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Candice Millard captivates audience at ISU’s Speaker Series Nicole Nunez Reporter
This past Thursday, Indiana State University held a Speaker Series event featuring New York Times Best-Selling author, Candice Millard. Her novel, Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President, has soared since it was published in 2011. The novel depicts the assassination of President James Garfield and the forgotten legacy Garfield left on the United States. “I’m ashamed to say I didn’t know his story either, the only thing that I knew about him is what most Americans know about him, which is that he was assassinated,” said Millard. Prior to her research, she, along with most other Americans, did not know the history of President Garfield. Millard’s inspiration for her novel came through her research of Alexander Graham Bell, which led her to finding an even more surprising, intriguing story. “My first book had been about Theodore Roosevelt and the Amazon and had a lot of science in it. I wanted another story that had a lot of science… I was actually researching Alexander
Graham Bell when I stumbled on the story of him… and I was really surprised, I was really blown away by it because I had never heard the story,” said Millard. “We should know that story… so I wondered what Garfield was like … because Bell had all these plans and he just dropped everything, and day and night worked on this and I wondered what Garfield was like,” said Millard, “I just started researching him and I couldn’t believe it. He was this extraordinary, extraordinary man….and I honestly believe he would have been one of our great presidents, not only because he was brilliant and kind and brave and everything we hope to have in a president but because he didn’t want to be president.” In her speech, it was clear to the audience Millard was immensely passionate about her research. Her words captivated the audience, making what would seem to be a boring history topic into something magical and intriguing. “To me, it seemed like such a shame we lost him and I felt very strongly that I wanted to tell his story,” said Millard. Millard explained this novel was different than her other novels, The River of Doubt: The-
Candice Millard speaks to students about her novel on Thursday, Jan. 24.
odore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey and Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill, in that she came across the story on accident and the whole novel is set in America. “This was a little bit of a different book
for me… this was my only so far fully American book, said Millard. She went all across the country to many libraries and to visit his home in Ohio for her research. “Most of his papers are at the library of congress… I spent
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weeks there and there is a lot of material,” said Millard. “There are all these moments when you do research, that you think ‘wow this is how I’m going to end the book or this is going to be an essential part of this chapter’, it’s fascinating to me at least.”
Crafts-a-Palooza helps students craft up new friendships Cheyenne Fauquher Reporter
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From left to right: Andy Morgan, Willie Banks, Jakarra Jenkins and President Curtis.
The new food pantry on campus is led by students for students Lauren Rader and Erin Bradshaw Reporters
A new food pantry on campus just opened in the Indiana State University Recreation Center to educate students about their food choices and nutrition while also providing a service to students. The grand opening was held on Jan. 24. from 12-2 p.m. The pantry is offering a variety of open hours to accommodate to student’s busy lives. They will be open Monday 11a.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesday 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Wednesday 12:30 to 5:30 p.m., Thursday 3 to 9 p.m., and Friday 11:30 to 4:30 p.m. However, the pantry will be closed on weekends Student Health Promotions opened the pantry after spending some time getting everything together. Virginia Jedlicka, an intern with Student Health Promotions, was eager to explain the system. “We do a stop, drop, and shop type of deal. You’ll stop at the desk and enter in the information we need,” Jedlicka said. “There will be a signup sheet once we get this up and running. We will have you drop off your backpack, you’ll get a bag, and then you can come in and shop.”
A color system helps keep the workers and students organized and informed on the food items being taken. There are certain amounts of each food students can get. There is expired food that will be explained in an informational packet. The food pantry wants students to learn the difference between the best by, use by, and sell by dates on the food items. The employees at the Student Health Promotions office have been excited to launch the student pantry, and help out ISU students. Becca Ragsdale, Student Assistant for the Student Health Promotions, was very happy to get things going with the pantry and make a difference. “We’re excited just to be able to help students, because that was one concern through surveys like SycamoresCare,” Ragsdale said. “We realized that was a need and an insecurity for some students so it’s really cool that we can be of assistance. That’s one thing that’s really exciting, that we can help our students.” Donations can be dropped off at the pantry during their open hours or the Student Health Promotion area on the fifth floor of the HMSU. There are also donation sites around each residential hall so students can donate food
they don’t want or they can give food in general. The pantry is run to benefit ISU students, and run by ISU students. There are many services offered by the Student Health Promotions office. “We do lot of other things besides just the food pantry. Our next event is Feb. 5. It’s a Condom Carnival where we will be talking about being safe,” Jedlicka said. “We do health promotion in a sense of legitimate health promotion all the way from eating healthy, making sure you’re maintaining a balanced diet, getting the exercise you need, but also relationship violence. We cover sexual health, mental health, and we go over the basics of college health as a whole. Anything you can categorize as health, we will most likely go over it.” Getting a food pantry together can be hard work, even for a team of qualified employees. The new food pantry relies on student and community donations. College students can help each other out by volunteering to work the pantry or donating all they can. “We’re just excited to be able to help students. That can be one less thing that they have to worry about through the college experience,” Ragsdale said.
New Graduate RN Open House
Thursday, Feb. 7 • 4-6 p.m. • Union Hospital Attention Spring and Summer RN graduates!
The Union Board set up an evening of crafts for students to enjoy with friends and new faces of others on campus this past Friday. The crafts created included inspirational paintings on canvas, corkboards with decorations to use for reminders or pictures of family and friends, and personalized water bottles with paint pens to decorate. There was also an option to get a free Henna tattoo. “I came to this event to hang out with my friends after a stressful week of classes. I enjoyed being able to relax and bond with my friends and the others at my table,” said freshman Holly Beber. Students gathered at tables with friends and other students they had never met before. The event allowed students to show off their uniqueness and creativity, which is a great way to make new friends with people who share the same interests. “This is my first time visiting ISU. The people here are so nice and welcoming. I felt like I was included even though I am from a different university. I wish USI had events like this, because it is a great way to make new friends,” said Allison McClain, a freshman from University of Southern Indiana who was here visiting a friend. The students who put this event together walked around to each table, providing students with paint pens, stickers, water bottles, and other supplies to help create their crafts. “I really enjoying being able to bring students on campus together for a fun time to meet new people,” said freshman Courtney Hughes, who was one of the students in charge of the event.
To RSVP contact, Healthcare Recruiter, Peg Hill, at 812.238.7241 or mhill@uhhg.org.
Learn about the wonderful opportunities available at Union Health! • meet with nurse leaders and RN staff • tour our state-of-the art facility
• enjoy bites from local restaurants • win door prizes!
* RSVP by Friday, Feb. 1 and receive a Starbucks gift card!
Healthier, together.
