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3rd city employee contracts COVID-19

By Carson TerBush cterbush@iu.ed | @_carsonology

A Bloomington Fire Department employee tested positive for COVID-19 Thursday, according to a city press release. The firefighter has been on leave since last week, when symptoms first arose.

This is the third city employee confirmed to have the coronavirus, after another Bloomington firefighter tested positive March 28 and a parks department employee tested positive April 3, according to the release. Both employees have since recovered and returned to work.

Following guidance from the Indiana State Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the city is working on contact tracing to determine who the employee came in contact with in the past week to prevent further spread of the coronavirus.

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Indiana State Road 446 crosses Lake Monroe. IU football players, including defensive back Bryant Fitzgerald, were involved in an incident Wednesday on the lake in which they felt they were racially profiled.

IU football players voice concern Arrest at Monroe Lake spurs IU football players to express frustrations over racial profiling

By Grace Ybarra gnybarra@iu.edu | @gnybarra

A complaint of passengers on a boat yelling profanities directed at another boat with a flag supporting president Donald Trump on Monroe Lake ended Wednesday with the arrest of a man who wasn't on either boat.

Passengers of the reported boat, including IU football players, spoke out on Twitter about how they felt they were racially profiled. The concerns led other IU athletes to speak out on the matter as well, including IU basketball’s rising sophomore Trayce Jackson-Davis.

IU football defensive back Bryant Fitzgerald said on Twitter that boat officers responded to him and his friends out on the lake enjoying his girlfriend's birthday after passengers on another boat started racially profiling them.

Indiana Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement received a complaint from a

46-year-old woman who said people on another boat were screaming profanities and flipping her off, according to a report provided by law enforcement.

According to the DNR incident report, the woman told Indiana Conservation Officer Kaley McDonald there were approximately 23 people on board, noting they were mostly Black men with a few white women.

According to the report, the woman told McDonald the boat approached hers a couple of times and the passengers said, “Fuck Trump! Fuck you and your kids. Your kids are ugly.”

McDonald and ICO David Moss waited for the boat to dock and then boarded to interview its passengers.

One of the passengers interviewed was Andrew Hartman, who told McDonald they did shout at the boat and flip them off, but the boat with the Trump flag did the same to them first.

Hartman said the other boat

started the argument by saying they didn’t want them on the lake, according to the report.

During their interviews with the passengers, a witness from a third boat told the officers the passengers of the reported boat they were responding to didn’t start the argument.

Carson Compton, an acquaintance of the witness and a white man, boarded the boat to ask officers what was going on. McDonald said Compton, 23, was intoxicated and wasn’t involved in the original incident.

Compton’s friend Henry Willhite said in an interview that Moss physically shoved Compton down the ramp and pushed him really hard.

Willhite said the third boat he was on with Compton and the witness yelled similar phrases and flipped off the boat with the Trump flag, too. But, Willhite, Compton and the witness' boat was not reported.

“But my boat was filled with

a bunch of white kids,” Willhite said. “So that's why we were like, we both did the same thing yet we're not getting in trouble for it.”

Moss asked Compton to leave three times and then escorted him off the boat and asked him and his friends to leave the area or he would be arrested, according to the incident report. After leaving the boat, Compton continued to yell at the officers, calling them racists.

“I think he was just mad because he (the officer) got called a racist and he probably looked like an idiot,” Willhite said. “I mean, I don't know if he's racist or not, but like, I mean, it just definitely felt like discrimination.”

Willhite said he felt obligated to stay and watch the officers investigate because of the reality of prejudice against Black people within law enforcement.

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Board of Public Safety discusses BPD

By Lilly St. Angelo lstangel@iu.edu | @lilly_st_ang

The Board of Public Safety had a special session Tuesday to replace its June 16 meeting that was interrupted by a hacker. In the meeting, many of the Bloomington Police Department’s policies were brought up in light of the recent killings of Black people by police officers in America.

Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton began the meeting with a speech thanking the board members and police officers and condemning police brutality in Minneapolis, Louisville, Kentucky, and other cities.

He talked about many of BPD’s strengths, including being one of the first agencies in Indiana to adopt body cameras six years ago, the creation of the downtown resource officer program to work with people experiencing homelessness and having neighborhood resource specialists and a social worker.

“I want to remind all of us, we have to continue to embrace and nurture the culture of community policing and the strong and deep connections between our police department and our entire community,” Hamilton said.

He also acknowledged that racism has been a part of Bloomington’s history.

“We are not immune to its impacts today,” he said. “We have collective responsibility to listen to all

Aubrey Burks commits to IU

By Caleb Coffman calcoff@iu.edu | @CalCoff

IU added three-star safety Aubrey Burks to its class of 2021 after he announced his commitment on Twitter on Friday afternoon.

Burks chose IU over the University of Louisville, Georgia Tech University, the University of Pittsburgh and West Virginia University.

The Auburndale, Florida, native is listed as the No. 56 safety in his class, and the No. 757 player overall, according to 247Sports.

While Burks is listed as a safety, he played linebacker for Auburndale High School last season and was named First Team All-County.

He recorded 63 tackles, 17 tackles for loss, six sacks, three forced fumbles and two interceptions.

Listed at 6 feet and 180 pounds, Burks projects to play the husky position for IU in the team’s 4-2-5 defensive scheme with his hybrid play-style.

Burks is the Hoosiers’ 10th commit in the class of 2021 and the team’s second safety signing.

US sexual activity trends examined

By Claudia Gonzalez-Diaz clabgonz@iu.edu

general trends.

Moore said the fire department’s call volume has been back

A recent study co-authored by an IU professor found sexual activity among U.S. adults, mainly young men, has declined since 2000, with 1 in 3 men ages 18-24 years old having reported no sex in the past year.

IU School of Public Health professor Debby Herbenick and Peter Ueda, physician and researcher at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, co-authored the study, which was published June 12 and focuses on trends in reported frequency of sexual activity and numbers of partners by sex and age, according to the survey study. They also examined how trends are associated with sociodemographic variables.

“Given that sexually intimate relationships are important for many, though certainly not all, people's well-being and quality of life and the substantial proportion of individuals who are sexually inactive, as shown in our study, we need more

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The Bloomington Police Department headquarters is located at 220 E. Third St. Bloomington officials including Mayor John Hamilton, Police Chief Michael Diekhoff, fire chief Jason Moore and BPD Deputy Chief Joe Qualters participated in a Board of Public Safety special session Tuesday.

ideas and welcome all suggestions and questions and consider sources like 8 Can’t Wait and Campaign Zero and others for how best to move forward in our public safety

efforts.”

Bloomington fire chief Jason Moore and BPD Deputy Chief Joe Qualters gave monthly reports on call volumes, job openings and

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Bloomingtonians voice hope, concerns about federal decisions On June 15, the Supreme Court ruled that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, which the LGBTQ community considered a victory.

By Katharine Khamhaengwong kkhamhae@iu.edu | @katharinegk

Before this decision, it was legal in over half of states to fire people for being transgender, gay or bisexual.

However, the decision came just days after the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights under the Trump administration finalized a rule removing nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people as they relate to health care and health insurance.

The change overturns a protection in the Affordable Care Act that prohibited discrimination based on sex, which the Obama administration defined in 2016 as determined by gender identity, including the options “male, female, neither, or a combination of male and female.” This contrasts with the new rule, first proposed in June 2019, that defines sex as biological and either male or female.

For several transgender Bloomington residents, the Supreme Court ruling came as a surprise, while the HHS rule change confirmed their experiences with the health care system.

“My reaction, personally, was utter shock,” said Jasper Wirtshafter, a volunteer hotline operator at Trans Lifeline. “This employment decision is, I believe, the biggest victory for queer rights in my lifetime. It’s Pride month, and I wish I could be out celebrating with my community.”

