Monday, April 13, 2020

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First COVID-19 death reported in county

By Kyra Miller kymill@iu.edu | @kyra_ky94

The Monroe County Department of Health confirmed the county's first death related to COVID-19 Saturday night, according to a press release.

The patient, who was older than 70, died Saturday night at the IU

Health Bloomington Hospital, according to the release.

“It is with a heavy heart that we report the death of a resident due to COVID-19,” MCHD administrator Penny Caudill said in the release.

“It is a solemn reminder of how serious this virus is and why we must remain diligent in our efforts to slow the spread.”

COVID-19 can be spread from coughing and sneezing in the air, touching or shaking hands or touching infected surfaces then touching your face, according to the release.

The best way to protect yourself is to wash your hands, avoid touching your face and avoid close contact with people who are sick or showing symptoms.

As of Sunday, the Indiana State Department of Health has confirmed 83 cases of COVID-19 in Monroe County out of 555 tests completed, according to the ISDH website. Indiana has confirmed 7,928 cases in total with 343 deaths reported.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with this family and all families in

You ' know, the world as we knew it six months ago is gone,'

our communities, state and nation who are facing difficulties during these unprecedented times,” said Brian Shockney, president of IU Health South Central Region, in the release. “As healthcare providers, this is not the outcome we had hoped for, but we are grateful for the compassionate care our team members displayed in regard to this case."

Bloomington's Dawn Johnsen tests positive for COVID-19

By Sara Kress sekress@iu.edu | @sarakress4

Mayor John Hamilton’s wife, who is also a Maurer School of Law professor, tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, according to a press release from the City of Bloomington.

Dawn Johnsen reportedly began self-quarantining in her home when she started experiencing symptoms.

“Dawn and I are so grateful for the good wishes of so many, and we will follow the health protocols that help keep each other and our community safe,” SEE JOHNSEN, PAGE 3

It’ll ' never be the same.'

By Ty Vinson vinsonjo@iu.edu | @ty_vinson_

In a typical week, Tracey Sizemore doesn’t have much to worry about. Her car is paid off, and she really only worries about her utility bills.

Indy’s Family Restaurant in Martinsville, Indiana, closed its doors March 17 after Gov. Eric Holcomb ordered restaurants and bars to close down to avoid the spread of COVID-19. Sizemore has been worried since.

“You know, the world as we knew it six months ago is gone,” she said. “It’ll never be the same.”

Sizemore, 57, has been a server at Indy’s for three years. Servers don’t make much on their hourly pay alone, and Sizemore said she lives mostly on tips.

What used to be $500 to $600 a week in tips on her paycheck is now $103 a week in unemployment checks.

She was blindsided by the change. She had heard from the news the federal government signed into law that some people on unemployment will receive an extra $600 or so a week, but so far she hasn’t gotten any extra money. She was put on hold with the unemployment office for more than two hours while she waited to find out why she wasn’t getting her money.

The unemployment office told Sizemore she couldn’t receive any unemployment benefits unless she was actively in search for another job.

She knew this was how it worked, but she didn’t understand how she was supposed to be out looking for a job when everywhere was ordered to close.

She said she felt unprepared, both mentally and financially, for the future. She felt the government was making empty promises to its people.

“If I’d have known this was going to happen, I would’ve been more cautious,” Sizemore said.

Sizemore was caring for her mom, who was in hospice care at the beginning of March. She didn’t have time to think about what was going on in the world when her own mother was on her deathbed. She spent her time visiting her mom before it was too risky to do so. Her mom died March 9 at her granddaughter’s house.

When Sizemore returned to work before Indy’s closed down, she said her daughter told her to start paying attention to what’s going on around the world. Sizemore didn’t feel prepared. She only had two rolls of toilet paper left at the time, and people were already starting to buy toilet paper and hand sanitizer in bulk to stock up.

Sizemore said her daughter was her salvation. Her daugh-

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Tracey Sizemore, 57, reads the book "Goodnight Moon" to her grandsons Niko and Elam on March 26 from her car window. Sizemore was a server at Indy's Family Restaurant in Martinsville for three years but was laid off due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

IU trustees approve salary freeze, early graduation

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ter made sure she had what she needed and has been making masks for people. She came up with ways for Sizemore to still see her grandkids.

She FaceTimes with her grandkids, 2 and 5, every night to read to them. Their favorite book is “Goodnight Moon.” A few days ago, Sizemore stopped by her daughter’s house and read the book to her grandkids from the window of her car.

In a video posted to Facebook, the kids sit in their pajamas on a blanket in the front yard. They hold

The IU Board of Trustees approved early graduation for certain medical students and a $600 million dollar line of credit at their Friday meeting, which focused on the university's ongoing response to problems caused by the coronavirus pandemic. President Michael McRobbie also announced that he is canceling previously approved 2021 salary increases.

McRobbie commended the faculty and students for moving about 18,000 classes online. He said the university has spent over 20 million minutes on Zoom since the change, and over 40,000 videos were created on Kaltura Media Gallery.

“It is important that we understand and appreciate the sheer magnitude and scale of this effort,” he said.

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IU is empty, but its landscapers still make campus bloom

By Shelby Anderson anderssk@iu.edu | @ShelbyA04288075

Despite classes going online and events being canceled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, IU Landscaping Services staff is continuing to plant flowers and maintain the grounds this spring.

Facility Operations Director Samuel Robertson said he considers the landscaping and beauty of the campus among IU’s top attractions.

He said the landscaping team is very self-motivated.

