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Polar vortex breaks the internet and Indiana State University officials Alexandria Truby Features Editor

The internet was crowded with memes, hashtags, and other posts about the “polar vortex” affecting the United States earlier this week.

Among the posts were photos showing Elsa of Disney’s “Frozen” being arrested for freezing the Midwest and countless snapchat videos showing people in shorts bragging about how it’s “not that cold outside.”

The hashtags “PolarVortex” and “Chiberia” were among the top trending hashtags on Twitter as people shared their thoughts on climate change and the severe weather.

“It’s actually warmer in Siberia than Chicago this week,” the Chicago Tribune posted on their Twitter.

University officials begged to differ though.

Indiana State University Marketing sent out an email midday Tuesday announcing, “Indiana State University will close at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, and reopen at 8 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, because of forecasted severe weather.”

Along with ISU, universities such as IUPUI, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Ball State University, and many others canceled Wednesday’s classes.

This was the first time in five years that

Tony Campbell | University Marking

Sycamore Sam tosses water into the air on the negative degree Wednesday to create a frozen array of water.

ISU has canceled classes, according to Jada Huddlestun of WTHI-TV channel 10.

ISU senior Virgil Price III was surprised that the university was closed since it’s so uncommon.

“I don’t think I would have been affect-

No, this polar vortex doesn’t disprove global warming Keith Matheny

Detroit Free Press (TNS)

It’s a question on many blue lips this week, as the Midwest braced for below-zero temperatures for its daily high on Wednesday: How can global warming be true when it’s so cold?

Even President Donald Trump, in a tweet late Tuesday, seemed to question the coexistence of climate change and an arctic chill over much of the U.S. “In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder.

People can’t last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on with Global Waming? Please come back fast, we need you!,” Trump tweeted.

As climate scientists constantly stress, weather does not equal climate.

“Weather is day to day, week to week, and climate is the longterm average of all the weather that occurs over a long period of time, like decades,” said David Easterling, a climate scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Center for Environmental Information in Asheville, N.C. “You’re always going to have these occasional cold-air outbreaks, but we’ve been having fewer of them over the last few decades.”

Added John Allen, a meteorologist and climate scientist at Central Michigan University, “The way to think about this is kind of like what you had for breakfast each day, as compared to what you usually have eaten for breakfast over your entire life. So we could be in a a warming trend and still experience a cold winter, or cold day.”

It’s important to remember

that climate change is a global phenomenon, while weather is a local experience, Easterling said.

The global atmosphere is always trying to find a temperature balance — meaning when it’s bitterly cold in Michigan or elsewhere, nearly invariably it is unusually warm in some other part of the world.And, sure enough, as we get our polar vortex on, Fairbanks, Alaska — less than 200 miles from the Arctic Circle — had a high temperature of 24 degrees on Tuesday, well above its typical January average high temperature of 2 degrees.

“Just because it’s cool here in North America doesn’t mean this is true for other places in the world,” Allen said. “Australia is currently experiencing all-time record temperatures — exceeding 115 F — and extended heat waves. These are the features of a warming world, and it’s important to take the whole Earth into account — not just our local area.

“The evidence for a warming climate is long term and extremely strong, so hence a cold day means little for that overall pattern.”

The concern with climate change is that human activities such as fossil fuel-burning are putting so-called greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to an extent that heat that typically escapes is held in place, causing temperatures to rise globally over the long term.

The four warmest years on historical record, in terms of overall global average temperatures, were the last four years, Easterling said. NASA and NOAA climate data shows the 20 warmest years on record have all occurred since 1995.

There’s even emerging evidence that climate change may

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ed that much by the cold personally but I appreciate the gesture for those who are,” ISU junior, Marcus Voges said.

Some students didn’t mind the cold, however some also greatly enjoyed the break.

Arctic, Antarctic vets offer warm advice for surviving the polar vortex Robert McCoppin

Chicago-Tribune (TNS)

As she bikes or walks to work at Chicago’s Field Museum on especially cold days, Akiko Shinya sometimes sniffs and feels the inside of her nostrils freeze, or blinks and feels her eyelashes briefly freeze together. That’s when she flashes back to fossil-hunting in Antarctica.

“I kind of like that sensation for an instant,” she said. “It takes a little tug to open your eyes.”

It was at the bottom of the world where Shinya, the museum’s chief fossil preparator, discovered a new species of dinosaur, similar to Tyrannosaurus rex and sharing the same short arms. It was also where her fingers went so numb from cold that she couldn’t open an insulated bottle.

Now, as the polar vortex bears down on Chicago, it reminds Shinya of those days of perpetual frost in the Antarctic. And as with others who have worked in colder realms, that extra bite to the air reminds her of a few special hacks to stay warm in extreme conditions.

When she is gearing up, Shinya focuses on minimizing exposed skin, and combining layers of silk and wool. She suggests wearing silk next to the skin, as stockings, pantyhose or long underwear. In Antarctica, she wore clothing issued by the U.S. Antarctic Program, including two lightweight wool undershirts, and a heavy wool sweater, bib overalls, a down jacket and a puffy red parka on top of that. She wore two pairs of socks and cut off sections of wool sock to cover her wrists between her coat sleeves and gloves, with hand warmers on her wrists and ankles.

She wore one tube of fabric over her neck that came up just below her nose and another over her head, leaving only a slit for her eyes, which she covered with sunglasses. Above all, while spending entire days outdoors, she tried to keep moving.

“Your instinct in the cold is to stand still, but you have to keep moving to get the blood flowing,” she said. “Shake your arms to drain the blood to your fingertips, do jumping jacks, whatever.”

Geologist Yarrow Axford learned her cold-weather skill growing up in rural Maine.

Her home had only a wood-burning stove for heat, and when the electricity went out, her mother melted snow for water. Axford remembers waking up as a child and not wanting to touch

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“Speaking as someone who lives outside of Terre Haute and has to walk a decent distance to and from class and my car every day, I really appreciated the university closing,” said ISU senior, Madison Williams. “I have night classes on Wednesdays and it was incredibly unsafe to be out during that scheduled time. I definitely wasn’t affected as much as some were by those temps, but spending the day getting caught up and staying warm was much, much needed.”

Indiana State’s population, including the mascot, didn’t seem to mind the day off.

The university’s Instagram account posted a photo of Sycamore Sam who, according to the caption, “spent the day playin.”

Students followed Sam’s lead and made the most of the day.

“Today I got up, cleaned my house, folded clothes, moved some of my furniture around, went to campus to edit videos, did some homework, then chilled with friends and played video games,” said Price. “[The cancelation] gives me the day to breathe a little bit. Sometimes when you’re in college you forget to breathe.”

While days off school are often a child’s dreams come true, it’s important to understand the severity of this extreme weather and listen to the officials and their warnings. Perhaps take their warnings to stay inside and enjoy all of the memes on the Internet from the comfort of your bed.

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her feet to the floor.

Now as an associate professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Axford goes on research expeditions studying climate change at the Greenland ice sheet. “There seems to be a theme in my life of ending up in cold places,” she said.

She’s worked in the Arctic 18 times, sometimes sleeping in tents with an electrified fence and an armed guard to keep the polar bears out.

Her coldest trip was years ago on Baffin Island in Canada, where in May there was still 7 feet of ice on the lakes, the sea bay was covered with sea ice and everything on land was frozen solid.

Axford travels to take core samples of soil beneath lakes as a measure of environmental change. On Baffin Island, her team took samples ranging from present day to 200,000 years ago.

