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Volume 125, Issue 78

Sensory-friendly, Peter and the Wolf performance by the ISU School of Music Jack Gregory Report Sensory friendly musical performance, “Peter and the Wolf ” put on by the School of Music at ISU on Wednesday and Thursday.

A sensory-friendly performance is one that is designed for people with disabilities or disorders that may make it difficult to attend a more “standard” concert performance. The lights are left on, attendees are free to move around and make noise if that’s how they wish to express themselves. There’s also a quiet room available in case anyone in the audience needs a break from the noise or the crowd.

The musical tale was performed by the Indiana State Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Erik Rohde, and narrated by Dr. Scott Buchanan. Dr. Julia Heath-Reynolds coordinated the entire event.

It took the School of Music around two years to put all of this together.

“We’ve been planning for about two years; coordinating with the schools and getting everything ready. For the orchestra and the volunteers, most of the work has been done this semester,” Rohde said. “‘Peter and the Wolf ’ is a really classic piece. It was written for children, so it’s a natural choice.”

Aside from the orchestra, the event featured a “petting zoo” run by volunteers, most of who were music education majors, as well as a projector, which showed images with each movement to help the audience imagine what was happening.

The “petting zoo” allowed the audience members to get up close and personal with the instruments, which gave voice to the characters in the play, so they could make sounds on the instruments themselves and see how they work.

Serge Prokofiev, a Soviet conductor, pianist and one of the major composers of the 20th century, wrote “Peter and the Wolf ” in 1936. The story has been reimagined and revised many times, but the basic premise revolves around a young boy, Peter, who, when spending time with a duck and a bird in a meadow, gets surprised by a wolf. The duck is eaten and while the bird distracts the wolf, Peter ties a noose around its tail and captures it, after which he and some hunters who were tracking the wolf lead the wolf to a zoo.

Each of the characters is represented by a different instrument; Peter, the wolf, the bird, the duck, the cat, Peter’s grandfather and the hunters were each represented by the string instruments, the French horns, the flutes, the oboe, the bassoon and the timpani, respectively.

Rohde said that Dr. Heath-Reynolds did the majority of the coordination.

“One of her specialties is music education for children with special needs,” Rohde said about Heath-Reynolds.

The School of Music is planning on putting on another sensory-friendly performance in about two years, but ISU is not the only place putting on this sort of event. South Vermillion High School is hosting a sensory-friendly performance of “Beauty and the Beast” on Saturday at 10:30 a.m.

Miguel Lewis| Indiana Statesman

The concert was performed for those with disabilities that makes it harder for them to attend standard concerts.

Picture courtesy of SMUGMUG

The African Student Union will hold their annual African Global Night in the auditorium.

African Global Night, this Saturday AJ Goelz Report Tomorrow, the African Student Union will be holding their annual African Global Night in the Auditorium of University Hall at 6 p.m.

“It’s one of the biggest continental organization events and we do it every year,” said Amire Sako, the vice president of the African Student Union. “The way I describe it is we are showing our cultures. A few people from different parts of Africa, we have different cultures, different foods, different dance, different music different whatever. We just come together and show it to people and I believe that our job here is to educate or at least raise an awareness of what Africa really is besides what you guys see on the TV and whatnot.”

Sako continued to say that this event is a chance to bring people together and is open to everyone.

This is a chance to experience the culture directly from the source and not through another medium.

“April is the African month, even here on campus, we have different things that was leading up to the event. Every other school like IU, Purdue, Ball State and IUPUI, they had their African night which is the same thing as the Global Night and they do the same thing from

different places,” Sako said.

“We went there to those schools that I just named, we showed our support and whatnot. So that’s what we do and support everyone. We help raise awareness about what Africa is to other people who haven’t seen it.”

This is a free event for students with a valid student ID. Tickets are $10 for non-students and include food after the main event.

If students would like to eat at the main event, the cost is $5.

The African Student Union can be found around campus participating in smaller events to spread their culture to other students.

“The first semester of every year, we try to raise funds or raise money for under privileged kids for school or health or anything like that. So we do that every year, and our second semester is dedicated to our Global Night and a few other things we do with other people,” Sako said.

The first week or two of classes in the fall, the African Student Union also hosts a welcome picnic, according to Sako.

