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Three day festival cultures ISU: International Music and Culture Festival Cheyenne Fauquher Reporter
Indiana State University had several festivities honoring music and culture from March 1215. This event showcased artistic traditions from both past and present, featuring China, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Hungary and the United States. Visitors from these other countries came to share their own unique traditions. Being featured were student and faculty members from ISU sharing our traditions of the U.S. The International Costume and Traditional Dress Static Display was displayed in the College of Technology. Students of the Textiles, Apparel, and Merchandising Program set this up under the coordination of Dr. Robinson and Ms. Pamela Tabor. All were allowed to come see the display and learn the traditional style of other cultures. Showcased all week was the exhibition entitled, “The American Dream” located on 23 North Sixth Street at the Arts Illiana Gallery. This displayed 59 works of art represented interpretations of the American Dream from artists across North America, including the Wabash Valley. The gallery was open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to visit. On Tuesday, March 12 there was a discussion and analysis
of the 2015 film, “Tag” at 6:30 p.m. in University Hall Theater. “Tag,” was originally titled “Riaru Onigokko.” There was a pre-viewing discussion as well as a post-viewing discussion about the music selection contrast from U.S. horror. Wednesday, March 13 was the opening festival concert, featuring guest Ms. Xiaocheng Jia, playing the violin in Tilson Auditorium. She was a prizewinner of national violin competitions in 1997 and 2001 and has performed as a soloist with many orchestras from the U.S. Her friends call her “Echo” because of her unique sound with the violin. Events began at 9 a.m. on Thursday, March 14 and lasted until 8:45 p.m. that night. Starting at 9 a.m., was a Panel Discussion about “How faculty Internationalize their classrooms” with Dr. Scott Sterling. At 10:15 a.m. a Lecture Recital of “An Exploration of Thai Traditional Music Western Percussion Instruments” was given by Dr. Wannapha Yannavut. At 10:45, a performance by St. Gabriel School Percussion Ensemle was given and another performance at 1 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. On the last day of the festival, Friday, March 15 events began at 9 a.m. with a presentation in the Landini Center of Performing and Fine Arts. There were performances at 10:45 a.m., 1 p.m.
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Models pose on stage in University Hall Theater. Left wearing Senegal inspired Keralynn Little designs. Right wearing United Kingdom inspired Dr. Robinson designs.
and 7:30 p.m. From 2:45 - 4 p.m. there was a fashion show in University Hall Theater. At this particular event, ISU students majoring in Textiles,
Apparel, and Merchandising Culturally Inspired Fashion showcased their own designs of other cultures. Students came out and modeled their designs. Dr. Robinson, organizer of the
festival said, “We have had many visitors from out of the country come and share their talents this week. The turnout for the events this week has been great. I would say it’s been a phenomenal week.”
Project Runways’, Laurie Underwood, speaks to students Nicole Nunez Reporter
The members of the Fashion and Merchandising Association at Indiana State University held a live video chat with the up and coming bridal designer, Laurie Underwood. Underwood was a previous “Project Runway” designer. Ever since she was a nine-year-old girl in Detroit, Underwood dreamed of being a designer. She would sit in her mother’s living room practicing interviews and pretending she was in her dream job. She was on season 14 of “Project Runway” and now lives in Chicago. “What I did to make that dream come to life is basically use my imagination and manifest it in everything that has happened to me,” said Underwood. She recently leased her own studio in Chicago to dive deep into her bridal entrepreneurship, in an addition to her business she works for another company on the side. “I am a bridal designer entrepreneur and I use the skills I learned in fashion school to be a consultant for a company that creates garment construction components for companies such as Zara, H&M, Forever, 21 and the Gap,” said Underwood. One of the biggest takeaways was the idea that as a designer, or for anyone in
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Laurie Underwood, season 14 Project Runway contestant, video chatted with Fashion & Merchandising Association members on Friday, Feb. 15.
the fashion industry, you need to have a unique idea. “What’s going to make you stand out? Why is someone going to want to buy your dress? It’s a must- having that unique idea to present to the world,” Underwood said. “I have to do more than just make a dress; I have to have a story behind it.” Her idea for her bridal line is creating dresses for the millennial bride. Her de-
signs are made of a separate bodysuit, top and skirt for versatility. “How can we make this functional? How can we make this unique? How will she be able to wear this again,” Underwood said. “She’s very minimal, she’s very millennium and she just wants something different and not to froo froo.” Many women’s wedding dresses are never worn again and are in a box, col-
lecting dust. With Underwood’s designs, the bride will be able to wear the bodysuit again on her honeymoon or simply with a pair of jeans. Underwood discussed that many weddings are more focused on the guests, but “I want to put the focus back on the bride,” said Underwood, “creating her that special piece but making it functional at the same time.” Being unique can lead to many people copying your ideas. “Somebody can copy you, but they’re not you. They won’t do it the exact same way you created it… so let them copy, that just means they are not creative at all… if you’re copying somebody, that means you don’t have power,” said Underwood. Underwood lastly discussed the growth of minimalist lifestyles and how they affect the fashion world. People are becoming larger online shoppers, using social media outlets to find better deals while they simply lay in bed. This is a large reason why many large stores are closing and Underwood mentioned how important it is for our fashion students to pay attention to these changes. “Start as soon as possible, because everything is going fast now… and you have to catch up to what’s going on or you just get left behind,” Underwood said, “it’s just making a decision, getting with the program and keeping up with what’s next.”