Despite the current cold, they found the past century marked one of the warmest spells on record, marked by the disappearance of a cold-loving insect that had lived there for the past 8,000 years.

Of course, 25,000 years ago, glacial ice covered the land from the Arctic to Illinois, so a short cold snap isn’t so bad from a broader perspective.

Despite her experience with extreme temperatures, Axford occasionally makes a rookie mistake. She once took off her mittens to take a picture, then reached to grab a metal door handle.

She immediately felt a burning sensation before jerking her hand away.

“It’s all about the gloves for me,” she said. Riding a snowmobile to work in the field through occasional whiteout conditions, Axford wore double gloves under a pair of insulated mittens, with military-grade “bunny boots” to keep her feet warm.

“And staying dry is so important.”

Last year, with a high around minus 30 on Baffin Island, similar to what Chicago’s facing now, Axford worried about operating planes in the cold, but she said locals are so used to it, “it’s business as usual.”

Ironically, the coldest she’s ever been for a sustained time was actually in Florence, Italy, during a cold snap, because there was no heat to speak of in most buildings, and she hadn’t packed warm clothes.

“I always feel a lot less prepared for the cold when I’m here,” she said. “I don’t have that bag of extreme cold weather gear. But it’s also kind of fun. I love extreme weather and landscapes, and this is some air coming from the Arctic, so it’s kind of exciting.”

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For first responders, there’s no ‘too cold’ Lisa Trigg

The Tribune-Star (TNS)

No matter the weather – polar vortex or summer swelter – emergency services personnel still report for duty, and Wednesday was no exception.

The cold temperatures kept people inside, and was likely a deterrent to criminal activity as people hunkered down to stay warm.

“Our call volumes are down, and that is helpful,” Terre Haute Police Chief Shawn Keen said at midday Wednesday, when local temperatures were creeping upward toward 0 degrees Fahrenheit. “Our officers are trying to stay warm as best they can.”

Patrol units were on duty as usual, he said, and some command staff reported to THPD headquarters. But all non-essential personnel were directed to stay home due to the cold temperature.

In the county, deputies were responding to calls as they came

in.

“Today was more of a reactive day rather than a proactive day,” said Deputy Larry Hopper of the Vigo County Sheriff’s Dept.

“I didn’t get out [of my vehicle] if I didn’t have to.”

But he still stayed busy responding to accidents and a higher-than-user number of false residential alarms.

The sheriff had authorized deputies on patrol to wear warm clothing to stay comfortable, Hopper said, as long as the garments did not interfere with officer equipment and officers were still visibly marked as law enforcement.

For city firefighters, Chief Jeff Fisher said the biggest issues with cold weather are avoiding frostbite and frozen equipment.

“Our engine drivers train for this, to make sure there is a constant flow of water, and that drains are open,” Fisher said.

He encouraged the public to make sure pets are given proper shelter or brought indoors, that children are bundled up if they

are outside, and that alternative heating sources are safely used to avoid accidental fires and carbon monoxide poisoning.

“People should use common sense when dealing with the cold weather,” Fisher said. “If they are using heaters to stay warm, make sure pets and children stay clear.”

Russ Ferrell of TransCare ambulance service said his crews were continuing to make medical transports in the cold temperatures, but saw many cancellations of non-essential transports.

“We are recommending people don’t come out if they don’t have to,” Ferrell said. “It’s not only hard on the patients, but it’s hard on our crews to be out in this weather.”

Some transports are still necessary, such as for dialysis treatments and other conditions, he said.

Transcare operations director Jason Orman said crews had not made any runs directly related to the freezing temperatures as

of noon.

However, crews were prepared with extra blankets and other arrangements to care for anyone exposed to the low temperatures.

“The cold is something we have to think about on days like this,” Orman said. “When we respond to an accident scene, he have to get people packed up as quickly and safely as possible and get them into a warm environment.”

At Terre Haute Regional Hospital, an inquiry about temperature-related issues revealed no cases brought to the hospital as of mid-afternoon Wednesday.

Sullivan County Sheriff Clark Cottom also issued a safety warning directed to residents using portable generators in power outage situations.

Portable generators should not be run inside an attached garage, basement or any area directly attached to a home, Cottom’s directive said, since generators emit deadly carbon monoxide. Generators should

be at least 20 feet from a dwelling, with the engine exhaust directed away from the home. All homes should have at least one working, battery-operated carbon monoxide detector.

The Indiana Department of Homeland Security also promoted travel safety on social media.

County travel status was set at advisory for the counties of Sullivan, Vermillion and Putnam; set at watch for Parke County; and is normal for Vigo and Clay counties. Watch means only essential travel is recommended.

Advisory means travel in some areas may be restricted due to a hazardous situation.

Many area agencies also posted notices on Facebook and Twitter to keep the public informed about weather-related situations.

Lisa Trigg can be reached at 812-231-4254 or at lisa.trigg@ tribstar.com. Follow her on Twitter at TribStarLisa.

UCF student arrested, had fully automatic AR-15 in vehicle at campus dorm, police say Jeff Weiner

Orlando Sentinel (TNS)

An engineering student at the University of Central Florida was arrested after police discovered he was keeping a fully-automatic AR-15 in his car at an on-campus dorm, authorities said.

UCF police began investigating Max Bennett Chambers, 19, after receiving a tip that he possessed drop-in auto sears, which can be used to convert a semiautomatic rifle into an automatic weapon.

According to an affidavit, Chambers allowed police to search his vehicle at the Towers at Knights Plaza, a complex of apartment-style dorm towers on the main campus. The AR-15 was found inside the vehicle and Chambers admitted to owning it, police said.

An FDLE firearm instructor test-fired the weapon and confirmed it was fully automatic, the affidavit said.

The gun was found with a brand-new six-round magazine, but was able to fire at least 19 rounds consecutively with a single trigger pull, police said.

“The test fire confirmed the AR-15 is a machine gun,” the affidavit said.

According to police, Chambers confessed to manufacturing three of the devices in December and testing one on the AR-15 earlier this month.

He said he knew using the device was illegal, “but said he does not like laws,” according to the arrest affidavit.

“He knowingly and flagrantly disregarded the law and that’s unacceptable to us,” UCF police Chief Carl Metzger told reporters. “I don’t think anyone would consider it a good idea to have a machine gun on a college campus. This isn’t Afghanistan.”

Florida’s recently-enacted ban on so-called bump-fire stocks, which convert semiautomatic firearms to mimic fully-automatic weapons, prohibits the possession of any device which alters the firing rate of a gun to replicate automatic weapon fire.

According to the affidavit, Chambers also possessed a bump stock.

He faces charges of possession of a machine gun and a bumpfire stock.

The sophomore mechanical engineering major has also been trespassed from campus, the Police Department said.

Metzger said Chambers, who lived in Tower 3, never made any threats to the university. He has been temporarily suspended pending student conduct proceedings, the police chief said.

“We believe he’s an enthusiast who put his interest in firearms above complying with the law,” Metzger said.

Orange County Jail | TNS

UCF student Max Bennett Chambers, 19, converted an AR-15 into a machine gun, police say.

UCF policy prohibits weapons from being possessed or stored on university property, but allows for them to be kept in a private vehicle as long as they are “not readily accessible for

immediate use.”

UCFPD previously had contact with Chambers in spring 2018.

According to police, Chambers had a part of a firearm in his dorm, which wasn’t illegal but was against campus rules.

