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Indiana State celebrates Super Bowl Sunday together Cheyenne Fauquher Reporter
Brady versus Goff; the highly anticipated Super Bowl kicked off on Sunday, Feb. 3, in Atlanta, Georgia. Some Indiana State University students partook in the game by going to the Super Bowl event held in the Charles E. Brown African American Cultural Center on campus. The event began at 6 p.m. and was open to all students who wanted to participate in watching the game and socialize. About 30 students came to the event to socialize and enjoy their Sunday night with friends. The Super Bowl has taken place for 53 years. The game is the finale of the football season that begins in the summer of the previous year. The top two teams of the football season reach the Super Bowl and fight for the Super Bowl Champion title as well as a trophy for the team. Additionally, each player receives a ring to show off their accomplishment. This year the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams competed for the championship.
Fans cheered on for their team by cheering them on and jumping up in chaotic noise when their teams made a good play or scored. Patriots fans all joined on one side of the room, while the Rams fans sat on the opposite side. While the game went on fans talked amongst others who were rooting for the same team as them, however during commercial breaks everyone got along well and laughed at the humorous commercials. A lot of students said they came to this event for the social aspect and were for “team commercials”. The Patriots won the 2019 Super Bowl by 10 points. The final score was 13-3. Many Rams fans were disappointed but that did not stop the Patriots fans from roaring in excitement of their teams win. This was Tom Brady’s sixth Super Bowl win. Luke Young, an ISU freshman, was cheering on the Rams. “I was extremely disappointed that the Patriots won the Super Bowl again. I did have a good time socializing with others during the game and Anna Bartley | Indiana Statesman it was nice to know that I was not the only one upset about the outcome of the game,” Students gather in the African American Cultural Center to watch the 2019 Super Bowl on Feb. 3. said Young.
Trump’s health care threats led to a boom in long-term birth control Marie McCullough
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Alyaa Malibari pose for a photo at the 2018 World Hijab Day. Malibari is the Graduate Assistant of the International Student Resource Center.
Stepping into someone else’s world with World Hijab Day Nicole Nunez Reporter
This past Friday, the Multicultural Services and Programs Office celebrated World Hijab Day to honor the significance of all types of head coverings both on campus and around the world. This year, the event consisted of three challenges. The first was to try on a hijab. Students, faculty, and staff were able to step into another person’s world for a few hours. The second challenge was to interview one of the ladies wearing a hajib at Indiana State University. Communicating is one key to understanding. By talking to those who are different, we can expand our worldview and can have more respect for others’ cultures and beliefs. “We live in a big world and accepting, understanding, and learning is part of this world. These experience could help the students and participants learn and respect the differences without judging others,” said Alyaa Malibari, International Student Resource Center Graduate Assistant. The third challenge was to find three head coverings that are similar to the hijabs. Students were encouraged to
find items such as hats, turbans, and hoodies to complete the challenge. “It actually is not just celebrating hijab women or Muslim women, it is to celebrate the women and their right to wear what they believe in,” said Malibari, “and no matter what they wear, they are beautiful because of their brain.” Many people see the hijab, and other head coverings, and view people differently. This day is “a way to tell the people that we might cover our head but we are not covering our brain,” said Malibari. Malibari said her role in the day was to “facilitate the experience to give our community a great look to the diverse community we have at ISU.” Exposure of different cultures to the students, staff, and faculty at ISU is a key component to creating a campus of inclusivity. Her role was also to “give them the chance to experience other people’s lives,” said Malibari, “and widen their eyes to the truth that head covering happens in different shapes and for different reasons.” Events such as World Hijab Day can open opportunities for unique conversations and understanding here at ISU to create a campus that is accepting and inclusive.
