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Prof. tweets offensive article

By Jess Prucha IZZY MYSZAK | IDS

An Indiana student holds a sign that reads “invest in me” Nov. 19 at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis. Around 16,000 educators attended the event, and nearly half of Indiana school districts closed for the day.

‘Red for Ed’ Indiana teachers and supporters protested at the Indiana Statehouse on Tuesday in Indianapolis.

By Kyra Miller kymill@iu.edu | @kyra_ky94

More than 16,000 teachers, students, family and supporters, all in red, surrounded every entrance of the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis. Bands played, educators chanted and speeches were made in support of the Red for Ed action day.

At least 146 of Indiana’s 291 school districts were closed Tuesday.

Some of the main concerns teachers voiced were salaries, staff shortages and the effect of standardized testing on students and teachers.

The protest was located at the Statehouse to draw legislator’s attention to the teachers and students of Indiana public schools, according to the Indiana State Teachers Association website.

While many educators were hoping to draw the attention of Governor Eric Holcomb, he was not in the state. Holcolmb had a standing engagement with the Republican Governor’s Association Conference in Florida.

“As I look into this sea of red I see hope, I see our future,” said Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers’ president.

Weingarten is a former public school teacher from New York City.

Teachers at the Statehouse told many stories of children who have become overly stressed and anxious about standardized tests, and how they took an extreme toll on their mental health.

One teacher, Bianka Tinklenberg from Plymouth, Indiana, told the audience that standardized testing causes her students a lot of stress and pain. She said she would love to have the resources to help her kids, but her school only employs a social worker two days a week.

Tinklenberg said she would like to see an increase in mental health and academic resources in schools as well as living wages for teachers, because educators should not have to have a second or third job just to make ends meet, she said.

“Think of how effective we could be if we didn’t have to fight day in and day out,” Tinklenberg said.

Indiana is ranked 37 of the 50 states in salaries for teachers, according to the National Education Association. Since 2002, Indiana has had the slowest growth in teacher’s salaries in the nation, said Sen. Tim Lanane, D-25 District.

According to Forbes, as of April 2019, Indiana ranked lastin the nation for teacher salary raises over the last 15 years. While SEE RED, PAGE 6

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Top A group of educators hold signs Nov. 19 on the ledge of the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis. Nearly half of Indiana school districts closed for #redfored day.

Middle A student holds a sign that reads “my mom said i could miss school to educate you” Nov. 19 outside of the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis.

Nearly half of Indiana school districts closed for the #redfored day protests.

Bottom A man holds a sign that reads “demand more” Nov. 19 on the steps of the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis. Educators, students and supporters gathered for #redfored day to demand the state legislature for more education funding.

jprucha@iu.edu | @jess_prucha

A Kelley School of Business professor is facing condemnation from university officials, students and Twitter us- Eric ers for tweeting a Rasmunsen quote from an article that says women are not suited for academia. Eric Rasmusen tweeted a line from an article Nov. 7 titled “Are Women Destroying Academia? Probably,” which read, “Geniuses are overwhelmingly male because they combine outlier high IQ with moderately low agreeableness and moderately low conscientiousness.”

The article Rasmusen shared was published by The Unz Review, which presents controversial perspectives “largely excluded from mainstream media.”

His tweet received 295 comments from angry students and other Twitter users as of Wednesday afternoon.

Rasmusen has taught business economics and public policy in the Kelley School of Business since 1992. He said he shared the tweet because a quote in the article stood out to him.

“I don’t know the contents of the article,” Rasmusen said. “It was just the one part that I thought was interesting and worth keeping note of.”

Rasmusen said he was surprised his tweet received backlash.

“It seems strange to me because I didn’t say anything myself — I just quoted something,” he said.

Dean of the Kelley School of Business Idalene Kesner said Rasmusen’s tweet was disrespectful, and the university is taking actions to ensure fairness for students and faculty.

“As the female dean of a business school, I disagree completely with the views espoused, and I’m disappointed,” Kesner said. “At the same time, I have to abide by the laws and take the actions I can within the environments that are within my control.”

Kesner said while she disagrees SEE TWEETS, PAGE 6

MEN’S SOCCER

Breaking down No. 5-seed IU’s potential tournament run

By Jared Kelly Jaakelly@iu.edu | @Jared_Kelly7

It has been quite an eventful week for the IU men’s soccer team as it parlayed a second-straight Big Ten Tournament title Sunday into a top five seed in the NCAA Tournament on Monday.

With the fifth overall seed locked up, IU also receives a first round bye and doesn’t play its first match until Nov. 24 at Bill Armstrong Stadium.

The Hoosiers won’t have an easy road to the College Cup as their side of the bracket features four regular season opponents, two Big Ten foes and No. 4 Wake Forest University.

“I think the five seed, we deserved,” IU sophomore defender Jack Maher said. “Moving forward, we’re going to continue to hopefully show everyone why we should be the No. 1 by the end of the year.”

Does IU have what it takes to makes a third-straight College Cup appearance? Is IU head coach Todd Yeagley capable of leading such an inexperienced team to the program’s ninth National Championship?

Here’s a full breakdown of what IU could be in store for throughout the NCAA Tournament.

Critical home-field advantage IU has secured home-field advantage through at least the tour-

nament’s first three rounds. Being host to a potential quarterfinal match isn’t entirely out of the question either, depending on the seed of a would-be opponent.

This bodes extremely well for the Hoosiers, who haven’t lost a match at home in almost three years. Regardless of the team it faces, IU playing at Jerry Yeagley Field is a circumstance that few oppositions want to encounter.

IU’s fan base is prolific for drawing some of the largest crowds during the postseason, and that could give IU a sizable advantage once the crowd noise and student section is factored in.

Playing at home also decreases the likelihood of opposing fan bases traveling to Bloomington and fueling the opposition. Aside from a potential second round matchup with the University of Kentucky, most of IU’s potential opponents reside hundreds of miles from Bloomington, making large away crowds unlikely at Bill Armstrong Stadium.

Potential second and third round matchups With the Hoosiers receiving a first round bye, they’ll be afforded a few extra days of rest, and more importantly, more time to prepare for their opponent.

The second round is a bit more

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Junior A.J. Palazzolo attempts to save a ball from going out of bounds against the University of Evansville on Oct. 22 at Bill Armstrong Stadium. The IU men’s soccer team earned its second-straight Big Ten Tournament title Sunday, earning a top five seed in the NCAA Tournament on Monday.

clear for IU as it’s guaranteed to play the winner of Kentucky and the University of Loyola, Chicago, who face off Thursday.

The Wildcats and the Hoosiers

have already met once this season, playing to a scoreless draw Oct. 9, with the latter giving the Hoosiers one of their toughest home matches of the season. Loyola, on the

other hand, has never matched up against IU, and is riding a wave of momentum after winning the SEE SOCCER, PAGE 6

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Citizens Police Academy finishes program

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Griffy Lake is the site of a deer cull that started Nov. 16-17 and will continue Nov. 23-24 and Nov. 30-Dec. 1.