“I think it will be great for students to come and like I always say we will be taking you to Africa without you leaving your seat,” Sako said. “It will be an educational moment and you’ll get something out of it before you leave.”

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The Fine Arts Building is set to be renovated.

Fine Arts Building, Sycamore Towers Dining renovations OK’d by state The State of Indiana Budget Committee approved Tuesday two high priority capital projects on Indiana State University’s campus.

In a unanimous and bi-partisan vote, members of the Budget Committee approved the release of a $15 million cash appropriation for the Fine Arts and Commerce Building renovation. The facility is a university priority and was included in the 2017 budget bill that passed the legislature and was signed into law by Governor Eric Holcomb.

State law requires approval from the Indiana Commission for Higher Education and the Budget Committee before state

funding is released. The Higher Education Commission approved the project in December 2017.

The Budget Committee also approved the university’s request to proceed with the Sycamore Towers Dining renovation, a project funded with non-state funding.

“This is another great day for Indiana State University, and we are deeply grateful to our state leaders for believing in ISU,” said Deborah Curtis, president of Indiana State.

“These projects have been top priorities as part of the university’s master plan which helps us project the facilities needed to carry out our critical mission of serving the citizens of the

state of Indiana.”

The academic-facility renovation of the 1940’s-era Fine Arts building will replace critical mechanical and electrical systems that have become obsolete and thereby improve temperature control, enhance air quality and access to technology. Interior spaces will also be reconfigured to improve building egress and accessibility and enhance instructional capabilities.

Sycamore Towers Dining is one of two dining facilities on campus, with the other being located in the Lincoln Quadrangle. This project is the final component in the renovation of the four-tower complex of Mills, Blumberg, Crom-

well and Rhoads halls.

Construction on Rhoads is wrapping up this summer and will be ready for occupancy in August.

Approximately 35,000 square feet of dining space will be renovated to provide for more efficient food service operations, improve the thermal envelope of the facades, replace roof and insulation, provide new restroom facilities and universal accessibility to the existing floor levels. Additionally, the facility will be expanded to the west by 5,000 square feet to make room for a record-breaking number of Sycamores.

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Facebook financial results shine amid data privacy scandal

David Pierson Los Angeles Times (TNS) Facebook Inc. continued to add users and saw revenue soar in the first quarter despite facing its worst crisis in company history over the mishandling of personal data belonging to millions of unsuspecting users.

The social network blew away Wall Street estimates by reporting a nearly 50 percent increase in revenue from the same period a year ago, to $11.97 billion.

Analysts had expected a 40 percent increase to $11.4 billion.

Earnings per share reached $1.69, well above estimates of $1.35. Monthly active users totaled 2.2 billion and daily active users 1.45 billion, both meeting analysts’ expectations of a 13 percent increase from a year ago.

Despite the strong results, Facebook shares closed unmoved Wednesday.

“Despite facing important challenges, our community and business are off to a strong start in 2018,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO. “We are taking a broader view of our responsibility and investing to make sure our services are used for good. But we also need to keep building new tools to help people connect, strengthen our communities, and bring the world closer together.”

The results marked the company’s first

Sam Cook|Duluth News Tribune|TNS

On a late December morning in 2015, a family of elephants moves across the grasslands of the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya.

quarterly earnings report since the Cambridge Analytica scandal erupted nearly six weeks ago.

The report was being closely watched for any signs of harm to Facebook’s bottom line amid a cascading controversy that has galvanized attention over privacy and sparked a backlash against behemoth tech companies.

Facebook said as many as 87 million

A pileup of 14 distant galaxies is set to become the most massive structure in the universe Deborah Netburn Los Angeles Times (TNS) It’s a cosmic pileup in the far reaches of the universe and nothing like it has ever been seen before.

Using the most powerful telescopes on Earth, astronomers have spotted 14 burning-hot galaxies hurtling toward each other on an inevitable galactic collision course at the edge of the observable universe.

Computer models show that when these galaxies do collide they will form the core of a colossal galaxy cluster so large it will be the most massive structure known in the cosmos.

This chaotic, energy-filled region, described Wednesday in Nature, is called a protocluster, and researchers say it is more active than any other section of the universe they have ever observed.

“There are huge energetics involved, like 10,000 supernova going off at a time, quite literally,” said Scott Chapman, a physicist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, who worked on the study.