The rich buying names on college buildings is ‘legal bribery,’ Gov. Gavin Newsom says Phil Willon
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday that the college admission scandal extends beyond the recent charges against rich parents buying entrance to elite colleges and suggested it should include the “legal bribery” of billionaires buying naming rights on university buildings. The governor did not mention the University of California system specifically, but seemed to allude to it and other universities statewide. His comments come just days after a slew of well-known Hollywood actors, business titans and college athletics officials were indicted as part of a widespread corruption scheme involving the admission of students to top universities using falsified test scores and athletic profiles. “It’s a deeper issue than the bribery and holding these people to account, which they should be. It goes to the nature, again, of wealth,” Newsom told Buzzfeed on Fri-
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to members of the media at Long Beach Community College on February 19, 2019, in Long Beach, Calif.
day. “What about the legal bribery that exists in higher education? Do you think, seriously, does anyone think someone who writes a $100-million check to a university doesn’t have a cellphone of someone who’s
influential?” As governor, Newsom sits on both the University of California Board of Regents, which oversees one of the public universities in the middle of the developing scandal — the University of California, Los Angeles. He also sits on the Board of Trustees of the California State University system. Newsom’s comments came during an East Coast media campaign to defend his decision to impose a moratorium on the execution of California death row inmates. Newsom began Friday with an appearance on the “CBS This Morning,” followed by an appearance on ABC’s “The View” and National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” When asked about the college admissions scandal, Newsom quickly pivoted to the systemic advantages that the rich and powerful exercise in the college admissions process, even at public universities. “What about the folks writing the $20-million check, putting their name on that building?” Newsom said during an in-
terview on “CBS This Morning.” “Connect the dots to the folks they quietly called for admission, or wrote a letter of recommendation.” Although the governor did not cite particular cases, there have been controversies in California involving the naming of college buildings, although not necessarily involving offspring of big donors getting special favors. Newsom said the college admission system favors all “people of wealth and privilege,” not just those who were indicted in the current scandal. That includes influential politicians. The governor intimated that he has also been contacted to intervene in the admissions process. “It’s true with anyone in positions with influence, and that includes politicians,” Newsom said. The governor did not propose any new policies to address the issue, saying that “we’ve got to reflect on this in a much deeper way” before taking potential action.
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Trump’s move to end humanitarian program exposes Liberian UCLA student to deportation Andrea Castillo
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
After this month, Yatta Kiazolu will be eligible for deportation to a country where she had never lived. The 28-year-old doctoral candidate in history at UCLA was born in Botswana to Liberian parents. She has lived in the U.S. since she was 7 and since 2002 has maintained legal authorization under a humanitarian relief program. President Donald Trump moved to end deferred enforced departure for Liberians last year, saying that the country is no longer mired in armed conflict and has sufficiently recovered from the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. More than 350,000 Liberians were displaced by civil war and fled the country. The program is set to end March 31, leaving an estimated 4,000 people vulnerable to deportation. Though DED bears a strong resemblance to temporary protected status — another humanitarian program facing termination that would affect about 400,000 immigrants — it has largely been left out of the national conversation. Civil rights advocates sued the Trump administration this month over the program’s termination, calling it racially motivated. Kiazolu, one of the plaintiffs, testified to Congress about how the program’s end would affect her.
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Yatta Kiazolu poses for a portrait at her home on Friday, March 15, 2019 in Los Angeles, Calif. Kiazolu, a UCLA student, testified before the House Judiciary Committee about the Deferred Enforced Departure program, a little-known humanitarian relief program for Liberian immigrants, which is set to end March 31, leaving an estimated 4,000 people vulnerable to deportation.
“My grandmother used to say, ‘When you do good, you don’t do it for yourself — you do it for God.’ And with that philosophy as my personal mantra, though the majority of my family are now permanent residents and U.S. citizens, I’m here for all the working-class immigrants on DED, TPS and (who) are also ‘Dream-eligible,’” she told the House Judiciary Committee March 6, referring to protections
for immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children. “I’m here for all the young people like myself who have anxiety about their futures.” Liberia had two civil wars from 1989, the year before Kiazolu was born, to 2003. Since 1991, the country has been designated for either TPS or DED at alternating points by Democratic and Republican administrations alike. It’s also the only country des-
Supreme Court to decide if insanity defense, unanimous jury are required David G. Savage
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to resolve two long-standing disputes and decide whether the Constitution includes rights to the insanity defense and a unanimous jury verdict of guilt. Most states permit criminal defendants to plead insanity and escape the full punishment of the law on the grounds that they did not know right from wrong at the time of their crimes. Kansas, however, says defendants may cite a “mental disease or defect” as a partial defense, but they may be found guilty nonetheless if they intended to commit violent crimes. All but two states — Louisiana and Oregon — require unanimous jury verdicts in criminal cases. The justices said Monday that they would hear appeals from convicted murderers in Kansas and Louisiana who contend that those convictions were unconstitutional. Voting to hear claims from convicted criminals may seem somewhat surprising for a more conservative Supreme Court. But it may be in keeping with another recent ruling that clar-
ified that other constitutional rights should apply to all states. Last month, the justices resolved a similar dispute by ruling that the Eighth Amendment protects Americans from “excessive fines” imposed by states and local governments, including the seizure of a $42,000 Land Rover for a $300 drug crime. In that case, Timbs v. Indiana, the court — prodded by new Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh — said the time had passed for states to argue that they did not have to abide by all parts of the Bill of Rights. The Sixth Amendment protects the “right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury.” For most of American history, that has been understood to require a jury verdict of guilt based on a unanimous vote. In 1972, the Supreme Court took up the issue in an Oregon case, but issued a splintered 4-14 decision. The result was that juries in federal courts must be unanimous to impose guilt, but states like Oregon and Louisiana were free to uphold jury verdicts that were less than unanimous. In 2016, Evangelisto Ramos was convicted on 10-2 jury verdict of murdering a suspected prostitute in New Orleans. His appeal argued that Louisiana’s