Wirtshafter, who has worked for trans rights organizations in the past, said trans advocacy and activism groups nationally had been preparing for months to respond to the ruling, but that their efforts assumed a negative ruling. Their concern was whether the decision would be broad or narrow in terms of the discrimination allowed.

“Out of the blue, the opposite happened,” he said. “I didn’t prepare emotionally for a win.”

O.M.A., an IU junior studying computer science and math who preferred not to be named as he has not made it known publicly that he is trans, said that he was excited to see Justice Neil Gorsuch, of all people, write an opinion protecting trans people.

In the majority opinion, Gorsuch wrote, “An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law.”

“It’s nice to see something that has to do with civil rights that isn’t a partisan issue,” he said.

Others are less optimistic about the decision.

Jeanne Smith, the owner of local bike shop Bikesmiths, said she understood why some members of her community were celebrating, but that she was worried about the combined implications of the HHS rule change and the Supreme Court case. She expressed concern that medical staff would feel reempowered to deny service to trans patients, setting up a situation for a future Supreme Court case possibly pitting the Civil Rights Act against the constitutional protection of freedom of religion.

Religious objections in medical

care more commonly arise around issues such as abortion or assisted suicide, but another Trump-era HHS rule put in place in May 2019 protects the rights of health care workers to be free of coercion or discrimination based on their religious or moral beliefs. This opened up a legal possibility for doctors or other medical workers to deny care based on a moral objection to the existence of trans people.

“I think it’s not over yet,” Smith said. “We’re all celebrating now, but that’s what it comes down to.”

“With everything that’s going on, the world is very volatile, and we are concerned about where this might go,” said Elbe Lieb, who works in a warehouse for a shipping company. “It’s not just Donald Trump, it’s the GOP, the people behind the GOP, the evangelical movement. They have an agenda and they’re not just going to give up.”

“The biggest victory for queer rights in my lifetimes was a Supreme Court decision saying that you can’t be fired for being LGBT. For that to be a victory is deeply sad. It’s a victory that’s a reminder of how much we have to fight for still.”

Jasper Wirtshafter, volunteer hotline operator at Trans Lifeline

None of the four people interviewed by the Indiana Daily Student had personally experienced employment discrimination, which they credited to a range of factors including union protections, having multiple college degrees, white privilege, being selfemployed and working mainly in nonprofit and university settings.

However, their experiences in the health care systems showed a different story.

“The ruling basically made legal what was already widely practiced,” said Wirtshafter, referring to the HHS rule change.

He said he had experienced discrimination including downright refusals to provide care and blatantly transphobic comments from medical providers, but said that he considered his experiences to be much less severe than what other trans people have faced.

Smith said that just before the Affordable Care Act was signed into law in 2010, the insurance provider Humana refused to sell her an insurance policy. Even after the ACA was passed, she said she continued to face problems accessing equal health care, including her policy refusing to pay for her anesthesiology bill because someone had marked “male genitalia” on one piece of paperwork.

Smith added that this situation was only resolved nine months later, after she had spent 12 hours on the phone with five different government agencies and civil rights offices, and finally, when she hired

a lawyer. She also said that prior to the Affordable Care Act, during a time when she had to pay for her trans-related health care out of pocket, she had a bad experience at the Bloomington Planned Parenthood, where throughout her visit, everyone she interacted with called her male.

O.M.A. said that while he had never been openly discriminated against in a health care setting, he has had doctors that were obviously uncomfortable with him and that acted like he was a “specimen” rather than a patient. Even more than overt discrimination, trans people are discriminated against by the health care system at large, O.M.A. said. Trans people often have to travel long distances, pay out of pocket for medical costs deemed “cosmetic” by insurance companies and wait for extended periods of time to see the relatively few doctors that specialize in caring from trans patients.

“I didn’t think I would ever be able to receive care,” said Lieb. “(The Affordable Care Act) allowed a lot of trans people to come out because they could receive care.”

She said that she transitioned in 2015 after getting out of the army, in part because she could receive support for it through her work insurance and the Veteran’s Administration as a result of the Affordable Care Act. Seeing a lot of trans people able to come out after 2010 because of access to health care and what they perceived as an increasingly welcome climate was a high point for her and the trans community, so the recent rule change was “devastating” for many people.

Lieb added that she has not faced much explicit discrimination, but she said that is in part because she chose not to transition for a long time because of fear and in part because she now is extremely cautious and aware of the places that she goes.

“In some ways, the discrimination was always there,” she said. “It kept me in the closet.”

Now, Lieb said that she is concerned that doctors will refuse to treat her and other trans people on religious grounds. This sentiment was echoed by Smith, who added that she called ahead of a surgery last year, just to make sure that everyone involved knew in advance that she was trans and would not walk out or refuse to treat her when she arrived at the hospital.

Both of these changes happened against the backdrop of Black Lives Matter protests, and several interviewees drew connections to the intersections of the oppression of Black people and trans people, noting that Black trans women, in addition to being discriminated against generally, are murdered at disproportionately high rates.

“The biggest victory for queer rights in my lifetimes was a Supreme Court decision saying that you can’t be fired for being LGBT. For that to be a victory is deeply sad,” said Wirtshafter. “It’s a victory that’s a reminder of how much we have to fight for still.”

At the Monroe County Community School Corporation Board of School Trustees meeting Tuesday, a summer talk series on race was introduced, and the board approved a $12 million renovation and improvement project.

Markay Winston, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, talked about the Real Talk Critical Discussion Series in the 2019-20 school year.

MCCSC is bringing back the critical discussions this summer in a virtual format to discuss recent killings of black people by police officers and the tensions that have followed both locally and nationally.

Winston said during the meeting that the series launched in fall 2019 in response to racial incidents in the Bloomington community.

Winston presented poll data collected from MCCSC students regarding bias and response. The polls found that 79% of students agree that MCCSC’s teachers need to discuss racism, discrimination and inequality and that 75% felt always or often heard when they discuss these issues among their friends.

Regarding bias and school environment, 58% of students responded that the hard part of discussing racism, discrimination and inequality is that it creates tension, 25% say the hard part is accidentally offending someone and 21% say it’s that they don’t know enough about the issues. Fifty-eight percent responded they would like more opportunities to discuss racism, discrimination and inequality.

“When we began to look at and respond to the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent responses throughout our country and across the world, we knew that we had a moral obligation to respond to the data that we gathered from our young people during the school year, but more importantly to give them an outlet because they are in pain,” Winston said during the meeting.

She said that giving students a voice and a safe environment to be heard is a central goal of Real Talk Summer Series.

The talks are facilitated by Rafi Hasan, equity and inclusion coordinator for MCCSC, and Maresa Murray, clinical associate professor and di-

rector of undergraduate education for the Department of Applied Health Science at the IU School of Public Health. The series kicked off June 17 with two sessions of Q&A titled “How to Talk About Race with Teens.”

Winston said between the two sessions around 100 people participated.

The Summer Series will have four remaining sessions on Wednesdays each week until July 22. On July 8, the series will invite four local police officers, both male and female, Black and nonBlack, to talk about the personal challenges they face with how they are perceived, Winston said.

“We think it’s a wonderful opportunity to break down some of the barriers and misconceptions that exist.”

Markay Winston, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction

“We think it’s a wonderful opportunity to break down some of the barriers and misconceptions that exist,” she said.

Details about topics and dates of the talks can be found on MCCSC’s website.

During the meeting, the Board of School Trustees also approved a $12 million renovation and improvement project for schools and facilities, including Bloomington High School North and South, Templeton Elementary School, University Elementary School and support facilities throughout the school corporation, according to the project resolution.

