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Volume 124, Issue 18
Tricycle Derby comes and goes once again this Homecoming Lauren Rader Reporter
Fraternities, sororities, and on-campus organizations competed for the title of “Hot Wheels” in the annual Homecoming Tricycle Derby on October 12 at the Michael Simmons Student Activity Center. This has been a tradition for Indiana State University’s Homecoming since 1963. The event draws students, faculty, and alumni together to celebrate ISU and its many traditions. The trike races were started to keep students on campus during homecoming festivities and have been a hit ever since. To enter into the trike derby, teams had to qualify with certain times. The women’s race consists of 30 laps and the men’s race is 42 laps. The trike races started at the Old Quad, and consisted of 10
laps around the quad. Each team was composed of six trike riders and one alternate. This year, Sigma Kappa won first place in the women’s division. Izzy Brown, a sister with Sigma Kappa, was excited about the win. “It felt awesome to win. It was awesome to see all the girls’ hard work pay off. They gave it their all.” Brown said. “We celebrated by singing our songs, and then we got our bike hung up at the Ballyhoo, which was an awesome feeling. The girls worked so hard for so long and it paid off. They worked every week training for the race.” It takes hard work and a lot of practice to master the process of trike racing. Speed and agility is required to win the race. Homecoming events are very exciting and popular on Indiana State’s campus. Unfortunately, some events
get postponed or canceled because of weather. The men’s division trike race was postponed to Sunday, October 14 at 11 a.m. Residence Hall Association took first place in the men’s trike race for the second year in a row. Many were very excited for this event. Cassandra Adams, a sister with Gamma Phi Beta, had a great first Homecoming and looks forward to many more. “My first Homecoming was a great experience. I think it was even better because I am in a sorority so I have my girls to support all week.” Adams said. “The trike races were cool. I only went to the women’s since the men’s was postponed due to sleet but it was so much fun to watch the girls race against each other and work so hard even in the cold and rain. It brought a good end to the main Homecoming week activities right before the big game.”
Taking a stroll back to the 90s Chelsea Chapman Reporter
Last Friday, Oct. 12, the National Panhellenic Council members of Indiana State University held their annual Stroll Off event. This event allowed six sororities and fraternities to compete and see who had the best stroll on the stage in Tilson Auditorium. All groups stuck to a 90’s to early 2000’s theme and wowed the crowd with their hard work and dedication to their respective organizations. Grace Allen, a senior studying communication, practiced ten hours a week with her sorority to prepare for this event. “I will be performing with my sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha Incorporated,” said Allen. “Basically, the National Panhellenic Council members with different organizations will all be participating in the competition. There is my sorority, Delta Sigma Theta, Zeta Phi Beta, Omega Psi Phi, Alpha Phi Alpha and Kappa Alpha Psi.” Each organization was given ten to twelve minutes to perform their show and put their own unique spin into their routine. Some told the story of how their organization was started, and some recreated characters from beloved television shows from the 90’s to early 2000’s. “We all put on our own different show with our organization,” said Allen. “Some of my sisters are going to be in the audience supporting us, but there will be about eight or nine of us on stage performing. I volunteered to be in my sorority’s performance. They asked us who wanted to participate and I volunteered. I’m nervous, but it’s going to be good. We have practiced every
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Sigma Kappa sorority sister pedals ahead of Alpha Sigma Alpha sister during womens race on Friday evening.
Justice Department announces task forces to tackle international criminal gangs Del Quentin Wilber
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Students perform on stage during Stroll Off on Friday, Oct. 12.
day since the beginning of the semester. One of my sisters whose title is ‘Stroll Master,’ came up with our dances.” Amber Drake, a junior studying Health Science, a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Incorporated, helped pass out spirit items to her sisters before the show got started. “I will be up on stage, but I’ll be more backstage,” said Drake. “My sisters will be up there performing, and I’ll be helping with the backstage work. I think today will be good considering we have Delta Sigma Theta back on the yard and Alpha Kappa Alpha, so we can give the campus a wider variety of Greeks that are strolling and performing. I think it will be good and exciting.” Drake has attended this event twice before this year. She said there is always a good time to be
had at the stroll off. “I think the stroll off is important because the people on campus that maybe come from small towns and don’t know what Greek life is can get a taste of what we do and all of the things we do on stage and in public,” said Drake. “It matters to me because it gives us a chance to show everyone how we differ from other organizations on campus and what we can do. It gives us a time to shine, have fun and reach back to where we all started from.” William Hayard, a freshman studying social work, came out to the stroll off after seeing many flyers on social media. “I’m coming to have fun,” said Hayard. “I think it’s important that this event is held to get all of the students together and to participate.
The Justice Department announced Monday it was creating a task force to coordinate the fight against international criminal gangs such as MS-13 and drug cartels from Mexico and Columbia, the latest effort to control cross-border organized crime groups that the Trump administration has trumpeted as a major threat. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the task force would help to better “coordinate our efforts to take each of these groups off our streets for good.” In a statement, Sessions said the task force would focus on five transnational criminal organizations: MS-13, the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion, the Sinaloa Cartel, the Clan del Golfo and Lebanese Hezbollah. Hezbollah, which the U.S. considers a foreign terrorist group, long has raised and laundered money in the United States. But several alleged members of the group were charged with terrorism offenses last year, including one man who allegedly was scouting John F. Kennedy Airport in New York for a potential Hezbollah attack. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will lead the task force, while five veteran prosecutors from around the country were tapped to lead investigations and prosecutions against the five groups. The push against Mexico’s
Sinaloa Cartel will be led by Matthew Sutton, an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of California. Other prosecutors were named in New York, Florida and in Washington, D.C. “This is about being focused on bringing cases and helping to dismantle these organizations,” said a senior Justice Department official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal planning. “These prosecutors have been bringing cases against these groups for decades.” Associate Deputy Attorney General Patrick Hovakimian was named as the first director of Counter Transnational Organized Crime to coordinate strategies and tactics. Hovakimian, a former federal prosecutor in Southern California, has worked in the deputy attorney general’s office since early 2017. Sessions also appointed Adam Cohen, a former prosecutor in Florida who now is a senior lawyer in the Justice Department’s criminal division, to run the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force. That task force was created in 1982 and targets major drug trafficking and money laundering organizations. It was led until last December by Bruce Ohr, but he was removed after he came under fire from the White House for his actions in the Justice Department’s investigation of Russia’s interference in the 2016 campaign.
