August 31, 2015

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University College and the Center for Student Success are preparing for their move to Normal Hall as the renovation nears completion.

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Construction continues Landscaping to start soon on Statesman Towers site Kristi Sanders News Editor

The Statesman Towers at Indiana State University have been demolished and now the finishing processes are starting to take place.

Renascent Inc., a company from Indianapolis, was the bid accepted to complete the demolition work for ISU. The agreed price for the demo was $1,736,000 for a mechanical demolition of the building and filling in the hole left by the basement. The company is now working on finishing the basement and will begin landscaping work soon.

Diann McKee, the vice president of business affairs finance and university treasurer, commented on the progress of the Statesman Towers project.

“The demolition should be finished in

late September or early October,” McKee said. “(The) project is on schedule.”

McKee said there have been no delays on the Statesman Towers demolition and that the project is currently staying on budget.

Bryan Duncan, the capital planning and improvements director, is very involved in the progress of the Statesman Towers demolition site. “(It’s) on schedule (and there have been) no real problems,” Duncan said.

“Safety and closures of Eighth and Ninth Street have gone well.”

When trying to decide the fate of the Statesman Towers, ISU first looked into renovations.

A summary provided by Duncan states that “(The) Statesman Towers (do) not provide an adequate learning facility. The

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Two offices prepare for move into Normal Hall Morgan Gallas Reporter

University College and the Center for Student Success will move into the newly renovated Normal Hall this week.

Normal Hall is a project that the school has been working on for some time now, and now it is about to be put in use.

Normal Hall is one of the oldest buildings on campus. It was built in 1910 and was used as the library until 1972. It is also listed as one of Indiana’s historical places for its history and its role in education.

Since Indiana State does not use the building as a library, it was used for storage instead. That is until it was time to renovate the building so that it may be used for what it was built for: teaching.

The project started last year in May and

was planned to be completed in July of this year.

According to the project summary, some things that they are improving on the building are the windows, the roof and the opalescent art glass dome featuring the names of important philosophers and educators. The renovations to the dome will cost between $500,000 to $1 million.

The total cost of renovating the building is $16 million.

Bryan Duncan, the director of Capital Planning and Improvements, said the building’s renovation has had some setbacks.

“The substantial completion date was the end of July,” Duncan said. “We did have some weather delay, especially the beginning part of the summer; we had

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McCarthy launches fashion line for all shapes and sizes Wendy Donahue

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Melissa McCarthy, center, shows off her new fashion line.

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Before Melissa McCarthy played an unbridled bridesmaid or a spy disguised as a drab desk worker, she aspired to be a reallife fashion designer in New York City.

Today, she sheds her big-screen skin to realize a dream from her childhood in Plainfield, Illinois — launching her firstever clothing line, Melissa McCarthy Seven7. The assortment of trend-conscious basics debuted on HSN.com and is rolling out over the next month at Nordstrom. com, Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, Von Maur and Lane Bryant, among other retailers, as well as melissamccarthy.com.

In creating her line, she draws from her

own experiences fluctuating from a size 6 to 12 and up, and finding her options atrophied the higher she rose.

“I don’t understand why if you’re a certain size, designers think your taste level goes down and you have less money to spend,” she says in her brand brief. “The quality and construction is often so bad.

Finding a great T-shirt or a great cigarette pant in a good fabric is next to impossible.

Plus-size clothes are often really cheap and either look young or incredibly old.”

Melissa McCarthy Seven7 neither limits itself to regular sizes nor plus sizes. It offers both a size 4 to 16 range and a size 14-28 and 1X-4X range.

“Our woman is not defined by age, size

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Obama tackles campus assault issue

The commander in chief and vice president are backing an initiative to redefine campus sexual assault and prosecute offenders appropriately.

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How a little-known education office has forced far-reaching changes to campus sex assault probes David G. Savage Timothy M. Phelps

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For the last four years, a littleknown civil rights office in the U.S. Department of Education has forced far-reaching changes in how the nation’s colleges and universities police, prosecute and punish sexual assaults on campus.

With a strong mandate from President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, the office’s lawyers have redefined campus sexual assault as a federal civil rights issue, changed the standard by which allegations must be judged and publicized the names of a growing number of schools under investigation for allegedly failing to respond properly to complaints of sexual misconduct.

“This is the first administration to call sexual violence a civil rights issue,” said Catherine E. Lhamon, a former ACLU lawyer in Los Angeles who, as assistant secretary of Education, heads the Office for Civil Rights and has brought the style of an aggressive litigator to the oncestaid education post.

“We don’t treat rape and sexual assault as seriously as we should,” she said, citing surveys that found one in five women say they were victims of sexual assault or unwanted sexual contact in college. There is “a need to push the country forward.”

Members of Congress and ac-

tivists who fight unwanted sexual incidents on campus have praised the effort. College administrators grudgingly admit that the ratcheting up of pressure has changed a status quo in which some schools allowed perpetrators to go unpunished while failing to provide safety or support for victims.

But what some faculty, administrators and judges call an unyielding and one-sided approach by the government has provoked a backlash. Two weeks ago, a judge in San Diego rebuked the University of California campus there for trampling the rights of an accused student.

“Some schools see OCR as a bully with enforcement powers,” said Terry W. Hartle, senior vice president at the American Council on Education, the lobby group for higher education.

“Universities are desperately trying to do the right thing, but these cases can be really difficult to resolve fairly. Often, you have two conflicting stories, no evidence, no witnesses, and it’s all combined with substance abuse.”

University officials, many of whom will speak about the subject only on condition of anonymity, complain of heavyhanded pressure from Washington and a growing bureaucracy.

