Demolition underway on campus neighborhood, home to international graduate students, families
By Hali Tauxe | May 19, 2022 8:04 pmFormer tenants face a tough affordable housing market.
Former tenants face a tough affordable housing market.
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The IDS has organized its coverage to catch you up and keep you up to date on this multi-year dispute.
The weather has not affected their plans to strike.
They are seeking union recognition to improve graduate student working conditions.
The poll will close 3 p.m. Monday, and results are expected later in the day.
Graduate workers will vote Sunday on whether to begin a strike next week.
The announced increases have not deterred graduate workers’ preparations for a strike.
The demonstration aimed to highlight the labor graduate students perform for the university.
A COVID-19 testing site is seen Feb. 8, 2022, in Gym 171 at the School of Public Health. Dr. Aaron Carroll, the chief health officer at IU and head of the university's COVID-19 policy, said he is “concerned, but not worried” about the BA.5 strain of the virus.
The historic Buskirk-Chumley Theater is pictured Feb. 28, 2022, on Kirkwood Avenue. Chicago-based band Broken Robots will perform July 22 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.
A COVID-19 testing site is pictured Feb. 8, 2022, in Gym 171 at the School of Public Health. IU transitioned to a fully automated contact tracing process for COVID-19 following an end to asymptomatic on-campus testing.
Arwa, 7, poses after peaking trough the window of her apartment in Redbud Hill on April 9, 2022. Her father, Ihab Mohamed, says Arwa was the first person in the family to make friends with their neighbors. The building she and her family live in is slated for demolition over the summer.
Abdul Aijaz holds his three-month-old daughter, Zohra, in his Redbud Hill apartment on March 29, 2022. Aijaz has lived in three of the buildings in IU's northeast neighborhood since he moved from Pakistan in 2014. One building has already been leveled, one is vacant and waiting to be razed,and his current building is slated for demolition.
An abandoned swingset in front of Evermann apartments is seen March 29, 2022. Demolition started on the apartments April 18, 2022.
Abdul Aijaz and Gwen Kirk, holding their four-month-old daughter Zohra, prepare for a picnic April 23, 2022. The kitchen in their Redbud Hill apartment is small, so the cooking efforts expand into the living room.
The picnic table where Ihab Mohamed tried seafood for the first time is seen March 29, 2022, in front of Redbud Hill apartments. On the wall behind it, among chalked writing in different languages, you can read his daughter's name, Arwa.
Gwen Kirk picks daffodils from an abandoned garden patch to brighten her apartment outside Banta Apartments March 31, 2022. "It's been so gray," she said. Kirk used to live in the apartments, which now sit empty awaiting demolition.
Gwen Kirk checks on her daughter Zohra, who is tucked into Kirk's jacket during a walk March 31, 2022. Kirk stands in the grassy field where Bicknell Apartments, where she lived in 2016, used to stand before its demolition in 2020.
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