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VOL. 134 - No. 41 www.purdueexponent.org All Things Purdue Thursday , July 23, 2020 THE LONE GARDENER BY JORDAN SMITH Summer Reporter A n older man rides his bike up to a plot of flowers, two 5-gallon buckets full of water hanging from the han- dlebars. The man dismounts and, hunched over, steps gingerly down the sidewalk, a bucket in each hand. Using a plastic cup to scoop and pour, he waters the plants. It’s a scene drivers, bicyclists and pedes- trians alike have witnessed at street corners around West Lafayette. Ed, 65, toils for hours without pay be- neath the summer sun, clearing weeds and smoothing soil with a hoe. He occasionally digs up plants, only to rebury them in an- other plot of dirt. “A gardener comes back and takes care of his plants,” he said the first time I walked up to a plot he tends on Salisbury Street, near the Happy Hollow sign. “A landscaper, they set it and forget it. They don’t care. “A gardener has more vested in it.” West Lafayette Parks and Recreation offi- cials have noticed Ed, too, while he’s digging through six or seven of their public plots. He often works on spots cared for through the city’s Adopt-a-Spot program, by which orga- nizations or individuals donate time to tend gardens at street corners around the city. “He doesn’t really want to expose his name to us,” Parks Director Kathy Lozano said. “He’s just working in all the public beds, so we’ve been trying to befriend him. He feels as if (the beds) are neglected and he wants to make them look better.” Ed’s gripe about landscapers became the source of a dispute between him, the city and a landscaping business that tended the Adopt-a-Spot on the corner of Columbia Street and River Road. Ed considers the bed, an amalgam of daylilies, irises and chrysan- themums, his “first love,” he said. At least it was, he added, “until it became a weed-infested mess again.” He said he’s been helping to garden the spot for four years. Starting a couple of years ago, he gradually began to lose his grip on it. The city, Ed says, prefers reliable, consis- tent parties to adopt and tend to the plot. This spring, Ed thinks his original spot and several others have been neglected by all but him. “We’re promoting the pandemic,” Ed said as he looked upon the Columbia Street spot with dismay. “Let’s make everything look as dismal as possible. “There’s not a thing this year, why is that? Nobody gives a shit anymore, we just let ev- erything fall apart?” City worker Bryce Patz said U.S. Lawn, the landscaping business, no longer manages the spot, a result of the city discontinuing its Mystique builds as some wonder why a 65-year-old man volunteers 12 hours a day to beautify public spaces See FLOWERS | Page 4 BY NATALIE FEDOR Summer Reporter Editor’s note: This interview with Jae Hong Park, a profes- sor in the School of Health Sci- ences, took place in late June regarding the safety of class- rooms during the pandemic. Park said he has not changed any of his courses to online since the interview. Park’s re- search concentration focuses on aerosol science, and the dy- namics, synthesis and control of aerosols, according to his biography. Answers have been lightly edited for length and clarity. From what you know about how viruses and aerosols work, how quickly can being in an enclosed classroom space with, say, 30 people during the span of 50 minutes, spread the virus? The coronavirus is thought to spread mainly from person to per- son including via airborne virus and direct/indi- rect contact. Droplets that are produced when an in- fected person coughs or sneezes may be inhaled into the mouth or nose of people who are nearby or possibly be in- haled into their lungs. Droplet size could be varied and the droplet can be shrunken in dry condition. Larger droplets can be settled on the surface of objects near the infected person while smaller droplets can become aero- sols and be suspended in the air for a longer time. They may not be settled in 50 minutes. These small droplets containing the virus are bioaerosols. Moreover, the ventilation sys- tem supplies fresh air in the room. But the air movement can spread small droplets further. In some cases, droplets can be distributed to other rooms through the ducts. How does the research you’ve done personally relate to these things? Have you re- searched other similar things before that behave like CO- VID-19? My research interest includes bioaerosols. Bioaerosols are aero- sol particles of biological origins, bacteria, viruses, fungi, fungal Professor talks aerosols Jae Hong Park See AEROSOLS | Page 2 BY JULIA TAYLOR Summer Reporter A group of young boys plays soccer outside of an apartment complex in Purdue Village. Laughter rings out as they run back and forth, jostling one another, fighting for the ball. Only one wears a mask. Qudsiya Rizvi, a resident of Purdue Village, said the dif- ferent families that live in the community have developed strong friendships, as many don’t have relatives nearby. Proximity has created a “kind of herd community,” with all residents caring for and in- teracting closely with one an- other. Proximity, Rizvi worries, could become an issue when students use Purdue Village toquarantine this fall. Rizvi has lived in Purdue Village since December 2017 when she moved in with her husband, a graduate student, and said she is “very con- cerned for the kids” as the fall semester approaches. Purdue Village, located on the outskirts of campus near the Purdue Airport, is a col- lection of around 400 apart- ments that house hundreds of graduate students and their families, said Barbara Frazee, assistant vice provost for stu- dent life. In addition, the space has commonly been used as auxiliary housing where un- dergraduates can stay when traditional residence halls have been filled. The apartments, currently home to around 340 resi- dents, now have yet another use: temporary homes for stu- dents who choose — or need — to be quarantined on campus. Students screened as poten- tially positive for COVID-19 during the check-in process for the Early Start and Sum- mer Start programs “were escorted to Purdue Village for quarantine housing,” said Catherine Scott, project man- ager of BoilerWoRx, a pro- gram established in the Col- lege of Pharmacy to respond to the Indiana opioid epidemic. Scott said students sus- pected to be carrying the virus were required to stay in Vil- lage apartments while their testing results processed. Only after negative test results are filed can they move into as- signed dorm rooms. Residents of Purdue Village, though, said Purdue failed to inform them about the quarantine housing. Purdue spokesperson Tim Doty said in an email that the University is not disclosing the location of the quarantine apartments “out of respect for those who may require the accommoda- tions.” Some expressed concerns over the thought of the young- est residents risking exposure to the virus. Although she has no chil- dren of her own, Rizvi said children from different apart- ments often play together, an enticing factor for students with families seeking housing near Purdue. For the dura- tion of the pandemic, she said, the families in Purdue Village have seemed to interact only with each other. “I’m concerned what will happen when they reopen campus,” she said. Rizvi said she supported students being quarantined by the University, but noted flaws in the idea of using Purdue Vil- lage. It would be “useless,” she said, because of how densely packed the apartments are within each building. “Say two students are quar- antined in adjoining apart- ments,” she said, “and one has tested positive, but one is just asymptomatic. The apart- ments are so close that they will both end up with (the vi- rus).” Ammar Rousan, a visiting scholar in the College of Sci- ence, lives in Purdue Village with his family. Although he was unaware that Purdue Village was being used for quarantine housing, he said he isn’t concerned, so long as quarantined individuals are regulated. “There should be control,” he said, “so sick people are separated.” Kubra Kayman, an em- ployee at the Purdue Research Foundation, said she knew apartments within the com- plex would be used for quar- antine housing, despite no official notice from the Uni- versity. The Purdue Village resident said she had heard from others in the community that apartments in the area originally set to be demol- ished would instead be used to house infected students. “We were moved from the building we used to live in,” she said, “because (Purdue) said they were demolishing the building … we moved, but then they decided to use (the apartments) for quarantine.” According to the University Residences website, the build- ings in question, which Frazee said hold about 200 apart- Use of Purdue Village as quarantine housing surprises, worries residents Some families fear for their children’s health because of nearby quarantined students JULIA TAYLOR | SUMMER REPORTER Boys play soccer near an apartment complex in Purdue Village. The apartments are so close that they will both end up with (the virus).” -Qudsiya Rizvi Purdue Village Resident “ JORDAN SMITH | SUMMER REPORTER See HOUSING | Page 2

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VOL. 134 - No. 41 www.purdueexponent.org All Things Purdue

Thursday, July 23, 2020

THE LONEGARDENER

BY JORDAN SMITHSummer Reporter

A n older man rides his bike up to a plot of flowers, two 5-gallon buckets full of water hanging from the han-

dlebars. The man dismounts and, hunched over, steps gingerly down the sidewalk, a bucket in each hand. Using a plastic cup to scoop and pour, he waters the plants.

It’s a scene drivers, bicyclists and pedes-trians alike have witnessed at street corners around West Lafayette.