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Shutdown damage persists long after US gov. reopens Christopher Flavelle
and Jennifer A. Dlouhy
Bloomberg News (TNS)
The government may be reopening, but the consequences of the longest federal shutdown in U.S. history are likely to linger for national parks, forests, the federal workforce and cutting-edge scientific research. Some may even be permanent. Many fire crews missed their window for controlled burns to prevent wildfires. Irreplaceable relics may have been damaged in unguarded national parks. And a generation of talent may now think twice about signing up for government, while workers returning to a month of unopened emails and missed meetings will have to decide which of their priorities to sacrifice this year. And there’s the threat it could happen all over again. Congressional negotiators start work this week to find a permanent budget solution due by Feb. 15. President Donald Trump’s acting chief of staff on Sunday didn’t rule out another shutdown. “The lapse in funding has prevented progress on projects that would normally occur at this time of year, affecting partners, tribes, local communities and businesses,” John Haynes, a spokesman for the U.S. Forest Service, said in a statement. “Qualification training in fields such as firefighting and law enforcement has been delayed. Certain fuels treatments to improve forest conditions have been delayed or canceled. Work that could only be done during winter months may not be completed.” Public Lands Ecologists and conservationists are bracing for lasting damage on the nation’s public lands and wild places — herons poached from Florida’s Everglades, felled desert succulents that would take decades to regrow, defaced relics from rocky outcroppings in the West. “These are natural ecosystems,” said Jonathan Asher, a government relations manager with the Wilderness Society. “We can’t just go out there and make it better.” Images of damage have already be-
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Restrooms at the park entrance are still not open. The park fully reopened on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019, with the return of its rangers and long lines of nature lovers at its main visitor center following word from President Trump that the partial federal government shutdown has ended, at least temporarily.
come iconic symbols of the shutdown’s toll on nature. From California’s Joshua Tree National Park, an image of the eponymous plant slashed down to make room for off-road vehicles went viral on Twitter. But Collin O’Mara, president of the National Wildlife Federation, said he’s heard reports of wider-ranging damage that hasn’t yet been documented. That includes harm to fossils and ancient rock carvings in Utah and Colorado, injuries to sea turtles and manatees by motorized boats in the Everglades, and sage brush trampled by vehicles. “We’ve also heard some poaching issues in the Everglades, where folks are going in and taking birds,” O’Mara said. “It’s a million little things.” The impacts may be concentrated in
the U.S. West — harsh, isolated landscapes with rugged features that betray their fragility. Even a footfall can crush living cryptobiotic crust in western parks and public lands, much less the off-road vehicles reported driving across them. The physical damage isn’t limited to land. The shutdown is delaying updates to government rules dictating catch and size limits for salmon and other marine species that will in some cases force fishermen to limit what they collect under outdated, unduly stringent restrictions. In other cases, too many fish may be plucked from the sea this season. For instance, salmon fishermen worked under tight restrictions in 2018 that won’t be eased this year if federal officials can’t finalize an updated rule in time, curtailing potential harvests, said
Netflix plays peekaboo with its ratings. Hollywood isn’t amused David Ng
and Stephen Battaglio
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
When it comes to ratings, Netflix treats the public and many of its business partners like the characters in “Bird Box” — blindfolded and left to feel their way through the dark, except for a rare glimpse of light. In Hollywood, where TV ratings and box-office stats are the lifeblood of business, the streaming entertainment titan plays by its own rules, keeping its viewer statistics out of sight and making it difficult for outsiders to measure the success of its shows. Recently, though, Netflix has publicly revealed some fuzzy performance figures for a handful of projects, among them the former Lifetime series “You,” the Spanish-language teen drama “Elite” and most prominently the science fiction thriller “Bird Box,” which the company said had been seen by more than 45 million accounts in its first week. But these are the exceptions. Viewership for Netflix’s hundreds of other original series and movies remain corporate secrets. As Netflix continues to grow, this game of peekaboo has become increasingly irksome to other studios as well as talent agencies, some of which feel that Netflix’s lack of transparency gives it an unfair competitive advantage. Despite pressure on Netflix to disclose more data, experts say Netflix has little motivation to be more open, in part because it doesn’t answer to advertisers who would normally demand such information. “Netflix frankly doesn’t have to tell anybody anything about the viewing of any of their stuff because they don’t have to,” says Tim Hanlon, chief executive of the Chicago-based media advisory and investment firm the Vertere Group. Netflix also faces rising costs associated with content licensed from other studios, and disclosing ratings on popular shows would likely lead to even higher licensing fees.
Older favorites like “Friends,” “The Office” and “Breaking Bad” are major draws for Netflix subscribers and continue to bring in big business. Netflix recently paid more than $100 million to Warner Bros. to retain the exclusive streaming rights to “Friends” for an additional year, more than three times what it had previously paid. “Releasing data would make things worse for Netflix. It needs to protect the data so it can negotiate better deals,” says another industry analyst, speaking on condition of anonymity because of a previous working relationship with the company. “For them, to use and own their data is a religion.” Netflix declined to comment for this story. The Los Gatos, Calif.-based company uses the viewing habits collected from its 139 million subscribers worldwide to make viewing recommendations in the Netflix app, often steering viewers to its own original content. It also scours data to make cancellation and renewal decisions. “Every quarter we look at the trends,” Netflix’s outgoing Chief Financial Officer David Wells said in a 2017 earnings call. “For us, [it] is about the sort of continuity of viewing over the life of the show.” Companies that license shows to Netflix receive basic viewership data, but executives say the information isn’t useful. “We get a compilation of views by season, so it’s not divided out by episode, and there’s no indication of what a view even means — like how long the duration,” says one network executive who wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly. “From an analysis standpoint, it’s meaningless.” Netflix also declines to provide stats on how its other offerings perform, making comparisons impossible. “There is no context to it. You only know about your [own programs],” says another TV executive who has done business with Netflix. The executive says Netflix doesn’t provide any demographic information about viewers.
As Netflix courts more A-list Hollywood talent, there has been internal debate over how much box office data to release. When Netflix makes a rare public data disclosure, it has faced skepticism. “Took off my blindfold this morning to discover that 45,037,125 Netflix accounts have already watched Bird Box — best first 7 days ever for a Netflix film!” the company said last month on its official Twitter account. The social media pushback was swift. Netflix didn’t say how many of those 45 million had streamed the whole movie or which countries saw the most views. Nor has it published comparable data on other star-driven features like “Bright,” starring Will Smith, released a year ago. Netflix said during its recent fourth-quarter report that “Bird Box,” starring Sandra Bullock, is now on track to be seen by 80 million households, but it didn’t elaborate. The earnings call was notable for publicizing data about some of its series — “You” has been seen by 40 million households while the Spanish-language “Elite” has attracted more than 20 million households in four weeks. “I would look at it like these are less financial metrics as they are cultural metric[s],” Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said during the earnings call. “I think it’s important for artists to understand — to have the audience also understand the size of the reach of their work. So that’s why you’ll see us ramping up a little bit more and more and giving out — sharing a little more of that information.” But the vague and irregular nature of Netflix’s disclosures has bred distrust. “No one can verify their claims,” says Adam Candeub, a professor at Michigan State University’s College of Law, where he specializes in intellectual property. He says Netflix behaves less like a studio and more like a Silicon Valley giant like Google or Facebook, both
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Miriam Goldstein, a marine biologist who directs ocean policy at the Center for American Progress. Workforce A widely cited concern about the lasting effects of the shutdown, but one that’s hard to quantify, is what it will mean for the government’s ability to keep the workers it already has and attract talented workers in the future. In the months after the 2013 shutdown, which lasted 16 days, the number of federal employees taking early retirement increased, according to data published by the Office of Personnel Management. Roy Wright, who ran insurance and mitigation at the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency until 2018, recalled counseling his employees after the 2013 shutdown that it was worth staying put. “They’re not going to do it again,” he recounted telling his staff at the time. “Everyone knows that shutdowns always end poorly.” This time, Wright said, a similar message will be harder to get across, at FEMA and other agencies. “There’s going to be a problem with both retention and future recruitment,” said Wright, now president of the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety. “One of the really sour pills from this will be that long-term loss of a work force that is not interested in public service.” Training The shutdown poses another threat to the government’s ability to do its job in the future: the cancellation of crucial, time-sensitive training. Each year in January and February, the National Hurricane Center, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, runs three one-week training programs for local officials in hurricane-prone areas. The goal is to teach them how to use the center’s information to make decisions about how to respond to coming storms, including whether and when to issue evacuation orders — actions that can affect millions of Americans. “Most of these people have never had a meteorology class in their life,” said Eric