Does Harvard discriminate against Asians? The Ivy League goes on trial Jaweed Kaleem
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Harrison Chen and Thang Diep graduated No. 1 from public high schools. Both excelled in extracurricular activities and scored high on their college admissions tests. And both are Asian American. But the similarities stop there. Chen, who was raised by middle-class Chinese immigrants outside Raleigh, N.C., was rejected by Harvard. Diep, a Vietnamese immigrant who grew up in a working-class family in Reseda, Calif., got in. Their experiences have left them with distinct feelings about affirmative action and a federal lawsuit against Harvard that puts Asian Americans at the center of one of the most contentious issues in higher education. Chen opposes the consideration of race in college admissions and plans to join like-minded Asian Americans at a rally in Boston on Sunday, a day before Harvard is scheduled to go on trial. “People should be judged on character and merit,” said Chen, an 18-year-old
freshman at his backup choice, Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. “What does the color of your skin have to do with admissions?” Diep, who favors affirmative action, plans to attend a rally a few miles away in Harvard Square in support of the university and its policies. “Removing race won’t advance us to be a more just and equal society,” said Diep, a 21-year-old senior at Harvard. “Rather, it would limit educational opportunities to people from higher classes and a white background.” The primary fight against affirmative action has long been waged by whites who argue that giving special consideration to racial minorities has unfairly denied them spots at U.S. colleges and universities. But in the Harvard case, Asian Americans argue that racial considerations have made them a victim of their own academic success. They tend to get better grades and score higher on standardized tests than other races but claim they are frequently rejected as a result of “racial balancing,” which is akin to racial quotas and has been ruled unconstitutional. They compare themselves to Jewish stu-
dents who faced admissions quotas at elite schools in the early 20th century. “Being Asian American actually decreases the chances of admissions,” the lawsuit said. Citing a Duke University economist’s analysis of six years of Harvard admissions data, it claimed that Asian American applicants who have a 25 percent chance of getting in would have a 35 percent chance if they were white, and dramatically better odds than that if they were black or Latino. It also cited an internal 2013 Harvard report that suggested that admissions of Asian Americans would shoot up substantially if they were evaluated based on academics alone. As it stands, Asian Americans make up 6 percent of the U.S. population and 22 percent of Harvard’s current freshman class. The latter number has been rising since 2010. In responding to the suit, Harvard said studies of its admissions, including its own internal review, have been either inconclusive or flawed. The data used don’t include “essential” application factors such as personal essays and recommendations and excludes recruited athletes and
legacy student admissions, the university said in court filings. A University of California, Berkeley economist who analyzed Harvard’s admissions data found “no negative effect of Asian American ethnicity,” the filings said. For each applicant, the university conducts a “whole person review” that includes considerations of racial and nonracial factors such as socioeconomic background in addition to grades, test scores, recommendations, extracurricular activities and “personal qualities” such as being kind, respected and likable — an approach Harvard said is well within the law. The university and its supporters say that admissions of blacks and Latinos could decline. “If the lawsuit against Harvard succeeds, it would diminish students’ opportunities to live and learn in a diverse campus environment — denying them the kind of experiences that are central to Harvard’s educational mission and critical for success in our diverse society,” Harvard said in a statement. On campus this week, student groups
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Trump says ‘rogue killers’ may have murdered missing Saudi journalist Eli Stokols Los Angeles Times (TNS) President Donald Trump said Monday that Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah had firmly denied involvement in the disappearance and suspected murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the Virginia-based dissident Saudi journalist, and suggested that “rogue killers” could be to blame, not the Saudi state. After speaking to the Saudi king by phone, Trump told reporters he was sending Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo to Riyadh to follow up in a macabre case that has sparked a growing diplomatic crisis and put White House ties to the Saudi rulers in a harsh spotlight. Trump said Pompeo also may visit Turkey, where Khashoggi was last seen entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2. The Saudi government gave Turkish authorities permission on Monday to search the diplomatic compound where Turkish officials say Khashoggi was beaten to death and then dismembered. Khashoggi’s critical columns in The Washington Post and in Arab media reportedly had antagonized the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, who is the country’s de facto ruler. MBS, as he is known, has largely eclipsed the 82-yearold king on the global stage. Speaking to reporters on the South Lawn, Trump said he had spoken to King Abdullah for about 20 minutes and “he denies any knowledge of what took place with regards to, as he
said, to Saudi Arabia’s citizen. He firmly denies that.” “We are going to leave nothing uncovered,” Trump said. “With that being said, the king firmly denies any knowledge of it. He didn’t really know, maybe, I don’t want to get into his mind but it sounded to me like maybe it could have been rogue killers. Who knows? We’re going to try to get to the bottom of it very soon but his was a flat denial.” As he has in tweets, Trump appeared to emphasize that Khashoggi, who is a U.S. resident, still had Saudi citizenship. Asked if he believed the king, Trump said, “His denial to me could not have been stronger that he had no knowledge. And it sounds like he and also the crown prince had no knowledge.” The president’s credulity with the Saudi king is not the first time he has accepted a foreign leader’s version of events that contradicts a consensus on Capitol Hill and in foreign capitals. Trump memorably dismissed his own intelligence community’s conclusions that Moscow interfered with the 2016 presidential election, accepting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s denial of any involvement during a press conference in July in Helsinki. Under intense criticism, he later said he had misspoke. As criticism has intensified over Khashoggi’s disappearance, Trump also has appeared to back down. After days of sidestepping the furor, he told “60 Minutes” in an interview broadcast Sunday that he would impose “severe punishment” if Saudi authorities were found responsible for Khashoggi’s death, without say-
ing what that punishment might entail. His comments prompted an immediate pushback from Riyadh, where Saudi officials warned they would respond in kind. “The kingdom affirms its total rejection of any threats and attempts to undermine it, whether by threatening to impose economic sanctions, using political pressures, or repeating false accusations,” the Saudi state news agency quoted an unnamed official as saying. “The kingdom’s economy has an influential and vital role in the global economy.” On Monday, Trump remained emphatic that he will not cancel or suspend a package of arms sales to the kingdom as a clear sign of American displeasure. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is still planning to attend an investment summit in Riyadh organized by the crown prince, even as scores of business leaders and media organizations from around the world have dropped out over Khashoggi’s disappearance. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have pushed Trump to make a stronger response. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in an interview last week that “there will be hell to pay” if it’s determined that Saudi Arabia is behind Khashoggi’s murder. The administration, however, has invested serious political capital in its relationship with the Saudi regime. Trump, largely following the advice of his advisor and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, chose to visit Saudi Arabia for his first foreign trip as president in May 2017.
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Mohammed bin Salman, deputy crown prince and minister of defense of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, meets with U.S. President Donald Trump on March 14, 2017, in the Oval Office at the White House, in Washington, D.C.
Foreign policy and national security officials at the White House have argued that Saudi Arabia can be the linchpin for U.S. priorities in the Middle
East, including constraining Iran and achieving a long-shot peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.
Facebook says 29 million users’ personal Parkland shooter tresinformation was stolen in recent hack passed at the school prior to shooting Johana Bhuiyan Megan O’Matz and Stephen Hobbs Sun Sentinel (TNS)
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The hackers who exploited a Facebook vulnerability last month accessed the personal information of nearly 30 million users, the social media giant revealed Friday. On about 29 million of the affected accounts, hackers accessed contact information, such as phone numbers and email addresses, Facebook Inc. said, and a slew of other personal details were exposed on about half of those accounts. But the breach was not as big as Facebook initially thought. Two weeks ago, when it notified the public of the attack, the Menlo Park, Calif., company said nearly 50 million accounts had been affected before it could find and patch the vulnerability. The company also said Friday that it saw no evidence that the hackers used Facebook logins to access affected users’ accounts on third-party sites or apps. On 14 million of the affected accounts, the hackers accessed details including but not limited to user name, gender, language, relationship status, religion, birthday and device used to log on to the social network, Facebook said Friday. Then there were about 400,000 users who were even more deeply affected. Using a bug in the “View As” feature — which enables a user to view his or her own profile the way someone else sees it — the hackers could see those 400,000 users’ entire profiles, Facebook said. It said the hackers had access to those users’ friend lists, posts on their timelines, groups each user had joined and the titles of recent conversations the users had held on Facebook Messenger. The content of those messages were not visible, except in limited cases for users who were page administrators, the company said. The FBI is working to determine who the hackers are and what they intend to do with the information they stole, Facebook said. The company said it was cooperating with the FBI investi-
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the Senate judiciary and commerce committees on Capitol Hill over social media data breach, on April 10, 2018, in Washington, D.C.
gation and could not discuss the hackers’ identities or intentions. Facebook’s vice president of product management, Guy Rosen, said the company had “no reason to believe that this specific attack was related to the midterms” because the hackers targeted a broad base of users. The company declined to provide any further evidence. “We are constantly working and have a lot of teams focused on activities ahead of the midterm elections,” Rosen told reporters Friday. Experts warn that the breach may open users up to phishing and other scams off the Facebook platform. “When you do phishing, you can do it by email, by phone calls, or you can do it by texting,” said Rebecca Herold, the founder and president of privacy and security management consulting firm Simbus360. “By having access to a lot of additional information about a person such as knowing
who they communicate with, it would be very easy to spoof that person’s friend and ask for information.” Herold also said scammers may be able to use the personal information accessed, such as a person’s alma mater or maiden name, to guess that person’s passwords or the answers to their security questions when attempting to log into their other online accounts. She said scammers could also combine the kind of personal information gleaned from Facebook with information that’s publicly available and use the trove of details to pull other kinds of cons. Facebook said it will send customized messages to the 30 million affected users to explain what information the hackers accessed. In the meantime, users can check whether they were affected by visiting Facebook’s help center.
