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Indiana State selects finalists for president Two finalists, both with ties to Indiana State University, have been named in the search for the institution’s 12th president.

The finalists are Deborah Curtis, provost and chief learning officer at the University of Central Missouri, and Michael Licari, who has served as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Indiana State since July 2015.

Curtis earned her Ph.D. from Indiana State and also taught at the former University School. In addition to serving as provost of Indiana State, Licari has a son who is a freshman at the university.

“We are very pleased to have two incredibly strong candidates for this critically important position, both of whom understand and fully support Indiana State’s mission and both of whom we feel have the skills and ex-

perience to be successful as its next president. We were prepared for the possibility of three or four finalists, but in the end these two candidates distinguished themselves among all others,” said Jeff Taylor, chair of the presidential search committee and secretary of the ISU Board of Trustees.

The search drew a strong pool of more than 70 candidates, Taylor added. The search committee selected the finalists after off-site interviews with nine semi-finalists.

Licari’s interview will take place on Oct. 25-26, while Curtis will visit campus on Nov. 1-2. In addition to a series of private interview sessions with the trustees and other campus groups, each candidate will have a dessert reception with community and volunteer leaders and open sessions for staff, students and faculty.

The schedules for these sessions are: Oct. 25, 2017 (Dr. Michael Licari) 1:15-2:45 p.m. Dessert reception with community and volunteer leaders Magna Carta Room, Federal Hall (Scott College of Business) 3-4 p.m. Candidate presentation and open session for faculty Heritage Ballroom, Tirey Hall Oct. 26, 2017 (Dr. Michael Licari) 3-4 p.m. Open session for staff Heritage Ballroom, Tirey Hall 4-5 p.m. Open session for students Heritage Ballroom, Tirey Hall Nov. 1, 2017 (Dr. Deborah Curtis) 1:15 to 2:45 p.m. Dessert reception with community and volunteer leaders

Heritage Lounge, Tirey Hall 3-4 p.m. Open session for staff Heritage Ballroom, Tirey Hall 4-5 p.m. Open session for students Heritage Ballroom, Tirey Hall Nov. 2, 2017 (Dr. Deborah Curtis) 3-4 p.m. Candidate presentation and open session for faculty Heritage Ballroom, Tirey Hall Prior to joining Indiana State as provost and vice president for academic affairs in 2015, Licari served as interim provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Northern Iowa from 2014 to 2015, a portion of which he also served as acting president. He was UNI’s

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2017 Homecoming week kicked off with an event on Monday at dede plaza where students were able to get free lunch and pictures for free

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ISU professor discusses Las Vegas shooter’s disposition Ashton Hensley Reporter The biggest massacre in American history occurred when Stephen Paddock opened fire on concert goers in Las Vegas the night of October 1.

Debates erupted after the shooting, questioning the laws regarding gun control as well as Paddock’s motivations and if it were an act of terrorism.

“Everyone (law enforcement, the media, society) is looking for a definitive reason for why Paddock did this, but there is no smoking gun/firm reason that law enforcement or society will be able to find for the Las Vegas massacre...he was mis-

erable, suffering from mental illness, this has been in motion for quite some time and some recent event put him over the edge to actualize his plans,” Jennifer Murray, associate professor of criminology said.

It is possible that Paddock could be labelled as a lone wolf terrorist, though Murray said this is not to be confused with the type of lone wolf terrorism that has a political agenda.

“Stephen Paddock is a lone wolf mass killer type that tends to kill out of their own personal needs that is usually tied to their poor sense of self, loneliness, lack of any social life etc. and what/who they feel/blame is the reason for their terrible life

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or those that they see as having shunned them,” Murray said.

Murray said that this type of killer normally leaves some kind of archival trail such as writings or pictures of themselves holding weapons.

“Thus far, it does not appear that Paddock has left such a trail however, he will have left valuable clues on the computers he used as to what websites he focused on a digital imprint will always be left behind,” Murray said.

It is believed that Paddock had been planning this massacre for some time in a process Murray called “human derailment”.

“At some point they blame

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others for their own miserable life and they have long term fantasies of brutal payback that temporarily puts a band-aid on their fractured identity,” Murray said.

Criminology graduate students Aly Bennett and Kirk Moore do not think that Paddock should be considered a lone wolf terrorist.

“The definition of terrorism is to intimidate people, which was not the shooter’s purpose. He did not have a particular grievance, which terrorists always have,” Moore said.

Bennett said that she does not think that Paddock fits the pro-

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NEWS Gender becomes a flashpoint for this college generation

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Vanessa McCray and Nelson Helm Atlanta Journal Constitution (TNS) Tamar Quincey spent years lying about who she is.

The 26-year-old grew up surrounded by devout Christians, who taught her traditional views of sexuality and gender.

She told people she felt “called to celibacy,” or that she was waiting for God to send her someone to marry.

Then she told the truth.

Quincey first came out as gay in 2016. About a year later, she began transitioning from male to female after enrolling at the all-male Morehouse College.

She has not changed her legal name and goes by Tamar Quincey to reflect her identity.

As a transgender female, she feels dehumanized when people reject her womanhood.

“I think that it is very hurtful when you have people who are not willing to acknowledge and respect who you are, because they would expect the same thing for (themselves),” she said.

Gender identity has emerged as a cultural flashpoint at many universities, spawning a new way of thinking and talking about once-taboo topics and igniting passionate advocacy in a generation of young adults.