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Starbucks ‘dragged into’ presidential race as Schultz considers run Craig Giammona
Bloomberg News (TNS)
Big consumer brands generally try to avoid politics. Starbucks might not have a choice. With Howard Schultz, who built Starbucks Corp. into a global brand, considering an independent run for the White House, the world’s largest coffee chain could get pulled into the contentious politics of a presidential election. And while it’s toed a political line in the past with public stances on hot-button issues, a Schultz run could take that to a whole new level — perhaps to the detriment of the chain’s U.S. growth plans. Starbucks declined to comment on a potential run by Schultz, who retired as chairman last summer but remains a large shareholder and the best known face of the brand. “They’re being dragged into this — it’s very volatile for the brand,” said Allen Adamson, an independent branding expert. “They’ve been flirting with going beyond serving coffee, but Schultz stepping into the campaign really escalates it.” Growth Areas Starbucks has nearly 15,000 U.S. stores, including locations in every one of the 50 states. Right now, it’s more ubiquitous in urban and suburban coastal markets that tend to skew Democratic, but it’s targeting an expansion in the Midwest and Sun Belt for the next wave of growth. In those markets, including many states that voted for President Donald Trump, an independent political campaign could serve to introduce customers to the liberal-leaning politics of Starbucks. The brand has been more willing than some consumer companies to take controversial stances on social issues, including asking baristas to start a conversation about race with customers. Schultz openly supported Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign and the company faced calls for a boycott after it injected itself into the debate over immigration in 2017 with a pledge to hire 10,000 refugees. But Schultz’s political ambi-
tions may not play well in liberal states, either. In left-leaning bastions like New York, Seattle and San Francisco — which have traditionally been strong markets for the company — Starbucks could suffer if Schultz is seen as dividing Democratic voters and, by extension, boosting Trump’s re-election bid. Neera Tanden, the president of the Democratic-aligned think tank Center for American Progress, threatened to boycott Starbucks if Schultz were to make his bid official. With critics on both sides, Starbucks faces a challenge if its longtime leader gets into the 2020 race. Its shares fell as much as 1.8 percent Monday, weighed down by a broader decline after Caterpillar Inc. reported worse-than-expected earnings and chipmaker Nvidia Corp. cut its revenue guidance. Political Minefield There’s a reason large consumer companies eschew politics: As the thinking goes, it’s a big country out there and thorny political issues can be extremely emotional and should be avoided. That has changed a bit in recent years, with the perception that younger shoppers want brands to stand for something — and that being stuck in the middle isn’t always a great option either. Nike Inc. recently faced calls for boycotts after releasing an advertisement featuring controversial former quarterback Colin Kaepernick. But the furor died down, and the company reported a sales bump in the quarter after the ad was released. When Starbucks has weighed in on issues of race and immigration in the past, it was making a deliberate decision to take a political stance, betting that a display of its values would resonate with customers and outweigh the risks of alienating more conservative coffee drinkers. This time it’s different: The company might find itself in the middle a contentious election as a result of decision of by former executive who’s no longer in a formal role.
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indianastatesman.com SHUTDOWN CONT FROM PAGE 2 Eric Blake, a scientist and union steward at the center. “We take them through the basics of hurricanes. We teach them about the kind of info that the hurricane center has that can be very useful for them.” The first two of those courses were canceled, and the third may go as well. And Blake said there’s no room in the calendar to reschedule those courses before hurricane seasons starts in June. What’s happening at the NHC has parallels across the federal government. Training for air-traffic controllers ground to a halt during the shutdown, threatening to make it harder to add to a workforce already at a 30-year low, said Paul Rinaldi, president of the National Air
NETFLIX CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 of which have faced scrutiny for the way they collect and use consumer information. “That’s the interesting dilemma about the information economy when you have these dominating firms using market data,” Candeub says. Netflix is happy to lift the veil of secrecy for some prominent talent, though not all of them. One actor with a Netflix series says he receives data on how many accounts have seen each season of his show, how each episode fared and how well the show has performed over time. “It’s very detailed information,” says the actor, who spoke on condition of anonymity, citing a nondisclosure agreement with Netflix. Actors and other talent don’t receive traditional residual payments, like those associated with syndicated series, from Netflix shows, but the company pays bonuses when one of its series or movie performs well, according to two people who have negoti-
Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019 • Page 3 Traffic Controllers Association. Wildfires Missed training courses aren’t all that can’t be made up after the shutdown ends. By halting forest management practices, the shutdown has increased the likely damage from wildfires later this year. In many parts of the country, winter is the only time for prescribed burns, which are easiest to contain when conditions are relatively cool and wet. Those burns have been scrapped for now, which means more areas that won’t be protected from fires — after a year of devastating blazes in California and elsewhere. Nick Goulette, executive director of the Watershed Center in Northern California, which works with the federal government on forest restoration, said ated deals with the company. So far, major talent guilds have not raised a ruckus over Netflix’s payment practices or the lack of transparency, in part because Netflix pays competitive rates and has provided new creative opportunities. Nonetheless, for talent agents, negotiating compensation for clients on a Netflix title can be difficult because of the limited amount of available data out there. “I’m at a disadvantage for sure,” says one executive at a leading Hollywood agency. “Things that typically give an agent leverage I don’t have.” To fill the data gap, Nielsen and other research firms have developed an industry of guesstimating Netflix viewership and trends through their own proprietary methods, often relying on sampling. These firms then sell their reports to studios, networks and agencies. “Media companies are buying information from us year after year,” says Roseanne Luth, founder and president of San Di-
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the shutdown has forced the cancellation of prescribed burns during the increasingly short window for doing those burns safely. Those controlled burns are also the very thing the president criticized California for not doing enough of. Now, Trump’s own administration has put those burns on hold, and time is running out. “You can’t discount the irony,” Goulette said. Time and Money Once agencies reopen, staff will have to grapple with reshuffling priorities given that time — and in some cases funds — have been lost. Some agencies have tapped into so-called “no-year appropriations” and carryover funds to sustain operations, a shortterm fix that could leave the actual programs normally reliant ego-based Luth Research, which tracks Netflix viewing habits along with other online usage data. Nielsen measures Netflix viewing data through a panel of consumers used to collect ratings for TV channels. The Nielsen box picks up the audio cues of Netflix programming using technology it acquired from Gracenote. Nielsen didn’t respond to requests for comment. Netflix has publicly disparaged the research published by these firms. When NBC presented research from Symphony Advanced Media during a Television Critics Assn. conference in 2016, Sarandos called the findings “inaccurate.” The data included viewer stats for shows including “Orange Is the New Black” and “Jessica Jones.” “The Netflix people were very quick to denigrate it,” recalls Charles Buchwalter, the former president and CEO of Symphony. “[They] were very aggressive explaining why our approach didn’t make any sense. If they
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on that money starved for dollars later this year. For instance, the Interior Department used carryover funds to continue some oil and gas activity, and the National Park Service tapped multi-year appropriations and recreation fee revenue to offer some services during the shutdown. Normally, individual parks keep 80 percent of recreation and entrance fees they collect, with funding required by law to go to enhancing the visitor experience. That funding helps pay for the clearing of trails, maintenance projects and education programs. “How far are those accounts going to be spent down?” asked Dan Puskar, executive director of the Public Lands Alliance. “As we lose revenue today, we’ll have less to invest in conservation service corps to do trail
work, we’ll have less money to work on deferred maintenance projects, less money to do education programs.” Even before the shutdown, there was a roughly $12 billion backlog of necessary park maintenance, Asher said. The backlog will have grown, he said, and because parks have used fee revenue to stay open, there will be even less of that money to address it. Even when government is fully functioning, “these agencies would say there’s too much work and not enough people,” said Elizabeth Klein, a former Interior Department official. “Now they will be extra stressed to get back the time that was lost, compress previously identified schedules and clean up whatever messes occurred during the shutdown.”