Officers explained the policy violation to Chambers at the time, officials said.

Detectives are still investigating, UCF police said in the statement, adding that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has also been notified that federal laws may have been violated.

Chambers was booked into the Orange County Jail about 4:15 p.m. Tuesday with bail set at $5,150, records show. During his first appearance before a judge, he testified that he is a full-time student and does not have a job.

He was released Wednesday afternoon.

A woman listed in the affidavit as Chambers’ next-of-kin declined to comment when reached by phone.

The Towers at Knights Plaza complex, located on the northeast corner of campus near many of UCF’s athletic facilities, was the scene of a mass-shooter scare in March 2013.

Police said James Oliver Seevakumaran, a former student who was facing eviction, penned a “manifesto” documenting his plans to massacre fellow residents of Tower 1 with guns and explosives after flushing them out of their rooms by pulling a fire alarm.

He pulled the alarm just after midnight March 18, 2013, and pointed a rifle at a roommate, who retreated into a bedroom and called 911. Seevakumaran killed himself soon after.

In his dorm, police found explosives, a semiautomatic rifle and 1,000 rounds.

Jerome Adamstein | Los Angeles Times | TNS

Shoppers stroll past the Tesla store at Westfield Century City mall in Los Angeles on August 27, 2018.

Tesla investors shrug off concerns about CFO change Rex Crum

The Mercury News (TNS)

Tesla was in the spotlight on Wall Street on Thursday as investors tried to digest the results from the company’s latest earnings report and the surprise change in its chief financial officer position.

After falling nearly 5 percent in early trading Thursday, Tesla shares recouped nearly all of their losses and ended the day off by 0.6 percent at $307.02. The early negativity came from concerns about Tesla’s level of profitability, and how CFO Deepak Ahuja is leaving the company for the second time.

Ahuja originally did a stint in the company’s CFO chair before stepping down in 2015; he then returned in 2017. Ahuja will be replaced by Zack Kirkhorn, who has been with Tesla since 2010 and became vice president of finance last year.

Dan Ives, director of technology research at Wedbush Securities, said that it was no surprise to see some initial negative reaction to Tesla bringing in a new CFO now, “given all the

balls that Musk and company are trying to juggle right now.”

However, he also thinks that some of the initial market reaction was overrated.

“We are not overly concerned about speed bumps from this CFO baton hand-off,” Ives said.

Late Wednesday, Tesla reported fourth-quarter sales of $7.23 billion, more than double the $3.29 billion in revenue it reported in year-ago period.

Tesla’s earnings, excluding onetime items, totaled $1.93 a share, compared to a loss of $3.04 in the fourth quarter of 2017.

But while Tesla’s sales topped the $7.12 billion forecast by Wall Street analysts, its earnings fell short of the consensus estimate for a profit of $2.20 a share.

The results came on the heels of Tesla saying it would cut 7 percent of its workforce as it tries to improve its overall cost structure and release a version of the Model 3 sedan that will cost $35,000 as part of an effort to reach more middle-market car buyers. When Tesla announced the job cuts, in mid-January, Chief Executive Elon Musk said the company was facing a “very difficult” road ahead.

Hate crimes in Los Angeles highest in 10 years Richard Winto

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Los Angeles recorded its highest level of reports of hate crimes in a decade, with a nearly 13 percent increase in 2018 over the year before.

Last year, L.A. tallied 289 hate crimes, compared with 256 in 2017, according to Los Angeles Police Department statistics gathered by researchers at California State, San Bernardino. Members of the LGBTQ community, blacks and those of Jewish faith were the most frequently targeted, according to the newly released report by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism.

While the numbers are relatively small compared with other crimes, assaults with hate crime elements in L.A. jumped 45 percent last year — from 53 to 77. The number of hate crimes driven by race and ethnicity climbed 29 percent, from 116 to 150, according to the new data.

The LGBTQ community was the target of 73 reported hate crimes, followed by 61

for blacks and 14 for Jewish people.

Center Executive Director Brian Levin said as Los Angeles’ population has shifted, many of the accused perpetrators of hate crimes are not white.

The report comes in a week in which Armenian schools in the San Fernando Valley tightened security after Turkish flags were hung on two private campuses.

The LAPD is looking for a masked suspect seen hanging a dozen flags on one school’s fence. Turkey has long denied the Armenian genocide during the era of the Ottoman Empire.

Meanwhile, a Tarzana synagogue in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti Tuesday morning, the same day the Armenian schools were targeted. There was no indication the two incidents were related.

Hate crimes in the country’s largest cities increased for the fifth consecutive year in 2018, according to the report.

Like L.A., San Francisco, Chicago, Houston, Dallas and Seattle all recorded their highest number of hate crimes in a de-

cade. The continuing uptick came despite police in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York reporting an overall downward crime trend.

Levin said L.A., Chicago, Philadelphia and New York saw a bump in hate crimes near the November midterm elections.

New York reported a 6 percent increase, while Chicago jumped 26 percent. The statistics are only reported crimes and may not reflect the full extent of hate crimes in a community, Levin said.

The rise in Chicago’s numbers are reflected in recent events: Actor Jussie Smollett, an openly gay black actor who stars on “Empire,” reported that he was attacked by two men shouting racial and homophobic slurs on the streets of Chicago.

Levin said that in the five largest cities noted in the report, “African Americans were again the most frequent target.”

Levin, a former New York police officer, said the continued growth of hate crimes may reflect an increasingly polarized nation.

“The day after the 2016 election was the

worst day for hate crimes since 2003,” he said.

An FBI report released in November detailing hate crimes across more than 3,000 police agencies showed a more than 17 percent uptick in 2017, fueled by increases in attacks against religious and racial minorities.

It was the biggest annual increase in reported hate crimes since 2001, when attacks on Muslims surged in response to the Sept. 11 attacks, and the third straight year that hate crimes have gone up.

The count documented 7,175 hate crimes in 2017. The tally was 1,054 higher than the year before. It included a 37 percent increase in anti-Jewish crimes, a 24 percent increase in attacks on Latinos and a nearly 16 percent rise in crimes against blacks.

In California, hate crimes increased more than 17 percent, to 1,095, while Los Angeles showed a 16 percent jump, to 263. Race-driven crimes were the most common in the state, followed by attacks on sexual orientation and religion.

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DA to review video evidence in case of reality-TV surgeon charged with rapes

Richard Winton

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

The Orange County, Calif., district attorney has ordered an examination of all evidence, including numerous videos, in the case of a Newport Beach surgeon and his girlfriend charged with sexually assaulting seven women.

District Attorney Todd Spitzer said that after the review, he will determine how to proceed in the case against Dr. Grant Robicheaux and his girlfriend, Cerissa Riley, whose high-profile prosecutions were launched

by Spitzer’s predecessor, Tony Rackauckas.

The move comes after defense attorneys filed a motion for evidence, accusing Rackauckas of recklessly misrepresenting depictions on video of the couple engaged in sexual acts with intoxicated women and claiming his office had not reviewed any materials supporting such inflammatory claims.

The charges and salacious details involving the reality-TV star — including accusations that the doctor drugged and raped his victims — made national headlines, but defense lawyers say forensic experts found no evidence of sexual assault on the videos or people in any state in which they could not consent to sex.

After Rackauckas charged the couple in September with sexual assaults on two women in 2016, Spitzer publicly accused his po-

GLOBAL CONT FROM PAGE 1 make these frigid dips of arctic air down into the U.S. more possible.