rule allowing non-unanimous jury verdicts was adopted in 1898 for racist reasons, and it should be overturned. The state’s attorneys urged the court to deny the appeal and noted that the state’s voters approved requiring unanimous verdicts beginning this year. Nonetheless, the Supreme Court said it would hear Ramos v. Louisiana in the fall to decide whether unanimous jury verdicts will be a constitutional rule nationwide. The court will also hear an appeal from James Kahler, who shot and killed two of his daughters, his ex-wife and her grandmother, and sought to plead insanity. He claimed that he had sunk into hopeless depression after his marriage collapsed. But a state expert testified that Kahler planned the murders. He was convicted and sentenced to death, despite his insanity plea. His appeal in Kahler v. Kansas argues that the insanity defense is a fundamental aspect of American justice and cannot be restricted or abolished by the states. In Kansas, Kahler’s attorney argued, “it is not a defense to criminal liability that mental illness prevented the defendant
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ignated for DED, though citizens of China, El Salvador, the Persian Gulf region and Haiti have all previously been eligible. Like TPS, the program allows people from countries devastated by natural disasters or war to work legally while they remain in the U.S. But unlike TPS, which is designated by the secretary of Homeland Security, DED is designated at the discretion of the president.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of 15 Liberians, their U.S. citizen children, and two advocacy organizations for black immigrants. Lawyers called the termination of protections unconstitutional and asked that the court prevent Trump from ending the program for Liberians. “At every turn with this administration, we have seen immigration policies that are driven by racial animus,” said Kristen Clarke, executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, one of the groups suing. The Homeland Security and Justice departments declined to comment. The White House did not respond to a request for comment. Lawyers cited Ramos v. Nielsen, the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco over the Trump administration’s termination of TPS for immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan. Lawyers in that case similarly alleged that government officials approached their decision to end TPS with a political agenda, ignored facts and were motivated by racism. Liberia’s history is rooted in U.S. slavery and colonialism. Thousands of freed slaves were sent to Africa before the Civil War. Many settled in what would become Liberia. Kiazolu, the UCLA student, has ancestors who were enslaved in South Carolina.
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Outrage over tax breaks for parents in college admissions scandal sparks calls for change Matt Stiles
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
Tax breaks resulting from charitable donations to universities and colleges could be receiving new scrutiny in Washington after the largest admissions cheating scandal in U.S. history. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, a powerful member of a legislative committee over national tax policy, said he would seek to ban deductions for donations to schools such as the University of Southern California, UCLA and others that raise private money to fund infrastructure, research and scholarships. Wyden’s proposed legislation, which would apply only to donations from parents while their children are seeking admission to a school, aims to eliminate what he called a “back door” benefit with inestimable value for the wealthiest families. “Middle-class families don’t have access to this back door for their children,” Wyden, D-Ore., said in a statement. “If the wealthy want to grease the skids, they shouldn’t be able to do so at
the expense of American taxpayers.” His proposal comes after a federal investigation last week revealed a massive admissions scandal involving elite schools such as UCLA, USC, Stanford, Yale and Georgetown. Federal prosecutors allege that wealthy parents — including two Hollywood actresses — paid to help their children cheat on entrance exams or falsify athletics records to help them gain admission. The scheme began in 2011 and was propelled by the owner of a for-profit Newport Beach college admissions company. Some of the parents disguised their alleged bribes as charitable donations to a nonprofit controlled by the man prosecutors say masterminded the scheme. That allowed the donors to then claim deductions on their income taxes, according to the Internal Revenue Service. It’s unclear whether prosecutors have evidence that university foundations — which would be targeted by Wyden’s suggested
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‘Five Feet Apart’ author discusses love, life with lung disease and upcoming film Rebecca Proulx BookTrib
“Five Feet Apart” (Simon and Schuster) is a moving YA novel that captures the hearts of readers through its fragile tale of young love while giving much-needed attention to a debilitating lung disease: cystic fibrosis. While there is no permanent cure for the disease at this time, there are a variety of treatment options available. The main characters, Stella Grant and Will Newman, have different forms of the disease and use their own coping methods to live with the condition. Will has a more advanced complication of cystic fibrosis, Burkholderia cepacia (B. cepacia), and until he meets Stella, wishes to leave the hospital and all hope of recovery through treatment behind. He would rather live what is left of his life fully on his own terms, despite the risks. Stella is in many ways his opposite. Instead of wishing to push all of her worries and treatment away, Stella does everything she can to remain in control, feeling unfairly guilty for the grief her parents suffer due to any of her health setbacks. While the two get off to a rough start, Stella feels drawn to helping the stubborn Will find hope in treatment. Will finds inspiration to take better care of himself in complying with a medication schedule to make Stella happy. As you can imagine, the opposites soon attract and develop strong feelings for
one another. However, due to their medical conditions, they cannot be physically near each other without danger of worsening their diseases. To be precise, they must stay a safe distance of six feet apart. Their star-crossed relationship, akin to “The Fault in Our Stars,” offers a unique obstacle to their path, but not one that can affect their shrinking emotional distance. Since its publication in November 2018, “Five Feet Apart” has gained a strong readership. Rachael Lippincott wrote the novel based on the original screenplay by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis. The movie boasts an impressive cast with the leads of Cole Sprouse for Will Newman and Haley Lu Richardson for Stella Grant. As we are just days away from the story hitting the big screen, BookTrib sits down with author Rachael Lippincott. BookTrib: What made you choose to write about two teens with cystic fibrosis? Was there any personal experience with the disease? Rachael Lippincott: To be completely honest, I didn’t know about cystic fibrosis until I picked up the screenplay for “Five Feet Apart” and pored over it in one afternoon. I was so incredibly moved by Will and Stella and their story that I spent the rest of the night reading about CF and B. cepacia and medical statistics for the disease. From that initial spark, my inspiration grew tenfold over the months that followed. It became about the real life Wills and Stellas. People like Claire Wine-