Ed, 65, toils for hours without pay be-neath the summer sun, clearing weeds and smoothing soil with a hoe. He occasionally digs up plants, only to rebury them in an-other plot of dirt.

“A gardener comes back and takes care of

his plants,” he said the first time I walked up to a plot he tends on Salisbury Street, near the Happy Hollow sign. “A landscaper, they set it and forget it. They don’t care.

“A gardener has more vested in it.”West Lafayette Parks and Recreation offi-

cials have noticed Ed, too, while he’s digging through six or seven of their public plots. He often works on spots cared for through the city’s Adopt-a-Spot program, by which orga-nizations or individuals donate time to tend gardens at street corners around the city.

“He doesn’t really want to expose his name to us,” Parks Director Kathy Lozano said. “He’s just working in all the public beds, so we’ve been trying to befriend him. He feels as if (the beds) are neglected and he wants to make them look better.”

Ed’s gripe about landscapers became the

source of a dispute between him, the city and a landscaping business that tended the Adopt-a-Spot on the corner of Columbia Street and River Road. Ed considers the bed, an amalgam of daylilies, irises and chrysan-themums, his “first love,” he said.

At least it was, he added, “until it became a weed-infested mess again.” He said he’s been helping to garden the spot for four years. Starting a couple of years ago, he gradually began to lose his grip on it.

The city, Ed says, prefers reliable, consis-tent parties to adopt and tend to the plot. This spring, Ed thinks his original spot and several others have been neglected by all but him.

“We’re promoting the pandemic,” Ed said as he looked upon the Columbia Street spot with dismay. “Let’s make everything look as dismal as possible.

“There’s not a thing this year, why is that? Nobody gives a shit anymore, we just let ev-erything fall apart?”

City worker Bryce Patz said U.S. Lawn, the landscaping business, no longer manages the spot, a result of the city discontinuing its

Mystique builds as some wonder why a 65-year-old man volunteers 12 hours a day

to beautify public spaces

See FLOWERS | Page 4

BY NATALIE FEDORSummer Reporter

Editor’s note: This interview with Jae Hong Park, a profes-sor in the School of Health Sci-ences, took place in late June regarding the safety of class-rooms during the pandemic. Park said he has not changed any of his courses to online since the interview. Park’s re-search concentration focuses on aerosol science, and the dy-namics, synthesis and control of aerosols, according to his biography.

Answers have been lightly edited for length and clarity.

From what you know about how viruses and aerosols work, how quickly can being in an enclosed classroom space with, say, 30 people during the span of 50 minutes, spread the virus?

The coronavirus is thought to spread mainly from person to per-son including via airborne virus and d i r e c t / i n d i -rect contact. Droplets that are produced when an in-fected person coughs or sneezes may be inhaled into the mouth or nose of people who are nearby or possibly be in-haled into their lungs.

Droplet size could be varied and the droplet can be shrunken in dry condition. Larger droplets can be settled on the surface of objects near the infected person while smaller droplets can become aero-sols and be suspended in the air for a longer time. They may not be settled in 50 minutes. These small droplets containing the virus are bioaerosols.

Moreover, the ventilation sys-tem supplies fresh air in the room. But the air movement can spread small droplets further. In some cases, droplets can be distributed to other rooms through the ducts.

How does the research you’ve done personally relate to these things? Have you re-searched other similar things before that behave like CO-VID-19?

My research interest includes bioaerosols. Bioaerosols are aero-sol particles of biological origins, bacteria, viruses, fungi, fungal

Professor talks aerosols

Jae Hong Park

See AEROSOLS | Page 2

BY JULIA TAYLORSummer Reporter

A group of young boys plays soccer outside of an apartment complex in Purdue Village. Laughter rings out as they run back and forth, jostling one another, fighting for the ball. Only one wears a mask.

Qudsiya Rizvi, a resident of Purdue Village, said the dif-ferent families that live in the community have developed strong friendships, as many don’t have relatives nearby. Proximity has created a “kind of herd community,” with all residents caring for and in-teracting closely with one an-other.

Proximity, Rizvi worries, could become an issue when students use Purdue Village toquarantine this fall.

Rizvi has lived in Purdue Village since December 2017 when she moved in with her husband, a graduate student, and said she is “very con-cerned for the kids” as the fall semester approaches.

Purdue Village, located on the outskirts of campus near the Purdue Airport, is a col-

lection of around 400 apart-ments that house hundreds of graduate students and their families, said Barbara Frazee, assistant vice provost for stu-dent life. In addition, the space has commonly been used as auxiliary housing where un-dergraduates can stay when traditional residence halls have been filled.

The apartments, currently home to around 340 resi-dents, now have yet another use: temporary homes for stu-dents who choose — or need —

to be quarantined on campus.Students screened as poten-

tially positive for COVID-19 during the check-in process for the Early Start and Sum-mer Start programs “were escorted to Purdue Village for quarantine housing,” said Catherine Scott, project man-ager of BoilerWoRx, a pro-gram established in the Col-

lege of Pharmacy to respond to the Indiana opioid epidemic.

Scott said students sus-pected to be carrying the virus were required to stay in Vil-lage apartments while their testing results processed. Only after negative test results are filed can they move into as-signed dorm rooms.

Residents of Purdue Village, though, said Purdue failed to inform them about the quarantine housing. Purdue spokesperson Tim Doty said in an email that the University is not disclosing the location of the quarantine apartments “out of respect for those who may require the accommoda-tions.”

Some expressed concerns over the thought of the young-est residents risking exposure to the virus.

Although she has no chil-dren of her own, Rizvi said children from different apart-ments often play together, an enticing factor for students with families seeking housing near Purdue. For the dura-tion of the pandemic, she said, the families in Purdue Village have seemed to interact only

with each other.“I’m concerned what will

happen when they reopen campus,” she said.

Rizvi said she supported students being quarantined by the University, but noted flaws in the idea of using Purdue Vil-lage. It would be “useless,” she said, because of how densely packed the apartments are within each building.

“Say two students are quar-antined in adjoining apart-ments,” she said, “and one has tested positive, but one is just asymptomatic. The apart-ments are so close that they will both end up with (the vi-rus).”

Ammar Rousan, a visiting scholar in the College of Sci-ence, lives in Purdue Village with his family. Although he was unaware that Purdue Village was being used for quarantine housing, he said he isn’t concerned, so long as quarantined individuals are regulated.

“There should be control,” he said, “so sick people are separated.”

Kubra Kayman, an em-ployee at the Purdue Research Foundation, said she knew apartments within the com-plex would be used for quar-antine housing, despite no official notice from the Uni-

versity. The Purdue Village resident said she had heard from others in the community that apartments in the area originally set to be demol-ished would instead be used to house infected students.

“We were moved from the building we used to live in,” she said, “because (Purdue) said they were demolishing the building … we moved, but then they decided to use (the apartments) for quarantine.”

According to the University Residences website, the build-ings in question, which Frazee said hold about 200 apart-

Use of Purdue Village as quarantine housing surprises, worries residentsSome families fear for their children’s health because of nearby quarantined students

JULIA TAYLOR | SUMMER REPORTERBoys play soccer near an apartment complex in Purdue Village.

The apartments are so close that they will both end up with (the virus).”

-Qudsiya RizviPurdue Village Resident

“

JORDAN SMITH | SUMMER REPORTER

See HOUSING | Page 2

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contract with the company.Patz, in what Ed called “a bit of an

altercation,” talked to Ed near the spot a few years ago. Ed says Patz admon-ished him for the mound of dirt he’d piled on the sidewalk, a violation of city code. Patz recalls he asked for Ed’s name with the thought to honor him as volunteer of the year, to no avail: “He wasn’t interested.”

“Oh my god,” Ed says, heaving his entire body into an eye roll when I relay Patz’s claim. “Volunteer of the year? That is a laugh!”

It’s not unlike Ed to be disagreeable when any reference is made to city government. He speaks of the city’s Adopt-a-Spot director vindictively, de-termined to lash him into retirement if the local TV station ever allows Ed on air.

This hardheadedness reappeared during each of four conversations in which I asked Ed to share his last name. Each time, he demurred, some-times upset — “It’s none of your busi-

ness.” — and other times jovial.He prefers to be known as “Ed, the

Garden Man.”“Not everybody needs a first and

last name,” he suggested. “Where’s the mystique at?”

The gardener’s response to a ques-tion about how many hours he works is, “Too damn many.” Asked whether he works on weekends, he replies, “What are weekends?”