“In the past there was a very strong gradient of cold air at the poles and warmer air south of the poles. That gradient kept the cold where it is, just like a strong temperature gradient in a lake keeps warm water at the surface and colder water below,” said Donald Scavia, professor emeritus of environment and sustainability at the University of Michigan.

litical rival of being slow to file charges and using the case to bolster his profile as his reelection prospects sagged.

In a pair of news conferences at the time, Rackauckas said the 38-year-old Robicheaux and Riley, 31, met their victims in Newport Beach bars and restaurants, lured them to their swank home, where they plied them with drugs, and while they were drunk or drugged, had sex with them. He said there were thousands of videos supporting such claims, but weeks later, the office in a statement said it “never said all the images are incriminating, sexual in nature or show incapacitation or intoxication.”

The couple’s attorneys are now seeking a court order turning over communications related to the videos among the district attorney’s office, its forensic laboratory and the Newport Beach Police Department to determine when the videos were reviewed and the basis for Rackauckas’ statements.

“Despite the lack of any ‘rape videos,’ and despite the lack of any meaningful review of the videos by the prosecutor’s office, the statements that were made set off a frenzy that completely destroyed the integrity of this case and the defendants’ ability to a fair trial,” according to the filing by attorneys Philip Kent Cohen, Scott Borthwick and Shawn Holley. The comments, the attorneys argued, “were dog whistles to a headline thirsty media and public.”

“As the poles are warming faster than the rest of the planet, that gradient weakens, allowing the cold air currents to dip south.”

While the global conditions contributing to climate change continue — as Trump’s skepticism on the phenomenon signals the U.S. will not be playing a leading role on the topic as it has previously — at least the polar vortex is skipping town later this week. Saturday’s high temperature in Detroit is forecast to be a relatively balmy 31 degrees.

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A former police officer and a private investigator hired by the defense wrote in sworn declarations that they reviewed more than 100,000 videos and said they saw no illegal sex acts. The former officer noted a “relatively small” portion contained sexual content and “none showed illegal sexual activity” or anyone who was unconscious or unable to resist sexual advances. The defense could use that evidence to seek a dismissal of the case.

The couple were initially charged with sexual assaults in 2016 on two women and after the case was publicized, charges involving five more women were filed. Robicheaux faces 17 felonies, including five rape charges, while Riley has been charged with 13 felonies. The charges include rape by use of drugs, kidnap to commit rape and oral copulation by anesthesia.

Robicheaux, who appeared on the Bravo reality TV show “Online Dating Rituals of the American Male” and was named “Orange County’s Most Eligible Bachelor” by Orange Coast Magazine in 2013, has been charged with attacks dating to 2009.

Since their arrest, the couple have maintained their innocence and denied having nonconsensual sex with their accusers.

The investigation began in 2016 after complaints by two women who separately told Newport Beach police they were taken to Robicheaux’s house on

44th Street and assaulted.

One woman described the couple as a “Bonnie and Clyde” team who drugged her and forced her to engage in sex acts, according to court documents.

No arrests were made immediately after either incident, but detectives continued to work the case for two years.

According to the charges, Robicheaux and Riley attacked other women during that time.

A woman in her mid-30s at the time met Robicheaux and Riley through a mutual acquaintance at a Halloween party in Newport Beach in October 2016, according to prosecutors. The pair are accused of drugging her drink with GHB and raping her after she passed out. She awoke during the assault, prosecutors said.

Another woman, in her early 20s, had dinner with Robicheaux in Newport Beach in April 2017 after they met on a dating app, prosecutors said.

She told authorities that Riley showed up during the date and pretended to be Robicheaux’s friend, not a love interest. The woman said she went to a bar with them, where they plied her with alcohol and then took her to their home and sexually assaulted her while she was unconscious, prosecutors alleged.

The woman awoke during the attack and locked herself in a bathroom for the night, officials said.

Another woman in her early 20s met the couple at a Fourth of

July party in 2017, and she said she partied and drank with them on a boat a few days later. She told authorities the couple invited her to Robicheaux’s house, where the doctor raped her. As part of that investigation, police searched Robicheaux’s home in January 2018.

The search turned up large quantities of illegal drugs, including GHB, MDMA and cocaine, along with two illegal, unregistered assault rifles, four other firearms and several large-capacity magazines, prosecutors said.

But no arrests occurred for nine months.

Spitzer, who was running against Rackauckas in the district attorney’s election when the couple were arrested in the fall, obtained the January search warrant in the case and accused the incumbent prosecutor of failing to act.

That move led Rackauckas to accuse Spitzer of leaking a sealed court document. An alleged victim identified as only Jane Doe No. 5 asked the judge to find Spitzer — who was then an Orange County supervisor — in contempt of court for distributing the affidavit to members of the media.

Spitzer said he obtained the search warrant as a public record before it was sealed Sept.

11. The contents already had been published by the Los Angeles Times. A judge rescinded an initial order forbidding the media from publishing its contents.

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Meet your fellow ISU Sycamores

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Dossier by Cheyenne Fauquher Photos by Anna Bartley

Freshman Name: William Heller Birthday: March 3, 2000 Hometown: Fort Wayne, IN Major: Professional Flight Aviation Favorite Professor: Dr. Brown Something you like to do in your free time: Sleep

Sophomore Name: Zoey Car Birthday: August 8, 1998 Hometown: Evansville, IN Major: English Teaching Favorite Professor: Dr. Kohler Something you like to do in your free time: Read

Junior Name: Chelsea Maxay Birthday: March 4, 1998 Hometown: Fishers, IN Major: Athletic Training Favorite Professor: Dr. Neil Something you like to do in your free time: Hangout with friends on campus

Senior Name: Josh Perry Birthday: March 20, 1997 Hometown: Kokomo, IN Major: Elementary Education Favorite Professor: Dr. Leinembach Something you like to do in your free time: Workout

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Instagram connects ISU students Lauren Rader Reporter

The Instagram account @indstateinsta was started anonymously by an Indiana State University student to connect students with one another. Many do though In less than two weeks, the page has gained over 400 followers and received around 200 comments between two posts. The comments are from students who are sharing their Snapchat account names, as instructed by the account’s bio.

Almost everyone nowadays has social media of some kind. Social media has dominated communication in the last 10 years and is constantly changing so people can connect with each other easily.

“Social media has been a very impactful way to meet people and be able to interact with individuals I wouldn’t be able to otherwise talk to that often” ISU freshman Courtney Hughes said. “It has also been a really good resource to use with the advertising of events and other things going on around campus.”

Snapchat can be a great avenue

to get to know people, and it can be a way to gain new friends, study groups, and new connections. The creator didn’t just set up the page to add snapchats, they also wanted the profile to be a little community for students to go back to. Not only do they have connections on snapchat, but a whole page full of people to come back to on Instagram.

“Social media has really helped me get to know some of the people that live in my building, on my floor, and in my classes,” said.

“It lets me get a glimpse into their lives and see their personalities even though we may not talk that much.” The page’s creator wants to create more content on the Instagram page, and will continue to get more snapchats.

“I plan to continue adding more people and getting more people together. I also plan on posting pictures every Friday so people have a chance to talk and post their Snapchats regularly,” the creator said. The amount of people following could grow with each semester Abaca Press | TNS and become a giant database for students to get to know each other. Mariah Carey attends the hand and footprint ceremony honoring her held at TCL Chinese Theatre on Nov. 1, 2017 in Hollywood, Calif.