Many millennials view gender in ways that are unrecognizable or untenable to some people, including religious conservatives.

Fifty percent of Americans ages 18 to 34 describe gender as a spectrum and say some people fall outside strictly male and female categories, according to a 2015 survey by the media company Fusion.

The issue burst from a college campus to Atlanta’s kitchen table last month when Scout Schultz, the 21-year-old president of the Georgia Tech Pride Alliance, was killed by a campus police officer during a confrontation. Investigators said the student left three suicide notes.

Schultz identified as nonbinary, neither male nor female, and was born intersex, which describes someone whose bi-

ological or physiological characteristics aren’t fully male or female. The student used the gender-neutral pronoun “they,” rather than he or she, and many news articles — to the consternation of some — followed suit.

At a vigil to honor Schultz, friends praised the student for leading the campus organization that supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and asexual students.

Protesters, whom the university president identified as mostly outside agitators, later disrupted the night. Two police officers were injured, a police car was set on fire and three people were arrested.

The Georgia Tech Progressive Student Alliance responded to Schultz’s death by calling for changefrom police officer training to more support services for students of all sexual orientations and gender identities.

“Society is really thinking about this. We are grappling with this in a new way and, unfortunately, it’s punctuated

by these tragedies,” said Eric Wright, chair of the sociology department at Georgia State University.

One side derides the youth driving the movement as snowflakes and social justice warriors, too sensitive and too politically correct. They contend the gender shift upends traditional and faith-based values.

Those on the flip side see gender as a deeply personal sense of being that should be respected.

Some hurl stinging rebukes for using pronouns that differ from how individuals refer to themselves.

Not everyone understands the reasons why some insist on unconventional pronouns or describe themselves using gender terms that are unfamiliar to many.

“Our youth today (are) not as patient, so that’s where older generations get kind of frustrated: ‘You can’t force it down my throat; I’m not going to get it on the first try,’” said Chanel Haley of Georgia Equality.

Doctors urged to make commitment to talk to patients about gun safety Melissa Healy Los Angeles Times (TNS)

As guardians of health and gatekeepers to the world of medicine, primary care doctors are expected to plunge dauntlessly into the most delicate topics with their patients. Now, in the wake of the worst mass shooting in recent U.S. history, a new campaign is challenging these physicians to talk to their patients about guns.

As doctor questions go, it’s right up there with inquiring about risky sexual behavior and a notch stickier than drug or excess alcohol use and obesity. Asking about a patient’s guns strays into prickly political territory. It risks backlash from hard-line gun rights advocates. And in small or rural communities, where guns are often plentiful and medical care is scarce, it may scare a few patients off.

But a prominent researcher in the field of firearms injury prevention says most doctors acknowledge they should be going there already. Now, says University of California, Davis emergency department physician Garen Wintemute, they just need to go public with that conviction — a step that public health experts know can stiffen spines and pave the way for follow-through.

On Monday, Wintemute took to the pages of the Annals of Internal Medicine — required reading for the nation’s 200,000 or so primary care doctors — and called on its readers to “make a commitment to ask your patients about firearms when, in your judgment, it is appropriate.”

And then, he added, “follow through.”

Online, Wintemute has invited doctors to sign a public “Commitment”: “When

risk factors for harm to my patient or others are present, I will ask my patients about firearm ownership and safety.”

It is a response, said Wintemute, to the “here-we-go-again sense of futility” that many feel in the wake of the Las Vegas shooting.

But doctors can do something about it, especially since February of this year, when the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a 2011 Florida law that would have barred doctors from speaking to their patients about firearms.

In a 10-1 decision, a full panel of the court concluded that Florida’s Privacy of Firearm Owners Act violates the First Amendment rights of doctors.

Noting that “firearm violence can to some extent be predicted,” Wintemute wrote that doctors “need to ask our patients about firearms, counsel them on safe firearm behaviors, and take further action when an imminent hazard is present.”

That may mean asking how firearms and ammunition are stored, and recommending safety locks or separate locked cases. It might mean reviewing, say, statistics showing that 60 percent of U.S. gun deaths are due to suicide, and that impulsive teens with access to a firearm are at particularly high risk. In rare cases, a doctor must not mince words, said Wintemute: a patient needs to hear that a trusted friend or relative really ought to be given custody of his or her guns.

For physicians feeling squeamish or unprepared for the task, Wintemute offered

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Primary care doctors are being challenged to talk to their patients about guns and gun safety.

A federal judge in Hawaii on Tuesday issued an order blocking major parts of President Donald Trump’s newest travel ban, suggesting it violated immigration law.

The decision from U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson in Honolulu stops the administration’s travel restrictions nationwide before they were scheduled to take full effect Wednesday.

The newest travel rules, issued Sept. 24, indefinitely ban entry to the U.S. by most nationals of Syria, Libya, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Chad and North Korea. They also restrict travel by certain Venezuelan government officials and their families.

Watson’s order, issued in response to a lawsuit filed by the state of Hawaii, a Honolulu-based mosque, its imam and two state residents who have relatives in the affected countries, stops the government from enforcing the new restrictions on travel from all of the nations except North Korea and Venezuela.

Challengers to the ban said it would hurt Hawaii’s state university system, which has students, professors and visitors from the blocked countries, as well as the Hawaii tourism industry. Individuals who sued said the ban would prevent their relatives from immigrating to the U.S. and visiting.