Google has caught him on camera three times, Ed’s out so often, he said. His skin is tanned a golden brown from working nearly every day this summer.

“He works probably 12 to 13 hours a day, probably until 8 or 9 in the eve-ning. You could probably get one of those spots done in half a day,” said Rado Gazo, a professor at Purdue and a homeowner near the Happy Hollow entrance who’s taken Ed water on oc-casion.

“But he keeps coming back,” Gazo added, “rearranging stuff and moving it around. It’s a bit strange.”

So who is this man for whom bu-reaucracy is the source of ire? The man who plants pale violet daylilies, leafy hostas and red and white impa-tiens on street corners around West Lafayette? The man who tends Happy Hollow’s entrance; Adopt-a-Spots at the intersections of Lindberg Avenue and Salisbury Street, Columbia Street and River Road; at private plots he’s earned permission to tend outside the former Anvil building and Basham Rentals?

Ed’s tour of West Lafayette

Ed called me from a public phone in Stewart Center about 6 p.m. on July 8, a Wednesday, and proposed we go for a bike ride the next morning. He’d show me the spots he tends, he said.

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spores, pollen, fragments of biofilm, etc. Since bioaerosols can be suspended in the air for a long period, they are ubiq-uitous in indoor and outdoor air. Inhaled by a human, they would be deposited in the re-spiratory tract, and potential-ly cause irritation, allergies, contagious infectious disease, acute toxic effects, cancer, and even death if the concentra-tions of bioaerosols are high.

For example, legionellosis, influenza, measles and tuber-culosis are often spread by aerosols especially in poorly ventilated environments. Some occupational places such as composting sites, wastewater treatment plants, food industries, livestock farms and health-care centers have a high concentration of bioaerosols.

At agricultural workplaces, high concentrations of bac-teria and fungi have caused infections and allergies, even death to farmers. Moreover, people working in health-care facilities are at higher risk of infections. I am currently de-veloping the samplers to col-lect bioaerosols and the rapid analysis method for collected bioaerosols.

What factors would put

students and professors

more at risk when it comes

to being in that enclosed

space?

In a poorly ventilated en-vironment, droplets from the people can be accumulated in the space. Opening the window could be helpful to minimize the risk. Air-clean-ing devices are also good to minimize the concentration of droplets. A sneeze or a cough can produce a wide size range of droplets. Big droplets of a few micrometers can travel less than six feet. But some small droplets travel longer. After drying, a single virus may suspend in the air for a long time and travel longer.

Wearing a mask, having filter, can protect people who are infected and not infected. The mask can prevent both the generation and inhalation of infectious droplets. Masks can capture the droplets from the mouth and nose. Some small droplets can penetrate the mask and be inhaled by other people who are not wearing the mask. Masks can make fewer chances to touch the face directly with one’s hands. The cotton or surgi-cal mask can not capture the droplet as much as the N95

mask, but something is better than nothing.

All droplets can be accu-mulated on the surface of the mask. Masks need to be washed frequently or wasted in the trash bin covered, not in an open bin, after use.

Even with everyone

spread out, social distanc-

ing and wearing masks, is

there still a risk for virus

transmission?

That’s the best option. But I can say that risk is not zero.

With what you know

about these things, do you

feel safe entering a class-

room space in the fall?

Given that everyone does

their part to appease to the

Protect Purdue Plan.

No. As I mentioned, the risk is not zero. In the worst scenario, a single virus pass-ing through the mask can be suspended in the air, reach another person’s breathing zone, pass through the mask, be inhaled, and develop the disease.

Do you trust that stu-

dents will follow the guide-

lines set in place by the

University?

No. We are human, like freedom and want to do what

we want.Do you think the Univer-

sity is doing enough in its

plans to keep people safe

in the fall?

Yes. I believe that they are doing their best.

What more could we as

students do to keep each

other safe and minimize

risk and mitigate expo-

sure?

We already know the an-swer. Social distancing and masks are the best options at this point. That’s the baseline. Wash hands. Measure body temperature. Stay home.

Are you going to do any-

thing different, or extra

in your own classrooms

to help reduce the risk for

yourself? Or will you try

to limit the face-to-face

classes as much as pos-

sible by having lectures on-

line or anything?

It depends on the situation. I may use one of my special respirators utilizing a P95 fil-ter or a HEPA filter. They are used in special occupational settings. If necessary, I will change the face-to-face classes to an online course.

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY NATALIE FEDOR | SUMMER REPORTER“A sneeze or a cough can produce a wide size range of droplets,” Park said. “Big droplets (of a) few micrometers can travel less than 6 feet. But some small droplets travel longer. After dry-ing, a single virus may suspend in the air for a long time and travel longer.”

ments, were scheduled to be vacated in June to prepare for later demolition. The Exponent asked Frazee for comment on whether the de-molition will continue as planned, but did not receive a reply as of Wednesday afternoon.

Kayman said she chose to live in Purdue Vil-lage for its proximity to campus, where she works

and her husband studies, as well as its low price.“It’s cheapest,” she said, “and has a day care

for my daughter.”Kayman said she hasn’t been worried about

contracting COVID-19 in the area over the summer. But her fears are ramping up with the fall semester set to begin in just over a month.

“I haven’t been concerned so far,” she said, casting a glance at her daughter, “but maybe in the fall we won’t go outside as much.”

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BY NATALIE FEDOR Summer Reporter

Purdue will likely not dis-close the specific buildings or majors of Boilermakers who test positive for the virus, the University’s legal counsel said earlier today.

During Wednesday after-noon’s provost presentation on facility safety and contact tracing, Purdue officials dis-cussed the upcoming tracing system, how Purdue will label high-risk individuals and how the University will dissemi-nate that information.

Contact tracing on campus

The identity of those who test positive will remain as confidential as possible, Cher-ise Hall, associate provost for finance and administration, said during the livestream.

Dr. Esteban Ramirez, chief medical officer for the Protect Purdue Health Center, said case managers will interview individuals who test positive and then, using a proximity system, identify others who may be at risk. The system will be referred to as the “Pro-tect Purdue Proximity Sys-tem,” according to Hall, and

the privacy of students is an integral part of the system.

Hall said the system will ac-count for four different factors when considering who may be at higher risk of having been exposed to the virus: living risk, classroom risk, dining risk and proximity risk.

“Protect Purdue Proxim-ity System would then gener-ate a daily report that will be given to the manual contact tracers,” Hall said, “and then they can quickly contact those individuals. They’ll have a list to start from, and then they can determine through their analysis what a true high-risk contact is.”

The system was designed with consultation from cy-bersecurity professor Eugene Spafford and the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security. Spafford, working alongside the CERIAS team, reviewed the privacy practices and is supportive of the Uni-versity’s intentions moving forward, Hall said.

“We pulled in already ex-isting data elements to de-fine significant contacts,” Hall said. “We’re not actu-ally tracking faculty, staff

and students’ actual location. The name of the individual (who) has tested positive will not be shared, nor will the kind of contact or location be shared.”

Hall said the system was mainly created to quicken the contact tracing process by helping to identify strang-ers who have been exposed to each other.

Contact tracing won’t just be used for students, Hall said. The University is consid-ering ways to collect informa-tion from those who conduct research labs together, as well as faculty and staff who regu-larly meet with students in person.

“We hope that we can use the system to identify poten-tial hot spots where multiple positive cases have shown up,” she said.

Provost conversation discusses

contact tracing, data dashboard

To read about how Purdue will

assess each person’s risk and release

data, find the full article online.

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JORDAN SMITHJULIA TAYLOR

Wednesday

Fraud at 610 Purdue Mall, Hovde Hall. No further de-tails.Monday

Threats at 552 W. Wood St., Purdue Galleries, between July 15 and 17. No further de-tails.

Theft at 101 N. Grant St. be-tween July 16 and 17. No de-tails given.

Lozano, Julian, 18, arrested Friday on a charge of minor consumption at 1850 North-western Ave.

Love, Darian, 23, arrest-ed Saturday on a charge of marijuana possession at 399 Northwestern Ave.

Theft at 222 Arnold Drive between Saturday and Sun-day. No details given.

Drug law violation at 1275 1st St. early Monday. No de-tails given.Friday

Fraud at 610 Purdue Mall, Hovde Hall, between July 7 and 16. No further details.