11 quotes that will inspire you to live more fully Susie Moore Greatist.com

I’ve been collecting quotations since I was 5 years old _ my mum and I have always found joy through our shared love of them. I found early on that quotations could shift your mood, perspective and vibe altogether. They’ve anchored me and brought me peace. I would even go so far as to say that during various traumas, when I was feeling scared about the future, repeating them saved me.

I still consider the wisdom I learned from authors, philosophers and big thinkers the basis of my perspective. Here are 11 quotations to move you to live more fully and impactfully this year: 1. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” _ Mary Oliver Yep. There’s only one. We forget that. We even “wait” for life to begin. Are you maximizing your one time visiting this Earth? Squandering it? It is precious. How can you be most

Mariah Carey ‘looks forward’ to performing in Saudi Arabia despite pleas to cancel concert

present, alive, even... wild version of yourself? The world is big and YOU _ your existence _ is also big.

2. “A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.” _ The Talmud I love this quote! What are you not enjoying? What do you take for granted or skip over because you’re in a bad mood?

What are you not fully seeing and experiencing? The purpose of life is joy.

3. “The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately.” _ Seneca Real talk. Fear falls away in the face of this reminder. There is no certainty of even a next year. Why are you waiting to be fulfilled, content, adventurous? The future is guaranteed to no one. We have no idea how many days we have left on planet Earth. This day is your life!

4. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built

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Peter Sblendorio

New York Daily News

Mariah Carey’s team defended her decision to perform in Saudi Arabia amid pleas for her to cancel the concert _ and people continue to speak out as the pop star nears the controversial gig.

Carey has received a wave of pushback since her performance in the country was announced last week, with the women-led social justice group Code Pink urging Carey not to perform in what the organization described as “one of the world’s most repressive, misogynist, gender-segregated countries.”

The concert, which was to begin Thursday at 8 p.m. local time, comes after the Saudi Arabian government began to ease up on its limitations of entertainment entities, and Carey’s camp argued that the singer saw her performance there as progress.

“When presented with the offer to perform for an international and mixed gender audience in Saudi Arabia, Mariah accepted the opportunity as a positive step towards the dissolution of gender segregation,” a rep for Carey said in a statement.

“As a female songwriter with a message of empowerment &

equality, she looks forward to bringing inspiration & encouragement to all audiences,” the statement continued. “As the first female international artist to perform in Saudi Arabia, Mariah recognizes the cultural significance of this event and will continue to support global efforts towards equality for all.”

The concert was set to take place months after Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain Alhathloul, meanwhile, was arrested last May and remains imprisoned.

Alhathloul’s sister wrote in an essay published by CNN that her sibling has been tortured since she was arrested and urged Carey to use her platform onstage Thursday to call for her sister’s release.

“This concert is a pathetic attempt to show that the country is becoming more tolerant toward women,” Walid Alhathloul wrote near the top of her essay. “But there are many women languishing in Saudi prisons, simply for campaigning for the better treatment of women.”

She continued, “Some of them have been brutally tortured and sexually assaulted.”

She wrote that her sister is one of those women, and that an adviser to Saudi Arabia’s Crown

Prince Mohammed bin Salman had overseen the torture.

Fellow musical artists Tiesto and Sean Paul have also been billed as performers at the concert headlined by Carey.

The Women for Rights in Saudi Arabia (WARSA) organization began a petition earlier this week calling for all artists to boycott performing in the country.

“We call on the artists, athletes, comedians, and performers of the world to stand in solidarity with the people of Saudi Arabia,” reads a portion of the petition, which was published to Change.org. “When the people inside are repressed into silence by brutal regimes, we ask artists and performers to support their rights to advocate freely and safely for freedom and rights, without fear of being imprisoned, tortured or killed by their leaders.”

Many on social media were quick to condemn Carey’s concert when news of it emerged, including Washington Post editor Karen Attiah.

“Is this what @MariahCarey @tiesto @duttypaul want to be a part of?” Attiah tweeted Sunday. “Performing at the behest of the Saudi regime that kills and dismembers US-based journalists like #khashoggi, targets others abroad, and imprisons and tortures beautiful souls like @LoujainHathloul?”

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Around the remote: Chuck Barney’s TV and streaming picks Chuck Barney

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DON’T MISS: Super Bowl LIII _ Break out the hot wings. It’s the day when we shovel thousands of calories into our faces and hunker down to watch big, burly men pummel each other on plastic grass. This time, it’s the Los Angeles Rams and New England Patriots (Yes, them again!) waging gridiron war in Atlanta. Jim Nantz and Tony Romo call the action from Mercedes-Benz Stadium, while the rock group Maroon 5 tries to move like Jagger at halftime, and Madison Avenue spends a gazillion dollars on commercials. (3:30 p.m. PT, Sunday, CBS).

Other bets: SUNDAY: The action in “Puppy Bowl XV” should be off the leash as cute canines _ Team Ruff vs. Team Fluff _ clash once again.

Even better: There’s a crew of baby kan-

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I’ve been collecting quotations since I was 5 years old _ my mum and I have always found joy through our shared love of them.

I found early on that quotations could shift your mood, perspective and vibe altogether. They’ve anchored me and brought me peace. I would even go so far as to say that during various traumas, when I was feeling scared about the future, repeating them saved me.

I still consider the wisdom I learned from authors, philosophers and big thinkers the basis of my perspective. Here are 11 quotations to move you to live more fully and impactfully this year: 1. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” _ Mary Oliver Yep. There’s only one.

garoo cheerleaders. Yes, we’re easily entertained. (Noon PT; 3 p.m. ET, Animal Planet).

SUNDAY: After a long day of football and antacids, brace yourself for “The World’s Best.” It’s a new talent competition featuring “elite” acts from around the globe. James Corden is our host, while Drew Barrymore, RuPaul Charles and Faith Hill serve as judges. (7 p.m. PT; 10 p.m. ET, CBS).

MONDAY: Matt LeBlanc and company return for Season 3 of “Man With a Plan.” In the opener, Adam attempts to make the office feel more inviting since Andi will be joining him at work every day. Also, Lowell has been hiding a life-changing secret.

(8:30 p.m., CBS).

TUESDAY: Does everybody still love Raymond?

Check out “Ray Romano: Right Here, Around the Corner.” In his first standup special in 23 years, the funny guy riffs on, among other things, marriage, family

We forget that. We even “wait” for life to begin. Are you maximizing your one time visiting this Earth?

Squandering it? It is precious. How can you be most present, alive, even... wild version of yourself?

The world is big and YOU _ your existence _ is also big.

2. “A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.” _ The Talmud I love this quote! What are you not enjoying? What do you take for granted or skip over because you’re in a bad mood? What are you not fully seeing and experiencing? The purpose of life is joy.

3. “The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately.” _ Seneca Real talk. Fear falls away in the face of this reminder. There is no certainty of even a next year. Why are

you waiting to be fulfilled, content, adventurous? The future is guaranteed to no one. We have no idea how many days we have left on planet Earth. This day is your life!

4. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” _ John A. Shedd This exemplifies us playing small and safe out of fear of harm. But that’s not why we’re alive! The purpose of life is not to make it through unscathed. Are you in port or out at sea _ where you ought to be?

5. “The definition of hell: On your last day on Earth, the person you could have become will meet the person you became.” _ Anon This quote makes me think of the small dash between the dates that will appear on our gravestones one day. Small. Undramatic. And yet _ everything. What are you doing with your dash? How will

and aging. (Netflix).