disagreed, why didn’t they share their numbers? We noticed they never did this.” Symphony eventually went out of business. “We felt like we were a thorn in their side,” he says, “but other than that, we just kept doing it,” he said. Experts believe Netflix will become more transparent only if it launches an ad-supported version of its service, like Hulu has done. Santa Monica-based Hulu provides viewing data to its program suppliers, three of which are their owners, Fox, Disney and NBCUniversal. But Netflix has given no indication that it’s moving in the ad-supported direction and industry observers say it is unlikely in the near future that it will become more open about its ratings. “Short term, I don’t think so,” says Christopher Spicer, a partner at Akin Gump, where he heads the firm’s entertainment and media practice. “Long term, if reporting becomes systemic among other streaming providers, then potentially it will.”
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Starbucks is already facing pressure from investors including activist Bill Ackman to streamline its operations and cut costs. Adding a political Schultz to the fray could spook some shareholders concerned about yet another obstacle. “Their goals aren’t necessarily aligned,” Michael Halen, an analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, said of Starbucks and Schultz. “In this day and age, you can’t say anything without pissing someone off.”
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Sundance social thriller ‘Luce’ asks tough questions about race, expectations and privilege Jen Yamato
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
The African American valedictorian of a wealthy, mostly white and proudly progressive community in Arlington, Va., lands under the microscope when a school assignment triggers warning bells for his teacher and adoptive parents in the electrifying Sundance entry “Luce.” But it’s America that’s truly being scrutinized _ and the audience who are being asked to question their own assumptions _ in filmmaker Julius Onah’s provocative “social thriller,” adapted from a play by JC Lee. “We want to believe that we’re all fair and equal and progressive, for a lot of us who are liberals _ but in so many ways we’re not aware of our own blind spots,” said Onah from Park City, where “Luce” premiered Sunday in U.S. dramatic competition. “And that, I think, is part of the reason we’re in such a heated moment right now when it comes to so many elements of identity.” A carefully nuanced drama that unfolds with the menace of a genre thriller, “Luce” asks: What becomes of someone trying to find their own autonomous identity when society dictates they be either saint or monster, and allows for nothing in between? The external expectations
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(L-R) Actors Naomi Watts, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Tim Roth, and Octavia Spencer and director/writer Julius Onah attend the “Luce” Premiere during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival at Library Center Theater on January 27, 2019 in Park City, Utah.
placed on young black men in America _ even by well-meaning allies like Amy (Naomi Watts) and Peter (Tim Roth), the white parents who adopted Luce (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) from war-torn Eritrea 10 years ago, or the school administrators who laud him as a shining example _ explode in deep-cleaving bursts of emotional violence in the film, as those who have held Luce up to a faultless ideal for years begin to question whether
he is capable of harm. Onah, who moved from Nigeria to the U.S. at age 10, saw his own unique American experience in Lee’s play and wrote his first draft in three weeks before finishing the script with Lee. In the U.S., he’d grown up the son of an ambassador living in the affluent suburbia of Arlington, where he would later set “Luce.” But in his early adulthood Onah had also lived and worked as an undocumented
Travel dilemmas: Learning another language is so fun it’s embarrassing Catharine Hamm
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A reader recently wrote to ask about a language-immersion program. How in the world do you narrow your choices and figure out whether that program is right for you? Will the Spanish you learn in Mexico be comprehensible in Spain and vice versa? What if you make horrible mistakes and embarrass yourself? Learning a second language puts you in good company these days, Francois Grosjean wrote in Psychology Today: In 1980, about 11 percent of the U.S. population was bilingual. Today it’s nearly double that. “The position of prominence that English has in the U.S. is in no danger, but some room is now being made for other languages,” he wrote. “This can only lead to a person’s personal enrichment, increased ties between generations and cultures, and more diversity in job opportunities.” Some pretty great reasons to undertake this, but before you plunge headlong into this adventure for yourself or your child, consider these factors that you may need to be successful: Interest in the language. Taking on a new language isn’t easy, but if you have the desire _ the interest _ your chances are better. (Attention parents who are forcing their kids to learn (fill in blank). Time. Language acquisition takes time for formal classes if you pursue that route, but hanging out with people who are native speakers can be time-intensive too. Both are time well spent, but they are time. Resilience. Admitting what you don’t know is often more difficult than showing off what you do know. “To learn a language, you have to humble yourself,” said Julianne Bryant, an associate professor of Spanish at Biola University in La Mirada. Marc L. Greenberg, a professor of Slavic languages and director of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, noted that language learning is an exercise in “hu-
mility.” So why subject yourself to such an ordeal these days? Aren’t there translators that will turn another language into yours? Doesn’t much of the world speak English? Both of these things may be true to a certain extent, but there’s also a sense of pride in accomplishment and a sense of belonging to a community that’s different from your own. Further, Bryant said, having a second language can benefit your brain. Making the commitment may be more difficult than finding the right fit for you, but here are some of the ways you can begin to explore: Classes do help. You can do some online learning through, say, extension classes to help with language basics or with such learning tools as Rosetta Stone. Immersion helps too. There are different ways to immerse yourself, Bryant and Greenberg said. You might listen to TV programs or watch movies in that language or listen to music. You might hang out with people in your community who speak only that language. But an away-from-home stint in which you are surrounded by that language may be the best teacher of all, perhaps aided by formal classes. “Students have greater gains in oral proficiency and higher self-confidence,” when they are immersed, she said. “They have larger gains in cultural competence.” Interestingly, buddying up with a person in another country who speaks some of your language is a bigger help than someone who knows none, Bryant said. How do you begin narrowing the choices? Ask friends who have done an immersion. Don’t be shy. They have no reason not to be frank. If you have a specific language in mind, check with the faculty at a community college or university and get their advice on what works, Greenberg said. You may notice different words are used in different countries to mean the same
thing; just as American and British English differ (trunk vs. boot, diaper vs. nappy), other languages do as well. How do you adjust what you’ve learned to the language you’ll now be hearing? Bryant, who studied in Spain, ended up working in a community that spoke Caribbean Spanish. Here are her suggestions: If you have the basic structure of the language, you can do two things: learn to tune your ear to that accent or way of speaking and ask questions when you don’t understand. It’s less important, she said, to learn strictly the language you will be speaking than to have the framework for it and know you will need to substitute some expressions for others. Be prepared to make mistakes. Having the confidence to speak the language helps you forge ahead, even if you err, such as insisting you need “squid _ like you wear on your feet” to the extremely puzzled shopkeeper in Quito, Ecuador, if what you really wanted were socks. Not that anything like that ever happened to me. Even knowing you will stumble, be fearless, Greenberg said. Your mistakes are unlikely to be fatal. Unless you die of embarrassment. He told this story: He was in Croatia and was ordering a pizza in Croatian, which he read and wrote pretty well, he said. He asked for various toppings, none of which was available. In frustration he asked the woman what was available to put on the pizza. At least, that’s what he thought he said. Instead he had just asked her what was available to put on a specific female body part. “She cracked up,” he said. He realized what he had done, and although it was cringe worthy, laughter knows no language barrier. Plus he will always have a story to tell. Like squid. You know. Like you wear on your feet. (Have a travel dilemma? Write to travel@latimes.com. We regret we cannot answer every inquiry.)
