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Transgender Remembrance Day Vigil Students come together to honor those lost to prejudice Lauren Rader Reporter
On Nov. 13 from 5-6:30 p.m., The Multicultural Services and Programs office hosted a candlelight vigil for members of the transgender community who lost their lives because of prejudice. Transgender is defined by Google as “denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex.” These individuals are a big part of the LGBTQ Community, and the Multicultural Services and Programs (MSP) recognizes that. Unfortunately, not everyone understands the community, and MSP has branched out to create the LGBTQ+ Resource Center for students in the community or wanting to learn more about it. Breanna Pierce, a Student Assistant for the LGBTQ Resource Center, was adamant on spreading awareness about the heinous crimes against the Transgender community. “This is very important for everyone, because people don’t actually realize what a transgender person is going through in their daily life. It just shows that we are not where we need to be right now in protecting our Trans individuals,” Pierce said. “We want to be able to protect more, and we are just not there yet. It shows that it will take a long time until we finally get the world thinking that Trans people are normal human beings. They are being who they want to be, like everyone else is.
They deserve a beautiful life like the rest of us.” This event was organized to memorialize the transgender lives lost through prejudice and transphobia. Candles were lit with the names of each life taken this year. The count is up to 22, according to the Human Rights Campaign statistic, and continues to grow each year. Students and staff came together to recognize the need of awareness and acceptance of these individuals. Robin Tarvin, a senior here at Indiana State University, was a keynote speaker about her experience and her feelings. “We’re all people. We’re all on a journey to find our true selves, and to find someone to love us,” Tarvin said. “Events like these are reminders that people lost their lives for trying to be themselves. The fact that people are being murdered still to this day is so bizarre for me. I think ultimately events like this are put on to show, even straight people and the LGBT Community, that this is what’s happening.” Other keynote speakers stood up to memorialize these individuals, and share how they were taken from this world. The official Transgender Day of Remembrance is during Thanksgiving break so the MSP decided to do the event early to recognize those people. Each name was individually read out loud, and the candles were turned off as students and staff heard the name called. This represented the light that was taken out of the LGBTQ+ Community when these individuals were brutally murdered for expressing their true feelings and the way they saw themselves.
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Breanna Pierce (left) and Storie Nickel (right) pose for a photo with transgender t-shirts at the event on Nov. 13.
MSP is working hard to create awareness and help reduce violence against the LGBTQ+ community with the services they offer. They create a safe space where students can express who they are and work to advocate for others. “Every university has 10,000 or more people on campus, and these are people who are either young adults or older
Woolsey fire destroys historic ranches, movie sets and open spaces in Santa Monica Mountains David Pierson
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
MALIBU, Calif. — The burned husk of a park service vehicle slumped at the entrance of Malibu Creek State Park, its glass windshield melted into a Dali-esque blob. The steep craggy mountains and gorges below ordinarily attract groups of tourists, hikers and campers to the area, but on Saturday the ground was still smoldering, charred into a black crumble. Wildfires decimated the historic park tucked inside the Santa Monica Mountains a day earlier — taking with it markers of its proud past as a backdrop for television shows and movies such as “Planet of the Apes.” Flames consumed the set of the long-running TV series “MASH.” The same went for the Reagan Ranch, named after the former president and actor who used to own one of three parcels that make up the 44-year-old park’s footprint along with Bob Hope and 20th Century Fox. “I was just showing a group of visitors from Russia Tarzan’s rock pool,” said Tim Johnston, 83, a retired Los Angeles firefighter and park docent who was astonished by the damage he saw Saturday. “People don’t realize they’ve been watching movies all their lives that took place here. Their mom’s been watching all her life. Even their grandma has been watching all her life.” All across the Santa Monica Mountains, the devastating Woolsey fire exacted both a psychic and physical toll on local history and connections to an unlikely stretch of wilderness that — through dogged conservation — persists despite the
surrounding urban sprawl. The Santa Monica Mountains, which stretch from Hollywood Hills to Point Mugu in Ventura County, have long offered Southern Californians a respite from the city below with the range’s array of hiking trails, waterfalls and rock pools. And its sprawling ranch land has given Hollywood real-world ties to the frontier life it exhaustively depicted on screen. It’s little wonder that properties with links to show business were among the worst hit by a wind-swept fire that has scorched 83,000 acres of mostly natural land as of late Sunday and was only 10 percent contained. The sets at Malibu Creek State Park weren’t the only ones to be leveled. The nearby Paramount Ranch and its scenic Western Town, most recently used for HBO’s hit series “Westworld,” were also ruined in the blaze. The site was a regular destination for day trippers who used the convincing background for family photos. About two miles west saw the destruction of the Peter Strauss Ranch, named after an Emmy Award-winning actor. The ranch featured a swimming pool and amphitheater and was the site of art exhibits and performances by country stars Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson. All that remained of the ranch house was a few stone walls and a chimney. “When Mother Nature wants to win, she always wins,” said California State Parks Supt. Tyson Butzke, who’s ordinarily based in the Channel Coast District in Ventura County but came down to assist during the Woolsey fire. Los Angeles County’s proximity to nature means it’s always beholden to inherent risks such as fire. That
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Sean Kelly, 69, is staying in his car with his dogs in Oroville, Calif. outside of a shelter. His dogs aren’t allowed inside the shelter.
danger is heightened each year as more homes encroach onto natural land. So much of the Santa Monica Mountains’ modern story has centered on its tension between nature and development. Los Angeles is the only metropolis in the world split by a mountain range, and an untamed one at that in many parts. Mumbai, India, and L.A. are the only two cities that count big cats among their residents. “This is some of the most coveted real estate in the world,” said Matt Jaffe, coauthor of “The Santa Monica Mountains: Range on the Edge.” “The fact that there’s a huge amount of acreage set aside in an environment this expensive is a remarkable success story.” Jaffe and his wife had to evacuate their Calabasas home because of the Woolsey fire but were heartened to learn one of their favorite nearby walking destinations, the King Gillette Ranch, was undamaged. The couple regularly hit nearby hiking trails on a whim, even just for an hour of exercise. “One of the special things about living where we live is we have access to the mountains in a spontaneous way,” Jaffe said. “It’s not the typical L.A. experience where you have to leave at a certain time to beat the traffic. That means a lot to us. To a whole community of people the mountains are central to who they feel they are as people and their connection to nature.” Public access to the mountain range has been hard fought. It was propelled with the establishment of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy in 1980 by the state. Funded with bond measures and led by an ambitious executive director, Joe Edmiston, the agency has preserved tens of thousands of acres of land along the range. The powerful group has also advocated against too much residential development. Last year, Edmiston called for the limiting of recovery funds for rebuilding homes in fireprone areas. (Anyone who thinks it’s easy to build a new house in the mountains should consider the plight of U2 guitarist David Evans, a.k.a. the Edge, who has been trying since 2005 to erect his dream home on a barren vista called Seawater Mesa.) Many of the residents in the mountains also own horses and other animals. For feed they’ve come to rely on West Valley Horse Center in Agoura Hills, which had been run
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adults, and at the end of the day they need to know things like this,” Tarvin said. “The more unaware we are and the more we don’t know, the more that we could hurt others.” Multicultural Services and Programs is working toward creating an accepting environment on campus, and ultimately throughout the community.