Drug law violation Thurs-day at Northwestern Avenue/North Grant Street. No further details.Thursday (July 16)

Ng, Brandon, 18, arrested Wednesday on a charge of mi-nor consumption of alcohol at 915 W. State St.

Fondling on Jan. 18 at 500 N. Martin Jischke Drive, Wi-ley Residence Hall. No details given.

Monday

Ducker, Lionel, 26, arrested Friday on a charge of possess-ing marijuana/synthetic drug at North Salisbury Street/Highland Drive.

Hernandez, Thania Sha-ron, 22, arrested Sunday on a charge of operating a vehicle while intoxicated at Saga-more/Duncan.

Murray, Jesse J., 56, arrest-ed Sunday on a charge of theft under $750 at 265 E. State St., Speedway.

Sanders, James Nathan, 35, arrested Sunday on a charge of possessing cocaine/narcotic at 320 Brown St.

Fahrner, Eleanor Fran-ces, 18, arrested Sunday on a charge of possessing a con-trolled substance at 2400 Northwestern Ave.

Johnson, Theophilus Lou-is, 24, arrested Sunday on a charge of public intoxication at 121 Wiggins St.Friday

Cole, Alexander Jamour, 32, arrested Thursday on a charge of domestic battery in the presence of a child at 320 Brown St.

STAFF REPORTS

Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb announced that beginning Monday, the entire state will be subject to a mask mandate.

“Best practices are best for all,” he said during his Wednesday afternoon press conference.

Holcomb announced the or-der will require masks or face coverings for all Hoosiers ages 8 or older in public indoor en-tities and elsewhere, including schools.

Family and Social Services Secretary Jennifer Sullivan clarified that masks are re-quired for all students be-

tween 3rd and 12th grade while in school and on school buses, barring a number of ex-ceptions.

Masks are not required, she said, when social distancing in classrooms is possible, during outdoor recess, when deemed necessary by school officials because the masks would im-pede instruction or when rel-evant to a student’s individu-alized education program.

No threshold has been set for when an entire school should close because of the virus, ISDH Chief Medical Of-ficer Lindsay Weaver said.

Tippecanoe County Health Department Administrator

Khala Hochstedler noted that Indiana has seen alarming numbers of new cases per day recently, reaching peaks that rival the rapid daily increases observed in late April.

“We’ve been hoping that (a statewide mandate) would happen as more counties in our state get on board with (mask mandates),” she said. “Our numbers aren’t looking great as a state.

“If you want to stay open and not do shelter-in-place, you have to have a mask man-date.”

The mandate will last as long as necessary to keep Hoo-siers safe, Holcomb said.

Holcomb: It’s time to mask up, Hoosiers

Governor announces statewide mandate

JORDAN SMITH | SUMMER REPORTERMegan Johnson, stylist at Beaux Cheveux, cuts Tom Holman’s hair. Holman graduated last spring from the College of Science with a bachelor’s degree in biology.

STAFF REPORTS

The Cordova Recreational Sports Center will reopen on July 29 for the first time since it closed mid-March.

The reopening date was an-nounced Wednesday morning in an email from Purdue Rec-reation and Wellness, as well as on the updated RecWell website.

“On your first visit you’ll notice new de-densifying, dis-tancing and disinfecting mea-sures,” the email states. “This includes changes to the way you swipe in and out, new fit-ness equipment layouts and modifications to programs and services.”

Students will be required to follow a set of new policies before their first visit, per the email:• Masks are required at all times, including while exer-cising. The exception to this is if students are in the water• Reservations are required for all visits• Facility hours have changed• Downloading the RecWell

app allows swipe-in access to the facility• The app can also be used to make reservations• Patrons are required to stay in designated squares and practice physical distancing• Keeping facilities clean, with new cleaning and sani-tizing stations

The website states that members must register for a time slot to access RecWell facilities, and that the reserva-

tion will grant patrons access but will not dictate the specific area or piece of equipment they can use. Students select whether they would like fa-cility access, aquatics reser-vations for the Comp & Dive Pools and Rec Pool, or Group X access.

The new hours for the Co-Rec are: 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday.

The website also states there is no extra charge to make reservations, and check-in time begins five minutes be-fore a time slot. Ten minutes are allotted for patrons’ check-out time after they finish their workouts.

“If you are unable to make it, you must cancel your res-ervation within 15 minutes of scheduled time; members who do not cancel will be marked as a ‘no show’ and will not be able to make any further res-ervations,” the website states.

The new maximum capacity for the Co-Rec after de-den-sification and new distancing measures has been set at 350 people, the website says. At this time, no guest passes will be sold.

The following activities are not permitted upon reopen-ing, according to the page:• Basketball• Climbing Walls• Faculty/Staff Fitness Room• Racquetball• Spas and Saunas• Squash• Volleyball

Masks, reservations required when

Co-Rec re-opens on Wednesday

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POLICE BEAT

WEST LAFAYETTE

PURDUE

STAFF REPORTS

Four boys allegedly com-mitted two robberies at Co-lumbian Park at about 9 p.m. July 13 in Lafayette. Police say they arrested the suspects Fri-day.

The two victims of these robberies were also juvenile males, ages 14 and 17, accord-ing to police. Both victims were battered and had proper-ty stolen during the robberies.

The following evening, one of the robbery suspects sexu-ally assaulted a 13-year-old girl at the park, police say.

Surveillance footage assist-ed police in the investigation of all three incidents and in identifying the four suspects.

One of the 15-year-olds was preliminarily charged with two counts of robbery, sexual battery, resisting law enforce-ment and trespassing. The 12- and 14-year-old suspects were reportedly charged with two counts of robbery, resist-ing law enforcement and tres-passing.

The second 15-year-old sus-pect was charged with two counts of robbery and tres-passing.

Lafayette boys charged

with assault, robberies

Thiamine-organic acid salt

(July 21)

Purdue Research Founda-tion

Inventors: Lynne S. Taylor, Lisa J. Mauer, Vivekanand Bhardwaj

The present disclosure re-lates to novel thiamine-organ-ic acid salt, and the method of making the novel thiamine-organic acid salt.

Systems and methods for

interrogating containers

for special nuclear materi-

als (July 21)

Purdue Research FoundationInventors: Rusi P.

Taleyarkhan, Brian C. Ar-chambault, Thomas Grimes,

Alex HagenMethods and systems that

utilize centrifugally tensioned metastable fluid detector sen-sors and an external probing source to detect the presence of fissile and fissionable materials.

Culture imaging system

(July 21)

Purdue Research Founda-tion

Inventors: Joseph Paul Rob-inson, Bartlomiej P. Rajwa, Kathryn E. Ragheb, Cheryl M. Holdman, Valery P. Patsekin, Euiwon Bae, Jennifer Sturgis

A system for the character-ization of a colony of micro-organisms includes a coher-ent light source configured to provide coherwent light of one or more wavelengths along a common optical path.

Method and system for

multi-wavelength depth

encoding (July 16)

Purdue Research Founda-tion

Inventors: Song Zhang, Ty-ler Bell

A method for generating en-coded depth data includes re-ceiving digital fringe projection data corresponding to a three-dimensional structure of a physical object, and generating first and second fringe encod-ings for a first predetermined wavelength based on the DFP data at a first coordinate.

Method for hand pose

detection (July 16)

Purdue Research Founda-

tionInventors: Ayan Sinha,

Chiho Choi, Joon Hee Choi, Karthik Ramani

A method for hand pose iden-tification in an automated sys-tem includes providing depth map data of a hand of a user to a first neural network trained to classify features correspond-ing to a joint angle of a wrist in the hand to generate a first plurality of activation features and performing a first search in a predetermined plurality of activation features stored in a database in the memory to identify a first plurality of hand pose parameters for the wrist associated with predetermined activation features in the data-base that are nearest neighbors to the first plurality of activa-tion features.

BY ADRIAN GAETASummer Reporter

Greater Lafayette’s movie theaters are set to open as ear-ly as July 31, after they were sold to two New York compa-nies earlier this month.

After filing for bankruptcy in February and closing all theaters shortly after, Go-odrich Quality Theaters has been purchased by Mason As-set Management and Namdar Realty Group, Friday press re-lease stated.

The two companies, both based in Great Neck, New York, have acquired “substan-tially all of the assets, includ-ing the majority of the movie theaters.”