As if all that wasn’t crazy enough, the authors said that the 14 galaxies are known as “starburst galaxies,” which means they are forming stars at a furious rate.

The research team estimates that they could be making stars as much as 1,000 times faster than the Milky Way. And they are all crammed into a space just three times the size of our own galaxy.

In addition, the whole system is located 90 percent of the way to the edge of the observable universe.

It is so far away that it takes light 12.4 billion years to travel across space from the protocluster to telescopes on Earth.

That means that this glowing star-generator formed just 1.4 billion years after the universe itself came into being.

And it’s that fact in particular that has astrophysicists scratching their heads.

“We don’t know how it is possible,” Chapman said. “We don’t know how you get those 14 galaxies right down the center of the protocluster at such an early time.”

Nothing that big and active should have been able to form so long ago, he said.

“We see the structure of the universe building up slowly from little bits, and then merging together to make bigger bits. We don’t expect bigger galaxies to form until much later,” he said.

The earliest hint that something strange was going on in this part of the sky came in 2010 from data collected by the South Pole Telescope in Antarctica.

Although this instrument was designed to find relatively nearby galaxy clusters, astronomers realized it could also be used to spot extremely bright structures from a great distance away in both space and time.

The protocluster described in the new work showed up as a small but unusual smudge of light.

Still, astronomers found it compelling enough to request time on the ALMA telescope in the Chilean desert to take a closer look at its structure.

Observations made with ALMA revealed that the center of the smudge was actually 14 distinct galaxies and that the protocluster was a whopping 12.4 billion light-years from Earth.

Chapman said that was one of the big “wow” moments.

“If it had been much closer it would still be the busiest place in the universe that we know of, but it would be less shocking,” he said.

ALMA is great at zooming in and seeing details of objects, but it has a very narrow field of view, Chapman said. It could only see the center of the smudge that the South Pole Telescope detected.

The authors estimate that there could be 1,000 more galaxies in the surrounding region of space.

“Most of them will be too faint to see, even with ALMA, but we can probably find another 50 galaxies,” Chapman said.

The team has already started looking.

Chapman said new observations are coming in even now.

“This really launched a massive study,”

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users could have unwittingly had their data obtained by political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica through a third-party app.

The revelation set off a firestorm that resulted in testimony by Zuckerberg before lawmakers on Capitol Hill and an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission to determine if the company breached a 2011 consent decree over privacy.

Zuckerberg has repeatedly apologized for the breach, which triggered a sell-off in shares. Despite gains Wednesday, Facebook’s stock has slid 17 percent since an all-time high in February.

A boycott campaign popularized by the hashtag #DeleteFacebook stoked fears of an exodus that could leach to advertisers.

At least three companies, Sonos, Commerzbank and Mozilla, pulled their advertising from the platform in response to the scandal.

Wall Street analysts were dubious the company would pay a heavy price — and its first-quarter results suggest they were right.

Analysts estimated that Facebook would report 1.45 billion daily active users the first three months of this year, compared with 1.4 billion the previous quarter. Analysts also expected monthly active users to rise to 2.19 billion, up from 2.13 billion in the fourth quarter.

The company’s revenue was expected to grow more than 40 percent from the same period a year ago, to $11.4 billion. Its net income was estimated to increase 30 percent from a year ago, to $1.35 a share.

In another sign public anger directed at Silicon Valley hasn’t hurt business, Twitter and Alphabet, Google’s parent company, also reported strong financial results this week.

Sam Cook|Duluth News Tribune|TNS

On a late December morning in 2015, a family of elephants moves across the grasslands of the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya.

As more emotional support animals fly on U.S. airlines, Congress eyes new ways to tighten the leash Tom Benning The Dallas Morning News (TNS) With hundreds of thousands of emotional support animals taking to the skies on U.S. airlines, Congress may start pulling a tighter leash.

Two new legislative options emerged this week to address a hairy issue for Fort Worth-based American Airlines, Dallas-based Southwest Airlines and other carriers, which are dealing with a growing number of injuries, confrontations and other problems resulting from comfort pets.

A bill by Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., would tighten rules so only “service animals,” as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, could fly uncaged in the cabin. An amendment by Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., would instead direct the U.S. Transportation Department to clarify existing rules.

Either option would be contentious, despite wide agreement that the current setup is too open-ended and subject to bald-faced abuse.

