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BY NATALIE FEDOR Summer Reporter

The local Catholic priest who earned national attention for driv-ing a golf cart around campus last year will leave St. Thomas Aquinas after 13 years.

“There comes a time, sadly, when (his superiors) say, ‘Now it’s time to move on,’” the Rev. Patrick Baikaus-kas said. “As a religious order priest, we have a very important vow: obe-dience.”

When he was first becoming a priest, his spiritual director told him the hardest vow he would take would not be the vow of chastity, as he presumed, but the vow of obedi-ence, because there will come a time when he won’t want to leave but will have to.

“This was over 20 years ago, and he said, ‘You’re going to be assigned someplace and you’re going to fall in love with it, and you’re gonna like the people and you’re gonna like the challenges and the ministry and then your superior’s gonna call you up and say, “Patrick, it’s time to move on,” and you’re not going to want to go,’” Baikauskas said.

Baikauskas said that is exactly what happened. He will officially

leave on June 30 and will deliver a farewell statement at his last Mass the preceding weekend.

He actually didn’t want to come here in the first place. But now he said he can’t imagine having been anywhere else.

Baikauskas, originally from Chi-cago, had hoped to be assigned to Denver.

His relationship with the city of Denver was complicated, he re-members. He used to go to meetings

there back when he was involved in political work, long before he became a priest, and he originally hated it. But he said that in the first year of his religious life in 2000, which he spent in Denver, his opin-ion of that city changed.

“In the 20 years since I had been there, it’d been totally transformed. It was really vibrant. And our church was in a very dynamic neigh-borhood. There were a lot of young people, and it’s close to downtown

Denver,” Baikauskas said.“So it was nothing that I found

unappealing to West Lafayette. Denver had just seemed more ap-pealing,” Baikauskas said. Yet “I could have never imagined to have such a wonderful experience here.”

When he was a senior in high school, he had only considered two schools: the one he attended, Bradley University, and Purdue. He thinks it’s funny he ended up at Pur-due eventually.

“It was all set that I was going to another campus ministry site in the Midwest, and then the pandemic happened and they put a hold on everything,” he said, in an interview May 28. “So as of this moment — and my parishioners I don’t think believe me, they think I’m keeping it a secret, that I really know, but I just don’t want to tell them — I have no idea where I’m going to be” on July 1.

As of Wednesday morning, Bai-kauskas declined to identify where he is going, but he does know now where he will be placed in a few weeks.

Baikauskas said he was a bartend-er when he was in graduate school.

‘I’m going to trust in God’s providence’

St. Tom’s priest to move on after 13 years

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ADRIAN GAETA | SUMMER REPORTERThe Rev. Patrick Baikauskas laughs, recalling some of the fond memories he’s made while at St. Tom’s, just off Purdue’s campus.

BY JORDAN SMITHSummer Reporter

More than 150 African American students carried red bricks in brown bags to the steps of Hovde Hall. One by one, they piled the bricks beneath a poster that read, “...Or The Fire Next Time,” a slogan of the civil rights era that underscores the catastrophic conse-quences of complacency.

That was 1968. Students’ nine demands, among them the development of an African American studies program and Black Cul-tural Center at the University, initially fell on deaf ears. Only did follow-up protests effect change.

Today, as protests sparked by police bru-tality roil the nation and activists demand re-form, Purdue’s own history provides a reso-

nant example of the power of taking to city streets.

Former professor of political science Harry Targ, who retired in 2019 and began his ten-ure in 1967, remembers “scurrying around trying to figure out how to help” on campus after a 1969 protest at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse.

He was here in 2014 amid nationwide Fer-guson protests and also marched in the May 31 protest in downtown Lafayette, which drew thousands of people who mourned the death of George Floyd and other African Americans killed by police in recent years.

“There’s this powerful sense of despera-tion, and I would guess particularly among young people, who live day to day under cir-cumstances where they have to be fearful of police violence,” Targ said, “where their eco-nomic futures are really problematic and this event was just a spark, George Floyd’s killing. The spark that set off these explosions around the country.”

The 1969 protest was spurred by student-athlete Eric McKaskill’s decision, along with two other black men, to sport a mustache, which ran contrary to the clean-shaven guide-lines that governed the track team.

“We decided if we wanted to wear a mus-tache, we could,” McKaskill said in the 2009 documentary “Black Purdue.” “Because from our culture, that was just a statement.”

The documentary recounts how, after McK-askill admits to a false bomb threat borne of frustration with his track coach who refused to let him or the two other men travel with the team, he was arrested by state police for disorderly conduct.

When the team returned to campus, about 100 students joined athletes in marching to the courthouse from Purdue Memorial Union to protest his criminal case. It was thrown out for lack of evidence, McKaskill says in the documentary, eliciting a chorus of euphoric cheers from protesters in the courtroom.

But McKaskill wasn’t done protesting. The list of demands lodged in 1968 had gone largely unaddressed by Purdue administra-tors, besides the hiring of the University’s first African American professor.

Only one African American history course was offered, taught by a white professor. Black students remained “conspicuously absent” from student organizations, Expo-

History of protests at Purdue

shows ‘another world is possible’

Professor who witnessed 1969, 2020 protests draws comparisons

ADRIAN GAETA | SUMMER REPORTERVanessa Pacheco stands in front of city hall before her meeting with Lafayette Mayor Tony Roswarski on Tuesday. She says she and three others hope to discuss, among other things, the city’s police department’s use-of-force policies.

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Read about activists’ recent meeting about police reform with Lafayette Mayor Tony Roswarski.

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STAFF REPORTS

Morgan J. Burke, who served as vice president and director of inter-collegiate athletics at Purdue from 1993 to 2016, died Monday at his home in West Lafayette after a year-long battle with amyloidosis. He was 68, according to a Purdue News press release.

Since retiring as athletics director, Burke was a University vice presi-dent for special projects, most nota-bly working on the launch and devel-opment of Purdue University Global, the release states.

“Morgan left an indelible mark on Purdue Athletics, and thousands of student-athletes benefited from his faithful leadership,” Purdue President Mitch Daniels said in the release. “He was the ultimate com-petitor, and his passion for the Boil-ermakers was second to none. He continued to serve the university the last four years, doing everything he could to strengthen our mission. Our deepest condolences to Kate, Joyce, Morgan Jr. and Pat.”