Did the election of Donald Trump lead to a stampede of women getting IUDs? Well, maybe not a stampede. But there was a measurable uptick in women getting long-acting contraceptives, namely intrauterine devices and hormonal implants, according to a new analysis published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine. Trump’s vow to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act unnerved women who feared losing an important ACA benefit — access to all forms of birth control with no out-of-pocket costs. Days after the election, social media lit up with exhortations to get an IUD. That highcost option works for five to 12 years, potentially enough to outlast Trump’s presidency. For the new analysis, researchers from Harvard Medical School and Vanderbilt University used data from commercial health plans covering about 3.4 million women ages 17 to 45. They compared IUD and implant insertions in the month before and after Trump’s election on Nov. 8, 2016. Sure enough, the daily rate of insertions rose from about to 13 to 16 per 100,000 women — about a 22 percent increase. To bolster the theory that it was the Trump effect, the researchers checked the same period a year earlier; it had no such surge in women getting long-acting contraception. Extrapolating the findings to the 33 million U.S. women of childbearing age would mean 700 more insertions per day, wrote the researchers, led by physician Lydia E. Pace. The finding is in line with an analysis of Athe-
na Research electronic health records that found IUD prescriptions and procedures increased 19 percent between October and December 2017. Of course, Trump has not managed to get rid of Obamacare (although he hasn’t given up). But his administration has been hostile to family planning, to the dismay of experts in women’s health and health policy. For example, the Department of Health and Human Services issued rules that would vastly expand the number of employers who could claim moral objections in order to opt out of providing no-cost contraception. (A federal judge in Pennsylvania issued an injunction on Jan. 14, the day the rules were to take effect.) “The ACA’s contraceptive coverage mandate is an important strategy to reduce unintended pregnancies,” Pace and her co-authors wrote. “The Trump Administration has weakened this mandate.” An opinion piece in last week’s New England Journal of Medicine by experts from Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey went further, decrying the administration’s “attacks on reproductive rights.” “Eroding the ACA’s contraceptive mandate is just one of several attacks the Trump administration is waging on family planning,” wrote Cynthia H. Chuang and Carol S. Weisman. Another one, they said, is the administration’s new rules for the Title X family planning program. Besides denying money to family planning providers like Planned Parenthood that also offer abortion services, the rules would shift money to faith-based organizations that promote fertility awareness and abstinence as contraception. The final rules are expected to be issued any day now.
Dr. Michelle King, the first black woman to lead LA University, dies at 57 Howard Blume
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Throughout a long career as a local educator, Michelle King exceeded expectations at every step but never had a chance to leave a defining mark at the peak of her career — as Los Angeles schools superintendent — because of illness that would later claim her life. King, the first black woman to lead the L.A. Unified School District has died, the district announced Saturday. She was 57 and had been battling cancer. The school board selected King to lead the nation’s second-largest school system in January 2016. Her last day at work was Sept. 15, 2017, when she began a medical leave, but she’d been ailing before that. King had grown up attending Los Angeles schools and began her professional career as a teacher’s aide, then a teacher, gradually rising through the ranks. Her style was not to make waves. Instead she impressed people with her competence, humanity, dedication and loyalty — over and over again. “I promoted her three times,” said former L.A. schools Superintendent Ramon C. Cortines, who served three stints as district leader. During the last, King was his chief deputy. “She
was my partner. I did not make decisions without consulting her.” And when Cortines retired, the board selected King to replace him.
up credits for failed classes. Her major initiative had been to expand the number of schools with special programs to offset declining enrollment caused by the growth of privately operated
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In an August 2016 file image, L.A. Unified Schools Superintendent Michelle King gives a thumbs-up before addressing LAUSD staff at James A. Garfield High School in Los Angeles.
She brought to the job strong internal support but a certain discomfort in the spotlight, even before her ailment, that contrasted with her predecessors. King’s major accomplishment was pushing the graduation rate to record levels by allowing students to quickly make
charter schools. A year after taking office, the political ground shifted under her when the board majority changed. A new majority elected with support from charter school backers took control, and there was wide speculation
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