“The purpose of the Project is to provide an improved educational environment for students,” the resolution reads.

The Board also approved the appointment of Alexis Harmon, career pathway coordinator at North Lawrence Community Schools and adjunct lecturer at the IU Kelley School of Business, as principal of the Academy of Science & Entrepreneurship, a Bloomington high school. She was previously an English teacher at Bloomington High School North and served as English department chair and as a corporation instructional coach for MCCSC.

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knowledge about reasons for, and potential feelings about, sexual inactivity,” Ueda said.

They used 10 rounds of data from the General Social Survey for their research, spanning from 2000-2018, to analyze trends in 18 to 44-year-olds. The data included frequency of sexual activity, number of sexual partners and sociodemographic variables such as employment, marital status and being a student.

Ueda and Herbenick found that sexual inactivity among men ages 18 to 24 had increased from 19% to 31% from 2000 to 2018. Sexual inactivity also increased among men and women aged 25 to 34 years during that time.

Increased rates of depression and anxiety, the post-

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The department has four open positions after two firefighters retired and two left to run family businesses. Moore said they will be opening up the hiring process for the four positions shortly.

Board member Rafi Hasan said he’d like to see diverse hiring candidates, and Moore said this might be more possible now because of a recent rule change that allows the department to recruit firefighters within 50 miles instead of just within Monroe County and surrounding counties.

Qualters said the number of calls for police picked up a little bit in May compared to April but is still not up to the usual average. There was again an increase in weapons-related calls, a concern Qualters said that the department has had in recent months as well.

There were significantly lower numbers in overall arrests in May 2020 compared to May 2019 and a smaller number of domestic violence than last year. BPD’s social worker Melissa Stone had 15 referrals in May, and the neighborhood resource specialists had 23 calls.

“Despite COVID, the police social worker Melissa

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 we should stay here and observe,” Willhite said. “If something bad's going to happen, we need to intervene if we can, and if not, at least be there to be a witness so that they don't get away with it.”

After the officers started threatening to arrest Compton again, Willhite said he and Compton started walk-

quency aren’t necessarily bad, but how we feel about our sexual experiences, relationships and intimacy matters a great deal,” Herbenick said.

This study shows both an overall increase in sexual inactivity among men as well

as proportions of people with various levels of sexual activity, ranging from having no sex in 12 months to having sex weekly or more.

Men with lower income and part-time or no employment were more likely to be sexually inactive, the study

stays very busy, and, again that has been a very, very successful position for the department,” Qualters said.

The department is hiring three officers, two of whom will start June 29, Captain Ryan Pedigo said. Two of the applicants have master's degrees in social work but will be working as officers.

Chief Michael Diekhoff then talked about measures the department has taken over the years to reduce the likelihood of BPD officers harming or killing people.

Diekhoff said officers are required to wear body cams whenever interacting with a member of the public on the street. The department is nationally accredited through the Commission on the Accreditation of Law Enforcement Agencies, which only 5% of agencies in the U.S. have achieved.

The department implemented all but two of the recommendations in President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing. They do not follow the flexible schedules recommendation because of a collective bargaining agreement, and they do not follow the taser recommendations.

Diekhoff didn’t specify why.

BPD reports 14 different data sets to the Police Data Initiative and also publishes data on the city’s B-Clear portal. Officers are required to go through four and a half times the training required by the state, Diekhoff said. Much of

this training incorporates deescalation training.

Diekhoff said that BPD policy largely already lined up with the 8 Can’t Wait policies that reduce police violence.

Some BPD policies didn't directly state the 8 Can't Wait rules but implied them. Diekhoff said the policies were adjusted to more clearly state the rules. Some, including the ban on shooting at a moving vehicle, still are dependent on if an officer deems their life or some else's life to be in danger. Details on how BPD lines up with the 8 Can’t Wait policies can be found on an FAQ page Diekhoff made.

Diekhoff spoke about the many calls for stopping police from responding to people in mental health crises, people with addiction problems and people experiencing homelessness.

“What has happened is, those types of calls, with funding being cut everywhere, they just kind of defaulted to police departments,” Diekhoff said. “Because that has been the case here locally also, we saw the need to create specialty units to respond to those types of calls.”

BPD created the downtown resource officers unit to work with people experiencing homelessness, and Diekhoff said they also regularly used their social worker in this setting.

“We recognized that people who were experiencing homelessness or people

who had some kind of mental health crisis may commit crimes, but the reason they are doing that is the situation, the homelessness situation or the mental health situation,” Diekhoff said. “So arresting them wasn’t appropriate, but partnering with social services agencies and getting them services was.”

There will soon be a 24hour crisis center staffed by Centerstone, a mental health and substance abuse treatment center, which will be a place for officers to take people experiencing mental health and addiction crises instead of taking them to jail.

Several Centerstone employees spoke during the public comment period about the positive relationship they have with BPD. Greg May, administrative director at Centerstone in the adult services division, told a story about a day when he was called by an officer to assist with a client who was standing in the middle of an intersection obstructing traffic in all directions.

“The downtown resource officers called us, myself and another social worker, we went down, de-escalated the situation, removed the person from the road, let the police take care of police business and we took care of the client care business,” May said.

Linda Grove-Paul, vice president of adult services at Centerstone, also spoke. She

works with about 20 other police agencies and said BPD is one of the best.

“Having a police department that actually wants to get away from criminalizing people with mental health and substance issues is frankly pretty unusual,” she said.

She also acknowledged the work that must be done in policing.

“I think there aren’t quick easy solutions,” Grove-Paul said. “Criminalization of Black and brown people has been around forever, as well as people with mental health and substance issues, and if you have both, life is much harder.”

Community member Ruth Aydt commented on the disproportionate number of Black people arrested in Monroe County. She said she’s been doing work with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Bloomington and Monroe County NAACP to collect race and criminal justice data, and in the numbers, she has seen racial disparities.

She said she read a statement in the paper recently that said out-of-town visitors who are arrested can skew demographic statistics of arrests. But she said data disproves this. In a collection of data from Jan. 1, 2019, to June 30, 2019, 20.3% of defendants with addresses in Monroe County in BPD cases were Black while 17.2% of defendants with addresses outside

the county in BPD cases were Black. According to census data, Black people make up 3.6% of Monroe County’s population.

“I think as people, it’s very easy to think we know an explanation for what’s going on, but I would encourage BPD, since you have all this wonderful data that you’re collecting, to actually go back and see if, in fact, it is people from out of town, if the skewing is happening,” she said.

“Based on what I’ve been able to look at from other data sets, it’s just not the explanation.”

Board member Luis Fuentes-Rohwer commented on his uncertainty on what should happen next but said he had confidence that the board and BPD can work together to better the system.

Board member Maqube Reese said she has had intense discussions with Diekhoff about what it’s like to be a Black woman in America and be worried about her nine brothers and the Black and brown students she works with at IU as an academic advisor. She said she’s happy about the work BPD has done, but there is room for improvement.

“These conversations won’t stop,” Reese said. “I feel like this board is in the position to ask the tough questions, to have those hard conversations about what should we do and what shouldn’t we do.”

“I think he was just mad because he (the officer) got called a racist and he probably looked like an idiot.”

why the officers would've arrested Compton since he was yelling on the boat, but said he was confused about why they arrested him while they were leaving.

“The fact that they said 'leave or we're going to arrest you' and we did leave,” Willhite said.

“And while we're in the process of leaving, and he's not saying anything, then they come arrest him.”

Moss arrested Compton

on charges of public intoxication and disorderly conduct.

Willhite said he was arrested before they had even administered a breathalyzer test.