“We see our landscape group as essential,” Robertson said.

It’s unclear when students will be able to return to campus, especially now that summer classes will be online, but Robertson said the department should still keep up the work so it can be ready.

“When the students come back, we want it to be beautiful,” he said.

Grounds Supervisor Trent Chitwood said the landscaping department is taking precautions to follow social distancing protocols. Most of their work is done outside, so it isn’t too difficult to have everyone spread out.

“It’s pretty much business as usual for us,” he said.

Chitwood said a few weeks ago, crews mowed the grass and watered the flowers for the first time this semester. Since there are no students on campus, Robertson said landscaping staff can start correctional projects that normally have to wait until summer, such as repairing trees and flowerbeds.

Horticulture Supervisor Tristan

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IU’s landscaping services employees and students dig holes for new trees April 25, 2019, outside of Dunn's Woods. IU Landscaping Services staff continues to plant flowers and maintain the grounds throughout the campus this spring, while students move to remote learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Johnson said the department starts planning in August for all the flowers that will be planted on campus throughout the spring and summer. In early spring, crew members typically plant pansies, tulips, daffodils and hyacinths. In the summer, crew members plant begonias and petunias, salvias, annual vincas and colocasiae.

“We try to stick with what’s always worked on campus and try new things here and there,” he said.

Johnson said crew members typically plant the same types of flowers but mix up where they put them on campus so there’s some variety. The department relies on the expertise of crew members who plant and care for the trees and flowers on campus because they know from experience what will look good.

Johnson said the department mixes feathery flowers that will blow in the wind with sturdy trees that

won’t move much. When working with colors, they use the traditional IU colors of cream and crimson while also adding pops of new colors that work well with the palette.

“We’d be foolish to stray away from the white and red or cream and crimson,” Johnson said.

Johnson said his favorite part of the spring season is all the colors from the flowers and trees.

The landscaping department

takes a lot of pride because IU is often highly ranked for having a beautiful campus, Chitwood said. IU has made the lists of Condé Nast Traveler, Architectural Digest and USA Today among others.

“Those rankings reassure us that what we’re doing isn’t going unnoticed,” he said.

Sophomore Thomas Missell said SEE LANDSCAPE, PAGE 3

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Community Farmers’ Market caps online orders

By Mary Claire Molloy marymoll@iu.edu | mcmolloy7

The Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market is adjusting its operations after it opened April 4 by limiting online orders and extending pickup hours, according to a press release from the city.

The market went online to give people the ability to continue to buy and sell products while the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

In its first week, customers placed 500 orders within 22 hours, leading to delays at the Switchyard Park pickup site, according to the release.

“The new system was improvised when the quickly evolving public health crisis threatened to eliminate the market altogether for the month of April,” the release said.

Market staff capped the

number of orders that can be placed each weekend at 325 to avoid future delays, according to the release. The market also added staff to help manage traffic and increase pickup efficiency.

Pickup hours have been extended by four hours from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., according to the release. Customers can arrive for curbside pickup at Switchyard Park, located at 1601 S. Rogers St., during their assigned time slot.

This week’s online shopping period still ends at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday.

Customers who were unable to pick up their orders last weekend or had items missing already received refunds, according to the release. Any customer with questions or concerns about an order can email onlinefarmersmarket@bloomington.in.gov.

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Daniel Graber sells fruit at the Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market in 2013 behind a box of peaches. The market is making adjustments to its current online order operations for the season’s second Saturday, according to a press release from the City of Bloomington.

Abortion access uncertain in pandemic IU to receive over $60 million from federal stimulus

By Joey Bowling

jobowl@iu.edu | @joeybowling8

Gov. Eric Holcomb issued an executive order March 30 requiring that locations such abortion clinics, health care facilities and providers cancel or postpone all elective or nonessential surgical and invasive procedures while the COVID-19 pandemic rages. Some abortionrights activists are concerned.

The order, which mentions abortion clinics specifically, doesn’t state whether the procedure is considered essential or if it’s elective. A surgery or procedure is defined as elective if it can be postponed without problems to the patient’s health, with discretion being left to the medical provider. Delaying elective and non-essential procedures is meant to preserve personal protective equipment for COVID-19 and essential procedures.

Personal protective equipment includes gloves, masks and eye protection.

Holcomb’s office did not respond to requests for comment.

“We are in a pandemic, and people need to remember that,” public health professor Lucia Guerra-Reyes said. “But I am completely against the idea that abortion care is not essential.”

Abortion isn’t a choice made without considering other factors , GuerraReyes said. Pregnancy exaggerates inequalities such as lack of access to medical care, money or information about sexual health.

“Nobody wants to have an abortion,” she said.

“Getting an abortion is damn hard.”

Ed Gentry, the Bloomington Planned Parenthood clinic volunteer escort coordinator, said he sees abortion as a vital health care procedure.

Gentry received a message from Planned Parenthood on March 18 telling him to suspend all volunteer activities. For him, that meant he and his volunteers couldn’t continue to escort women inside the clinic. He said there have been situations in the past where women would come to the clinic, see protesters outside and not be able to go in.

“My concern in not being there as an escort is that patients are going to get intimidated or scared,” he said.

Virginia Vitzthum, a senior scientist for the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, said abortion isn’t included in the exceptions to the executive order. The telemedicine reprieve that allows practitioners to see patients online doesn’t extend to those providing abortions, so patients seeking abortions must visit doctors in person.

