets just as 22 other states have done.

student debt?

We need to give borrowers struggling to repay their loans a pathway out of debt. At the very least, that would mean allowing student loans to be discharged in bankruptcy — just like every other kind of debt. As a final measure, we can give student debtors direct relief from their burdens, especially in the hardest cases.

Do you support raising the minimum wage? If so, by how much?

I would support similar legislation on a federal level, but a $15 minimum wage alone is not enough. A better way of raising wages is to eliminate federal policies that punish unioniza-

Donald Rainwater Rainwater is the Libertarian candidate for governor. He served in the U.S. Navy for eight years and has spent the past 20 years in software engineering. He spent several years teaching computer courses and managing several small businesses, according to his website.

Rainwater did not respond to the IDS' questions.

tion and collective bargaining and hold companies that stifle wages and workers rights accountable for their actions.

Tonya Millis Millis is a Libertarian candidate who works as a real estate broker. She has experience in insurance and worked at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis, according to her website.

Do you support a mask mandate on a national level?

No. All across our country, businesses, patrons, parents and teachers are using best practices for safety as appropriate for their own situation. This has been a learning curve for everyone.

What's your top priority if elected?

My Roll-It-Back campaign

is running against the three R's; there are too many Rules, Regulations and Runaway debt. The two-party system is broken.

Do you support reallocating police funds?

Every town and municipal body has a budget that should be balanced annually. It is up to the people's elected officials to decide how monies go to police, schools, etc. The federal government (Congress) should not dictate how each town should be run or how it spends its money.

Do you support legalizing marijuana?

Yes. Cannabis and marijuana should be decriminalized for adults as they are victimless crimes.

Should the Senate wait until the election to confirm Amy Co-

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Wroth said two or three of her colleagues are teaching in person as well.

Classes are made up of six, seven or eight students.

All wear masks in class as instructed by the university and are always socially distanced, Wroth said. Students have individually assigned spots and barres as well as places to put down their gear.

“I actually feel like these small groups have allowed us to really zone in on individual people and make sure everyone is feeling seen, heard, pushed, actualized in beautiful ways,” Wroth said.

Epstein said the curriculum is a hybrid with some dance classes in person and some, such as guest lectures, online. In addition to other regulations, he said dancing with a partner is not allowed this semester.

Wroth teaches in-person classes in front of a Zoom call

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Sarah Wroth, chair of IU's ballet department, offers comments on technique to a ballet student Oct. 1 in the Musical Arts Center. Wroth adapted in-person classes for students in quarantine by teaching in front of a Zoom call.

on a large television so students in quarantine can still attend classes online and not miss out on the curriculum.

Zoom launched an update toward the beginning of the school year to fix background audio issues, which has caused some issues for students watching the class online, she said. Zoom some-

times recognizes music as background noise, and when she talks over the music to instruct her students, sometimes the music will cut out on the call.

“I am a talker,” Wroth said. “I have an issue sometimes when I have to keep my mouth shut while the music is playing and I see something

wrong that needs fixing.”

But overall, there have not been many issues teaching in-person classes, Wroth said.

The department also created rotation groups for students to focus on specific skills and implement the performance element. Some groups worked on solo performances while others work

ney Barrett?

No, under the U.S. Constitution, the president nominates a candidate, and the Senate advises and consents. However, I do believe that when Obama was president, the Senate was wrong not to consider his nomination when a vacancy arose.

What is the most important thing Congress should do to address climate change?

From my perspective, people want clean air and a safe society for their families going well into the future. Congress should continue to inform the public of its findings and make recommendations, in general, while not infringing on the personal freedoms of each individual.

What is your position on abortion rights? on group performance, she said.

“My biggest hope for this semester is just that everyone stays well and grows as artists,” Wroth said. “I want everyone to have achieved an arts education by the end of this semester.”

Epstein said solo performances are filmed and usually attended in person by peers and by other students over a Zoom call. He said some performances are also outdoors, including one more than two weeks ago titled “Meditation on Resilience,” part of the Jacobs School of Music's outdoor performance series "The Art of Mindful Listening".