Government lawyers said in court filings that Trump’s travel order falls within his power as president and was written after a review of secu-

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Roberto Koltun|el Nuevo Herald|TNS

Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, a former Doral city council member and the city’s first economic director, will run to replace retiring Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in Congress in 2018.

Miami politician who plans run for Congress says aliens took her on a spaceship Alex Daugherty and Patricia Mazzei McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS)

Florida has a U.S. senator who once flew aboard the Space Shuttle.

A congressional candidate from Miami can go one better: Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera says she’s been aboard a spaceship too. But this one was crewed by aliens. As in extraterrestrials.

Three blond, big-bodied beings — two females, one male — visited her when she was 7 years old and have communicated telepathically with her several times in her life, she says. (Sen. Bill Nelson served as payload officer aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1986. All seven people aboard were from Earth. As far as is known.)

Rodriguez Aguilera, 59, a Republican who is running to replace retiring Miami Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, recounted her experience with the ETs during a 2009 television interview.

She described “going up” inside the spaceship — though whether it went into space or just hovered around town was left unclear.

“I went in. There were some round seats that were there, and some quartz rocks that controlled the ship — not like airplanes,” Rodriguez Aguilera said.

In two separate videos posted to YouTube years ago, one by local Spanish-language station America TeVe and another by a political critic with the user name DoralGirl26, Rodriguez Aguilera spoke on television in detail about her extraterrestrial experiences. She said the alien beings reminded her of the famous statue in Rio de Janeiro, Christ the Redeemer, with arms outstretched.

Federal judge in Hawaii blocks Trump’s new travel ban

Jaweed Kaleem Los Angeles Times (TNS)

But the language shift reflects a turn in the cultural landscape that she said “is 100 percent driven by youth.” Their movement has been emboldened by samesex marriage victories, support from former President Barack Obama, the visibility of transgender celebrities and equality concerns, like those triggered this month when the Trump administration stated that federal civil rights law doesn’t protect transgender people from workplace discrimination.

The 38-year-old transgender woman said these conversations weren’t happening when she was a teenager. Now, she leads training sessions at universities across the state on behalf of the LGBT advocacy organization.

The gender debate has been pushed forward by battles, like one brewing at City Schools of Decatur about transgender policies related to bathrooms and who gets to play on boys or girls sports teams; court cases fought

rity vetting procedures for nations around the world.

The judge’s decision is a temporary measure while a lawsuit over the legality of the travel ban proceeds.

The Department of Justice, which has argued that the ban is needed to protect Americans from potential terrorism, is expected to challenge the ruling.

In March, Watson issued an order blocking a previous version of the ban in a case that, coupled with a similar one in a federal court in Maryland, was set for arguments in the Supreme Court. This month, justices canceled Oct. 10 arguments and dropped the case because the prior ban — which was temporary — had expired and was replaced by the new one.

Among the things she said she found out from the aliens: — There are 30,000 skulls — “different from humans” — in a cave in the Mediterranean island of Malta.

— The world’s “energy center” is in Africa.

— The Coral Castle, a limestone tourist attraction South Miami-Dade, is actually an ancient Egyptian pyramid.

— “God is a universal energy.”

She also said that the aliens had mentioned Isis, though she didn’t clarify if they meant the terrorist organization or the ancient Egyptian goddess.

The Miami Herald asked Rodriguez Aguilera about her experiences Friday.

She responded with a statement that waxed astronomical, but sadly failed to mention close encounters of any kind.

“For years people, including Presidents like Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter and astronauts have publicly claimed to have seen unidentified flying objects and scientists like Stephen Hawking and institutions like the Vatican have stated that there are billions of galaxies in the universe and we are probably not alone,” she said. “I personally am a Christian and have a strong belief in God, I join the majority of Americans who believe that there must be intelligent life in the billions of planets and galaxies in the universe.”

Rodriguez Aguilera was a Doral councilwoman from 2012-14 and served as the city’s first economic developer. She works as an entrepreneur and has taught leadership seminars at local universities.

She declared her candidacy in late August and raised about $10,000 during the most recent fundraising quarter, she said

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John Wilder, background, welcomes Muslims to the United States at the Tom Bradley International Terminal of LAX.

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Documentary showcases life after prison A.J. Goelz Reporter

Photo courtesy of CEO’s official Facebook page

CEO members, Jess Harris, DeSean Prentice, and Devyn Mikell of Twisted Fry for received the Entrepreneurial Spirit Award for 2017. On the right is Daniel Pigg, director of the Business Engagement Center at ISU.

CEO event to broaden opportunities A.J. Goelz Reporter

The Collegiate Entrepreneur Organization will be holding an event tonight in the Hulman Memorial Student Union in room 321.

“The Ultimate Side Hustle is an informational and networking event where students will be able to come meet different profitable organizations and learn about some of the opportunities they have to offer. This event will be a great opportunity for young students to get some really good side jobs and build some connections,” says the Indiana State University website. “For example, become a brand ambassador, join a marketing team and etc. It’s also designed to create environment for the students to find a possible job to have on the side.”

Davonta Morrison, president of Col-

legiate Entrepreneur Organization, said that the event is to show students that in today’s economy one needs to diversify interests.

“A lot of people still think it is where you work nine to five,” Morrison said. “That’s not the case. There’s so many college students on campus that do those, but also do other things on the side to make extra income.”