If women seek abortions during this pandemic in Indiana, they are still required to follow procedures set by state law: visit the doctor in person, hear the fetus’s heartbeat and see it move via an ultrasound, and wait a day between the first visit and the procedure before undergoing the pro-

cedure.

The multiple visits, finding somewhere to stay for women who travel to less restrictive states and the cost of the procedure quickly add up and bar many women from accessing that care, Vitzthum said. Though costs vary depending on health insurance and the procedure performed, the Guttmacher Institute, a sexual and reproductive health research and policy organization that supports abortion rights, lists the average cost of an early medication abortion as about $500.

Some women have always had a harder time accessing abortions, such as people of color and women with low income.

“People of means could always get a safe abortion,” she said.

Vitzthum said she’s also frustrated because there are multiple ways the state government can ease restrictions to make

abortions more accessible during the pandemic. Removing the requirement for in-person visits and multiple visits would help.

She also said government officials need to realize abortion is a time-sensitive procedure.

Vitzthum said pregnancy can also be life-endangering. Some women can’t safely carry a pregnancy and need to terminate it.

Victims of domestic abuse are more at risk when they’re pregnant.

The type of abortion and medical care a person can get depends on how far along the pregnancy is, Vitzthum said, and waiting even a couple of weeks can change the procedure from a pill to surgery.

“They are faced with unreasonable choices between their current family, their current living situation, their plans for their future, their current health and what the regulations are,” she said.

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A Planned Parenthood clinic sign stands along a street. Planned Parenthood was instructed to suspend all volunteer activities March 18 amid the coronavirus pandemic.

By Kyra Miller kymill@iu.edu | @kyra_ky94

IU will receive more than $60 million across seven of the university’s nine campuses, according to Department of Education documents. According to Inside Higher Education, the Department of Education plans to distribute $14 billion in federal funds to colleges and universities across the country through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act. IU-Bloomington will receive the most funding, with more than $24 million allocated to the campus. IUPurdue University Columbus and IU Fort Wayne were not listed in the Department of Education documents.

Each institution is required to reserve 50% of its funding for emergency financial aid grants for students.

All IU campuses will be required to allocate over $30 million to student aid grants, with over $12 million being allocated to students at IUBloomington.

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos suggested in a letter to college presidents that their institutions prioritize students with the greatest need and set a limit to how much funding students can receive to ensure the funds are spread to as many students as possible. DeVos asked colleges to consider using the 2019-20 academic

year’s maximum federal Pell Grant award of $6,195 as a reference.

“We are prioritizing this funding stream in order to get money in the hands of students in need as quickly as possible,” DeVos wrote in the letter.

A large part of the funding is distributed to colleges and universities based on an enrollment formula, according to the letter.

Although students are petitioning the university for partial tuition refunds due to the suspension of in-person classes, IU officials have said there are no plans to refund students for tuition.

The CARES Act allows institutions to decide how to award this funding to students, according to the letter.

Each university can develop its own system for allocating funds. The only requirement for colleges and universities is this funding must be used to cover expenses related to the disruption of campus life due to the coronavirus, including cost of attendance, food, housing, technology and health care.

“I gave my team a charge as soon as the CARES Act was signed into law: get support to those most in need as quickly as possible,” DeVos wrote in the letter. “That starts with college students whose lives have been disrupted, many of whom are facing financial challenges and struggling to make ends meet.”

Eastside Market rebrands, moves online during pandemic

By Ty Vinson vinsonjo@iu.edu | @ty_vinson_

This year, people will still have two options for where they can get fresh produce and market products in Bloomington.

The Eastside Market, located in the old parking lot of Kmart on East Third Street, has rebranded as People’s Market. Both the People’s Market and the Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market

are online.

Similar to the city market, people can order online and drive through the lot to pick up their products.

People’s Market volunteer coordinator Abby Ang said the market formally launched online April 4 to coincide with the city’s market. People can order online and pick up from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. She said they changed the name to People’s Market to show their

goals of being inclusive and welcoming.

The market was created because several people in the community disapproved of how the city handled issues of vendors with alleged ties to white supremacy selling at the market last summer, Ang said.

Ang said the People’s Market is currently using a community supported agriculture model. Instead of buying specific produce, people can buy boxes of pre-

selected items.

“It makes it sort of a surprise each week,” Ang said.

She said people can also sponsor families and buy boxes of produce for others by donating on the website or while buying food. Both the People’s Market and the Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market accept SNAP benefits.

She said the market is run by a diverse group of community members and vendors.

The market has 13 vendors and is continuing to grow.

Susan Welsand, known as the “Chile Woman,” said she’s vending at People’s Market this year instead of the city market. She said she moved because the city market updated rules to prohibit vendors from displaying any signs at their booths.

“To not be able to put up a welcome sign kind of blew my mind,” Welsand said.

Welsand said the People’s

Market differs from the city’s market because people who may be facing food insecurity can have boxes of produce and other items donated to them.

She said the market planning committee had a goal of raising 25% of how much it costs to run and operate the market to fund market infrastructure, entertainment and inclusiveness, and the market has already surpassed that goal.

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A computer with the Bloomington online farmers market is displayed on a computer screen. The Eastside Market, located in the old parking lot of Kmart on East Third Street, has rebranded as People’s Market after community members disagreed with how the city handled issues of white supremacy at the market last year and is available for online orders and pick up from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.

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Sizemore volunteered for three years at Pantry 279, a food pantry in Ellettsville, Indiana. Typically, she would spend a few days a week there, but her daughter advised her to about once a week while things were getting worse.