Burke’s tenure as athletics director ranks as the longest in school history, during which he became one of the foremost leaders in intercollegiate athletics, according to the release.

When Burke succeeded former director George King, he pledged to build on the foundation already in place. Working with coaches and staff, he set aggressive goals. The de-partment’s mission outlined its plans for “Developing Champions, Devel-oping Scholars, Developing Citizens.”

On the athletics side, Burke im-proved the position of Purdue teams in the Big Ten and nationally. In 2009-10, 14 teams finished in the upper half of the Big Ten, the highest number during Burke’s time at Purdue. On the national scene, 14 squads earned NCAA postseason opportunities in 2011-12, the most in school history.

Two teams won NCAA champion-ships, women’s basketball in 1999 and women’s golf in 2010, and eight student-athletes captured a combined 14 individual national crowns. The football team embarked on a run of 10 bowl games in 12 years from 1997 to 2008, and the men’s basketball team won a string of Big Ten champion-ships in 1994, 1995 and 1996.

In total, Burke oversaw 20 regular-season conference championships and 13 tournament titles.

During his tenure, the release states, student-athletes regularly performed equal to or better than the overall student body. The cumulative GPA for all Purdue student-athletes was above 3.0 for 15 consecutive se-mesters when Burke retired.

Recognizing the need for modern athletic facilities, Burke and his staff identified and addressed construc-tion and renovation projects ben-efiting every program, making an investment of more than a quarter of a billion dollars.

His tenure saw major makeovers to Ross-Ade Stadium, Mackey Arena, Holloway Gymnasium and the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex, as well as the building of Alexander Field, Bit-tinger Stadium, Folk Field, Schwartz

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Burke dies

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“When we had the last call I would yell out and say, ‘You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here,’” he said, not-ing the similarity to his “last call” at St. Tom’s.

“I’m going to trust in God’s providence that it’ll all work out. I have to keep saying that to myself, because I’m still anxious about it, you know?” Baikauskas said. “But I do trust God. And I know he’s with me and has been with me through all kinds of challenges and difficulties.”

But then the priest shifted his focus to a more important worry.

“I think as of today, there’s 40 million people that are un-employed in this country. I’m not facing that kind of situa-tion,” he said. “I mean, when I say I don’t know where I’m go-ing to be (July 1) that doesn’t mean I’m going to be out on the street or without any support.

“What 40 million people are facing in this country right now is real anxiousness and concern. What I’m facing, I hate to even bring it up be-cause I don’t have a right to have any sort of anxiousness at all because I will be taken care of,” Baikauskas said.

“Those are the people we should be praying for. People want to pray for me, but there are so many other people to pray for besides me right now.”

Looking backBaikauskas recalled looking

through old journals he kept, in which he had documented his journey through priest-hood. He recently found an entry he wrote about his first year here.

He had written that the church needed to expand its efforts for the parishioners at the church. Now, he said, it is gratifying to see how those ef-forts succeeded.

“When I came here we had just over 300 families that were part of the parish. Now we have 1,100. When I came here we had around 600 stu-dents actively involved in the parish. Now we have a little over 3,000,” he said.

“He had to really work to balance serving both popula-tions and doing it in a way that you know neither one of them felt isolated or not heard,” said Zenephia Evans, the associate dean of students and parish-ioner of St. Tom’s. “Students have been a priority for him, and for a campus parish that should be the focus.”

“The people have respond-ed in extraordinary ways, and that’s been pretty energizing,” Baikauskas said. “We have been doing all that we can to connect people, to the church, to each other, and to the faith.”

The priest dislikes the use of the term “social distancing.” He feels it is inaccurate.

“There’s nothing socially distant about anything that

we’re doing. We’re physically distancing from one another. We are not socially distancing from one another,” he said. He feels as if he has been busy keeping in close contact with people throughout the pan-demic.

Near the beginning of the pandemic, he even persuaded members of the church to send in photos of themselves to place along the pews, as if they were in Mass.

Evans said it was the “little things” like this that Baikaus-kas did that has left his im-pression on the church.

Evans also described “name-tag Sundays,” where the last Sunday of the month everyone would wear a name tag so they could learn peo-ple’s names without having to feel embarrassed about not knowing it before. She said it helped her get closer to other members.

Baikauskas and the other staff members have taken the time to call each of the parish’s 6,000 members, because he felt that was a more personal way to connect during a physi-cally divisive time.

Connecting with students

The priest said that at the beginning of his time at St. Thomas, he struggled a little to get students actively in-volved. He said he, as a priest, was probably not the most in-fluential person in students’ lives; other students made the most difference.

“When we started to engage the students and form student leaders, they’re the ones that have been the driving force. And so the more students that we can get to be out there to be the leav-en, then that’s when we’re going to be successful,” he said.

“I don’t have personal knowledge of what the parish was like before he got there; I’ve just heard stories. But everything that we have with regards to basically our entire student ministry was built by him,” William Feeks, presi-dent of Purdue Catholics, said of Baikauskas.

Feeks said the priest built most of the Boiler Catholic program.

Despite Baikauskas leaving, he thinks the good relation-ship with the student body will continue.

“(Students) became invested in this mission that we have to bring the good news to other people. And so that’s something that’s not going to go away be-cause I’m leaving,” he said. “That’s now foundational.”

But that doesn’t mean it won’t be a difficult transition.

“For some students having that physical distancing, and then coming back to change

— because they’re going to be a lot of changes — I can’t even begin to imagine for those that were connected to him as a person,” Evans said.

Baikauskas attributes a lot of the success of the church back to a great relationship it has with Purdue and with Presi-dent Mitch Daniels. He said it allows the church to better connect to young people, even before they get to Purdue, since they are able to get the names of incoming students who are Catholic and send them letters inviting them to church.

Baikauskas remembered defending college students to someone his age who doubted that kids are involved in the church these days.

“You need to come across the river and come to Pur-due and meet some of these people that you’re complain-ing about, because that’s not my experience at all,” he said. “They care, they’re engaged, they’re aware.”

He said he hears some talk these days from other priests about how people are just drifting away from religion.