Six months before his murderous attack, Nikolas Cruz trespassed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, wearing a hoodie, carrying a backpack and — ominously now — mingling among students, newly released records reveal. He’d been forced out of Stoneman Douglas the previous school year. But computer science teacher Sandra Rennie told a detective she saw Cruz among other students on the first day of school in August 2017. “I was like ‘oh Nik, you’re back,’ and he’s like: ‘Yeah I’m back,’ and I was like ‘OK well good to have you back.’” In a recent interview with The South Florida Sun Sentinel, Rennie said she wasn’t alarmed but immediately went to an administrator and asked whether Cruz was on her classroom roster. She was told no — and an administrator hustled off to find Cruz and presumably escort him off the property.
Cruz returned to the campus on Valentine’s Day of this year, toting an AR-15. From afar, a security watchman saw him carrying what he thought was a duffel bag but did not intercept him and Cruz murdered 14 students and three educators. Rennie’s comments were part of a batch of new witness statements released by prosecutors Friday in one of the nation’s worst mass shootings. They show: —Assistant Principal Winfred Porter initially called for an evacuation after hearing the fire alarm and seeing a control panel in the administration building that indicated the problem was a gas leak. Soon after, campus monitor Elliot Bonner — who had served in the Marines — called a Code Red, locking down the school after hearing gunshots. —Security Specialist Kelvin Greenleaf described how he viewed security video showing Cruz inside the 1200 Building and radioed the information to armed sheriff ’s Deputy Scot Peterson, who was taking cover
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ISU Public Safety police blotter Oct. 12
8:50 a.m. Injured person in North Arena 1:00 p.m. Non-criminal property damage in Lot K 3:02 p.m. Vehicle crash, property damage in Lot 15 8:25 p.m. dealing in marijuana arrest made in University Apartments Unit 2 lot 10:09 p.m. Suspicious activity in Mills Hall 11:22 p.m. Open investigation of possession of drugs/paraphernalia in Jones Hall
Oct. 13
1:33 a.m. Arrest for battery in 500 Wabash Apts 8:39 a.m. Elevator entrapment in
Hines Hall 2:41 p.m. Injured person at Memorial Stadium 3:18 p.m. Disorderly conduct at Memorial Stadium
Oct. 14
1:20 a.m. Arrest made for battery and minor consumption of alcohol in Erickson Hall 2:11 a.m. Citation in Rhoads Hall for minor consumption of alcohol 3:59 a.m. Trespass warning in Rhoads Hall 11:41 a.m. Hit and run in Lot 15 2:59 p.m. Criminal mischief at Memorial Stadium 3:38 p.m. Disturbance in HMSU (Commons)
indianastatesman.com HARVARD FROM PAGE 1 held panels and speeches in support of the university. Online, they used the hashtag #DefendDiversity. The fight is part of a much larger battle. The plaintiff is a group called Students for Fair Admissions, which was founded by Edward Blum, a longtime foe of affirmative action. He is white. In 1992, he ran for Congress as a Republican in Houston and lost, claiming that his district was gerrymandered to guarantee the seat to minorities. He sued Texas and won at the Supreme Court. Blum was also a significant player in the 2013 Supreme Court case that struck down key portions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a decision that civil rights groups say increased voting restrictions, such as voter identification laws that disproportionately affect racial minorities, in several states. And he helped a white woman sue the University of Texas, Austin over its admissions poli-
PARKLAND FROM PAGE 2 outside. It’s unclear, however, whether Greenleaf was watching Cruz in real time or on taped footage. Peterson was forced to resign for failing to run into the building and confront Cruz. He claimed he did not know where the shots were was coming from. He said he passed a Coral Springs officer running toward the shooting. Cruz sent vile Instagram messages in August 2017 to a male rival for a girl’s affections. Cruz had started a brawl with the student in September 2016. Among his profanity-laced
Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018 • Page 3 cy in the most recent affirmative action case to reach the Supreme Court, which in 2016 ruled in favor of the school. Harvard calls Blum an “anti-race conscious admissions activist” and one Asian American civil rights group supporting the university in the case said the lawsuit is a “thinly veiled attempt to use Asian Americans to destroy racial diversity on every campus across the country.” The timing could not be better for affirmative action opponents. The recent replacement of retired Justice Anthony Kennedy — who wrote the 4-3 majority opinion in the University of Texas case — with the more conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh could give them a better chance of winning at the Supreme Court, should the case get that far. And the Trump administration has taken an increasingly aggressive stance against affirmative action. The Department of Justice launched a separate investigation into Harvard last year after Asian American groups filed a
complaint saying it discriminates in admissions. In July, the department rescinded Obama-era guidelines encouraging the use of race in admissions decisions and suggested race-neutral policies. In August, it submitted a legal brief backing the case against Harvard. And last month it announced it was also investigating Yale in response to complaints from Asian American applicants alleging discrimination. In a statement on the administration’s support of the Harvard suit, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the department stepped in to “protect the civil rights of the American people.” A majority of Americans say merit alone should determine who is admitted to colleges, according to Gallup. At the same time, surveys from the Pew Research Center show that a majority support programs to increase diversity at colleges. “If there’s a program to support minorities in competing and advancing their prospects in higher education, big majorities will be
behind it,” said Laura Stoker, a political scientist at UC Berkeley. “But when it comes to fiddling with selection criteria, the public support dwindles. That’s because affirmative action can be so easily portrayed as a form of unwanted discrimination.” Overall, 65 percent of Asian Americans support affirmative action, according to surveys by AAPI Data, which conducts policy research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. But among Chinese Americans, the largest Asian group in the country, support for racebased preferences fell from 78 percent in 2012 to 41 percent in 2016. Support among other Asian American groups held steady at 73 percent. At least one group of Asian Americans is standing firmly behind Harvard: those who got in. Many of the people set to testify for the university are current students or alumni. Asian American professors are also supporting their employer. Diep, who is slated to testify, said in court filings his SAT score
of 2060 was high, though “on the lower end of the Harvard average.” On the other side are many Asian Americans who were rejected and their parents. Chen, who aced 17 Advanced Placement classes in high school, said he holds no grudge against Harvard and is more offended by what he perceives as a “patronizing” admissions process. Without access to his application file, he acknowledged that he cannot be sure that Harvard would have accepted him even if racial considerations were discontinued. He will not testify at the trial, but Students for Fair Admissions liked an opinion piece he wrote last month for a Vanderbilt publication and is paying to fly him to Boston for its rally on Sunday. “We have created institutions that fail to reward merit, losing sight of the American Dream and failing our citizens,” Chen wrote. “We are trying to combat past inequalities with, ironically, additional inequality.”