But Burr’s approach, which is backed by the airline industry, is sure to generate a roar. His legislation would effectively prevent emotional support animals from getting on board, putting him at odds with mental health advocates who see the pets as vital for some fliers.

The senator, however, cast his bill as common sense.

“One doesn’t have to look far to find rampant cases of abuse where even emotional support kangaroos have been allowed to fly on planes to the detriment of

fellow travelers and handlers of trained service animals,” he said in a news release.

Support animals on the rise No one disputes the growing rise of emotional support animals.

U.S. airlines flew 751,000 comfort pets last year, an 80 percent jump from the previous year, according to an informal survey by industry group Airlines for America. Those animals include dogs and cats, yes. But also rabbits, ducks, parakeets and monkeys.

No one disputes the potential pitfalls of a flying zoo.

Association of Professional Flight Attendants president Nena Martin, who represents American Airlines flight attendants, wrote that the status quo has “led to a variety of issues inflight that are not readily solvable in a small, contained cabin at 35,000 feet where resources are limited.”

And no one disputes the underlying problem.

While the Americans with Disabilities Act has strict rules for how service dogs used by those with disabilities can function in public spaces, another law known as the Air Carrier Access Act of 1986 is much more generous in what kind of animals can come in an airplane cabin.

The intractable question, however, has been what to do about it all.

Most of the policy attention has focused on shoring up the looser aviation rules, which accommodate any animal that is “able to provide assistance to a person with a disability” or that “assists persons

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Gmail’s new ‘confidential mode’ offers more privacy controls Jaclyn Cosgrove Los Angeles Times (TNS) In rolling out major updates to Gmail, Google announced Wednesday that the popular email service will soon feature a new “confidential mode” that promises to give users more control over who sees the emails they send, and for how long.

Users should still be mindful about what they send over email, privacy experts warned, as messages sent in confidential mode could still fall into the wrong hands.

With the new privacy feature, users will be able to remove recipients’ options to forward, copy, download or print specific messages.

“Useful for when you have to send sensitive information via email like a tax return or your Social Security number,” Gmail Product Manager Matthew Izatt wrote in the company’s announcement of the updates. “You can also make a message expire after a set period of time to help you stay in control of your information.”

It probably would be easy to circumvent the confidential mode features, privacy experts pointed out: For example, a user might simply be able to take a screenshot or photo of an email they had been blocked from forwarding, or call over office mates to read the email from their screen. Google did not respond to an email raising those concerns.

Some online privacy experts, such as Sydney Li, staff

technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, argue that calling the new feature “confidential mode” is misleading. For one, Gmail’s servers will still contain a copy of the email, Li said.

Other tech companies have dabbled with disappearing messages, most notably Snap Inc., whose Snapchat app faced some backlash in 2015 when users grew concerned that their app’s new privacy policy suggested the company was keeping more of users’ content than it had let on.

“Don’t send messages that you wouldn’t want someone to save or share,” it said.

Confidential mode will begin to roll out in the coming weeks, with a broader rollout to follow.

For the more than 4 million businesses that pay to use G Suite — an enhanced paid version of Google products such as Gmail, Docs and Calendar — confidential mode will include the option to require an email recipient to use a passcode, sent via text message, to view the email.

Li said this feature raises additional concerns because to use it, you might need to tell Google the recipient’s phone number — potentially without the recipient’s consent.

“This ‘privacy’ feature is potentially harmful to users with a real need for private and secure communications,” Li said.

John Simpson, the privacy and technology director at advocacy group Consumer Watchdog, said enabling users to send emails that recipients cannot forward is a

powerful tool, but it does raise the question of how people will get around it. Although Google might offer a confidential mode, there’s only so much the tech giant can do to block human hijinks.

It’s also unclear how the features will work when the email recipient is not a Gmail user. For example, Simpson said, is Gmail able to enforce a prohibition on forwarding if the recipient is using a different email service?

“It strikes me that people will be lulled into the feeling that this is a more confidential thing than is actually the case,” Simpson said. “We need to see more about how exactly it’s implemented, but clearly, if somebody went to the trouble to send me a message that I couldn’t forward, and I looked at it, and said ‘Holy mackerel! I want to show this to somebody else,’ I think I could figure out ways to do it.”