TUESDAY: Set in the early 1970s _ and filled with music, dance, fashion and glamour _ the new drama “American Soul” recalls the struggle to launch “Soul Train,” the first nationally-syndicated black music show.

Sinqua Walls plays the young Don Cornelius. (9 p.m., BET).

TUESDAY: Was it worth the wait? After a one-week delay, President Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver the annual State of the Union Address to Congress tonight. Expect border security to be a major topic. (6 p.m. PT; 9 p.m. ET, all broadcast networks and cable news channels).

WEDNESDAY: The six-part series “The Dictator’s Playbook” turns its attention to Francisco Franco and examines how he used torture, murder and incarceration to transform Spanish society. (10 p.m., PBS).

THURSDAY: “Supernatural” continues its remarkyou feel about it 20, 30, 40 years from now? What are you doing to regret-proof your life? Are you using your talents and skills, and acting on your dreams?

Are you living the fullest version of your life or a shadow version of it? Are you living the experiences that you know are waiting within you?

6. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where to go...” _ Dr. Seuss Yep. You have all the power. Your head. Your feet. Your path. Other people can walk it with you, but no one else can walk it for you. You’re 100-percent responsible for your life. And what a relief that is.

7. “If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for

able run. Tonight, the spook-fest celebrates its 300th episode and welcomes back Jeffrey Dean Morgan as John Winchester in a story line that has Sam and Dean looking into occult lore for a solution to their latest problem. (8 p.m., The CW).

FRIDAY: The painfully awkward horrors of middle school are hilariously relived in “PEN15.” It’s a new adult comedy series starring Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle, who play versions of themselves as 13-year-old outcasts in the year 2000.

(Hulu).

SATURDAY: Clueless Oscar voters might have given the cold shoulder to “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” But don’t let that keep you from watching this fascinating and heartfelt documentary abut children’s television icon Fred Rogers. We clearly could use more of his kindness and compassion right now. (8 p.m., HBO).

the rest of our lives.” _ Lemony Snicket All you need is the courage to say yes to life. Here’s a little secret: No one ever feels ready, ever. They just do the damn thing anyway.

8. “Stop acting so small.

You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” _ Rumi You were born with greatness within you. Stop apologizing. Stop acting small. You, like every other being, are part of this beautiful universe. You are meant to be here. Enjoy your time hurtling around this rock that circles the sun in this infinite universe. Just remembering what we’re a part of can astound and awaken us.

Just look at the stars for 20 seconds at night.

9. “Close all your escape routes, burn all your plan Bs, and get busy doing that dream that only you were built to do.” _ Robin Sharma

The secret to a lot of success is focusing on what only you can do. What is your unique thing? I found out all of my true strengths chasing down my passion with my side hustle.

10. “Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.” _ J.K. Rowling Action wins. Self-belief rules. Where can you apply more nerve? Try it.

I dare you. Ask someone one. Go for gold with that pay increase. Start that passion project and watch your business take off.

Once you just do it, the results are likely to startle you.

11. “I don’t like to gamble, but if there’s anything I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself.” _ Beyonce You are your very best asset. It always has been and always will be you.

Well said, Queen Bey.

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LinkedIn on Lincoln Quads Erin Bradshaw Columnist

As many of you know, at the end of this past fall semester, the north side of the Lincoln Quads was shut down. This caused over two hundred students to be asked to move out of their current living situations. According to the residential contracts, the university has the authority to move students for whatever reason to wherever they want.

However, this does not mean that the approach they took was respectful or done in an appropriate manor regarding students. This means that technically, if you signed, you gave the university the authority to move you under situations like these.

Although this is true, many students found issue with the request to move out. Students were asked to move themselves and their belongings across campus during study/finals week.

“Regarding the “eviction”, we were given 72 hours after we got our key to move out completely.

Not only was this during study/ finals week, it was also cold and snowing and not everyone has a vehicle to drive their belongings to the other side of campus.

This meant that a lot of people were helping their roommates move and we had class, work, etc. Many of us had to deal with moving back into a freshmen dorm with a new roommate we had never met, and be expected to do perfectly fine on finals,” a sophomore student said, wanting to remain anonymous.

Many upperclassmen were put in freshmen housing with people they didn’t know halfway through the year. This raises the question of why students were asked to move. No one was given any explicit information as to why this was all happening, or why the issue hadn’t been addressed earlier in the year.

Another anonymous sophomore at ISU said, “The timing wasn’t good. It was at the end of the semester in the middle of papers and projects in addition to exams. It felt like we were in the dark for most of it and it happened pretty quickly”.

Visually, you could tell that the infrastructure was hazardous. There was duct tape on the ceilings that was painted over to hide the cracks. This was noticeable even from move in at the beginning of that fall semester.

Many rooms, including mine, had water leaks often. Besides those obvious issues, the stairwells were falling apart. In some stairwells on both the north and south side, there were cracks in the stairs that had sun coming through. This is quite concerning considering the stairs are made of concrete.

In the document titled

“Terms, Conditions, and Regulations of the University Housing and Food Service Contract” for the 2018-2019 academic year, it states on page 17 that “Student room/apartments may be inspected during each semester and at the time of checkout”.

Dorm rooms are checked usually at every break to assess the condition of the apartment and its furnishings, to see if maintenance and repairs are needed, and to check for fire and safety hazards. Most would consider cracks in the ceiling and stairs to be hazardous. Recently, my roommates fire detector fell off.

The maintenance man informed us that this happens at least once a week. If students don’t realize their alarm has fallen off, this is a fire hazard in the case of an emergency.

If people do in fact check our dorms, shouldn’t someone have reported the dangers of our living situations?

There are allegations that the only reason students were asked to move out is because one student’s father, who is a contractor/inspector, saw where they lived and had an inspection done. It was decided, following the inspection, that the north side of the Lincoln Quads were not adequate or students to be living in. Although the north side has been evacuated, most of the south side residents still remain except for a few stairwells.

My question is, how is the south side any safer than the north?

For the remaining residents, there are still complications. As of late December, breakfast was taken from the Lincoln Quad Dining Hall. There are still over two hundred students who live on the south side, and who pay for credits to be able to eat all three meals. For a short period of time, they allowed students to use their credits at Jazzman’s Bakery which had different drinks, bakery items, and oatmeal. In my opinion, this is not an appropriate breakfast. This semester when we all came back, Jazzman’s was closed. We were also informed that we no longer have constant dining access, and our dining hall closes at 7 P.M. Many students are involved in clubs, sports, or work till late hours that might surpass our given time. If that happens, they have to resort to using their own money, or the limited Commons Cash that they have.

“As a student paying to live in a residential hall with a dining hall attached, it is absurd that I am not able to get all three meals of the day. I am being forced to spend personal money on breakfast food rather than being able to use credits that I am paying

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Rosa Villa and her baby Esteban, 5 months old, walk past Mexican police in riot gear moving the migrants away from the border on Now. 25, 2018 in Tijuana, Mexico. They are from Honduras.

Speak up America.

Tessa Shepard Columnist

During the 1930’s, Germany opened their first Nazi concentration camp. The whole world looked down upon Nazis and supporters of Hitler, but kept quiet while 1.1 million people were killed.

During the 1940’s, America opened their first camp and filled it with innocent Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor, yet this event is buried in history.

Most Americans have no idea internment camps existed to this day. Over 1,000 deaths occurred in the Japanese camps due to shootings and inadequate health care according to History Stack Exchange.

