IU collective action
The administration sent out an email saying that you may become unenrolled if you have a large outstanding balance due to unpaid mandatory fees, an action that's really dire for international students here on education visas. However, they clarified that this only happens after multiple years of unpaid fees in a follow up email.
They have, however, put holds on accounts that are witholding fees to prevent them from registering for the fall, despite official policy.
IU collective action
The IU graduate workers fee strike is still going on. A thousand of us are still refusing to pay our mandatory fees.
These fees were about 1200 per year with international students paying an additional 600. The fee amounts have dropped somewhat for graduate workers in the college of arts and science but they're still too high for someone making 15,500 per year to pay.
Last year I made this song just for fun. But now I really like this:
going through a rough patch with my work https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/555d5bd9-0063-4d05-b509-00ac61d73538
Here we go, after 1.5 years and a pile of c++ code later I'm pleased to announced my basilisk story is FINISHED!
"Basilisk collection - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"
https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/basilisk/
he's a PhD candidate in statistics at iastate focusing on statistical computing, specifically clustering and other unsupervised or semi-supervised problems.