Janet Napolitano, president of the University of California and a former prosecutor and secretary of homeland security, warned in an article in the Yale Law and Policy Review pub-

lished online this month that “a cottage industry is being created” on campuses dedicated to handling tasks that fall outside the expertise of colleges and universities.

“Rather than pushing institutions to become surrogates for the criminal justice system,” she said, policymakers should ask if “more work should be done to improve that system’s handling and prosecution of sexual assault cases.”

Under pressure from the Office for Civil Rights, campuses are rushing to set up a parallel legal system to investigate and rule upon murky encounters that often involve inebriated students. They must decide within 60 days whether it is “more likely than not” that an alleged perpetrator was guilty. And they make those decisions without many of the legal protections associated with a criminal trial.

The new procedures vary from school to school, but according to Harvard Law School professor Janet Halley and other critics, many do not allow the accused to know details of accusations against them, to question accusers, or to have lawyers participate in hearings. Many also allow only limited appeals of rulings by a campus administrator or outside expert.

The punishments can be an expulsion and a permanent notation on a student’s transcript, potentially life-altering penalties.

Critics call those moves dan-

gerous procedural short circuits that have resulted in serious injustice.

“It’s tragic what the federal government has done,” said Elizabeth Bartholet, a civil rights activist and professor at Harvard Law School. “They are creating a backlash against the very cause they are fighting for.”

Bartholet and 27 other members of the Harvard law faculty objected publicly in October to a new university policy on sexual harassment and violence, adopted in the face of an investigation by the Office for Civil Rights.

But Lhamon’s tough approach has won strong support, driven by accounts of mistreatment from assault survivors such as Dana Bolger, who graduated from Amherst College last year and co-founded a group to advocate for victims.

“On my campus alone, students who experienced sexual or dating violence were discouraged from reporting, denied counseling and academic accommodations, and pressured to take time off,” Bolger said last month at a Senate committee hearing. “When I reported abuse to my school, I was told I should drop out, go home and take care of myself, and return when my rapist graduated.”

Lhamon and her colleagues say campuses need to quickly investigate complaints of sexual violence and reach a “prompt and equitable resolution,” regardless of whether a crime has

been reported to police. A student should not have to attend class or live in a college dormitory with a person who assaulted him or her during the oftenlengthy period that a criminal investigation would take, they say.

Law professors at several universities have objected to the department’s insistence that campus officials judge sexual-assault complaints based on the “preponderance of the evidence,” a legal standard that’s much easier to meet than the “beyond a reasonable doubt” employed in criminal cases.

Critics say that in many cases, particularly those in which both parties were drunk and there were no other witnesses, schools are being pressured to reach a conclusion where it is impossible to know the truth with any certainty.

“When the case is ambiguous, when the memories are clouded by alcohol consumption or time, we shouldn’t be punishing people,” said Halley, a self-described feminist once responsible for investigating such accusations at Stanford University.

“I’m afraid that’s what we are doing, we are over-correcting,” Halley said. “The procedures that are being adopted are taking us back to pre-Magna Carta, pre-due-process procedures.”

The Education Department’s authority to push for big changes in the way colleges and uni-

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‘Daughter’ signs, Alabama sorority video spotlight campus rape issue Lisa Gutierrez

The Kansas City Star (TNS)

Back to school got ugly very quickly last week at Old Dominion University in Virginia, where sexually suggestive signs about “freshman daughters” were displayed outside a private house off campus as students moved in.

One of three large, handpainted banners on the house, said to be occupied by Sigma Nu fraternity members, said: “Rowdy and Fun. Hope your baby girl is ready for a good time.”

Another banner, with an arrow pointing to the front door, said “Freshman daughter drop off.”

The third: “Go ahead and drop off mom too.”

And just like that, the issue of campus sexual assaults made one of its first headlines of the new school year.

Another headline simply said this: “It Happens Here.” It topped a photo series published last week by The Fourth Edition, the blog of Georgetown University’s student-run newspaper.

The photos featured Georgetown students and alumni who

had survived sexual assault and date rape.

In one photo a young woman hides her face with a poster where she wrote what a friend asked after she revealed that she’d been assaulted: “Well, what were you wearing?”

A couple of weeks earlier, Alabama sorority Alpha Phi drew criticism for a recruitment video showing a lack of diversity and excessive objectification of its members.

The sorority has since deleted the video from YouTube, changed its Twitter and Facebook accounts to private and stopped responding to requests for comment from the media.

A Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll released in June estimated that 20 percent of young women who went to college over the last four years were sexually assaulted.

In a crude way the banners at Old Dominion placed a target on the very group of students believed to be most at risk: freshman women.

These next few months for them are particularly risky. Sexual assaults on campuses are apt to happen in the first few weeks of their first semester in college.

More than half of all campus sexual assaults take place between August and November, according to the 2007 Campus Sexual Assault Study.

College health and counseling centers refer to those months as “the red zone,” which is why it’s usually the time of year college officials hold sexual assault awareness seminars for new students.

Some of the newest research into stopping sexual violence among college students suggests that teaching women selfdefense can significantly lower their risk of being assaulted.

In a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, 893 first-year female students from three Canadian universities completed 12 hours of lessons on assessing risk, learning self-defense and defining personal sexual boundaries.

The students were surveyed a year after they completed the intervention.

University of Windsor professor Charlene Senn and her colleagues found a 46 percent reduction in sexual assault and a 63 percent drop in attempted rape among those women a year after they completed the course.

In an article this week in The Atlantic, “A Recipe for Sexual Assault,” sociologist Michael Kimmel deconstructs the perfect-storm ingredients of campus rape.

