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Happy ' dine-in day' Bloomington begins reopening Saturday

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Less than an hour after opening Saturday, the second-story patio at Brothers Bar and Grill was already at its new capacity.

Yellow signs plastered to the windows out front of the building shone like bright beacons, drawing in college-aged young adults, who, for the first time in months, ate hot bar food and sipped colorful mixed drinks out of tiny pitchers.

“We’re open!” the signs said. “All clean.

All safe. All good.”

Monroe County’s COVID-19 stay-athome order expired at 11:59 p.m. Friday, allowing restaurants and some businesses to open with limitations. Brothers opened at 11 a.m. the next morning, setting up around half a dozen outdoor eating spaces in addition to tables inside.

But Brothers and other open businesses have had to make changes to ensure they minimize possible spread of the coronavirus, said regional manager Drew McDonough.

“A lot of it is having cooperation from the guests,” McDonough said.

To make sure Brothers stayed under the 50% capacity limit, one employee held a tally counter in each hand, one blue and one pink, and clicked them both each time

someone came in. Just in case.

Caution tape blocked off the bar areas and every other table to adhere to social distancing and other health rules set by health officials.

Masked employees acted as hosts to show customers, in groups of six or fewer, to their table, which McDonough said was to keep them from meandering around.

All the dance floors were closed, too.

There will be no live music, no DJs, no sweaty bodies carelessly bumping into one another — for a while. * * * At Social Cantina, two tables were already occupied before noon.

A waiter in a mask and purple latex gloves walked over to a table and warmly greeted two women who had arrived in cloth masks of their own.

“What is up, friends?” he asked them.

“How are we today?”

As the diners chatted, a young man called out to them as he passed the restaurant.

“Happy dine-in day, everybody,” he said. “Happy dine-in day.”

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People sit outside of Yogi’s Bar and Grill on May 16 in Bloomington. Indiana stores and bars are beginning to reopen with restrictions and regulations to promote social distancing.

There wasn’t much to do inside College Mall.

A few dozen hopeful shoppers wandered around slowly Saturday afternoon, scanning storefronts to see which of the few open ones were worth their time.

Most groups tried to stay away from each other. Many people wore masks, but a noticeable number still went without.

People browsed at Foot Locker, a phone accessory kiosk and Francesca’s.

But the majority of stores — including Ulta, Old Navy, Macy’s and GameStop — remained closed.

A man in a mask massaged a customer at Home Spa. The inescapable wall of scent that usually overwhelmed the hallway near Bath and Body Works had all but vanished from the closed store. Just two months ago, it was packed with panicked shoppers who thought buying the place out of its tiny hand sanitizers would be enough to keep them safe.

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Monroe County will begin an extended Stage 2 of Indiana’s Back on Track plan when its COVID-19 stay-at-home order expires Friday night, according to a new order released Thursday by the county health department.

Stage 2 will continue locally through May 31, which is a week longer than Gov. Eric Holcomb’s plan has scheduled for the state as a whole.

“We are continually looking at data and gathering information and are carefully moving forward,” Monroe County Health Officer Thomas Sharp said in a press release.

Although the county extended the timeline, it is mostly following the plan's guidelines themselves.

Local government entities are able to set their own building and staff policies within the guidelines. Offices are encouraged to work remotely.

The county recommends religious services not take place indoors until June.

Masks are recommended but not required, and gatherings must be limited to 25 people or fewer.

Restaurants and retail spaces can open at 50% capacity. Personal services and manufacturing will operate with restrictions. Bars and clubs, gyms and entertainment and tourism sites will remain closed.

All businesses are required to have COVID-19 reopening plans in place, according to the press release.

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2 recruits commit to IU's 2021 class

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New Title IX policy sparks debate, frustration

to want to come forward or they may not be able to come through because these regulations will not qualify their experience through these new policies,” she said. “I really see that this will give a lot more leniency to institutions on what they choose to move forward in the different hearing process.”

As a student who lives off campus, she feels personally affected by the new policy for off-campus assaults.

“It’s just not really giving the

Wide receiver Jordyn Williams and punter James Evans became IU’s newest additions to the 2021 class.

Williams, a three-star recruit from Westover High School in Albany, Georgia, committed to IU on Friday and is ranked as the No. 204 receiving prospect according to 247Sports.

Evans, a New Zealand native, announced hiscommitment to IU on Sunday and currently trains with Prokick Australia, the same organization that worked with current IU punter senior Haydon Whitehead.

Williams, a 6-foot-1-inch, 185-pound receiver, turned down offers from the University of Alabama, University of Tennessee and the University of Louisville before choosing IU. As a junior last season, Williams caught 46 passes for 756 yards and eight touchdowns.

Williams is the Hoosiers’ second pass-catching recruit for the class of 2021 and is the third skill position player on offense, joining three-star recruits running back David Holloman and tight end Aaron Steinfeldt.

“The coaches were surprised, but I have been telling them for a little bit that they were on top of my list,” Williams told Rivals. “I just love how they have recruited me, how they have shown me everything about their program, and I really trust them.”