“I just can’t not do it,” she said. “I may have to slow down just to please her.”

Cindy Chavez, who runs the pantry and has worked with Sizemore, said their busiest days are Monday and Wednesday.

The pantry gives food to around 100 people on a typical Monday. Now it’s getting more than 300 people through the pantry on Mondays and close to 700 on Wednesdays.

The majority of people it helps are food service and retail workers who are out of work due to the pandemic.

She said most haven’t ever been to a food pantry in their lives.

She said she’s also seeing people who stopped coming years ago return to the pantry after running into more problems because of the pandemic.

“It’s such a bummer to see someone who struggled so hard to make it be right back where they were,” Chavez said.

Sizemore said her doctor told her Tuesday she can’t volunteer at the food pantry anymore until the pandemic subsides because she’s at high risk of contracting the coronavirus.

Before the pandemic, Sizemore used to see her four kids and six grandkids almost every day. FaceTime isn’t the same, but it’s better than nothing. One of her daughters and granddaughters just moved out of Sizemore’s house into their own.

She used to see them every day, but now it’s maybe once a week, if that.

“It’s hard to think that your whole life in just a split second is gone,” she said.

Tyler Combs advances to 'Jeopardy!' semifinals

By Helen Rummel hrummel@iu.edu | @HelenRummel

Tyler Combs, IU senior and political science major, will return to the “Jeopardy!”

College Championship as a semifinalist Monday at 7:30 p.m. on NBC (WTHR).

“It hasn’t quite processed yet,” Combs said in an interview with Sarah Whitcomb Foss from the Winners Circle that was published on April 10. “I’m waiting for that to set in tonight.”

Combs left the quarterfinals that aired Friday with $28,400 in winnings, a nearly $10,000 lead over his competitors. He is now one of nine semifinalists left in the championship, which will conclude April 17. The winner will receive an invitation to compete in the “Tournament of Champions.”

After winning the quarterfinals Friday night, Combs will compete alongside University of Florida sophomore Kayla Kalhor and Northwestern University freshman Beni Keown Monday. This will be the first episode of the Championship semifinals.

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Senior Tyler Combs poses with "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek. Combs will continue in the “Jeopardy!” College Championship as a semifinalist Monday at 7:30 p.m. on NBC (WTHR).

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Hamilton said in the release.

Hamilton has remained self-isolated since Johnsen’s diagnosis and will continue for the 14 days recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He said he will monitor himself for symptoms of the virus as he works from home and helps Johnsen recover.

Hamilton has been practicing social distancing and working from home since mid-March.

Two other city employees have tested positive for COVID-19 since March 28.

The first employee, a member of the Fire Department, has made a full recovery, and the second, who works in the Parks and Recreation Department, continues to improve, according to the release.

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Mayor John Hamilton and his wife Dawn Johnsen smile May 7, 2019, at the Dimension Mill. Johnsen tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, according to a press release from the City of Bloomington.

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Tulips bloom in early spring outside Sample Gates. Flowers can be seen through landscape projects on IU’s campus.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 when he was running errands near campus Wednesday, he noticed how beautiful it was.

“Everything was amaz-

ing,” he said.

He said his favorite spot on campus is near Dunn Meadow because it is so peaceful.

“It’s such a sad thing that nobody is here to take advantage of it,” Missell said.

He said the university is crafting plans to reschedule many canceled events to the fall or do them virtually.

About 135 IU School of Medicine students who requested to graduate early to help with coronavirus efforts were approved by the board. The students who volunteered will graduate April 15 and be placed with health care facilities.

Due to possible financial problems the university could face because of the coronavirus, McRobbie said the university is on a hiring freeze and a salary increase freeze. He also canceled all previously approved salary increases in the 2021 fiscal year.

The board approved an

application for IU to request an estimated $600 million to $1 billion line of credit from J.P. Morgan.

The line of credit would be a safety net for the university if there is a delay in tuition revenue in the fall. The money could be used while other budget cuts and decisions are made.

The delay in revenue could be seen if the university decides to start classes later and waits to collect tuition or reduces rates if classes remain online for the fall semester, all of which is yet to be determined. McRobbie said he has created a Restart Committee with IU health experts to determine when it is safe for students to return to campus.

The university would pay $2 million dollars for the

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credit, whether or not it is used, and would be expected to pay the money back.

The board agreed money cannot be taken from the credit without its approval and will discuss how to know when to use the money at the June meeting.

Nonessential construction projects worth $77 million have been delayed in an effort to save money as well.

The board decided to prevent a construction contract for the International Center be signed until the board meets again in June in case it need to hold off on the project to help alleviate financial problems.

The new Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design building can continue the building contract process without the board because it’s completely do-

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Other projects that will continue as normally scheduled on Bloomington’s campus include renovations to the McCalla complex , which will be a exhibition center, and the IU Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology building, both on Indiana Avenue.

The board allowed this because the $66 million for those projects is from the state and cannot be reallocated for other university budget needs that may occur due to the pandemic.

All construction projects that have started are still going as planned.

The board also approved a new master's degree in food studies at IU-Bloomington.

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PANDEMIC PLAYBOOK How UITS took IU online Story and graphics by Vivek Rao and Carson TerBush

f you watched recordings of all the IU-affiliated Zoom calls from March 9, it would take eight months of nonstop streaming.

If you watched all the calls from March 30, the first day of online class after the novel coronavirus outbreak forced IU’s classes online for the duration of the spring semester, it would take four years.