Kimmel, a professor at Stony Brook University in New York and author of “Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men,” writes that the guy who rapes a woman on campus is not a made-for-TV rapist.

“This is probably not the stereotypical rapist who jumps out of bushes,” Kimmel writes. “He’s the guy who eyes you seductively when you walk into a party, dances with you flirtatiously, and seems so solicitously chivalrous in making sure your drink is always refilled.”

Sexual assault “likely happens the most on residential college campuses where there are lots of people of the same age going to alcohol-soaked parties in all-male residences with no official administrative oversight — in places there is a high-level of gender inequality in social life, a pervasive attitude of male sexual entitlement — in places where men bond over sexual conquests and believe that true brotherhood means silence,”

Kimmel concludes.

When photos of the signs near the Old Dominion campus began circulating on social media Friday, university officials quickly and publicly denounced them.

“The moment University staff became aware of these banners, they worked to have them removed,” the school said in a statement. “At ODU, we foster a community of respect and dignity and these messages sickened us.

“Ours is a community that works actively to promote bystander intervention and takes a stand denouncing violence against women.”

TV reporters in Norfolk, Virginia, reported over the weekend that members of the Sigma Nu fraternity lived in the house.

On Monday, the fraternity suspended its chapter at the school pending its own investigation.

School officials used the incident to spotlight student participation in the national “It’s on Us” campaign against sexual violence on campus. More than 1,500 students signed a pledge online vowing to watch out for

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versities handle sexual assaults stems from Title IX of the federal education law, an act best known for spurring a revolution in women’s sports. The law says that colleges and universities that receive federal money _ as nearly all of them do cannot discriminate “on the basis of sex.”

In 2011, the civil rights office sent a “Dear Colleague” letter to college officials telling them that “acts of sexual violence” are sex discrimination “prohibited by Title IX.” The number of colleges and universities under investigation for their handling of sexual assault complaints has grown steadily, reaching 129 as of this month, double the number

from last year.

They include many of California’s most prominent universities, including UCLA, USC, UC Berkeley, UC Davis and Stanford. Chapman University in Orange County was recently added to the list.

Also on the list are Harvard, Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Chicago and many top state universities.

Education Department officials can threaten these universities with the loss of billions of dollars in federal funds, a powerful, although rarely used, weapon.

“All the universities are being stampeded to go along. They’re

afraid. There is a lot of money on the line, and they fear being investigated,” said University of Pennsylvania law professor Stephanos Bibas. He was one of 16 Penn law professors who signed a letter criticizing the civil rights office for having exerted “improper pressure upon universities to adopt procedures that do not afford fundamental fairness.”

Lhamon, however, told the Senate panel that “voluntary compliance” is working.

“Our enforcement has consistently resulted in institutions agreeing to take the steps necessary to come into compliance,” she said, “and ensure that students can learn in safe, nondiscriminatory environments.” ©2015 Tribune Co.

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one another.

Schools have been on the hook about sexual assaults that happen on their watch since 2011, when the U.S. Department of Education threatened investigations and penalties for schools that didn’t protect students from sexual harassment and violence.

They’re required to do so under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

The White House got involved last year by launching the Not Alone campaign, part of a task force working on helping federally funded schools — grade school to universities — do a better job of protecting students from sexual assault.

Last Friday in Illinois, Gov. Bruce Rauner signed legislation designed to prevent sexual assaults by requiring the state’s colleges and universities, among other things, to offer more awareness training for students and employees and give victims access to a confidential adviser to help them get medical and legal help.

Legislation is also pending in Massachusetts that would clarify the roles of college officials, police and rape crisis counselors involved in individual cases, its backers say.

U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri has been vocal for years on the issue of campus sex-

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Restoring Normal Hall’s great dome was one of the renovations made to the building. The dome features painted detail in the center (pictured) surrounded by stained glass panels features philosophers, educators.

NORMAL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 programs for students and in- Vice President of Academic Afquite a bit of rain.”

Instead of moving in and trying to complete the building at the same time, they have decided to wait until the building is finished before they move stuff in.

The University College and the Center for Student Success are responsible for providing

coming freshmen, such as the university 101 course, which incoming freshmen are required to take, 21st Century Scholars and the student success program.

They will also have classes that are supposed to help students in need like tutoring, testing and much more.

Joshua Powers, the Associate

fairs, said he’s excited about the University College and the Center for Student Success moving into Normal Hall.

“The building has been a real gift,” Powers said. “It is a wonderful space for an institution and a wonderful way to reinforce the importance of freshmen.”

building is very inefficient both in its layout and energy economy. The location was constructed as a 14-story dormitory, making classrooms stacked over several floors as well as being too long and narrow. The building utility systems are nearly 40 years old with window air conditioning units, non-ADA restrooms and low ceiling heights which make renovation nearly impossible.”

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ual assaults. She told The Kansas City Star in July that while making Title IX compliance visits to campuses around the country last year, she frequently heard that many students get all the way to college without understanding the meaning of “consent” and what makes healthy relationships.

She and Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia are pushing for teach safe relationships legislation requiring sex education classes to include a focus on dating violence, stalking and assault.

They want safe relationship education included in sex education classes in all public middle school and high schools.

That and other efforts emphasize that preventing sexual assault isn’t just a women’s issue.

The White House task force report was careful to not make men in general the “bad guy.”

“One thing we know for sure: We need to engage men as allies in this cause. Most men are not perpetrators — and when we empower men to step in when someone’s in trouble, they become an important part of the solution,” read the April 2014 report.

“If she doesn’t consent or can’t consent it’s a crime. And if you see it happening, help her, don’t blame her, speak up.” ©2015 The Kansas City Star. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency.

ers will become a green area, featuring landscaping and sidewalks.