diatribe: “I will kill you!!!!! Iam going to shoot you dead,” a transcript shows. That student was not one of those shot and killed. Rennie was very familiar with Cruz, having taught him in an engineering class. She said he “didn’t make a lot of eye contact, kept his head down a lot,” and was quiet. He once admitted destroying a class project — bridges made out of toothpicks and Popsicle sticks — so others wouldn’t get a better grade, she said. Asked about his grades, she said: “He has F’s.” “Every, every semester he did, he did nothing, and if he did do
something he didn’t do enough to follow through and finish any assignment.” She said he was absent a lot or uninterested. In her class he got upset because a firewall on a class computer prevented him from researching “different types of guns,” used for hunting. He also showed her images of disfigured people that he thought were funny. After Cruz’s fight in September 2016, she said, an assistant principal sent out an email telling teachers that Cruz was not allowed to carry a backpack. Rennie said she recalled the school was trying to get paperwork together to return him to
Cross Creek, a school for children with emotional behavioral disorders. Instead, Cruz, then 18, refused to go and ultimately was forced out of Stoneman Douglas in February 2017. Rennie said he didn’t have enough credits to graduate and was directed, instead, to a program that could help him get a high-school equivalency diploma. “He did not want to leave Stoneman. Did not want to go. He was so, he was so mad. He did not want to go,” she said. From Rennie’s account, administrators and security staff at Stoneman Douglas were well
aware of Cruz. She surmised that they viewed him as “sneaky.” “They would always call him over: ‘Hey Nik, how you doing today,’ you know, and just, like, keep contact with him all the time and always calling him up to the office for something and he’d go: ‘What did I do now?’” Looking back, Rennie said she wasn’t surprised when she learned the shooter on Valentine’s Day was Cruz. “I just felt like he was one of these kids that would just do something just to see what it was like to do it.”
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Q: Do you enjoy thrifting? If so, where do you go, and what do you look for most when shopping in these stores?
Raychelle Thomason is a freshman majoring in textiles and merchandising at Indiana State University. Thomason loves to spend time with her friends, and sewing. She has repurposed many clothing items into other outfits, like taking an old flannel and turning it into a two-piece skirt and crop top. She has also made a tube top out of an old flannel’s sleeves. Thomason is very involved with style, and her passion is fashion. Q: How do you deal with the changing weather when it comes to your outfit choices? A: With the weather changing, I have to find ways to style outfits up and keep warm so I like using my summer clothes and adding layers to make them warm. Q: Where do you like to shop for your clothes? A: When it comes to shopping, I tend to find myself in Charlotte Russe, or I will go to Goodwill and alter clothes to my liking.
A: Like I said, I absolutely love thrift shopping. I love looking for certain patterns, colors and being able to alter them to fit me. I also have turned shorts into skirts and pajama pants into two pieces. Goodwill and Plato’s Closet are always favorites for me. Q: Explain a favorite outfit you like to wear during the fall and wintertime. Victoria Flores | Indiana Statesman
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Q: When you’re picking an outfit out for the day, what do you take into consideration? A: There are a couple key factors when I choose what I’m going to wear for the day. Weather is a major factor. I also think about what errands I may have that day. Another big factor for me is how new it is. If I just bought an item, I will find a way to wear it the
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A: When fall comes around, I usually wear a lot of booties, soft sweaters, high-waisted jeans with a crop top covered by a cardigan. Q: Who are some of your fashion idols? Why do you look up to them, and what is their fashion sense like? A: I know it’s very typical, but I love the Kardashians’ style. They have amazing fashion sense and are always breaking the norm. I dare to be anything but basic. I also love Haley Baldwin. I just honestly love people who take risks.
A meet and greet with Sycamore Sam in Dede Plaza 1 was held Friday from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. The event was held in honor of Homecoming weekend and gave students the opportunity to dress up in Indiana State spirit wear and take pictures with the school mascot, Sycamore Sam. Homecoming is the tradition of welcoming back former students and members of an organization in celebration of its existence. The week leading up to Homecoming was full of school spirit. Many activities were held throughout the week to bring students together in celebration for the big football game Saturday and school spirit. Leading up to the game there was a parade Saturday morning at 9 a.m. Different organizations within the university decorated golf carts and paraded down Wabash Avenue, sharing their school spirit. Before the game Saturday there was a tailgate and Tent City. Each fraternity and sorority had its own tent, as along with many other organizations. Many of the organizations handed out free food, prizes and campus resources. The spirit day event has been held in years past. “So far I have really enjoyed college and the amount of school spirit the university has. There are so many different things to do all over campus. I feel like I always find something new to participate in when I think there is nothing more the school could offer. Going to the spirit day to meet Sycamore Sam was really neat. I met a lot of cool, new people. I also thought it was nice to see everyone show their school spirit,” Said ISU freshman, Luke Young.
Britain’s Harry and Meghan expecting baby in spring Frank Walker and Christoph Meyer TNS
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle during a reception for young people at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, in Edinburgh, during their visit to Scotland on Jan. 23.
SYDNEY — Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are expecting their first baby in spring next year, Kensington Palace confirmed on Monday after weeks of speculation, just as the royal couple began their first major international tour in Australia. Harry and Meghan were seen strolling through the gardens of the harbourside mansion they are using during their Sydney visit as the news broke around the world on Monday. “Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are very pleased to announce that The Duchess of Sussex is expecting a baby in the Spring of 2019,” the couple’s official residence wrote, using their royal titles. “Their Royal Highnesses have appreciated all of the support they have received from people around the world since their wedding in May and are delight-
ed to be able to share this happy news with the public,” a tweet from Kensington Palace said. They were having a private day on Monday relaxing after the long flight from London, and were seen walking hand-in-hand in the mansion’s gardens. Their official engagements are scheduled to start Tuesday, on a 16-day trip that will also take them to Australia, Fiji, Tonga and New Zealand. The new baby will be seventh in line for the throne and the news will intensify interest in the couple’s visit, which includes meeting the public this week at the Opera House and Bondi Beach. British Prime Minister Theresa May was one of many well-wishers offering their congratulations to Harry and Meghan on the announcement. “My warmest congratulations to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex on the happy news they are expecting a baby in the spring. Wishing them all the best,” May wrote on Twitter. “What fantastic news! Austra-
lia is thrilled for you both. Looking forward to sharing in the joy during your stay down under,” Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison tweeted. The announcement confirmed speculation that the Duchess of Sussex was pregnant after recent sightings of a suspected baby bulge and her new tendency to wear loose long clothing. When the couple arrived at Sydney airport Monday morning she was wearing a long black coat and clutched several folders in front of her. Sixth in line to the throne, Harry is the second son of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana. His brother, Prince William, is second in line to the throne behind Charles. Meghan has made several high-profile appearances in Britain since her marriage, including a trip in June with Queen Elizabeth II, Harry’s grandmother, to open a landmark bridge and a regional theatre in north-western England.
After backlash, can ‘Charmed’ reboot find magic on the CW? Yvonne Villarreal
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On a drizzly morning in late September, Sarah Jeffery — onethird of the sisterhood at the center of the CW’s mildly controversial “Charmed” reboot — is passing her phone around to her cast mates during a break in production of an upcoming episode. There’s exciting news on the screen: a photo of New York’s bustling Times Square, where the area’s usual billboard razzle-dazzle now includes a jumbo promotional image of the show among its ranks. “People have been sending me pictures of our billboards in every city,” says the 22-year-old Jeffery, whose credits include “Wayward Pines” and “Shades of Blue.” “It’s like, what is happening? I saw one from a distance recently and I squealed. But Times Square — are you kidding me?” “Oh my God, this is such a moment,” says costar Melonie Diaz (“Fruitvale Station”), leaning in to stretch her fingers across the phone’s screen to zoom in.