“I don’t care, just fucking arrest me then,” Compton yelled at officers while in the parking lot, according to the report.

He blew a 0.176 into the breathalyzer and was transported to Monroe County

jail, where he blew a 0.206.

He was released at 3 a.m.

Thursday.

Willhite recorded Compton’s arrest and posted it on Twitter. Many of the passengers of the other boat shared the video with their thoughts on the matter.

IU Athletics did not allow student-athletes to comment on the incident.

Willhite said passengers from the other boat direct messaged him on Twitter to

ask him to thank Compton.

He said Compton doesn’t regret a single thing.

Willhite said he wasn’t surprised when he found out that the complaint had been called in on the boat full of Black people and not his.

“That's what makes me feel like it's discrimination and not necessarily just on the officers' part,” Willhite said. “But by the people who called the cops.”

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ing to their car. He said they were about 10 yards from their car when the officers ran up and arrested Compton.

Willhite understood

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The IU School of Public Health is located at 1025 E. Third St. A study published by IU School of Public Health professor Debby Herbenick and Peter Ueda, physician and researcher at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, states that several factors may be associated with a decrease in sexual activity, including increased rates of depression and anxiety.

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or relationship partners."

Most research on sexual health has focused on sexually active individuals, Ueda said, and this study shows that there is a significant proportion of people who are sexually inactive. In the future, more studies will need to be done about reasons for and feelings about sexual inactivity. He said that discussion about involuntary sexual inactivity can be sensitive because “it entails sexual desires, and for some individuals, a sense of rejection and insecurity.”

“Sexual inactivity should not be subject to shame or ridicule,” he said. “We need to improve the public discussion regarding this topic.”

Catherine Mercer, professor of sexual health science at University College London, and medical student Cyrus Ghaznavi also contributed to the study.

said. Meanwhile, employment and income levels for women reportedly did not significantly affect their sexual activity. Students were more likely to be sexually inactive.

The coronavirus pandemic has caused Americans to experience depressive symptoms and loneliness, co-author Herbenick said, citing another recent study, which found that inperson intimacy led to better mental health outcomes.

"While this finding would have been important at any time, it may be particularly salient now that the pandemic has shifted so much in our worlds, resulting in more people of all genders without employment," Herbenick said about her study in a press release. "We're also now living in a time when people don't have many of their usual channels of meeting potential sex

poning of adult activities and the use of smartphones interfering with human interaction among young U.S. adults and adolescents could be associated with the decrease in sexual activity, according to the study. More reasons for change in sexual activity could be online entertainment and the stress of modern life.

While this study examines frequencies and numbers of sexual activity and partners, more studies will need to look at detailed changes in sexual behaviors, Herbenick said. This is particularly necessary because the General Social Survey did not specifically define what sexual activity was in the survey. Further studies may be able to assess reasons for sexual inactivity and help explain whether sexual inactivity results in satisfaction or dissatisfaction.

“Changes in sexual fre-

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Crafting Ideas

Here is a list of fun and entertaining crafts you can try out while at home.

These can also be a creative way to de-stress by yourself or a way to make something with your family.

Bookbinding

Woodworking

Bookbinding is a craft that can be done with any paper laying around your house. It is great for making journals, scrapbooks, or portfolios. Colophon Book Arts is a Bloomington-based business that sells bookbinding materials and manuals.

If you are now at home with some tools or have some scrap wood, you could work on a woodworking project like creating your own Jenga set or making shelves.

Coloring Books

Embroidery

There are many varying levels of coloring books meaning you can either use this activity as an easy de-stresser or create a beautiful work of art.

Crochet Crochet is a fun activity that can take many forms including Amigurimi, in which you can make 3D stuffed animals.

The information below has likely changed due to COVID-19. If you are in need of spiritual guidance, reach out to congressional leaders.

With just a few materials, you can enhance an old piece of clothing or fabric into a fun piece of art.

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MCCSC re-entry and recovery plan presented

By Wei Wang daviwang@iu.edu | @DavidWazman

A draft of the re-entry and recovery plan for the Monroe County Community School Corporation was presented at a Board of School Trustees meeting Tuesday. The plan offers detailed guidelines on selfscreening at home, instruction and health measures at school and mental and emotional support for students and staff.

The plan was formulated by the MCCSC Re-Entry and Recovery Committee cochaired by Markay Winston, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, and Andrea Mobley, assistant superintendent for human resources and operations.

The committee’s 39 participants represent teachers, students, parents, administrators, local pediatricians, Monroe County Board of Health, Bloomington Hospital, IU, and numerous community partners, according to the plan. Winston said the committee surveyed 900 to 1,000 members of the community, including more than 400 high school students.

Modes of instruction There will be three scenarios of instruction planned for the 2020-21 school year: in-person instruction, online academy and intermittent online learning.

Students will have the option to either attend inperson classes taught by their classroom teachers with social distancing measures applied or enroll in the online academy taught by other specially hired teachers.

“We do not expect, nor will we allow, students sitting in front of a screen for five and six hours at a time,” Winston said. “That’s not what our online academy’s

about. Our teachers understand that, and there will be a variety of learning experiences that dictate what that looks like.”

Students enrolled in the online academy will need to commit to a minimum of one whole semester. At the end of the semester, the option to go back to in-person instruction will be available.

In the event of school closures or individual students being absent due to having to self-quarantine or other illnesses, students will utilize the intermittent online learning option where they will participate in video-conference meetings in groups with their classroom teachers. They will also work independently.

In-person school day health measures and support Self-Screening Under Center for Disease Control and Prevention and local health department guidelines, families must complete daily screenings of their students, including checking temperature and making sure children and teens do not have COVID-19 symptoms. Staff members are also required to self-screen daily.

If students show COVID-19 symptoms, parents must first inform the school principal and then contact their medical provider, and the student must stay home.

Students and employees should not go to school for 14 days if they were recently in contact with a person with a suspected or confirmed case of COVID-19, someone in their home is being tested or they recently traveled to a high-risk destination, as defined by the CDC. Transportation and logistics Families are encouraged

to walk, bike, drive or carpool their children to school and are allowed to walk their children to the outer school building door. Nonessential guests will not be allowed inside school buildings.

MCCSC will provide bus transportation for students.

Buses will be sanitized frequently, drivers and monitors will wear face coverings and windows will be open if weather permits. Students will be assigned seats and will be required to wear face coverings since 6 feet of social distancing will not be possible. Routes might be divided into shorter ones.

After school ends, dismissal times may be staggered. Schools will arrange procedures for bus and parent pickup. Parents will not be allowed into buildings, and students must continue to wear face coverings.

Before and after school care Before and after school care will still be offered, but there will be limited capacity at each school due to social distancing concerns.

Health and social distancing protocols Students and staff must wear face coverings at all times unless appropriately socially distanced as determined by the teachers, according to the plan. Teachers will receive training on identifying COVID-19 symptoms.

There will be one face covering provided for each student and staff member. They will also be allowed to wear their own face coverings.

Brandon Shurr, board member representing District 7 of the Board of School Trustees, commented that such protocols place an unfair burden on teachers and bus drivers who will need to assume further responsibilities such as monitoring students’ health. He proposed that face coverings be made

mandatory with no exception, but other board members pointed to special cases.

Martha Street, assistant secretary and board member representing District 3, said to make masks mandatory would be hugely inconvenient for students with hearing impairments who will then not be able to read lips.

Scheduled hand-washing breaks will be enforced throughout each day. Students will also wash their hands upon arrival at school.

Alcohol-based hand sanitizers will be available. Shared school supplies will be limited.

Should a student exhibit COVID-19 symptoms, parents or guardians will be contacted for pickup, and the student will wait in a separate area.