Regulated deer hunts close Griffy Lake Nature Preserve

By Emily Isaacman eisaacma@iu.edu | @emilyisaacman

Griffy Lake Nature Preserve will close the next two weekends for regulated deer hunts intended to protect the area’s ecosystem.

The hunt began Nov. 1617 and will continue Nov. 23-24 and Nov. 30-Dec.1.

City officials determined a regulated deer hunt, overseen by a coordinator hired with a $25,000 grant from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, is the best way to address the overpopulation of deer harming Griffy Lake’s plant and animal life.

“The goal of the program is to reduce deer browse pressure to the point where the plant community can recover and reproduce,” said Steve Cotter, natural resources manager for the Bloomington Parks and

Recreation Department.

The question of how to solve deer overpopulation has caused controversy in Bloomington over the past decade. No one knows how many deer are at Griffy Lake, nor how many need to be killed to return the ecosystem to a healthy level.

“We have been told that healthy forests in this part of the country should be able to support about 15 deer per square mile,” Cotter said.

“We’ve also been told that in order for the plant community to recover, we should try to keep it down to five deer per square mile. Griffy is about two square miles.”

A sharpshooter the city hired in 2017 from White Buffalo Inc., a nonprofit deer management organization, killed 62 deer — more than twice as many as Cotter said a healthy ecosystem could support.

In 2018, the Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department asked city council to approve the use of firearms by licensed hunters at Griffy Lake so it could use a grant from DNR’s Community Hunting Access Program to organize a hunt. This program is designed to help communities in Indiana hire hunt coordinators to manage local deer populations.

“It’s a very new approach to trying to solve some of the suburban deer issues,” Bloomington CHAP hunt coordinator Ryan Rodst said.

When the city council approved the ordinance in September 2018, it was too late to recruit enough hunters. The Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department postponed the hunt to 2019 the week before it was scheduled.

Rodst said this year he started recruiting hunters in late spring. Of 350-400 direct solicitations to hunters, about 60 people submitted applications.

Those applicants were screened, then tested at a gun range near New Salisbury, Indiana, Cotter said.

Each licensed hunter had to hit three shots within two inches of a bullseye at 50 yards.

The 27 selected hunters can choose to keep the deer they kill or donate them to Hoosier Hills Food Bank.

Hunters killed 22 deer during the first weekend, Cotter said. This is twice as many deer as Cotter said should be in the entire preserve. Hunters said they saw additional deer they weren’t able to shoot.

Cotter said his one regret about the program is closing the park to the public.

Index provides climate change data

By Sara Kress sekress@iu.edu | @sarakress4

The Environmental Resilience Institute launched the Hoosier Resilience Index on Nov. 12 to display how climate change will affect Indiana in the future.

Janet McCabe, director of the Environmental Resilience Institute, said the HRI was created to help local governments prepare for climate change.

“We see local governments as key,” McCabe said.

“I refer to them as change agents. Mayors and their staff are the people who people in their communities look to when there’s flooding, when there’s public health issues, when there are emergencies.”

There are two parts to the HRI. The first is the Climate Vulnerability, which is available to anyone. It provides data on how climate change will affect each county and town of Indiana.

The second part of the HRI is the Readiness Assessment, which is geared toward local governments. The assessment is tailored to each individual community to help them understand the risks they face because of climate change.

Andrea Webster, implementation manager for the Environmental Resilience Institute, said the Readiness Assessment is a key part of the HRI. It was designed based on the needs of local governments, she said.

“My colleague and I started traveling around the state and meeting with mayors and county commissioners and their staff,” Webster said. “We talked about what the barriers were to them preparing for climate change.”

The two main areas the HRI focuses on are extreme heat and extreme precipitation.

The HRI provides data on the current situation of Bloomington and estimates for a medium emissions sce-

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Janet McCabe, director of the Environmental Resilience Institute, helped launch the Hoosier Resilience Index to display how climate change will affect Indiana in the future.

nario or a high emissions scenario in the 2050s. A medium emissions scenario would occur if countries were able to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

Extreme heat is defined as days with highs of 90 degrees or more and nights with lows of 68 degrees or more.

Currently, Bloomington experiences 37 days with high heat events per year. The HRI estimates in the 2050s this number will rise to 86 days per year with a medium emissions scenario, and 99 days per year with a high emissions scenario.

Under this estimate, about a fourth of the year would have days with temperatures higher than 90 degrees.

“This isn’t an exact prediction,” McCabe said. “It’s a projection. It could be more than that or it could be less than that. Hopefully people will be doing things to reduce greenhouse gases so we’ll be on the lower end of that number.”

Marcia Veldman, the farmer’s market coordinator for the Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department, said this year’s weather has been a perfect example of how the models predict climate change.

Even with the medium emissions scenario, McCabe said the increase in heat will have a large effect on people’s lives. Electric bills will

increase as people use more air conditioning, which could also lead to power failures. Infrastructure such asthe streets will be affected.

The warmer climate will also change the plant and animal species of Indiana.

April Byrne, the Environmental Quality and Land Use intern for Sustain IU, said a tree analysis performed every three years on campus is already showing the decline in certain species due to climate change.

The 2016 tree analysis found 117 Blue Spruce trees, typically a more northern species, growing on campus. 93% of these trees were in good health, a higher percentage than the overall health conditions for trees on campus in that year, which placed 76% in good condition.

The 2019 tree analysis found 73 Blue Spruces, a 44 -tree difference from three years prior. Only 54% of these trees were in good health.

Southern species of trees like the Flowering Dogwood and Sweet Gum are increasing in number and are averaging 86% good condition, Byrne said.

Byrne said the climate of Indiana is becoming more like that of a southern state.

The change in climate is expected to bring new species to the Midwest and cause others to leave seeking cooler

weather. Webster said she has heard reports of armadillos in Indiana.

“Species habitats are changing across the entire United States and that will impact Indiana,” Webster said.

Veldman said the Parks Department expects the composition of the forests they manage to change as a result of climate change.

Extreme precipitation, the other major part of the HRI, is defined as days when daily precipitation is two inches or greater.

McCabe said street flooding starts to occur after that point.

Bloomington currently has 19 days of extreme precipitation per decade, according to the HRI. The estimate for the 2050s is 22 days per decade with a medium emissions scenario and 23 days per decade with a high emissions scenario.

The HRI also shows the distribution of land in the floodplain. 73% of the land in Bloomington’s floodplain is developed land.

“If you have a lot of developed land within that floodplain, then there’s a lot more at risk because of housing and hospitals,” McCabe said.

Webster said communities with lots of developed land in the floodplain will experience financial setbacks when they’re hit by a flood.

Both extreme heat and extreme precipitation increase the likelihood of public health issues, Webster said.

Webster said she hopes the HRI raises awareness and access to information about climate change in Indiana.

“I think sometimes Indiana gets the reputation of not being aware of what’s happening with climate change or not acting, and the fact is that there are quite a few cities across the state that are taking steps or getting more educated about climate change,” McCabe said.