The two companies own and operate dozens of shopping malls across the country, the release states. In partnership with VIP Cinemas, an Illinois-based company, the realty groups formed a new limited

liability company called Go-odrich Theater NewCo.

GQT was put up for sale on March 11, according to court documents, and the sale was closed on July 13, per the press release.

Robert Goodrich, founder and owner of GQT, owed over $32 million in debt and $916,000 in “fees, interests, costs and expenses ... arising from an early termination” of a trade agreement, according to court documents filed last month.

“(Goodrich) no longer has any involvement,” said Matt McSparin, vice president of administration and finance, in a phone call Friday.

“We are truly excited to be acquiring and reopening the GQT theaters and we remain optimistic about the future of the industry,” President Mark McSparin said in the press re-lease. “We will reopen with the main objective of maintain-

ing quality operations for our guests through cleanliness, customer service, and value. The Goodrich name has been in the theater business for 90 years and we believe that it is important to keep the name going for many more years to come.”

He added that the new com-pany plans to retain the ma-jority of GQT’s former staff. The realty companies’ press team confirmed Friday that there are no plans to close any of the theaters that were open prior to the shutdown.

“We’re super excited about all three,” Matt McSparin said on the three Greater Lafayette theaters. The plan is to have Eastside 10 on Farabee Drive open next week, he said.

The other two, Lafayette 7 on McCarty Lane and Wabash Landing 9 on State Street, should open on the same day or “shortly after,” within the first week of August, Matt Mc-

Sparin added.“One thing that you can ex-

pect right away is a reduction in concession prices, and in most cases, ticket prices,” Vice President of Theater Opera-tions Jake McSparin said in the press release. “We have built our other theater opera-tions on the promise of value and will continue to make that a hallmark of the New GQT operations.”

New GQT will honor gift cards and the rewards pro-gram, per the press release. New GQT will post its safety plans for its theaters on its website as soon as possible, prior to the re-openings.

All New GQT locations across the Midwest will also begin opening as soon as July 31, pending COVID-19 devel-opments, the release states, and the company is search-ing for new team members “of all ages to fill remaining job openings.”

Local theaters bought by New York companies

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contract with the company.Patz, in what Ed called “a bit of an

altercation,” talked to Ed near the spot a few years ago. Ed says Patz admon-ished him for the mound of dirt he’d piled on the sidewalk, a violation of city code. Patz recalls he asked for Ed’s name with the thought to honor him as volunteer of the year, to no avail: “He wasn’t interested.”

“Oh my god,” Ed says, heaving his entire body into an eye roll when I relay Patz’s claim. “Volunteer of the year? That is a laugh!”

It’s not unlike Ed to be disagreeable when any reference is made to city government. He speaks of the city’s Adopt-a-Spot director vindictively, de-termined to lash him into retirement if the local TV station ever allows Ed on air.

This hardheadedness reappeared during each of four conversations in which I asked Ed to share his last name. Each time, he demurred, some-times upset — “It’s none of your busi-

ness.” — and other times jovial.He prefers to be known as “Ed, the

Garden Man.”“Not everybody needs a first and

last name,” he suggested. “Where’s the mystique at?”

The gardener’s response to a ques-tion about how many hours he works is, “Too damn many.” Asked whether he works on weekends, he replies, “What are weekends?”

Google has caught him on camera three times, Ed’s out so often, he said. His skin is tanned a golden brown from working nearly every day this summer.

“He works probably 12 to 13 hours a day, probably until 8 or 9 in the eve-ning. You could probably get one of those spots done in half a day,” said Rado Gazo, a professor at Purdue and a homeowner near the Happy Hollow entrance who’s taken Ed water on oc-casion.

“But he keeps coming back,” Gazo added, “rearranging stuff and moving it around. It’s a bit strange.”

So who is this man for whom bu-reaucracy is the source of ire? The man who plants pale violet daylilies, leafy hostas and red and white impa-tiens on street corners around West Lafayette? The man who tends Happy Hollow’s entrance; Adopt-a-Spots at the intersections of Lindberg Avenue and Salisbury Street, Columbia Street and River Road; at private plots he’s earned permission to tend outside the former Anvil building and Basham Rentals?

Ed’s tour of West LafayetteEd called me from a public phone in

Stewart Center about 6 p.m. on July 8, a Wednesday, and proposed we go for a bike ride the next morning. He’d show me the spots he tends, he said.

This ride would be our third meet-ing, the first coming July 3 and the next three days later. He grew more talkative with each anecdote shared, but he seemed overcome with the sense that by merely conversing with him, I was missing a key element of his story. The bike ride was his solution.

He showed up Thursday morning with two buckets, as usual, a 32-ounce gas station soda wrapped in a plastic shopping bag, and an electric fan, its cord tightly wound.

The day trip began with a story sug-gestion: the bike pump in the North-western Garage. “Stupid bike pump,” Ed said as he fiddled with his kickstand. “Nobody checks on these things. None of ’em work,” he finished, encouraging me to pursue an investigation into the pumps across Purdue’s campus.

We passed his informal home base on the corner of Northwestern Avenue and Grant Street, where red and white impatiens line the sidewalk and are flanked by marigolds, yellow with ma-roon blotches.

“That was a weed patch last year,” he said, “so I went and asked Basham if I could fix it.”

Five steps toward the Basham apart-ments, on the opposite side of an elec-tricity box, are bags full of soil and coffee grounds. Covering the bags is a shower curtain depicting a tropical scene from an oceanside beach.

“Why are you taking pictures of that?” Ed said, waving me away from his stash. On top of the curtain were a shovel, a hoe, two Louisville Slugger baseball bats, a black cooking pot with a lid, a dustpan and a broom. Ed’s gar-dening operation.

“I’ve got too much shit goin’ on,” he said.

The day progressed as a tour around the city, taken at Ed’s jarring pace, with stops at each of more than 15 locations he either actively tends or keeps an eye on.

No spot escaped criticism. There needs to be a trap devised to catch bike thieves in the act outside Stewart Cen-ter, Ed said, where bike theft is ram-pant. The moss in the cracks between the West Lafayette library’s brickwork needs clearing. On Fowler Avenue, he said, the brush and weeds encroach so far onto the sidewalk it’s unusable.

At the Purdue Memorial Union, Ed grabbed the electric fan and walked in-side. He pulled back the chair blocking off the closed seating area and huffed over to the wall plugs. Maintenance workers started in our direction, per-plexed, but Ed’s assuredness staved them off.

“Half of these won’t even hold the plug in and work,” he said as he bent down and tried each outlet, looking back at me each time he struggled. The wire bar running across the wall needs to be torn out and replaced, he said, to install an outlet at every table. “You have to jiggle with it to get it to work. Fixing it should be a priority.”

Another story idea. And, reacting to my surprise, he said yes, he’d lugged the fan on the three-hour trek solely for this moment.

Ed later wheeled his bike toward a tree I’d never paid attention to, just off Northwestern Avenue behind Kappa Sigma fraternity. Ivy covered its bark, but it was tidy, recently trimmed. Ed stood to behold his handiwork.

“I’ve got an eye for it,” he said when I asked how he thought to trim this random tree lurking in the fraternity’s

parking lot. “I’ve always j u s t

seen something and said, ‘Hey, how can I make this better?’”

He put it another way.“I get tired of seeing it look like shit.

See, that’s my constant thing: I get tired of seeing it look like shit.”

He told the same story outside the library. He empties trash bins and sweeps the Chauncey Village plaza when the bins start to overflow, for no reason other than he hates to see trash strewn about.

He showed me a rock bearing a plaque that reads, “Rebecca’s Garden,” now standing between two benches to honor a former librarian. The rock was previously hidden behind the bush-es outside the library, he said, so he rolled it onto an old tarp and dragged it to its current location.

“See, I like to do stuff and not get recognized. Santa’s secret helper,” Ed said. “I’d rather do something and not make a big deal about it, and just see if people notice.”

With a shrug, he added, “Well, that’s just it. Nobody’ll notice.”

Ed’s suppliesEd drove his shovel into soil,

hoisted a pile and tossed it aside. At a spot he tends out-side the former Anvil build-ing at the corner of North and Grant streets, pink im-patiens bloom.

He’d given me a green bucket full of water and a

plastic cup, with instructions to pour a cupful on each plant. By this point I’d seen or heard about plots in seven different locations around the city, contain-ing hundreds of plants, so I had to ask: Where does he get the sup-plies?