According to Morrison, the event will not just be about the presentation, but will also be a slightly more informal, intimate setting for networking opportunities.

The Ultimate Side Hustle will be tonight at 6-7:15 p.m. in HMSU 321. This is event is for everyone, not just business students.

Morrison added that CEO will be talking about other businesses that were not able to attend the event, but may have other opportunities for students along with the businesses that are at the event.

For those interested in being a part of CEO, they meet “every Wednesday at 5 p.m. in the John T. Meyers Technology building, on the lower level room 003. In the Business Engagement Center and the lab they have all the way in the back, that is pretty much our headquarters,” said Morrison. “We formed a partnership with the Business Engagement Center as well and it has been going well honestly, and CEO has a lot of events planned. This one is just the first of the year. I like to call it the first round in the chamber.”

“With CEO, I always tell my members that CEO is not just an organization; it’s a family. We are a family of young, uprising entrepreneurs who are still learning, and keep in mind that at the same time we are still teaching ourselves the routes as we go as far as entrepreneurship,” said Morrison. “To have just a group of young people who are willing to do that is amazing.”

Yesterday there was a screening of the documentary “Life After Life” in the Hulman Memorial Student Union in Dede I. “The film follows three offenders who have been released from San Quentin prison. One offender served a 30 year sentence, one offender served a 21 year sentence and one offender served about seven years,” Gary Hartsock, a professor and academic advisor at Indiana State University said.

“It follows their life and their life journey after release. The difficulties they have, the frustraions, the successes they have or the unsuccesses in the case of the one offender who gets rearrested and returned to prison.”

Hartsock spoke from 35 years of experience working in corrections. He also spoke about the changes he has seen in policy and the importance of rehabilitation.

“I think it’s important from a public policy standpoint that we have services and programs available for these individuals who are released. Most everyone who gets sentenced to prison, 99.7 percent I think was the last statistic I saw, of those individuals are someday going to be released. Now it might be a year from now or it might be 40 years from now, but they are going to get released and they are going to return back into the community,” said Hartsock. “It is certainly in the community’s best interest and in society’s best interest that these people are successful, because we don’t want them to come back and commit more crimes.”

Approximately 100 people attended the event. After the film, a panel discussion took place about the ideas

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OPINION

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Sen. John McCain explains the dangers of nationalism

Zach Davis Columnist

In 1988, the National Constitution Center established the Liberty Medal for “men and women of courage and conviction who have strived to secure the blessings of liberty to people the world over.” Obviously, it is a rather prestigious award. People like Nelson Mandela have been recipients, usually for going above and beyond their calling. Former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton received it for disaster efforts in Southeast Asia and the Gulf Coast.

Senator John McCain has now joined the list of recipients. On Monday night, Joe Biden presented the award to McCain “for his lifetime of sacrifice and service.” McCain used his time that night to call out “half-baked, spurious nationalism” and all the vile poisons it brings.

He mentioned his recollection of watching his father go off to fight in World War II, the Great War that enveloped the United States from both sides. We fought against evil leaderships that prided itself on unbridled nationalism, causing the eradication of millions of people. The Nazis of WWII have been back, sadly, reviving many of the old sayings.

In August, the city of Charlottesville, Va. saw violence as white supremacists protested, chanting an old Nazi saying, “blood and soil.” That imagery must have appeared to McCain as he was speaking because he felt it necessary to say that “we live in a land of ideals, not blood and soil.”

Here we are, nearly 80 years later, being lectured for the nationalism that has been slowly spreading across America. This is the same nationalism that his father went

to war to fight in 1941.

Sadly, McCain is right. Nationalism is infectious and harmful. It brings violence and hatred, and it breeds the monsters who cause mass killings. Even recently, it has caused us to abandon a lot of what makes America great.

McCain said, “To abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership” is “as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history.”

Again he made a statement that is as true as it is powerful.

Nationalism isn’t patriotic, and it certainly isn’t what the United States should be built on. We were founded on the premise that all men were created equal. The Statue of Liberty, a huge symbol of our freedom, has an inscription.

On it lies the words, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

We are abandoning the ideals we have always held to be great. We are abandoning them so much that white supremacists like Richard Spencer are drawing out those who don’t believe in American values, just like he did at Charlottesville. People like him will continue their cause as long as we allow this “half-baked, spurious nationalism.”

In fact, Spencer is already working on continuing his work in Florida. Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency because Spencer plans on holding a speech at the University of Florida.

Scott fears that he will see a repeat of Charlottesville, and the university is planning on spending $500,000 on security for the event, according to the Washington Post.

We should have learned our lesson by now, but apparently we haven’t. We need someone to lecture us for abandoning our responsibilities and values to instead tolerate hateful nationalism. Perhaps one day we will mature enough to look upon the past and learn. For now, though, everyone needs to read the words McCain spoke.

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Led by Trump, Republicans set out to commit communal suicide Andrew Malcolm

Special to McClatchy (TNS)

Even more than 40 years later, picturing Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland in “Start the Revolution Without Me” sets me laughing. At a royal masquerade ball around the French Revolution, decorously dancing couples, one after another, pass around conspiratorial notes to “Kill the Duke,” “Kill the Duchess,” “Kill the Queen.”

Until finally, the note “Kill Everybody.”