“It will be lawn space, with sidewalks connecting the parking lots north and south and Simmons Rec facility to the east,” Duncan said.

Landscaping should start in October depending on the weather, Duncan said.

Completion of the landscaping where the Statesman Towers once stood should be finished around Nov. 1.

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Trio snubbed despite success of their widely popular single ‘Supersonic’ Randall Roberts Los Angeles Times (TNS)

In the months before N.W.A’s album “Straight Outta Compton” was released in the summer of 1988, a team of teenage female rappers from the Inland Empire called J.J. Fad helped upend West Coast hip-hop by putting the fledgling enterprise Ruthless Records on the map.

The success of J.J. Fad’s infectious single, “Supersonic,” and its Dr. Dre co-produced album that followed, played a role in establishing Ruthless as a legitimate enterprise, forging a path for the breakout success of N.W.A. Not that you would know any of this fascinating backstory from the recent blockbuster N.W.A biopic “Straight Outta Compton.” J.J. Fad’s existence, let alone import, isn’t acknowledged. As is often the case in such endeavors, whole swaths of the narrative are missing.

“I just think that Ruthless owes them a great debt of gratitude,” said former N.W.A manager Jerry Heller, who’s portrayed as a divisive business figure by Paul Giamatti in the film.

Though mostly a one-hit wonder, J.J. Fad was nonetheless a trailblazer of non-gangsta, pop-oriented West Coast rap. Along with East Coast peers Roxanne Shante and Salt-N-Pepa, the group pushed against the glass ceiling of the male-dominated genre.

J.J. Fad toured, collaborated and socialized with N.W.A during the period recounted in the movie, commuting the 60-plus miles from Rialto to Compton to hang with members Arabian Prince, Dr. Dre and Eazy-E. Decades later, J.J. Fad’s Dania “Baby D” Birks recalled those years spent with N.W.A with bittersweet affection. “They were our family. They were like brothers,” she said. “We go to sleep with them, wake up with them. ‘Let’s go to the studio — work with them.’ It was everything. It just seemed like, you don’t forget about people that easily. I mean, I didn’t.”

Birks waited a few weeks before seeing “Straight Outta Compton.” She’s been busy. J.J. Fad co-founder Juana “MC JB” Sperling, however, saw the movie opening weekend and thought it was amazing, with a caveat.

“I want to see it again and again. It’s just that it would have taken literally two seconds to say our name,” she said.

Better yet: Call J.J. Fad’s story “Straight Outta Rialto” and you’ve got a sequel.

Until N.W.A blew up nationally, “Supersonic” was Ruthless’ biggest hit to date. It helped set the foundation, literally. Cashing “Supersonic” checks dictated that Eric “Eazy-E” Wright open his first bank account.

Recalled Heller during a recent conversation: “They generated a lot of money for our company. People never thought about some of the other stuff we had there, like J.J. Fad and Michel’le, but that was a big part of the Ruthless story.

“Eazy and I loved those girls,” he said.

It didn’t hurt that “Supersonic” was successful. The song was one of five 1989 Grammy nominees in the first ever hiphop category, rap performance. It lost to DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince’s “Parents Just Don’t Understand.”

The “Supersonic” single first hit regionally in 1987 when it was issued by L.A. label Dream Team. Recorded after the group pressured producer and friend Arabian Prince to let them have a go at rapping during off hours in the studio, the track blew up when early Los Angeles rap station KDAY started spinning it.

Ruthless quickly bought the rights and teamed with indie imprint Macola to

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J.J. Fad’s single “Supersonic“ was widely popular and played a role in the establishment of Ruthless Records as an actual enterprise.

keep the song in play on the streets. Birks recalls being skeptical of Ruthless’ leader.

“When we met Eazy, we were like, ‘Are we sure we want to do this? Go from one independent to another? Does this guy know what he’s doing?’ But he kind of mastered it. We agreed to it, and it took off from there.”

Ruthless soon brokered a J.J. Fad deal through Atlantic Records subsidiary Atco. Dr. Dre remixed the hit song, and it sold additional hundreds of thousands of copies.

Meanwhile, after Atco and every other major label passed on it, Ruthless inked a deal to release “Straight Outta Compton” in partnership with another label, Priority.

In the wake of these dual successes, the three-piece J.J. Fad (also featuring Michelle “Sassy C” Franklin) joined a series of seminal group tours. In addition to multi-city concerts on bills with both N.W.A and Eazy-E, J.J. Fad was part of Run DMC’s “Run’s House” tour and gigged with DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, Public Enemy, Too Short and others.

Despite often being the only girls in a room full of self-professed gangstas eager to boast onstage about guns, cops and women, J.J. Fad never felt threatened on the road with N.W.A. And unlike singer Michel’le and journalist Dee Barnes, both of whom accused Dr. Dre of physically assaulting them, J.J. Fad had a different experience.

“They treated us like little sisters,” said “Baby D” Birks. “I actually was a baby at the time — I was only 15. I was everyone’s little sister, and everyone looked out for me. They looked out for the other girls too, but I was the baby.” She remembered those days as “the best experience of our life, because we had opportunities to go other places.” (Dr. Dre declined an interview request.)

In doing so, J.J. Fad helped deliver the music into new ears. Eager to draw fans

of rap and popular ‘80s freestyle and electro music, the group divided the 10 songs on “Supersonic” into two parts. Side one, which opened with the title track, burned with poppy, upbeat R&B songs.