Extra security for Office 365 coming soon Alyssa Bosse Reporter
Multifactor Authentication (MFA) is being added to Office 365 soon. What MFA does is it requires another security factor in addition to using an ID and password to sign into a system. This will provide more security when signing into a web-based system. Associate Vice president for academic Affairs/Chief Information Officer, Dr. Lisa Spence said “An example of this is found quite frequently today in online banking: a person signs in to their account on the web using their bank account user ID and password, then the system texts a code to a phone number stored in the system for that person’s account, and the code must also be entered before the person can complete the log in process. The additional “factor” in this case is your phone.” Spence explained that with MFA not only does the person signing into a system have to “know” something like a ID and password but they will also have to “have” something like in the example of the bank she said the system would need the phone that is registered inside the system that they are logging into. This extra step of security will hopefully prevent phishing attacks since it will be harder to get into a web based system and makes data safer. It also will save time if someone is attacked, as they would avoid spending the time it would take for someone to fix it. “MFA will not prevent phishing emails. It will reduce the likelihood that someone will be trapped by a phishing email. In today’s world, the bad actor that is phishing you just has to send you an email where he has faked the content and maybe the address of the sender. Then he has to create a webpage that looks pretty real and ask you to put in your user ID and password,” that kind of thing happens all the time, said Spence. She explains that the significant difference of the security is the extra step that phishers can access your ID and password, but will not be able to access your phone that you received a text message allowing someone into the system. Receiving a text message being notified someone is wanting into the system is also a red flag that someone unauthorized is trying to log on. MFA will most likely happen in early 2019 after the support requirements are reviewed. This step of security is not required for everyone, as some students do not have a phone or tablet in addition to their laptop. As of right now, they plan on activating MFA for staff and student employees. When setting this up, you will have to respond to an additional request for action or information sometimes when logging into Office 365. Freshman, Winnie Zheng said “I wasn’t aware of all the phishing going on, but I am glad MFA is being implemented [and] can add security to web based systems.” “Keep watching out for phishing attacks,” said Spence. “If you receive a message that seems odd – someone asking you to enter your credentials when you did not expect to receive such a request – keep sending those to Stop-spoofing@indstate.edu so we can investigate them. And remember – OIT will never ask you to send us your ID and password in an email!”
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UC Berkeley Law will move to strip the name of Boalt Hall because of its racist taint Teresa Watanabe
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
The University of California, Berkeley’s elite law school will move to drop the name of its famed Boalt Hall after a century because it honors a man now known to have been an anti-Chinese racist, the dean announced Tuesday. Dean Erwin Chemerinsky said he struggled for months over the school’s close ties to the name of John Henry Boalt, a 19thcentury San Francisco attorney who described the Chinese laborers coming into California as unassimilable murderers and thieves and successfully pressed for an 1882 federal ban on Chinese immigration. Details of Boalt’s unsavory past were widely disseminated for the first time after Charles Reichmann, a Berkeley law lecturer, last year published an op-ed and, later, a law review article. In a letter to the law school community Tuesday, Chemerinsky said he changed his mind several times as he sorted through hundreds of “passionate, persuasive messages on both sides.” About 40 percent wanted to keep the name and the
rest wanted to drop it. Some argued that many historical figures, including Thomas Jefferson, had mixed legacies. Others feared that dropping the Boalt brand would hurt the law school or that it would dishonor Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt, who donated $100,000 for the original law school building in her late husband’s name. (The law school moved to another building in 1950.) In the end, Chemerinsky said he was most persuaded by those — including many students and alumni of color — who were pained by the continued use of the Boalt name. “I was moved by the many who wrote me expressing their discomfort with honoring someone who expressed vile racism, especially without anything to point to that would justify honoring him as an individual,” Chemerinsky wrote. He said he would ask the campus building committee to drop the Boalt name from the law school’s classroom wing. The committee will launch its own review, which will include a public hearing, with a decision by UC Chancellor Carol Christ expected next spring. UC President Janet Napolitano then
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A banner with a photo of Boalt Hall circa 1911 in Berkeley Law’s main classroom building, where the dean may recommend a name change in Berkeley, Calif., on October 9, 2018.
would have the final say. Chemerinsky said the law school will cease using the name in most other cases — on school directories, its Facebook page, the title of lecturer positions — and will encourage student and alumni organizations to do likewise. He added that the
school will find ways to make sure that Boalt’s racism is remembered. The dean made no recommendation on removing the Boalt name from two professorships endowed by Boalt’s widow, who is not known to have shared her husband’s
bigotry. (Changes in the terms of philanthropic gifts require approval of the state attorney general.) Chemerinsky said the school would continue to honor her generosity and her portrait would remain on a wall in the classroom wing.
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Around a nearby star, A shattering noise, then a deafening roar: New details from Southwest plane’s astronomers find a cold planet three times the size of Earth engine failure over Pennsylvania “The chances of finding new D N eborah
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PHILADELPHIA — A passenger on Southwest Flight 1380 described the sudden noise when the engine blew as like “a marble hitting glass.” Then, a roar as the plane depressurized. Flight attendants trying to ensure passengers were receiving air through emergency masks that dropped from the ceiling recalled the noise, coupled with the sudden pressure drop’s effect on their ears, leaving them nearly deafened. “Because of the pressure in her ears, she could barely hear anything,” according to documents federal safety officials released Wednesday, describing the experience of flight attendant Rachel Fernheimer that morning over Pennsylvania, April 17, 2018. “The cabin was loud and windy.” Fernheimer tried to remember her training and walked along the aisle, holding hands, telling passengers they would be OK, saying the plane would land. She couldn’t know that, though. Over the noise, she couldn’t hear anything from the flight crew. She checked on passengers’ oxygen masks, some of which had air hoses that had come loose. She reconnected those tubes to the oxygen supply, and showed other passengers how to wear the masks properly. When she reached Row 14 of the two-engine jet, a horrifying sight greeted her. The head, torso, and arms of the woman in Seat 14A had been sucked through a 10.5- by 14.37inch window. Another flight attendant, Seanique Mallory, was pulling on the woman’s body. Fernheimer got on the floor and grabbed one of the woman’s legs. As they struggled to keep Jennifer Riordan, 43, inside the
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Firefighters spray a Southwest Airlines plane with a damaged engine at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Pa., on April 17, 2018. The plane made an emergency landing. There was one fatality
plane, a passenger reached out of the window and grasped the woman’s shoulder. The pressure had begun to equalize, and the passenger pulled in her arm, then her head. Injuries to the New Mexico mother of two would prove fatal. New details about the Boeing 737-700 that lost an engine about 50 miles from Philadelphia emerged from a trove of documents released by the National Transportation Safety Board before a 9 a.m. hearing Wednesday in Washington. The jet carried 144 passengers and five crew. Its left engine blew after a fan blade broke while spinning at 5,149 rotations per minute and shredded the engine and its casing. Pilot Tammie Jo Shults — one of the first female fighter pilots in the Navy — was able to land the aircraft, which had taken off from New York City’s LaGuardia Airport and was headed to Love Field in Dallas, about 20 minutes later at Philadelphia International Airport, with all those on board except Riordan surviving with minimal injuries. At the first half of the NTSB
hearing Wednesday morning, questions focused on the testing that titanium fan blades undergo and the engine casing’s ability to contain a catastrophic event. The NTSB documents note that for pieces of the inlet, which directs air into the engine, and cowling to break free due to the fan blade failure was unexpected, as was the damage to the window. The safety agency took testimony from officials from Southwest, Boeing, the Federal Aviation Administration, and CFM International, the engine’s manufacturer. Southwest officials stated during the hearing that the CFM56-7 engine on Flight 1380 did not need to undergo intensive testing under the standards at the time of the incident. Fan blades experience enormous strain during a flight, drawing thousands of pounds of air into the engine. The amount of use a fan blade can have without inspection has been halved since the Philadelphia incident, but during Wednesday’s hearing, Bella Dinh-Zarr, a member of
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An international team of astronomers has detected evidence of a cold planet at least three times the size of Earth orbiting an ancient red dwarf star, right in our stellar neighborhood. If you were traveling at the speed of light, it would take you just six years to reach it. In the context of the universe, that’s basically right next door. The newly discovered world, described Wednesday in Nature, is associated with a small, dim star known as Barnard’s star that is older than our solar system. It takes the planet 233 days to complete a single orbit around its cool red sun. It is now the second-closest known planet to our solar system. The only closer known planet is an Earth-sized body that orbits the small red star Proxima Centauri in the Alpha Centauri triple star system. That planet was discovered in 2016 and lies just four light-years from Earth. The planet around Barnard’s star is probably too cold to host life, researchers said. Although it is about as close to its own star as Mercury is to the sun, scientists say it is probably as cold as Saturn. That’s because Barnard’s Star emits only 0.4 percent of the sun’s radiant power. But the new discovery is exciting for other reasons. The proximity of the newly found planet to Earth makes it an excellent target for future observations. It is so close that the next generation of telescopes may be able to image it directly, the researchers said. In addition, the new find provides further evidence that planets are nearly ubiquitous around red dwarf stars, said Ignasi Ribas, an astronomer and director of the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia in Spain, who led the work.