It’s a welcome feel-good moment in what has otherwise been an unnerving lead-up to the launch of the show. When it was announced that the CW was putting “Charmed,” a young adult drama about sisters who discover they are witches, through television’s busy reboot machine, a spell wasn’t exactly cast. Some fans of the original series — a cult favorite that starred Alyssa Milano, Holly Marie Combs, Shannen Doherty and later Rose McGowan, and ran from 1998 to 2006 on the WB — scoffed at the idea. And some members of the original cast were vocal with their dismay or reservations about a reboot. “I’m not going to lie, it kind wof bummed me out a little bit,” says Diaz, 34, who was jammed with her cast mates on a leather couch of an apartment rented for this day of filming. “You want people to be in support of what you do. But at the same time, there are people who are really, really, really excited about our show and it would be a disservice to them if we don’t lean into that.
“And it’s like … there’s a lot of things happening right now and I just want to be as positive as possible and enjoy these moments of seeing our billboard in Times Square and working hard,” she adds. “So, yeah, it is what it is.” “There’s always going to be negative noise,” adds Mantock, 28. “You just have to tune it out … it’s been a bit of a bonding experience for us.” Whether “Charmed” 2.0 can charm its naysayers is one of those questions that likely won’t ever have one answer. But viewers can at least decide for themselves when the show premieres Sunday, 20 years after the original. It’s yet another reboot of a fan-favorite TV series to test whether audiences still have an appetite for comfort food reheated — or, in this case, remade — years later. No stranger to bringing back popular titles (see: “90210” and “Melrose Place”), the CW has more riding on the success of “Charmed.” The network, often the un-
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In an episode of “Charmed,” from left, Melonie Diaz as Mel, Madeleine Mantock as Macy and Sarah Jeffery as Maggie.
derdog in the broadcast hierarchy, is expanding its prime-time schedule by opening up shop on Sunday nights this fall for the first time in nearly a decade. And it’s counting on the name recognition of “Charmed” — whose cult following has grown since it went off the air thanks to a heavy rotation in syndication and its
availability on Netflix — to help the network establish itself on the competitive night. (The CW’s returning series, “Supergirl,” has also been enlisted to assist.) “We felt for the night, we needed a show that had some brand equity,” says CW President Mark
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“It felt like women of color were going to be the women who had more interesting stories in our current climate, frankly,” O’Toole says. As the show unfolds, the goal is to incorporate the characters’ cultures into the storytelling in a way that’s “specific to who they are in an organic way.” There are other differences too. There are no spells with rhyming couplets, not all the sisters’ powers are the same as in the original, and the show ditches its San Francisco surroundings for a fictional Michigan college town — to name a few. It’s also a different premise than what was originally envisioned when producers were considering re-introducing “Charmed” to a new generation. The writers and producers were contemplating a prequel that would be set in the ’70s and explore the link be-
CHARMED CONT. FROM PAGE 4 Pedowitz by phone. “‘Charmed’ has a lot of brand equity. That said, this [version] is different. There are elements of it that are very much the same, but it is a different storytelling.” The new iteration from the writer-producer team of Jennie Snyder Urman, Jessica O’Toole and Amy Rardin (who have all worked together on “Jane the Virgin”) shares a similar conceit of three sisters who learn they’re witches and must protect the world from supernatural demons. But here, the show’s original “Charmed Ones” are replaced with a multiracial trio: Jeffery and Diaz are the Vera sisters (named Maggie and Mel, respectively); while Mantock (“The Tomorrow People”) plays their eldest half-sister, Macy Vaughn.
tween the women’s rights movement and witchcraft. Then the 2016 election happened. “After the election,” Urman says, “all the things that we wanted to say about witchcraft and the place of women in society and the way that things are … it felt like we had to move that into the present, because it felt like it was something vital that we were struggling with now.” Or as O’Toole describes it: “We had been a little naive in thinking that we were in a post-misogynist world.” And in this time when women are banding together and showing solidarity — as many did recently, gathering for demonstrations in support of Christine Blasey Ford when she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee over sexual assault allegations against then-Supreme
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Court nominee (now Justice) Brett Kavanaugh — and when the term “witch hunt” has been used to describe the so-called injustice of men caught up in the #MeToo movement, a show about sisterhood feels all the more vital, the producers say. “What we really liked about the original ‘Charmed’ is that it was showing female relationships where women were’t tripping and fighting with each other all the time,” Rardin says. “These were, and are, three women not competing over men. That wasn’t, and isn’t, where the conflict comes from.” The pilot episode, for example, seems ripped from the headlines with the sisters fighting a predator who is a demon in supernatural form — and a serial harasser in human form. “That’s one of the reasons I wanted to do the show,” Diaz
says. “This is a platform. I think we have a really great opportunity here to inspire young women. I hope we do a good job.” Though the new series is leaning in to having a social conscience, its stars are careful to stress it won’t leave viewers rolling their eyes. “It should be cathartic,” says Mantock. “We’re not trying to bash you over the head with a handbook on how to be a good human in this day and age.” They would, however, like to win over viewers of the original. “I think it’s wonderful to be able to do a show that already has such a passionate fan base,” Jeffrey says. “It’s an addition to something that was already so wonderful. We’re not trying to take away from the original in any way. “I just want to make them proud.”
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The Walk is an important tradition at Indiana State Rachel Modi Columnist
Homecoming week marks the famous “Walk” at Indiana State University. The Walk is a tradition at ISU that began in the late 70’s, and it’s when thousands of students, alumni, friends, and family visit Terre Haute to have a good time and get drunk, grabbing a drink from each bar down a two-mile walk to the Stadium to watch the football game. The Walk can bring about a couple arguments on both sides. There is a positive side to keeping the tradition going, and a negative side to ending the tradition. The number one issue is safety for the individuals participating in the Walk and the public spectators and families. In 2009, ISU began a program to encourage safety through “SoberRide” and “Designated Walkers.” SoberRide allows those who are participating to get a safe ride home if they want to call it a day anytime during the walk. Designated Walkers are very similar in ensuring the participants are remaining in a safe environment, but instead are more hands-on during the Walk. The Designated Walker is paired up with a participant who will walk with them throughout the Walk. They are practically their moms for the day. Designated Walkers are also given training before event in order to properly take care of the participants. I think safety has built up over the years due to involvement with the local police department as other organizations at ISU take proper precautions to ensure the event goes as smoothly as possible. Critics also highlight that this tradition has become only about drinking and getting plastered. Whatever individuals’ goals may be during the event, whether it is not being able to remember the Walk or just having a good time, the Walk still brings more people to Terre Haute than any other event. This is the most common time for alumni, family, current students, and friends to rekindle their relationships. My big and all her friends came back to visit after they graduated. I have learned that it is hard to depend on graduates, family and friends to visit or return to Terre Haute all on the same weekend or day.