“We say stop looking at all the things you can’t do and look at the things that you can do, because there’s a lot of things that we can do, a lot of ways that we can en-gage them,” he said. “There’s over 1,000 different student organizations on campus, so we better be on our game, or they’re going to drift off to something else.”

The story that went viral about his “golf cart confes-sions” came to life in that backdrop. He ultimately re-ceived praise from around the world for that idea, even hearing from priests in Berlin who wanted to try it there. But what he didn’t expect was the outreach he could make from his golf cart to students who weren’t Catholic.

“This is what I never imag-

ined, that non-Catholics would come up to me and say, ‘Father, can I talk to you?’ not for me to hear their confes-sion, just to talk,” he said.

They often had serious things they needed to talk about, and it was very emo-tional for him as well.

“He told me that a lot of peo-ple would stop him and even if they didn’t make a confes-sion, they would be like, ‘Oh, I didn’t know that there was a Catholic Church on campus, I’m Catholic and I didn’t know that,’” Feeks said, noting how the golf cart brought aware-ness to those on campus.

“I think it was a huge suc-cess. I’m not going to be able to see the fruits of it bear, but it will,” Baikauskas said.

Feeks said that in a way, the priest changed his perspec-tive on priests in general. He said that before, he had never sought a personal relationship with any parish, but something about this priest opened his eyes to the fact priests can be regular people, too, just with a desire to serve the church.

“The first Mass that I ever attended at St. Thomas, I had to sit in the front row with my brother because we were late. And I didn’t meet Father Pat-rick that Sunday, but it was

probably several weeks later I went up and I introduced my-self to him, and it really stuck out to me that he recognized me as the guy that sat in the front row that one week,” Feeks said.

Feeks connected with him on a more personal level af-ter becoming the president of Purdue Catholics.

“What’s pretty cool about my position is that I get to basical-ly become part of the staff, and sometimes I’m involved in the staff meetings that they have. Because wherever the parish goes is going to affect the stu-dent population, right. So I’ve gotten to be involved in a lot of the conversations about where we’re going and what we’re do-ing,” Feeks said.

Feeks said he is sad to see Baikauskas go, but he looks forward to working with the new pastor and will continue to be active in the church.

Baikauskas will return the last weekend of August for a final goodbye celebration they had hoped to do at the end of June before the pandemic en-sued.

“I love it here, I love the people here,” Baikauskas said. “Most importantly, I love St. Tom’s and the ministry here and the people I’ve gotten to serve.”

BAIKAUSKASContinued from Page 1

JACKIE LE | CAMPUS EDITORThe Rev. Patrick Baikauskas cruises campus on a golf cart offering to hear confessions in September 2019.

Tennis Center and the Boiler-maker Aquatic Center, which was renamed in his honor in May 2017.

A 1973 Purdue graduate in industrial management and captain of the swimming team his senior year, Burke was a member of Phi Beta Kap-pa scholastic honorary. He earned a master’s degree in in-dustrial relations from Purdue in 1975 and a law degree from John Marshall Law School in Chicago in 1980.

Burke pursued a success-ful career with Inland Steel Co. after law school, moving through 13 positions in an 18-year span. He was vice presi-dent when he left to return to Purdue.

Burke is survived by his wife, Kate; three children, Joyce, Morgan Jr. and Patrick; and three grandchildren, Kate, Andrew and Parker June.

Messages of condolences from current and former Pur-due staff and alumni have flooded Twitter in the days following Burke’s death. Pur-due football head coach Jeff

Brohm tweeted “Our thoughts and prayers go out today to the family of Morgan Burke. Morgan was a Boilermaker to his core, as he devoted much of his life to the growth and development of Purdue ath-letics.”

Purdue alumni and former coaches such as Carolyn Peck, ESPN analyst and former Pur-due women’s basketball head coach, and Brandon King, a Purdue alumnus and current linebacker for the New Eng-land Patriots, have also ad-dressed his passing.

“I cannot find the words.

My thoughts and prayers go out the Burke family and Boil-ermaker Community. Mor-gan had the courage to take a chance on a 32-year-old young assistant. We won together, he never forgot us and we will not forget him,” Peck said in a tweet on Tuesday.

Athletic directors and coaches from other universi-ties, including Jamie Polland, athletic director for Iowa State, and Tom Crean, former IU men’s basketball coach who now coaches for the Georgia Bulldogs, also reminisced on their experiences with Burke, expressing their sorrow at his passing.

“Saddened to learn of the

passing of Morgan Burke, longtime AD at Purdue,” Pol-land tweeted on Tuesday. Morgan took me under his wing early in my career and

was always willing to share, advise and be a friend. Also was an officer in the IA Athlet-ics Directors Association with him. He will be missed.”

EXPONENT FILE PHOTOFormer Purdue Athletic Director Morgan J. Burke poses at his desk in his office in April 2017.

BURKEContinued from Page 1

EXPONENT FILE PHOTONear the end of his first Mass as a priest, the Rev. Patrick Bai-kauskas is congratulated at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in June 2008.

St. Tom’s Cassian also receives new assignment

STAFF REPORTS

The Rev. Cassian Sama, priest of St. Thomas Aqui-nas, is saying farewell after six years.

He will leave on June 23, and he begins his new job as hospital chaplain at the University of Minnesota Medical Center on July 1.

Sama said he is sad to be leaving the people he has grown to know and love here but is also excited for a “different adventure.”

He will miss the students and parishioners he has gotten to know, but, he said, “That’s the life we lead. We are itinerant preachers.”

Sama said his new posi-tion will be more of a “sac-rament of healing.”

“My congregation will be those who are sick, also ministering to the staff, nurses and doctors, giving them spiritual support and moral support,” Sama said.

He has written a formal

letter to the parishioners and plans to write a second one before he leaves.

“I’m going to miss (stu-dents and parishioners) greatly,” Sama said, “and I hope they will appreciate and enjoy the new team.”

Sama, originally from Kumba, Cameroon, came to St. Tom’s after his first assignment as a priest at St. Paul Newman Center at Indiana University. He took his religious vows back in 2005, and was ordained in 2011, according to the St. Tom’s website.

PHOTO PROVIDEDRev. Cassian Sama

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BY NATALIE FEDORSummer Reporter

The process of getting test-ed for COVID-19 in Indiana is now a moderately simple one. In fact, I did it during my lunch break Wednesday.