Epstein performed a solo representative dance of a birth of a swan, a twist on the dying swan solo traditionally performed by a female in classical ballet, he said.

“Sarah choreographed a solo that was inspired by the solo if it were in reverse,” he said. “Instead of a swan that’s dying, a swan that’s coming to life was the idea, which I think ties very well to that theme of resilience and that hope for a renewed sense of life and normalcy.”

Personally, I am pro-life. As a constitutionalist and Libertarian, I think that Big Brother should stay out of little sister's business.

How will you address rising student debt?

That is a different question than college tuition. In this free country, individuals should have the right to choose their own path. Whether it be trade school, the military, in-person college, online classes or working at a family business, each person should decide for themselves. Congress has no business getting into people's personal finances.

Do you support raising the minimum wage? If so, how much?

No. As a Libertarian, I am in favor of free-market principles.

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rooms, just as what has been reported during Bloomington’s early spike.

As a whole, the prevalence rate across all of IU's campuses increased from 0.9% the week prior to 1.2% last week.

Though in Bloomington, that rate decreased from 0.8% to 0.6%.

Today, IU announced it has begun operating its labs.

That will allow the school to test every student once a week, and do so at a lower cost. This will also decrease the time to get results on mitigation testing.

Having those labs open will decrease IU’s total testing costs even as it conducts more tests.

IU also needs the labs open to have the on-departure testing it plans for, since it is unclear how many students will request a test that week — Nov. 15 to Nov. 21 — right before going home for Thanksgiving.

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The Elevator Dweller of Briscoe One night in the ‘70s, the students of Briscoe Hall studied intensely and partied shamelessly.

One group decided to go elevator surfing. Fueled by adrenaline, they would

gather in front of the elevator, pry the doors open and hop onto the moving elevator below. Unfortunately, this daring adventure was not without its risks.

A member of this group suffered a tragic death after falling into the elevator shaft.

His ghost continues to haunt Briscoe, accompanying those who take the elevator.

This elevator will open and travel to floors without command.

The Hatchet Brothers of Martinsville People who choose to visit Bradford Woods or peruse the nearby streets of Martinsville are warned to be cautious at nighttime. There

have been various reports of missing people and animals with severed heads found in the late 20th century.

The suspects of these crimes are said to be the Hatchet Brothers. They

wander the area holding a hatchet, looking for their next victim to murder.

Room 104 In the former Kappa Delta Rho fraternity, located at 1503 E. Third St., the house manager invited his girlfriend over for a break during finals season. He was called

away to attend to work responsibilities, leaving her alone in room 104. She became tired and drifted to sleep.

Suddenly, tree limbs began to creep over her from under the bed. She looked up to see her boyfriend with

his skin hanging from his body, and an ax swinging toward her. His roommates, after hearing her screams enter the room to see her terrified, but alive, sitting on the bed, and a previously missing pickaxe in the corner of the room.

The Arm Owen Hall, the oldest

The Missing Bones In the early years of IU’s history, trains transporting

building on campus, housed cadavers on the third floor in its early years. A dumbwaiter was used to transport the bodies from the first to third floors, but limbs were often severed after getting caught in the machinery.

One night, a few boys

decided to steal an arm from the basement and hang it from the ceiling light in the dorm of one of their female friends while she was away.

They waited for her arrival under her window outside.

Hours passed and they never heard her scream,

or saw the light turn on.

Worried, they reentered her room, only to find her rocking back and forth in the corner silently eating the arm.

(Source: Sydney Siegel, senior student and organizer of the FESA Ghost Walk)

cargo across the country would stop in Bloomington for exchanges. One special specimen among the imported goods was a baby elephant destined for the circus.

During its transfer between train cars, the elephant severely injured its leg. For its caretakers, the only viable option for treatment being euthanization. The

elephant’s bones were donated to the university, but have since gone missing.

Legend has it, the elephant’s bones are hidden on campus, waiting to be recovered.

The Woman in Black In 1911, there were several reports of an unknown veiled woman, dressed in black. She was seen most often walking along Third Street. Some claim to have seen her

walking with a cane or umbrella. She always kept her face covered, and often hid behind nearby trees when other pedestrians looked over. After a second look, witnesses reported that she would disappear completely.