Instead, by having this fun and exciting Homecoming tradition, more people are able to make an appearance. Not only does this Homecoming tradition bring family and friends together, but it also benefits local bars economically. And if a lot of the local businesses are gaining business, it is good for the town’s economy, because it increases money circulation. This boost in revenue comes from the hundreds of students, family, and locals who buy the overly priced drinks to really experience the Walk. The bar owners say that this is the best time of the year for the best profits. Obviously, while dropping almost $50 plus on drinks and food to have an arguable good time, everyone and their moms are bar hopping to get the full experience. Even for those who cannot participate in the Walk just yet, other ISU Homecoming traditions, like Tent City, make Homecoming enjoyable because it gets everyone involved. Organizations and spectators enjoy Homecoming season. Tent City brings in businesses and school programs who give out shirts, cups, and most importantly, food. The best part about Tent City is that mostly everything is free, which speaks volumes to us college students. However, I decided to look into what other universities have as their huge Homecoming events. For example, Indiana University has their traditional parade with food trucks and fireworks. Another example is Ball State’s Bed Races, when people put wheels on bed frames and run it down the campus. Lastly, Illinois State University has a traditional tailgate and a campus-decorating contest. Indiana State’s Homecoming week and the Walk are enjoyable and entertaining. Looking at the others schools, not many of the students seem to be as involved. ISU has dance offs, blood drives, trike races, parades, and more. These events can apply to just about everyone – dancing to help you jam out, preparing for a sporting event, walking/watching the parade, attending the tents for free things and showing ISU pride for our football team, but the Walk is one of the most well-known events.
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It turns out Democrats are really bad at getting mad Walter Shapiro CQ-Roll Call (TNS)
WASHINGTON — Anger in politics is like the porridge in “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” — it has to be just right. Too little anger breeds a sense of complacency and decreases the urgency of voting. Too much anger produces self-defeating rhetoric that repels the very undecided voters that you are struggling to attract. Such is the Democratic dilemma after the soul-destroying confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh. The failure to win any support among Senate Republicans — with the conspicuous exception of Lisa Murkowski — can be viewed as the final vindication of Mitch McConnell’s scorchedearth tactics that stymied Merrick Garland. Hillary Clinton gave voice to this bitter frustration when she told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, “You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about. That’s why I believe, if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and/or the Senate, that’s when civility can start again.” Now, like any American citizen, Hillary Clinton has the right to free speech and the right to paid speech. In fact, Clinton and her husband Bill will soon embark on a 13-city paid speaking
tour with tickets ranging from $60 to $375 each. This latest installment of Clinton buckraking should remind Americans to appreciate the altruistic post-presidential example of Jimmy Carter. Questioned about Hillary Clinton’s comments in her own interview with CNN, endangered North Dakota Democrat Heidi Heitkamp must have thought the equivalent of Dorothy Parker’s line, “What fresh hell is this?” Style points Heitkamp should be a Democratic hero after her principled, damn-the-polls vote against Kavanaugh. Instead, she had to react to Clinton’s ill-considered claim that civility should be on furlough until the Democrats regain power. As Heitkamp adroitly put it, “That’s ridiculous. I mean I can’t imagine how you get anything done if you don’t bring civility back into politics. And that goes for both sides.” In truth, Clinton’s comments highlight the central debate facing the out-of-power Democrats: What is the best strategy to counter Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell? Despite widespread warnings that they were poised to produce their own left-wing version of the excesses of the tea party movement, the Democrats displayed uncharacteristic prudence in this year’s congressional primaries.
As research by my friend Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, discovered, “The most successful endorsement group in the 2018 primaries was not Our Revolution or any of the other new progressive political action groups — it was that most staid of all organizations, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which won 39 of the 41 races in which it endorsed a candidate.” The real battle within the Democratic Party is not over ideology but temperament. Even if the Democrats win both the House and the Senate in November, they will not be passing any legislation as long as Trump remains in the White House. About the best that they can hope for before 2020 would be to block any further evisceration of Obamacare and to reject far-right and unqualified judicial nominees. There is, however, a growing belief among Democrats that — even if they get just a fragment of power — they should emulate McConnell and out-of-control House committee chairmen like Devin Nunes. Under this theory, civility and regular order in Congress are for wimps. The only things that matter are naked power and a passion for vengeance. Rath-
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Want to get homeless people’s dirty belongings off the sidewalks? Put them in apartments Editorial
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As homeless encampments have sprawled across sidewalks throughout the city of Los Angeles, officials have struggled to balance the needs of the people who live in them with the needs of the other city residents who walk past them, work around them and live nearby, and who are alternately annoyed and discomfited by their presence. The city has yet to get that balance right. In March of 2016, the City Council set new rules specifying (to the gallon) the amount of personal property homeless people can carry with them and setting guidelines for the confiscation and storage of any
excess by city workers. At the same time, the city was slapped with a lawsuit alleging that sanitation workers had thuggishly snatched homeless people’s possessions and destroyed them during arrests and cleanups. As a result, a court put the city under an injunction limiting the confiscation of belongings in the skid row area of downtown. The case is pending, and downtown business groups contend that the injunction has discouraged any enforcement at all, leaving sidewalks choked with the tents and other belongings of homeless people. In another attempt to clean up sidewalks, Mayor Eric Garcetti and the council rolled out a program to place new, city-run “bridge shelters” in areas with
concentrated homeless populations. The mayor vowed that if neighborhoods embraced the shelters, which would take in homeless people from the surrounding streets, he would step up sanitation services and the enforcement of ordinances against lingering on sidewalks during the day and amassing excessive property in those particular neighborhoods. Shortly after the city announced the start of this effort in the Olvera Street area around the new El Pueblo shelter, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles sent Garcetti a letter warning that such enforcement could result in violations of homeless people’s constitutional rights. Homelessness won’t be solved by pushing people from street
corner to street corner or by taking away their shopping carts. This seesaw between protecting the rights of homeless people and trying to address the broader needs of all city residents will continue as long as there are thousands of homeless people living on the streets. Rather than engaging in an endless series of battles in court with homeless people and their advocates, the mayor and council should work out plans with those advocates for making the sidewalks cleaner and functional while not infringing on homeless people’s rights. That’s just what the Legal Aid lawyers asked for in their letter to the mayor. Of course, the city should not give up on trying to keep the streets clean, safe and usable,
and especially to address issues that affect public health. (See the recent article in the Los Angeles Times about the spread of typhus among the homeless.) Toward that goal, there are some basic things the city should be doing right now. It should provide more toilets and shower facilities in areas with large concentrations of homeless people (such as skid row). And it should have sanitation workers provide trash cans on streets with homeless encampments and schedule pickups. It also needs to provide more storage facilities for peoples’ belongings. If the city is going to stick with its 60-gallon limit on belongings, or if it is going to more ag-
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The Indian Child Welfare Act sets up a separate and unequal adoption system Naomi Schaefer Riley Los Angeles Times (TNS)
When Chad and Jennifer Brackeen received a call in June 2016 from a child welfare worker asking if they would be willing to take in a 10-month-old foster child, they did not hesitate. They had two biological sons and had already had one foster placement
that lasted about five months. But this baby was different. “We were told that because he was an Indian child, he would only be with us for a couple of months and then would be moved to an Indian family,” Jennifer Brackeen recalls. Brackeen, a physician, and Chad, a stay-at-home father, understood that according to
the Indian Child Welfare Act, which was passed in 1978, the rules about adoption and foster care were different for children from Native American families. What they didn’t realize was the lengths to which tribes — in concert with the federal government — go in putting the interests of the tribe over the interests of the child.