It’s much less funny, but that’s what the Republican Party seems bent on doing this fall, committing communal suicide to mark its historic election successes of recent years. And in preparation for the 2018 midterm elections.

As requested, voters since 2010 financed and elected Republicans to majorities in the House and Senate. In a stunning upset, they sent the Republican ticket to occupy the White House. They rejected Democrats in all the special House elections so far this year. They’ve even elected Republicans to run 34 states and both legislative chambers in 26 of them.

Yet Republicans in Washington can’t seem to get anything done as a team. Every faction has its own “principled” plan to fix its own priorities, and when nothing happens amid such disunity, everybody loudly criticizes everybody.

The GOP base is angry at the establishment’s inaction, especially House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Conservative groups demand McConnell resign. The base suspects a conspiracy against the angry populist they elected to #DTS, Drain the Swamp.

Hence, the unscheduled photo-op of McConnell and Trump professing strong

chumminess.

Donald Trump joining the Republican Party was indeed a contrived marriage of inconvenience. According to his morning tweets, the president is angry at McConnell, though they are said to talk civilly by phone. Freed from seeking re-election next year, Sen. Bob Corker is angry at Trump, who gets angry back, though Trump needs Corker to enact tax reform.

Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon is angry at everyone who disagrees with him and vows to primary virtually every incumbent Republican senator in next year’s elections. They were set to be GOP cakewalks with only eight seats up, compared to 25 for Democrats.

“Nobody is safe,” Bannon warns. “We are coming after all of them, and we’re going to win.”

Strangely, these dangerous disagreements have little to do with ideology.

Everybody wanted Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court, and they got him, thanks to McConnell. Everybody wanted Obamacare repeal. Everybody wants tax reform.

The splits seem more due to attitude and fealty to Trump or to the status quo leadership. Each side silently suspects the other is taking the party over a cliff.

When the reality is more like their power struggles are taking everyone over a cliff.

Here’s a crazy idea: In last year’s campaign some people suspected Trump’s impolitic behavior, erratic statements and needless fights indicated he was a stalking horse for Hillary Clinton, intentionally or not.

Then, perhaps to his own surprise, Trump won.

But his party’s legislators on Capitol Hill seem incapable of, or maybe unwilling to, enact his agenda. It’s possible they took to heart Trump’s repeated denunci-

ations of both party establishments last year.

Perhaps too they fear losing their hardwon control or getting too close to the unpredictable media magnet in the Oval Office who makes nice one day, then suddenly vows to their face to do deals with “Chuck and Nancy,” for a couple weeks anyway.

Here’s the crazy part: What if Bannon’s White House departure last summer wasn’t really a firing? You’ve never heard Bannon or Trump speak ill of the other.

What if Bannon’s goal from outside the White House is to get rid of GOP senators who even passively oppose Trump, majorities be damned?

“We are declaring war,” Bannon declared recently, “on the party establishment that does not back the agenda that Donald Trump ran on.” Doesn’t sound like a spurned aide. What if that “We” Bannon speaks of actually includes Trump himself — from offstage, of course? That’s ridiculous, right?

Bannon — who, don’t forget, controls Breitbart.com within his armory — doesn’t have to win all those party primaries next year. He just needs to wound targeted establishment GOP candidates politically and financially.

Last month Bannon backed the rogue Republican Roy Moore in Alabama’s Senate primary against incumbent Sen. Luther Strange, a McConnell ally. Moore’s a loose cannon too. But he tapped into that same anti-establishment voter sentiment as Trump — and won.

Perhaps even worse for the GOP establishment, Bannon’s bid forced McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund to waste $10 million vainly supporting Strange.

That’s $10 million that won’t be available now to support other GOP incumbents or challenge vulnerable Democrats.

The women in Washington staying for the fight Patricia Murphy CQ-Roll Call (TNS)

Sen. Bob Corker’s leaving the Senate, and who can blame him? At a certain point, life’s just too short to get called “Liddle Bob” on Twitter by anyone, especially by the president of the United States.

But even as Corker announced that he’d retire at the end of his term, two of the Tennessee Republican’s female colleagues decided last week they’re not going anywhere, at least not if they can help it. Both women said while they had considered leaving Washington, the job in the Capitol was too important to walk away from.

Republican Sen. Susan Collins had been considering a run for Maine governor, a job she ran for once before and one that would return her to her home state full time.

“I looked at all that is going on in Washington today. The issues that we’re dealing with are so consequential,” Collins explained to NBC’s Kasie Hunt. “And I just felt that I couldn’t walk away, even though it’s a very difficult and troubled time in Washington.”

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, on the other hand, is at the end of her fifth Senate term. Instead of retiring as many expected her to do, the 84-year-old Democrat announced

last week that she’s running for a sixth term.

“I’m ready for a good fight,” Feinstein told Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press Daily.” “I’ve got things to fight for. I’m in a position where I can be effective, and hopefully that means something to California.”

It has to be said here that neither woman gets along with President Trump any better than Corker does. Collins made no secret of the fact that she did not support Trump for president and would not vote for him in 2016 because of his “unsuitability for office.”

Collins provided critical votes against the GOP’s Obamacare repeal attempt, effectively killing one of Trump’s marquis legislative efforts, and was most certainly one of the members of Congress the president was talking about on Monday when he said there are some Republicans “who should be ashamed of themselves. … You had a few people who disappointed us. They really, really disappointed us.”

Feinstein, in the meantime, has been heading up the Democrats’ Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign, which the president has ripped as a witch hunt.