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land, who stare CF in the face and inspire so many others to live a life that they can be proud of. It became about a mom in Des Moines with this superhuman perseverance to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation so that her daughter and so many other CFers can live to see a
cure. It became about people that had never heard about cystic fibrosis reading Will and Stella’s story, or watching it on the big screen, and taking the time to open up google and learn about what the disease is. That’s really what “Five Feet Apart” is about. Raising awareness about cystic fibrosis, and opening people’s eyes to this disease and the people that have it, whether they read the book or see the movie. BT: You describe the treatments and daily routines of those living with cystic fibrosis in great detail. What was your research process like? RL: Getting this right was definitely the most important thing for me when writing the book. I spent hours pouring over YouTube videos and Reddit forums trying to make sure I understood the treatments that were an everyday reality for these characters. If I didn’t know how something worked or didn’t feel like I completely understood it, I asked about it. Aside from the research I did, the CF expert for the film was also tasked with reading through the manuscript to make sure that everything was accurate. There were a few things that she really broke down for me so that I could write about them in a factual manner. Another huge factor was that I had the screenplay to go off of. The screenplay was really the compilation of Mikki and Tobias’s work and research
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The most influential black horror films and filmmakers Sonaiya Kelley
Los Angeles Times
When Tony Todd breathed life into the undead horror character Candyman back in 1992, he wasn’t aware that he would become the first black supernatural killer depicted onscreen. “[Director] Bernard Rose didn’t tell me at the time, but he actually got complaints from the NAACP when he wrote the script,” said Todd. “They had to have meetings to explain what they were going to do, why would they make this African American the villain.” Last fall, Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions announced it would produce a remake of the urban horror film helmed by director Nia DaCosta, which will be set in a gentrified Chicago. “Aquaman” actor Yahya Ab-
dul-Mateen II has been tapped to star as the titular killer. “I’m so honored that the character is going to continue,” said Todd. “I’ve lived with this character for 25 years, and I’ve kept his image alive — sharing is caring. Privately, am I a little stunned? Of course. Because it’s hard to let go when you live with something that long. When you do a good theatrical production, sometimes you dream about that 8 o’clock curtain call for six months. It’s going to be a little bit of that.” Although “Candyman” is inarguably one of the most seminal black horror films, it is just one of several movies that paved the way for “Get Out” to achieve the blockbuster success it did in 2017, and in turn led to Peele’s highly anticipated follow-up, “Us.” Horror author and academic Tananarive Due, a produc-
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10 reasons why you need a mentor Ashima Sitaula Columnist
I am a new student at Indiana State University. I am from Nepal and I believe I am the first female Nepali student at ISU Bayh College of Education. This is an important responsibility and role I have as a new international student. The responsibility to represent my country in new light and represent my gender in a good way for future international students. I am excited about writing this article because I have learned a great deal from my academic program, experiences, faculty and colleagues during this short amount of time. Given the complexity and demands of our programs, I believe everyone needs a mentor. During my first couple of weeks, the International Office on Policies, Programs, Opportunities and Guidelines mentored me. Then I met the faculty of the Department of Teaching and Learning and realized that I have academic mentors. My host mother, who has visited Nepal but is also faculty, is another one of my mentors. These mentors help provide a foundation of information about the nuances of being in a new country and navigating all that is so unfamiliar. Frequently, mentors are our source of information and experience, but there are peer mentors as well. For example, I have met friends, both nationals and internationals who share very valuable information, news and experiences. They helped in adjusting to the new atmosphere here in Terre Haute. I believe that many students do not realize that they need a mentor. No one has all the information, so sometimes you may feel uniformed or vulnerable in the new environment that is now your home and community. It is normal to say that you need someone to help you learn and adjust as a new or returning student. A mentor can help guide you through your professional and personal expeditions. Here are 10 reasons on why you need a mentor: Find an academic mentor in your discipline who will help you navigate in your academic program. Mentors provide information and knowledge that will provide efficient steps and shorten the academic learning curve in your life. Find a mentor that is not in your program who will help you understand your role in your identity on campus. Mentors
are sounding boards, so we can bounce ideas off them for an unfiltered opinion. Find peer mentors who will be there to just listen to you. Peer mentors may be from your home country or hometown, but they will be your net to catch you when you are having a tough day. Seek out community mentors in the community you are currently living in. This mentor will help you get involved in community activities and build relationships with other people in the community. Meet regularly with all your mentors because one mentor cannot meet all your needs as a student. Having more than one mentor to respond to your emerging skills set, academic program, or career goals is crucial. It is important while making decisions or exploring options to have more than one mentor. Mentors offer encouragement and confidence to help us keep going. Inspirational entrepreneur Oprah Winfrey stated, “A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.” Mentors are there no matter what and offer you moral support. Mentors are disciplinarians that create necessary boundaries that we cannot set for ourselves. A mentor will challenge your timelines, management of time and habits. For example, work habits are important during a dissertation and sometimes these are difficult to develop. This is where your mentors will help you. Mentors are trusted advisers that you can trust, especially in political climates such as academia where positions and people change. Mentors have the experience you can learn from to prevent making the same mistakes beginners make. A mentor has been right where you are and has made numerous mistakes that they can now be used as a basis for helping you to skip the devastating effects of not knowing. Mentors are human and make mistakes, which you can learn from. Mentors are free, which makes them priceless in more ways than one. A mentoring relationship will grow organically through connections within your area and network. A mentor does not do it for money. Instead, they are motivated by the gratification of helping you, paying it forward from a similar experience they had when they were starting. Think about people in your own life then recognize and find who might be your academic mentor, career mentor, research mentor, peer mentor or community mentors.