There are suspicions that the Woman in Black may have been a burglar attempting to steal from the nearby greek houses. But the number of similar reports of this odd spectre provide reasonable evidence to believe the contrary.

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Editor Caleb Coffman sports@idsnews.com

Thirty-five years ago, John Feinstein pulled back the cu curtain urtain on IU basketball.

How author John Feinstein survived a year with Bob Knight

By Caleb Coffman calcoffm@iu.edu | @CalCoff

A nervous hand rose to knock on a gray door deep within Assembly Hall. Then it paused.

Few reporters would dream of walking into one of college basketball’s famed arenas, strolling right down to the head coach’s office and entering. Even fewer would do it to Bob Knight in the winter of 1985, during one of the General’s worst seasons at IU. Only John Feinstein would do it three hours before tipoff.

Feinstein was lucky though: He was on the List that lived in Knight’s mind.

For those writing about college basketball in the 1980s, it was an exclusive one. If you were on it, Knight would give you anything. Interview requests were welcome, access unprecedented — you may even be able to even call yourself Knight’s friend. Names were rarely added to the List— far more frequently, they were crossed off.

Feinstein had landed on it by luck.

Two years before that contentious season, Feinstein never got more than Knight’s answering machine. But when he was writing for the Sporting News he got his opportunity.

While walking through a terminal at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, Feinstein spotted the legendary coach. Knight was sitting by himself, waiting for a friend, University of Notre Dame coach Digger Phelps, to pick him up for a golf tournament.

Feinstein did not hesitate to walk over and introduce himself. He explained to Knight he was working on a story about his protégés and asked if Knight had time to talk with him.

“What else do I have to do?” Knight replied.

It took Phelps another half hour to show up, so the two sat there talking. Knight told story after story about Mike Krzyzewski, David Bliss, Bob Weltlich and Gerry Gimelstob, all of whom had left Knight’s staff to find varying levels of success.

After the story ran, Feinstein received a note in the mail. Knight wanted him to know how much he enjoyed the article and their time at the airport.

Feinstein didn’t know it yet, but he’d just made the List.

Two years later during the winter of 1985, working for the Washington Post, he stared at that door deep within Assembly Hall. After one final deep

breath, he knocked.

Feinstein could hear a barrage of profanity from inside the office. Suddenly, the door swung open. He found himself face-to-face with Knight.

“John, would you just show up on Dean Smith’s or Mike Krzyzewski’s doorstep on a game day like this?” Feinstein recalled Knight yelling.

“Well, probably not,” Feinstein replied. “I figured if I called, you’d probably say no.”

Knight laughed, then invited Feinstein into the coach’s locker room, or “The Cave.”

Feinstein explained why he was there: The Washington Post wanted to know why the Hoosiers were in a tailspin, and he was the reporter on staff who knew Knight best.

Feinstein came with no agenda, no planned story. He just wanted access.

“Stick around,” Knight replied. * * * The door to the hotel room slammed shut as Feinstein and Krzyzewski left.

“Are you out of your fucking mind?” Feinstein remembers Krzyzewski saying.

This wasn’t the first time Feinstein heard this response to his new idea. It was an idea for a book following Knight, and every time he asked someone about it, this was the reaction.

For those who knew Knight, their concern wasn’t whether Feinstein would have a good book — that would be the easy part. The idea was brilliant: Spend an entire season with Knight and the IU basketball team, watching the inner-workings of one of the most demanding college basketball programs in the country.

Their concern was whether Feinstein could survive the winter.

He’d made it through those two days in Bloomington, there to chronicle the Hoosiers for the Washington Post. For 48 hours, Feinstein had a front-row seat for the intensity and genius the General carried himself with.

During those two days, Feinstein was there in the locker room as Knight built his team up before taking on Illinois, and he was there a few hours later when Knight yelled at them after a 16-point loss. He spent the entire next day with Knight, watching practice, studying film and grabbing a meal with him, trying to crack the code of IU’s woes.

The problem? Knight couldn’t figure it out either.