The 11-week Citizens Police Academy program came to a close Tuesday night at the Bloomington Police Department. Evidence technician Mark Miller gave the final lesson on the collection and preservation of evidence. He brought examples of drug evidence sealed in plastic bags for the class to look at. He lined the front table with bags containing a variety of substances that were thought to be heroin, marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, acid and prescription pills.

Chief Michael Diekhoff took the podium after the presentation and asked the class about their experiences. Patricia Fowler told Diekhoff her favorite part of the class was firearms training and getting to know the officers.

“I think being with the guys and going through it with them was really fun,” Fowler said.

Other students said they enjoyed participating in ridealongs and learning about the different forms of training officers go through.

Some of the students asked Diekhoff questions about different aspects of the department, such as park safety and police presence downtown.

Then it was time for the students to graduate. Diekhoff said this is the largest class they’ve ever had.

Diekhoff stood at the front of the room and called each student up one by one.

Diekhoff gave them a handshake and a certificate of completion.

Once the students received their certificates, the class posed for a group photo with Diekhoff. IU sophomore Stephanie Pujols said she would highly recommend the class and that it helped confirm her thoughts about law enforcement.

“I really enjoyed it,” Pujols said. “After taking it, I decided I do want to pursue law enforcement.”

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The Citizens Police Academy had its final meeting Tuesday night at the Bloomington Police Department headquarters on Third Street.

The course spanned 11 weeks.

Faculty council talks scholarships, amendments

By Lyndsay Valadez lvaladez@iu.edu | @lynds_val

The IU Bloomington Faculty Council met Nov. 19 and discussed items from a policy revision for promotion and tenure to the MacDonald Scholarship.

Physics professor HansOtto Meyer read the memorial resolution for Robert E. Pollock, an IU physics professor who died in 2018.

First-generation freshman Montseratt RodriguezBahena received a scholarship from the Scott MacDonald Scholars Program and spoke at the meeting.

The scholarship is partially funded by the BFC. She is a DACA student, which barred her from many traditional scholarships.

“That’s really the mission of every public university, which is to provide education for all students, regardless of race, class, ethnicity,

whether they have a passport or not,” said former BFC president Rebecca Spang .

Rodriguez-Bahena gave an account of what the scholarship meant to her and has provided for her. Being the oldest of five, managing finances was going to be harder without this scholarship. In many scholarships she searched for she read the words: must be a U.S. citizen, which made her want to give up.

“I am one of the few lucky dreamers who has gotten the opportunity to further their education,” Rodriguez-Bahena said.

She said when she visited IU, she felt like it was the right place for her to be.

Following this, a proposed revision to evaluative criteria for promotion and tenure passed after some proposed amendments, such as changing words used.

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Nonprofits predict increase in volunteers

By Lauren McLaughlin lrmclaug@iu.edu

When it comes to the holiday season, key themes are giving and generosity, which is why it is no surprise to see a Salvation Army volunteer ringing a bell at a storefront or to pass a meet Santa event in the mall to raise donations. It seems that everywhere there is a rise in giving and volunteering.

“Both giving and volunteering tend to go up around the holidays, probably giving more so than volunteering,” said Professor emeritus Leslie Lenkowsky, who studies volunteering and civic engagement.

Lenkowsky attributes this to charities creating more fundraising opportunities at year’s end for the holidays.

Another reason is because of a trend called Giving Tuesday, which is the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. On this day, charities urge people to volunteer and give back.

Cindy Chavez, director of Pantry 279, a local food pantry in Bloomington, said she always sees an increase in volunteers around the holidays. The pantry also sees an increase in student volunteerism but typically from student groups, not individuals.

“I think it’s because people are in a very good spirit,” Chavez said. “They’re getting a lot of pressure to give back because it’s in the media. It’s on the Internet. Everything is give back, give back.”

Ryan Jochim, the manager of volunteer services and community engagement at Hoosier Hills Food Bank, brought up another point. He noticed that vol-

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The Hoosier Hills Food Bank is one of many places to volunteer this holiday season.

unteerism went up during the holiday season at HHFB partly because of the holiday spirit but also because of student philanthropy groups waiting until the last minute to earn service hours.

Jochim said with this occurrence, HHFB has student volunteers up until dead

week and even finals.

Katie Broadfoot, executive director of Monroe County United Ministries, said MCUM has seen some decrease in volunteers in the past because many of their regular volunteers are IU students who leave for break.

However, she said there is an increase overall because community groups come to volunteer at MCUM around the holidays.

My Sister’s Closet, a nonprofit thrift store for women trying to find employment, has previously seen a decrease in volunteers around

the holidays.

Sandy Keller, founder and executive director of My Sister’s Closet, said she typically sees a decrease in volunteerism due to people’sbusy holiday schedules.

“Having volunteers during the holidays — just amazing,” Keller said. “Those

are people with hearts of gold who wear capes under their clothes.”

The Indiana Daily Student compiled a list of six local nonprofit organizations who could use volunteers all year long. However, many of them also have some holiday volunteer opportunities.

CAPS offers 30-minute sessions during busy time of year

By Mel Fronczek mfroncze@iu.edu | @MelissaFronczek

A tweet critiquing Counseling and Psychological Services has circulated Twitter for the last week, causing concern among students.

The concern came from an attached image of a sign in which CAPS announced appointments for the rest of the semester “may be” 30 minutes.

CAPS still offers 50-minute appointments, CAPS Director Denise Hayes said.

However, it has begun promoting its 30-minute sessions to deal with an influx of clients. She said the busiest time of the year for CAPS begins the third or fourth week

of October and ends during finals week.

Hayes said the 30-minute appointments can accommodate students with less urgent counseling needs, and they are easier to schedule because they take up less time.

She said students can also use the 30-minute appointments to check in with a counselor while they wait for their regular appointment.

“When students are waiting for their appointment, they can have another one to touch base so that they’re not just waiting without support,” Hayes said.

Many students have difficulty navigating scheduling appointments with CAPS. IU

senior Eli Tash used CAPS on and off during his sophomore and junior years. The last time he had a CAPS appointment was over the summer. He said he didn’t have problems scheduling appointments himself, but he said he could tell the schedule was busy.

“I felt kind of burdensome to overschedule them,” Tash said.

There doesn’t seem to be enough counselors for all the students CAPS services, he said, and 30-minute appointments seem too short.

“Usually, you’re unpacking a lot,” he said.

Tash said encouraging these short appointments reflects a problem in the sys-

tem.

“It feels like IU’s way of being like, ‘We don’t have enough money to hire more therapists,’ even though they say they prioritize mental health,” he said.

Tash said it’s a tough problem to address, but he would like to see IU take more initiative in addressing students’ mental health.

Isabel Mishkin is the president of the National Alliance on Mental Health at Indiana University and the president of IU Student Government.

She said she’s an advocate for CAPS and other mental health services at IU because of the slogan “IU is home.”

“We should feel safe here, we should feel happy here,

we should feel secure here,” Mishkin said. “And sometimes, that involves seeking professional help.”