With Whop Philyor and Ty Fryfogle entering their senior seasons, Williams will join the Hoosiers after their departures as a necessary addition to the team’s receiving corps.

Philyor and Fryfogle combined for 1,606 yards and eight touchdowns last season.

It appears Whitehead will hand the reins over to Evans as IU’s next punter. Entering his senior year, Whitehead has been the punter for the Hoosiers for three seasons and is a

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By Alex Hardgrave ahardgra@iu.edu | @a_hardgrave

The new Title IX guidelines for how universities respond to sexual assault were announced by the U.S. Department of Education on May 6. They were long-awaited, but the timing and content of the policy has caused IU staff to scramble and has angered students.

According to the new policy, assaults must now happen on campus to be tried, and witnesses on both sides are allowed to be cross-examined during hearings.

The new policy also gets rid of mandatory reporters and narrows the definition of sexual misconduct. These are all changes to IU’s existing policy.

The IU Office of Institutional Equity staff is in the process of reviewing more than 2,000 pages of the new policy, which it must be in compliance with by Aug. 14, said Emily Springston, University Director of Institutional Equity and Title IX. A 2011 document called the Dear Colleague letter was the last document issued by the government that gave Title IX guidance, and it was 19 pages long.

“I have to say, we’re pretty frustrated with the timing of these,” Springston said. “They’ve given us 90 days, which is a fairly short time to make changes to a policy.”

Previously, the Dear Colleague letter defined sexual harassment as "unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature. It includes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal, nonverbal, or physical conduct of a sexual nature."

Under the new definition, sexual harassment is “any unwel-

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The Title IX office is located in Bryan Hall on South Indiana Avenue. New Title IX guidelines have been announced that change how universities handle reports of sexual assault.

come conduct that a reasonable person would find so severe, pervasive and objectively offensive.”

The rules clarified the definition to include sexual assault, dating violence and stalking.

Springston said IU has other policies in place with broader definitions of misconduct than what is set by the new Title IX changes, one being the Student Code of Conduct, which extends to students even while off campus. She said she does not want students to think sexual misconduct not defined under the new

Title IX policy is OK. “We’re already broader than what these new rights say,” she said. “We just have to figure out how to do it now that the Title IX rights are very prescriptive.”

Rising junior Maddie Dederichs was a part of an IUSG Title IX working group her freshman year. The group was established after students protested IU’s Title IX process that summer.

She said she is worried how the changes will affect survivors wanting to come forward.

“More survivors are not going

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Incoming freshmen question attendance in fall

By Cate Charron catcharr@iu.edu | @catecharron

The coronavirus pandemic has forced the Office of Admissions to move its largely in-person services online. Meanwhile, incoming first-year students are fearful of how the coronavirus will shape their first year at IU. The IU admissions office has pushed back the final enrollment date from May 1 to June 1, while continuing to provide services online to prospective students through virtual tours and programming.

“We wanted to make sure that all students know that they had more time to consider,” Assistant Vice Provost and Executive Director of Admissions Sacha Thieme said.

Thieme said March and April are popular times for prospective students to visit campus, but this year’s class was unable to visit during that time. Instead, she said students were able to take a

virtual tour or watch a videos with one of the admissions ambassadors.

“That was kind of the first priority was to create immediate programming for admitted students,” Thieme said. “And we did that pretty quickly.”

Natalie Ingalls is an incoming freshman who lives in northern Virginia. She said she was going to visit IU over her spring break but was unable to due to tour cancellations. Ingalls said the first time she will set foot on campus will be this fall during move-in, if students are allowed to move in.

“I know I’m going to love being there, but I’m just a little nervous knowing that I’m gonna be so unfamiliar with the campus,” Ingalls said.

Ingalls said she viewed many of the online tours with the admissions office to get a better sense of the university. She said these programs helped her make

her decision.

However, she said she is weighing her options if the fall semester is online. She said she may decide to defer enrollment for a semester to work at home or attend a community college.

“I just don’t feel like it would be worth it to take online classes when I could hypothetically attend community college,” Ingalls said.

Thieme also said about half of the IU Red Carpet Days, days when admitted students and their families can learn more about IU, were able to take place. For those who missed out, programming was put together on the IU Admissions website.

She also said June and July are also popular for high school juniors to visit, so they created programming for those students as well. The admissions office is also arranging virtual college fairs with high schools.

Thieme said the office

is being accommodating to students because there was also a large difference in how high schools dealt with the switch to online learning. She said they will be flexible when reviewing students’ final transcripts if they had an issue with a high school class or needed to choose a pass/fail option.

Thieme said the office has received a lot of questions as families weigh their options. She said she can’t guarantee what the fall semester will look like, but she wants students to know that the university is ready to welcome them so they can start their college experience.

“The IU family and the IU community is going to stand behind them,” Thieme said. “We don’t want them to feel like they have to put their future on hold.”

Emily Ren, an incoming student from New Jersey, was also not able to visit

campus before enrolling.