The second side was all rap. In years to come, artists like Lauryn Hill, Missy Elliott, Beyonce and Rihanna would gradually meld those parallel vibes into a new sound. “Supersonic” would also be namechecked on “Rap God” by Eminem and its flow mimicked by Killer Mike on “Go!” Most successfully, pop singer Fergie’s hit “Fergalicious” was a virtual remake.

Sperling, who is now a nurse and mother of five in Fresno, feels that J.J. Fad’s more pop-friendly sound helped “soften the blow,” allowing labels to consider Ruthless for partnerships. “‘They have J.J. Fad, who’s already gone gold, on their way to going platinum.’ It made it a lot easier for N.W.A to break through. I think that’s super important.”

Heller is effusive when asked about J.J. Fad and label mate Michel’le. He remains on good terms with J.J. Fad’s members and was also disappointed by their exclusion from the film.

Heller, however, didn’t have much to offer when asked about his reaction to “Straight Outta Compton,” other than a post-screening update on an earlier statement.

“Well, my only comment so far is that I think it’s inappropriate for me to comment on a movie that I haven’t seen,” he said. “I did see it on Saturday, and I’m still not willing to comment right now on that movie because I think sooner or later it may be part of an ongoing litigation.”

J.J. Fad’s co-founders have had decades to process those formative experiences and long ago moved on. The group put out a follow-up to the “Supersonic” album called “Not Just a Fad,” but with Dr. Dre rising — as an artist, in-demand producer working with Snoop Dogg and budding empire builder — production for J.J. Fad’s tracks fell to DJ Yella. None

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charted.

Recalled Birks of their interactions with Eazy-E and Dr. Dre near the end of J.J. Fad’s first run: “I’m not gonna say they forgot about us, but they kind of put us on the back burner. They started working on more artists and pushed us over to the side.”

The women watched from the sidelines while raising families as Dr. Dre hit with “The Chronic.” Since 2009, the group has toured with Arabian Prince and third member Sassy C as part of throwback tours, most recently as part of the Freestyle Explosion Tour, with acts including Taylor Dayne, Debbie Deb and Lisa Lisa.

As evidenced by the exclusion, members of N.W.A seem less interested in J.J. Fad’s past. Sperling is circumspect about the film’s omissions.

“I think there was a certain image that they wanted to put out there, and I don’t think they wanted us to soften that,” she said. “That’s just my perception, and I don’t know if it’s true or not. The way the story was told was very hard-core, so I’m thinking, there were a couple soft sides, but our presence in it might have been a little too soft.”

Still, an invitation to the premiere might have been nice.

“We don’t even have contact with no one anymore, you know,” said Birks. “I guess because they’re still in the light, we think about them. But I just honestly think that even if they weren’t in the light, we’d think about them because we’ve always thought about them. Because they were like family.

“I wish it would have gone differently,” she added, “but there’s nothing that I could do about it. I don’t regret anything they’ve done for us or that we did for them. I just would like for them to take into consideration, you know, look at us and say, ‘Thanks, girls, after all these years.’” ©2015 Los Angeles Times, Distributed by Tribune Content Agency.

to bring in thoughtful tailoring like bust darts, pleated backs and blending wovens with knits to provide a great fit and shape for all body types,” she says. “I love clever design details like ruched sleeves and drawstring waistbands that allow for customization, comfort and personal styling.”

Her denim features internal panels for comfortable tummy control, a four-part waistband to prevent gaps, forward seams to visually elongate the leg and flat-seam construction so side seams lie flush against the thigh.

McCarthy collaborated with Sunrise Brands, the licensing company that produces Seven7, to produce the Melissa McCarthy Seven7 Collection. Prices range from $54 to $169.

McCarthy, who has been wearing some of the clothes during “Ghostbusters” filming, wants the pieces to become staples that are wearable season-to-season.

“I don’t want to dress like a waiter, a hooker or the mother of the bride,” she said. “So now, “I’m making my own closet.”

or occupation. She has personality and isn’t afraid to show it,” she says in her brand brief. “I’ve been every size on the planet, and I know for a fact that I didn’t lose my sense of style just because I went above a size 12.”

She cites one of fashion’s cruelest ironies as the impetus for the line: “If 67 percent of the population is estimated to be plus size, why is it so hard to find great clothes?”

McCarthy originally moved to New York to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology. At the time, her close friend and now a famous shoe designer Brian Atwood encouraged her to do stand-up comedy, leading to a change in plans.

Working with costume designers opened access to custom-made clothing. But she wanted to share the joy of wearing flattering, fun clothing with other women.

Attending to proportions is one of her priorities.

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Above: Tommy Lynch, Bart Stucker, Al Perone and Michael Fenneman pose for a photo at Saturday’s Downtown Block Party near ISU’s campus. Below: Chalk art decorated the sidewalks of downtown Terre Haute. Other festivities included games, food and music, among other things.

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Students and community members alike enjoyed food (Above Left) and a number of concerts from live bands (Below) at Saturday’s Downtown Block Party. Above: Aiyana Koon, senior, and Margy Frazier, grad student, pose for a picture in front of a booth at Saturday’s event.

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Accessorize your intelligence with smart clothing choices Picture the clothes in your closet.

Most items will fall on one side of the spectrum or the other: those that strike fear into your father’s heart and those that are approColumnist priate for work and school.

In every environment there are unspoken and sometimes clearly documented “codes” of what should and should not be worn. I’m sure memories of dollar-bill length, above-the-knee shorts throughout grade school are racing through your mind.

It goes without question that you would not wear your finest pair of booty shorts to a job interview, just the same as you would not wear a pantsuit for a night out with your friends.