Flash-forward to the 2018, President Donald Trump made headlines by forcibly removing children from their immigrant parents who were in the U.S. illegally.

Many advocates expressed how appalling these camps are and how it is unethical to remove young children from their parents. Due to these immigrant children camps, two children, 7 and 8 years old, have passed away because proper care is neglected.

Why is this relevant and why am I bringing this up?

Trump forcefully removed hundreds of children from their parents and placed them into these camps, however no media and unauthorized personnel are allowed in the facility.

This raises countless questions such as to what is really going on inside the camps and are these children safe?

This act of separating family is

called the “Zero- Tolerance” immigration policy and it was not made to specifically to separate families that cross the border, but to put the adults on trial for the crime of crossing the border unlawfully.

When an illegal alien comes into this country, the individuals must be put on trial, however children cannot, thus Trump’s policy would separate children from their parents and place all children in these camp. Many families bring children across the border because in case they are caught, they hope that having children will decrease the likelihood of experiencing violence against them, and instead more food and water.

This camp originally intended to only hold 400 beds; currently around there are 2,400 beds and growing. Two children have died and no one is permitted to enter and see the conditions, but there are stories that leave the camps explaining a horror called the “ice box.”

According to The Guardian, all ages of immigrants being locked into these camps experience the same horror.

Once the illegal immigrants have been caught, they are processed and placed into a holding cell that is made up of concrete walls, floors and chain-link fencing. They are issued an outfit that is single layered and a sheet, not a blanket. The bare walls and large open warehouse type facility bring freezing temperatures according to the people who are locked up there.

This was never a consideration of the outside public until two children under the age of 10 passed away: a young eightyear-old boy from sickness and a young girl seven-year-old from

dehydration and exhaustion.

Felipe, the young boy was from Guatemala, passed away Christmas Eve due to the flu.

He was positive for influenza B, taken to the hospital and given medication. He was then sent back to the camps and ultimately was sent back to the hospital where he died without his father who was also detained.

Jakelin is a similar story. She was a seven year old girl also from Guatemala who traveled to the U.S. with her father. They were taken to a camp in New Mexico that had no running water. It’s no wonder that she died of dehydration and exhaustion. Thanks to USA Today we learned that she died without her father next to her as well. She died in hospital in El Paso alone and scared.

America what are we doing?

These kids did not ask for this.

They did not ask to be held in cold empty camps surrounded by guards with guns that speak a language they do not know separated from their families.

It is time to wake up and speak up.

These two stories are just the recent children who have died because of these camps, but other data on past deaths in these camps suggests hundreds more.

We as a country need to speak up and show those in charge of these camps that we do not stand for this unethical procedure of placing those who illegally cross the border on trial. Even illegal immigrants have rights just the same as any other human being.

The time to speak up about our worries and act is now. So do it!

Get on social media and express your horror that our country is placing on others.

Maybe, just maybe, it’s Trump and not his advisers who needs to go ‘back to school’ The Times Editorial Board Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Donald Trump is notorious for throwing Twitter tantrums in which he criticizes his own appointees; remember his juvenile attacks on former Attorney General Jeff Sessions? Trump did it again Wednesday when he accused his top intelligence officials of being naive about Iran and suggested that they go “back to school.”

But this latest taunt was worse than just another display of disloyalty or violation of decorum. It was proof — further proof — that this president is uninterested in information that might challenge his often fallacious preconceptions about the

world. That augurs ominously for the future conduct of American foreign policy, which already has been thrown into confusion by several ill-considered actions by the president, the most recent being his impulsive announcement that he was withdrawing 2,000 troops from Syria.

On Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, CIA Director Gina Haspel and FBI Director Christopher A. Wray — all Trump appointees — were among officials who testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee about their recently released “Worldwide Threat Assessment.” On several subjects, the intelligence officials’ assessments departed from Trump’s talking points.

For example, Coats testified that Iran

“is not currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons development activities we judge necessary to produce a nuclear device” and that it continues to implement the 2015 international agreement from which Trump withdrew the United States in May 2018. (Trump had called the agreement “the worst deal ever negotiated.”)

Coats did fault Iran for engaging in cyber-espionage, violating its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention and building ballistic missiles that “continue to pose a threat to countries across the Middle East.” But that criticism didn’t placate Trump, who railed against the intelligence community on Twitter for being “extremely passive and naive when

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it comes to the dangers of Iran. They are wrong!”

Iran wasn’t the only subject on which the intelligence chiefs were at odds with Trump’s view of the world. The president has touted the success of his nuclear diplomacy with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, with whom he is scheduled to meet for a second time next month. But Coats said the intelligence community continues to believe that “North Korea is unlikely to give up all of its nuclear weapons and production capabilities, even as it seeks to negotiate partial denuclearization steps to obtain key U.S. and international concessions.”

Finally, Coats’ report predicted that

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indianastatesman.com QUADS CONT FROM PAGE 6 for. Students should not have to walk across campus for breakfast when the quads has a dining hall that served it at the beginning of the year.” Anonymous sophomore number three said.

Besides the dining hall, there are other issues within our complex.

We still have over two hundred students who need to be able to do their laundry efficiently.

There are approximately six washers and eight dryers. Normally, this wouldn’t be an issue ex-

TRUMP CONT FROM PAGE 6 “Russia’s social media efforts will continue to focus on aggravating social and racial tensions, undermining trust in authorities, and criticizing perceived anti-Russia politicians,” while seeking new and more targeted ways to influence U.S. policy and elections.

Trump, of course, has struggled to accept the intelligence community’s finding that Russia tried to influence the 2016 presidential election on his behalf. At a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in July, Trump famously said: “My people came to me, Dan Coats came to me and some others and said they think it’s Russia.

I have President Putin. He just said it’s not Russia.

I will say this. I don’t see any reason why it would be.” (Later, in response to criticism, he clarified that he had meant to say: “‘I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be Russia.”)

Although other administration officials, including Vice President Mike Pence, have been harshly critical of Russia, the president has been oddly loath to fault Putin. One plausible explanation is that Trump believes that to criticize Russia, espe-

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cept that usually about two of the machines are out of order.

As a college student, we lead busy lives. We do our laundry whenever we might be able to squeeze in time.

Whenever theres a broken machine or a giant puddle in the middle of the laundry room, this hinders us from getting tasks done as efficiently and quickly as possible.

As a student living in the Quads, I would like answers and help as I know my fellow classmates do as well. cially in connection with election interference, is to undermine the validity of his own victory.

So the real problem isn’t that Trump belittles his own intelligence officials, though such behavior is petty and unpresidential.

The more serious issue is that the president, for reasons rooted in egotism, seems unwilling to listen to information that might require him to confess error or reconsider a previous opinion. At some point that refusal to face reality might translate into dangerous action — or inaction.

Intelligence agencies don’t always get it right.

Their fallibility was tragically made clear when it emerged that the U.S. went to war in Iraq based partly on flawed intelligence about whether Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction (an example Trump himself has cited).

But just as a president shouldn’t uncritically accept the conclusions of the intelligence community, neither should he reject them just because acknowledging the truth might bruise his ego or force him to rethink his preconceptions. Maybe it’s the president and not his advisors who needs to go back to school.

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ISU Men’s Basketball took on Drake in January of 2018. Sycamores plan to defeat Drake this time, on Feb. 2, 2019 in the Hulman Center.

Men’s basketball to compete against Drake Bulldogs Jay Adkins Reporter

This Saturday, the Indiana State University Sycamores men’s basketball team will stay at home to compete against the Drake University Bulldogs.