Mishkin used CAPS during her freshman and sophomore years. After her initial appointment, she waited about two and a half weeks for her next appointment.

“It was kind of hard for me to navigate, on top of already having the onus of thinking to myself, ‘Oh, I’m going to counseling right now,’” Mishkin said.

She said it was frustrating, but when she got her second appointment, she established a relationship and a regular schedule with her counselor.

Mishkin said she un-

derstands why CAPS offers 30-minute appointments.

“Some students might be able to wait two weeks to get an appointment, and it would have a different impact on their mental health, than other students,” she said.

However, Mishkin said it’s important no matter the situation to be able to talk to someone in a timely manner. She said this is because many people don’t go to counseling until they need it.

Hayes said CAPS offers other services which can be used in place of or in conjunction with one-on-one counseling, including online workshops and support groups.

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Eskenazi Museum of Art promotes art therapy

By Raegan Walsh ramwalsh@iu.edu

A small table surrounded by eight chairs is bustling with action in the middle of the library. Elmer’s glue sticks with tangerine caps and multicolored safety scissors stand next to piles of rectangular pieces of brightly colored cardstock. Students and faculty chat among themselves while cutting paper into ornate shapes and arranging it together.

Each month, the Eskenazi Museum of Art organizes wellness pop-up events around campus to promote the reopening of the museum and the practice of art therapy. This month’s event took place in the School of Education Library on Monday.

“We are trying to bring a little bit of joy to people, really, and using art as a method for self care and encouraging people to take a break and do something that isn’t on a computer,” said Lauren Daugherty, the arts-based wellness experiences manager at the museum. “It’s really just an entry level. They are easy activities that people can do decently quickly and then go do their thing.”

Participants were instructed to cut out pieces of colored paper and design a collage depicting a place that brings them comfort and joy. The craft was inspired by Stuart Davis’ “Swing Landscape” painting featured in one of the museum’s galleries. The work of oil paint on canvas shows

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IU students participate in an art wellness pop-up with some faculty from the Eskenazi Museum of Art on Nov. 18 in the Wendell W. Wright Education Library. Pop-ups are put on by the art therapist at the museum periodically around campus.

vivid hues of reds, blues, blacks and yellows that are pieced together to portray the waterfront in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Katie Thieme, a student, was studying in the library when she was approached

by Daugherty who asked her if she wanted to partake in the activity. Plagued by

the stress of school, Thieme and her friend eagerly said yes.

“I have not (tried art therapy before), this is my first time,” Thieme said while cutting hot pink and teal pieces of paper. “And so far, it’s going pretty well.”

According to the Canadian Counseling and Psy-

chotherapy Association, art therapy can be used to treat anxiety, depression, substance abuse, trauma and relationship issues. It is not something that can cure long-standing issues, but acts as a way to guide healing and well-being.

The museum also hopes the pop-up events will act

as publicity for the free self-directed art studios it arranges for students every Thursday from 2:30-4 p.m. ”In the past we did scribble drawings at Kelley, we did affirmation trading cards over at Collins last month,” Daugherty said.

“We try to bring something new every month, so if

you want to, you can travel around with us all around campus.”

The pop-ups will take a hiatus for the month of December, but will start up again for the spring semester. Students can find the schedule for the wellness pop-ups and other museum events here.

Celebratory performance with alumna and pianist

By Helen Rummel hrummel@iu.edu

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IU alumna Soojin Joo will return to Bloomington for a festive concert at 8 p.m. Nov. 21 in Auer Hall.

After recovering from 14 hours of jet lag, 2017 IU alumna and pianist Soojin Joo immediately returned to the place she can be found most often: at the bench of a piano.

“As soon as she’s tired she says ‘I need a nap’ and as soon as she wakes up we have to practice,” associate piano professor Emile Naoumoff said as Joo laughed.

“She’s amazingly focused and organized and, as a teacher, I am just amazed.”

Joo was a student of Naoumoff ’s for eight years, eventually receiving a doctoral degree in piano under Naoumoff ’s guidance. Since her graduation, Joo kept in touch with her mentor throughout her occupation-

al endeavors.

During the previous year, the two planned a concert in celebration of Joo’s return to Bloomington. The performance will take place at 8 p.m. Nov. 21 in Auer Hall.

Joo shared that the feature piece, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, KV. 453, was always an inspirational work for her.

“While I was studying this piece, I liked it so much that I realized that I had to perform it before I died,” Joo said. “This piece is so beautiful. It’s simple, but yet it’s so elegant.”

Since Joo had arrived in Bloomington following her flight from Seoul, South Korea, she and Naoumoff had been rehearsing on the two pianos in his studio. The notes flowed under the door into the hallway for passers-

by to hear.

“Many people study with you, but very few, if not any, take that into account so that it becomes their own,” Naoumoff said. “All pianos are industrially made, but different pianists touch them and the music comes out in many different ways.”

Naoumoff and Joo decided on two additional pieces to perform for the Thursday evening concert: “Waltzes for One Piano, Four Hands” composed by Naoumoff himself and Milhaud’s “Scaramouche for Two Pianos.” Naoumoff will conduct the ensemble that is to accompany Joo consisting of other music students.

“As a teacher, I think it’s a very healthy goal to bring students to collaborate together,” Naoumoff said. “I created this project mainly

because her Mozart piano concerto playing is stylistically the way I think it should be.”

Since her departure from the Jacobs School of Music, Joo has performed as a soloist in France, and Serbia.

In Seoul, where Joo is from, she congregated an ensemble of Jacobs alumnus titled “Luciole” meaning firefly in French. The group performs together regularly.

Joo explained that following a long apprenticeship, she has started to notice her teacher’s influence on the lessons she gives to her own students and was excited to be reunited with her mentor. Naoumoff smiled.

“In a musical aspect, I am playing with my mirror,” Naoumoff said.

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Kesner said she received complaints from students, faculty and other universities about this issue.

She said she is working with other faculty members to review Rasmusen’s grading policies to ensure the professor’s grading is unbiased.

Students registered for spring courses with Rasmusen will be allowed to switch to classes taught by different instructors, Kesner said.

“We are allowing students to choose a different course in exchange for this particular course and will help them find alternatives,” Kesner said.

Executive Vice President and Provost Lauren Robel issued a statement to Kelley School faculty, staff and students Wednesday. She expressed her disagreement with Rasmusen’s views.

“His expressed views are

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If IU can get past Kentucky or Loyola, its third round match will come against either 12-seeded Saint Mary’s College of California, the University of California or the University of California, Santa Barbara.

The Gauchos finished the season strong with a second place finish in the Big West Conference Tournament, and the Golden Bears earned their NCAA bid with late-season wins over sixseed University of Washington and seven-seed Stanford University.

The Gaels, who finished their season with a secondstraight West Coast Conference title, likely present the toughest third round matchup for the Hoosiers. Led by the nation’s second-leading points scorer in senior forward Anders Engebretsen,

stunningly ignorant, more consistent with someone who lived in the 18th century than the 21st,” Robel said in the statement.