The sacks of coffee grounds he mixes into the soil to help his plants grow are Star-bucks’ and Pay-less’ leftovers, Ed says. “It’s got caf-feine in it, it makes the plants grow. This soil is hor-rible.”

Seeds for his plants are a mix-ture of recycling and salvaging. He

speaks of clearance sales or giveaways from stores like Aldi. Many of the im-patiens, his go-to flower, he buys for cheap at Rural King, along with sweet potato vines he uses to line the borders of his plots.

The hosta plants have been growing for years, he said, and now he digs them up and replants them in other spots. But originally, many of the plants were throwaways on street corners, no longer needed by the city, businesses or home-owners. Ed seizes on opportunities to salvage, and what others neglect, he uses to fill his gardens.

The buckets were thrifted from fra-ternity house dumpsters, he’d later tell me over a phone call made from Northwestern Garage (he’d been re-luctant to share when I asked in per-son). Dried paint was crusted onto the buckets, and it seemed apparent no one intended to reuse them.

One homeowner near Ed’s Happy Hollow location allows him to use hose water, he says, and a church a minute’s bike ride down Salisbury Street pro-vides water for the Adopt-a-Spot at the intersection of Salisbury and Lindberg Avenue. For his plants on the city’s southeastern side, Ed insisted I see the water source for myself.

We biked then toward and across Levee Plaza, Ed the whole time de-nouncing it as “dismal” and “ugly,” before stopping near a trail that leads downhill to the Wabash riverside.

“Hey, I need to go down and get some water for my flowers, you want to hold this fan?” he said, pleased at my surprise. “I get it from the river.”

He paused for a second.“Actually, I’m bullshitting you,” he

said. I exhaled and laughed nervously.“But that’s where I used to get it all

the time until I found a new way,” he added. “I only get it there when I’m desperate.”

A fifth of a mile away in a trash-lit-tered alley, a 32-gallon trash bin sits beneath a rusted-through hole in an adjacent building’s gutter. Rainwa-ter from the previous night steadily dripped through the opening, splash-ing into the nearly full barrel. Ed handed me his fan.

“So this is where I get my water,” he said. “I put out rain barrels. I no longer have to go down to the river.”

Water sloshed as he dipped each of two buckets into the barrel, filled to the point of spilling over onto the sur-rounding asphalt. “Don’t say where these are, because they might come and take ’em.”

He hoisted both buckets onto his handlebars, each hanging by its own handle, and improbably kept his bal-ance as he began to pedal. He biked

over to drop off the buckets near his few dozen flowers planted along the River Road on-ramp to Wiggins Av-enue.

Though water had splattered with each bump and turn, Ed only chuck-led.

“It beats walking down the street with ’em,” he said.

Ed’s life beyond the gardenDiscerning who Ed is beyond his

love for gardening and salvaging in-volves combining a set of disparate stories.

He grew up in Indiana, just off Highway 25, he told me the first time we met. I asked whether he could be more specific. He said no, guess. After a futile five minutes spent piecing to-gether the geography of north-central

Indiana, he conceded it was Roches-ter, a town of about 5,000 when he lived there.

He earned a degree in education at Ball State University in 1977 and went on to teach fourth-graders at an elementary school in North Manches-ter, Indiana, for about a decade. He left quickly and should have done so sooner, he said, deeming the school a “Peyton Place.”

“Everyone thinks they know every-body’s business,” he said, explaining his allusion to the 1960s soap opera in which a web of gossip and nefarious af-fairs is concealed beneath the guise of a small town’s quaint charm. “Every-body’s having sex with everybody else.”

Ed says he’s done stints in Fort Wayne, Logansport and even Florida, and he ended up in Greater Lafayette about half a decade ago. He bikes ev-erywhere around town, but those trips pale in comparison to six-hour day trips to Indianapolis, something he says he did twice last year.

“That’s nothing,” he adds. “I rode 500 miles once to go to Florida.”

Augusta, Georgia, was the closest he could get to the panhandle by Grey-hound bus. His destination was a beach town called Melbourne, Florida, a place he said he often visits from December to

April to help some people groom their gardens. Google Maps pins the bike ride at 462 miles, about a 38-hour trek from Augusta to Melbourne.

The first time we spoke, he recalled with a grimace an accident that had occurred in Gainesville, Florida, five or so years back. But he quickly stopped himself. “Oh, never mind,” he said, not budging to speak on the record the next time I pressed him on the issue. The details were foggy, anyway.

“I just don’t want it defining who I am,” he said. “That’s why it’s called an accident.”

He consumes a lot of caffeine, he told me, or else his brain “feels like Jello.” The day we biked around West Lafayette, he’d downed two 32-ounce bottles of Mountain Dew, he told me the following morning. Caffeine pills and Advil accompany most breakfasts.

He’s retired but remarks offhanded-ly about previous jobs in construction, at a Dollar General and doing some private gardening gigs.

He told me he lives in an apartment near campus, but he declined to say more about its location. He’s effusive, however, about the feral cat he found nearly four years ago, which he said he takes for frequent walks.

“Her name keeps changing,” he said. First he called the cat Angus, a reference to its black fur. Lately he’s been calling the cat Mother, after he heard Vice President Mike Pence call his own wife “mother,” something Ed still laughs about.

He allows Mother to roam around the city while he gardens during the day.

“She takes off,” he said. “Sometimes she’ll be waiting for me at the corner.”

He used to spend two hours each morning filing through newspapers at the West Lafayette Public Library, pre-ferring “to read to find their mistakes.” He often watched YouTube when the li-brary was open, replaying old films like “Blazing Saddles” and “To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar.”

Ed learned early that a nomadic

lifestyle doesn’t lend itself to enduring friendships. He went to a few different elementary schools because his family moved around so often, he said.

“To protect myself, I never really made friends,” he said.

His interactions in West Lafayette, beyond the several hours he spent with me, seem limited to chance rec-ognitions.

He once biked up Grant Street and was yelled at three times, he said, rec-ognized by people he passed. A kid at a Circle K gas station told his mother, “Hey, it’s the garden guy!” People who recognize him at Payless or other stores often blurt some variation of the kid’s “garden guy” remark.

In a rare instance of recruiting someone to help him, Ed asked Gazo, the professor who lives near Happy Hollow, if his seventh-grade son would assist in moving some boulders at Ed’s Happy Hollow plot. It’s something a kid would want to do, Ed reasoned, something to talk about at dinner.

Gazo said he and his son took Ed water, for him and his plants, one day a couple of weeks ago. He intro-duced himself and noticed Ed didn’t give his own name. When he spoke about the interac-tion, he seemed disoriented, try-ing and failing to remember details about the man who’d approached his house.

“I’ve seen him around for the whole summer,” Gazo said. “At the end of the conver-sation I realized that we didn’t know much about him.”

During the bike ride around the city, I asked for the names of siblings, cous-ins, anyone who knows Ed. He scoffed. “No,” he said, and biked several hun-dred feet ahead. He’d changed the

subject by the time I rejoined him.

Ed’s promise keptOn the Friday morning following the

bike tour, a week after I first stopped to meet Ed, the city came to help him.

During our bike ride and in previous conversations, he’d struck a hopeful note. A worker in the city’s parks and recreation department had stopped to speak with him by the Happy Hol-low entrance three weeks prior. Ed had asked for mulch to spread on the ground surrounding his hostas, a way to give the garden a tidy, polished look.

Two workers arrived at 7:30 a.m. sharp, a small truck and a larger one. The older supervisor, the same worker who originally offered Ed mulch, sped off in the smaller truck.

Sam Engers, the younger of the two workers, drove the larger truck’s right front and rear tires up onto the sidewalk and exited. He opened the tailgate to reveal in the truck’s bed a mound of black mulch, a shovel and a pitchfork.

Ed told me he hadn’t slept the night before. He couldn’t name a reason, but he’d arrived at the site at 6:30 a.m. to prepare for the delivery.

Grabbing his shovel and his Circle K hot dog, he gestured toward the truck, signaling it was time for mulch.

“You got two choices: Hold my dog or use my shovel,” he said. It was only a joke; the electrical box on a nearby lightpost could hold his hot dog just fine, he reasoned. “It rained last night, it oughta be clean.”

Ed and Engers worked into a rhythm, the 20-year-old parks worker scooping mulch with the pitchfork, dumping it for Ed to smooth between the plants with his shovel. The two be-gan to banter, the younger asking Ed how much he was being paid.