Because the work of the committee is secret until it’s not, Feinstein can’t say much about what it’s doing. But she has vowed to force the pres-

ident’s son Donald Trump Jr. to testify publicly about his role “come hell or high water.”

Despite her leadership on that committee, Feinstein has gotten into screaming hot water with liberals in California for suggesting over the summer that Trump could become a good president “if he could change.”

The uproar over the conditional approach was so ferocious that Feinstein had to issue a clarification that she of course (obviously, hellllloooooo) doesn’t think he will change.

With a primary challenge from the left already announced, it’s fair to say that opposing President Trump is going to be Dianne Feinstein’s day job from here on out.

Another woman who is sticking around to fight President Trump is House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. Like Feinstein, California Democrats are not-so-privately complaining that it’s time for the new guard to get a turn at leadership.

But Pelosi says she’s in the fight for the long haul, too, to keep the Affordable Care Act in place, as much as possible, and to make sure there’s a woman in leadership at the table when the big decisions are getting made. At a White House dinner, Pelosi said, she had to speak over the men to finally interject a question.

“Do the women get to talk around here?”

To Pelosi’s point, history holds unambiguous proof that when women are at the decision-making tables in Washington, progress is made and bipartisan deals get done.

It was Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington who struck the budget deal with Speaker Paul Ryan to pass a major budget agreement, just as a bipartisan group of women senators got together in 2013 to avoid a government shutdown. Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan was one-half of the deal that pushed the farm bill through that year, and even Pelosi was half of the Chuck-and-Nancy show that struck a deal with Trump to raise the debt ceiling and keep the country from jumping off a financial cliff.

There’s an irony in the fact that while so many people in Congress, and even in the administration, are at their wit’s end with a president they consider to be a misogynist, a narcissist or at the very least a “moron,” three of the most senior women in Washington are making it clear they are going to stay in Washington to join the fight for the long haul.

If there’s a deal to do with the president to advance their states’ or their country’s interests, they’ll do it. But if they see Trump or his policies as dangerous, they’ll be a problem.

Hopefully, a big one.

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For the first time in two decades, he wrote, there’s a growing body of research findings to guide those discussions.

And he assured doctors pondering such a step that “you won’t be acting alone.”

“I frequently hear from physicians who have reached a personal tipping point and decided to stay on the sidelines no longer,” Wintemute wrote.

Doctors often know when such a conversation feels like it’s in order, especially with long-

PRESIDENT FROM PAGE 1 associate provost for academic affairs and dean of the Graduate College from 2010 to 2014.

He served on UNI’s faculty from 2001 to 2015 and is a former chair of its Faculty Senate. Licari began his career in 1997 as an assistant professor of political science at the State University of New York, Binghamton.

Licari earned a bachelor of arts in political science from the University of Minnesota and master’s and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Curtis has served as the pro-

GENDER FROM PAGE 2 gender-inclusive services.

“We are seeing more visibility. We are having these conversations in the mainstream, and it’s messy and people are really uncomfortable about it,” said Jennifer Miracle-Best, a diversity consultant who previously directed the University of Georgia’s LGBT resource center.

Take the use of “they,” a plural pronoun that some use as a gender-neutral singular pronoun in place of “he” or “she.”

In March, The Associated Press updated its media guidelines to allow the use of “they” as a singular pronoun in limited cases, but the AP noted that such use is “unfamiliar to many readers” and should be explained.

Using a pronoun that differs from what someone specifies is

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Research evidence is mounting that can guide their gut instincts.

Patients who acknowledge they are drinking heavily or abusing drugs should be asked about the presence of a gun, he said. A talk is in order with a patient who has had an acute injury, a difficult diagnosis, a job loss, or when a severe mental illness is not under control. A past history of violence, including a suicide attempt, or an abusive partner — all these make the prospect of a gun in the home more dangerous.

As it happens, many injuries that result from these factors — a car crash while driving under the influence, a suicide attempt

vost and chief learning officer at the University of Central Missouri since 2012. Prior to that, she served as the dean of the College of Education at Illinois State University from 2006 to 2012 and was interim dean from 2005 to 2006.

She also served as director of the Cecilia J. Lauby Teacher Education Center at Illinois State from 2001 to 2005. Curtis served on the faculty of Illinois State from 1986 to 2012. She began her career teaching music at a variety of K-12 schools for many years and also served as a coach.

Curtis earned a bachelor’s degree in music education from

MacMurray College, a master’s in music education from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from Indiana State.

The new president will replace Daniel J. Bradley, who announced in April his plans to retire from the presidency in January 2018.

Prior to coming to Indiana State in 2008, Bradley served as president of Fairmont State University in Fairmont, W.Va. The Board of Trustees anticipates naming a new president prior to Thanksgiving.

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disrespectful, said Quincey, who compared it to how a man would feel if somebody called him a woman.

“That’s not how they want to be identified,” she said. “They think we are some type of alien-being or something that is non-human.”

Questioning someone’s gender identity, which Georgia Equality defines as an “internal sense” that may not be visible to others, or getting it wrong by mistake can hurt because it denies who that person is, said Miracle-Best.

“It’s invalidating or it challenges who you are if people try to push back,” she said. “When you use the wrong pronoun or the wrong name it feels like you can’t see me.”

In recent years, Emory University’s first-year orientation program has urged students to

introduce themselves and the pronoun that they use when they meet new classmates.