She said the coronavirus impacted how she made her college decision due to IU being cheaper than some of the other colleges she applied to.

Like Ingalls, Ren said she attended online programs and Zoom meetings to get a better sense of the university and what lies ahead in her college career. She also spoke with a former high school classmate to learn more about IU and the Kelley School of Business.

“Talking with her really gave me a better sense of how the school works,” Ren said.

Ren said that she, like other people she knows, feels she did not receive closure from her high school experience. Thus, she said she is nervous to start a new chapter in college.

“A lot of it is still very uncertain, just like how the end of high school was,” Ren said. “So definitely there’s that fear.”

“I know I’m going to love being there, but I’m just a little nervous knowing that I’m gonna be so unfamiliar with the campus.”

Natalie Ingalls, incoming freshman

“A lot of it is still very uncertain, just like how the end of high school was. So definitely there’s that fear.”

Emily Ren, incoming freshman

“The IU family and the IU community is going to stand behind them.

We don’t want them to feel like they have to put their future on hold.”

Sacha Thieme, assistant vice provost and executive director of admissions

What reopening cities means for the environment

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By Alex Hardgrave ahardgr@iu.edu | @a_hardgrave

The deadline to return an absentee ballot application is 11:59 p.m. Thursday to be eligible to vote by mail in the June 2 primaries.The primaries were originally set for May 5, but were postponed after Gov. Eric Holcomb signed an executive order March 20.

The state of Indiana has taken steps to make it easier than usual to vote by mail to combat the spread of COVID-19.

People can apply for a mail-in ballot through the application found on the Indiana Voters website or locally through the Monroe County Elections Central website.

People used to need a reason

to apply for an absentee ballot. This year, people don’t have to provide a reason, Monroe County Elections Supervisor Karen Wheeler said.

“Time is of the essence,” Wheeler said. “These are the dates the state has given us.”

Voters can request an absentee ballot by going online, downloading, completing the application and either mailing, emailing or faxing it. She said once the office receives the application back, they mail the ballot. If you are worried your application won’t get there by mail in time, Wheeler said there is also a mail slot where ballots can be dropped at the Monroe County Government Elections Central at 401 W. Seventh St.

Wheeler said the staff completed a mass mailing last week to registered Monroe County voters, which included an absentee ballot application and letter with updated instructions.

As of Thursday, it has sent out 9,828 ballots to voters who completed the application and have had 4,009 ballots returned. To keep up with the work, furloughed Monroe County employees have been employed to help, Wheeler said.

Once the voter receives the absentee ballot, it needs to be completed and returned by noon June 2. It can be returned by email, mail or fax.

It can also be delivered in person at the election office between May 26 and June 1

by noon.

Despite the increase in absentee voting accommodation, in-person voting will still be available. Monroe County has reduced the number polling locations from 34 to seven locations. Voting location can be checked online. Voting can be done at those locations on election day from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Another alternative is inperson early voting May 26 to June 1 at the elections office. People will be able to vote 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. to noon Monday.

Wheeler said workers will have masks, gloves and disinfectant as they prepare ballots and work at polling sites.

With a global lockdown, the environment saw a reduction in air pollution, a slowdown in renewable energy production growth and decreasing fossil fuel sales according to various reports. As cities reopen, the future of the environment is up for speculation.

Kelly Eskew, IU sustainability law and policy professor, said there is a potential for change as societies look forward.

The renewable energy industry has been hit economically during the pandemic, according to the New York Times. Despite that, Eskew said the industry is fated to grow, just as it was before the pandemic.

She said 42 states are projected to reach the point in 2020 when the cost of renewable energy is equal or less than that of fossil fuels.

The question is with focus on rescuing the economy, will renewable energy be less prioritized?

Eskew said it’s possible reviving the economy and increasing renewable energy could go hand in hand.

By investing in construction jobs in renewable energy, such as retrofitting buildings, more jobs would be created.

“You can’t offshore those jobs,” she said. “Those jobs have to be performed here in the United States, and they’re jobs that are really labor intensive, which means that you have to hire a lot of people.”

According to an Oxford study Eskew referred to, if a person invested $1 million in renewable energy, about 7.5 jobs would be created. If the same amount of money was invested in fossil fuels, about 2.5 jobs would be created.

Homeowners may also find the time to do their own retrofitting projects, Eskew said.

“Maybe this is a good time as we’re sitting at home, we’re not spending money on travel, etc., to be thinking about those sort of retrofitting projects for our own homes, like putting solar panels on the house,” she said.

Jacqui Bauer, former city sustainability coordinator for Bloomington, said this is also a chance to make communities more sustainable than they are now by constructing greener infrastructure.

“We just have a lot of inertia built into our systems that keeps us moving along the same path even though it’s not necessarily the best path,” Bauer said.

She said, for example, communities could use stimulus money to invest in infrastructure that is resilient and sustainable.

“It’s really easy to just pour relief money into the economy without a whole lot of shape to it,” she said.