To enforce social distancing, desks will be rearranged, the capacity in common areas will be limited and large spaces such as gyms may be repurposed as classrooms.

Outdoor spaces will be utilized for instruction. Recess times will be staggered, playgrounds disinfected and students required to wash hands before and after recess.

Breakfast and lunch will be grab-and-go at designated areas, and lunch times will be staggered. Students with food allergies will receive accommodation.

Technological, mental and special needs support Winston said the digital divide has been exacerbated by the pandemic, and MCCSC is trying to minimize that divide as much as possible. Such efforts will include Wi-Fi parking lots set up in the lots of Bloomington High School North and South, Jackson Creek, Tri-North and Batchelor middle schools and Summit, Highland Park and University elementary schools.

There will also be buses with Wi-Fi in strategically located neighborhoods,

MiFi hotspots for families lacking adequate internet access and iPads for all K-8 students and laptops for all 9-12 students who will bring those devices home daily.

All students will receive regular instructions on how to access their learning management systems such as Canvas. Students with special learning needs or disabilities will be given special instructions.

Winston said that social and emotional learning will be the top priority upon schools reopening. Measures to support students’ and staff ’s mental health include daily and weekly social emotional and equity lessons and support and access to social workers or counselors. Teachers will also go through professional development and training on strategies for decreasing student anxiety and trauma-informed care.

“We feel that we’ve got to tend to the mental health needs before we tend to the academic needs,” Winston said.

Extracurricular and co-curricular activities Protocols for school activities generally apply to extracurricular and cocurricular activities, with coaches/sponsors trained to identify symptoms.

“Facial coverings are strongly recommended for students, coaches and sponsors when possible,” the plan says.

Field trips will be virtual experiences only, and outof-state trips will not be approved at this time.

If COVID-19 In the event that a school has a confirmed COVID-19 case, the local health department will provide guidance on the appropriate course of action. Schools may close briefly for disinfection, the duration of which depends

on guidance from the local health department. Confidentiality of the COVID-19 patients will be maintained in accordance with Americans with Disabilities Act and Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, Mobley said.

If a student or staff member tests positive, he or she must notify the principal immediately. Under CDC and local health department guidelines, the student or staff member can only be allowed to return when 72 hours have passed without fever and without applying fever-reducing medicine, other symptoms have improved, at least 10 days have passed since symptoms first appeared or the person has tested negative twice 24 hours apart and he or she is able to provide a note from a medical provider saying the person can return to school.

Upcoming key dates Enrollment for the online academy will begin on or before June 30. School principals will share schoolspecific plans with parents

by July 15.

The Early Learning Center will open 7 a.m. to 5 p.m July 6 through 31 according to the plan. Normal hours of 6:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. will resume Aug. 3. Hoosier Hills Child Care Center will also reopen Aug. 3 under normal school-year hours.

Preschool classrooms at the elementary schools will return Aug. 5, according to the plan.

The draft plan is open to comments, which can be submitted to draftreentryinput@mccsc.edu.

“Any and all recommendations contained within this plan are subject to change pending new guidance and direction received from the CDC, Monroe County Health Department, or the Indiana Department of Education,” the plan says.

The plan is available on the MCCSC website.

Wheeler Women’s shelter to close

By Grace Opinker gopinker@iu.edu

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The Hinkle-Garton Farmstead is located at 2920 E. 10th St. The farmstead is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Hinkle-Garton Farmstead to have Museum Open Day

By Wei Wang daviwang@iu.edu | @DavidWazman

The monthly Museum Open Days at the HinkleGarton Farmstead will resume from 1 to 4 p.m. this Saturday according to a release.

“There’s people who still come in who remember being her students as children and taking private lessons here at the house on that piano.”

Steve Wyatt, executive director of Bloomington Restoration Inc.

The day will feature live musical performances, farmstead tours and a sale of local products, said Steve Wyatt, executive director of Bloomington Restoration Inc. Due to social distancing concerns, live music will be performed on the back deck of the farmhouse, and visitors will only take the tours in the groups they come with. Visitors will be asked to wear masks, Wyatt said.

Visitors will be able to tour the farmstead museum on the main floor of

the two-story Queen Annestyle farmhouse exhibiting family items of the Hinkle family.

The Hinkle-Garton Farmstead is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and owned, protected and maintained by BRI, a not-for-profit historic restoration group. Most of the land of the farmstead is leased to IU to operate the IU Campus Farm, Wyatt said.

The farmstead was donated by the late Daisy Garton, whose father and grandfather were farmers by trade, according to BRI’s website. An old piano sits in the farmhouse, since both Daisy and her husband Joseph were music teachers.

“There’s people who still come in who remember being her students as children and taking private lessons here at the house on that piano,” Wyatt said.

Among the products available for sale on the open day is maple syrup produced at the farmstead.

Wyatt said the maple sap is ready for harvest in February and March, and people can come to watch the process or even take a class on making maple syrup.

The open day events are free.

Wheeler Mission Center for Women and Children Bloomington will close July 5 due to a lack of crucial funding.

Marybeth Hamilton, Bloomington’s director at Wheeler Mission Center, said 25 to 30 women stay at the shelter every night.

Women staying at the shelter have access to meals, the day room, showers, case management and transportation. During winter months, children are allowed to stay overnight at the shelter as well. All services are free.

In 2015, the shelter was taken over by the Wheeler Mission Center of Indianapolis. Before that, another organization ran the shelter.

However, Wheeler took over when the organization could no longer fund it. The shelter relies on local and private donations but there have not been enough donations over the past five years to keep it open. Hamilton said Wheeler Mission’s Indianapolis location has been forced to support the funding needed

in Bloomington.

Wheeler Mission Center provides women with three different types of services.

Women are allowed to stay short term or long term depending on what program they’re enrolled in.

The emergency shelter program allows women temporary stay for up to 45 days. The foundation wellness program is provided for women who cannot seek traditional employment. These women are often on disability or retirement, which prohibit them from having a job. The foundation work readiness program provides women seeking a traditional job with assistance. Women are also taught how to balance general costs of living.

Employees at the shelter have been assisting women in finding new places to stay following the July 5 closing date. All women have been given the opportunity to relocate to the Wheeler Mission Center in Indianapolis.

“Although all women are given the opportunity to relocate to Indianapolis,

some of them have lived in Bloomington their entire lives and don’t want to leave,” Hamilton said.

Many women are also relocating to other shelters in southern Indiana. Some women who decided they aren’t transferring to another location have been able to find housing with the assistance of case management.

“In the long run this will have a negative impact on women because it’s very needed,” Hamilton said.

“Every woman has received assistance, and we’re trying our best to ensure everyone will have a place to stay.”

The Wheeler Mission Shelter for Men Bloomington is currently allowing women to make day visits.

Women visiting the men’s shelter are provided with food and case management.

Women haven’t been served at the men’s shelter in the past year. Dana Jones, director of Wheeler Mission Shelter for Men, said this will be a new adjustment for now. The men’s shelter is responsible for making meals

daily for the women’s shelter and shipping it to their center.

“We are hopeful we’ll be able to unsuspend the women’s program if funding rises,” Jones said.

“We are hopeful we’ll be able to unsuspend the women’s program if funding rises.”

Dana Jones, director of Wheeler Mission Shelter for Men

Aside from Wheeler Mission Center, there are a few other shelters in Bloomington that accept women, but some, like Middle Way House and New Hope for Families have specific requirements such as being a victim of domestic abuse or having a family. Shalom Community Center, however, has openings for women in their overnight shelter, A Friend’s Place. The center provides hunger relief, day and overnight shelter, case management and other essentials.