Indiana made the move to partner with federal health services business Optum-Serve, which provides CO-VID-19 testing in certain states. Hoosiers can either go through the Indiana State De-partment of Health website to secure a testing time, or find an independent testing center like CVS.

My first step to getting test-ed was figuring out where my closest testing site was. The Lafayette CVS near Sagamore Parkway is one of the local options. That’s where I got tested Wednesday morning, but one of my coworkers went through the state’s website to be tested at an Optum loca-tion, a church in Lafayette, on Tuesday. She registered for an appointment in the afternoon and was tested at 7:30 p.m. that day.

My co-worker, Alex We-liever, had to take a survey that asked whether she had experienced any symptoms or interacted with a person who had tested positive for CO-VID-19 in the past. Though she hadn’t, she was allowed to sign up for an appointment later that day.

I took a similar brief survey to set up my appointment, and qualified for an appointment because of a small cough I had

been experiencing recently. The survey asks things such as what symptoms you have, if any, and if you are in a higher risk category, like being asth-matic or having a compro-mised immune system. Upon completion of the online quiz, the CVS survey will tell you whether or not you qualify for free testing.

If you do qualify, you can proceed to make the appoint-ment, and in my case, I could schedule testing in just 30 minutes after I took the online assessment. Once you choose an appointment time you fill out all your personal informa-tion including your medical insurance and car information for the drive-thru testing site. My coworker checked into a testing center at a Lafayette church, and had to walk into the building to be tested.

About 10 minutes after completing the online sign-up process and getting a con-firmation email, I received a phone call from an associate at CVS who proceeded to dou-ble check all my information to ensure an efficient testing appointment when I arrived.

CVS also sent me a link right away to set up the online por-tal through MyChart, where I would be able to receive my test results in two to four days.

To my surprise, when I ar-rived for my testing, I was the only one there. There was no line, and I was able to pull right up to the window at 11 a.m.

I arrived, gave them my personal information again to

confirm my identity and was handed two bags. One of them was a plastic bag containing a nose swab and a vial, along with instructions on how to use it. The other one, a brown paper bag, had information summarizing the appointment and where to find my test re-sults later.

The nurse inside of the CVS drive-thru instructed me when to take off my mask, open the bag with the swab and the vial. She told me to go ahead and take out the nose swab. The nurse guided me through sticking the swab as far as I could before feeling resistance in my nose, where I then had to swirl the swab around and hold it there for 15 seconds and repeat on the other side.

The process wasn’t painful, and for me it only made me sneeze a couple times. After I swabbed my nose, she in-structed me to open the vial in the plastic bag, which con-tained a liquid that I put the swab into. I sealed it.

She told me I could seal all the contents of the plastic bag up, and pull my car a few feet forward to drop the whole bag into a special drop-box. In the

brown paper bag there was a cleaning wipe to clean off any-thing I had touched outside of my car.

My sample was then off to get tested, and I was all done. The whole process from ar-rival to completion was a mere five minutes, and I’m sup-posed to find out my results in just a few days on the MyChart app.

For my co-worker, the test-ing process itself was only a little bit different. She had to enter a the testing site wearing a mask, and check in with per-sonnel behind a plastic sheet. She didn’t see anyone else getting tested Tuesday night, though the woman who tested her mentioned that the day had been fairly busy, and my coworker was the 116th person to be tested that day.

The testing at the church also involved a nasal swab, which my co-worker agreed wasn’t painful so much as a little uncomfortable. My co-worker was given a paper vali-dating the fact that she had been tested, was instructed to visit the Optum website to receive her results in two to three days and was sent on her way.

We got tested for the coronavirusHere’s how it went down

JULIA TAYLOR | SUMMER REPORTERExponent summer reporter Natalie Fedor gets tested for CO-VID-19 at the CVS in Lafayette on Sagamore Parkway.

JULIA TAYLOR | SUMMER REPORTERFedor places her completed COVID-19 test specimen into the drop-box.

STAFF REPORTS

Two students who list Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity as their address were charged last week after a March inci-dent where police found them stealing from Acacia Frater-nity, court documents say.

Two 20-year-old students, Weston Keeven in the Poly-technic Institute and Thomas Powell in the College of Engi-neering, were charged Friday with misdemeanor charges of resisting law enforcement and minor alcohol consump-tion, with Keeven charged with an additional count of false informing.

The men were charged after an incident at about 1 a.m. on March 26, when Purdue University Police of-ficers found a group of five to six people around the back of Pi Kappa Alpha’s house on University Street, according to a probably cause affida-vit. The officer’s report notes that he saw a wheelchair near the men standing around.

Two of the men walked around the corner of the house and began to run away, jump-ing over a fence while the of-ficer said he told them to stop.

PUPD officer Ryan Melton said in his report that he began chasing the two, who refused to stop even when other officers arrived. Keeven allegedly ignored

Melton’s commands to lie on the ground with his hands behind his back. Eventually Melton used “soft open hand control” to put Keeven onto the ground, and handcuffed the student, per the affidavit.

At the same time, Powell was taken into custody, and both students were placed in patrol vehicles, the release states.

Keeven at first gave a fake name and birthdate, police say, telling Melton that his name was Jason Silver. After police dispatch was unable to identify Keeven, Powell told officers Keeven’s name and their intent to steal from Acacia. Keeven then admit-ted his actual name, accord-ing to the affidavit.

Powell told officers that he had taken an audio speaker from the fraternity and Keeven had stolen a group portrait, though police were not told who stole the wheelchair or a package of red cups that were also reported as taken.

The items were given back to Acacia, and its members told police they did not want to press burglary charges, the affidavit reads.

Both men were cited and released at the time, accord-ing to the police report.

Neither Pi Kappa Alpha or Acacia fraternities respond-ed immediately for comment Wednesday morning.

2 students charged with resisting arrest months after attempted theft

BY JULIA TAYLORSummer Reporter

The old University Church building has temporarily been restored to its original pur-pose as a place of worship: It will house Purdue Christian Campus House for the up-coming school year while the organization’s new building is under construction.

Rob Schrumpf, lead pastor at Campus House, said ser-vices will be held at the 320 North St. location until Au-gust 2021, when the structure is expected to be finished.