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busboy on New York’s Lower East Side while waiting for a long immigration process to be completed. “It was interesting to see how people’s attitudes or expectations of me shifted depending on the context,” Onah said. “And as somebody who moved to America when I was 10 years old as well, there was the part of my life where I was an African, and the part of my life when I became an African American
and I inherited a history that wasn’t one that was connected to my direct lineage.” He had yet to complete post-production on last year’s sci-fi Netflix release “The Cloverfield Paradox” when he decided it was time to make “Luce,” with 24-year-old Harrison in the lead role, Watts and Roth as Luce’s loving parents, and Octavia Spencer as Harriett Wilson, the history teacher who becomes his toughest adversary. At the tail end of 2016, a sense of post-election urgency had lit a fire under Onah to make the film. “I just felt really galvanized to make something that was asking some real questions about our culture,” he said, “because obviously some of the people didn’t see what was coming with Trump.” And though Lee’s original play had been written during the Obama era, the material and its concerns over race, class, gender and privilege became increasingly relevant over time. In the years between the play’s 2013 staging and the film’s Sundance debut, the Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements brought further topicality to the story’s primary interrogations, Onah said. “These issues have been there bubbling beneath the surface in so many ways,” he said. “... Trump’s election was like pierc-
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Album reviews: Future, Sneaks The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)
Future “Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD” How many times can one warble variations on “When it come to emotions, I play camouflage,” not to mention “Jumpin’ on another jet / Jumpin’ on another jet” in the same robo-tripping quaver? One Future album is excellent: Dirty Sprite 2, named for the cough syrup habit he says he’s kicked (The WIZRD’s “Overdose” actually refers to his abundance of “swag”). The others only hit a nerve sporadically, and this one has 20 tracks. So casual fans can add “Call the Coroner” to the highlight reel, with its hypnotic Buju Banton-cum-”Bodak Yellow” melody and fun boasts like “I don’t have no stylist,” as well as the addictive “Krazy but True,” which invites us to imagine a “fishtank with a shark in it” and a penthouse living room “with a garage in it,” while credibly taking credit for the way 2019 rappers “drop your mixtapes, your adlibs, and everything.” The turntable scratching(!) on “Crushed Up” will make you look up, but so will “Servin Killa Kam’s” “bought a new toy” just because you thought he said “toilet.” _ Dan Weiss Sneaks
“Highway Hypnosis” Concision is crucial to Sneaks, the solo project of Eva Moolchan. While not quite adhering to the rigorous, Instagram-able brevity favored by Philly’s Tierra Whack, Moolchan, who came out of Washington, D.C.’s DIY scene, keeps her tracks sharp and focused and under three minutes. “Highway Hypnosis,” at 13 songs in 29 minutes, is her third and longest album, but it still races by. It’s a hip-hop skatepunk set, with Moolchan’s often playful, sometimes pointed raps again built on stark beats and bass lines, but fleshed out more with keyboard or guitar textures. “I think I need a little wiggle room,” she says on the M.I.A.-like “The Way It Goes,” and she allows herself more this time. Some tracks are little more than mantra-like chants, but even when she’s just toying with slight changes in inflection on “Holy Cow I Never Saw a Girl Like You” (the title comprises the lyrics of the 56-second song), or on “Money Don’t Grow on Trees,” Moolchan captivates. “Remove your beliefs and start again,” she urges on the trip-hoppy “Beliefs,” and it’s a characteristically minimalist but provocative suggestion. _ Steve Klinge
indianastatesman.com SUNDANCE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 ing the skin and creating a rupture, where we really have to face things that we thought we were moving beyond. “I think if Hillary [Clinton] had been elected, it would have continued that same forward march of progress and justice that we thought we were having with Obama _ but in reality [the election] was just exposing so much of what was underneath the surface that we hadn’t reconciled with.” Harrison, who has built an impressive filmography in short time with films including “Mudbound,” “It Comes At Night,” “Monsters and Men,” and “Jinn,” said he had just finished filming “Assassination Nation” when he was sent the script for “Luce” and read it in one sitting. “I couldn’t take my eyes off the page,” said Harrison, adding that he related to Luce’s frustrations and shared similar experiences growing up attending a majority-white high school in New Orleans. “I kept relating to it, like, ‘I know an Amy. I know Peter. I know Luce. I know Harriett.’ “[Luce] is really complicated and he’s a revolutionary, and I think that’s what
Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019 • Page 5 we’re all striving to be, because that’s what we’re told we’re supposed to be. At the same time, the journey to get there is not easy, and that’s what I’ve learned over time.” He plays the high-achieving Luce with uncanny dexterity, showing the teenager’s idealized facets to the people around him who see him as whatever they prefer: Doting son, model student, star athlete, caring friend. “Luce will say dark things, but at the same time, they’ll sound so light _ and he’ll do it with a smile on his face,” Harrison said, adding that he modeled Luce’s public-facing comportment on figures such as Will Smith and President Obama. “He’s always smiling, making it easy for the other person, because that’s what we do _ make it easy for the person who might be fearful of us. It’s making it easy for everyone else but ourselves. It’s that thing that a lot of black men [experience]: You have to work 10 times as hard as the other person because of who you are, your skin color, or what you look like.” To the film’s audience, Harrison reveals much more: The subtle internal calculations Luce, hyper-aware that he will not be allowed to fail, is constantly running. He’s always doing the math to
figure out what people want from him, while trying desperately not to cave under the pressure of an entire community’s expectations. “This is the boy that they wanted him to be _ and he’s trying so hard, and that’s the fight,” he said. “The soul against the armor that we put up to survive. That’s what it is, and now he’s tired.” To his parents, teacher, teammates and girlfriend, Luce is a cipher by design. Onah’s directorial approach, complemented by a pulsing score by “Annihilation” composers Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury, asks viewers to reevaluate the way they see this young black man by challenging how he is seen by the characters around him. “And as those expectations change, not only are you questioning him _ you start to question everybody in his orbit,” Onah said. “The audience is forced to ask themselves really hard questions about the way their attitudes impact the expectations we put on other people, and on a much larger level have an impact on how power and privilege work in this society.” Onah noted the work of Michael Haneke as one influence on “Luce,” particularly 2005’s “Cache,” a reference he gave his cast, and said he sees a kinship
with Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” and the Austrian thriller “Revanche” _ films that embrace genre storytelling but have historical-cultural traumas in mind, not just scares. “They’re movies that are trying to ask you questions _ they’re trying to remind us that discomfort is not necessarily a bad thing when it comes to dealing with these really pressing issues _ because we live with that discomfort,” he said. “We live in uncomfortable times.” Moviegoers looking for more easily digestible stories about respectability politics have plenty of other options, he said (diplomatically declining to name names). “There are a number of movies out right now or that have been out recently that explore political and social dynamics in a way that seeks to reassure the audience, or hold their hand a little bit more and uplift you,” he said. “I’m not saying there’s not room for those kinds of stories ... but I do strongly believe that if you’re trying to create culture and create work that helps us change culture, you have to have stories that aren’t just pacifying us.”