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Archbishop Charles Chaput announced Sunday that three churches previously merged with other parishes will no longer serve as worship sites and will close as Roman Catholic churches.
Where is the justice?
Erin Bradshaw Columnist
Sexual allegations against the Catholic Church are not a new topic of discussion. Conversations about the relationships between priests and altar boys, among other members of the Church, have always been on the backburner of news stations – until now. In August of 2018, an investigation over sexual abuse began in the Pennsylvania Roman Catholic Church. According to PBS, seven out of eight of the dioceses were served a subpoena, meaning they must attend court. Within a 900-page grand jury report, there were allegations against over 300 priests who abused over 1,000 children. These findings sparked other attorney generals in various states to further investigate their own catholic churches. Wednesday, March 6, Cardinal George Pell from Australia, was found guilty on five charges of sexual abuse against minors since the 1970s. He was sentenced to six years in prison with availability for parole in three years and eight months according to Catholic News Agency. Pell was the Vatican’s financial chief advisor and adviser to Pope Francis. He is currently 77 years old, which means that he potentially could die in jail, but it is not definite. Pell would potentially face 50
years in prison, but according to NBC News, Chief Judge Peter Kidd felt that considering Pell’s age and history of health issues, his sentencing of six years was sufficient enough and that he “did not consider there to be a high risk of Pell reoffending.” How is it justified the highest offending cleric of a religious organization, one that has high moral standards regarding sexuality morality, was only given six years or less of prison? By not sentencing Pell the full term sentence he deserves, the Judges for this case are excusing sexual assault, especially against adolescents, to be something not of high validity. Pertaining to the Catholic Church allegations, there was a documentary surrounding this topic that was released in 2017 on Netflix. However, it really started picking up this past year with all of the allegations against the priests. The documentary is about how a nun, Cathy Cesnik, at an all-girl Catholic school in Baltimore who randomly went missing after being told by some of the students that the priest and “psychologist” of the school was sexually abusing girls. Joseph Maskell claimed to get knowledge on the girls’ weaknesses and then tell them that his sexual abuse was purging them of their sins. Maskell commonly had other Catholic Church members, business owners and police offers abuse the young girls. Cesnik never received justice and the priest, Joseph Maskell, died in 2001 after fleeing to Ireland from Archdiocese of Baltimore according to Inverse. Even after having multiple al-
legations against him and one girl claiming he showed her where the nun’s body was, he was never convicted of anything. The Church tried very hard to cover the incident up and the priest was well connected within the city. Currently with the Me Too movement settling in, one would think that any type of sexual allegation would be taken to the highest offense. Recently, two documentaries regarding sexual allegations against prominent people in Hollywood have come out. The first, Leaving Neverland, is about the allegations against Michael Jackson. Two men, claiming to have been violated by Michael Jackson when they were ages seven and ten, take you through their experiences during that time period. They both provide proof, one even with a diamond ring that he says Jackson gave to him and thereafter performed a mock wedding ceremony. The second documentary called Surviving R. Kelly, surrounds the many allegations against R. Kelly such as abuse, pedophilia and inappropriate behavior towards women and underage girls. Michael Jackson has passed, but Kelly is still alive and continues to deny the allegations left and right. In his first interview since the allegations, he cried aggressively and explicitly claimed he was not innocent. After interviewing him, the interview continues to cover the two live-in girlfriends he currently has. They claim their parents sold
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Editorial: Britain flounders on Brexit Editorial Board
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If Congress seems dysfunctional to you, consider the spectacle recently on display in London. This month is a crucial one for decision-making on Brexit, Britain’s looming withdrawal from the European Union. But a chaotic and bitterly divided Parliament has managed to do nothing beyond kicking the Brexit can furtively down the road and hoping the EU will play along. The initial vote by British residents in 2016 to split from their continental partners may have shocked the country’s political establishment, but that was nearly three years ago. You might think that the many intervening months would have provided enough time to arrange for a smooth transition back to the status quo before England,
Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland exchanged people and goods freely with the rest of Europe. Parliament’s formal approval of the withdrawal in March 2017 started a two-year countdown, and Brexit is now set for liftoff in less than two weeks — ready or not. But one thing that’s become abundantly clear is that there can be no smooth transition. The formation of an essentially borderless Europe in 1993 has changed much about the countries and economies involved. So too did the 1998 Good Friday peace deal to end the violence in Northern Ireland — a deal enhanced by a relatively open border between Ireland and Northern Ireland. What to do about that intra-EU border has been probably the thorniest of the issues raised by the Brexit referendum; others include questions about trade and customs terms, regulatory parity, the “divorce pay-
ment” that Britain would have to make to part ways with the EU, and the rights of British citizens living in EU countries (and of Europeans in Britain). Most of those issues remain unresolved, but Prime Minister Theresa May — the leader of the Tory party that championed Brexit — negotiated a deal with the EU that would allow goods to continue to pass across the border in Ireland without duties even if there were no larger trade agreement between the two sides. May’s deal would be better than nothing, but she has been singularly unable to push it through Parliament. On Tuesday, she tried a second time to win approval for the deal, and again she suffered a resounding defeat, opposed not just by members who want Britain to stay in the EU, but also by many Brexit supporters (including Tories) who want a cleaner break. Then, as the week progressed, lawmakers