“We’re putting money out there, but we’re not really using it to kind of set ourselves on a different path.”

The lockdown also brought a visible decrease in greenhouse gas emissions, said Philip Stevens, an IU air pollution professor. He said fossil fuel combustion has dropped because people are not traveling anymore, which has increased air quality.

The decrease in greenhouse gas emissions also helps reduce the effects of climate change, Stevens said.

But the improvement is likely short-term, Stevens said.

As cities start to reopen, air pollution will worsen.

“As soon as people start driving more, then you get more cars on the road.” he said. You’re going to basically start seeing the pollution come back and fairly quickly because what you’re seeing in the drop is reductions in pollutants that don’t stay in the atmosphere very long.”

There is one possible long-term benefit, he said.

Reduced emissions have reduced ground-level ozone concentration, but they may rise again due to a decrease in other pollutants, Stevens said.

Overall, there has been a short-term improvement, he said, but the situation did prove how quickly air quality can improve if people reduce fossil-fuel-powered transportation use.

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two-time honorable mention All-Big Ten selection.

“Can’t wait to be a Hoosier come January and follow in the footsteps of the great Haydon Whitehead,” said Evans on Twitter.

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IU football head coach Tom Allen leads players onto the field Aug. 31, 2019, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Two new players, wide receiver Jordyn Williams and punter James Evans, committed to IU on Friday and Sunday, respectively.

resources or really advocating for what a student’s experience is like,” she said.

“We’re not really on campus that often as much as we are off.”

Attorney Amelia Lahn, a criminal defense attorney who often represents students accused of sexual misconduct at IU, said she sees some of the changes as positive, such as the ability to cross-examine the parties.

Previously, if a student on either side wanted to ask questions of the other or a witness, the student would have to write the question down, and it would have to be approved by the hearing panel chair, who would then ask the question. Now a student’s advisor, such as Lahn, can cross-examine.

“I think it’s a good tool for both sides to have,” Lahn said.

It means the accused can be cross-examined as well, which could strengthen the survivor’s case.

“I never thought I would agree with anything put out by the Trump administration,” Lahn said. “It makes the whole process more fair, and if the process is more fair, then you can rely on the outcome, and that’s better for everybody.”

Some of the policies that were clarified or added into the new regulations were policies IU already had in

place, such as live hearings, an appeal process for both parties and notifying both parties of the specific details of the allegations.

Springston said she feels the Title IX changes are unnecessary.

“I don’t really see that the new rights improve upon our existing policies,” she said. “I think we have made changes over the years, with input from our student leaders.”

Dederichs said she hopes IU takes student opinions into account when deciding how to best implement the changes.

“The Department of Education is bringing forward a lot of regulations that don’t really align with what students want,” she said.

Most of all, Dederichs said she is frustrated with the timing of the changes, which she feels leaves students unable to fight the way they would want to.

When the changes were just proposals, IU students worked to share their opinions through forums and signed complaints.

“We’ve known that these regulations were going to be coming out sometime, but we didn’t think it would be happening in the middle of quarantine,” she said.

“The middle of a time we are not able to be out in the streets, able to protest and able to march into different offices to be able to say, ‘hands off of our Title IX.’”

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 One mask-less woman rifled through the racks at the otherwise empty Express, touching hangers and clothes to find the best deals and sizes for her.

A voice on the loudspeaker interrupted the music to thank shoppers for maintaining social distancing and remind them to stand away from one another while in line to check out.

“Express love, express yourself, and now — more than ever — express together,” the voice said. * * * Great Clips did its best to maintain distance, setting up chairs both inside and out so customers could give each other space.

Signs emphasized that masks were required to enter the store.

Inside, masked hairdressers chopped away at overgrown manes. The buzz of conversation hinted at times that were once normal.

Sid Rao, who just finished his graduate studies at IU, saw it was more than a two-hour wait when booking an appointment online, so he came straight to the store instead.

He said he hadn’t been waiting long, although the customer next to him had been there over an hour.

Rao said his last haircut

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People sit and talk May 16 inside Brothers Bar and Grill in Bloomington. Some bars across Indiana are beginning to reopen, despite COVID-19’s contagious nature.

was about a week before lockdown. His hair hadn’t bothered him much while he was at home, but he said he wanted to finally get it cut because he could.

“I mean, why not?” he asked. * * *

Although Chocolate Moose opened picnic tables for outdoor dining, all three sat empty around 8 p.m. despite long lines at the walkup window and inside.

IU graduate student Daniel Gallimore and his fiancee Lauren Watson decided instead to walk back to the parking lot, open the

hatch of their dark red Volkswagen Jetta and perch on the edge of the trunk to eat their ice cream.

The couple said they’ve been ordering takeout to eat at home or somewhere outside during the stay-at-home order but didn’t feel comfortable returning to eating at a restaurant just yet.

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Even at Chocolate Moose, with its pink stickers on the ground to mark social distance for customers, Wilson said the model wasn’t perfect. She noticed people were trying to stay away from each other, but some weren’t

wearing masks.