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Stadium construction to be finished in July

By D.J. Fezler djfezler@iu.edu | @DJFezler

The renovations to Bill Armstrong Stadium’s north grandstand are expected to be completed July 24. The IU Board of Trustees announced the construction project in December 2018, and a design approval came in April 2019.

Construction began in the fall after the conclusion of the IU men’s and women’s soccer seasons.

Once completed, the two-story structure will include locker rooms, a lobby, a team room, a warmup room and coaches’ offices used by both soccer teams, alongside event support space for the Little 500 all in one location.

Staff offices and team locker rooms for both soccer programs are currently located in Assembly Hall.

The locker rooms at Bill Armstrong Stadium were used only on game days.

In the winter, the teams schedule practices in the John Mellencamp Pavilion but suffer from limited accessibility since they also share the space with the football program.

IU women’s soccer head coach Erwin van Bennekom said from an infrastructural standpoint, the logistics were not right for the team to interact on and off the field.

“I think this facility brings us a home,” van Bennekom said. “It brings our women the opportunity to spend time together.”

The stadium improvements will also offer more advantages in recruiting for

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A groundskeeper mows the lawn June 25 as construction workers renovate Bill Armstrong Stadium. The stadium is home to the annual Little 500 race and IU’s men’s and women’s soccer teams.

both programs, but van Bennekom said he doesn’t like to use facilities as a primary tool for recruiting. He said they shouldn’t be the decision maker in an athlete’s desire to play for IU, but it will definitely help.

Stephen Harper, IU’s senior associate athletic direc-

tor for administration and external alliances, accompanied van Bennekom and IU men’s soccer head coach Todd Yeagley on separate tours of the facility last week.

They saw the size of each room in person, after previously viewing layouts and digital renderings.

The walls and framing are nearly completed, and the interior will follow in the coming weeks.

“It’s incredible what they’ve done, really,” van Bennekom said. “It’s beyond all my expectations, and I think the design is incredible.”

Bill Armstrong Stadium was built in 1981, and the completion of this project marks the first time it has gone through major renovations. Last year, a new playing surface was installed with an improved drainage system and new Tahoma 31 Bermudagrass before the previous

grandstand was demolished.

“It’s been a long time in the making,” Yeagley said.

“I think now this facility upgrade, in addition to our new game field which was put in last year, this really puts us back at the top when it comes to facilities in college soccer.”

TRACK AND FIELD

Ben Veatch named CoSIDA Academic All-American

By Mark Christiansen mec1@iu.edu

IU track and field’s redshirt junior Ben Veatch was an-

nounced to the College Sports Information Directors of America Academic All-American third team last week.

Veatch, who is a distance

runner and rising senior, earned a 3.93 GPA while majoring in exercise science.

During his redshirt sophomore season, Veatch was

named as an All-American for indoor track and field in the 5,000-meter event.

At the outdoor crosscountry Big Ten champion-

ship last November, Veatch led the Hoosiers with a time of 30:14.6 and finished fourth overall.

At the indoor Big Ten

cross-country championship in February, Veatch helped IU win the Big Ten title after placing second in the 3,000-meter and 5000-meter events.

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Justice Democrats are the future of progressive politics Jerrett Alexander (he/him) is a sophomore in international relations and environmental sustainability.

Following the departure of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., from the Democratic presidential primary, many leftists turned their attention to congressional primary races between moderate incumbents and progressive challengers, along with races for open congressional seats.

They are hoping to see results that mimic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning victory against former Rep. Joe Crowley in 2018.

Justice Democrats, a progressive political action committee that recruited OcasioCortez to run for office two years ago, is once again supporting several progressive candidates for Congress.

Following Tuesday’s primary election in New York, at least three candidates backed by Justice Democrats — Marie Newman in Illinois, Jamaal Bowman in New York and Georgette Gomez in California — are proceeding to their general elections in November.

Many Democratic leaders in Congress, especially those who have been serving for decades, are largely unresponsive to the energy and policies of the party’s progressive wing. That’s why Justice Democrats’ method of combating Democratic leadership and capturing seats in Congress for leftists provides a blueprint for the

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future of progressive politics.

In early 2017, following the 2016 general election, several veterans from Sanders’ failed bid for the Democratic presidential nomination joined with Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks and Kyle Kulinski of Secular Talk to create Justice Democrats.

Their goal was to build a new wing of the Democratic Party that was beholden to the people rather than corporate donors.

Reps. Pramila Jayapal, D-

Wash., Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz., joined the organization over the following year, becoming the first Justice Democrats to serve in office. In the 2018 midterms, Justice Democrats ran 79 candidates for national and state government. Of those, 26 advanced past their primaries, and seven, including the three incumbents and Ocasio-Cortez, were ultimately elected.

Though Justice Demo-

crats has only existed for three years, it has certainly caused some headaches for Democratic leadership in the House already. Crowley, who was bested by OcasioCortez in 2018, was serving as chair of the House Democratic Caucus and was seen as a possible successor to Speaker Nancy Pelosi as leader of the House Democrats, making his defeat even more stunning.

Likewise, Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley,

another Justice Democrats candidate, took out former Rep. Michael Capuano, a friend and ally to Pelosi, in 2018. Bowman triumphed over Rep. Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on Tuesday.

Progressive policies supported by Justice Democrats are popular with all Americans, not just Democrats. An April Morning Consult poll found that 55% of voters support Medicare for All, com-

pared to 35% who oppose it.

Similarly, a 2019 poll from PBS, NPR and Marist found that 60% of registered voters were supportive of the Green New Deal resolution authored by OcasioCortez and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass. And yet Pelosi has publicly voiced her opposition to both proposals, going as far as referring to the Green New Deal as “the green dream, or whatever they call it.”

If Pelosi and other Democratic leaders continue to stand in the way of progressive policies supported by a majority of voters, then it only makes sense that they see primary challenges from the left. And if the last few years are any sort of indicator, incumbency is not always enough to protect them when voters go to the ballot box.

The future of the Democratic Party is boldly progressive, and any Democratic politician who fails to recognize and adapt to that deserves to be knocked out of office. Justice Democrats is well organized and well funded, and it provides the best hope for leftists hoping to reform the Democratic Party into a vehicle for progressive change.

Jerrett Alexander (he/ him) is a sophomore studying international relations and environmental sustainability. He sits on the Bloomington Commission on Sustainability. jerralex@iu.edu

HILLS TO DIE ON

3 of IU Bloomington’s historic protests Kaitlyn Radde (she/her) is a junior in political science.

Recent years have seen many protests, from the Women’s March to climate marches. Most recently, in response to many high profile police killings, a student-led Black Lives Matter protest in Bloomington drew thousands. Other actions followed. In short, IU student activism is nothing new.

Our rich protest history varies widely in tone, tactics and targets over time.

Although 1960s activism is often remembered as something that happened on the coasts or in the deep south, it happened all over the U.S., including right here in Bloomington. Here are three of the most memorable, so that you can keep your Hoosier dissident ancestors in mind if you protest at IU. The Green Feather Movement, March 1954 In the mid-1950s, McCarthyism and the Red Scare had spread to every corner of America, including to IU. Due to fears about students and young people taking the wrong messages out of literature, some officials and textbook commissioners sought to ban all stories about Robin Hood and his merry men.

In a mocking protest, five students gathered chicken feathers from local farms

and dyed them green in a bathtub, representing the green feathers that Robin Hood wore in the stories.

They then spread the feathers all over campus.

This lighthearted protest caused outrage. A local newspaper, the Bloomington Herald-Telephone, disparaged the five students who carried this out. The Indiana Daily Student had trouble getting professors to comment, since the students were under investigation by the FBI for their protest and they feared the same consequences if they expressed support.