As Feinstein flew back

PHOTO COURTESY OF IU ARCHIVES

Bob Knight coaches inside the huddle Dec. 13, 1985, during a game against Louisiana Tech University at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. The IU men’s basketball team would go on to end the season as a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament, where they lost in the first round to No. 14 seed Cleveland State University.

PHOTO COURTESY OF IU ARCHIVES

Bob Knight walks on the court Jan. 12, 1985, during a game against Wisconsin at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. IU finished the season with a threepoint loss to the University of California, Los Angeles in the NIT Championship game.

to Washington, D.C. on Saturday — missing one of Knight’s most memorable outbursts, the infamous chair toss in a loss to Purdue — he came up with the idea which would become the best selling sports book of all time. What if he took those 48 hours of access and experienced it over an entire season for a book?

A month later, at the Final Four, Feinstein proposed the idea to Knight.

He sat in a hotel room with Knight, Krzyzewski and Pete Newell, one of Knight’s mentors, and pitched the book.

While Feinstein walked Knight through the idea, the coach’s intrigue in the book grew. The others listened in stunned silence.

By the end of the conversation, Knight was sold. “A Season on the Brink” was born.

Feinstein left the hotel room with a grin stretched across his face. Krzyzewski followed.

“You’re volunteering to spend a winter with him?”

Krzyzewski asked.

“Mike, you played for him for four years,” Feinstein replied, confused. “You coached for him for a year.”

“Yeah, I needed a place to go to college,” Krzyzewski said. “Last I looked you’ve been to college. I needed a job, the last I looked you have a job.”

“You’re out of your fucking mind.” * * * On the first day of the season, Knight walked into the locker room with a short 30-year old man wearing a tweed jacket over a golf shirt and carrying a notepad.

Knight stood at the front of the locker room, his gaze signaling that what was about to be said was not up for discussion.

“John’s going to be around a lot this year,” Knight told the team. “He’s writing a book about our year, so give John whatever he wants.”

The players were stunned.

Friends of Knight were common guests, but they always came and went without

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Former IU men’s basketball assistant coaches Dan Dakich and Scott May talk on the bench Dec. 13, 1986, during a game against East Carolina University at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.

much fanfare. They weren’t used to someone sticking around.

Why would Knight invite not just an outsider, but a reporter to spend the year with them?

The players were not alone in their concern.

“We were surprised there was no heads up,” assistant coach Joby Wright remembered. “But to be fair, Coach didn’t really have to. We also wondered how long John would last. I’m not saying we were betting on when — one week, maybe a month — but he made it.”

Knight did not give them any time to question the decision. He turned to the board behind him.

“Now, on those downscreens…” star guard Steve Alford remembers Knight saying next, according to his book, “Playing for Knight.”

The players opened their notebooks and started taking notes.

So did Feinstein. * * * Feinstein walked out of his apartment and crossed East 17th Street to Assembly Hall. He strolled into practice, pulled up a chair on the sideline and sat there, sipping coffee and pouring through a stack of newspapers.

Every once in a while,

he’d glance up. Rare was a dull practice for Knight’s team.

New day, same episode of “BK Theater,” a phrase Feinstein coined to describe Knight’s methods of motivation.

For nearly five months, Feinstein watched Knight’s one-man show and learned why he was called the General. His orders were absolute.

At first, Feinstein remembers, it was shocking.

He expected the yelling — he knew how competitive Knight was and that perfection was the unachievable baseline. He expected Knight’s stubborn nature.

The coach always needed to have the last word.

What he did not expect was the psychological warfare.

Immediately Feinstein saw the military mentality Knight brought with him from his days as Army’s head coach. Knight sought to do the same thing to his players that West Point does to its cadets: break them down, then build them back up in its perfect image.

Feinstein got his first taste of “BK Theater” six days before the season tipped off.

While watching practice, Knight was concerned. He knew the team needed to be tougher, so he took it upon himself to manufacture it. In his mind, if the team could

endure what he would put them through, no opponent or situation would prove too difficult to overcome.

Unfortunately, Knight needed a catalyst for his outburst. That day’s victim was junior forward Daryl Thomas.

Knight knew Thomas had the potential to be great. He just had to pull it out of him.