Robel said IU officials have been inundated with demands to fire Rasmusen, but they will not, as he has the right to express his views under the First Amendment.

Robel said IU will require Rasmusen to use double-blind grading on assignments, to ensure that students’ grades are not affected by Rasmusen’s prejudices.

Rasmusen responded to the provost’s statement Wednesday in an email to the Indiana Daily Student.

“To show students that they need not fear bias in grading, the university is condemning a dissident professor, requiring him to use blind grading, and allowing students to opt out of his class,” he said in the email. “This, it is claimed, will make students relaxed and feel able to express their political views without fear of retribution. Having seen the university crack down

on the one outspoken conservative professor, students will feel more comfortable in expressing their views while at Indiana University — that is, they will know what to expect if they speak freely in the classes of the 999 liberal professors. Of course, IU is not discouraging bias, but encouraging it, even requiring it, as a condition of teaching. There are views you’re not supposed to express, even outside of class, and heaven help the student whose professor checks his twitter account before issuing grades.”

Twitter users also resurfaced some of Rasmusen’s older tweets. In March 2018, he tweeted,” I just realized--- Women’s Studies and Home Ec are the same thing. They are both meant to teach a woman how to live her life. It’s just that only one of them keeps its promise.”

Many students replied to his tweet, tagging IU’s twitter page.

Rasmusen also stirred controversy in 2003, when he expressed negative views of gay people on an IU serv-

er. In his blog, he offered his beliefs about about why gay people should not be teachers, elected officials and doctors.

“A second reason not to hire homosexuals as teachers is that it puts the fox into the chicken coop,” Rasmusen said in a blog post originally published in Aug. 2003. “Male homosexuals, at least, like boys and are generally promiscuous.

They should not be given the opportunity to satisfy their desires.”

Former Kelley School of Business Dean Dan Dalton asked Rasmusen to remove his posts from the IU server in September 2003, but university officials allowed Rasmusen to re-add the log to the server the next day. Maggie Hopkins, IU alumna and former student body vice president, worked alongside Rasmusen at Bloomington Faculty Council meetings last year and said Rasmusen’s views often conflicted with hers.

During a Nov. 2017 Bloomington Faculty Council meeting to discuss the controversial Thomas Hart

Saint Mary’s has the pieces to make a deep postseason run and can test IU in a litany of ways.

perienced collection of players in the nation. With head coach Bobby Muss leading the Demon Deacons to a topfive national seed for the fifthstraight season, this might be the year they finally break through for a national title.

Thirteen-seeded Michigan and Maryland, both of whom IU defeated for the Big Ten Tournament crown, also punched their tickets into the tournament and happen to find themselves in IU’s region. For the Hoosiers to play either, it would have to come in the quarterfinals, and it would mean that Wake Forest was eliminated from the postseason.

A quarterfinal matchup with in-state rival Notre Dame University is also a possibility, but that would mean the Fighting Irish getting through the gauntlet of Maryland, Michigan and Wake Forest, amongst others.

The final four teams in the College Cup are tough to

project since anything can happen come tournament time, but No. 1-seed University of Virginia likely has the best chance as it’s armed with a stout defense backed by a nation-leading 13 shutouts.

Two-seeded Clemson also looks to be as formidable as any, with its only two losses this season coming at the hands of Virginia and Wake Forest.

Some unseeded teams that could make some noise include James Madison University, University of Providence, University of Louisville, and Missouri State University. All four have proven to be extremely difficult to get past this season, and have a proven tournament track record from past seasons.

Only time will tell how far the Hoosiers can go this year, but if the regular season and Big Ten Tournament were any indications, the five seed won’t go down easy.

Potential Quarterfinal and College Cup matchups The title picture starts to get murky for IU if it’s able to sneak into the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals. Not only are the nationally-seeded teams among the strongest in years, there are no clear-cut favorites to make it to the College Cup and beyond.

On IU’s side of the bracket, a potential quarterfinal meeting with No. 4 Wake Forest could be a daunting task for IU. Not only would that match be played at the Demon Deacons’ Spry Stadium because of higher seeding, it would also mean the Hoosiers’ home-field advantage would be lost for the rest of the tournament.

Wake Forest also enters the NCAA Tournament with one of the deepest, most ex-

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Benton Murals in Woodburn classroom 100, Rasmusen was the only faculty member to support the continued use of the classroom.

The murals detail Indiana history, including a depiction of Ku Klux Klan members. The council eventually repurposed Woodburn 100 as a gallery, rather than a functioning classroom.

Hopkins said she worries that Rasmusen treats his female students and colleagues unfairly.

She said his tweets were offensive and degrading to women.

Hopkins said she hopes the university takes action because over half of the university’s students are female.

“I believe the university is doing a disservice to its students, male and female, if they allow a man who espouses those ideas to be in charge of their education, in any capacity, even in one classroom,” she said.

Women in Business president Amanda Novicoff partnered with three other student groups — Women in Business, Alpha Kappa

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teachers gathered to fight for fair pay, their number one concern is for their students, Weingarten said.

“Our students cannot wait for another budget cycle,” said Keith Gambill, ISTA President. “The crisis is now!”

Indiana is also facing a shortage of educators.

Positions in schools can’t be filled because respect and pay for teachers is not high enough, said GlenEva Dunham, president of AFT Indiana. Public school budgets are decided at a local level, but state legislators make the laws and state budgets, so teachers brought the fight for funding to them.

“We must stand and we must fight for the children of Indiana,” said Rep. Melanie Wright, D-35 District, who is also a teacher.

Teachers also called for

Psi, Social Enterprise Engagement at Kelley School and 180 Degrees Consulting — to submit a formal complaint to Kesner on Tuesday afternoon.

“I believe he is creating a hostile and uncomfortable environment inconsistent with IU’s message,” Novicoff said.

Novicoff said she wanted to create something to draw attention to this issue.

“We wanted a way to create positive momentum at IU in light of this situation,” Novicoff said. “We decided that the best way to do so is would be to start a fundraiser for Girls Inc.” Novicoff worked with other Women in Business members to create black sweatshirts reading “Female genius.” on the front and “Support women in academia” on the back in white lettering.

“We want people to rep the message around campus as much as possible because what he’s saying is exactly the opposite of what IU tries to push,” Novicoff said.

“We want people to reestablish that this is who we are.” more funds to be invested in public schools rather than private or charter schools.

The Indiana Department of Education reports that 90% of Hoosier students attend public schools. However, charter and private schools receive about 8% more funding than public schools, according to the Indiana Coalition for Public Education.

“When are we going to start preparing kids for the future?” Wright said, “We can no longer be held accountable to the testing companies, we must be held accountable to our kids.”

When asked what’s next, many members of the ISTA and AFT Indiana said the 2020 elections.

Across the atrium of the State House, chants of ‘vote them out’ echoed over speeches from educators and lawmakers.

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Jeff wonders what his father would think of the farm today. He wants to know what he would think about the technology, but not what he would think about the current state of farming.