ones is quite high,” he said. The new detection was made by a team of scientists working on an astronomy collaboration called Red Dots. Together, they are scanning the night sky for planets orbiting nearby dim red dwarf stars. Ultimately they hope to find a world in the habitable zone of these stars, where liquid water could pool on its surface. This is not the first time that astronomers have thought they had found a planet around Barnard’s star. Back in the 1960s Peter van de Kamp, a Dutch astronomer based in the United States, reported the discovery of two planets roughly the size of Jupiter orbiting the red dwarf. To come to this conclusion he used a technique called astrometry that measures the movement of a single star across the celestial sphere. The idea is that the gravity of a planet orbiting that star would cause the star to shift its position ever so slightly compared with more distant background stars. Based on his observations, Van de Kamp believed one of the planets completed a full orbit around the dim star in 12 years, while the other completed its orbit in 20 years. However, as astrometry measurement techniques became more precise, scientists found that the supposed signals of Van de Kamp’s two planets did not exist after all. The new discovery of a single, much smaller planet orbiting Barnard’s star is based on a different observational technique called radial velocity. In this method scientists use spectrometers to look for a small wobble in the light from the star that would indicate it has a planet orbiting around it. “A light source that comes toward us would have its wavelength slightly blue shifted, while a light source that moves away from us has its wavelength
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indianastatesman.com UC CONT FROM PAGE 2 Alumni — many of whom proudly call themselves “Boalties” — are free to continue using the name as they wish, the dean wrote. Chemerinsky’s decision gratified Tar Rakhra, cochair of Berkeley Law’s Asian Pacific American Law Students Association. He said he was impressed by a law school committee’s deliberative work in examining the issue over more than a year, with the help of a town hall and survey to students, alumni, faculty and staff. The committee made the recommendations that Chemerinsky ultimately
COLD CONT FROM PAGE 2 slightly red shifted,” Ribas said. The magnitude of the wobble reveals the minimum mass of the planet that is responsible for the motion. The radial velocity method was developed in the 1990s and has been steadily improving ever since, Ribas said. Even so, the size of the newly found planet is just on the edge of what current instruments can detect. This particular discovery was possible only because the research team was able to examine hundreds of measurements that had been made over 20 years, he said. That gave them enough data to detect the small signal of the planet. To ensure the detection was accurate, the authors also observed Barnard’s star every possible night during 2016 and 2017
WOOLSEY FROM PAGE 1 for decades by sometime Hollywood stunt rider Buck Wicall, who died in June at 83. The store is now operated by Wicall’s daughter, Adrienne Manhan, and her husband, David Manhan. They still don’t own a computer. All records are kept with ink and paper. Wall space is covered in framed photos of Wicall’s friends: Ronald Reagan, Gene Autry and Clayton Moore, who played the Lone Ranger. “When we evacuated
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accepted. Rakhra, a second-year law student from Yorba Linda, Calif., said he empathized with alumni who feel a close link with the Boalt name and acknowledged that their donations to the school could drop. “It’s a tough, painful thing for them,” he said, “but we have to do the right thing and the right thing is to acknowledge John Boalt’s racist past.” Reichmann, who wrote the op-ed, said he is thrilled to have made a difference. “It’s part of society’s ongoing obligation to consider its history,” he said. from the Calar Alto Astronomical Observatory in Spain. A clear signal at a period of 233 days arose again and again. Rodrigo Diaz, an astronomer at the University of Buenos Aires who was not involved in the new work, said that while the findings are promising, he’d still like to see more evidence of the new planet’s existence. “Difficult detections such as this one warrant confirmation by independent methods and research groups,” he said in an essay accompanying the new study. The European Space Agency’s Gaia Space Observatory may be able to make detections that would further confirm the presence of a planet around Barnard’s star, he said, but those data aren’t expected to be released until the 2020s.