“For the last several years we’ve been exploring the possibility (of rebuilding),” Schrumpf said. The orga-nization has outgrown the antiquated space. Heating in many of the offices of the 50-year-old building no lon-ger worked, and members of the congregation were often stuck in overflow seating on Sundays.

He also cited Campus House’s mushroom-like ap-pearance as a motivation to rebuild. Schrumpf said it was one of the ugliest buildings on campus and another testa-ment to its age.

“It’ll aesthetically be a bless-ing to campus,” Schrumpf said of the new building. “It’ll definitely look like a Purdue place” with the campus’s sig-nature red-brick exterior.

Once completed, the new church home will be three stories tall and include sanc-tuary seating for 500 peo-ple; a second location for Greyhouse Coffee & Supply Co., owned and operated by Campus House; and room for small groups or study ar-eas. The space will be better suited to house the church’s current congregation, which Schrumpf said for the past de-cade has fluctuated between about 600 and 700 individu-als each Sunday.

While signage is already posted around the temporary location, Schrumpf said in-person services will likely not ensue until the fall semester starts, with the earliest pos-sible service at the begin-ning of August. Until then, the church will continue to hold “living room services,” which it has been offering since campus was shut down in March.

Amber Wu, a junior in the College of Health and Human

Sciences, said she has been attending Campus House since her freshman year. She said she was “shocked” by the news of the church’s remodel and temporary move but is excited at the prospects of its new look.

“It’s ugly,” she said, agree-ing that the original building was an eyesore.

Wu, although electing to attend her family church in her hometown this summer instead of Campus House, expressed her affinity for the

Purdue church’s services.“The worship is really

good,” she said, “and the mes-sages are always meaningful.”

Schrumpf said the tempo-rary sanctuary can hold 300 to 350 chairs, but he does not know when the church will be able to seat the maximum capacity based on distancing guidelines.

Campus House will share its temporary home with the Ko-rean Software Square Project, which has resided there since 2015.

Campus House moves to interim home

JULIA TAYLOR | SUMMER REPORTERA fence surrounds the site of the now-leveled Campus House.

BY JORDAN SMITHSummer Reporter

A sixth person has died from the coro-navirus in Tippecanoe County, county health officer Jeremy Adler reported dur-ing a Wednesday press conference.

As with the five previous deaths due to COVID-19 in the county, the individual was over 65 years old, Adler said. They suffered from other medical conditions that exacerbated the symptoms of the vi-rus.

Adler said 10 patients in Greater Lafay-

ette hospitals carry the virus. The num-ber of people who visited hospitals with symptoms of respiratory illness last week increased to 197, up nearly 50 visits from the previous week’s total.

The Indiana State Department of Health on Monday made testing available to anyone who lives or works in Indiana at its statewide testing sites, one of which is in Lafayette at the Evangelical Cov-enant Church.

IU Health Arnett’s testing site requires that an individual show symptoms and receive a doctor’s note, while Franciscan

Health Lafayette East requires only a doctor’s note.

Adler warned against interpreting a single negative test as a reason to relax caution. Tests are only a snapshot in time, Adler said, and don’t lessen the probabil-ity that a person will interact with a virus carrier in subsequent days.

“Now that we have entered Stage 4 of Gov. Holcomb’s Back on Track Indiana plan,” Adler said, “I would like to take this opportunity to remind everybody that the pandemic is unfortunately not over.”

Tippecanoe County sees 6th COVID-19 death

WednesdayTheft at 850 Beering

Drive, Ross-Ade Stadium, between June 10 and Tues-day. No further details given.Tuesday

Fraud on Friday at Pur-due Mall. No further details given.Monday

Theft at 120 N. Grant St. between March 25 and Fri-day; reported Friday. No other details given.

Stalking at 400 block of West State Street be-tween 6 p.m. Thursday and 2:30 p.m. Friday. No further information given.Friday

Theft at 205 S. Martin Jischke Drive, PUPD, be-tween 2 a.m. and 3 p.m. Wednesday. No other details given.

Fraud at 205 S. Martin Jischke Drive, PUPD, be-tween noon Tuesday and 4:21 p.m. Wednesday. No other details given.

Operating while intoxi-cated at Northwestern and Stadium avenues Thursday. No other details given.

TuesdayMcDaniels, Laphina Wil-

mette, 43, arrested Monday on a charge of false inform-ing at Sagamore Parkway West/Yeager Road.

Parker, Joy B., 38, arrest-ed Monday on a charge of domestic battery at 1316 N. Salisbury St.

Sato, Victoria Nichole, 23, arrested Monday on a charge of possessing a controlled substance at 2114 McCor-mick Road.Monday

Barnes, Tyren Leonard, 26, arrested Friday on a charge of theft over $750 at 2320 Butler St., Lafayette.

Howard, Kaleb, 21, arrest-ed Sunday on a charge of bat-tery; address missing.

Hill, Quetina Lashawn, 35, arrested Sunday on a charge of battery at 320 Brown St.Friday

Rogers-Parker, Rebecca Lynn, 54, arrested Thursday on a charge of conversion at 573 Northchester Lane, La-fayette.

Hardaway, Tulane Austin, 44, arrested Thursday on a charge of driving while sus-pended with a prior convic-tion at Sagamore Parkway West/U.S. 231.Thursday

Anderson, Shelby Chris-tine, 25, arrested Wednesday on a charge of driving while suspended with a prior con-viction at Yeager Road/Saga-more Parkway West.

Smith, Elwood Carl, 31, arrested Wednesday on a charge of knowingly operat-ing without ever receiving a license with a prior convic-tion at 1198 Cumberland Ave./Yeager Road.

Hardaway, Tulane Austin, 44, arrested Thursday on a charge of driving while sus-pended with a prior convic-tion at Sagamore Parkway West/U.S 231.

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nent reporting from the time shows. The music depart-ment merely entertained the creation of a course on jazz. Housing discrimination re-mained rampant.

McKaskill used his reputa-tion to arrange a phone call with Purdue President Fred-erick Hovde, during which he demanded immediate action, saying, “I am somebody. We are somebody.”

Only then did institutional complacency, which acted as a dam to change for years, give way to a cascade of prog-ress. The magnitude of the McKaskill incident sparked in June 1969 the creation of a five-year program designed to address the issues plaguing black students, the documen-tary notes.