Thomas was 6 feet, 7 inches. He could run the floor with grace and finish at the rim with ease. He was everything Knight wanted in a forward, but he’d turn out to be one of the coach’s biggest headaches that season. In Knight’s mind, Thomas was never giving enough effort, and his soft-spoken, easy going nature was infuriating to the combative coach.

All morning, Knight was in Thomas’ ear, criticizing his every move. He’d been banished to the far side of the court once already, and his return to practice would be short-lived. A few plays after rejoining the team scrimmage, backup Courtney Witte scored on Thomas, giving Knight the opening he was looking for.

“Just get out Daryl!”

Knight yelled, according to Feinstein’s book. “Get him the f— in the locker room. He hasn’t done a f— thing since we got out here.”

Another mistake two plays later allowed Knight to

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banish the remainder of the team from practice, sending them to join Thomas.

Feinstein watched from the sideline, wide-eyed and silent.

He wondered whether practice was over. Nothing seemed to justify that reaction, but no one else seemed concerned.

As the last player left the court, Knight’s anger faded into a slight grin. For now, he was happy to let the team stew in his anger.

That was Feinstein’s first experience of what the coming months would be like.

It would take Feinstein more than a month to learn the difference between “BK Theater” and the real deal.

The act was loud and obnoxious. The real deal was a tornado.

Water bottles would fly.

Chairs and trashcans would be kicked. Knight would spew a string of obscenities that’d make George Carlin’s “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television” seem tame.

As juicy as these outbursts were for writing the book, they were not exclusive to the players.

Knight and Feinstein were friends, but occasionally Knight felt the need to remind him they weren’t equals. Other times he would read an article about IU he didn’t like and take it out on his resident reporter for the season.

Feinstein was a part of the team. And just like everyone else, he had to pay his membership fee.

“Just survive,” Feinstein told himself throughout the winter. “Just survive because there may be a really great book here.” * * * Knight sat in the Cave, staring at an article from the Los Angeles Times, when Feinstein walked in.

“John, you better have a god damn good explanation for this,” Knight said as he tossed the article at Feinstein’s feet.

The headline read, “Knight Hopes a Book Will Improve His Image.”

A few days earlier, reporter Mark Heisler had interviewed Feinstein about why Knight was allowing him to write the book. For Feinstein, it was nothing new — he had done so many of these interviews that his answers felt scripted. He would explain that Knight wanted people to see “the real Bob Knight,” and how he was determined after the disappointment of the 1985 season.

Nuts and bolts only — the details were top secret.

Feinstein picked up the article and quickly read through it to make sure Heisler didn’t misquote him.

He didn’t. In fact, there was nothing outside of the headline that would upset Knight in the article.

That didn’t matter.

However many times Feinstein tried to explain that it was just a bad headline, Knight remained enraged.

“It’s your fault,” Knight yelled. “It’s your fault be-

cause you talked to that sonbitch.”

After a few more minutes of sparring, Knight grew fed up with Feinstein’s stubbornness and refusal to take responsibility. He kicked him out.

When Feinstein returned to Assembly Hall later in the day for practice, he was welcomed by Knight’s silent treatment. Their only interactions were the angry glances Knight shot his way in between fits of rage at the team.

Three-quarters of the way through practice, IU’s athletic trainer, Tim Garl, walked over to Feinstein and motioned to follow him out of the gym.

“You have to get out of here today,” Garl urged. “He’s pissed at you, and he’s taking it out on the players. Do it for them.”

Feinstein reluctantly agreed.

When Feinstein returned the next morning, Knight still refused to talk. Feinstein was allowed to stick around, but that was it.

Knight finally spoke.

“I thought seriously about just throwing you the hell out,” Feinstein remembers Knight telling him. “But I’m not going to for two reasons. The first is I thought you showed a lot of guts, just showing up every day knowing how pissed off I was, and you didn’t just duck the situation.”

“The second reason is because I know you rooted like hell for this team.”

Feinstein smiled.

He knew Knight never apologized. This was as close as he’d get.

As the other coaches entered the room, Knight made the announcement.