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further muddied the waters, voting against leaving the EU without a deal, against seizing control of the process from the prime minister, and against holding another referendum. The one thing they could agree on was that they’re not ready for Brexit. Parliament voted Thursday to put off the withdrawal indefinitely, a delay that requires the approval of every other EU member nation. EU leaders, who have opposed Brexit from the start, have expressed support for a delay that could last a year or more, evidently hoping that the would-be defectors will come to their senses and reembrace the union. It’s entirely possible that Britain will put Brexit up for another referendum; the Parliament’s recent vote against it was warped by the Labour Party leadership’s inexplicable decision to oppose another vote of the people. Brexit was a bad idea from the start, and
the case against it has only grown stronger over time as businesses leave or limit investments in Britain to avoid the possible increase in tariffs and taxes. Yet the British government seems to have lost the ability to learn from experience and change course, a problem that seems common among democracies these days. The country is sharply polarized over Brexit. In the minds of its supporters, the narrow vote in favor of Brexit in 2016 locks Britain into the split, regardless of the mounting evidence about how difficult and damaging it would be. In short, an exercise in direct democracy has stymied the mother of all Parliaments. The events of the last few days have challenged the legitimacy of all the leaders involved; May’s position in particular may not be saved even if she somehow man-
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indianastatesman.com DEPORTATION CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 olina. Lawyers said conditions in Liberia justify an extension of DED, referencing a 2017 State Department report detailing human rights abuses including extrajudicial killings, police abuse, official corruption, female genital mutilation, criminalization of same-sex conduct and a culture of impunity. The country is one of the world’s poorest: Remittances in 2016 accounted for nearly one-third of its gross domestic product. Other plaintiffs include a nursing assistant in Minnesota who fled Liberia during the civil war after family members were jailed, disappeared, shot and attacked; and a health care worker in Massachusetts
TAX BREAKS FROM PAGE 2 ed legislation — were directly involved in the case, however. Although some receive public funding, many universities are structured as nonprofits or have associated foundations, allowing
FIVE FEET FROM PAGE 3 living with CF, and provided a great outline for what I needed to explore and expand on in the book. Every draft of the screenplay they wrote was read by Claire Wineland, an activist, YouTube star and CFer, so when I received the screenplay there was already this great foundation to build off of.
Tuesday, March 19, 2019 • Page 5 who has lived in the U.S. for 20 years and has six children who have never visited their father’s home country. The children of Liberians face an unreasonable decision, lawyers say. Liberian law forbids dual citizenship, so if forced to leave with their parents, the children would have to renounce their U.S. citizenship to legally work and access other rights granted to Liberian citizens. “For these U.S. citizen children, the Trump administration has set up an impossible and unconstitutional choice: lose your parents or lose your citizenship,” the lawsuit says. Kiazolu is set to graduate this fall. Administrators haven’t been able to tell her what could happen to her research funding or whether she’ll even be able to re-
main a student. Without permission to work, she doesn’t know how she’d pay back her student loans. Unsure of how to prepare, she has continued her regular routine, spending most days working on her dissertation about how black women in the U.S. and in Africa collaborated in the 20th century on issues of women’s and civil rights. Kiazolu’s father was working for the United Nations in Botswana when she was born, a year after the war started. When he got a job in Liberia in 1997, the war was still raging. Fearing for their safety, her mother sent her to live with her grandmother in Decatur, Ga., and followed her soon after. Kiazolu has no other paths to legal authorization. At 21, she aged out of qual-
ifying for permanent residency through her U.S. citizen grandmother. Her stepfather, also a citizen, applied for her in 2016, but there is a yearslong wait. Her application was never chosen for a diversity visa, which is granted randomly for people from countries with low rates of immigration to the U.S. She also doesn’t qualify for a student visa, for which applicants must demonstrate strong ties to their home country. Her dream is to graduate and become a teacher in the country she knows as home. “It’s hard to think about,” she said of her potential deportation. “I’m obviously proud of my heritage and family, but what are people really asking of me in this situation? It’s just wild and immoral.”
their gifts and donations to be classified as charitable under the federal tax code. The Campaign for USC, for example, is raising billions of dollars in tax-deductible gifts from more than 400,000 donors, according to the university, to fund investments in in-
frastructure, research and scholarships. Similarly, the UCLA Foundation is that university’s charitable arm. Its website publishes the foundation’s identification number with the Internal Revenue Service so that donors can seek a deduc-
tion. “The best way for UCLA to preserve our public interest is through private support,” its website reads. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, during a national media tour to defend his decision to ban death row executions, on Friday de-
cried “legal bribery” in the college admissions process, including favors given to big donors. Newsom said the college admission system favors all “people of wealth and privilege,” not just those who were indicted in the scandal. That includes influen-
tial politicians. The Democratic governor did not propose any new policies to address the issue, saying that “we’ve got to reflect on this in a much deeper way” before taking action.