The Black Cultural Center opened in the fall of 1970. Purdue’s African American studies program began the following year, and the Minor-ity Engineering Program was founded in 1974. Two years later, the BCC arranged a visit

from activist and athlete Mu-hammad Ali.

“What it showed was large, nonviolent but militant pro-tests can bring about changes sometimes,” Targ said. “While people should be impatient, sometimes change takes a long time.”

Targ was critical of Purdue President Mitch Daniels’ re-sponse to protests over the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, when Daniels cited a “proud con-trast” between what he viewed as a restful environment in West Lafayette and unrest at the University of Missouri.

The Purdue Social Justice Coalition gathered hundreds of students in November 2014 to protest in solidarity with Mis-souri students. The coalition presented 13 demands to Dan-iels days later, the first of which asked him to “apologize for his erasure of the experiences of students of color” in the email where he drew contrast be-tween Purdue and Missouri.

“Most people, and you I’m sure will be the same, respond far better with suggestions, recommendations or con-

structive proposals (rather) than what they are told are de-mands,” Daniels responded to members of the coalition, ac-cording to previous Exponent reporting. “Just a modest sug-gestion.”

Targ said many of the changes proposed by the co-alition fell on deaf ears. But they served an educational purpose and stimulated new forms of organization among

Purdue students,” he added.As mass movements ex-

pand to include more voices, he said, one tipping point can open the floodgates. The co-alescence of amplified suffer-ing among African Americans during the coronavirus pan-demic and a salient instance of police violence might lead to a climax.

More than 50 years after students marched from the

PMU to the courthouse to protest McKaskill’s arrest, hundreds of protesters in La-fayette reversed that course on May 31 and marched up State Street onto Purdue’s campus. They voiced more than recom-mendations that night, Targ said.

“I think of ... most of the people ... (are) engaged in se-rious passionate commitment to significant political and eco-

nomic change to reduce the inequalities and lack of power and opportunities of African Americans,” the professor said.

The night ended with bro-ken windows at the court-house and plumes of police tear gas clouding the down-town square. But through-out, people voiced legitimate frustrations that outline the difficulty of the black experi-ence and how progress can be made, Targ said. Protests in the following weeks have maintained the same urgency.

“So, we tend to assume that the police as an institution is as normal and natural as the air we breathe,” he said. “And I would argue that policing as an institution is socially constructed, and constructed mainly by those who have most of the power and author-ity and legitimacy to construct police forces. And I think now is the time to begin to discuss alternatives to police systems and the criminal justice sys-tem, as we know it.

“I’m still inspired by that old slogan, ‘Another world is possible.’”

HISTORYContinued from Page 1

EXPONENT FILE PHOTOProtesters march through the Engineering Mall in front of Hovde Hall in protest of the treatment of black people in light of recent minority deaths across the country in 2014. The event was organized by the Purdue Social Justice Coalition.

BY JORDAN SMITHSummer Reporter

Lafayette Mayor Tony Ro-swarski held a closed-door meeting with four police-re-form activists Tuesday to hear ideas about how to rethink use-of-force policies and di-vert funding from police de-partments to social services.

The activists, tied to an organization called The Col-lective, sought to represent community members who are less likely to be heard by police departments, lead organizer Vanessa Pacheco said. Their stated agenda is a reframing of public safety that shifts responsibility from police departments to health care, housing and addiction services.

Ulyssa Hester, a 30-year-old organizer who has lived in Lafayette for five years, said they want city officials to di-vert more funds to affordable health care, education and harm-reduction programs.

“City officials talk about keeping our city safe, right?” Hester said to a crowd of 50 protesters who marched with the four activists to Lafayette City Hall from the Tippeca-noe County Courthouse. “I feel safer when I know I have somewhere I can afford to go to get my mental-health needs taken care of.

“And that I can go places that don’t leave me hundreds of dollars in debt and that I don’t have to wait weeks and months to get an appoint-ment.”

Many of the issues people suffer from in poor communi-ties are criminalized, Hester said in an interview, which leads them to avoid police rather than rely on officers for safety. Trespassing among people who are homeless and drug use are common offenses for which arrests occur.

People who are poor, home-less or suffering from addic-tion are less likely to show up to city council meetings or meet with politicians, Pacheco said, despite those individu-als needing the city’s services most.

The complex web of interac-tions within city government can exclude minority voices, and the organizers aim to es-tablish a clear “feedback loop” to measure progress, Pacheco said.

“We want to be able to get to the root of systemic issues,” Pacheco said, “rather than applying Band-Aids repeat-

edly and just, frankly, wasting money.”

Joining Pacheco in the for-mal meeting were Fred Wil-liams, Jasmine Harris and Alexcia Plummer, who origi-nally announced the meeting with Roswarski on June 6 at a protest downtown.

The mayor and a police officer ushered in the mem-bers around 3:30 p.m. for the physically distanced meeting, which Plummer said she ex-pected to last an hour. Each member carried a list of talk-ing points that addressed is-sues of funding and a lack of minority participation in po-lice reform.

Roswarski said on Wednes-day that the previous day’s 90-minute meeting only skimmed the surface of sever-al community issues the activ-ists brought forth. The main focus, he said, was to establish channels for underrepresent-ed voices to influence policing.

“If they could help find people to serve on boards and commissions ... I’m certainly open to those suggestions,” the mayor said. “But I have asked different groups at dif-ferent times to bring forward candidates and, quite frankly ... not that many people have ever stepped forward.”

All four activists were criti-cal of the violent police re-sponse to the May 31 protest, the largest so far with nearly 3,000 people, which ended with protesters dispersed by clouds of tear gas deployed by

Lafayette Police Department.“We need equality, we

need justice and we need to know that (Roswarski) has our backs,” Plummer said on Tuesday. “We need to know that the mayor and Lafayette Police Department will not al-low us to continue to be shot down. We need to know that Lafayette Police Department will not abuse their power.”

Roswarski said the activ-ists seemed primarily con-cerned about the gas canisters dropped from a courthouse balcony, a decision made by Tippecanoe County Sheriff Rob Goldsmith, not LPD. He justified LPD’s later deploy-ment of tear gas by referenc-ing windows that were broken

downtown.The mayor said he will

continue to field complaints from various minority orga-nizations in the community, including an upcoming pro-gram with the NAACP. But he said LPD’s multi-step hir-ing process, which includes a polygraph test, is designed to weed out officers who are prejudiced.