The Sycamores are currently 11-9 on the season and are coming off of a loss to the Illinois State Redbirds.

Tyreke Key and Jordan Barnes each went over the 20 point mark for the third time this season and

the since Dec. 8 inside Hulman Center versus Truman State. Key had 25 points as he was 6-of-10 from the field and 10-of-11 from the free throw line. He shot 3-of4 from 3-point range.

Barnes added 20 points as he hit 8-of-13 from the field, including a pair of shots from beyond the arc.

Indiana State hit 48.2 percent of their shots, including a mark of 6-of-14 from 3-point land (42.9 percent).

Christian Williams added a career high six assists and Emondre

Rickman and Jordan Barnes led the way with five boards. Rickman started off hot in the second half with a early eight points as he finished with nine points on the night.

Junior guard Jordan Barnes currently leads Indiana State in points per game (16.5), assists per game (3.2), and steals per game (1.3).

Junior guard Christian Williams leads the team in rebounds per game with 4.7.

Junior center Emondre Rickman leads the team in blocks per

game with 1.1 blocks. Sophomore guard Tyreke Key leads the team in minutes per game with 34.5 minutes.

The Drake University Bulldogs are 16-5 on the season so far and are currently on a four game winning streak, with their latest victory coming against the Valparaiso University Crusaders.

The Bulldogs are currently tied for third in the Missouri Valley Conference along Valparaiso and Missouri State University.

Senior forward Nick McGlynn leads the Crusaders in points per

game (16.0), rebounds per game (8.1), and blocks per game (1.3).

Senior guard Nick Morton leads the team in assists per game with 5.9.

Freshman guard D.J. Wilkins leads the team in steals per game and minutes per game with 1.0 and 32.5, respectively.

The Sycamores will compete against the Bulldogs this Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Hulman Center. The game can be watched on television on ESPN 3 and it can be heard on the radio at WIBQFM.

ISU Sycamores fell to SIU Salukis on the road Ace Hunt

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Men and Women’s Track and Field travel to Notre Dame Jordan Koegler Reporter

Indiana State University tack team will travel Notre Dame Friday and Saturday (Feb. 1-2) to compete in the Mayo Invitational.

The invitational marks the 32nd annual Mayo Invitational Notre Dame has hosted at the Loftus Sports Center.

It is one of the premiere meets in collegiate indoor track and field. A portion of Saturday’s events will be broadcast on ACC Network Extra.

Friday schedule of events are as follows; long jump, high jump, triple throw, 5000m run, weight throw, 60m dash-prelins, 200m dash, pole vault, distance medley relay, 60m hurdles- prelims and 600m run.

Saturday morning schedule of events are as follows; 60m hurdles-semifinals, shot put, triple jump, 60m dash-semifinals, high jump, long jump, 3000m run, 800m run, 400m dash and mile run.

Saturday afternoons schedule of events are as follows; 60m hurdles finals, meyo mile, 800m run, 60m dash finals, 400m dash, 4 x 400m relay, 300m run and Ryan Shay 300m.

The last time ISU was in action was on Jan. 26th in Champaign Illinois for the Illini Invitational.

Two ISU sprinters made it to the final in the 60 meter dash and placing third.

Matthew Lewis-Banks had victory in the 60 meter hurdles for the men’s Sycamores. He currently holds the second best time in the Missouri Valley Conference and is .01 away from holding the top time.

ISU men’s team placed third in the topfive for the men’s mile.

Sycamores women’s team had top runners. Brooke Moore continues to lead in the conference and is 36th nationally.

Received a two-three finish in the 600-meter run for ISU women’s team.

Following the Meyo Invitational the track and field team will travel to Marion Indiana for an Indiana Wesleyan Midwest Classic.

Southern Illinois broke open a close game at halftime and despite the Sycamores getting hot late from 3-point range still earned an 88-73 win over visiting Indiana State inside SIU Arena.

ISU fell to 11-10, 3-6 MVC while SIU improved to 11-11, 4-5 MVC. It was the Saluki’s seventh consecutive win in the series with the Sycamores.

Tyreke Key and Jordan Barnes each went over the 20 point mark for the third time this season and the first since a win over Truman State on December 8 inside Hulman Center.

Key owned 25 points as he was 6-of-10 from the field and 10-of-11 from the free throw line. Key was 3-of-4 from 3-point range. Barnes added 20 points as he hit 8-of-13 from the field, including a pair of trifectas.

Indiana State hit 27-of-56 from the field (48.2 percent), including a mark of 6-of-14 from 3-point land (42.9 percent).

But SIU could not miss as they hit 18of-26 from the field (69.2 percent) after halftime and finished the game by hitting 34-of-56 from the field -- a 60.7 percentage.

Christian Williams added a career high six assists and Emondre Rickman and Jordan Barnes led the way with five rebounds.

Rickman added nine points as well with eight of them coming early in the second half.

The Sycamores went to Emondre Rickman inside on its first three possessions and he came away with buckets in two of them as the two teams went back and forth.

Jordan Barnes drilled his 203rd career 3-pointer at the 16:31 mark to stake the Sycamores to a 7-4 lead.

Tyreke Key’s conventional 3-point play at the initial media timeout pushed the ISU cushion out to 12-7.

Southern came back to knot the game at 12 before Key drilled one from distance and ISU gained two more inside buckets from Rickman to take a 19-16 lead with just over 12 minutes to go.

An 8-0 Southern Illinois run turned a three point Sycamore lead into a 28-23 Saluki lead.

The Sycamores returned to the scor-

ing column with an Allante Holston fast break lay-up at the 5:38 mark and then following a steal, Key hit two free throws with 5:11 on the clock to draw the Sycamores within 28-27.

A conventional 3-point play by Key at the 2:18 mark drew the Sycamores within 33-30.

SIU scored five in a row to push their lead out to 38-30 before Key scored on a driving lay-up with 32 seconds left to make it 38-32.

ISU got a late steal from Holston but couldn’t find the bottom of the bucket at the buzzer and SIU led 38-32 at the half. Key led the way with 13 points at the break.

Southern Illinois would stretch their lead out to 49-37 with 16:31 on the clock as the Salukis hit each of their first three attempts from 3-point range after the half.

The final one was a trifecta from Marcus Bartley which forced ISU to burn a timeout.

Kessinger ended the run as the clock ticked towards the 16 minute mark with a lay-up which drew the Sycamores within 49-39.

De’Avion Washington drained a triple after a missed SIU charity toss and then following a steal, Barnes grabbed an offensive put back with 14:10 remaining to make it five in a row and draw ISU within 53-46 of the Salukis.

Following a Southern Illinois timeout, Barnes grabbed a long rebound off a Fletcher miss and the 7-0 run cut the SIU cushion down to 53-48.

But that is as close as the Sycamores would get as Southern Illinois eventually took a 72-59 lead despite a second 3-pointer falling with 7:07 on the clock for Jordan Barnes.

Tyreke Key hit a pair of 3-pointers around the four minute mark to push him up to 19 points in the game and trim the SIU lead down to 81-65.

Armon Fletcher led the way for the Salukis with a career-high 34 points.

Indiana State returns home on Saturday, February 2 as they host Drake in the annual Hall of Fame Game.

ISU will honor DeJuan Alfonzo, the 1968 Mile Relay Team, Steve Newton, Bill Hodges, Bob Elson and Erica Moore throughout the game on the occasion of their induction into the ISU Athletics Hall of Fame.