One aspect of confidential mode makes users more vulnerable to privacy breaches, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Li said.

The feature that allows users to set a time limit on how long an email is available works by requiring the email’s recipient to click a link to view the message, opening up a new attack opportunity for phishing, Li said.

“If people are trained to click on links in ‘confidential’ e-mails from other Gmail users, bad actors can send fake emails that resemble ‘confidential’ e-mails in order to

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FEATURES

Friday, April. 27, 2018

Alexandria Truby Reporter

Cats or dogs?

I’m a dog person. I have had large dogs but I only have one at a time.

Great Pyrenees are my favorite.

What has been your best ISU experience?

My best experience has always just been in the classroom because I like interacting with my students. I look forward to teaching every day. I never know exactly what is going to happen and my students always surprise me, in a good way. They always ask me questions that I never anticipate. I am always forced to think about topics that I have taught for a long time in new ways.

It appears you have been to many places. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would that be?

Well, I already go to Russia every year. I’ve never been to New Zealand or Australia, so that is where I would go. It’s on my bucket list.

If you had $1 million to give away, which charity would you donate to?

Right now I think the global refugee problem is the biggest issue so I’d say the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR. They need more aid.

There are just too many refugees living in terrible conditions. I’ve been giving relatives contributions for the past two years in their names to this organization.

What is your best advice for students?

Use this time to grow intellectually. Don’t limit yourselves. Try out classes and fields you didn’t think of. I also think everyone should try to study abroad. It will change your life.

What is your greatest fear?

I have many! My greatest fear right now is the degradation of democratic institutions in the United States and the world.

After teaching, what do you see yourself doing?

I will write novels. I read them in my free time and might as well try my hand at it!

What can you share about your research?

I study the religious history of the Russian Empire, particularly in Belarus and Ukraine in the 18th and 19th centuries. I came to this topic because I speak both Russian and Polish, and I had studied in both Russia and Poland in study abroad opportunities, making both of these cultures of great interest to me. Belarus and Ukraine were torn between Polish and Russian influences, and so to study their history you have to read sources in both of these languages and understand both of these cultures. I am also the daughter of an Army chaplain, an ordained Methodist minister, so the history of the church has always been an interest. The Russian Orthodox Church is a great fascination of mine. I’m working on my second book now, and I hope to finish it in 2019.

How did you go from being a Russian interpreter and translator to a teacher? What inspired this career change?

I had the best interpreting job that was out there. I was working for National Geographic, traveling through Siberia. There was a trip to the northeast tip of Siberia where we had to live in a reindeer hide tent and I couldn’t shower for a week. I was eating only reindeer meat and bread. I was the interpreter for the photographer and just became miserable. It was interesting but I just thought ‘I can do this, but not for someone else’s work.’ I wanted to do my own research on Russia so I then applied for grad school. I didn’t know I’d be a professor but I wanted to be in charge of my own projects.

I took six years off after my undergraduate degree, and it took me a long time to decide to go back for my masters. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do for a long time and my parents never pushed me in one direction. It took me until I was 31 years old to decide to get my PhD. I finally decided that after all my experiences in Russia and Poland, it would be nice to be able to research and to teach about this region of the world. I am proof that you don’t have to know what you want to do when you’re 18.

What do your students mean to you?

They mean everything to me. They are the reason I get up and come to school every day. They just are the reason I do what I do.

There are two types of people in the world. What are the two types?

Readers and non-readers.

What book should everyone read?

“The Brothers Karamazov” by Fedor Dostoevsky What tips do you have for learning another language?

Perseverance is the key. Work on it every day. Read as much as you can in that language. Don’t be afraid to speak it, even with mistakes.

What is your favorite recent musical?

Hamilton. The songs are just so cleverly written!

What was the most difficult job you have ever had?

There were many difficult circumstances and a lot of pressure when I worked as an interpreter, and sometimes teaching is also very stressful, but the hardest thing I have ever done and ever do still is to produce my scholarly research, particularly my first book and the book I am working on now. I have to bring together arguments from published works by scholars in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Europe and North America, as well as study hand-written historical documents in archives across Eastern Europe. These projects take a long time to work through and demand all of my intellectual abilities. There’s nothing that compares to the difficulty of that work, but I love it.