Gallimore said he hoped to be able to get out more during the summer, but he knew it still might not be the best option.

“Every single opening up is motivated by economics or politics,” Gallimore said.

“It’s not enough to convince me, anyway.”

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6-month-old PJ Constantine got a front row seat to IU women’s basketball this season.

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IU assistant coach Janese Constantine holds her son PJ high after a win at Williams Arena in Minneapolis. Janese and PJ made a tradition of posing for a photo with the scoreboard after every road win.

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Paul Constantine Jr. was born to roam the sidelines with a Division I Top 25 basketball team one day. That day came only a few short weeks after he was born.

They call him PJ, the curlyhaired, dimpled, 6-month- old son of IU women’s assistant basketball coach Janese Constantine and her husband Paul, formerly the IU football strength and conditioning coach currently in the same role at the University of Alabama.

PJ is what you might call a natural-born leader. His style has already become popular with his mom’s boss, IU women’s basketball head coach Teri Moren.

Several times this past season, while boarding the team bus chartered for their next stop on the road, PJ would start talking and wouldn’t stop.

“That’s right PJ,” Moren would say. “Tell ‘em to get ready, it’s game time.”

PJ would then let out another “WAAAAAAAA” in response.

PJ has spent almost half of his life, about four months, eating pregame meals with the team, watching games from the sidelines and becoming a part of the Hoosier basketball family.

As much as PJ was a part of the team, it was equally a part of helping to nurture PJ in the first half year of his life.

As director of player development Bree Schomaeker said, “It literally takes a village to raise a child.” *** Most babies’ early moments are recorded by their parents, documented via home videos or still photos.

These cinematic masterpieces, which can be used later in life to embarrass the child in front of a date, often show the baby being cradled by family, the baby’s first bath, first haircut or first crawl.

In PJ’s case, it will include photos from baby’s first Big Ten basketball road win, first victory over rival Purdue and first trip to historic Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

The photos at Hinkle were the first of many PJ and mom would take. PJ made the ride up with his mom to Indianapolis for thenNo. 12 IU’s 64-53 win over Butler on Dec. 11, 2019.

It was one of Janese’s first games back from maternity leave, and PJ, sitting by the bench, was just shy of three months old.

Three weeks later, PJ was on a plane with his mom and the rest of the team as they departed for their first Big Ten road game of the season at Rutgers. The plan was for PJ to travel to Rutgers and then accompany mom afterward

on a flight to Florida to watch dad and the IU football team in the Gator Bowl. That would cap PJ’s road adventures for a while.

Except the basketball team won by double digits in hostile territory at the infamous Rutgers Athletic Center.

PJ missed games on the road at Iowa and Maryland, the latter because Constantine had recruiting duties to attend to.

They’d prove the only two road losses the Hoosiers would suffer all year. Upon PJ’s return Jan. 23 at Penn State, IU won big again 76-60, improving to 5-2 on the road.

“After that it was like ‘Yo, PJ’s a good luck charm. He’s undefeated, he’s like 3-0. You’ve got to bring him on the next one,’” Constantine said. “It really wasn’t an option after that.”

PJ was a staple, showing up at practices frequently and was at every one of IU’s remaining road games. IU won all of them.

The Hoosiers finished the regular season 10-2 away from Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. In the eight road games PJ attended, IU went 8-0. *** Bree Schomaeker embraces many responsibilities to compliment her role as player development director. When PJ came along, she didn’t hesitate to pick up a few more.

Along with director of basketball operations Liz Honegger, Schomaeker often helped change PJ’s diaper or put him to bed while Constantine watched film and held PJ in a baby sling either behind the bench or on it at games.

“I knew Janese was kind of itching to get back,” Schomaeker said. “When she had PJ, she was watching film, always asking how practice was going. I was like ‘J, whatever you need, I got you.’”

Schomaeker and Honegger were not the only ones lining up to help. Assistant coaches Glenn Box and Rhet Wierzba, sports information director Megan Kramper and many of the players offered their support throughout the season.

The willingness to help started at the top with Moren. When Constantine was planning to return, she met with Moren to discuss how things would operate with PJ. “Her words to me were ‘J, don’t worry, don’t stress,’” Constantine said. “PJ’s a part of us, he’s going to be a Hoosier baby.”

Moren has had experience with her teams becoming extended families. As an assistant at Butler, one of Moren’s colleagues brought their baby to work frequently.

At IU, both Wierzba and strength coach Kevin Konopas-

ek often brought their sons to games, practices and weightlifting sessions.

“It made me feel valued as a coach that she knew that I wanted to be the best mom I could be, but, I also still wanted to be the best coach I could be,” Constantine said. “As a mom, it showed me you can still work and you can still be career driven and you can still love your job, and it doesn’t take away from you being the best mom, the best wife you can be.”

This open and welcoming atmosphere often played out on the floor among the players. “Those kids were treated like family out there,” Constantine said.