“I do not think racism is a systemic issue in this area’s police department,” Roswar-ski said. “I don’t think people that have been in the com-munity for a long time believe that.”

Lafayette Police Chief Pat-rick Flannelly said during the June 6 protest that “I hope

everyone here in Tippeca-noe County understands that these are not systemic issues that occur here in Tippecanoe County,” referring to police brutality and abuse of power.

Though Pacheco mourned the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Tony McDade, all African Ameri-can victims of police brutality in various parts of the nation in recent weeks, she said dis-crimination affects the most vulnerable residents of Great-er Lafayette daily.

“We will never know if we did too much to protect the 8,000 black lives in this county,” she said. “But we will know body by body if we did not do enough.”

Local reformists meet with Lafayette mayor to rethink police funding

ADRIAN GAETA | SUMMER REPORTERThe crowd marches eastward on South Street, making its way to city hall on Tuesday, where four of the march’s organizers met with the mayor of Lafayette.

“I do not think racism is a systemic issue in this area’s police department.

– LAFAYETTE MAYOR TONY ROSWARSKI

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20)HHHHH Others will admire and appreciate you today. Your legendary charm is in top form. Put effort into solidifying a relationship. Take the time to do some soul searching, defining what it is you really want. Tonight: You feel drawn toward an exercise program.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)HHHH Your perceptions are broadened and changed. Usually a chatterbox, you will find yourself being more discreet and reserved today. You will cherish your peace and privacy. Being a source of hidden support uplifts you in subtle yet powerful ways. Tonight: Get a good night’s sleep.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)HHHH Friends will be especially caring and affectionate today. Enjoy compan-ionship, but clarify your feelings if you are not reciprocating a budding romantic mood. A professional associate becomes a true friend. Combine business with pleasure. Tonight: Network online. Join a professional group.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)HHH A new perspective on how to apply your educational background to your career and work develops, and you come to terms with long-standing concerns. Break work into small segments and take frequent breaks during the day. Tonight: Enjoy the moment.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)HHHHH Plans that have been on hold, perhaps for the past few months, may now be undertaken. This includes travel opportunities. You feel such a relief and

a broadening of your horizons. An invitation also comes in from a distant family member. Tonight: Lots of phone calls.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)HHH Use caution before forming financial partnerships. Loans you make may turn into gifts. Be wary of advice, and double-check your resources. Smile if you are the topic of a juicy story and just say, “True.” Tonight: Connect with your unconscious or the divine.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)HH A relationship might begin or end suddenly. Partners are the source of surprise. Learn by observing human nature. Do not struggle against changes. Today promotes clear conversation and decision-making, which will help. Tonight: You really burn the midnight oil.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)HHH You will be intrigued by co-workers and could develop closer friendships with them. Do not become too swept up in job politics, however. Your health might be improved by color and sound therapies. A neighbor calls for help. Tonight: News from longtime friends and relatives.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan 19)HHHHH Today brings a close link to someone considerably older or younger. A really wonderful intimacy develops for you online. A valued and cherished rela-tionship becomes more stable and comfortable. Love will smile on you. Tonight: You feel accepted and included.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)HHHHH Home is where the heart is. The time to take personal action is at hand. You will feel energized, and slow but steady progress is made. Relation-ships seem intensely emotional compared to this. Especially with your parents. Tonight: You give thanks.

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The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult.

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Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: Q equals V

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Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: C equals D

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THE EXPONENT, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 2020 PAGE 7

BY JULIA TAYLORSummer Reporter

The pandemic didn’t stop Chauncey Village’s newest coffee shop from opening Monday morning, though the Lafayette-based cafe is taking extra steps to keep its custom-ers and employees safe.

A sign outside the doors of Copper Moon Coffee asks customers to “maintain a safe orbit” from others inside the space-themed cafe.

Located within the Hi Vine apartment complex on Vine Street, the cafe hopes to bring back a warm and welcoming environment to the service in-dustry, according to the loca-tion’s manager.

Mitch Monroy said the cafe’s opening was a little more challenging than ex-pected. Monroy, who goes by they, said many of the cafe’s employees, some Purdue students, went home when classes were moved online last semester and haven’t yet been able to return.

“Our original intent was to

open last Monday,” Monroy said, “but a lot of things are kind of more up in the air.”

Monroy also addressed Copper Moon’s policies re-garding COVID-19. They said members of staff undergo dai-ly temperature checks and an-swer a series of health-related questions before each shift.

The coffee shop also has stickers on the floor to en-courage customers to main-tain proper distancing, extra masks to offer customers and prepackaged food and baked goods.

Copper Moon operates with a “mod bar,” Monroy said, which allows baristas to per-form multiple tasks at once.

“It just removes extra steps from the barista, where they can really focus on customer service and the equipment itself will turn off once it reaches our recipe (for a given drink),” they said.

In addition to allowing baristas to spend more time with their customers, Monroy said the cafe has a hand-held point-of-sale register system

for table-side services. Mon-roy said they hope this will en-courage customers to sit down and hang out, while emphasiz-ing the social aspect of coffee.

“We have high hopes for this place,” Monroy said. “We intend to really involve our-selves in the community, may-be have some music at some point.” They said they would

like to bring in local artists or even have open-mic nights in the future.

This community-centered aspect is a common theme for the cafe. Monroy said the loca-tion’s current hours, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, are flexible at this point and can be modified de-pending on the demands of its demographic.

“If we see students want somewhere to go later, we’ll adjust our hours to make sure we’re open later,” they said. “If we see people want some-where open earlier, well, then we’ll adjust to that.”

Shreya Ilango and Tanvi Bhardwaj, recent electrical and computer engineering graduates, stopped in Monday to check out Copper Moon’s opening day.

“We live around the cor-ner,” Ilango said, “and it was nice to finally see it open.” She said they wanted to support the local business on its first day, especially as she knew it must have been hard trying to open amid complications due to COVID-19.

“And it’s definitely ador-able,” she said, commenting on the café’s open bar, astro-nautical art and decorations.