Maybe something will grow As Jeff Deck, an Ellettsville farmer, begins his harvest in the hardest year yet, he faces losses of every kind.

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ELLETTSVILLE – Outside Jeff Deck’s window, down the long gravel driveway, a road leads to one of Deck Family Farms’ many fields.

Just months ago, the gravel was submerged under five feet of water.

A yellow “Road May Flood” sign poked out of the murk as it gushed like a river.

“Still raining,” Jeff would say each morning to his wife, June.

Raindrops pinged into the water covering the field, water that slowly rose each day.

Now it was October, and the driveway was dry and dusty, sometimes forcing June to bring her clothes in off the line when cars drove by too quickly.

Jeff was 60, had farmed this land his entire life, and had never seen a season so bad.

“It keeps getting hotter and wetter,” he said, gazing over the 33 acres next to his home. After the flooding, he never replanted them. The flood warning sign now taunted him in the dry heat.

Jeff blames the changing climate. Each year, more crops die.

This year, 400 acres of corn and soybeans drowned. Corn washed away. Soybean tendrils “broke their necks” under drenched soil.

Deck Family Farms depends on corn and soybeans, as does the rest of Indiana. They are the most valuable farm products in the state.

Jeff is the fourth generation to farm here. But he has to wonder if it stops with him, and when. He doesn’t need a climate study to know that what he grew up with cannot be sustained.

“Something’s changing in the weather,” he said. “After years of looking after it, you get to know it.

The seasons are changing.”

Jeff looked over the field next to his house, where his dog now yapped at the tails of sparrows.

He’s had a lot of dogs, but never one like Clyde.

“They all get sick, and they’re gone,” he whispered. “That’s what happens. Things die, and nothing is ever the same.”

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For most of his life, Jeff has relied on the farm to support himself and his family. With farming gradually becoming more difficult, he wonders Deck Family Farms will be carried on through further generations.

* * * In the barn is a tractor, similar to the one he used to take June on picnics with after they met at the 4-H Fair. They would lay a blanket over the hood and take a break from plowing, wiping the dust off the paper sacks and digging into sandwiches.

Jeff has lived on a farm since he was born. He learned to drive a tractor before he learned to shave.

His grandparents were born in the house he and June live in, which has been in the family since 1895.

When he cranks the combine out of his driveway, he passes the barn he grew up working in. Splintered wood and fragments of tin roof protrude from its skeleton.

As a young man, he would birth calves when the cow was too weak, reaching inside to his elbow and looping stainless steel chains around the calves’ slippery ankles. He would pull with his entire, 6-foot-5 inch build until the calves flopped out

onto the hay.

When his father died at 56, his mother took over the milking. She milked for 14 years, and then she died, too.

Things felt colorless after that.

Homemade apple pie never tasted the same.

Now, Jeff eyes the dilapidated barn.

“Soon, they’ll tear that down, and it’ll be nothing.”

On this farm, Jeff and June endured five miscarriages. They adopted Daniel the day he was born. Two years later, they had their daughter, Cassie.

“We could have lived our lives with nieces and nephews, and we would have been fine,” Jeff said. “But the farm – it ain’t like heritage, like handing it over to your own blood.”

Jeff cusses and doesn’t believe in God, so he considers himself an outsider in the farming community.

When it comes to the farm, June and Daniel are the only ones he relies on.

Earlier this year, June’s mother, Betty, was cleaning a grain cart on

her farm. Her foot slipped, and she fell. She broke five ribs and punctured a lung.

Farming is not easy, June says, but they have to keep going. “We’re farmers,” she says. “That’s what we are for life.”

Daniel helps with the heavy labor now, stopping by when he can. But he’s 33, married with young children.

It’s not clear whether farming will become his livelihood, like it is his dad’s.

None of them can predict the future of farming, but they know people need their work.

“Concrete don’t raise good crop,” Jeff says. “People will wonder where they are going to get something to eat.” * * * Jeff has been disheartened by the farm for many years, but this year kept getting worse. Even June’s small vegetable garden flowered less than usual, offering only a few tomatoes and green beans.

Across a shallow creek bed lies an open field of weeds. Instead of soybeans, the field is a graveyard of crawdads, their burrows cracking in the heat.

In the 50 years he’s farmed this land, rainfall on the wettest days of the year has increased by a third, according to the EPA. Hotter summers are crippling yields of soybeans and corn — Indiana’s top crops.

Jeff pointed at wild cucumber, water hemp and foxtail — all weeds.

He dropped a screw into one of the crawdad holes and heard a plop when it reached water at the bottom.

“Maybe something will grow.”

His diabetes is getting worse. He barely gets any sleep. Farming is getting more strenuous each year, Jeff said. And now, this.

“Mother nature went and took a piss on us.”

He’s not the only one who has noticed. “If you go by a lot of the literature, this topic is climate change,” said Trevor Laureys of the state department of agriculture. “Temperatures have risen and we get more precipitation each year.”

Thawing and freezing patterns in the spring left farmers with a smaller window for planting. Crops had less time to sprout. Heavy spring rains made the ground soggy, bogging down the tractors.

If things continue, farmers like Jeff might have to consider different crops, Laureys said. Something more heat-tolerant — maybe fruits.

Jeff hates the idea of changing crops or switching to livestock. The smell reminds him of his days of milking cows.

As the rain poured and the heat blistered, grain prices skyrocketed due to trade disputes. With flooding comes replanting, which is expensive.

Insurance covers grain prices for replanting, Jeff says, but doesn’t account for labor and equipment.

Farmers typically operate each year on debt, borrowing what they need for the season and hoping to harvest enough to repay it with some left over. The whipsaw of weather and market forces make for long seasons SEE FARM, PAGE 9

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Editors D.J. Fezler and Phil Steinmetz sports@idsnews.com

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Redshirt junior Joey Brunk

Brunk learning new system on a familiar floor

By Matt Cohen mdc1@iu.edu | @Matt_Cohen_

He was the last player to come through the door carved out of the LED screen at the north end of Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. He watched his teammates come out to rap songs, jumping down the ramp and dancing at mid-court.

But that isn’t him.

Junior center Joey Brunk has called himself an old soul. It showed in his entrance and his music choice.

Without the giddy energy of some of his teammates, Brunk jogged down the ramp and to center court. The Eagles’ “Take It Easy” boomed across the arena.

He didn’t dance. Instead he stood at the center of the floor. He held one arm up and waved to the crowd. He took it all in. But this wasn’t his first Hoosier Hysteria — it was just a different perspective.

Brunk posted a picture of himself and his brother on Twitter the day before Hoosier Hysteria. The photo was from 2013, with Brunk sitting on the wooden bleachers behind the basket. He’d been to Hoosier Hysteria a few times growing up. He was in Assembly Hall when Christian Watford hit a game-winning three and fans stormed the floor as IU beat No. 1 University of Kentucky.