NEW CONT FROM PAGE 2 the NTSB board, asked whether fan blades should have a mandated age at which they are pulled from use. It was something that officials were looking into, said Christopher Spinney, who testified for the FAA. Eight blades have been pulled from service due to the discovery of cracks since the Philadelphia incident, the NTSB reported at the hearing. Also under investigation is why the inlet and the cowl that surrounds the engine didn’t contain the damaged engine, and didn’t prevent debris from spraying forward into the fuselage. A virtually identical fanblade failure occurred on another Southwest flight, over Pensacola, Fla., in 2016, but no one was injured. Investigators are looking at whether the angle of impact of the fan blade on the casing was the reason the Philadelphia incident turned deadly, and whether further testing and precautions are needed to secure the parts surrounding an engine. In a statement Wednesday, CFM International noted it had moved aggressively to address the concerns raised by the accident. “All of the CFM56-7B fan blades targeted by the various Airworthiness Directives were cleared by mid-August 2018, ahead of the August 31 deadline,” wrote the company, a cooperative between the French company Safran Aircraft Engines and General Electric. Pieces of the plane rained down on Berks County, some of them small fragments of metal, others large sheets torn from the ruined engine. All the recovered parts landed in Bernville, a community of about 1,000 people. A piece of blue metal, later determined to be a section of the inboard fan cowl, landed on the women’s tee of the 17th hole at the Heidelberg Country Club. Part of the fan-cowl frame was found in the tree line that separates the 9th and 16th fairways. A section of the outer engine barrel plummeted onto
state land, where it was found by two Pennsylvania Game Commission employees. Investigators found debris up to 65 miles away from Philadelphia. Riordan’s cabin window shattered fewer than 3.2 seconds after the engine failure, according to the NTSB documents. Within five seconds, the passenger cabin had depressurized. After Fernheimer helped pulled her back into the plane, the flight attendant caught a glance of the ruined engine. Blood covered the passenger windows outside. The people helping Riordan laid her across the row of seats once they pulled her back in. One passenger, a registered nurse, came to assist. Another, a paramedic, began to perform CPR. Passengers kept asking: Would they make it? The captain’s voice came over the speakers, calm, announcing they would be landing in Philadelphia. We’re going to make it, Fernheimer insisted. She moved forward to check on more passengers. When she left Riordan’s row, the paramedic and nurse were still performing chest compressions on the woman. The Philadelphia medical examiner would eventually find that her spine had been broken in two places. She also suffered terrible head injuries, internal bleeding, multiple fractured ribs, and many cuts and scrapes of her face, neck, chest, back and arms. The cause of death was “blunt trauma of the head, neck and torso.” While passengers and flight attendants fought to save Riordan, the plane’s captain and first officer were facing chaos and shock. In the cockpit, Shults described losing a sense of time amid the chaos. She struggled with the plane’s suddenly sluggish controls, she told investigators, and she and her first officer, Darren Lee Ellisor, experienced seven to 10 minutes when they couldn’t communicate with anyone else on the plane. The Southwest Airlines jet shown
inside a hangar at Philadelphia International Airport the day after the incident. Ellisor, 44, was flying the craft at about 32,000 feet when the engine exploded. He heard a loud bang, and almost immediately felt extreme vibration as the plane veered hard to the left. Fog and dust filled the cockpit. Horns sounded. The sudden decompression took Ellisor’s breath away. He told investigators it was the “most memorable few seconds” of his aviation career. Unable to hear the captain or air traffic control, he disconnected the autopilot and automatic throttle, donned his oxygen mask, and began taking the plane down, only to realize it was already beginning to descend on its own. Within two minutes of the explosion, at 25,000 feet, Shults, 56, took control of the aircraft. Ellisor turned his attention to a checklist to determine what had happened to the plane. The fog in the cockpit led the crew to think there was a fire, but its sensors did not detect a blaze. Shults told her first officer the flight controls were dragging and that the plane’s hydraulic system must have been damaged. Throughout, Shults kept thinking of the No. 1 directive in Southwest’s emergency procedures: “Maintain aircraft control.” The suggestion from air traffic control was that she land at Harrisburg International Airport in Middletown, Pa. But the captain requested Philadelphia. Shults initially wanted the 20-mile final approach to give her and Ellisor time to work through their checklists. But news about the gravely injured passenger changed her mind. The goal now was to get on the ground as fast as possible. Ellisor described the landing on Philadelphia’s Runway 27 as “great.” Fire trucks greeted the plane. After several frustrating attempts to talk to rescue teams over radio, he eventually yelled to the fire chief out the plane’s forward door.
the other night, we all did it together,” said Adrienne Manhan, 60. “There’s a small-town feeling to this place.” David Manhan, 59, who is also a movie set designer, says the allure of the Santa Monica Mountains is unmistakable. “It’s the mountains, it’s the oak trees, it’s nature,” the native of the area said. “You drive through the canyons, you see the rock formations, you hit [Pacific Coast Highway] and see the ocean. It’s like no other place.”
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Freshman Name: Darci Leonard Major: Pre-Dentistry Hometown: Indianapolis Favorite pie: Apple pie Plans for Thanksgiving Break: Eat as much food as possible and sleep.
Sophomore Name: Benjamin Mooday Major: Geoscience Hometown: Crawfordsville, IN. Favorite pie: Pumpkin pie Plans for Thanksgiving Break: Go home and spend time with friends
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How to stay healthy during the holiday season Nicole Nunez Reporter
The holiday season is a time filled with celebration, but many do not think about how their health and wellness is impacted from all the fun, food, and festivities. With Thanksgiving break and of course, a delightful Thanksgiving dinner right around the corner, it is important to keep our health in mind. According to Amy Demchack, Indiana State University Employee Wellness Coordinator, there are eight dimensions of wellness: physical, emotional, intellectual, financial, social, environmental, occupational, and spiritual wellness. During the holiday season, one dimension that is greatly affected is physical wellness. From a large Thanksgiving dinner, to
baking cookies, to holiday parties, the amount of calories consumed by Americans increases greatly. “A typical Thanksgiving dinner has over 3000 calories and for most people daily calorie needs are somewhere between 1400 and 2000 calories. So, that one dinner can sometimes throw us off,” said Demchak. To help faculty and staff during the holidays, Demchak created No-Gain November, a series of three classes to aid with their health and wellness. The first class consisted of discussing food and eating habits during the holidays. Here are a few ways to cut down on calories during the holiday season: Include more green vegetables in your thanksgiving dinner. Pay attention to your portions. We all still want to enjoy our thanksgiving dinner, just pay-
ing more attention to what we put on our plate and how much is key to a healthy holiday. Even just using smaller plates at dinner can be a way to reduce portion sizes. Cooking changes. Cooking with less butter, and grilling instead of frying are a simple way to reduce the calories while still having an enjoyable meal. Choose your favorite holiday specialties. Many dishes during the season we only have a chance to enjoy one time a year, so we can still enjoy them. It is a matter of choosing your favorites and consuming in moderation. Another aspect of physical wellness is fitness. Demchak’s second class was centered on fitness during the holidays. The focus of the class was “how we can fit fitness into a busy schedule and in a time of year when
the weather is not so cooperative,” said Demchak. With the temperatures dropping and snow falling, people are often less willing to go for walks or go to the gym. With holidays come busy schedules and little free time. Finding time in our day becomes increasingly hard during the holiday months. Here are a few ways to stay active during the holiday season: Take the stairs. Heel lifts while cooking or in the office. These activities do not require scheduling gym time into your day. These are small, but effective, changes that do not interfere with busy schedules. These can be used at work, at school, and at home. Set your alarm earlier. Bring gym clothes with you to work or class. Waking up earlier allows your body to create an internal sched-
ule. Exercising in the morning is a healthy way to start your day and stick with a routine. Bringing clothes and shoes for a workout create an idea of accountability. You brought the clothes with you for a reason, so you might as well go to the gym. Another dimension that can adversely affect the holiday season is emotional wellness. The holidays are a time to spend with family and friends, but this looks different for everyone. Sudden changes and advertisements of a “normal” holiday can affect many during the season. “This Friday we are going to be talking about some of the stress and depression that comes with the holidays, because for some people they don’t have families to celebrate with or they’ve had big changes in their family and sometimes holidays, like
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Astralis earns another win in ‘Counter-Strike’ grand slam
Tim Sloan | AFP | Getty Images | A&E
In this file image from “The Clinton Affair,” U.S. President Bill Clinton, right, appears with First Lady Hillary Clinton to make a statement to reporters outside the oval office following his impeachment by the US House of Representatives. Clinton rejected calls for his resignation after the House impeached him on one count of perjury and obstruction of justice.