“I get paid 50 cents for the whole job,” Ed replied. “How much do you get paid?”

Engers narrowed his eyes and smirked. “Is that an exaggeration, or?”

I had to laugh. I’d become a specta-tor in the game I started a week before: Press Ed with normal questions and he’d offer sarcastic responses, evading a candid conversation about the per-plexing nature of his daily routine.

Engers was undeterred. He told Ed he was impressed by his willingness to roast in the sun seven days a week, watching over his handful of personal gardens.

“I hate it looking like an ugly mess,” Ed said. “That’s why I do it.”

“I was lost,” Engers said of his reac-tion to the morning’s assignment. “I didn’t know what we were doing here for a second. This was unexpected.”

Joggers ran by and glanced at the operation. Driv-ers waiting at the nearby stoplight assessed Ed’s line of hostas. A be-spectacled old man walked by and asked, “I hate to be a devil’s advo-cate, but are these native or artificial species?”

“I have no idea,” Ed said im-patiently. “They were native when I tore ’em out of the ground down

there,” he added, pointing south down Salisbury. The man nodded silently and walked on.

The older supervisor, John Heit-miller, returned and walked over to the truck full of mulch. He asked who I was. He seemed cagey when I asked questions and eventually, he pulled me to the side, lowering his voice to a murmur.

“Has he mentioned to you how he’s pissed off about the Adopt-a-Spot stuff?” Heitmiller said. “I don’t wanna get swept up into any of that.”

The fate of Ed’s first spotOn that morning, Ed seemed uncon-

cerned with his previous gripes. The mulch was spread around his hostas, allowing the plants’ forest green color to pop. Others had shown interest in renovating an area he thought of as

neglected.But talking to Ed, there’s a sense

the Adopt-a-Spot conflict is constant-ly boiling. He has a visceral response each time he sees the bed of flowers on Columbia Street, his first venture.

Dan Dunten, the director of the Adopt-a-Spot program, said he’s never seen or spoken to Ed. But in veiled references to a mystery caretaker, representatives from U.S. Lawn, the company who managed the Columbia Street plot, have familiarized Dunten with Ed’s work.

And Dunten confirmed that Ed’s angst is warranted: U.S. Lawn told Dunten it had done no work on the spot for over a year. The landscapers, in Ed’s words, had allowed the spot to become a “weed-infested mess.”

“When I told them their spot needed some cleaning up,” Dunten recalls, “they said some other guy had been taking care of it.”

Ed has long perceived Dunten’s lack of interaction with him as neglect, a tacit acceptance of the gardener’s work

without due respect given. Starting four years ago, he recalls, parks and recreation employees would coordi-nate with groups tending the Adopt-a-Spot while sidelining him.

“(Dunten) has kept it from me for four years and allowed other people to destroy it,” Ed says. “The park employ-ees who came out and stole my dirt, they never talked to me.

“Everybody knew the job I did on the Adopt-a-Spot. But nobody stopped to ask, ‘Do you think he wants this back?’ I don’t want my name on it. I just want other people to see it.”

Dunten reframed the situation. He thinks Ed randomly chooses spots to work, and said he was unaware Ed is invested in the particular bed of flow-ers on Columbia Street. The spot’s al-ready been ceded to a new business, Wickshire Senior Living, which has started to remove weeds and erected a sign bearing its name.

Ed is ambivalent about his wishes for his original plot. When he gazes over it, there’s disappointment in his eyes, punctuated by helpless shrug-ging gestures, as if he’s tempted to bend over and spend hours repairing it until it matches his vision.

But he’s adamant that he’s going to dig up his flowers and abandon the garden completely. He hasn’t done regular work on it since last summer. Why should he continue to make the spot more beautiful when, in an in-stant, it might be taken from him?

Because a gardener keeps coming back, I offered during our final meet-ing. He contemplated that answer for a moment, stopping to lean on his shov-el, forearms perched on the handle.

“I can take neglect,” he said. “But I can’t take abuse. And what they did to it is abuse.”

During a phone call he made Tues-day, again from Northwestern Garage, he told me his latest attempts to talk to the city had faltered.

“I think I’m done doing anything for the city,” he said, voice muffled by the phone’s static.

He said he’ll shift his focus to pri-vate gardening, particularly his spot on the corner near Basham and a sec-ond bed he’s recently begun to tend for the apartment complex. There, he finds, owner Connie Basham often stops him outside to point out her fa-vorite flowers.

As the phone call winded down, Ed did not relent when I asked a final time whether he’d ever again work on the Columbia spot: A re-sounding no. Instead, he offered an addendum to his adage about gar-deners and how they always return to their plots.

“I care about the spot,” he said. “But if they don’t want me to work on the spot, then I won’t.”

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The groups who tend West Lafayette’s Adopt-a-Spots

know little about Ed. Some don’t even know what

he looks like. But they’ve noticed his work in public

beds around the city.

Before he devised a system to collect rainwater in a 32-gallon trash bin, Ed used water from the Wabash River for his plants.

City officials as-sumed U.S. Lawn, the landscaping business who ad-opted the spot on Columbia Street, removed weeds and watered flowers during 2019. It was Ed.

“A gardener comes back and takes care of his

plants. A landscaper, they set it and forget it. They

don’t care.”-ED

Everybody knew the job I did on the Adopt-a-Spot. But nobody stopped to ask, ‘Do you think he wants this back?’”

-ED

“

He works probably 12 to 13 hours a day, until 8 or 9 in the evening. You could probably get one of those spots done in half a day. But he keeps coming back.”

-RADO GAZO

“

I know there was a guy who worked on it. I don’t know where he came from. I never saw him do it.”

-TYLER HARTMAN, U.S. LAWN

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ARIES (March 21-April 19)HHH An employment opportunity sug-gested by an old friend is worth consider-ing. Income is impacted by work you’ve done in the past and your established financial habits. It’s a wonderful day to cast out clutter -- on a number of levels. Tonight: Early to bed.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)HHHHH A new opportunity for a child makes you happy. Your creative potential is about to unfold even further. Today is a good time to indulge in a bit of risk-taking. Tonight: You make a difference because of your ability to integrate unusual ideas.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)HHHH Today isn’t the best time for travel. Since you are quite domestic, you can find plenty to keep you content around your own home. Goals are more reachable and defined. The company of the very young cheers and comforts you. Tonight: Others seek you out.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)HHHH You will acquire valuable information today. Phone calls, emails and conversations are most revealing. It’s a marvelous time to work with computers and other modern technologies. A real estate transaction or family festivity may be part of this. Tonight: Speak your mind.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)HHHH You have a strong case of wanderlust in your heart. Today promises insights of a spiritual nature. It’s a time when you will seek truth and long to define goodness. Conflicts about faith begin to resolve themselves. Tonight: Let others run the show.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan 19)HHHHH Expect some interesting conversations today. New ideas are sug-gested, and business combines gracefully with pleasure. Your energy level is enhanced. Romantic urges are pronounced, and you might even express your love. Tonight: An intimate dinner for two -- with even more proclamations.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)H Be aware of the financial patterns of a partner. If your security has been threatened before by the choices of another, take care not to let it happen again. Examine financial documents before signing. Tonight: A secret is revealed, bringing a sense of closure.