BT: Despite the physical distance Will and Stella must maintain with their conditions, they become emotionally very close. What was it like developing genuine chemistry and a close relationship between two individuals who could not be near each other without danger? RL: I think, if anything, it added to the intensity of the chemistry between
Will and Stella. When you have a barrier like that, a physical barrier of distance, it amplifies the longing and this raw emotional need to be close to the other person. In writing it, I certainly had to delve into that experience and feel that very real heartache. What is especially great about Will and Stella is that at every juncture of this book they have these in-
credibly deep and incredibly strong emotional reactions and feelings towards one another. What starts out as them butting heads turns into care and then, really, the purest of loves. (They definitely function at the top of the chemistry chart!) BT: How closely does the film follow the book? RL: I think it’s going to be pretty close, but we’ll
see! I know of a few scenes that are in the book that won’t be in the movie. BT: What is one message you hope people take from the book and movie? RL: I think the most important message of this story is to have the strength and the courage to truly live your life with an open mind and an open heart, no matter what your circumstances are.
BT: What are you working on now? RL: I’m currently working on the first draft of a YA contemporary novel! I’m always working on something. When I’m not, I’m daydreaming about working on something. Be sure to read “Five Feet Apart” and check out the movie for more on this powerful story.
HORROR CONT FROM PAGE 3 TION’ (1990) “‘Def by Temptation’ was coming out of that period in the ’80s when we disappeared in horror for a while or were very ill-used in the genre. It really opened the gate to expressions by a lot of different filmmakers, including
COURT CONT FROM PAGE 2 from knowing his actions were wrong. So long as he knowingly killed a human being — even if he did it because he believed the devil told him to, or because a delusion convinced him that his victim was trying to kill him, or because he lacked
Rusty Cundieff ’s ‘Tales from the Hood.’” ‘CANDYMAN’ (1992) “Tony Todd scared the crap out of the whole world. People are still scared to say ‘Candyman’ five times today. Like Jordan Peele said in the documentary — that we can be the Freddy [Krueger] in a movie is huge.” ‘EVE’S
BAYOU’ (1997) “A woman filmmaker [Kasi Lemmons] — we don’t have that many. [It was] a very self-contained Southern Gothic story about a black community. [It’s] about our humanity and confronting issues of family and parenthood and sisterhood and is not about the white gaze.” ‘GET
OUT’ (2017) “‘Get Out’ just crashed so many doors open, including this documentary [’Horror Noire’], which got the greenlight from Shudder the day after [Peele] won the Oscar. I think the Oscar helped everyone understand, ‘Oh, this is important.’”
the ability to control his actions — he is guilty.” His attorneys said Alaska, Montana, Idaho and Utah have also limited the use of insanity as a defense to a crime. In a third criminal case, the justices will decide whether Lee Boyd Malvo will serve life in prison for
his role in the 2002 sniper shootings in the Washington, D.C., area. John Allen Muhammad was convicted of the shootings and executed in Virginia. Malvo, who was then 17, was sentenced to life in prison with no chance for parole. The Supreme Court later put new limits on life prison
terms for those who commit murders as a juvenile, and the court in Mathena v. Malvo will decide whether those rulings apply retroactively to those already serving life terms. If Malvo prevails, he will get a new sentencing hearing.
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BREXIT CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 ages to persuade Parliament in the coming days to approve the Brexit terms she negotiated with the EU. That would clearly be a better outcome than a no-deal Brexit, but perhaps the best hope now is that the EU grants Britain a very long stay of its own economic execution.
JUSTICE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 them essentially to Kelly, but they have a loving relationship with him and their parents are the ones to blame. Many believe the girls have been brain washed, but there is not proof yet as far as those specific women. He has also neglected to pay his ex-wife with three kids $161,000 worth of child support. However, according to CNN, he posted bail for $100,000. With these criminals not being properly convicted, the likelihood of abused men and women speaking out is slim. Why would they speak about terrible events that happened to them if they do not think someone will believe them?
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Tyler Whitbread pitches against the Bulldogs.
Baseball scores ninth straight victory Jordan Koegler Reporter
Marking the ninth straight victory in a row for the Sycamores in a home game Sunday afternoon with a 8-0 shutout at Bob Warn Field, for Indiana State Sycamores baseball, against The Citadel Bulldogs. It was the fourth weekend home victory of the Sycamores. With a 16-1 record, they are currently off to the best start in program history. Tyler Whitbread and Jake Ridgway were unstoppable on the mound for the Sycamores, after allowing only four base hits and striking out nine players Sunday afternoon against the Bulldogs. Jarrod Watkins had the first triple of the season for the Sycamores and he was the fifth Sycamore in the game to score. The Trees came out strong at the beginning of the game. Chris Ayers hit a sacrifice small fly ball, which brought Wright into home plate, making the first score for the Sycamores. Clay Dungan used a safety squeeze to score Luke Fegen and brought ISU to a 2-0 lead in the second inning. By the sixth inning the Trees continued to extend their lead to 6-0. Dungan recorded his second RBI on a bunt. Jake Means would join
the action with his fifth RBI of the weekend as he singled Ayres from second base with a ball to the left. Roby Enriquez, a senior outfielder, hit his second home run of the season. The home run made it over the wall in right field in the eighth inning. Whitbread improved to a 3-0 for the season after he went seven complete innings and allowed only three base hits while striking out seven. Ridway brought a mix to the eighth and ninth innings and struck out players while allowing one hit to the Bulldogs. The Sycamores outhit the Bulldogs 12-4 and 26-14 over the weekend series. The Trees pitching allowed three runs to The Citadel over a three-game span and held the opposition to a .156 average. The Citadel pitcher, Dylan Spencer, allowed three runs in four and two-third innings on the mound for a fall of 2-2 for the Bulldogs. The offensive leader for the Bulldogs was Tyler Corbitt who finished Sunday’s game 2-for-4. Indiana State will take on Indiana University for the second time this season Tuesday, March 19. The home game will begin at 4 p.m. at Bob Warn Field and can be watched on ESPN+.