‘The Clinton Affair’ review: Highly watchable but lacks perspective Verne Gay
Newsday (TNS)
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: This overview of the months leading up to the House impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998 is largely concerned with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky — interviewed throughout — as she recalls her time in the White House, and then the fateful move to the Pentagon where she
would meet a confidante named Linda Tripp. Tripp — who had tape-recorded hours of conversations with Lewinsky speaking of her affair with the president — is not interviewed in this program. Many others are, including former special prosecutor Ken Starr. This six-parter was produced by Alex Gibney (“Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief”) and Blair Foster (“Mr. Dynamite: The Rise
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Astralis stands above 15 other teams in Chicago as they defeat Team Liquid in the grand finals of the Intel Extreme Masters Chicago “Counter-Strike: Global Offensive” tournament and come one step closer to the Intel Grand Slam. The best of five map grand final started on Mirage. The first map took all 30 rounds to finish as Astralis won 16-14. The map was hotly contested in the beginning, with Astralis taking the terrorist side and Liquid the counter-terrorist. Liquid began to pull away around the tenth round with a score of 7-3. By the end of the half, Liquid retained the edge nine rounds to six. Liquid looked to have the map in hand at the start of round 25, leading 14-10. Being put on the back foot, Astralis rallied putting together the last six rounds of the map and taking a map lead in the series. It is hard to tell whether Astralis’ win on this map was due to their skill or Team Liquid dropping the ball. It probably was a little bit of both. There were a few rounds that Liquid should have won easily and Astralis did a great job of keeping the Liquid economy in check. They made sure to make ev-
ery round as costly as possible for Liquid, leaving only two or three players alive for Liquid at the end of rounds, forcing them to re-buy weapons and armor. This never let Liquid gain a solid foothold, which was deciding factor as Liquid could only make sub-par buys in the final rounds. NAF led the way for Liquid scoring 28 kills on Mirage. Taco and twistzz also put up respectable numbers with 23 and 24 kills respectively. Astralis may not have led the game, but had a more consistent performance as a team. Every member of Astralis had between 18 and 25 kills and kept their deaths below 20, other than dupreeh who had 21. While the entirety of Astralis put up numbers, Liquid was held back by EliGE and nitr0. Nitr0 struggled on Mirage with only 12 kills, while EliGE fell way behind the pack with only eight. The second map was won handily by Astralis 16-7 as they continued to show their traditional dominance on Nuke. Astralis took an early and dominating lead on the T-side taking four straight rounds before Liquid won their first in the fifth round. Liquid began to push back by the end of the half, but
as the two teams switched sides Astralis held the lead 9-6. From there it was all downhill for Liquid, as they were only able to pick up one round in the second half as Astralis marched on to get their needed 16 rounds and second map. The map did not last long enough for either side to break 20 kills, but Astralis came the closest with two players reaching 19. On the Liquid side the quietest players on the first map made the biggest splash for their team as nitr0 and EliGE let the North American squad with 17 and 14 kills respectively. If Astralis dominated Nuke, they absolutely squashed Liquid on the third and final map Inferno 16-4. Liquid started off quick on the T-side, winning the first three rounds. After that, Astralis came alive winning three straight. Liquid stopped Astralis’ streak by winning the final round in round seven. From this point on ward it was all Astralis as they won the next 13 rounds and the championship in Chicago. Astralis left Chicago with a trophy and their share of the $250,000 prize pool. For win-
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indianastatesman.com CLINTON FROM PAGE 4 of James Brown”). MY SAY: “The Clinton Affair.” If those three words don’t send a cold chill down your spine, then perhaps the series is for you. All others who have happily repressed their memories of a certain blue dress, Linda Tripp, Ken Starr and an improbable beachhead called “Whitewater” best move along. Those memories have been suppressed for a reason — a good one. Moreover, the passage of 20 years hasn’t healed the wounds but has seen them deepen, while “The Clinton Affair” does make the case — initially anyway — that our current political divide began right here. But get past cold chills, deep wounds and Whitewater — right, not easy — and “The Clinton Affair” does offer a highly watchable overview of something most of us thought we’d never want to watch again. Best of these four hours is the last one on Tuesday night, which is a tightly paced ticktock of the attempt by Starr and the FBI to get Lewinsky to flip on President Clinton just hours before his depo-
sition in the Paula Jones lawsuit. (Jones was suing Clinton over alleged sexual harassment.) Lewinsky tells the story herself and tells it with considerable skill and anguish — of FBI agents strong-arming her in a lavish suite in the Pentagon City Ritz Carlton, and of panicked calls to her mother. “I felt the only way to fix this was jump out the window,” she recalls. Starr goes unchallenged here when he says, “If she had said ‘I was betrayed by Linda Tripp,’ the horror that the nation went through for eight months during the impeachment) would essentially have been avoided. It would have been over very, very quickly.” Maybe, but neither the former Whitewater special prosecutor nor “The Clinton Affair” explores how a failed land deal had anything to do with Paula Jones. Many critics of Starr at the time believed he had overreached as part of a Republican-led witch hunt. None of them are heard from here. That’s both the virtue and chief fault of “The Clinton Affair.” To get straight to the story, it
Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018 • Page 5 cuts through the underbrush and skirts the blame game. Gibney and Foster’s instinct — undoubtedly the correct one — is that would just slow the narrative to a dead crawl. What’s sacrificed, however, is any sense of what all this meant, if anything. Both Michael Isikoff, the Newsweek reporter who nearly broke the White House intern story (the Drudge Report was first), and Lewinsky herself talk about going down “the rabbit hole,” referring, of course, to “Alice in Wonderland’s” topsy-turvy world. Exhaustive and well told, “The Clinton Affair” seeks no meaning and offers no perspective once down there. As a result, viewers are shoved down that rabbit hole, too, and — even at a 20-year remove — it looks just as crazy now as it did then. BOTTOM LINE: Highly watchable and skillfully told, “The Clinton Affair” is otherwise without perspective or insight. What did it all mean? Don’t come here for answers. ‘THE CLINTON AFFAIR’ Sunday, Monday and Tuesday at 9 p.m./8 p.m. Central on A&E
HOLIDAY FROM PAGE 4 like Thanksgiving, can really bring up some anxious or some sad feelings,” said Demchak. “And for some us we don’t always handle those real well, so we’re going to talk about that and sort of brainstorm healthy ways we can manage those feelings, so we aren’t isolating ourselves, overeating, or causing any family strife.” Here are a few ways to relieve stress during the
SLAM CONT. FROM PAGE 4 ning the tournament, Astralis’ share was $100,000. This tournament also brought Astralis one championship away from the Intel Grand Slam. According to the In-
holiday season: Mayo Clinic says to acknowledge your feelings. Realizing your stressors is the first step to recovery and enjoying your holiday. Enjoying the season is different for everyone and just because it is the holiday season, does not mean you have to be constantly cheerful. Mayo Clinic also says to get involved and reach out. Whether it is going to events or getting involved in your community, interaction with other people
and being out of the house is important. With the cheer and the excitement come potential issues. Being aware of your wellness during the holiday season is crucial. “Our goal is to help our employees be healthy, be productive, be satisfied, and be inspired in their work life,” said Demchak. The third class of NoGain November will be held Friday Nov. 16 in the Cunningham Memorial Library Conference room 028.
tel Grand Slam website, “the Intel Grand Slam is a new and ground-breaking esport competition. It ties competitions hosted by ESL and Dreamhack together by offering one million dollars to the first CSGO team which can
win four tournaments in the span of ten to complete the first Intel Grand Slam.” With the win in Chicago, Astralis has three of the four needed titles to win the million dollars and the first Intel Grand Slam.