Brunk went to Southport High School, just south of Indianapolis. Just 44 miles from Assembly Hall. He had an offer from IU per 247Sports, where he was ranked 107th overall, but committed to

Butler University.

He didn’t start a game in his first two seasons, only playing 27 in total. Last year, Brunk started 13 games and played in 33. He had eight points and five rebounds in a Crossroads Classic loss to IU last season.

And when he put his name in the transfer portal following the season, IU head coach Archie Miller was one of the first to reach out.

Brunk felt comfortable, he chose to come to the school he’d spent years watching.

After watching Hoosier Hysteria from the stands for years, he was now on the other side. He was on the floor getting to be a part of the team he had used to watch. He got his own pair of candy-striped pants. He was officially a Hoosier.

Brunk has started all four games since arriving at IU. He’s averaging 17.3 minutes per game, which is less than he had in his 2018-19 season at Butler. He’s scored 7.6 points and grabbed four rebounds per game thus far.

His numbers aren’t striking yet. But his role has shifted from what it was a year ago.

“It’s been a smooth transition,” Brunk said in October. “We have a great locker room full of guys and everybody wants to learn, grow, so kind of makes that whole process pretty easy. We can talk and, ‘Hey, this is what I’m seeing, this is what I’m seeing you can do,’ kind of bouncing ideas off each other. It’s been a good process.”

He’s learning an entirely new system, and immedi-

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Junior center Joey Brunk shoots a free throw during the second half against North Alabama University on Nov. 12 in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.

Brunk scored six points during the game against North Alabama University.

ately was thrust into an important role. With injuries to key returners like senior guard Devonte Green and sophomore guard Rob Phinisee, Brunk is one of three newcomers in the starting lineup. The other two are freshmen. Of course, there have been some growing pains.

“I think Joey feeling himself out a little bit offensively early, was a little uncertain how to attack,” Miller said after IU’s win over Western Illinois. “It got more comfortable as the game goes and I think as the games continue

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to play, he’ll get more experience level with what we’re doing. He hasn’t played with any of these guys before, so it’s the first time.”

But he immediately came in and had an influence.

That’s why he won a week in the gold jersey during practice and a spot in the starting lineup with IU’s exhibition against Gannon University.

“The team that started the game tonight earned it, without question, through 21 practices and a scrimmage game. Joey definitely earned a role starting,” Miller said after the Gannon game.

He hasn’t lost that job since.

Brunk brings depth to IU’s front court. Miller is able to stash senior center De’Ron Davis and manage his load. IU has six big men averaging more than 16 minutes per game. All six of those forwards are among IU’s top eight scorers thus far. All are averaging at least six points per game, led by junior forward Justin Smith’s 16.3.

“I think that would make it maybe hard to game plan because there’s so many different guys that have the potential to hurt you and have

a big effect on the game,” Brunk said Friday. “So, I think that’s definitely something that’s going to play to our advantage. I mean, college basketball is a long season, and the deeper we are, the better we are, the stronger we are.”

Brunk is still working to fit his way in. He’s only played four competitive games as a Hoosier. He hasn’t been perfect. He’s still learning to play for Miller.

But even for everything that’s new, he’s learning it all on the floor he knows quite well.

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of uncertainty.

Nationwide, farm debt is projected to be a record-high $416 billion this year, according to the USDA. Across the Midwest, farm bankruptcies are up 13% over last year.

Jeff and June break even with farming and live off June’s nursing paycheck.

“We’re okay,” Jeff says. “But farming don’t make us rich.”

June says farming is only worth what people are willing to pay.

Still, Jeff says he’ll farm until he dies.

There are only six people he needs to keep happy in his life, he says, and that’s enough to carry his casket. June corrects him and says eight, because he’s a big guy.

* * *

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June, Jeff and Daniel discuss transporting the soybeans to their distributor. The process entails getting up before the sun rises and driving their semitruck 45 minutes to the drop-off location.

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Jeff and Daniel communicate over the phone when they are working in the fields. Jeff says so much has changed in the farming industry that he never experienced growing up.

He passes a red and gray trailer. “Poor 22-year-old kid put a gun in his mouth and ended it right there a while back,” he says.

The path through the woods is steep and lines a 20-foot cliff. Jeff almost lost his life back here, driving the combine up the hill, June following in the car.

The leaves were wet and he got too close to the edge. One of the back tires slipped off the path, and he felt weightless. He managed to get stuck on a tree as the combine dropped about a foot. He pressed the gas and pulled the combine back to the road.

“Were you scared?” June asked as he stepped down the ladder and thudded to the ground.

“When you wash my underwear tonight, you’ll see.”

Neighboring some of Jeff ’s fields are vast open spaces where weeds and

Jeff drives forward, the morning’s agenda to check on the soybeans, but he can’t seem to drive far enough to escape his losses.

Some of them are not his own, but he feels them all.

Every mile of road carries decades of memories.

Jeff drives through a covered bridge so new he can smell the paint.

He recalls a time he was driving home from a movie in 1976, when he saw a glow coming from one of his fields. He flew down the road, gravel slapping the sides of his truck.

At the end of the road was the old covered bridge, engulfed in flames.

Jeff stares at the new, sparkling white bridge.

“This new one goes nowhere and does nothing,” he says.

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trees rise from jagged ground. The Sycamore Land Trust has bought the land from neighboring farmers, usually at a price they can’t say no to, Jeff says, especially when their crops are faltering.

He stops the car.

“Look at that!” he says, pointing out a doe with a thick, dark gray coat, speckles of white glimmering through its fur. “Well, it’s going to be a damn cold winter.”

He carries on past a soybean field, the outer corners bright yellow and ready for harvesting. The center of the field is a deep green from where he replanted.

“The low parts of the fields get it the worst,” he says, stopping the truck.

Jeff steps out and picks a ripe soybean and balances it between his index and middle finger, letting his mind wander to a simpler time, when his boy was

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small and wanted to grow up to be just like him. * * * “You ready?” Daniel asks his dad.

Jeff gazes out over a golden ocean. This field of 86 acres of soybeans was one of the best of the year, which was why he decided to harvest it first.

“Let’s get started,” Jeff replies.

Jeff climbs into his combine, which is guided by a 30-foot-wide header that constantly revolves to cut and collect soybeans, sending them through a complicated sorter that Jeff doesn’t understand but whose hard work he appreciates. The beans then spout into a large grain tank, piling against the back window and dimming the cabin from the sun.

The cabin sits 10 feet up, with a windshield that wraps around for a clear view of the

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Jeff Deck has been growing soybeans in multiple fields for his entire life. While many of his fields suffered from flooding, many of the replantings seemed to be successful.

beans being jerked from the ground.

Despite the windshield’s protection, Jeff always manages to return home after a long day of combining coated in dust so thick it clogs the shower drain.

Today, Jeff looks pleased.

“This is the best soybean field I’ve seen in years,” Jeff says as the combine takes its first bite.

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reached $400,000 this year.

Replanting was expensive and several tractors had to be repaired.

It feels like he might make a dollar an hour sometimes, Jeff says.