“Those kids stuck together through everything. They were there for each other, they knew how each other felt, they knew the pulse of the team. Our team, I felt like, was inseparable.”

Junior guard Keyanna Warthen knows this feeling better than most. Coming from a family of nine siblings plus nine nieces and nephews in Florida, Warthen dealt with homesicknessafter leaving for college.

Warthen has had a close relationship with Constantine from her earliest days as a student at IU. Getting to see her coach with PJ by her side this season was special for Warthen.

“That’s the first thing I do when I get off the plane, I go see my nieces,” Warthen said.

“So, having PJ around just filled that spot with my nieces. PJ just brought that type of joy. When I do feel like I’m homesick, PJ gives me that peace of mind.” *** PJ didn’t travel with the team for any of the Big Ten tournament games – go figure, IU lost to Maryland in the semifinals –

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Top IU women’s basketball junior guard Keyanna Warthen, sitting next to redshirt freshman guard Chanel Wilson, holds PJ Constantine in her lap during a team flight. Warthen comes from a family of nine siblings and nine nieces and nephews.

Above IU women’s basketball head coach Teri Moren plays with PJ Constantine on the team bus. PJ is the 6-month-old son of assistant coach Janese Constantine.

but he was packed and ready for wherever IU would have played in the NCAA tournament.

Then came the coronavirus.

The tournament was canceled March 15.

While they might not have any mementos from the postseason, the Constantines do have an abundance of scrapbook material from the regular season.

After every road win, PJ and his mom posed for a victory picture somewhere on the court with the scoreboard in view.

One picture in particular

stands out. After the Feb. 22 game at Williams Arena in Minnesota, Constantine hoists her candystripe- clad son in the air and smiles. He somehow manages to smile back even wider and brighter than his mom.

In the background on the jumbotron, the final score reads 75-69 in favor of the Hoosiers.

For IU, it was another win in a historic season. For Constantine and her Hoosier baby, the team meant a little more to them.

“My village here,” Constantine said, “was pretty awesome.”

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TYLER’S TAKES

The mystery of IU guard Devonte Green and his pursuit of the NBA Tyler Tachman is a sophomore in sports media.

To try to understand Devonte Green is frustratingly complex. The pinnacle of his inconsistent performances is when he can fire in 3-pointers as soon as he crosses half-court. It’s where he earned the nickname “Green Light.” That swagger is in full form when he dishes out chef’s kisses, or when he pounded his chest after sealing a win over No. 11 Ohio State on Jan. 11.

His alter-ego, dubbed “bad Devonte,” doesn’t have a shortage of flaws. It’s when he slings unnecessary no-look passes or looks disinterested on the bench like during IU’s near loss to Northwestern on Jan. 8.

Green’s erratic play left fans hoping for “Green Light” and bracing for “bad Devonte.”

After the Hoosiers 8977 win over No. 21 Iowa on Feb. 13, a game where Green dropped 27 points, a reporter attempted to make sense of Green’s unpredictability.

“When you don’t have games like this, where do you go?” the reporter asked.

“What happens to you?”

Sitting in the press room beneath the Assembly Hall seats, Green pursed his lips and furrowed his brow.

“What do you mean what happens to me?” Green responded. “Can you elaborate?”

The reporter clarified for Green.

“Where do you go?” the reported said. “You’re an NBA offensive talent, but there’s games when you score zero and two and three. You’re too good for that. Why does that happen so often?”

Green scratched his nose and stumbled over his words.

“Um, inconsistency,” Green said. “I mean, I just.

I don’t really know how to answer that. It’s just I get inconsistent if things are inconsistent. That’s it.”

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IU senior Devonte Green pulls up for a 3-pointer against University of Michigan sophomore David DeJulius on Feb. 16 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

That’s the unreliability of Green. What differentiates him from other players is that there seems to be no formula for his wayward performances. Even he can’t pinpoint the logic.

In an Instagram post last week, Green announced that he would be signing with Roc Nation Sports, the same organization that represents his brother Danny, a guard on the Los Angeles Lakers. The company, which is headed by rapper Jay-Z, also partners with Brooklyn Nets point guard Kyrie Irving.

Green, who graduated this spring, declared his intentions to enter the NBA draft and pursue a profes-

sional career.

The plausibility of him being selected in the draft seems unlikely considering that analysts have evaluated Green’s skillset in the same way that fans have. Green’s name can’t be found in the top-100 draft prospects lists from ESPN, The Athletic or CBS Sports.

Green’s 6-foot-3-inch stature doesn’t project as an NBA shooting guard, which is where he spent most of his time last season. His height is more aligned with a point guard, but his inability to consistently handle the ball coupled with his questionable decision-making skills negates that option.

In some aspects, Green

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Smith said after the game against Florida State. “He’s a microwave.”

Then there’s the other side to Green. In a threegame stretch in January, he averaged under two points per game. In IU’s 57-49 loss at Purdue on Feb. 27, Green committed four turnovers while shooting three for 15.

One game later, when IU fell one point short to Illinois, Green went three for 11.