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Commentary: Broad gun Control restrictions are not the answer Amy Swearer
The Heritage Foundation (TNS)
We all know the script by now: A mass public shooting occurs. Grief and anger ensue. Calls for stricte gun laws soon follow. Given how incredibly upsetting these crimes are, and how deeply they shake their communities — and the nation itself — such calls are perfectly understandable. If we’re truly serious, however, about reducing gun violence rates and increasing personal safety, we must ensure that policy decisions are made with an eye toward facts and reality, not panic and outrage. The facts tell us that most commonly proposed gun-control measures are already ineffective at preventing mass public shootings in states where they are currently implemented, and that they will continue to be ineffective at preventing future tragedies. Although some gun-control advocates claim there have been more than 300 “mass shootings” this year, that number is a product of using deceptive and largely meaningless definitions that include incidents far removed from the context commonly associated with the term. Since Jan. 1, 2018, there have been 11 mass public shootings in which three or more people other than the shooter were killed, parameters derived from Congress’s definitions of “mass shooting” and “mass killing.” These 11 mass public shootings occurred across 7 different states, but three occurred in California, the only state with an “A” rating from the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Two more occurred in Maryland, with an “A-” rating. Another two occurred in Pennsylvania, whose “C” rating still accounts for the 13th strictest gun-control framework in the country. Strict gun control may be the go-to response of many, but it’s simply not the answer to the problem of mass public shootings. In fact, since 2000, 17 percent of mass public shootings
have occurred in California, even though the state accounts for only 12 percent of the nation’s population. Texas, meanwhile, has an “F” gun control rating, yet has seen only 6.6 percent of total mass public shootings since 2000 — below its expected share, given that it holds 8.6 percent of the national population. On the other hand, Washington state — with a “B” rating — accounts for 2.2 percent of the population but 8 percent of mass public shootings since 2000. More importantly, the general availability of guns doesn’t appear to be the problem. Since 1990, the number of firearms per capita in the United States has increased by 50 percent. At the same time, however, the national homicide rate and national gun-homicide rate have plummeted by 50 percent, and the number of non-fatal firearm crimes committed in 2011 was one-sixth the number committed in 1993. On the whole, the increasing availability of firearms has not been related to increases in violent crime. Mass public shootings rightly terrify us, but they remain statistically very rare. The same is true of firearm deaths related to the use of semi-automatic “assault weapons.” You are, in fact, three times more likely to be beaten to death with hands and feet than you are to be shot to death with a rifle of any kind. That does not mean we should not continue to find ways to remove firearms from the hands of individuals who show themselves, by their actions, to be a heightened risk of violence to themselves or others. It does mean, however, that rational gun policies should not demonize particular types of firearms rarely used by criminals but commonly used by millions of law-abiding citizens for a variety of lawful reasons — including self-defense. We do not effectively combat gun violence by broadly restricting the rights of law-abiding citizens, thereby hindering their
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Stephen L. Carter: Recounts are always unsatisfying. Get used to them. Stephen L. Carter
Bloomberg News (TNS)
It’s now just more than a week after Election Day, which means that we’re in recount season. In the governor’s and Senate races in Florida, possibly in the governor’s race in Georgia, and in smaller local races galore, officials are gathering to re-tabulate the ballots in contests where one candidate led by a razor-thin margin on election night. It’s become a ritual of our democracy that when the outcome is close, each side usually accuses the other of trying to steal the election. In some cases, it’s obvious that we should double-check the count. Our mantra is, as it should be, to make sure every ballot is counted fairly and accurately. It’s a noble democratic goal. The trouble is, we don’t know how to accomplish it. Seriously. We’ve been counting objects since we were toddlers playing with blocks, and we ought to be pretty good at it. We’re not — at least when we’re counting ballots. The tally from election night (what cognoscenti have come to call the “preliminary” count) is almost certainly wrong. Let’s be very clear about that. Counting errors are a given, no matter what system is used. We humans miscount paper ballots, but machines aren’t
much better. Ballots get mangled, they stick to each other, they get counted twice or not at all. So we count again. Of course we do. The trouble is that the recount — known as the “official” or the “certified” count — is also almost certainly wrong. It’s true that recounts are often more careful than the preliminary tallies, but the complicated systems for checking ballots can themselves lead to potential errors. In one commonly used method, four auditors work together. The first reads the ballot aloud, the second checks to be sure the ballot has been read correctly, and the other two keep a hand count, pausing at regular intervals to be sure they are in sync. Other systems involve three auditors per ballot, or two, but no matter which we choose, it’s easy to imagine the count getting tangled. And that’s exactly what the research suggests will happen. A widely cited study of New Mexico’s 2006 election found that machine counts and hand counts of the same ballots differed enormously, with agreement ranging from just above 50 percent to just below 80 percent – meaning that even in the best case, there was disagreement more than 20 percent of the time. The study also found that successive hand counts of the same ballots usually yield differing results.
This isn’t to say that either count is “right” — only that they differ. But let’s not leap to the conclusion that partisanship or corruption are to blame for the errors. Laboratory tests in which subjects tabulate ballots bearing the names of imaginary candidates without party identification also show high rates of disagreement about the number of votes for each. All of which is to say that we might never be able to get the correct count – if by “correct” we mean true and accurate totals of the number of ballots actually cast for each candidate. In other words, the second, “official” tabulation doesn’t give us the true numbers; it just gives us different numbers. But of course we’ll keep doing recounts. We have to. Suppose that on Election Day, state officials announce that my candidate lost. If there’s no recount, the chances of my side winning are exactly zero. Now add a recount. Here the research is unclear, but let’s suppose the odds are overwhelmingly against the recount changing the result. I won’t care about that. All that’s necessary to make the recount worthwhile from my point of view is that there be a non-trivial possibility that the result will
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A shot to save grandma: If vaccination rates rise just 1 percentage point, 807 won’t die from flu Ian Ayres
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
A natural disaster is bearing down on our country, one assured to take the lives of thousands and hospitalize tens of thousands more: the annual flu epidemic. Last year’s strains were particularly virulent, with 900,000 Americans hospitalized and more than 80,000 people dying from the flu or its complications. To make matters worse, many of these people died needlessly. The flu vaccination rate in the United States hovers around 45 percent. If we could increase this rate to 70 percent — the level required to reach “community” or “herd” immunity and keep an epidemic from propagating — the majority of the deaths, hospitalizations and missed days of work could be avoided. But to do that, we need to properly incentivize vaccination. Right now, if you’re a relatively healthy person, a flu shot might reduce your personal risk of coming down with the flu by 40 percent to 60 percent. But getting a flu shot also does something else: It
helps protect the people around you who are most vulnerable to serious flu illness, particularly the very old and the very young. A vaccine that is 60 percent effective on a 30-year-old, for instance, may be only 30 percent effective on someone over 65. Babies are notably hospitalized for influenza at alarming rates. A new study by Cal Poly Pomona economist Corey White has measured these powerful ripple effects of flu vaccination. Using 50-state data from 1994 to 2016, he estimates each percentage point increase in the U.S. vaccination rate would result in 807 fewer deaths. (Put another way, if an additional 4,016 people were vaccinated this season, we would expect to save one life.) These benefits accumulate incrementally until we reach the herd immunity threshold. Most of those lives saved are of people over 75. So if you want to save the lives of grandmothers and grandfathers in your community, get a flu shot. Or, in the lingo of Twitter, young people should get the flu shot to #ProtectRBG. White found other positive community effects. A one percentage point increase in the vaccination rate would result in
15 million fewer lost work hours nationwide. That means that your failure to get a shot will, on average, cause five hours of wages to be lost. Health agencies charged with promoting flu shots should be leveraging these community benefits in their campaigns. A recent study from the University of Minnesota found that a third of people didn’t know that getting a flu vaccine can help others not get sick; educating them about the benefits of herd immunity increased their willingness to get vaccinated by 7.3 percent. If cajoling and appealing to altruism isn’t enough, we can do more. The broad population benefits of high flu vaccination rates make the case for what economists call a Pigovian subsidy. In other words, we should pay people to get vaccinated. By White’s estimate, each vaccination produces at least $98 in social benefits due to reduced work absences, substantially exceeding the $15 per-shot cost of administering a mass vaccination. How much would we have to pay people? A 2015 study by Swarthmore economists has found that a $30 subsidy was enough to increase vaccine rates by 12 percentage
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points — and White’s lost-work estimates suggest that a much larger carrot would be cost-justified. Large employers are a natural site for mass vaccinations, so one could imagine tax breaks for employers if their workforces reach a target vaccination rate. Or governments could experiment with a variety of financial carrots and sticks to find the mix that achieves community immunity without over-vaccinating to the point where benefits plateau. Changing the nation’s flu shot habits will have another payoff. Sooner or later, a much more virulent strain will emerge — like the 1918 pandemic that claimed an estimated 675,000 lives just in the United States and more than 20 million worldwide. With the community protection of a much higher vaccination rate, another pandemic won’t be so disastrous. We need not accept that tens of thousands of Americans die each year from influenza right now either. Through better evidence-based messaging and subsidies for flu shots, we can start saving lives (and hospitalizations and lost work days) today.