If you’ve ever been getting dressed and thought to yourself “I’m not sure if this is appropriate,” then it probably isn’t. Furthermore if you have ever described yourself as a hot mess, then maybe re-think what you’re wearing and why it makes you feel that way.

I am not a psychiatrist and by no means am I a fashion expert as the majority of my wardrobe is workout clothes thanks to Old Navy’s continuous sales, but I do believe that the way we present ourselves in situations, especially those in professional settings speaks to more than our style preferences.

As all women can attest, we are judged based on the clothing we wear. Whether we wear too little or too much, it suggests our mindset and agenda. While it’s unfair and judgmental, it’s the world we live in.

Shocking, I know, as I’m sure most of us have never commented on someone else’s clothing as we go to Walmart solely for entertainment after dark.

As job interviews and internship opportunities are nearing, there are many things we should be cautious of. When the resume is finalized and the prep questions are reviewed, plan what you are going to wear.

Therefore you can avoid the early mornings when your closet has vomited onto your bed, desk and chair. Push the dress that is borderline a shirt to the back of your closet and put on something that accessorizes your intelligence and determination.

Here are a few simple tips that are a compilation from my “What Not to Wear” binge-sessions when it comes to profes-

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sional attire and some simple, easy-to-follow advice.

Get cozy with the color black.

A little black dress is the best weapon to have in your arsenal.

Don’t fall under the assumption that black is boring and depressing. It’s simply versatile. Black goes with everything and makes you look fiercely stylish even if you’ve never once had an interest in fashion.

Most stores carry work-appropriate black dresses, skirts and pants. Pair those with one solid color or a bright accessory and even the most opinionated of fashion gurus will commend you.

Accessorize with caution.

It goes without question that statement necklaces are the new “it” thing. While they scream personality and a fun night out, most vibrant pieces aren’t appropriate for interviews. Be careful to pick simple pieces that aren’t overwhelming to the eye.

Express your personality with a classy watch or set of simple bracelets, but leave the chokers and tiara at home for this one.

Reference those once-hated dress codes. We all thought our teachers were crazy and that our schools were screwed-up systems of imprisonment meant to compromise what we thought was style.

Looking back now, everything they encouraged us to wear applies to professional attire. Pant length, cleavage and wild hair colors all necessitate attention before you walk through the doors of your potential employer. The fact of the matter is you don’t want your clothing and accessories to overshadow you, but instead to accessorize your wit and smarts.

Know your audience. With all that said, what you wear to work is dependent on what you do.

For example, if you are in a corporate setting you should aspire to be clean-cut and professionally dressed.

On the other hand, if you work in a more laid-back setting, then jeans may be appropriate. Thankfully, most companies express what is and isn’t acceptable upon your hiring.

Some of you look at fashion like I look at geography — with the utmost confusion. Clothing is not meant to suppress your personality, but to encourage you to express it.

However, like everything else that should be done in good taste, your outfits should follow suit.

Dress with class and in clothing that makes you feel great about yourself because when you do, the confidence you exude will carry over into every aspect of your life.

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Immigration issues take center stage in 2016 presidential race This election season, immigration has become a hot-button topic. Thanks to the mainstream media, the public eye has been turned toward the Columnist Fou r t e e nt h Amendment and birthright citizenship (being considered a citizen because one was born in the United States). Unfortunately, many candidates are handling it in the worst way possible.

Donald Trump, leading the Republican field and largely responsible for such focus on this issue, has recently come out against birthright citizenship. On Aug. 18, during Trump’s appearance on The O’Reilly Factor, O’Reilly challenged his views on the Fourteenth Amendment, saying that the text of the Fourteenth Amendment explicitly provided birthright citizenship.

Trump said, “I don’t think they have American citizenship, and if you speak to some very, very good lawyers, some would disagree.”

This man said that birthright citizenship isn’t a constitutional right, when the Fourteenth Amendment says specifically that “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to

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the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside” right in the first article of the amendment.

Instead, Trump proposes the mass deportation of 11 million people. This proves impractical when actually looking at the numbers. The American Action Forum, a right-leaning non-profit organization, found that deporting all 11 million illegal immigrants and upholding this policy over time would cost anywhere from $400 billion to $600 billion. In addition, this mass deportation would reduce real GDP by $1.6 trillion. These findings by a rightwing organization show how ridiculous it would be for a “fiscally-responsible Republican” to deport every single illegal immigrant.

Other GOP candidates have responded to the issue of immigration and birthright citizenship less radically.

Rand Paul has been opposed to birthright citizenship for years, even proposing a bill in 2011 that would have ended it, but on Aug. 20 he said that he wasn’t sure it was necessary to change the policy. He said “Birthright citizenship — it is what it is. That’s the way the law has been interpreted. But is it a good idea to do that with an open border? Probably not.” He also said that with a secure border, there wasn’t a reason to “change citizenship.”

While we do not have an open border, and while we do actu-

ally need immigration reform regardless, at least Paul concedes that there is no reason to change what the Constitution says.

So that’s one candidate that appears to have at least a reasonable opinion about birthright citizenship, but what about the others?

On Aug. 18, Ben Carson said on the topic of birthright citizenship, “…it doesn’t make any sense to me that people could come in here, have a baby and that baby becomes an American citizen.” He then pointed out that most European countries do not recognize birthright citizenship. This is true, but all of the countries in the European Union have open borders; as a citizen of France, one could take a trip to Italy without heavy travel restrictions. Open borders in the EU allow for citizens to work in any country in the Union without a work permit.

If a German person wanted to work in Spain, they could do so without a permit. If Ben Carson is proposing that we become more like Europe on immigration, he should reevaluate his own position on immigration. He advocates for a closed border, yet claims that the United States’ policy needs to be like Europe’s, which includes an open border.