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Do more before you recycle and don’t do just that Erin Bradshaw Columnist
Recently, Jonathan Van Ness from the hit Netflix show Queer Eye discussed a hot topic on his podcast. His podcast titled “Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness” discusses a wide variety of ideas such as beauty, politics, etc. During one of his December podcasts, he conversed with Beth Porter, the recycling director of an organization called Green Climate, about what’s really going on with recycling. One of her main points was an emphasis on the fact that reduce and reuse should come before recycle. Many people think straight to recycling instead of trying to take preventative measures beforehand. By thinking ahead, we could avoid the need for as much recycling. There are many ways to reduce and reuse before you recycle. One of which is simply reusing. This can be applied in grocery shopping, for example. You can bring your own bag to the grocery store instead of using their plastic bags. You can purchase these canvas material bags at T.J. Maxx for just 99 cents as well as other retail stores. Another way to reuse is by donating to and buying from secondhand shops such as Goodwill, Plato’s Closet, or other local secondhand stores. Many of these stores can be found in almost every city, so there is no excuse. We have both Goodwill and Plato’s Closet in Terre Haute. Plato’s Closet will also offer you money for the clothes you donate. As far as local secondhand shops, there is a secondhand thrift shop in Bloomington, Illinois called Butter Twice and Again which features premium, good quality clothes and accessories for purchase. By doing this, you’re reducing the need to use non-biodegradable materials more than actually needed. A well-known brand called Adidas released a line of shoes made in partner with Parley for the Oceans that sold over one million sneakers made with recycled ocean plastic. They are now starting to make apparel as well in the same manner. Many larger companies are on their way to being environmentally friendly. One company that has already reached that is LUSH. LUSH is a well-known vegan, handmade cosmetic line that popularized the bath bomb. They have a long line of products that are considered “naked”. This means that the products
have no plastic packaging, so they are completely bare. This is contributing to significantly reduce the plastic we frequently see for packaging whether for makeup, hair care, etc. Beth Porter also brought up the straw epidemic that we realized this past year. Many companies simply banned their straws. Starbucks in particular, switched out their straws for more environmentally friendly caps. Although plastic straws can be wasteful, they are not as bad as people are making them out to be. Beth says, “Straws are only .02% of the plastic we’re seeing in the ocean.” We should still try our best to use reusable straws and water bottles, but also try to lessen the amount of the types of plastic that have a bigger impact on our oceans. A bigger contributor to the plastic pollution would be the plastic wrappers that hold our cans. They need to be eliminated overall, but if that is not an option, they should still be cut up before being thrown away. Some companies are even starting to not use them as part of their packaging any longer. Some people, like myself, are still sometimes confused about what you can and can’t recycle and where to take it. Recycling was pushed in the 70’s, but no one really knew what to do with the information they heard. Luckily at ISU, we have recycling bins conveniently located around campus. First off, we need to make sure what we recycle is clean. This means emptying liquid from bottles and clearing food off of items. If you’re unsure of what or where to recycle, there is a website called “Earth911.” This website allows you to type in your location and find out where you can take your recyclable items. If you need more incentive to recycle than having a clean Earth, many places offer money for cans or cap bottles. Now that we have kick-started our efforts to save the planet by getting rid of straws, we need to harness that enthusiasm to further educate ourselves on how to be better earth citizens. This starts within our personal lives. We need to make living environmentally friendly a lifestyle and habit. This can be simply using a reusable bag at the grocery store, using a reusable water bottle, or turning off the lights when you leave the room. We forget that the simplest and smallest things make the biggest difference in the long run.
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Trump loses on wall and declares victory Jonathan Bernstein
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After 35 days, President Donald Trump announced a deal to reopen the government on exactly the same terms that were available to him more than a month ago: A short-term funding bill with continuing negotiations on border security. Trump didn’t so much cave as he just plain lost. He didn’t have the votes, and as time went on he was even farther away from having them. Yes, there will be some negotiations in a House-Senate conference committee over what to do about border security, and Democrats will cut a deal for increased spending that they would have been willing to agree to in December. But the border wall remains as dead as ever. In a rambling Rose Garden statement, Trump still held out the threat of another shutdown when this bill runs out on Feb. 15. He also suggested he could invoke emergency powers to build his wall if the conference committee doesn’t come up with the funding. Neither is very likely. Support for Trump’s position has collapsed among Hill Republicans after Thursday’s votes demonstrated his weak position, and as the air traffic control system started more visibly eroding Friday morning. Given that, it’s hard to believe that Senate Republicans would shut down the government again, only to find themselves in exactly the same situation. As for emergency powers,
if Trump believed they were a good way to get what he wants, he likely would have already invoked them. It’s not just that there’s a very good chance the courts would reject him. Or that he would further alienate those, including many Republicans, who would consider it an abuse of power, an accusation Trump has to be particularly careful about as indictments of his former associates multiply. The even more immediate problem is that money spent by constitutionally dubious edict by the president without congressional appropriation has to come from someplace, and there are strong constituencies that will be very upset if he tries to take it (as has been floated already) from regular military spending or disaster relief. Once again, the lesson is that government shutdowns are not some magical trump card that one side can play to force the other to surrender. In fact, as the third extended shutdown in U.S. history comes to an end, it’s obvious that whatever the ethics of harming the nation in order to win a policy battle might be, such a maneuver is entirely ineffective as a negotiating tactic. And yet Republicans — the Newt Gingrich Republicans in 1995-1996, the Ted Cruz Republicans in 2013, and Trump and his supporters in 2018-2019 — keep trying anyway. One would hope they have finally learned how futile it is. Granted, this time, it seems to have just been Trump personally who thought it was a good idea, perhaps egged on by a few House
Freedom Caucus members. Other Republicans believed (correctly or not) that they were simply trapped into going along. Perhaps they were right; maybe if they had ended this in December or in early January Trump would have turned his scorn on them and caused them greater political trouble than they endured. Trump’s actions, on the other hand, just seem entirely irrational. He can always go down to the border, find some newly repainted or repaired fencing, declare a glorious victory, and the Fox News audience would go along. Or to put it another way: Given that, forcing a confrontation that he was almost certain to lose just never made any sense. Unfortunately, that means we still can’t be entirely certain that there won’t be a shutdown in February. But while Trump’s actions may not be rational, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s usually are. If the president rejects whatever the conference committee does, McConnell will probably find another option, whether it’s another short-term spending extension or, if necessary, just overriding Trump’s veto. As Richard Neustadt said, “The Presidency is no place for amateurs.” It’s very rare indeed for a president to retain that status in his third year in the Oval Office, but then again everything about Trump is very rare. With any luck, the next time he tries something this obviously inept it will be less damaging to the nation, but there’s no guarantee of that.