According to a Zoom press release, the number of daily meeting participants went from approximately 10 million at the end of 2019 to more than 200 million in the month of March this year as businesses and schools transitioned to working from home.

Zoom isn’t the only service that saw a surge in use after IU President Michael McRobbie announced classes would be online for the remainder of the se-

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learning technology and change assignments and teaching styles to simplify courses for students.

“It wasn’t just using the technology, but how you might go about changing the pedagogy of your course so that it’s better suited to these media,” Calarco said.

Anna Deeds, a lecturer teaching Business Presentations at the Kelley School of Business, said that while expectations will be different for virtual presentations, the fundamentals will remain the same.

Deeds said for her presentations class, she gave her students tips on how to sit in their chairs, where to look on the screen, how to position their laptops and other best practices tailored to an online pre-

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that the number of Zoom meetings increased by 726% in the same period.

Diaz said extending spring break was an important step that gave instructors more time to adjust their teaching approaches. She said she heard about one university that only gave instructors two days to prepare for remote teaching.

“I would say that overall and what I have heard from other universities, IU has done quite well,” Diaz said.

Before transitioning to online-only teaching, the only online tools Diaz’s History of Cuba and Puerto Rico used were Canvas and Google Docs.

Now, she’s added Zoom and IU Box as a back-up in case students have trouble submitting assignments through Canvas.

“I had my doubts honestly that Canvas was go-

mester — Canvas, Kaltura, IU VPN, IU servers and other systems have seen a large increase in usage in the past two weeks.

Dan Calarco, Chief of Staff for the Vice President for Information Technology, said his staff has been preparing for a situation like this since the H1N1 outbreak of 2009. That year they created a website, keepteaching.iu.edu, with resources in case of a public health emergency.

“I know there were about a dozen universities that lifted content off of keepteaching.iu.edu and gave us credit for it,” Calarco said. “I think that really shows how much commitment we’ve made to things like disaster recovery planning and business continuity planning at IU.” Calarco said the University Information Tech-

nology Services staff ran a pandemic flu exercise in 2018 where 250 staff members practiced working remotely to test the functionality of Zoom and other remote systems.

But Calarco said these preparations did not account for the extent of disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic. UITS was prepared for a scenario where students would temporarily be confined to their dorm rooms, staying on campus — connecting teachers and students working and learning across the world was never part of the plan.

To prepare for online-only classes, Calarco and his colleagues held multiple workshops with more than 2,500 instructors before and during spring break about how to use remote

sentations class.

She said the transition wasn’t particularly difficult because it was such a real world application for her class.

“We’re now experiencing in the Kelley school with the Career Services office that so many companies are using virtual interviews, instead of inperson interviews,” she said.

She encouraged her students to wear IU spiritwear for their first online class back and was featured on IU Bloomington’s Instagram page.

Arlene Diaz, associate professor in the IU Department of History, had several technical difficulties in her first week of online teaching. Her discussion class on Tuesday was “Zoombombed” when a random user named “Squid” joined the call and

started saying inappropriate things, causing her to cut the class short. She lost electricity Wednesday after a thunderstorm, leaving her without WiFi for her Thursday class.

She said her students — several of whom also lost electricity in the storm — were supportive throughout these circumstances.

“I have a wonderful group of students, and we have a community in that class,” Diaz said. “I did not want that community to be lost because we’re doing this online.”

Calarco said the UITS Support Center has seen an increase in technology questions during the online transition process. Between March 9 and March 30, the center averaged nearly four questions about Zoom every hour. He added

ing to hold up because sometimes at the end of the semester when we are turning in the final grades, it slows down,” Diaz said. “In reality, it has been working quite well.”

Despite a few teething problems during the first week of online learning, some professors said there are benefits of going through this process and rethinking teaching.

Diaz said while she does not like teaching remotely, she plans to carry some new approaches into future in-person semesters. For example, she said she improved her course by simplifying it without lowering the level of difficulty.

“Online teaching doesn’t work for everyone; face-to-face teaching doesn’t work for everyone,” Diaz said. “I would say that idea of simplifying is very important.”

Deeds said she agreed that online teaching has some advantages. She said virtual meetings are important for students to experience since they are playing a more important part in the corporate world.

Calarco said there will still be technological difficulties ahead as IU classes remain digital for the rest of spring and the entire summer semester. He said finals week will be the next big challenge, as instructors will probably shift toward higher-concept examinations instead of questions with answers that can be easily found on Google.

Calarco said he ultimately looks forward to IU classes returning to normal.

“As much as we’re able to handle working and teaching remotely, I think there’s still a lot of value in the residential education experience, and we want to get back to that,” Calarco said.

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‘I want to play for

winners’ Why Logan Duncomb chose IU

By Matt Cohen mdc1@iu.edu | @Matt_Cohen_

Logan Duncomb never took his official visit of IU. It was called off twice. His basketball games got in the way at first, and COVID-19 canceled it again. The pandemic also ended his basketball season before he had a chance to win a third straight state title.

But Duncomb had made up his mind anyway.

He received offers from all the schools he wanted. IU, Ohio State, Xavier University and Stanford University were among his favorites.

IU stood out above the rest.

“I felt comfortable making my decision. I took my time with the decision, I wasn’t rash or quick,” Duncomb said. “I knew everything about all the schools.”

So on Monday, Duncomb and his father called Carl Kremer, his head coach at Archbishop Moeller High School in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Kremer wanted to make sure Duncomb had thought it all through because it was early in his process. He’s still a junior and not even 17 years old yet.