Green finished the season averaging just less than 11 points, 2.7 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game. What’s more troubling is that he shot 36% from the field, and 70% from the free-throw line. Those numbers don’t cut it when you’re labeled as

has exactly what NBA scouts are scouring for. His potential for high-volume scoring and quick release could make him a valuable piece off of the bench.

Green carried IU to a victory over No. 17 Florida State University in the ACC/ Big Ten Challenge on Dec. 3, 2019, with 30 points, including five 3-pointers.

He accounted for 19 in the upset of Ohio State. In the game against Iowa, he tallied seven 3-pointers.

The Hoosiers won all three of those games, and much of the team’s success last season was forced to rely on Green’s unreliability.

“When he’s hot, he doesn’t miss,” junior Justin

a scorer.

In comparison, 6-foot3-inch Kentucky freshman and consensus projected first-round pick Tyrese Maxey shot 42% from the field and 83% on free throws.

Taking all of the factors into account, Green seems destined for a short GLeague stint or career playing overseas rather than a lengthy run in the NBA. As he progresses in his pursuit to play professionally, nobody knows which Green will appear in the gym. Not even him.

But, there’s always a chance that it could be “Green Light.” ttachman@iu.edu

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Jon Snow, played by Kit Harington, and Daenerys Targaryen, played by Emilia Clarke, stand alongside one another in a scene from "Game of Thrones."

In hindsight, the end of ‘Game of Thrones’ is even worse Molly Hayes (she/her) is a rising junior studying English.

A year later, the eighth and final season of “Game of Thrones” is still fresh in my mind. As the credits rolled on the final episode last May, one thought kept bouncing around in my head: I wonder how this will age?

Would the ending I perceived as messy be one day hailed as the perfect conclusion? Would critics be looking at things in a different light? Would I? I’m not sure about the critics. But from my point of view, the end of “Game of Thrones” isn’t any better in hindsight. It’s actually worse.

I remember driving back and forth to school in the spring of 2019, in part so I could work my weekend job at Walgreens, but also so I could watch the last six episodes of the fantasy behemoth with my family.

When I look back on it

now, it feels like a waste of time. As each episode passed by, riddled with bad characterization, awful plotting and even worse lighting, I felt myself becoming disenchanted with the show I’d grown to adore. I drove back to Bloomington in the darkness of the early morning, feeling not only tired but let down.

If any other show had flopped towards the finale, it wouldn’t be such a big deal. But “Game of Thrones” wasn’t just any other show.

It was a phenomenon. Its ratings were sky-high, with viewing numbers averaging around 32.8 million per episode by season seven. The show was so popular that it even inspired scientific studies.

Expectations were high.

Perhaps they were so high that it would have been impossible for Thrones to meet them.

But the show’s executives didn’t even try. Even though

HBO offered showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss more episodes to wrap everything up, the season ended up clocking in at only six episodes.

The result was monstrous.

The episodes felt rushed and messy. Fascinating characters such as the diabolical Queen Cersei Lannister were given very little screen time compared to previous seasons.

But the show’s greatest sin lies in the unraveling of Daenerys Targaryen. Previously portrayed as a heroic revolutionary, the beloved character ends up going to the dark side in the last two episodes.

This development was completely out of character and stunningly unimaginative.

Throughout the course of the show, viewers watched as Daenerys suffered through horrors. We watched her triumph over her abusers and rise out of the ashes of pain to a place of power. She was

not only powerful, but also compassionate.

At the beginning of season eight, she put aside her own ambitions and helped Jon Snow defeat the show’s infamous White Walkers. Because of her love for Jon and humankind as whole, she helped save the realm from the greatest threat it would ever face.

And then, a mere three episodes later, she torched King’s Landing to the ground, innocents and all.

After seven seasons of portraying Daenerys as nothing but compassionate, Benioff and Weiss decided that the most logical resolution for her character was to slip into insanity and rage.

Daenerys isn’t the only character the showrunners betrayed. Jaime Lannister’s arc was also handled horribly. After helping defeat the White Walkers alongside our heroes, he crawled back to his sister and their dysfunc-

tional relationship.

The disappointing end to “Game of Thrones” can teach us a lot of things. It teaches us the importance of character and plot, as even the final season’s $90 million budget wasn’t enough to save the show from its larger narrative mistakes.

And it teaches us that even things that seem untouchably perfect are never too big to fail. “Game of Thrones” had the world watching as the last season came in, and it couldn’t deliver.

Perhaps we ought to learn to temper our expectations.

As the new decade rolls in, cinema and television seem to be trending towards flashy effects and reboots, rather than creativity and originality. It may be that the end of “Game of Thrones” is merely the beginning of a new and ominous age. morhayes@iu.edu

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Then-freshman, now-junior Bruno Blaskovic prepares to dive into the pool for the men's 100-meter freestyle finals Jan. 20, 2018. Blaskovic and freshman Brendan Burns received Big Ten conference honors Wednesday.