They were not granted the status of an official student organization. But their defense of academic freedom and their interactions with administration and faculty influenced later student protests for years.

Dow Jones Protest, October 1967 IU students participated in the anti-Vietnam War movement, often by protesting IU’s connections to the war, such as faculty research supporting the war effort, compulsory ROTC, which student activists successfully ended, and recruitment by companies that manufactured military items. One such company was Dow Jones, which manufactured napalm.

Antiwar students marched from Ballantine Hall to the business school

and walked up to the interview rooms, demanding to see the Dow recruiters.

When they refused, they quietly sat outside the interview rooms, holding signs for interviewees to see before they went in.

One read: “Check your appearance. Are you responsible enough to be interviewed by the makers of jellied death?”

The police were called, and they arrested all of the participating students, some of whom went to the bus of their own accord. The police immediately began dragging the students who remained, beating them with newly issued riot sticks.

One of the policemen ordered the others to “get the colored boy” in reference to Robert Johnson, the only Black participant in this particular protest.

This was the most violent police confrontation on IU’s campus. Evidence of brutality and racism in the police department made many students and some faculty uncomfortable with having police on campus, leading some of the students’ faculty allies to plead with the administration not to call the police in the future.

Some companies, and the CIA, cancelled IU recruiting visits. This protest caused more students to identify as actively antiwar, and it exposed the racism and excessive force inherent in the police.

Occupy Little 500, May 1968 The Little 500, an annual bike race, is one of IU’s most famous and most lucrative traditions. Most of the teams are fraternities and sororities.

In the late 1960s, there was no women’s race yet, and only white fraternities participated.

Therefore, a group of fifty Black students decided to occupy the stadium and refuse to move until the fraternities struck the racially discriminatory clauses from their charters. The occupation lasted 38 hours, even after it began to rain and the stadium turned to mud. It was closely monitored by the FBI. The students feared attacks from the Ku Klux Klan, which at this time frequently made itself known via acts of racial terror in Bloomington, and from law enforcement.

But some faculty members came to show support, and fellow IU students and local high school students, Black and white, came to offer protection, supplies and solidarity.

The race was postponed by a week due to the weather, and IU’s administration during this period ruled that no fraternity with discriminatory clauses would be allowed to race. Bloomington fraternity leaders frantically called their national offices to try to get rid of their clauses in time, and all but one succeeded and were allowed to race. kradde@iu.edu

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Captains named for 2020 team

By Tyler Tachman ttachman@iu.edu | @Tyler_T15

The IU women’s soccer team has dealt with its share of changes since the conclusion of last season.

Besides the complicated challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the Hoosiers’ home at Bill Armstrong Stadium has been undergoing some remodeling.

As the Hoosiers transition into the new-look stadium and the uncertain fall schedule, two constants in the women’s soccer program were named captains Wednesday.

Senior defender Allison Jorden and sophomore midfielder Avery Lockwood, who both started all 19 matches for the Hoosiers last year, will lead the team as captains in 2020.

“Allison and Avery represent our program’s values, philosophy and goals both on and off the field,” IU head coach Erwin van Bennekom said in a release. “As a staff, we look forward to working with them both, as well as our leadership group, to continue to raise the standards of our program.”

In her fifth year at IU, Jorden provides experience to a 2020 roster that features 10 sophomores. She was also at IU during the transition from former head coach Amy Berbary to van Bennekom, who’s entering his second year with the program.

Jorden was an immediate presence on the pitch in her freshman year, start-

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Powell, Kleimola receive Big Ten Medal of Honor

By Tyler Tachman ttachman@iu.edu | @Tyler_T15

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Then-freshman Avery Lockwood, middle, and then-senior Meghan Scott, right, celebrate Lockwood’s longrange goal against Morehead State University on Sept. 8, 2019, at Bill Armstrong Stadium. Lockwood and senior Allison Jorden have been named captains for the 2020 season.

ing all 20 games for IU and scoring two goals. After suffering a season-ending injury during her sophomore campaign, Jorden returned to form in her junior season, totaling the most minutes played on the team.

Last season, Jorden was named to the All-Big Ten second team. She held together the back line of defense and helped the Hoosiers shut out Big Ten opponents for a program record six times.

“This year has been as unusual as it possibly could have been, no doubt,” Jorden said in a release. “Yet, this team has somehow managed to become closer, better and stronger through all of what has happened,

and I really can’t wait to see how that translates on the field this fall. I’m really just proud and grateful to get to be a part of it all.”

Jorden’s co-captain, Lockwood, moved up the ranks quickly within the program as a freshman last season.

Lockwood arrived at IU as a highly touted four-star recruit and was ranked No. 34 in the nation, according to IMG Academy’s top-150 list.

Lockwood was named to the Big Ten All-Freshman team last season after netting five goals and serving up three assists. Two of her five goals came as gamewinners against Illinois and Michigan State.

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“In this role I hope to help raise the level of this team and create an environment where we are never satisfied with the level we’re at,” Lockwood said in a release.

The unusual tandem of the upperclass and underclass captains will look to improve on IU’s 8-9-2 overall mark and 4-5-2 Big Ten record last season. The Hoosiers were eliminated in the first round of the conference tournament to conclude van Bennekom’s first year at the helm.

With the resumption of sports, upgraded facilities and leadership on the field, the Hoosiers will attempt to notch their first winning season since 2013.

Recent IU graduates Emily Powell, who starred on the water polo team, and Jake Kleimola, who featured on the wrestling mat for the Hoosiers, were awarded the Big Ten Medal of Honor last week.

The distinction is given to one man and one woman student-athlete at each conference school every year for demonstrating academic achievement along with athletic prowess.

With its introduction in 1915, it became the first honor in intercollegiate competitions to place emphasis on academic success.

After joining the water polo team three weeks before the start of the season during her freshman year, Powell established herself in the program as a two-time captain. She concluded her career at IU with 37 goals, 59 assists and 69 steals.

In her season campaign, Powell helped lead the Hoosiers to a 13-5 overall record, including a 10-game winning streak to end the season. She netted three goals while notching nine assists and adding eight steals in her senior year.

Powell was awarded Outstanding All-Academic honors in 2017 and 2018 by the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches. One year later, she was named to the All-Big Ten

Academic team.

Powell was a member of the Hutton Honor College as well as Chi Alpha Sigma, the national college athlete honor society. She was also involved in monthly meetings with IU athletic director Fred Glass as a part of the Athletic Director’s Council on Diversity and Inclusion.

Powell, a Brisbane, Australia, native was planning to return home after graduation and start law schoolthere.

Kleimola, who wrestled at both 197 pounds and heaveyweight last season for the Hoosiers, racked up 23 wins over the last two years. In his senior season, Kleimola notched three major decisions along with two pins. He placed on the podium as a runner-up in the Journeyman Classic last year.

Off of the mat, Kleimola made the All-Big Ten Academic team three times. He also volunteered his time as a Hoosier Hero Peer Mentor and was involved with Habitat for Humanity, St. Mark’s, Everybody Plays and Read Across America.

Kleimola, who is from Schererville, Indiana, studied finance at IU and is currently working in that field in Colorado.

More than 1,500 students have earned the award in its history. In 2019, diver Jessica Parratto and basketball player Juwan Morgan were recipients of the award for IU.

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Join the B-Town Summer Challenge: a community game with weekly prizes intended to support local business through Monroe County for a safe and successful reopening. The challenge ends at 5 p.m Wednesday, August 19.

How To Play 1. Pick up your checklist at participating businesses or print out the B-Town Summer Challenge Sheet at visitbloomington.com/things-to-do/contests/b-town-summer-challenge/

2. Check off one activity per category.

3. Post a photo participating in or completing each activity on social media with #btownchallenge or upload your photos on Visit Bloomington’s website.