Jeff turns the combine again. The field is so thick that even three hours of back and forth barely touches more than a fraction of it.

Tiny mice sprint in between the plow lines, scampering away from the combine’s jaw.

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Editors Emma Getz & Evan Carnes opinion@idsnews.com

THE ELECTIVE PERSPECTIVE

EMMA GETZ IT

Stop letting billionaires run for president

Taylor Swift can take down private equity firms

Max Sandefer is a sophomore in political science and Spanish.

Sometimes you can only sigh and roll your eyes when certain things happen.

On Nov. 8, Michael Bloomberg, former Republican/Independent mayor of New York City and 14th richest person in the world, filed to be on the ballot for Alabama’s Democratic presidential primary.

Because this was the final day to file in the state to be on the ballot, pundits believe this was Bloomberg signaling that he’s still weighing a serious run for president. Many may scratch their heads and can only wonder: “Why?” It’s actually simple — it’s because he feels entitled to as a billionaire.

If he officially joined the race, Bloomberg would be in good company. President Donald Trump and hedge fund manager Tom Steyer, with net worths of $3.1 billion and $1.6 billion respectively, also take up oxygen in the alreadycrowded room of candidates.

This, too, comes after former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz (net worth $4.2 billion) flirted with and failed an independent run for president.

These billionaires love to run for president because almost nobody can tell them no.

They are fueled by the arrogant thought that even with no public office experience, they can bluster and buy their way into the presidency (minus, of course Bloomberg, who bought his way into a mayorship in 2001 with a nearly $71 million self-funded campaign).

It’s frustrating beyond reason to see such a glaring crack in the American political system be abused so much. Most other major contenders of the Democratic primary have thoughtful, inspiring campaign messages and have some semblance of public office experience to back it

Emma Getz is a senior in English and history.

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Former mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg speaks to media July 29 in Nashua, New Hampshire.

Bloomberg filed to be on the ballot for Alabama’s Democratic presidential primary Nov. 8.

up.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (DVermont) brings us together and mobilizes a movement with “Not me. Us.” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) motivates us and reminds us to shoot for the moon with “Dream big. Fight hard.”

Even Sen. Kamala Harris (D-California) shows her dedication to the country and her fight for every American as she exclaims that her campaign is “For the people.”

What does Steyer stand for? I had to actually Google his campaign slogan to find out that one of his big slogans is… “Actions speak louder than words.”

Are you kidding me?

First of all, what kind of a major slogan even is that?

It sounds like something an elementary schooler would use for their campaign for hall monitor.

Second, what have his actions been? What has he done other than donate to Democrats and more recently, literally buy endorsements from state officials? Nothing. The irony is just off the charts. The only reason his kindergarten campaign has any traction is because he’s burning his

money on endless TV and web ads.

It’s unfathomable the sheer arrogance behind these individuals. In such an important election cycle, just imagine the amount of money Steyer could give to help the party nationwide. From flipping state legislatures to winning crucial Senate races, his wealth could have sincerely been a mega-boost to the future of the party.

And yet, he’s instead spent $47.6 million on a vanity project that resulted in a whopping seven minutes of unremarkable, bland speaking at the last debate. That means he spent the equivalent of $109,000 dollars per second to speak on the stage. $109,000. Per. Second.

The rationalization behind these runs from pundits is similarly lackluster.

Billionaire candidates tout their business acumen as a major selling point as to their capability lead the nation, yet we’re seeing firsthand how running the country like a business is failing.

The business-minded president has barricaded himself with a room full of yes men, and nobody has

the guts to tell him when he does anything wrong.

We’re in the midst of impeachment hearings to investigate if Mr. “Art of the Deal” himself tried to leverage aid to Ukraine in exchange for dirt on a political opponent.

In reality, these billionaires seem only interested in maintaining the status quo and are using the presidency to achieve this. As top-tier candidates Sanders and Warren propose comprehensive wealth tax plans, the corporate fat cats are sweating.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had even urged Bloomberg months ago to run, with most critics pointing to these mass taxes as a driving force.

Class solidarity is one hell of a drug, and it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican. Whether it be Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy, Steyer’s money dump into ads or Bloomberg’s potential late entry, one fact remains clear: these billionaires aren’t fighting for the working class, and it’s time to stop giving legitimacy to their campaigns. maxsande@iu.edu

Taylor Swift recently took to the internet to make a statement about the ownership of her music and her inability to perform her own songs. Her dilemma poses the problem of female artists being manipulated by powerful men and the insidious nature of private equity firms. Swift’s level of fame lets her shed light on both of these issues.

In June, it was announced that Scooter Braun purchased Scott Borchetta’s Big Machine Label Group which included all of Swift’s music. Swift wrote about the event on her Tumblr. She left BMLG because she was worried about Borchetta selling away her future work, but that decision meant leaving her past work with BMLG without an option for ownership unless she wanted to stay with the label for 10 more years.

In her post, Swift noted that Braun has bullied and manipulated her for years.

She references past events: “Like when Kim Kardashian orchestrated an illegally recorded snippet of a phone call to be leaked and then Scooter got his two clients together to bully me online about it. Or when his client, Kanye West, organized a revenge porn music video which strips my body naked.”

Everyone was silent about the issue for a few months, but now, Swift stated on Twitter that Braun and Borchetta were not allowing her to perform any of her old music (prior to her most recent album, “Lover”) at the American Music Awards or use them in a Netflix documentary about her life, as it would count as re-recording her music before she is allowed to do so.

Essentially, Swift wants to own the rights to her own music, and if she is not able to, then it is unimaginable how difficult the process is for lesser-known artists with none of the power and fame that Swift has. She specifi-

cally demanded action from the private equity firm Carlyle Group, who put up money for the sale of her music as they are an investor in Braun’s media company.

Perhaps the issue seems a little abstract and relegated to rich celebrities, but private equity firms are insidious and affect American workers by destroying their jobs. Swift’s condemnation helps bring this issue to light.

Swift’s statement has garnered a large response, even from politicians like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., who tweeted: “Private equity groups’ predatory practices actively hurt millions of Americans. Their leveraged buyouts have destroyed the lives of retail workers across the country, scrapping 1+ million jobs. Now they’re holding @taylorswift13’s own music hostage. They need to be reigned in.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., tweeted a similar sentiment: “Unfortunately, @ TaylorSwift13 is one of many whose work has been threatened by a private equity firm.

They’re gobbling up more and more of our economy, costing jobs and crushing entire industries.”

These firms lead to many bankruptcies as they buy out retailers that cannot handle the debt from financing the acquisitions. Obviously, this is bad for retail workers who lose their jobs when their workplace suddenly goes bankrupt.

Swift is one of the most powerful artists in the world and is still struggling to own her work due to a manipulative industry and the harmful nature of private equity firms, but her honesty and action toward owning her own music helps people understand.

Hopefully it will help less powerful artists with their own record labels and inform voters about policy toward eliminating this problem altogether. emmagetz@iu.edu

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Columbia women’s size 8.5 medium hiking boots.

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