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IU men’s swimmer Brendan Burns was named Big Ten Freshman of the Year and junior Bruno Blaskovic was announced as Big Ten Swimmer of the conference championships Wednesday.

Earlier this year, Burns and Blaskovic were both selected to the All-Big Ten First Team and announced as All-Americans by the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America.

The duo put on a dominant performance at the Big Ten Championships in

Bloomington on Feb. 26-29.

Both were members of the Big Ten champion 400-medley relay and 200-medley relay teams.

Both times were Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center records.

“I just put the work in throughout the year and trusted in the system that

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we have here at Indiana,” Burns said.

“We have a really unshakable support system here and with their help I was able to achieve what I wanted to achieve in Big Tens.”

Individually, Blaskovic was victorious in the 50-and 100-yard freestyle competi-

tions.

Burns finished first with a career-best time in the 200 butterfly.

He also picked up a silver medal in the 100 backstroke and a bronze medal in the 100 butterfly.

Both their performances led them to qualify for three individual events in

the NCAA Championships scheduled on March 25-28 in Indianapolis before the meet was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

“Not having the NCAA experience in my freshman year was definitely disappointing,” Burns said.

“But it just makes me hungrier for next year.”

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Mr. WorldLIED: Pitbull’s pitfalls in the 2012 hit ‘International Love’ Kevin Chrisco is a senior in journalism.

As the world around me becomes bleaker I’ve been using old pop songs to escape. But sometimes it just makes things worse.

There are glaring issues with 2012’s “International Love” by Pitbull and Chris Brown. Obviously, on the surface, a problem is that Chris Brown is featured on the track. That is a given. But lurking beneath the flexes and autotuned histrionics are numerous blemishes.

First, the chorus doesn’t mention a single international city. New York City, Los Angeles and Miami are all domestic. Why is the song called “International Love” if the chorus is all about American cities?

“But Kevin,” you’re probably saying to yourself. “Pitbull raps about other countries. He talks about all the women he’s slept with from each nation.” Shut up. No

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one knows any of the words to the verses of this song.

If you put a gun to my head and told me to recite a cou-

ple bars, I would tell you to shoot me.

Plus, I don’t believe Pitbull. Romania? Sure, OK,

yeah. The song didn’t receive any certifications in Romania. It went triple platinum in Canada, though, which is

weird to me.

“I don’t play football, but I’ve touched down everywhere. Everywhere? Everywhere.”

Yeah, OK, Pitbull.

“I don’t play baseball, but I’ve hit a home run everywhere. Everywhere? Everywhere.”

I doubt the veracity of these claims.

This song shouldn’t be called “International Love” because it’s not about love.

It’s about sex. Lust and love are not synonymous. Pit thinks a woman telling him “Pit, you can have me and my sister” constitutes love. It doesn’t. Pit may think these women love him, but they don’t. They don’t know him.

“There’s not a place that your love don’t affect me, baby. So don’t ever change.”

He’s singing to the audience, here, thanking them for their love. This isn’t love, though.

There is nothing loving or nurturing about any pop star’s relationship with their fans. It’s

not loving the person, it’s loving what they do for you.

The flexes in this track are representative of another problem in pop music.

The song was written by six people. I’m beginning to think countries like Romania, Lebanon and Greece were chosen specifically to fit a rhyme scheme. How much truth is there in the world?

Can we trust anyone if we can’t trust Mr. Worldwide?

As a kid I believed everything. There was no way it couldn’t be true. Pitbull touched down everywhere (Everywhere? Everywhere).

Flexing wasn’t yet a part of my vernacular. Hyperbole was just something we talked about in English class. Everything was clearly delineated.

“International Love” and other pop music of the early ‘10s sold us a lifestyle we’ll never live. Sometimes I wish people would stop selling us anything. kmchric@iu.edu

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

Tues.: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Sat.: 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.

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.

Mon., Tue., Thu., Fri.: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

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

Ryan D. Tschetter, D.D.S.

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

1710 W. Third St. 812-336-BACK (2225) bloomingtonchiropractor.com

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.

Julia J. Mueller Julia is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and Best Selling Author. She specializes in teaching individuals, through the use of relaxation techniques, to achieve the following goals: Manage stress and anxiety. Eliminate distractions and focus to improve test taking and study skills. Achieve behavioral changes to eliminate addictions, smoke cessation, weight loss and a plethora of other goals to improve health, life and well being. Ask about Julia’s powerful audios to use as successful lifelong tools!

Office hours: By Appointment

Mon. - Thu.: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

2909 Buick Cadillac Blvd.

812-339-3427 dentalwellness.com

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Executive Park North 2620 North Walnut St., Suite 700 941-730-3965 AMindandBodyConnection.com

1116 S. College Mall Rd. 812-332-2204 oralsurgeryofbloomington.com

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.

Best results guaranteed. We are conveniently located on Bloomfield Rd., next to Buffalo Wild Wings.

Mon. - Thu.: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

1320 W. Bloomfield Rd., Suite B 812-822-1196 www.bracesbydrg.com

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