The Indiana Gazette, Friday, Sept. 16, 2016

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IUP survey takes stock of campus life, culture

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By SEAN YODER

of university it wanted to be, that its responses to incidents are reactive, not proactive, and that there was a fear that talk of inclusion was just lip service. Some said they felt silenced if an incident involving racism or sexism didn’t become a public relations or legal problem for the university. The Punxsutawney campus wasn’t a part of the study, but it frequently came up during conversation, Hildebrandt said. Students and faculty members of color there said they felt isolated and that the community could be “aggressively unwelcoming” and hostile. Students at Indiana reported what they believed to be discrimination from local police and from businesses when applying for jobs. They reported the community outside of IUP was less open-minded and sometimes hostile. Students who identified as LGBTQIA (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Intersex Asexual) reported experiencing microaggressions to surveyors and those in lesbian and gay relationships said they were afraid to show public displays of affection with their significant others. They reported bullying and Continued on Page 4

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Over the past two years, a committee has been working on Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s campus climate survey to take the temperature of feelings on diversity and inclusion. The results were first shared publicly Thursday afternoon before the Council of Trustees. It included input from students, faculty and staff on how they perceive the culture of IUP and whether they believe the university is effective in its practices on diversity and inclusion. Dr. Melanie Hildebrandt and Dr. Melissa Swauger, both sociology professors, presented the findings. The full report is about 170 pages long and is nearly complete. It will soon be released to the public online. At the student level, minorities and people from underrepresented groups told surveyors during focus groups and interviews that they want more contact with people from the majority group and that groups were socially segregated. For example, minority students said they hold events and invite everyone to come but few white people ever attend. They also said IUP “lacks a clear vision” of what kind

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VINCE BEATTY used a pressure-washer Thursday to clean the Veterans Wall outside the Historical Society of Indiana County near Memorial Park in Indiana Borough.

Hearing to address epidemic of opioid abuse in rural areas By The Indiana Gazette Once a problem seen primarily in Pennsylvania’s big cities, the opioid scourge now has taken a firm grip in rural areas, to devastating effect. Of all counties in the state, Indiana County had the greatest increase in overdose drug deaths last year: from nine in 2014 to 36 in 2015, a 300 percent increase. And the pace this year is ahead of last year’s, according to Indiana

County Coroner Jerry Overman. The Center for Rural Pennsylvania is keenly aware that the drug problem has been just as prevalent in the state’s rural counties. That’s why the agency is holding a public hearing Tuesday morning in White Township to solicit testimony on confronting the state’s opioid epidemic and how it is affecting more rural counties. Hosted by state Sen. Don

White, R-Indiana, the hearing will be held at the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. State Sen. Gene Yaw, chairman of the Center for Rural Pennsylvania’s board of directors, said the public hearings are intended to continue to raise awareness of the health crisis of heroin addiction and fatalities, and to bring greater focus and attention to treatment and recovery services.

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Man pleads guilty to sexual charges By The Indiana Gazette A northern Indiana County man averted a Monday trial on rape-related charges by pleading guilty Thursday to two felony charges. Mark Patterson, 23, will be sentenced Jan. 13 in Indiana County Court. Each count is a seconddegree felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $25,000. State police had accused Patterson of raping a 16year-old girl several times in the summer of 2015 at a residence in Banks Township, and raping a 24year-old woman in January in his residence in Glen Campbell.

In a plea agreement with the district attorney’s office, Patterson pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated indecent assault without consent in each case, and prosecutors set aside 22 other charges. According to the criminal complaints, Patterson stayed about three or four weeks at the teenage girl’s home, where she repeatedly refused his requests to have sex with her. The girl told investigators that Patterson forced her three times to have intercourse and another time to perform oral sex on him in her bedroom. Patterson was told to move out of the residence Continued on Page 10

“These speakers will provide the Center for Rural Pennsylvania with a comprehensive report on how deeply the opioid epidemic is impacting our local communities and the steps some of our local groups and organizations are taking to stop the addiction problem before it starts,” White said in a release. “Addiction to heroin and opioids is playing havoc right here at home and the Continued on Page 10

By JULIE PACE and LISA LERER Associated Press

HILLARY CLINTON

DONALD TRUMP

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Hillary Clinton returned to campaigning without offering apologies for keeping her pneumonia a secret, focusing on criticizing opponent Donald Trump instead of how she handled her health problem. To the strains of James Brown’s “I Feel Good,” the Democratic presidential candidate returned to the campaign trail Thursday at a rally in North Carolina. It was her first public outing since she stumbled and needed support from aides while leaving a 9/11 memorial in New York on Sunday. The episode, caught on video, was attrib-

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uted to dizziness and dehydration. And it led to an acknowledgment by the Clinton campaign that she had been diagnosed with pneumonia two days earlier. Clinton told supporters Thursday that while sitting at home this week was “pretty much the last place I wanted to be,” the time away from campaign events helped clarify how she wants to close her race against the billionaire real estate mogul Trump. “We’re offering ideas, not insults,” she said in a jab at her Republican rival. “A plan that will make a real difference in people’s lives, not

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prejudice and paranoia.” In New York, Trump laid out plans to lower taxes by $4.4 trillion over a decade and cut regulations, including some of those currently intended to protect the food Americans eat and the air they breathe. The Republican said his plans would bolster economic growth by at least a 3.5 percent annual rate, well above its current rate of about 2 percent. He also said his plan would create 25 million new jobs over the next 10 years — a pace already being achieved. The heart of Trump’s plan is a revised tax code, which includes a pledge that no busiContinued on Page 10

Inside LIMIT OPPOSED Truckers are warning that a government plan to electronically limit the speed of tractor-trailers will lead to traffic jams and possibly an increase in deadly accidents. Page 5

PHONE RECALLED The federal government has taken the unusual step of issuing a recall of the Samsung Galaxy 7 phone because of reports of fires when the phone’s battery overheats. Page 7

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