“Everything in our country is a little strange. I knew that recruiting wears on guys and guys always get called all the time by these coaches,” Kremer said. “I just wanted to assure him to make sure you had done the process the way you want to do it. Don’t end it short.”

He asked Duncomb if he had thought everything through. He didn’t want him to end his recruitment too

early because there was no risk if Duncomb held off his commitment for longer.

“Look, some guys get pressured into decisions because they very well may lose a spot,” Kremer told Duncomb. “A 6’9” rising senior like you, you’re not going to lose your spot. You take all the time you need.”

But Duncomb knew IU was where he wanted to go to school. By the end of the phone call, Kremer was convinced Duncomb was ready.

“He just said make sure you’re sure,” Duncomb said. “Make sure this is really where you want to go to school. After telling me stuff he thought I should think about, I told him I’d thought about all of that and I know it’s where I want to go to school.”

Duncomb was completely sure.

When Kremer first met Duncomb, he had just moved to the Cincinnati area from Chicago. He was playing at a camp, and Kremer noticed him quickly.

He wanted him to play high school basketball for him at Moeller, but he didn’t fully know then the extent of the player he was getting.

“He’s a big kid, and you saw that potential,” Kremer said. “But if someone would have told me at that moment that that kid’s going to end up playing at Indiana someday, I wouldn’t have thought that, but by his sophomore year at Moeller I knew he was destined to be a big-time player.”

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Logan Duncomb poses for a photo inside Assembly Hall. Duncomb announced Tuesday on Twitter that he has committed to play basketball at IU.

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ALWAYS WRITE

COVID-19 stole my last semester of college Christian Sayers (he/him) is a senior in mathematics and economics.

I woke up today around 8:30 a.m., even though I don’t really need to. It’s not like I have anywhere to go because of Indiana’s stayat-home order. But I try to keep a routine despite all the changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

I work out in my bedroom at 9:30 a.m., lifting bags filled with books instead of barbells. The campus gyms closed weeks ago.

I go for a quick run around 11 a.m., jogging down Woodlawn Avenue and past the Indiana Memorial Union. I don’t think I’ve ever seen campus so empty.

I shower and eat breakfast, and then I log onto Zoom and wait for my professor to start sharing his screen. Learning

probability theory and participating in class discussions over the Internet is not my favorite learning experience, but I make do.

This is not how my senior year was supposed to end.

For me, and for millions of college seniors around the country, this was supposed to be our victory lap. One final opportunity to interact with our professors, cement our legacy on campus and participate in the dumb college activities that lead to lifelong memories.

This was also supposed to be one last chance to say goodbye. I wanted to say goodbye to the institution that has welcomed me these past four years, the faculty that have guided and encouraged me and the friends who are moving across the country after graduation.

In some sense, I am lucky.

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An empty path is pictured April 8 by the Frances Morgan Swain Student Building.

This pandemic has brought sickness and death to thousands of people and their families around the world. It is a privilege to have the severity of the crisis made evident by the alteration of my spring semester rather than the illness of a loved one.

But I do not feel lucky.

I feel a sense of loss and mourning for what my fellow seniors and I will no longer be able to experience.

I am mourning for our last classes on campus and freshman year reunions. I want $2 Tuesdays, Little 500 and commencement among the May blossoms.

What really stings is that years of hard work will not bring the ending that so many students deserve.

The students graduating this spring have earned the right to call themselves IU alumni, and that will happen next month regardless of canceled plans. But receiving our degrees is not the same as celebrating our commencement.

We deserve to cross that stage — the finish line to our college careers. Our years of hard work merit one final celebration in front of friends and family. This May I would have been the first grandchild my Papa and Nana got to see graduate college.

So many others would have their own special reason for cherishing those memories.

Now all we can do is wait and hope the postponed graduation ceremony is not can-

celed entirely.

If it sounds like I’m complaining a lot, that’s because I am. Seniors have been shorted the last few months of our college experience, and that loss is tough to swallow.

So to my fellow members of IU’s “Bicentennial Class,” complain. Grieve. Tweet about how unfair it all feels.

Do whatever you need to in order to process this moment.

In the meantime, make the best of this situation.

Host a Zoom $2 Tuesday or start making plans for the next Little 500. We were robbed of our memories — let’s make new ones instead.

And to everyone else, please be understanding.

We feel we’ve lost an essential part of our college experience, and this loss will take time to process.

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IAN’S INSIGHTS

We should balance despair with gratitude in the time of COVID-19 Ian Nowlin (he/him) is a sophomore in law and public policy.

Historic job losses, forced isolation and deaths caused

by COVID-19 have understandably stirred a great deal of anxiety in many Americans. The Kaiser Family Foundation, a California-based health care nonprofit, released a survey last week reporting that 45% of American adults say the pandemic has

affected their mental health with 19% saying it has had a major effect.

When staying at home every day, it’s easy to fixate on all the bad things happening in the world.

In times like these, it’s important to remember to balance despair and gratitude.

We should not shy away from expressing our frustration with all that is going wrong.

However, for those like myself whose lives have not been up-

ended by tragedy from having a loved one infected with COVID-19, this pandemic is also a reminder that there is a lot to be grateful for.

To better practice gratitude we must practice mindfulness.

This is the ability to accept painful thoughts and feelings in a balanced way. In these uncertain times, this balance can be achieved by learning to block out panic and live in the present by thinking about what we do have.