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Facts about Dr. Barbara Skinner Barbara Skinner received her B.A. from Yale University and M.A. from Georgetown University in Russian Area Studies. After working as a Russian interpreter and translator, she earned her Ph.D. in History from Georgetown University in 2001, specializing in Russian and East European history. She joined the faculty at ISU in 2005 after three years at Adelphi University in New York.

Her research focuses on the early Russian Empire and religious policies in Russia and early modern Poland, and she has conducted research for her publications in Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine and Russia. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council, among others. Dr. Skinner teaches courses on world civilizations, Russian history, European religious history, the Cold War and graduate history methods.

New Nintendo President named AJ Goelz Reporter

Nintendo President, Tatsumi Kimishima, will be retiring from his position in June.

Kimishima will be replaced by 46-year-old Shuntaro Furukawa according to an article on IGN by Joe Skrebels.

“Furukawa is currently a board member for both Nintendo and The Pokemon Company.

He will become Nintendo’s sixth president in its 128 years of operation,” Skrebels said. “At 46, he’s a particularly young appointment, which is apparently a purposeful decision on the part of Kimishima, who wanted a successor that could more easily connect with the company’s customers.”

According to the article, Furukawa is fluent in English. This will allow Furukawa to take center stage not just as president of the company, but as the public face of Nintendo. In his article, Skrebels compares this to what made former Nintendo President, Satoru Iwata, so popular.

At the press conference in which this news broke, Furukawa said, “We will develop the company to its fullest.” He is also hoping to continue the company’s traditions of “originality and flexibility.”

Furukawa will not be the only person taking a larger role in the company.

“Along with Furukawa’s appointment, three younger executives will also replace retiring senior managers. Among the new appointees is Yoshiaki Koizumi, a key architect of the Switch, and Takashi Tezuka, who was tasked with modernizing Super Mario,” said Yuji Nakamura and Yuki Furukawa in their article for Bloomberg.

President Kimishima is leaving after three years as Nintendo’s president. Kimishima took the helm after Iwata’s death. Kimishima took charge at the end of the tumultuous life span of the WiiU and the beginning of the phenomenon that is the Nintendo Switch. After the death of Iwata, many were worried about the direction that Nintendo would go in after the sudden loss of such an icon in the industry. Kimishima took over and led the company to great success, both critically and monetarily, over the past three years.

“Nintendo just announced its latest financial results, with some incredible Nintendo Switch sales helping drive one of the best years for the company in recent memory. Nintendo increased its forecast to 15 million units by January of this year, and that figure was pretty much bang on the money with 15.5 million sold by the end of the fiscal year,” said Dom Reseigh-Lincoln in an article for Nintendo Life.

With a company as large as Nintendo and with the trajectory the company is going in, it is hard to think that this new change in leadership will derail all the progress Kimishima has made while at the head of the company. Furukawa is in a position to raise Nintendo to greater heights in the times to come.

De-Stress with the Delta’s – Zumba Deltas danced their way through stress as they danced to Zumba.

When: Wednesday, April 25th @7:00 - 9:00 pm Where: HMSU Dede 1

Miguel Lewis | Indiana Statesman

Barnes & Noble Graduation Fair Graduating students picked up their cap and gown for the upcoming spring commencement, talk with vendors about rings, pictures and diploma frames and much more.

When: August 25th & 26th, 11:00 – 7:00 pm Where: Indiana State Bookstore

Anna Bartley | Indiana Statesman

OPINION

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Friday, April 27, 2018

A North Korea deal must go beyond economics Michael Schuman Bloomberg View (TNS) Hope is again rising on the Korean peninsula. On Friday, South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un will hold a summit in the Demilitarized Zone that has divided the two states for 65 years. The meeting raises the prospect that this pointless and anachronistic conflict can finally be brought to an end, or at the very least, that the tensions now threatening global security and world financial markets can be reduced.

But it’s important to remember that we’ve been here already, 18 years ago.

In 2000, South Korean President Kim Dae-jung traveled to Pyongyang for a much-publicized conference with Kim Jong Un’s dad, Kim Jong-il. The mission even helped the South’s Kim win a Nobel Peace Prize.

We know now that nothing meaningful came out of that summit. But it does offer some critical lessons as the world embarks on another round of engagement with Pyongyang — both for Moon in tomorrow’s conference, and for U.S. President Donald Trump, if and when he eventually meets with the North’s leader.