“Feinstein lives,” Feinstein remembers him declaring. “Let’s all go to Zagreb’s and have steaks for dinner.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF IU ARCHIVES

Bob Knight talks to thensophomore Steve Alford on Jan. 12, 1985, during a game at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.

“John had his invisible act,” said Alford, the star guard and captain of the team. “He knew when to be seen and talk to people. Even more importantly for us, he understood when it was best to back off and give us our space.”

After IU defeated Iowa at home on March 2 — four days after Knight read the Los Angeles Times article —

* * * Feinstein and Knight sat in a near-empty Big Wheel restaurant well past midnight.

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(Subject to change based on COVID-19 developments) The Insistute building is a place to gather on campus for a break from academic rigors.

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

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Southern Baptist Bloomington Korean Baptist Church 5019 N. Lakeview Dr. 812-327-7428

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United Methodist Jubilee 219 E. Fourth St. 812-332-6396

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“Will we ever win another game?” Knight asked, sipping his milkshake.

Knight loved this rhetorical question, and it grew into a running joke among the coaching staff that season. He had more confidence in himself and his system than anyone, but still, the coach lived in a constant state of worry.

Did his team stack up?

Was it prepared for the challenges that lay ahead?

Nights were long.

Knight could never sleep after a game. He was too wound up. He’d replay it in his head, analyzing every defensive breakdown, every wasted possession and every missed opportunity.

As soon as the players left Assembly Hall, Feinstein would grab a cup of coffee and meet the coaches in the Cave. By the time he walked into the room, Knight usually was already hunched over in his seat, yelling about Alford or Thomas. No matter how well those two played, he always found something in their performance to complain about.

If IU won, the coaching staff was treated to a short evening, leaving around 2 a.m. If they lost, the couches became beds — if they got any sleep at all. Feinstein was there for it all.

“I definitely don’t remember going home early,” assistant coach Joby Wright joked. “I remember that room though. Every inch of it.”

Knight did not need the coaches there as he picked apart the film. He could do it on his own, but according to multiple sources familiar with Knight, he could not stand to be alone. Knight was in the middle of a divorce with his wife and was raising his youngest son, Patrick, a freshman at Bloomington High School North.

Those close to the coach said he was lonely. He needed someone to talk to.

Normally that burden fell on the assistant coaches.

Wherever Knight went, one of them would follow.

The coaching staff saw this as the price for learning at Knight’s feet. Feinstein saw it as an opportunity to understand Knight’s complicated personality.

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“Usually one of us would go to dinner with him, then back to the stadium to watch film, and all we wanted to do was go home,” then-graduate assistant Dan Dakich remembers. “John was great for that.

Instead of us, Coach always asked him.”

To those close to Knight, he seemed to enjoy Feinstein’s company.

“John could communicate with Coach at a high level,” Wright said. “It wasn’t like they were just sitting around telling jokes. You couldn’t be a wiseass, asshole or dumbass and be friends with Coach.”

The two of them would spend hours in the Cave talking. Mostly, it’d be about the team and what the Hoosiers were doing wrong. Occasionally, it’d be about Patrick’s freshman squad, one of the few things that stressed Knight out as much as the Hoosiers. Other times, they’d just trade stories.

After several hours in the Cave, Knight would grow tired. He’d watched all the film, put together his practice plans — usually multiple times — but he still didn’t want to go home and be alone.

“Come on John, let’s grab some food.” * * * The sun was setting as Feinstein walked along the beach on Shelter Island, New York. He stopped for a moment and stared out over the waves.

It was done. At the end of the summer of 1986, the book’s final edits were complete and ready to be sent back to his publisher.

“I’ve actually written a book,” Feinstein said to himself out loud. “I just hope it does well enough to write another one.”

A month before “A Season on the Brink” hit the shelves, Feinstein sent Knight an advance copy. The coach stopped reading before finishing the first chapter, where Feinstein described in detail his berating of Thomas from that early practice.

“I made one of my biggest mistakes,” Knight wrote in his book, “Knight: My Story” in 2002, talking about granting Feinstein access. “I read the

first six pages and I think the word [fuck] was used sixteen times. I put it down, sick, and never read another word.”