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Meditation can help manage anxiety, depression and addiction, as well as cultivate powerful positive traits, according to psychologist David Zuniga. The practice can be especially helpful as people deal with the coronavirus pandemic.

We should be grateful for modern technology that allows us to maintain relationships and modern medicine that increases the effectiveness of medical care. And those of us with more time during quarantine should be grateful for the chance to reflect on our lives.

There is no shortage of things IU students have to be disappointed and stressed about: ruined summer plans, final college semesters cut short and half of a semester’s worth of coursework to finish virtually with still no pass/fail grading option.

But we have to remind ourselves of what is still right in our lives.

Psychotherapist Beverly Engel wrote in Psychology Today that COVID-19 fears can cause us to panic, obsess and fall into negative habits. She advocates for practicing mindfulness using a relaxation technique called grounding, which involves focusing attention on nearby physical stimuli.

The goal of grounding is to shift one’s attention away from negative feelings toward the external world. After completing grounding exercises most people report that they feel more present and in con-

trol of their lives, Engel wrote.

A sense of gratitude toward even the smallest things can help prevent negative spirals and contribute to living a more present life.

I have to remind myself to practice mindfulness and to focus on the things that are within my control. I try to regulate my intake of the usually disheartening COVID-19 news coverage and try to stay physically active. I also find it helpful to stay connected with friends and family over Zoom video calls. Instead of endlessly worrying about my grandparents, who are in their 80s and live in New York, the main epicenter of COVID-19 in the U.S., I call them as often as I can.

We cannot take the luxuries of modern technology for granted. The Americans who experienced the 1918 influenza pandemic had nowhere near the same ability to stay connected as we do today.

Although COVID-19 has challenged the capabilities of modern medicine, we are still better equipped to minimize a pandemic’s toll on human life than at any other time in history. The effectiveness of medical care for respiratory diseases has improved greatly since 1918. The invention of

the first mechanical ventilator in 1928 made it possible to develop modern ventilators for COVID-19 patients.

However, this level of care still comes at too high of a cost for millions of uninsured Americans. As the medical bills for the hospitalization of a COVID-19 patient could cost uninsured Americans up to $75,000, according to a recent analysis by the independent nonprofit FAIR Health.

As with any experience that bluntly reminds us of our own mortality, it’s good to have time to pause for reflection on the importance of your current personal relationships. It also gives us time to appreciate the little things, such as walking your dog, that add to the splendor of life.

Gratitude should be coupled with hope. But hope in the face of this challenge is difficult to have. The Trump administration warned Monday that coronavirus outbreaks in some parts of the country will continue to get worse.

Hopefully, we can get through this pandemic easier if we remember to always stay grounded in the present and have more gratitude for the little things. ianowlin@iu.edu

THE BRYCE IS RIGHT

The end of Sanders’ campaign shows the power of America’s ruling class Bryce Greene (he/him) is a senior in informatics.

To anyone concerned about the growing influence of corporations on our government, the hollowing out of the middle class and a Democratic Party elite that primarily serves those with large bank accounts, the end of Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid Wednesday is a depressing moment in history.

When I first heard the name Bernie Sanders in 2015, I was a mildly political, Obama-loving Democrat who had little conception of the forces of wealth and power that control the country. I was locked in to the Democratic orthodoxy and scoffed at ideas such as free college and “Medicare for All.” Like many others, my conception of what was necessary or even possible was exceedingly narrow.

I voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in the 2016 Democratic primary, but it was only later that I began to understand the real problems facing America and how important the Sanders campaign was to the American political environment. By the time I saw him speak at Dunn Meadow in 2018, I was fully on board with his message.

Like many young Democrats, I’m disappointed to see Sanders drop out. Few on the left seriously thought that the Democratic establishment would refrain from doing everything it could to stop a

populist challenger. That being said, the announcement has only increased my cynicism about a party that could potentially be irredeemably devoted to the very wealthy.

It is a testament to the failure of the Democratic elite that Sanders’ exit was precipitated by former candidates who had claimed to be progressive, closing ranks around former Vice President Joe Biden. In the days before Super Tuesday, former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and others consolidated their support for a relic who embodies the corruption in the Democratic Party.

Biden’s political career was funded by some of the most powerful bankers in the country. He has pledged to stand in the way of key progressive legislation such as Medicare for All. And he claimed to have “no empathy” for the young people who complain about the economy he helped destroy.

Sanders’ campaign was also up against hostility from profit-driven news media.

As Sanders railed against the oligarchs who run our country, many of them owned large news networks or spent millions in advertisements.

Many of the popular news commentators regularly used dismissive or disparaging language to describe the Sanders campaign. One example was when MSNBC veteran Chris Mathews compared a Sanders victory to the fall of France to

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The crowd applauds as then-presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a rally at the University of Michigan main quadrangle on March 8 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Sanders dropped out of the presidential race Wednesday.

Nazi Germany.

In America, elections are not decided by the solutions candidates offer to the issues of our time. They are pageants, contests of personality held in a way that is inoffensive and subservient to the dominant power structures in our society. Candidates are judged on how they speak, look and act. The substance of their policies is overshadowed in the mainstream discourse by horse-race politics.

In his 2019 book “Hate Inc.,” journalist Matt Taibbi described the main function of our modern news media

to simply cast blame on either the Democrats or the Republicans. Systemic problems that were created on a bipartisan basis are rarely if ever discussed. Sanders, whose critiques of America levied blame on both of the corporate parties, was virtually incomprehensible to the millionaire cast of cable news pundits.