The Indian Child Welfare Act was originally intended to prevent social workers from removing Indian children from their parents and placing them with white families simply because of poverty or bigotry. Over time, though, the ICWA has called into creation a separate and unequal child welfare system. In effect, Indian foster children —
regardless of whether they live on a reservation, regardless of much or how little of their DNA is Native American, even regardless of their biological parents’ wishes — may be adopted only by other Indians. Preference for adoptions goes first to family, which is the same
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indianastatesman.com ADOPTION FROM PAGE 6 for non-Indian adoptions. But once family ties are exhausted, children must be placed next with members of their tribes, and then with “literally any other Indian in the country,” as Jennifer Brackeen notes with exasperation. Last week, 40 years after the original statute was passed, a U.S. district court judge in Texas ruled in favor of the Brackeens and two other families, declaring the ICWA unconstitutional. This decision, which will be appealed, along with other recent cases in California and Ohio that have reached contradictory conclusions, suggests that the law will be headed to the Supreme Court soon. The Brackeens’ child, referred to in court documents as Baby A.L.M., had been born with drugs in his system and removed
HOMELESS FROM PAGE 6 gressively enforce its existing ban on sitting and sleeping on the sidewalks during the day, officials must remember — and so should we all — that the ultimate solution, the only real long-term solution, to this crisis lies in getting more people housed faster. Homelessness won’t be solved by pushing people from street corner to street corner or by taking away their shopping carts. As of now, not one room of housing funded by Proposition HHH, the $1.2-billion bond measure city voters approved two years ago to provide permanent supportive housing for homeless people, has opened. Nor will any open this year. Almost 2,100 units of supportive housing have been approved; a few hundred of these are in construction, the rest are still in preliminary stages. Some will open next year. But most won’t open until 2020 or 2021. It’s difficult to speed up the completion of low-in-
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from his parents because of neglect. In May 2017, almost a year after the Brackeens began fostering Baby A.L.M., his mother relinquished her parental rights. His father didn’t show up at the hearing so his rights were severed. During those 11 months, child welfare officials failed to come up with another family who wanted him, let alone someone from the Navajo or Cherokee tribes whose ancestry he shares. But officials continued to tell the Brackeens they couldn’t adopt Baby A.L.M., though, by then, the Brackeens were the only parents he knew. A couple of months later, the Brackeens received word that a Navajo couple in Albuquerque was interested in adopting Baby A.L.M. After the child spent just two hours with the couple, officials announced it was a done deal, the 2-year-old would
shortly be put on a plane to New Mexico. Despite the fact that everyone who knew the boy supported his adoption by the Brackeens — his biological parents, his paternal grandmother who had raised him until he was 10 months old, the government’s guardian ad litem for the child, and a court-appointed special advocate — a family court judge ruled against them based on the ICWA. In October 2017, the Brackeens, along with other foster families, filed a federal lawsuit. As it happened, the New Mexico couple backed out of adopting Baby A.L.M., and tribal officials withdrew their objections to the Brackeens’ adoption as well. Nine days short of the child’s third birthday, Baby A.L.M. was adopted by the Brackeens. But they proceeded with the lawsuit, not least because even after an adoption, the rules for
Indian kids are different. Although most adoptions can be reversed only up to six months after placement, Indian children can be taken from an adoptive home up to two years later, if an Indian family emerges to take the child. Lawyers for the Brackeens and the other families (some of whose adoptions are still pending), as well as attorneys general from Texas, Louisiana and Indiana who joined the suit, argued primarily that the law discriminates on the basis of race. The defendants, including the Cherokee Nation and other tribes as well as the federal government, responded by claiming, as they have in the past, that Indian tribes are individual political entities — analogous to nations, not racial groups. The plaintiffs successfully countered that if each tribe is a single political entity, and that entity
should have precedence over adoptive parents from other groups, why does the ICWA allow Indian kids to be adopted by any native family, from any tribe? If the goal is to preserve a child’s heritage, how is that accomplished by sending him to live with members of another tribe or putting hundreds of miles between a child and his biological relatives? The judge also agreed with the plaintiffs’ novel argument that the ICWA is unconstitutional because it violates principles of federalism by “commandeering” state child welfare agencies and courts to carry out the will of the federal government. Baby A.L.M. is now almost 4 years old and thriving. The Brackeens hope their lawsuit will contribute to more such outcomes for Indian children in foster homes. But until the Supreme Court strikes it
down, the ICWA is still the law of the land. Jennifer Brackeen says that until that changes, if her family has the choice of whether to take in a native child again they would “almost certainly say no.” In her view, the ICWA creates a system that she doesn’t want to be a part of. It leaves Indian children in foster care for long periods (longer than is allowed for children of any other race) while officials seek native families to take them in. And when it can’t find them, the law ignores the family bonds that have formed in foster care. Sadly, there are Indian children in state custody all over the country — poverty, domestic abuse and drugs affect native children disproportionately. The Indian Child Welfare Act makes it far too difficult for them to get a solid second chance.
come and homeless housing development projects. The city pays for only a portion of the project. Rounding up the rest of the funding sources often takes more than a year. That’s before construction, which takes an additional year or two, even starts. Given that timeline, the mayor and the City Council need to push for more innovative approaches to building this housing. That could mean using prefabricated units, building shared housing (which would get more people off the street faster) or finding speedier ways to secure financing. Miguel Santana, the former city official who now chairs the citizens’ committee overseeing HHH funding, is working on a new set of guidelines for developers who want to take different, faster approaches to financing and building. Progress on that front is crucial if the city is going to make headway anytime soon on its homelessness crisis.
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spiracy over Benghazi. This fight-fire-with-fire strategy has led Democrats — who should know better — to take seriously publicity-hound lawyer Michael Avenatti as a spokesman for the party and a plausible presidential candidate. By believing that the only way to win in contemporary America is to ape Trump’s guttersnipe tactics, these Democrats inadvertently reveal the fragility of democratic norms. Democrats, for strategic reasons, are portraying the 2018 elections as a referendum on health care — with the Republicans, for a change, on the defensive. In truth, what is on the ballot in November is a last-
ditch drive to curb Trump’s authoritarian tendencies and to shine a spotlight on the rampant corruption of his administration. By refusing to seriously investigate anything from Russian hacking to Trump’s private-sector profiteering as president, the Republican Congress has forfeited its claims to be an independent branch of government. Instead, it is has been a lickspittle legislature with the freedom of an indentured servant. The biggest mystery in American political life is what the Robert Mueller investigation has discovered about Trump. If, as is plausible but far
from certain, Mueller presents evidence of potentially impeachable offenses, the Democrats would have to tread carefully and responsibly. The question for Democrats at that juncture should not be, “What would McConnell do?” Rather, it should be, “What would a Watergate hero like Sam Ervin do?” And that’s where the old-fashioned virtue of civility, scorned by Hillary Clinton, comes in. For it will take a village — a bipartisan village — to repair the damage that Trump and McConnell have done to American democracy.