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The women cheered on their team throughout the MVC tournament.
Sycamores come up short in season finale Garrett Short Reporter
Despite winning both of their regular season games over Valparaiso, Indiana State women’s basketball team could not get it done in the MVC Tournament as they close the season with a 7977 loss. The loss was not due to a lack of execution. ISU started the game scalding hot, dropping 22 points in the first quarter. Senior Tamara Lee led the attack pouring in 11 points in the opening quarter. ISU was suffocating on defense as well forcing five turnovers in the first and held a 22-12 lead 10 minutes into the game. ISU would not be the only hot team Thursday evening. Valparaiso would exponentially improve over the course of the night cutting ISU’s lead to five at the half, 35-30. Whatever the coaches said at the half turned the course of the game. The second half was filled with nothing but offense. The teams traded buckets the final 20 min-
utes with more makes than misses. While Indiana State shot a stellar 52 percent in the second half, the Crusaders were better, sinking an unreal 73 percent of their field goals. Lee was relatively quiet to start the second half. Instead it was junior Ashli O’Neal stepping up to carry the load. After just six points in the first half, she dialed it up in the second dropping 20 after the break to lead all scorers with 26. When Valpo made a push and took the lead in the third, it was O’Neal who answered back over and over again. The Crusaders were too much in the third quarter, scoring 28. Senior Meredith Hamlet led the onslaught sinking shot after shot to finish with 25 points. Hamlet and Shay Frederick lit a spark in the third to help the Crusaders make six three-pointers in the quarter to give them the 58-57 lead going into the final quarter. Despite going cold in the fourth making no shots from behind the arc, Valpo’s offense kept
up. However, ISU kept pace with Lee getting back in a rhythm. She finished with 25 points. The Crusaders pushed themselves to a six-point lead with under a minute left, but there was no quit in the Sycamores. O’Neal hit a layup and senior Regan Wentland scored on a put back to make it a two-point game. After forcing a held-ball ISU had nine seconds to tie or go for the win. After the ball was tipped out of bounds once, a foul was called against Valpo and head coach Vicki Hall had two timeouts. Senior Alexis Delgado drove on the left side and pitched it to Wentland but Valpo tipped it away to seal the win. ISU had a magnificent offensive performance with three players in double-digits including sophomore Ty Battle who had a double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds. The Sycamores finished the season and coach Hall’s first year at the helm with a record of 1119.
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Brooke Mann hit her second home run in as many days and Shave Barton roped a walkoff single to right as Indiana State claimed a 2-1, 8-inning win over Northern Iowa Sunday in the final game of a Missouri Valley Conference series at Price Field. Barton came up for the Sycamores (10-12, 1-2) with the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth in a 1-1 tie and hit an RBI single to the right field wall, sending Leslie Sims home for the winning run. Sims reached on a one-out walk, stole second and then moved to third on Bailey Martin’s single to third. Northern Iowa (11-10, 2-1) elected to intentionally walk Bella Peterson in order to set up a potential double play but it didn’t matter as Barton’s hit drove in the winning run for Indiana State. Brooke Mann gave the Trees an early lead in the second with her third home run of the season, a solo shot that easily cleared the wall down the left
field line. UNI would even up the game in the fourth with a solo home run as well as Adara Opiola sent the ball beyond the right field wall, one of only three hits in the game for UNI. Arielle Blankenship (3-4) only gave up one hit and did not allow a run in 3.1 innings pitched in relief. She took the circle with a tie game in the fourth. Erica Oler (1-4) was charged with the loss after being responsible for the game-winning run while allowing only one hit in 3.2 innings in relief. She left the game after allowing Sims’ walk in the seventh. Brooke Craig replaced her and allowed two hits, including Barton’s walk-off single. Shave Barton gets the honor Sunday as she came up big in the clutch. With bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the eighth, all it took was a sacrifice fly to win the game for the Sycamores. But Barton left no doubt, lacing a hard-hit single off the right field wall on the first pitch she saw and driving in the winning run. Seniors kick of their first home game this past Sunday against Northern Iowa.
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After opening the spring season in late February at Kiawah Island against one of the largest fields in the country, the Sycamores will take on a smaller and yet just as competitive field on Monday and Tuesday (March 18-19) at the William & Mary In-
tercollegiate. The event will be held at the Kingsmille Resort, River Course that is a par-72. 6,025-yard layout. This will event will be 54 holes (three rounds) with the first two rounds coming on Monday beginning with a shotgun start at 8:30 a.m. (ET) and an 18-hole final round on Tuesday beginning at 9:00 a.m. Live stats can be found at GoSycamores. com or at the top of this article.
15 teams will be competing this week at William & Mary including: Akron, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, High Point, Indiana State, Longwood, Loyola-Chicago, Monmouth, Mount St. Mary’s, Penn, Seton Hall, St. Francis (Pa.), Wagner, host William & Mary and Yale. The Sycamores will take the same group of six golfers, which they also took to Kiawah Island. Thil-
da Staubo, Sierra Hargens, Sophie Benetti and Kayla Ryan are in the starting lineup with freshman Lauren Green making her spring debut. Abigail Irwin will play the tournament as an individual. “We are looking forward to getting outside again with the crazy weather,” head coach Greg Towne said. “The River Course at Kingsmill has been a staple of both the PGA and LPGA tours,
with the LPGA still playing an event there. We are always looking to play the best courses available and are really pleased that coach Albaugh allowed us to enter this event. The field is largely East Coast teams and one team from our conference (Loyola). At Kiawah we were able to improve everyday and we need to keep doing that at this event.”