Few if any candidates for the presidency regularly referenced the disgusting fact that half a million Americans are homeless. Before Sanders, few politicians had the courage to stand up to the health insur-

ance and pharmaceutical industry by throwing their full weight behind a fully funded comprehensive national health care system.

His structural critique of the American system was embodied in his integrity to his ideals. Sanders refused to accept support from political action committees, a commitment held not even by fellow populist Elizabeth Warren.

His small-donation-centric strategy will shape the contours of electoral politics for the foreseeable future.

Though things seem dark for the American progres-

sive movement, it is undeniable that Sanders’ legacy will endure. Sanders was overwhelmingly supported by the young people in the country across all demographics. As the dinosaurs die out, there is little doubt that future generations will continue to be more progressive. Unfortunately, however, it seems that America’s addiction to corporate money will push it closer to oligarchy. There is every reason to believe things will get better, but before then, things will definitely get worse. greenebj@iu.edu

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IU Athletics to rebroadcast classic sporting events

By Sam Bodnar sbodnar@iu.edu | @sgbod13

IU Athletics is re-airing IU men’s basketball games and will later add football and women’s basketball in its new “Hoosier Classic” series.

With COVID-19 canceling sports for the remainder of the semester, IU Athletics is bringing sports back to the community.

Hoosier basketball games from the Steve Alford and Calbert Cheaney eras were uploaded Thursday on the IU Hoosiers All Access Facebook page.

Over the coming weeks, IU athletics will replay some of the most memorable IU football and women’s basketball games in the programs’ histories.

All broadcasts air at 7 p.m. every day and will not include commercials or halftime breaks. Viewers can watch the games using Facebook’s Watch Party feature, which allows them to leave comments and interact with other spectators throughout the broadcast.

Thursday’s broadcast featured IU’s 80-63 victory against the undefeated University of Florida on Dec. 30,

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had to focus their game plan around by his sophomore year. His team went 29-0 and won the state title. He’s now 6-feet-9-inches tall with a 7-foot-4-inch wingspan, size that has made him appealing to high major coaches.

What separates Dun-

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Former IU basketball coach Bob Knight watches his team practice in 1992 during the NCAA West Regional in Albuquerque, New Mexico. IU athletics is re-airing IU men’s basketball games and will later add football and women’s basketball in its new “Hoosier Classic” series on the IU Hoosiers All Access Facebook page.

1984.

The guard duo of Alford and Dan Dakich led the

floor with Alford scoring 27 and Dakich putting up 23.

IU Athletics will rebroad-

cast the 1987 matchup between IU and Michigan State on Monday.

Scheduling announcements will come at a later date on IUHoosiers.com

and the social media accounts of the respective programs.

comb in the eyes of both Kremer and Mark Adams — who coaches Duncomb with Indiana Elite — is the intensity and energy he plays with.

“The kid never got tired,” Kremer said. “He went after every single rebound. And yet in the whole time I have seen him at Moeller since freshman, you really see him get better every week.

Part of that is just because is his work ethic. He goes at it every day. Never takes a rep off in practice, never looks to take a rep off.”

Adams said Duncomb plays with a very high motor — playing with higher intensity and effort than most for every second of the game — something he rarely sees in players of Duncomb’s size.

He said that while most players want to go outside the arc and shoot 3-pointers, Duncomb is relentless going for rebounds. He said Duncomb would go through a wall to get the ball.

Both Adams and Kremer said there is no specific trait about Duncomb’s game that makes him a major prospect, but instead the culmination

of his whole skill set. He’ll wear opponents down with his energy on the boards and his intensity. Adams said intensity makes him a good fit for IU head coach Archie Miller. And Adams said he thinks Duncomb will play right away.

“I think it’s going to be hard for him to not play right away,” Adams said. “If he’s

not playing right away, they got somebody awfully good in front of him.”

Duncomb too sees himself as a good fit with Miller.

He said he thinks they’ll get along right away, largely because they have one key thing in common.

“He’s a winner and I’m a winner,” Duncomb said. “And I want to play for winners.”

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John Mellencamp plays digital concert March 11

By Helen Rummel hrummel@iu.edu | HelenRummel

“At Home with Farm Aid,” a performance from the nonprofit concert series Farm Aid, aired at 8 p.m. Saturday on AXS TV and on its website.

The digital concert featured John Mellencamp — who lives outside of Bloomington on Lake Monroe — Neil Young, Dave Matthews, Willie Nelson and Nelson’s two sons, Lukas and Micah.

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John Mellencamp performs March 29, 2019, at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Florida.

Mellencamp will be one of four people performing at 8 p.m.

Saturday during the “At Home with Farm Aid” broadcast.

The hourlong event showed the groups from their homes and studios.

Farm Aid began in 1985 after Nelson, Young and Mellencamp collaborated to raise awareness for struggling family farms.

Since then, Matthews has joined its Board of Directors, and the group has extended its support to urban communities.

Viewers were encouraged to donate to assist farmers with emergency grants and emotional resources during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The nonprofit is coordinating a 1-800-FARM-AID hotline that farmers may turn to for legal, financial and mental health support.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Ryan D. Tschetter, D.D.S. 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.

Dr. Mary Ann Bough Office Manager: Melinda Caruso Chiropractic Assistants: Jennifer Wilson, Shaphir Gee Stephanie Gregory

precisioneye.com Bloomington: Mon. - Fri.: 7:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Sat.: 9 a.m. - noon

Oral/Dental Care

Chiropractic

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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