4. Once you’ve completed one activity per category (10 total), go to Visit Bloomington’s Website and fill out a form to win exciting prizes.

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Horoscope

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) Today is a 7 — A challenge faces your romance or passion project. Misunderstandings and mistakes delay. Keep following the plan. Patiently persist. Express emotions, gratitude and love.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is a 7 — The gentle approach works best with family. Keep following the plan.

Transitions and changes require adaptation.

Treat yourself and others with patience and compassion.

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Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Today is a 7 — Confer with allies. Share resources as you adapt to communal changes.

Guard against impetuous decisions. Don’t make expensive promises. Keep advancing a shared cause.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is a 7 — A professional challenge delays progress. Misunderstandings and mistakes abound. Proceed with caution. Untangle a knot carefully. Adapt your work to new conditions and markets.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is an 8 — Communication barriers and breakdowns could interrupt your plans.

Postpone what you can. Adapt and adjust expectations. Don’t rush into anything. Assess and review.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Today is a 7 — Obstacles and barriers block the road. Postpone travel to avoid delays and breakdowns. Have patience with technical issues. Assess conditions and adapt plans.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Today is a 9 — Focus on making money.

Compute expenses and revise budgets for current conditions. Build strong foundations.

Hold yourself to high standards. Deliver your powerful pitch.

Aries (March 21-April 19) Today is an 8 — Review resources and budget carefully to navigate unexpected blockages or shortages. Focus on basic priorities. Revise shared financial plans to adapt to changing circumstances.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Today is an 8 — Personal doubts can distract and fool you. To know who you are, ask the people you love. Ignore negative inner monologues. Get into dialogue.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Today is a 7 — Negotiate and coordinate actions to adjust to an unexpected breakdown.

Something you try doesn’t work. Don’t make assumptions. Stay patient with a resister.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Today is a 6 — Concentrate on cleanup. Avoid controversy or provoking sensitivities. Postpone travel. Organize papers, closets and cabinets.

Process recent changes and transitions. Private peacefulness recharges you.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Today is an 8 — Your routines get tested. The workload could seem intense. Slow to avoid accidents. Prioritize exercise, rest and healthy practices. Build strength and endurance.

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IU Auditorium livestream to feature alumna

By Kevin Chrisco kmchrisc@iu.edu | @beatsbykevv

The IU Auditorium will livestream another event on Facebook Live on June 30. The live event will feature IU alumna and Broadway actress Elizabeth Stanley.

Stanley stars in the Broadway musical “Jagged Little Pill,” which features the music of Alanis Morissette. Stanley originated the role in its world premiere at the American Repertory Theater in Boston. Stanley reprised the role on Broadway and earned 2020 Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for her performance.

Stanley has also appeared in other Broadway shows including “Million Dollar Quartet,” “Cry Baby” and the Tony-award winning revival of “Company.”

Stanley is a 2001 graduate of the Jacobs School of Music in voice performance.

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The IU Auditorium is located at 1211 E. Seventh St.

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The information below has likely changed due to COVID-19. If you are in need of emergency health services, reach out to health providers.

Health Spotlight Dr. Brandy Deckard, O.D., F.A.A.O. Dr. Derek Bailey, O.D. Dr. Jenna Dale, O.D., F.A.A.O., F.C.O.V.D. Dr. Diana Christensen, O.D. Dr. Luke Streich, O.D.

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Board certified physicians with over 70 years combined experience.

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We provide quality dental care and an exceptional experience for each patient. We welcome new patients!

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Precision Eye Group specializes in comprehensive vision health. We offer examinations and treatment for a wide array of eye diseases, conditions, and problems, with advanced diagnostic and vision care technologies. We help our patients achieve and maintain good eye health for life. You can shop our wide variety of designer frames including Lindberg, Lafont, Ray-Ban, Tom Ford, Maui Jim, Oliver Peoples and many more! Schedule your appointment now, by calling the office or online at our website, and see your world with the best vision possible. Now providing care in both the Bloomington and Bedford communities!

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Jackson Creek Dental is a privately owned dental practice conveniently located on South College Mall Road. Most insurances accepted, including the Indiana University Cigna Insurance plans as well as the IU Fellowship Anthem. Dr. Tschetter and Dr. Marsh offer state of the art dental technology such as Zoom whitening, same day crown appointments, and Invisalign. Dr. Tschetter also provides restorative, cosmetic and emergency care.

We pride ourselves in giving the best care to our patients while offering a pleasant yet professional atmosphere.

Mon. - Fri.: 7 a. m. - 5 p.m.

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Dr. Mary Ann Bough Office Manager: Melinda Caruso Chiropractic Assistants: Jennifer Wilson, Shaphir Gee Stephanie Gregory Discover Chiropractic for the entire family! We are a stateof-the-art chiropractic facility using computerized analysis and adjustment techniques. We specialize in gentle “no-TwistTurn” adjusting of infants to seniors! We are close to campus and near major bus routes. New patients are welcome and most insurance plans accepted. Call today and find out how you and your family can stay naturally healthy with chiropractic care.

Mon., Wed., Fri.: 8:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Tue.: 1 - 6 p.m.

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Dr. Austin Starr D.D.S., Oral Surgeon Dr. Aaron Strickland D.D.S. Dr. Gregory Velligan D.D.S. Dr. Steven Lenos D.D.S. Dr. Rob Shirley D.D.S. A caring patient centered dental office with a Certified Oral Surgeon and 4 General Dentists accepting new patients of all ages performing IV Sedation, Wisdom Teeth/Full Mouth Extractions, Implants, Bone Grafting, Root Canals, Laser and Cosmetic Dentistry, Same Day Crowns, Frenectomies, Periodontal Treatment, Zoom Whitening, etc. with convenient hours in a new high tech 7500 sf building. Conveniently located off SR 46 at I-65 Columbus’ Westside.

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Dr. Linda Figen, M.D. Psychiatrist Dr. Figen specializes in depression, anxiety, leaving home issues, anorexia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, performance anxiety and others. She does not accept insurance or treat ADD. Private and confidential care by an experienced doctor.

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413 W. Howe St. 812-334-2394 Emergency Care: 812-320-2117 Dr.Figen.com

J. Blue Davis, D.D.S. The Center for Dental Wellness A privately owned, people-oriented practice located next to the College Mall. Dr. Davis provides cosmetic, restorative, family and emergency dentistry in a comfortable, relaxed atmosphere with a caring, knowledgeable and experienced staff. We use Cerec technology, allowing us to make restorations in one visit. Dr. Davis is a provider for Invisalign, Zoom! and Under Armour Performance Mouth Guards.

Also offering other advanced services. We look forward to getting to know you and take care of you and your entire family with the goal of improving your smile and dental health.

Dr. Crystal Gray Dr. Andrew Pitcher

Gentle, effective chiropractic care helping students reduce back and neck pain, stress, headaches, migraines, fatigue, sports injuries, whiplash, etc.

We have treatments that will fit your individual needs. We accept most insurance plans.

Give us a call today!

Bedford: Mon., Wed., Thu., Fri.: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

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Oral/Dental Care

Timothy J. Devitt, D.M.D. We provide a full scope of oral surgery procedures in a caring and comfortable manner. Our services include dental implants, IV sedation and wisdom teeth removal.

We’re a provider for most insurance plans, including IU and Medicaid.

No referral necessary. Conveniently located on S. College Mall Road, across from Kroger and Five Guys.

Mon. - Fri.: 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

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Dr. Ann Z. Granicz, D.M.D. We are a full service orthodontic practice specializing in creating beautiful smiles. We accept all insurance. No referral necessary.

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