Mitchell Kouns, a graduate with a degree in professional flight, also stopped by on Cop-per Moon’s first day. He said he had seen billboards adver-tising the new location, and one of his friends told him the

café was opening.The Hi Vine storefront isn’t

the first Copper Moon to be located in West Lafayette, and it won’t be the last, either. An-other location has been serv-ing in the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship in Discovery Park since 2018 according to a Purdue press release. Two other locations are set to open within the next year; one in the Agriculture and Biomedical Engineering Building in December, and an-other on Sagamore Parkway in January, per a 2019 Universi-ty Request for Proposals and Monroy, respectively. Accord-ing to the RFP, the new Pur-due location will accept both cash and Dining Dollars.

Monroy said the cafe is still training employees, and they hope to hire more members of staff in the coming weeks.

“I think it’s a fun experience to really just get to taste coffee, and learn so much (about the difference between blends),” Monroy said. “I keep telling everyone just to stay calm and brew on.”

Copper Moon Coffee launches new cafe near Chauncey Village

BY NATALIE FEDORStaff Reporter

A Hoosier family-owned restaurant chain, Wolfies Northern Woods Grill, will open soon, taking over the building that previously be-longed to Scotty’s Brewhouse.

Its five previous locations have been in the Hamilton County area. But this time, the grill decided to step out of its comfort zone and move away from the Indianapolis region, said Alec Wolf, director of operations and son of the co-owners.

Wolf said that although none of the Wolf family at-tended Purdue, they felt a con-nection with the area.

“We had some offers on the table, we were looking at that location specifically. And then, obviously, the COVID pandemic happened,” Wolf

said.The family had been looking

to expand to this area when the pandemic hit. They de-cided not to let that stop them from this business venture.

“We still hadn’t signed the agreement, but we felt in our nature, who we are as busi-ness owners, we knew that we would kind of be able to ride this out, and this actually gave us an opportunity,” Wolf said, referring to how they could use this extra time to renovate the old Scotty’s and make it their own.

He said the family is not worried about opening a res-taurant during an economi-cally unstable time. In fact, they’ve done that before.

“We opened another loca-tion in 2008 when the econo-my crisis kind of hit a little bit there, we opened a restaurant right in the midst of that, too,”

Wolf said. They’ve been mak-ing comparable sales at other locations from carryout alone, and now the other locations are open at 50% capacity.

He said they’re taking as many precautions as possible to have a safe opening.

The family relies on word

of mouth and the food to be enough to bring people in. The menu, which features a sports theme and a northern woods feel, includes a range of ap-petizers, salads, main dishes, desserts and a bar.

Along with operating a res-taurant, Wolfies has done a lot

of outreach in their other loca-tions and hopes to bring that to a college campus area.

Their goals include not only giving college students jobs but also showing their employees and guests that they are a company that cares about people and wants to be involved in the community.

“We come from a Christian background and we do a lot internally within our restau-rants to just reach out to com-munities, offer up a unique perspective on what it is for us to have our morals and our values to really stand true,” Wolf said.

The general manager of the new Wolfies location is Nick Rossio, 40, the former GM of Scotty’s Brewhouse for the past three years.

“We should be looking at a possible third week of July opening,” Rossio said, say-

ing renovations are ahead of schedule. “We’ll have online applications and in person once we get a little more con-struction done.

“It’s gonna look like a brand-new restaurant.”

Renovations will include re-placing all the flooring, a new kitchen, new TVs and a bigger bar.

“It’s a big building, seats over 200 people, an outside patio, and we’re building a small Purdue-themed room, so it’ll be like a private dining area for about 30 or so,” Ros-sio said.

“When it was Scotty’s we used to get the basketball teams in here, both men and women, especially the night before a game,” Rossio said.

“We hope to get that busi-ness back, and it’ll be nice be-cause they’ll be in their own private area.”

Wolfies to open in the midst of pandemic in Wabash Landing

NATALIE FEDOR | SUMMER REPORTERThe family-owned grill Wolfies is coming to Wabash Landing in July, taking over the location that used to house Scotty’s.

JULIA TAYLOR | SUMMER REPORTERAnna Kate Gutwein and Brynne Gutwein prepare drinks on Copper Moon Coffee’s opening day.

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Portraits of a Pandemic

JULIA TAYLOR | SUMMER REPORTERFamilies flocked to Tropicanoe Cove at Lafayette’s Columbian Park on Friday for its summer reopening. The park, originally set to open Sunday, opened early after Gov. Eric Holcomb moved up the date for Stage 4 of the Indiana “Back on Track” plan.

JULIA TAYLOR | SUMMER REPORTERTwo boys play with water guns in Wildcat Creek on Friday.

NATALIE FEDOR | SUMMER REPORTERThe King Suites in the newly renovated Union Club Hotel feature decorative fixtures, like a pillow with the Purdue crest and custom Purdue-themed artwork.

JULIA TAYLOR | SUMMER REPORTERBrynne Gutwein and Anna Kate Gutwein practice making drinks on Copper Moon Coffee’s opening day Monday.

ADRIAN GAETA | SUMMER REPORTERAlexcia Plummer starts Tuesday’s march by leading the protesters in song and a “Black lives matter!” chant. She is joined by Frederick Williams, Jasmine Harris and Vanessa Pacheco, the other organizers.

ALEXANDRA WELIEVER | SUMMER REPORTERProtesters lie on their stomachs in the parking lot of the LPD training facility for more than eight minutes on Saturday. They rest their hands behind their backs, mimicking the position George Floyd was in when he was killed by a Minneapolis po-lice officer. While they lay on the ground, protesters continued to chant different sayings, shouting, “Say his name: George Floyd!” and “No justice; no peace! Prosecute the police!”

ADRIAN GAETA | SUMMER REPORTERA crowd marches eastward on South Street, making its way to Lafayette City Hall on Tuesday, where four reformists met with Mayor Tony Roswarski to talk about race relations and use-of-force policies.

ADRIAN GAETA | SUMMER REPORTERJanice Noble, an Air Force veteran, watches the Women Vet-eran’s Parade put on for residents of the Indiana Veteran’s Home on Friday. “I really don’t deserve all this,” she says, “(but) I love it. I enjoyed the service.” Noble served two years in Omaha, Nebraska, in the late 1950s.