Knight felt betrayed.

He thought there was an agreement between him and Feinstein that his profanity would not be included. For Feinstein, that was not an option.

To him, writing the book without the word “fuck” would be the same as not mentioning basketball. The word was a part of Knight’s identity.

“As a reporter, you usually get in trouble because someone says, ‘The story is not true, you didn’t quote me accurately,’” Feinstein said during a speech in 2014. “In this case, Bob Knight was unhappy because I quoted him too accurately.”

Feinstein had already toned down the profanity considerably. He never used another one of Knight’s favorite words — one that “rhymes with bunt,” the author said — or some of the crude, sometimes racist, jokes the coach was occasionally fond of telling. Feinstein joked that if he kept it all in, he’d still be writing the book 35 years later.

When Feinstein learned that Knight refused to read it, he was crushed. He wrote the coach a letter, explaining that the book accomplished everything they’d set out to achieve: There was a method to Knight’s madness, and everything in these pages proved it.

There was more to the coach than the outbursts.

Everything was planned out, everything purposeful. The book revealed how Knight deeply cared for his players off the court, and that on it, he was trying to mold them into one perfect unit.

“He was such a teacher,” Wright said. “The book did a great job showing what our program was like. The expectations were clear when you came to play for Coach Knight.”

A few weeks after the book was published, Feinstein found himself back on press row in the Joyce Center in Notre Dame, Indiana, where IU was set to take on Notre Dame. As he sat there waiting for tipoff, he spotted Bob Hammel of the Blooming-

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Bob Knight rubs the back of his neck Jan. 12, 1985, during a game against Wisconsin at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. IU swept the season series against Wisconsin in the 1984-85 season.

ton’s Herald-Times — one of Knight’s closest friends — walking toward him.

Before Feinstein could even utter a hello, Hammel reached over and handed him the envelope with the letter Feinstein had written Knight. It was unopened.

Feinstein said what upset Knight more than anything was that the book took away his ability to have the final word. He lived to be in control, but now the narrative was set for him. People would read the book and decide how to view him, and Knight knew it would not be favorable.

“He began to assume a starring role in that most classic of historical narratives—the centuries-old, cautionary tale of hubris and absolute power corrupting absolutely—he was either blind or helpless to stop it,” wrote Jon Wertheim of Sports Illustrated in 2017. “From King Lear to Ozymandias to Caesar, the arc and choreography of power’s demise is familiar, almost to the point of cliché. Then came the Indiana version of the theme.”

As the book took off,

Knight drew a dark line across Feinstein’s name on the List.

For eight years, Feinstein was cut out of Knight’s life.

When IU won the national championship in 1987 — the year after Feinstein was in Bloomington — he was not invited to the celebration. When Knight got remarried, his former friend was noticeably absent. When Knight was inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame in 1991, there were no cheerful congratulations between the two.

Knight finally broke his silence at the 1994 Maui Invitational.

While Feinstein walked down the hallway of the hotel with Maryland head coach Gary Williams, the two unexpectedly ran into Knight. “Uh oh,” Williams whispered as Feinstein braced for the worst.

Surprisingly, Knight was pleasant as the two talked about Feinstein becoming a father, but you wouldn’t mistake them for friends.

Long gone were the days of watching film until 2 a.m. and late night meals at Big

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Wheel.

Feinstein’s now 63 and has written 44 books about some of the biggest stars in sports. But his career continues to be defined by the winter he spent in Bloomington, and the explosive words that resulted from it.

While Knight may no longer be the center of attention at IU, the book passes down his legacy from generation to generation.

And even now, 35 years later, the characters in those pages still hear about the 1986 season.

“When [Lakers general manager] Rob Pelinka introduced me to his son and told him I played at IU, the first thing he said was, ‘Do you know “A Season on the Brink?’” Wright remembers.

“If you could have seen him when I told him that I was an assistant coach on that team.”

At 79, Knight has finally begun to forgive some of the grudges he’s carried with him for so many years.

After 20 years away, he returned to Assembly Hall last winter for the first time since being fired in 2000 for violating the athletic department’s “zero-tolerance policy”, soaking in a raucous ovation from fans who never thought they’d see the day.