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ISU stunned in final seconds, drops homecoming to Bears Garrett Short Reporter For the second time in two weeks, the Indiana State football team lost by three points, dropping their homecoming game to Missouri State 29-26. The Sycamores fall to 2-4 in 2018. ISU stumbled out of the gate. Missouri State rushed for one score in the first quarter and ran in two more touchdowns before halftime to give themselves a 2110 lead at the break. “We had a slow start and that’s no excuse,” said ISU Head Coach Curt Mallory. “We just got to play better, sound football.” Outside of a Jerry Nunez 48yard field goal in the second quarter, ISU’s only points in the first half came off of a 47-yard touchdown run by Ja’Quan Keys. Keys shouldered most of the offensive workload for a team that struggled moving the ball in the first half. Whatever Mallory said in the locker room during halftime must’ve worked. The ISU defense came out energetic and angry. The offense came out willing to grind for yards. At the end of the day ISU earned 440 yards compared to MSU’s 352. Keys was the main reason for the offense’s success in the second half. He rushed for a touchdown once in the third and again early in the fourth to give ISU a 26-21
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Sycamores lose to the Missouri State Bears in a close Homecoming game on October 13, 2018.
lead—their first of the game. Another monstrous performance puts Keys in the spotlight as he ranks second in the FCS in rushing touchdowns (11) and third in yards per game (132). Mallory isn’t surprised to see the senior running back dominating defenses. “He’s having a great year. I’m proud of the way he’s led. He’s one of those guys that has waited his time,” said Mallory. “Now he’s getting his chance to be the guy and he’s having one heck of a year.” Keys is on pace to seriously
be considered for an individual conference award at the end of the season. Linebacker Jonas Griffith also has been a standout for the Sycamores. He currently leads the MVFC in tackles per game. The defense, led by Griffith with 17 total tackles, was stout for 29 minutes and 30 seconds in the second half. They allowed zero points and were stifling every drive the Bears had. But it wasn’t quite a full second half. Facing a 26-21 deficit and with a handful of seconds remaining,
Missouri State lofted a pass into the end zone that was reeled in for the game-winner. The Bears would complete the two-point conversion to earn the 29-26 win with 16 seconds remaining on the clock. Indiana State is 30 seconds of football away from a 4-2 record. Regardless, they are in a situation where they have to put on nearly spotless performances the rest of the season if they want to make the playoffs. Up next for ISU is a road game Saturday against Southern Illinois.
Sycamore volleyball still in slump from winning David Cruz Reporter
ISU continues their struggle as they fall to Evansville in a 0-3 sweep; the Sycamores are 2-8 in the last ten games. Madeline Williams led Indiana State with 10 kills but Evansville had three players with double-digit kills and hit an impressive .299. Indiana State is now 1-8 in the Missouri Valley Conference. Despite the loss, Indiana State still leads the overall series over Evansville, 44-30. Leading the way for Evansville was junior Rachel Tam. She had 16 kills and hit .324 on the night. Kerra Cornist and Mildrelis Rodriguez recorded 10 kills apiece while Alondra Vazquez finished with nine kills. Cornist hit a strong .643, with her 10 kills coming in 14 tries. These players’ stats had a huge impact throughout the game especially when it mattered the most. This win against Indiana State gives Evansville a 2-7 record in the Missouri Valley Conference. This marks the first time since 2009-10 that Evansville has won two in a row over Indiana State. ISU is looking to count on their impact players for the rest of the season. Made-
line Williams posted 10 kills, reaching double-digits for just the fourth time this season. Laura Gross led the defense with eight digs despite posting a season-low six kills. Laura Gross has continued to shine, but she is going to need the rest of her teammates to step up as the season progresses. Laura Gross is also ranked 23rd nationally with 814 total attacks. Jade York recorded six digs on the night and she is now ranked 64th nationally with 330 total digs this season. An improvement for the Sycamores is that Melina Tedrow has moved to setter, to fill in for Makayla Knoblauch for the last three matches, and has posted a double-double in every match since the position change. Indiana State has continued to lose games within four or fewer sets in the last 10 games. The team has been inconsistent and tends to lose their energy throughout the game, which has contributed to many of their blowout losses. ISU looks to amp up their energy with a rematch against Loyola Chicago on Friday. Last time these two teams met up, it was Loyola Chicago coming up on top with a 3-0 win against the Sycamores. Indiana State looks to get some revenge and get back in the win column.
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Volleyball set to play next on Oct. 19.
The Indiana State women’s golf team will take a trip up to Northern Indiana on Monday and Tuesday, October 15 & 16 to participate in the 2018 MVC Fall Preview, hosted by Valparaiso. This year’s preview and next spring’s MVC Women’s Golf Championship will be held at Sand Creek Country Club in Chesterton, Ind. The tournament will played over a par-72, 6,074-yard layout which features tight fairways and water throughout. The Sycamores will take seven golfers to preview the course including junior Sierra Hargens who leads the Sycamores with a 74.9 stroke average through seven rounds so far this far. In three events, she has placed in Top 20 in all three, the Top 10 in two and has one Top 5 finish to her credit. She has shot a 71 twice so far this season — once at Youngstown State and again at Ball State — for her season best. Also in the lineup is senior Thilda Staubo who owns a 77.7 stroke average for second-best on the team. She posted a season-best 73 her last time out in the second round at Butler. Kayla Ryan has also enjoyed a strong start to the season and is third on the team with a 79.3 average. She has carded a pair of 76’s — once in each of the first two fall tournaments — which is her season-best. Abigail Irwin and freshman Lauren Green will also be in the lineup for the Sycamores this week. Freshman Madison Branum and senior Sophie Benetti will compete as individuals. Indiana State is coming off a second place finish two weeks ago at the Butler Fall Invitational against a talented 10-team field. The MVC Fall Preview is the fourth of five fall tournaments for the Sycamores. Nine of the 10 Missouri Valley Conference schools will participate including the Sycamores, host Valparaiso, Loyola, Illinois State, Bradley, Southern Illinois, Missouri State, Drake and Northern Iowa. The action begins on Monday, October 15 at 9:30 a.m. with a shotgun start. Monday will see the field go around the course twice for the first two rounds of action. The third and final round will be held on Tuesday, October 16 with tee times which begin at 9:30 a.m. On Tuesday, the teams will begin play on both the 1st and 10th holes.
Indiana State Soccer falls to the University of Northern Iowa Panthers in Friday’s homecoming game Jordan Koegler Reporter A cold and wet night at Memorial Stadium during Friday’s homecoming soccer game ends in a loss for Indiana State 2-1 against Northern Iowa. UNI took the lead in the game during the 16th minute, when Jordyn Rolli shot a rebound off the right post. Panthers lead 1-0 over the Sycamores. 15 minutes later during the first half, Panthers Clair Netter received a long pass from Brynett Yount and dribbled inside the penalty box taking a shot that went past Sycamores goalie Hannah Sullivan. Then the Panthers lead with a 2-0 score. During the second half of Friday night’s game, Katie Wells took a shot of a rebound shot that hit the crossbar from senior Caitlyn Eddy. Wells then launched the ball straight into the right corner of the net. The score during the 51st minute was 2-1, with Panthers still
leading. Wells’ goal marked her ninth of the season and placed her one goal from Abby Reed’s record of 10 goals, which was set in 2013. Wells ninth goal sets her within the Missouri Valley Conference and ties her for second-best single season. Wells has a total of 21 goals in her ISU soccer career and is only four goals behind Lauren Podolski’s 25-goal school record. Wells, a senior, is demonstrating what makes her a valuable forward for the Sycamores this season. The Sycamores had multiple attempts with shots on goal throughout the second half, however the team struggled to get the ball past UNI goalkeeper Jami Reichenberger. ISU had 19-8 shot attempts on goal, which included a 9-6 margin in shots on goal. The Sycamores fought hard throughout the game despite their struggle to put more than one goal in the net. Katie Sidloski made two shot attempts on goal and Eddy took four shots on goal and made three of them.
Larry Ligget | Athletic Media Relations
Indiana State back in action Oct 17th.
Wells had five shots and three were in range of the net. Pam Sillies and Lindsey Anstine each had two shots for the Sycamores. Sycamores goalkeeper Sullivan
had six shots on goal and saved four of those shots. Indiana State will be back in action Wednesday, Oct. 17 as they travel to Illinois State for
a Missouri Valley Conference game. Kickoff begins at 7 p.m. and can be viewed on ESPN+.