Rick Santorum doesn’t support giving citizenship to people born here, but also doesn’t believe that a Constitutional

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Stress less: Learn how to deal with anxiety disorders A lot of students, especially freshmen, are learning what stresses come with the college life.

Now we are responsible for our own food, schedule, finances and other Columnist very important things. With so many responsibilities piled up, we have to rise to the occasion and keep everything in a manageable order.

Sadly, not everyone is as capable of dealing with all of these stressors as some others are.

There are some out there who end up having panic attacks when too many stressors are in-

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troduced. Often we are unsure how to deal with panic attacks or even what a panic attack is, exactly.

Panic attacks are common with anxiety disorders. Anxiety is a natural instinct that increases the body’s heartbeat and breathing rates slightly so that we are more aware and alert to our surroundings to allow us to respond quicker.

However, anxiety disorders increase the heart and breathing rates too much, sometimes to the point of hyperventilation. Panic attacks caused by an anxiety disorder often occur suddenly, occasionally happening out of nowhere and with no apparent reason.

During a panic attack the victim’s body might begin sweating, trembling and shaking.

They might experience insomnia, nausea and pain or pressure in the chest.

Some argue that anxiety is not a true illness. Illness is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “a condition of being unhealthy in your body or mind.” Therefore anxiety is a disease, since these symptoms are unhealthy.

Anxiety disorders, like many other mental illnesses, are sometimes dismissed and considered over exaggerations of the situation. But often the victim of a panic attack physically cannot calm down. The increased heart and breathing rates can cloud your mind and cause panic, even if there is no reason to be concerned.

The victim does not feel like they are in control during a pan-

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ic attack and can even venture to suicidal thoughts.

During a panic attack the most important thing to do is to calm down. Relaxing is perhaps one of the hardest things to do for someone during a panic attack.

There are a lot of symptoms that are suddenly a lot worse and there isn’t a sense of control.

It is crucial to remember that what is being felt — fast heartbeat, increased breathing and shaking — is just a heightened response to stress. These symptoms are all able to be dealt with and are rarely dangerous.

Take deep breaths and don’t consider any “what if ” scenario. This will help redirect your thoughts to something you can immediately control and temporarily removes the stressor

from your mind.

Do not run from these feelings and do not fight them.

What is felt during a panic attack is often a valid feeling that became escalated. Remember that feelings are not wrong.

Fighting your feelings is fighting a battle that cannot be won.

Instead go with your feelings and try to understand them. The worst of the fear is over and each moment will become less scary after you begin to accept that is how you feel.

These tips are great for people who are the victim of a panic attack, but what about if someone else has a panic attack? How can someone help the victim?

First and foremost do not tell someone who is having a panic

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CITIZEN CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 amendment is necessary to end the practice. On Aug. 21, Santorum told Wolf Blitzer that he would “urge Congress to change” what the government views as “naturalized.”

Bobby Jindal simply tweeted “We need to end birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants” on Aug. 17. What makes his case particularly interesting is that he was born before either of his parents were United States Citizens. This means that he himself is an American citizen by birthright.

Scott Walker has flipped on the issue several times. On Aug. 17 at the Iowa State Fair, when asked if he supported ending birthright citizenship, he said, “Yeah, absolutely, going forward.” Then, in an interview with John Harwood from CNBC on Aug. 21 he said, “I’m not taking a position on it one way or the other.”

Then, on Aug. 23, he told George Stephanopoulos, “Well, I said the law is there. And we need to enforce the laws, including those that are in the Constitution.”

The man went from fully opposing birthright citizenship to supporting it in under a week.

Ted Cruz also supports changing the Fourteenth Amendment. Apparently, even though he loves the Constitution, he doesn’t love it enough to not change it. He said in an

interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Aug. 23, that birthright citizenship “doesn’t make sense.” He claimed that giving citizenship to people born in the United States incentivizes illegal immigration.

Other GOP candidates have mostly been opposed to changing birthright citizenship.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is, predictably, in opposition to the GOP’s stance. In response to candidates supporting changing the Fourteenth Amendment, she said, “It’s hard to imagine being more out-of-touch or outof-date.”

However, she does still support deporting illegal immigrants. Bernie Sanders, after opposing an immigration reform bill sponsored by Republicans in 2007, supports a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, and I would have to agree with him.

As already explained earlier, illegal immigrants provide $1.6 trillion in real GDP. What if we provided a way for them to become citizens, and collected tax money from them?

They’re already here anyway, and not only that, but a very large portion of them come from countries where the economy is awful, or drug cartels run rampant. Many illegal immigrants come here to make a better life for themselves and their families.

Obviously, the path to citizenship for illegal immigrants shouldn’t become the standard,

but to combat that, comprehensive immigration reform is also needed.

It costs $680 to apply to be a citizen, and a person has to have held a green card for five years prior to the application. The application itself can take six months to a year, and then processing that application can also take six months to a year.

Then after that, an interview and citizenship test is scheduled, which has a wait list. The results then take, on average, another six months to review.

So ideally, at the very least, we’re talking nearly $700 and seven years for an immigrant to become a U.S. citizen. But the government has a limit to the number of immigrants granted green cards every year, which has resulted in a wait list 4.4 million people long as of 2012.

For example, the current wait time for green cards for people from the Philippines who have United States citizen siblings is 24 years.

In actuality, when compounded with the wait time on green cards, this seven-year period between holding a green card and becoming a citizen suddenly becomes a thirty-one year wait just to be able to be a citizen, and that’s if nothing goes wrong with the applications.