Some people now provide their pronouns on email signatures and nametags.

That has sparked pushback, like this from Charlie Kirk, founder of the conservative organization Turning Point USA, which has chapters on nearly a dozen Georgia high school and college campuses.

“At a Starbucks this morning & the baristas had their approved gender pronouns,” he posted on social media a few weeks ago.

“We are creating a society of people waiting to be offended.”

More than 11,000 Twitter users liked the post.

Days later he tweeted: “There are only two genders.”

That comment received thousands more likes.

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“As with everything else, asking the questions may not lead to immediate behavior change,” Wintemute said. Smokers don’t generally quit the first time the doctor urges them to do so, and obese patients seldom leave the doctor’s office and start a diet.

But there’s proof that a doctor’s counsel — especially when repeated, and when the doctor follows up with the patient — can be a powerful prod to healthier behaviors, Wintemute said.

“The fact that it doesn’t work all the time isn’t a reason to never do it.”

ALIENS FROM PAGE 2 — a paltry amount she attributed to halting her campaign during Hurricane Irma.

Rodriguez Aguilera’s daughter is former Republican National Committee Hispanic outreach director Bettina Inclan Agen.

Her son-in-law, Jarrod Agen, is Vice President Mike Pence’s deputy chief of staff.

Miami attorney Rick Yabor, a frequent political commentator in Spanish-language media, said Friday that Rodriguez Aguilera’s account could hurt her congressional campaign. Miami-Dade Commissioner Bruno Barreiro

DOCUMENTARY FROM PAGE 3 from the film. According to Hartsock, about 40 students remained for the panel. Hartsock was joined on the event’s panel by the film’s producer, other professors and a parole officer who deals with individuals in these sorts of circumstances on a daily basis.

“The event was part of our speaker series event and every semester have about five speakers who cover a wide range of topics that all students at one point one of those topics would surely interest you. This one hap-

VEGAS FROM PAGE 1 file for lone wolf terrorism.

“But I think it was a terrorist act,” Bennett said, “He’s anti-social, that’s what motivated him.”

Murray said that killers such as Paddock have none or few friends, do not have a criminal background prior to the massacre, and have not been recognized for their mental illnesses.

“Along with all of these types of mass killers (Paddock) lacked any coping skills and ultimately it is their choice to kill that gives them a sense of control,” Murray said.

Paddock’s brother, father, and girlfriend have been referenced when discussing his case.

“I blame this on American society, there’s no sense of community. Neither his brother or his girlfriend seemed to have any idea what he was up to,” Moore

PURPLE FROM PAGE 6 digs for the season with 380.

Sophomore middle blocker Damadj Johnson leads the team in blocks for the season with having just nine so far.

If the team wants to keep their streak alive, they will need to have the full team behind one another and keep this momentum going into this weekend.

Star sophomore outside hitter Rachel Tam leads the Purple Aces in kills (232), kills per set (2.86), attack errors (151), total attempts (727), and is tied for the team lead in sets played with 81 this year. Freshman defensive specialist/libero Cassie Brooks leads the Purple Aces in digs and

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and former school board member and Miami-Dade County mayoral candidate Raquel Regalado, both far better known than Rodriguez Aguilera, are also running in the Republican primary.

“Being a politician, to come out and say that, it’s odd,” Yabor said. “She got into details that are not very mainstream. Someone who’s running for Congress — you’ve got to raise a lot of money. A donor might have second thoughts.

“Miami politics are unusual,” Yabor said. “This one takes it to a new level.” pened to deal with corrections and correctional issues,” said Hartsock.

“I think it’s an important issue, because as I mentioned before most everyone in prison is going to get released and go back to the community, either the community they came from or another community. From a community standpoint, from a correctional policy standpoint, from a public policy standpoint I think it’s imperative that communities have these policies in place to help these people adjust and to be successful.”

said.

The massacre has brought the debate on gun control to the forefront of political issues.

“Gun control should be tighter,” Bennett said “A lot of different instances before this should have made it tighter.”

The question of if more guns would protect people from such massacres or if more protection would come from stricter gun control is up in the air.

“It is the psychological evaluation that is critical as loan wolf mass killers are not in the criminal or mental health care system yet…thus we must did deeper and learn more about the people we allow to buy weaponry that can be used in war and basically allow for the slaughter of people like what happened in the Las Vegas massacre,” Murray said.

digs per set for the season with 359 and 4.43, respectively. Senior right side hitter/middle blocker Erlicia Griffith leads the team in blocks (10), block attempts (64), and blocks per set averaging 0.91 on the season so far.

The game is important to both teams, as Indiana State is looking to sweep Evansville for the season and continue their winning streak, while Evansville is looking to avoid getting swept and looking to getting their season back on track. This game is also an intraconference matchup between the two rivals.

The Indiana State Sycamores take on the Evansville Purple Aces on Friday in Evansville, Ind. The game starts at 8 p.m.

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Tessa Leong (11), sophomore midfielder, has had two assists and one goal in the last five games.

ISU looks to hit .500 against Evansville Garrett Short Reporter

The Indiana State women’s soccer team is hosting Evansville Wednesday at 7 p.m. with hopes of returning to .500 for the first time since the end of September earlier this season.

The Sycamores ended a three game skid last Saturday with a solid 2-1 win over Illinois State. The win was big for multiple reasons: it was Indiana State’s first conference win and Illinois State was the preseason favorite to win the MVC this season.