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indianastatesman.com CARTER CONT. FROM PAGE 6 flip. When the margin of victory is less than 0.5 percent, research tells us that there is indeed a nontrivial probability that the official count will change the result. We just don’t know what the probability is. But as long as the probability is nontrivial, the precise figure hardly matters. Suppose it turns out that, say, 95 percent of recounts produce the same winner announced on Election Day. This figure sounds quite overwhelming, until we realize that if the count is the same in 95 percent of the cases, then in 5 percent of the cases — one out of 20 — the count is different. And a 5 percent chance that my candidate wins is infinitely larger than a zero percent chance. So if my candidate loses a close election, it’s entirely rational for me to favor a recount. We could avoid all of this if we were confident of getting the count right the first time. But we’re not.
SWIMMING FROM PAGE 8 do the same with ISU. Senior swimmer Martha Marks looks to bring her A-game in this upcoming meet against Cleveland State, as she looks to come off an amazing performance against Evansville and Valpo. The Israel-native won the 200-yard freestyle with a season-best performance of 1:53.17 and then placed first in the 100-yard freestyle later in the day, touching the wall at 52.85. On the diving side, freshman Elle Christie looks to continue her dominance as she did
GUN CONT. FROM PAGE 6 ability to defend themselves and others from violence. Rather, we must focus more intently on the major underlying causes of the gun violence: untreated mental health problems that increase the
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Sure, at the margin there are ways of reducing the error rate. For example, paper ballots are counted more accurately than the old-fashioned lever machines that have almost gone out of use — and also more accurately than many electronic voting machines. No counting method, however, ensures that we will get the right answer when the election is close. We’ve been counting all our lives but we still mess it up. In truth, the only solution to the recount problem is not to have such close elections. If the outcome isn’t close, we don’t have to worry about the errors. We know that they exist, but we’re confident that counting again wouldn’t change the outcome. Nobody thinks the landslide winner cheated the loser. But in our deeply divided country, narrow election victories and the attendant suspicion and anger look to be a part of the unruly present and, in
the near term, the unruly future. (And, no, it turns out that we can’t motivate voters by warning them that the election will be close. Public knowledge that the outcome will be decided by a small percentage seems not to improve turnout.) So we’ll keep doing recounts, and with good reason. Let’s not kid ourselves, however. Let’s be very clear about the two things that will always happen as a result. We won’t ever satisfy the partisans whose candidate loses the second time around; they’ll believe to their dying day that the election was stolen by the other party. In a close election, we’ll never really know who “really” won. We’ll just know that the second, error-filled count decided. We can certainly decide to make a rule holding that this second count is the official one. But let’s not delude ourselves into believing that we’re going to get the numbers right. Because we’re not.
against Valpo and Evansville by sweeping both the one and threemeter dives. Christie finished the one-meter dive with a score of 255.07 and earned a score of 253.88 in the three-meter dive. She looks to bring same type of performance against the Vikings. Paul Graham enters his fifth season as the head coach at Cleveland State. The Horizon League named Graham the Women’s Swimming & Diving Coach of the Year this past season, becoming the first-ever CSU coach to claim that honor. This honor was earned due
to the success that he had achieved, including a third place finish with 586 points at the Horizon League Championships, finishing only seven points behind the runnerup. The Vikings improved two spots from the previous season, and four places in two years, while finishing three positions higher than projected in the preseason poll. The Cleveland State women broke school records in nine of the 18 swimming events at the 2018 League meet. The first day of the Cup will be Friday, Nov. 16
risk of suicide and interpersonal violence, gang and drug activity that drive illegal black market firearm transfers, and the lack of economic and educational opportunities that lead to cycles of poverty and crime. We must also increase
the ability of law-abiding citizens to choose where and how and with what means to best defend themselves and their families from criminals who do not care to follow laws generally, and gun control laws in particular.
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Indiana State football has one last shot at making post-season Jordan Koegler Reporter
Finishing the season Saturday Nov. 17 for Indiana State Football is an away game against Western Illinois at Hanson field in Macomb, Illinois. ISU has a current overall record of 6-4 and a conference record of 4-3. On the other side, Western Illinois has a current record of 5-5 and a conference record of 4-3. Western Illinois leads in alltime series with the Sycamores, 26-15. Indiana State leads the all-time series with the Leathernecks 11-10 in Terre Haute, but 4-16 in Macomb. Last time Sycamores defeated the Leathernecks was when ISU traveled to Macomb in 2012 with a 23-7 victory at Hanson Field. Katrell Moss was named the Missouri Valley Football Conference defensive player of the week. He is the second consecutive defensive player of the week for Moss and ISU. Moss a senior linebacker recorded a game high with 13 tackles, seven being solo during Saturday’s game against Illinois State. His fifth time he has recorded double-digit stops this season. Recording his first sack of the season for five yards in the third quarter while finishing with a 1.5 tackles becoming the 17th player in program history to pass the 300-career tackle mark. Indiana State is currently ranked at number 24 and is on a current four-game winning streak, which the Sycamores haven’t done since 2014.
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Sycamores set to play Western Illinois.