Is masculinity toxic or under assault? Cathy Young
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
Is there a war on men and maleness in America? Last week, a new Gillette razor company ad inspired by the #MeToo campaign was quickly denounced for supposedly slandering men as boorish and abusive. And earlier this month, the American Psychological Association was attacked for its new guidelines on male mental health, which critics said were biased against masculinity. Both controversies, which are still raging, have pitted “woke” progressives against defenders of traditional manhood. But each side is mired in its own stereotypes while missing the complex
realities. Take the now-infamous Gillette ad, “We Believe,” which offers a parade of men and boys behaving badly as an unseen voice speaks of bullying, sexual harassment and “toxic masculinity.” A chorus of dads chimes in with “Boys will be boys.” Then, after a montage of #MeToo news and a call for change, the ad shifts to “good” men, shown caring for their children, stopping fights, standing up to the bullies and jerks. The ad’s defenders argue that the message is inspiring, not insulting. As the tagline puts it, it’s about “the best men can be.” Some of the angry responses to the ad were over the top, and yet the detractors have a point. Take the way the ad exhorts men
to start doing and saying “the right thing,” and then continues: “Some already are. But some is not enough.” This suggests decent men are a minority while brutes are the norm. What’s more, some of the “toxic” behavior shown is pretty innocuous, such as teenage boys ogling bikini-clad babes on television. (Should we shame girls who drool over cute male pop stars?) The ad also blurs the line between fighting and roughhousing, implicitly condemning the physical play styles more common among boys. The APA guidelines are a more complicated story. Some of the critiques take aim at things it doesn’t say — such as “toxic masculinity,” a phrase that never appears in the document.
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The guidelines have also been assailed for claiming that “traditional masculinity — marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression — is, on the whole, harmful.” However, that statement comes not from the guidelines themselves but from an essay about them on the association’s website. The actual guidelines, nonbinding recommendations to clinical practitioners, are a mixed bag. They acknowledge problems that disproportionately affect men and boys, from poor school performance to suicide, substance abuse and violence. One section extensively discusses the benefits of father involvement, including activities that promote healthy competition.
While the guidelines do take a negative view of many masculine norms, they also emphasize helping patients understand “diverse and healthy” expressions of masculinity. Therapists are urged to be sensitive to typically male attitudes and behaviors (including how depression may manifest itself in men), but are also warned not to assume that all men fit that mold. The text even notes that men can be victims of partner abuse by women and that abused men may be denied help because of stereotypical assumptions. One problem is that while there is helpful content, it often drips with gender-studies dogma. There’s much talk about
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indianastatesman.com ASSAULT CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 “traditional masculinity ideology,” sometimes questionably defined. (Religious traditionalists will be surprised to learn that “traditional masculinity” includes sexual promiscuity.) Sex differences in behavior are treated as entirely the product of socialization, even though the question of nature versus nurture is far from settled. Psychologists working with men and boys are advised to address male “privilege and power.” This is difficult to square with the empathetic advice in other sections: Try explaining male privilege to a male spousal abuse victim whom the cops are treating as the perpetrator, or a divorced dad struggling to stay afloat and be an involved parent. Clearly, the would-be reformers of masculinity have their ideological blinders. But many of manhood’s defenders have limitations too. Conservative critics such as National Review columnist David French argue that what the APA calls “masculinity ideology” is simply male nature. Yet, despite some constants (males are more physically aggressive than females in virtually every society and in most mammal species), norms for everything from male emotional expression to aggression levels vary among cultures and subcultures, just as actual male behavior varies among individuals. Some men are
ARENA CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 maining drew ISU within 20-19 as did a pair of Allante Holston charity tosses one minute later but the Birds answered with a score inside and a Keyshawn Evans 3-pointer with just over seven to go as they took a 28-21 cushion. Key broke a scoring drought that lasted just over three minutes with a pair of free throws at the 2:43 mark to draw within 30-25. The damage was limited as the Sycamore defense likewise stymied the Redbirds and a put back lay-up from Kessinger as the clock ticked under the two minute mark got the Sycamores within 30-27. Six of the final eight Sycamore points were scored by Key as he went into double figures with an alley-oop dunk with just over a minute to go as well as two free throws with 1.6 seconds remaining to trim the Redbird lead down to 37-31 at the half. Key led the way with 10 points while Williams added eight. Clayton Hughes buried a jumper in transition with 17:03 on the clock to trim the Redbird cushion down to 42-37. The Redbirds answered with five in a row on their next two possessions before a Key lay-up was awarded due to goaltending which made it 47-39 with 15:40 re-
Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2019 • Page 7 risk-takers or driven achievers; plenty are not. Even if average trends for men and women are linked to biology, that’s no reason to label leadership as “masculine” or caring as “feminine.” Gender norms have under gone dramatic shifts in our time. Work and achievement as well as family are essential goals for both sexes now, and egalitarian marriage and involved fatherhood are widely shared ideals. Unfortunately, along with values that emphasize equal partnership, we have seen the rise of a polarizing feminism that fixates on male misconduct — including such trivial offenses as sitting with knees apart — while ignoring women’s capacity for bad behavior. Amid cultural upheaval, there is a very real need for constructive messages about maleness — including criticism of “toxic” attitudes that confuse bullying with manliness or scorn help-seeking as unmanly. But the key word is “constructive.” The well-intentioned Gillette ad lapses into male-shaming that undercuts its positive point. The APA guidelines get bogged down in ideological shibboleths that contradict their own male-friendly language. If traditionalist claims about male nature don’t capture the reality of many men’s lives, neither do progressive claims about male power. Beyond the stereotypes, the simple truth is that men, like women, are human.
maining. Illinois State would score nine of 11 and a lay-up from Rey Idowu on consecutive trips forced the Sycamores to call a timeout with 13:45 to go as the Redbird advantage grew to 51-39. A driving lay-up by Key made it a 54-44 contest with 9:32 to go but the Redbirds came back with the game’s next six points to stretch the lead back out to 16 points. Barnes ended a two and a half minute scoring drought with a pair of free throws but the Redbirds answered with a second chance bucket from Phil Fayne which turned into a conventional 3-point play with 6:52 remaining for the 63-46 advantage. The Redbird lead hit its peak at 20 points when Illinois State led 68-48 with 5:39 to go. The Sycamores scored six in a row to get back within striking distance at 68-54 with just under four minutes to go which forced the Redbirds to call another second half timeout. The Redbirds placed two scorers in double figures, led by Phil Fayne with 26 points. The Sycamores will conclude the current two-game MVC road swing when they travel to Southern Illinois on Wednesday, January 30.
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Track & Field Indiana State Women’s soccer team competed at hosts youth soccer camp Jordan Kgeoler Reporter
With a total of 52 campers, the Indiana State women’s soccer team is in the midst of a sixweek coed youth soccer camp. The camp takes place every Friday 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Annex. There are only three weeks left in the winter camp and women’s soccer coach Rachel Fulkerson facilitates, plans and oversees the organization of the camp. “This is my first winter here running the camp. They have done past winter camps but the big one is in the summer. It is the one where more players come and we get the big goals out and have more room,” Fulkerson said. Fulkerson explained that the ranges of campers are eight years old and up. A majority of kids are eight and nine years old. They make up about half of the campers, and the rest of them range from 10 to 14 years old.
“I was surprised the numbers we got for it, was a pretty good turn out,” Fulkerson said. Fulkerson expressed that it is fun to see the turnout at Sycamore games from the summer and winter campers. She said one of the best parts about the camp is the connection between youth and college players. The youth players come to games and cheer and chant Sycamore names and numbers. “Camps are a great way to get the youth fired up about soccer,” Fulkerson said. The camp has hour-long field sessions and 30-minute goalie sessions. The campers choose to do field and goalie sessions or just one. Campers can choose how many sessions they want to participate in out of the six sessions. The field session is a mix of technical and game scenarios. Getting touches on the ball and practicing different moves with the ball is something Fulkerson tries to work on with each camp-
er to develop stronger skills. “Trying to get them to do new things. They like to compete so high technique skills were they are testing those skills and being competitive,” Fulkerson said. One of Fulkerson’s main goals is to learn to defend correctly; so 1 v 1 is a drill used often throughout the camp sessions, along with correct body positioning. Game situations and the entire aspect of the game is always put into play during each camp session. “I think in the winter it’s good to get them inside to get touches and prepare for the spring season,” Fulkerson said. The goal for the college players working with the youth players is for the college athletes to be role models towards the youth athletes and make them excited for soccer. “Connection in the community and support is important. The relationship built between the youth players and college players is important,” Fulkerson said.