The conference hasn’t exactly panned out as the preseason poll predicted. Evansville is last in the MVC and has yet to earn a win in conference play this year. How-

ever, ISU’s head coach Julie Hanley knows this isn’t a game that her team can overlook.

“If we take care of what we are capable of doing and we play our absolute best then we get the result we want,” said Hanley.

ISU’s offense has come alive in the second half of the season. A team that was usually outshot in the past is putting up more shots per game than ever under Hanley.

A part of the offensive growth may be credited to the progress made by sophomore transfer Tessa Leong. The New Zealand native has tallied two assists and one goal in the last five games. She is second on the team with eight points this season.

Indiana State has an edge against Evans-

ville Wednesday because they will be playing at home. In 2017, the Sycamores are 4-2-1 at Memorial Stadium. The Sycamores have lost just three matches at home under Hanley.

Evansville has an uphill battle to fight, coming into the match losers of six straight. The Purple Aces were picked to finish fourth in the preseason poll, but the team has struggled immensely on both ends of the field.

EU is being outscored 31-16 this season and is being severely outshot. In fact, their opponents shoot almost double the shots that the Purple Aces do.

This may offer the opportunity for ISU to showcase their offensive skill. Katie Wells and Caitlyn Eddy, whom Hanley said had

one of her best games of the season against Illinois State, may have big games against the Purple Aces. The second half might offer even more chances for ISU. EU has been dreadful in the second half of play this season. Opponents have scored 24 of their 31 goals against EU after halftime.

EU is led by senior forward Montana Portenier on offense. Portenier has netted four goals and has added two assists this season.

ISU has control of their own destiny as they attempt to make it into the MVC tournament for the second straight season. After Wednesday’s match, the team has just two games remaining. Valparaiso visits on Sunday and then the team plays at Northern Iowa next Thursday.

Cooper Neese transfers to Sycamore basketball program Indiana State Basketball head coach Greg Lansing announced on Oct. 16 that Cooper Neese has transferred into the Sycamore program from Butler.

Neese, who has enrolled in classes at Indiana State University, will sit out the 2017-18 season as well as the fall semester of the 2018-19 campaign before he begins play with Sycamore basketball in December of 2018.

“We’re just happy to have Cooper joining us,” Lansing said. “Our staff and players got to know he and his family during the time we recruited him.

We always felt like we had a great chance to get him and we were a great fit. Adding him to our returners next year is exciting to think about. He’s ready to work hard and help us all he can until then.”

Neese is a 6-4 guard from nearby Cloverdale, Ind., where he played for head coach Patrick Rady at Cloverdale High School.

He led his high school team

to a 62-21 record and three sectional championships over the past three seasons.

As a senior in 2016-17, Neese was fourth in the state in scoring averaging 27.2 points and 9.5 rebounds per game. He was one of four finalists for Indiana Mr. Basketball and was on the Indiana AllStar team. Neese made 40 percent of his shots from 3-point range during his senior season in leading the Clovers to the IHSAA Regional round.

He is both a three-time captain and three-time all-conference selection.

As a junior, he averaged 29.5 points per game and made more than four three-pointers per contest.

He was the state of Indiana’s third-leading scorer as a junior and earned a spot on the Indiana Junior All-Star team. He competed with the UA Indy Hoosiers on the AAU circuit where he played for coach Mike Peterson.

Neese finished his career with 2,496 career

points scored which is seventh-best in the Indiana High School Basketball history. He becomes the first Top 10 IHSAA career scorer to join the Sycamore program. Neese will team with Tyreke Key who also was a Top 10 career scorer in his native of state of Tennessee with 3,287 points scored.

He originally signed with Butler before transferring into the Sycamore program and enrolling during the fall of 2017.

The Sycamores are in the midst of preseason camp and will open the season with an exhibition contest on Friday, Nov. 3 at 7 p.m.

(ET) against Marian inside Hulman Center. The regular season begins on Friday, Nov. 10 with a trip to Indiana set for Assembly Hall in Bloomington at 7 p..m. live on Big Ten Network Plus.

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The volleyball team gets ready for a game.

Volleyball takes on Purple Aces Jay Adkins Reporter

This upcoming Friday, the 7-14 Indiana State Sycamores volleyball team will take on the 8-13 the University of Evansville Purple Aces in Evansville, Ind. The game is a rematch as the Sycamores defeated the Purple Aces (3-2) on Sept.

22 in Terre Haute.

The Sycamores are in the midst of a two game-winning streak, including big wins in conference against the Valparaiso Crusaders

(3-0) and the Loyola Greyhounds (3-2).

The Purple Aces are coming off a 3-0 loss to the Valparaiso Crusaders.

Indiana State is looking to push their streak to three games this weekend, while also sweeping their conference rivals on the season.

The Evansville Purple Aces need to win this weekend to get their season back on track.

The Sycamores are being lead by senior setter Rachel Griffin who leads the team in sets played (81), assists

(789), assists per set (9.74) and is tied for the team lead in matches played with 21.

Junior outside hitter Laura Gross leads the team in points with 283.5, points per set (3.63), kills (255), and attack errors (102) for the season.

Senior outside hitter Sarah Peterson leads the Sycamores in service errors having 38 so far this season. Senior defensive specialist Stephanie Bindernagel leads the team in

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