This needs to change. Who knows how many illegal immigrants would actually be legal immigrants if our system wasn’t so convoluted?

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Indiana State Univesity opens season at Eagle Challenge Indiana State Volleyball opened up the 2015 season with a split at the Eagle Challenge on Friday afternoon at Wetherby Gym. The Sycamores fell in the opener against Marshall, 3-1 (25-19, 29-31, 1925, 20-25), before rebounding by defeating Canisius, 3-1, (25-19, 24-26, 25-18, 25-18), in game two.

In match one, Indiana State came out of the gate hot, posting a .355 hitting percentage en route to the 25-19 victory set one victory. But offense came to a halt as it dropped the next three sets to fall in the season opener.

Junior right side Kynedi Nalls led with 12 kills while senior middle blocker Cassandra Willis (.333) and junior opposite hitter Bree Spangler each had 10 kills.

Junior defensive specialist Shannon Murphy picked up a team-high 13 digs

while Willis contributed five block assists.

ISU turned it around quickly in match two of the day against Canisius. Combining for a .244 hitting percentage, the Sycamores got solid efforts from Willis (nine kills, three block assists), Nalls (eight kills), redshirt senior middle hitter Carly Wishlow (seven kills, six block assists) and Spangler (14 digs).

Indiana State was aggressive on defense, recording eight team blocks in the victory and had four players with double-digit digs.

Indiana State put a thrilling end to its opening weekend as it edged out the

host Morehead State Eagles 3-2 (25-19, 25-27, 25-23, 19-25, 15-12) in the finale of the Eagle Challenge on Sunday afternoon in Wetherby Gym. ISU improves to 2-1 overall on the 2015 season.

Redshirt Carly Wishlow had a career day as part of a trio of Sycamores who tallied 16 kills.

Junior opposite hitter Bree Spangler and junior middle blocker Melody Burdette also knocked down 16 kills in the victory.

Junior defensive specialist Shannon Murphy chipped in a career-high 24 digs while senior setter Erika Nord distribut-

In match one, Indiana State came out of the gate hot, posting a .355 hitting percentage.

ed 55 assists.

The Sycamores took a comfortable set one victory but Morehead State staged a comeback in set two for the come-frombehind victory going into the break. ISU gritted out a set three victory as it scored the final three points of the set to take a 2-1 lead.

Faltering in the fourth after tying the game at 15-15 on a Wishlow kill, the Eagles (1-2) went on a 10-4 run to close the set, forcing the decisive fifth set.

A tight match throughout, ISU finally got ahead thanks to four straight points with Wishlow and Spangler kills coupled with a junior libero Stephanie Bindernagel ace.

Wishlow capped off a career day by putting the final point on the board for the Indiana State win.

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Schaak scores first career goal in victory over Belmont The Sycamore Soccer team defeated the Belmont Bruins by a score of 2-1 on Friday night at Memorial Stadium.

With the win, ISU improves to 1-2 on the season, while Belmont falls to 1-1. Indiana State improves its series record with Belmont to 4-1-1.

Indiana State struck first in the 11th minute. Maddie Orf crossed the ball from the left wing where she found Maddie Schaak who delivered the goal, beating the keeper to the top right corner to give ISU a 1-0 lead.

The Sycamores added another goal in the 35th minute.

Orf played the ball in to Sydney Lovelace who crossed to Kate Johnson in the middle of

the box. Johnson drilled a shot to the lower right corner to give the Sycamores the 2-0 lead headed to halftime.

Belmont answered in the 47th minute. Rachel Dill crossed to Cassie Blase who took the shot from 20 yards out to cut the ISU lead in half.

In the 90th minute, the Bruins had a breakaway attempt where they were able to find the net; however, the goal was waved off due to an out of bounds call.

Brittany San Roman played all 90 minutes in net for the Sycamores, where she earned seven saves.

Offensively, ISU was led by Lovelace, Johnson and Orf who each tallied four shots. Schaak and Maggie Richard added

three apiece. Schaak and Johnson scored goals, Orf picked up two assists and Lovelace added an assist on the goal by Johnson.

The Indiana State soccer team fell by a score of 2-0 to the Marshall Thundering Herd on Sunday afternoon at Memorial Stadium. ISU falls to 1-3 on the season, while Marshall improves to 3-1.

The Thundering Herd tallied goals in both halves of the contest, first tallying a goal in the 22nd minute.

Jayne Lawman played a ball to Sydney Arnold who connected a pass back to Lawman who was able to hit a shot to the left of the Sycamore keeper to give Marshall a 1-0 lead.

ISU started the second half

out strong. In the 47th minute, Sydney Lovelace slipped a ball past the Marshall defense where Lauren Weigel was waiting in front of the net where her shot sailed over the crossbar.

Marshall increased their lead in the 79th minute. Jenna Dubs took a free kick after an Indiana State foul. The free kick landed 12 yards in front of the goal where Erin Simmons was able to flick it over the head of the ISU keeper and extend the lead to 2-0.

Brittany San Roman played all 90 minutes in net and is now 1-3 on the season.

San Roman earned six saves in the contest while the Sycamore defense tallied one team save.

Offensively, Elly Freesmeier and Lovelace each had three shots. Maddie Orf added two, while Kate Johnson added another shot on frame.

Sycamore Soccer returns to action on Thursday, Sept. 3rd when it hosts the Butler Bulldogs at 7:00 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. Thursday night is also Bark in the Park night.

Fans are encouraged to bring in two or more dog-related items that will help benefit the Terre Haute Humane Society.

Fans who bring in these items will also be eligible for reduced admission into the match. Dogs are welcomed to accompany their owners during the match.

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