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DOWN 1 Surrounded by 2 Grinding tooth 3 The Gem State 4 Band boosters 5 Shared an apartment (with) 6 Prank 7 Swizzle 8 Brooch 9 URL ending 10 Golf prop 11 Old map letters 17 Long tale 21 Southern side dish 23 Knee support 24 LP speed 25 Tic-tac-toe win 26 Hotel amenity 28 “Evil Woman” band 30 British verb ending 31 Family docs 32 Miss Piggy’s pronoun 33 PC program 36 Ashen 37 Hit the road 40 “It’s a Wonderful Life” director 42 Half of a ’60s group 43 Public persona 44 Conical home 45 Poet Pound 46 Duel tool 48 Passing craze 49 MLB stat 50 Tolkien creature 51 Comics cry

ACROSS 1 “Terrif!” 4 Poet Teasdale 8 Mayor’s domain 12 Fury 13 “E Pluribus —” 14 Garfield’s pal 15 Set afire 16 Terse denial 17 Hide 18 Oscar-winning “Moonlight” actor 21 Actress West 22 Purchase 23 He’s all wrapped up in himself 26 Patient’s need, briefly 27 Sailor 30 Mater lead-in 31 Weeding tool 32 Telegram 33 Hwy. 34 Automaton, for short 35 Trattoria offering 36 Victory 37 Hanoi holiday 38 HBO crime drama with 18-Across as Wayne Hays 45 Ireland 46 Japanese noodles 47 Wire measure 48 Faux pas 49 1982 sci-fi film 50 “Frontline” airer 51 Actress Harper 52 Evergreen trees 53 Salt source

DOWN 1 Motion picture 2 Operatic solo 3 “Little Women” sister 4 Solar beam 5 Win by — 6 Babe of baseball 7 Good-natured 8 HMO fee 9 Concept 10 Cash drawer 11 Bigfoot’s cousin 19 Thompson of “Love Actually” 20 Jean- — Picard 23 Blemish 24 Last (Abbr.) 25 French Mrs. 26 Youngster 27 “— the season ...” 28 Gallery display 29 Actor Stephen 31 Truthfulness 32 Bulb measure 34 eBay offer 35 They’re nuts 36 Sobs 37 Former quarterback Tim 38 Try out 39 Anger 40 “Topaz” author 41 Ripped 42 Rapscallions 43 Unspoken feeling 44 “Frozen” snow queen

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E K T A E W H A J E E O C F S H F C Z F B N P S H X L B

C D H Q V H N D B C P Q F S - C N S E X L Z S B W F V E S O :

“ N D F H X A S F T H J K F D P K K . “

Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: K equals L

B S O L P Z S P M G H G Y F Z G L I G A F Y B F O M

M B G F H M P I R D S B S G A Z S G O V G Z

Z P V G Z S G H ? Z S G O ‘ H G D R M M J A V D P R M J A M .

Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: L equals D

Q M W D K P - V Z Q B K M D W P P D E Z D ‘ J F W T S B O F

Z L I O A Z O D K M B O J E P W B V V Z O A M

D Z M K T W ‘ J D T S O : Q Z M L P W W M L Z M L P W W M .

Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: M equals Y

CRYPTOQUIP 3CRYPTOQUIP 2CRYPTOQUIP 1

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CRYPTOQUIP 3Myrtle-family tree that’s growing abundantly in Sheriff Andy Taylor’s town: Mayberry bayberry.

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BY JORDAN SMITHSummer Reporter

INDIANAPOLIS — Talaya and A.J. Jackson came to tour the new Purdue Polytechnic High School building on Monday for its grand opening. But they weren’t there for a Purdue con-nection; the building, both said, to them is a symbol of progress for the Englewood neighborhood they’ve lived in for nearly a decade.

“We came to see their future,” Ta-laya Jackson said of their two boys, 8-year-old Anthony and 6-year-old Andrew, as both wandered listlessly around the classrooms on the high school’s third floor.

“I went to a community college and it was kind of hard for me,” she said. “I see, with this school being right in our neighborhood, us being able to excel, our children being able to excel and have a better quality of life than we had.”

A.J. Jackson is on the board of the Englewood Community Development Corp., an organization that partnered with the John H. Boner Center, the city of Indianapolis and Purdue to un-veil the renovated PR Mallory Build-ing that will house Polytechnic high schoolers come the beginning of the school year on Aug. 3.

Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett and Purdue President Mitch Daniels shared the mic with community leaders on the brick pathway leading to the $38 mil-lion, 120,000-square-foot refurbished building during Monday’s ribbon-cut-ting ceremony.

The building, a former industrial hub just more than two miles east of downtown Indianapolis, had been vacant for more than 30 years. It had become an “eyesore” for community members, Talaya Jackson said, and a place where drug users would com-monly congregate and lines of tents denoted homeless camps.

“When we moved to this area, the area was run down,” Talaya Jackson said. “(The building) was most definite-ly contributing to the drugs and that stuff in the area. It was helping bring the neighborhood down.”

Scott Bess, Purdue Polytechnic head of schools, said the revamped school is viewed as a beacon for eco-nomic progress by community lead-

ers he’s spoken with over the past few years.

“They saw this as a linchpin to neighborhood redevelopment, with the emphasis being not gentrifica-tion, but true redevelopment,” he said. “There’s gonna be more than 1,000 people here every single day. That alone will start to spur more de-velopment, more businesses located here.”

The more than 500 Polytechnic high schoolers Bess oversees in the Indianapolis district have bounced around from building to building, spending the school’s first year, 2017, in a retooled factory building on the city’s south side and the next two in the Circle Centre Mall downtown.

Bess said the majority of students live on the city’s east side, and the ECDC’s initiative to improve public transit and access to quality education made the school a desirable, decade-long devel-opment venture.

Polytechnic high schoolers will use the top two floors of the build-ing, while another 500 students from Paramount Schools of Excellence, a charter school that offers 5th through 8th grade education, will occupy the bottom two floors. Paramount will align its STEM-oriented curriculum with PPHS to create a cohesive expe-rience from middle school to the col-lege application process, Paramount CEO Tommy Reddicks said.

Bess said the high school has around 25 teachers, or “coaches,” as lead coach Drew Gooden refers to himself and col-leagues. Gooden, in his third year at PPHS, says it’s more than an unusual naming convention.

“We refer to our staff members as coaches just to really internalize the concept they are not the sole conveyors of content,” he said. “They are instead on the sidelines coaching students to navigate through personal, school, community and global challenges.”

Natural light pours into the build-ing’s array of large windows, shin-ing on wide-open space dotted with lounge chairs, tables and plasma screen TVs, all design features Gooden says are intentional to cre-ate a collaborative learning environ-ment.

When the students return on Aug. 3, they’ll be presented with 30 potential

projects on topics from robotics and agriculture to the writing of children’s books, Gooden said. From there, each student selects and pursues a project with a partner, balancing meetings and project pitches with lectures from ex-perts in various fields.

The building’s hands-on learning is most intensive in the “Makerspace” co-working area. The space is split be-tween a prototyping lab soon to be cov-ered with sawdust and power tools and a “clean Makerspace,” where 3D print-ing, computer programming and video production will happen.

“We have had students dabble in app design and programming,” Gooden said. “We’re all really excited to have our first class of seniors on campus, because now it’s becoming much more of a reality thinking about how can they take their experience as PPHS students and have that extend to their college and careers.”

The seniors who graduate from the repurposed building in Spring 2021 will be Purdue Polytechnic’s first-ever graduating class. The Indianapo-lis chapter is the first of three high

schools, one which opened in Broad Ripple in 2019 and the other which will open in South Bend this fall, and is Purdue’s primary bid to increase the number of underrepresented minority students at the West Lafayette cam-pus.

The schools were created as a reac-tion to the minuscule fraction of high schoolers leaving Indianapolis Public Schools with test scores sufficient for admission to Purdue, Daniels said. Of the 115 seniors at the Indianapolis Polytechnic high school, nearly half are “college-ready,” Bess said.

Around 30 high schoolers whose test scores qualify them to attend Pur-due are already on campus until Aug. 7 for a four-week program meant to preview the college experience and earn them three credit hours. Daniels on Monday repeated a message he told the students in a meeting last week.

“If we only recruited those 30 students,” Daniels said, “it would double the number of students we’ve been able to successfully get out of the entire Indianapolis Public School district.”

About half of the students on cam-pus for the summer program are stu-dents of color, and Purdue aims to incorporate large cities around the state into a pipeline for underrepre-sented minorities.

“It’s always been my hope we would have a statewide network,” Daniels said in a later interview. “Be-cause the problems of not being able to recruit enough inner-city, first-generation and minority students are severe in Indianapolis and the other major cities in the state.”

As A.J. Jackson’s sons explored the second floor of the high school, opening and closing lockers and roll-ing from desk to desk in chairs, he spoke about their academic futures at PPHS.

Never did he imagine a school would enter his neighborhood and offer career counseling and a ready pathway from high school to an “A-1 college” like Pur-due, he said.

“This makes it visual,” Talaya Jackson added. “You can see the goal of higher education.

“You can reach out and grab it.”

For Indianapolis parents, new Purdue Polytechnic building shows progress ‘you can reach out and grab’

ADRIAN GAETA | SUMMER REPORTERStudents of Purdue Polytechnic High School and Paramount Englewood cut a red ribbon on Monday hanging in front of the door of the facility housing both of the schools.


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