Still, other grudges Knight can’t let go of.

It has been nearly 10 years since he’s spoken to Feinstein.

The last time the two talked, Feinstein was writing his book, “One on One,” a behind-the-scenes look at his first 10 books. He wanted to end the book with a quote from Knight, hoping “A Season on the Brink” could come full circle.

Knight was in Madison Square Garden, calling a game for ESPN, when Feinstein arrived unannounced looking for a favor, just like he had that afternoon in Assembly Hall in the winter of 1985.

“Bob do you have a minute?” Feinstein asked while Knight walked off the court.

“No,” Knight responded.

“Bob, I literally want to ask you just one question,” Feinstein said.

Knight whipped around.

“John, do you speak English?” he barked. “I said no!”

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Indy Scream Park reopens through Nov. 7 The park is operating at 50% capacity and requires all guests and staff to wear face masks in the park, including in lines and attractions. Guests and staff must also have their temperature taken before entry. Social distancing will be expected whenever possible and the park has hired extra staff to sanitize high-touch areas, such as bathrooms, which are cleaned after every use.

Hand sanitizer is being supplied throughout the park and each attraction is disinfected at the end of the night.

“We also had all of our actors wear masks as well,” Pianki said. “We designed them specifically to look like the characters so when you’re in there in the dark and the strobe lights and things like that, you really can’t tell that they’re not wearing makeup. It looks like it’s part of a costume.”

Pianki said the park has been trying its best to enforce the new guidelines.

“One of the big things we ask is for every customer to just take a look around yourself, make sure you’re social distancing from people that are in your group,” Pianki said. “It’s not always just about your safety, it’s also about the safety of our staff.”

Overall, staff and actors have been supportive of the park’s return, Pianki said.

“Everyone on our staff is very happy about it,” Pianki said about the park opening this year. “They’re very ec-

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Ghosts and ghouls have returned to Anderson, Indiana, this Halloween season as the Indy Scream Park opened its doors for its 11th year through Nov. 7.

The 120-acre park, which opened in September, contains several different haunted attractions, including a new zombie paintball arena and an outdoor midway for guests to relax, enjoy food and beverages and play carnival games. It is open from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. Friday and Saturday and from 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday.

Jon Pianki, the marketing director for Indy Scream Park, has been with the company for about seven to eight years.

“I always like to tell people that you should plan to spend your entire evening at our park, simply because there’s so much to do,” Pianki said.

Along with the new paintball attraction, Indy Scream Park offers scare experiences at each of their attractions, such as the pitch-black backwoods hike where guests are guided by the light of a glow stick.

The park has also implemented new safety plans along with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines in order to keep attendees safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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static we’ll come back.”

Aubrey Stone, attractions director at Indy Scream Park, said due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the actors have made adjustments to the way they scare customers, since Indy Scream Park has incorporated interactive elements such as touching in the past.

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them into separate rooms,” Stone said. “But now we don’t touch them.”

This change has made scare acting more fun for veteran actors since they have to be more creative to scare customers or convince them to separate their group, Stone said.

Stone said she and the other managers have been checking in on staff to ensure everyone feels safe while at work and rules are being followed. As the attractions director, Stone is constantly walking throughout the park and the attractions to ensure that actors

are sticking to their scripts, which is her favorite part of the job.

“Just walking through a haunted house all night, even though I’ve been there forever, is still just constantly entertaining,” Stone said.

Holli Wilson, a guest who visited Indy Scream Park for the first time this year, said she had a safe and fun experience with her family.

“I really enjoyed it,” Wilson said. “It was something nice for me to get out of the house and go do.”

Wilson said she felt safe at Indy Scream Park during her visit due to the mask

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policy. She said she really enjoyed taking pictures with the actors outside of the attractions.

“Being able to get pictures with all the characters that were on the outside by the port-a-potties and all that, and take pictures with them, and they will have fun with family and laughing and getting scared all together,” Wilson said.

Tickets can be purchased online starting at $19.95. Pianki said he recommends that people purchase tickets as early as possible due to reduced crowd capacity at the park this season.

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