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Tamara Lee led the Sycamores with 19 points.
ISU drops 3rd straight Patrick Walsh
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Tamara Lee led all scorers with 19 points but was seemingly the only hot hand for Indiana State Sunday as the Sycamores dropped a 71-51 decision to Northern Iowa in front of 1,564 fans in a Missouri Valley Conference match-up at Hulman Center. But while Lee was hot – hitting 8 of 13 shots from the floor – the rest of the Sycamores struggled to find a spark. The senior guard shot a career-best 61.5 percent from the floor but was backed up by just a 27 percent shooting mark by the rest of the team. That included a 4-for-9 day by Daijah Smith, who was the only other ISU player to reach double figures with 10 points. But Northern Iowa (12-7, 5-2) as just as hot as Lee, shooting 54 percent from the field as a team and out-scoring the host Sycamores in every quarter except for the third quarter, which ended with a one-point advantage for ISU. That third period was a reversal of fortunes for both teams. Indiana State hit nearly 47 per-
cent of their shots and cut an 18-point deficit down to single digits while the visiting Panthers were just 5-for-14 (35.7 percent) from the floor. Regan Wentland scored six of her eight points in those 10 minutes alone and ISU seemed poised to threaten a UNI team that has won four of its last five games in conference play. But as the final quarter got underway, the pendulum swung back to its original position. Indiana State’s defense, despite forcing 21 turnovers, allowed the Panthers to once again shoot over 50 percent in the quarter. Timeouts, different lineups and words of coaching couldn’t ignite the defense of Friday that threatened Drake’s win streak or an offense that couldn’t get a roll to fall its way. Lee scored eight of her 19 points in the second half and her 3-point shot in the third quarter marked the first longrange basket of the game for the Sycamores. She has now reached double figures in three of her last four games. “Tamara Lee can shoot the ball and we work hard to try
to get her open looks,” Indiana State Head Coach Vicki Hall said of the fifth-year transfer into the program. “She’s the only one who shot over 50 percent for our whole team today. T-Lee works hard on her shooting, she goes into the gym, this is her craft. She’s a master of her craft.” “We are making progress, it’s just hard. But we are making progress, you can see that we’ve gotten better at certain things but you know I’m a perfectionist. And I’m not going to make any excuses about it,” Hall added. Indiana State will close out the first half of Missouri Valley Conference play with a 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT tip at Evansville on Friday, Feb. 1 on ESPN+. “You better believe that I haven’t packed it in and I’ll be at practice Tuesday at 2:30 at the gym, ready for us to do what we need to do, to continue to get better not only for Evansville, but the last 10 games of the season. I’m not one that waves a white flag ever,” stated Hall. ISU is now 9-10 on the season and 3-5 in the Missouri Valley Conference.
Illinois Invite Jay Adkins Reporter
The Indiana State University Sycamores Track and Field team traveled to Champaign, Illinois. On the men’s side of things, freshman hurdler Matthew Lewis-Banks finished first place in the 60-meter hurdles. Lewis-Banks won the final round with an impressive time of 7.98, the second best time in the Missouri Valley Conference. Sophomore sprinter Jarel Shaw finished second in the final round of the 60-meter dash with a time 6.94, which is currently the second best time in the MVC. Senior sprinter Jordan Moothery finished fifth in the 60-meter with a time of 7.00. Redshirt freshman sprinter Antonio Davis placed second in the 600-meter run with a time of 1:24.19, losing to first place by less than one second. A couple of senior distance runners placed well in the meet, with Akis Medrano placing third in the men’s mile with a time of 4:11.01. Ryan Cash finished fourth place with a time of 4:11.81. Senior distance runner Quentin Pierce finished in fifth place with a time of 4:12.44. Junior sprinter Rhett Blake finished the men’s 400-meter dash with a time of 50.41. The men’s 4x400 meter relay team of Antonio Davis, Rhett Blake, and sophomore hurdlers Kaleb Budde and Stephen Griffith finished in third place with a time of 3:22.95. Sophomore long jumper Dearis Herron earned silver after finishing the long jump with a mark of 6.67 meters. Sophomore high jumper Nick Schultz took third place in the high jump with a mark of 2.00 meters. Sophomore jumper Nathan Kiger also finished in fourth place with a mark of 2.00 meters. On the women’s side of things, senior distance runner Brooke Moore finished in first place in
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the women’s mile with a time of 2:11.06. Junior mid-distance runner Imani Davis finished second in the 600-meter run with a time of 1:34.91. Sophomore mid-distance runner Rebecca Odusola finished third in the 600-meter run with a time of 1:36.91. Freshman sprinter Bri Buggs finished in second place in the 200-meter dash with a time of 25.59, while freshman sprinter Esther Chukwunwike finished in fourth place with a time of 26.32. Senior hurdler Ayanna Morgan finished second place in the 60-meter hurdle finals with a time of 8.48. Junior hurdler Allana Ince finished in fourth place in the 60-meter hurdles with a final time of 8.67. The women’s 4x400 relay team of Rebecca Odusola, Imani Davis, Ayanna Morgan, and Brittney Walker placed third in the race with a time of 3:57.33. Redshirt senior Cassaundra Roper finished first place in the shot put with a mark of 15.58 meters. Redshirt senior Erin Reese finished second in the weight throw with a mark of 20.64 meters. The Sycamores will travel to South Bend this weekend to compete in the Meyo Invitational.
Illinois State takes down Sycamores inside Redbird Arena Ace Hunt
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Indiana State could not keep up the momentum gained from a late first half rally as they fell to Illinois State, 76-62 in Missouri Valley Conference action on Sunday afternoon inside Redbird Arena. Indiana State fell to 11-9, 3-5 MVC while Illinois State improved to 12-9, 5-3 MVC. It was Illinois State’s fourth straight win over the Sycamores at Redbird Arena. Tyreke Key led the way with 18 points as he hit 6-of-9 shots from the field. Jordan Barnes added 14 points to join him in double figures scoring. Illinois State finished the game with a 50.0 field goal percentage (27-of54) and forced 15 Indiana State turnovers which led to 11 Redbird points. Illinois State also used nine offensive rebounds to hold a 12-4 edge in second
chance points in the game. Emondre Rickman hit a hook shot at the end of the shot clock to answer a Phil Fayne jumper in the paint as the two teams traded buckets on their opening possessions. Fayne would hit a lay-up to push the Redbird advantage up to 12-4 before Christian Williams hit a pair 3-pointers in the opening seven minutes to spur a Sycamore come back and get ISU back within 15-11 as the clock ticked under the 13 minute mark. Illinois State would stretch their lead out to 18-11 before Tyreke Key drained a corner 3-pointer at the 11:55 mark to draw the Sycamores within four points. Then on the next possession, Williams would fouled in transition and hit a pair of free throws to draw within 18-16. A Jordan Barnes trifecta with just a few ticks under 10 minutes re-
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Correction: In the last issue on page 8, Allante Holston was the one shaking hands with Larry Bird, not Tyreke Key.