Last season Sycamores had a 0-11 season and were last in the Missouri Valley Football Conference. Fast-forward to a year later, and the Sycamores now have a winning season. ISU is the eighth team to obtain a top 25 ranking this season with sitting at number 24 in the AFCA coaches poll this week. It is the first time the Trees have ranked since 2016. What a year this makes for the Sycamores, with the team improving their scoring margin by nearly 200 points and upping their win total by at least six games.
Within the last week, ISU has been able to improve their scoring margin nearly 40 points per games in comparison to the 2017 season. Jonas Griffith and Moss have both had over 100 tackles this season for the Sycamores and are sitting at the number one and number two in the Missouri Valley Football Conference rankings. Griffith is a dominant defense player for the Sycamores. With 10 games this season, Griffith has had 123 tackles and 73 of those being solo. He is leading the Missouri Valley Football Conference. He has recorded 18 tackles in consecutive
games in week seven and eight and is holding eight or more tackles within each game throughout the season. Holding 12.3 tackles per game and ranked fourth nationally while having a 7.3 solo tackles per game and ranked top in the country for Griffith. Griffith is currently number 14 in the program history in single season tackles. He is only five away from entering the top 10. Senior linebacker Moss is ranked number two on the team and third in the Valley with 113 tackles this season. He is tied for 22nd most in a single season. Moss has not recorded fewer than seven tackles in a single game this season. Moss joined the 300-tackle club with 13 tackles during Saturday’s game. On the other side, Western Illinois lost their last game 12-17 against Southern Dakota during Saturday’s game. Daymon Murry scored his first touchdown for the Leathernecks. Nathan Erickson scored the first touchdown for the Leathernecks with a 52 yard field goal. It was the Leathernecks longest attempt this season. Western Illinois, Pete Swenson leads the nation in tackles for loss and posted three Saturday that combined 18 yards lost. Western Illinois will honor its 21 seniors before Saturday’s game against Indiana State. The game will air live on ESPN3. Fans can also listen to the game on WIBQ 97.7 FM. Kickoff is set for 2 p.m. ET.
Interview with women’s basketball coach Vicki Hall Jay Adkins Reporter
Q1: What brought you to Indiana State University? Vicki: It was a great opportunity. Indiana State has won championships in the past, they’ve had great fan support, and being a part of the valley is an awesome opportunity if you obtain that job because the valley has always been a pretty strong league for women’s basketball. Not to mention the fact that I’m also from the state of Indiana.
grade team. I fell in love with the sport and I kept playing. Q3: How do you feel about the team this season? Vicki: I think that our team has worked very hard to embrace the changes that we’ve presented as a staff. We’ve been more aggressive, we’ve changed our entire defensive look, we’ve changed our entire offensive look, and we work a lot differently than we have in the past. I think that if they continue to do the things that we’re asking, I think we can ask a lot of success, but there is still a lot of work for us to do. Q4: Who are your favorite pro athletes? Vicki: Steph Curry is my favorite. I love Steph Curry. I’m a Golden State fan and I’ve always been a fan. Even back in the Chris Mullen days. I like Kevin Durant because we both attended the University of Texas and I loved him even more when he went to the Warriors. My other two favorites are Michael Jordan and Larry Bird.
Vicki Hall
Q2: How did you first become involved in Basketball? Vicki: I became involved with basketball at an early age. I started playing basketball competitively in the fifth grade. I was a fifth grader on an eighth
Q5: Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Vicki: Hopefully as a successful coach who has won a lot of games and has a lot of student athletes who have graduated and been successful and have moved on to great positions in life that I’ve been able to help along the way.
ISU swimming, diving to travel to Cleveland David Cruz Reporter
The Sycamore Women’s Swimming and Diving team will travel to Cleveland, Ohio to compete at the Magnus Cup, hosted by Cleveland State from Nov. 16-18. ISU is currently 9-0 on the season, which is the best start in school history. The Cleveland State Vikings are 1-1-1 on the season as well as two last place finishes in the two invites that they have participated in. Part of the program’s best start was the hiring of new head coach Josh Christensen. Christensen comes to Indiana State from Fresno Pacific University in Fresno, California. “We are excited about the passion and experience Coach Josh Christensen will bring
to the Indiana State Women’s Swimming & Diving program,” ISU Director of Athletics Sherard Clinkscales said. “He is the right fit for our program as we look to continue the climb up the Missouri Valley Conference standings. Coach Christensen will move our program forward based on a strong work ethic in and out of the pool.” His wife, Jenny, is a former NCAA AllAmerican Swimmer and a native of Kokomo, which is a pretty good companion to have in your corner as a swimming coach. Christensen oversaw the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams while at Fresno Pacific, turning the programs into national contenders in NCAA Division II. He looks to do the same with ISU.
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Katie Wells and Danielle Varner pick MVC Scholar-Athlete honors Ace Hunt
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ST. LOUIS — The 2018 Missouri Valley Conference Women’s Soccer Scholar-Athlete Teams were announced today (Nov. 13) by the league office and the Sycamores picked up a pair of selections. Senior Katie Wells and sophomore Danielle Varner were each honored by the league office. The teams were selected by a vote of the league’s sports information directors, with input from the league’s head coaches. Katie Wells, who was earlier named to the Google Cloud Academic All-District First Team, was likewise named to the MVC Women’s Soccer ScholarAthlete First Team. She is currently on the NCAA Division I Academic AllAmerica ballot. She was also named an AllMVC First Team selection. She finishes her career as a threetime All-MVC and three-time MVC Scholar-Athlete selection. Wells, who carries a 3.96 grade point average in Athletic Training, finished her senior season with 12 goals scored which broke the previous school record of 10 set by Abby Reed in 2013. Her 31 points this season crushed the previous school
record of 25 set by Lauren Podolski in 2006. She finished the year with a 1.72 points per game average which topped the previous best of 1.39 set by Podolski in the 2006 campaign. Her seven assists this season were tops in the Missouri Valley Conference and third-best ever at ISU. She finished her career with 67 points which is second in program history and only three behind Podolski’s school record of 70. She finished with a 0.96 points per match average for secondbest at ISU. Wells finished her career with 24 career goals scored which was only one shy of Podolski’s school record of 25. She finished her career with six game-winning goals, including two during her senior season. Wells scored a goal in each of her last five matches as a Sycamore. Danielle Varner was named to the MVC Scholar-Athlete Honorable Mention team. She was earlier named to the AllMVC Second Team. Varner, who maintains a 3.93 GPA in Nursing, played and started in all 18 matches for the Sycamores. She scored a pair of goals and added an assist for a total of five points on the season. Varner fired off 15 shots
during the season, including five shots on goal. She scored her first goal of the season at Akron as she had three shots in the contest. Varner then added another goal as part of the eight goal outburst against Chicago State. She tallied an assist in conference play at Missouri State. Varner was named the MVC Defensive Player of the Week after the Sycamores completed a busy three-game road swing around the Labor Day weekend undefeated. It was her first career MVC Weekly honor. This season, 47 studentathletes were nominated for the Valley’s scholar-athlete team. The criteria for the honor parallels the CoSIDA standards for Academic All-America voting. Nominees must be starters or important reserves with at least a 3.20 cumulative GPA (on a 4.00 scale). Also, students must have participated in at least 75 percent of the regular-season matches or the MVC Championship. Student-athletes must have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at their institution (true freshmen and redshirt freshmen were not eligible) and must have completed at least one full academic year at their institution.