The 2000 summit was an outgrowth of what was known as the sunshine policy, and the logic behind it was sound enough: Decades of confrontation had achieved nothing but stalemate, so the idea was to foster economic exchange and dialogue instead. To that end, South Korea offered a torrent of humanitarian aid, opened a new industrial park in North Korea, and encouraged investment in a tourism project on a celebrated North Korean mountain.

All this achieved no tangible results. Pyongyang became no less threatening: A deadly naval clash

erupted in 2002 and North Korea conducted its first nuclear test in 2006. Nor was there progress on disarming the tense border, improving the North’s abysmal treatment of its citizens, or reforming its moribund economy.

Yet the sunshine policy limped on for years — Kim’s successor in Seoul, Roh Moo-hyun, persisted with it, and also held a summit in Pyongyang in 2007. It wasn’t until a new, conservative president was elected later that year that the South finally started to change direction.

So what can be learned from this sad saga?

One crucial takeaway is simple: North Korea can’t be bought. There’s an enduring myth in Korean circles that Pyongyang is willing to “trade” its nuclear program for economic benefits; Kim Jong-un himself reinforced that impression in a speech last weekend. But if the sunshine policy demonstrated anything, it’s that economic aid alone won’t be sufficient. Instead, ending sanctions must be just one element of a much larger, harder-to-negotiate deal.

In making that deal, moreover, both sides must be specific. The joint declaration agreed to at the 2000 summit was long on lofty principles and short on specific measures to build confidence and reduce tensions. South Korea persisted in the belief that engagement in itself would entice Pyongyang into better behavior. That hope proved vain. Pyongyang must be made to cough up its nuclear program in advance of any benefits, or at least adhere to a staged, verifiable program to be fulfilled by both sides in unison.

Investment and aid might act as further encouragement. But it’s important to remember that Kim Jong-un will want as much as he can get up

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Bad drivers – just a problem in the Haute?

Joe Lippard

Opinions Editor

Some days, as I drive around Terre Haute, I get stuck behind drivers who I wouldn’t exactly call the best. They drive recklessly, causing stressful road conditions for everyone else on the road. I know I’m not exactly an exemplary driver, but there are some times when I wonder how some people I see on the road got their driver’s license to begin with.

I wonder this multiple times a week, often multiple times a day, which makes me start to ask, “Is it just drivers in Terre Haute?”

It certainly seems to be.

When I go home to Plainfield, a city near Indianapolis, I rarely encounter stressful driving situations

like I do around here. One reason could be because of all the construction going on around campus. As ecstatic as I am about our new facilities and renovations, the construction blocks some vital traffic areas.

Another explanation I can come up with for bad drivers around town would be that people simply don’t pay attention. Sometimes they might not check their blind spots, or they might not use their turn signal because they never look in their rear view mirror and think they’re alone on the road. But don’t think anything in particular in Terre Haute causes people to pay less attention.

And when I think back to when I was younger, I would often drive around my hometown, and I ran across bad drivers all the time. Once, I sat behind someone who was stopped at a green light for at least fifteen seconds after the light turned green. Construction plagued Plainfield as well.

The conclusion I’ve

come to is no, there’s nothing about Terre Haute that makes drivers around here inherently worse than anywhere else. However, that raises the question: why are there so many bad drivers everywhere?

Personally, I think that it’s due to a lack of driver’s education, and I’m not talking about the high school classes.

I’m talking about verifying that a driver knows everything they should know before they get their license. At the age of 16, people can take a test to get their driver’s license, pass it, and never have to take the test again. Some people simply forget the smaller points of driving that help make the road safe for everyone.

This is a mistake. Driving is a skill everyone uses, so we shouldn’t require only high school students to prove that they’re capable of handling the responsibility. In Indiana, we have to renew our licenses every six years.

I don’t think it should be that outside of the box to

require everyone to take some sort of little refresher quiz when they renew their license. A practical driving test isn’t necessary – they could simply administer a paper test or something.

It doesn’t even have to be difficult information that is quizzed. It could be composed of simple questions, like, “How far away should you signal before making a turn?” or “When should you turn on your headlights?” or “What does ‘Yield’ mean?” These are fundamental driving questions that everyone with a license should be able to answer.

Of course, I know none of this is likely to change any time soon. Driver’s licenses are federal documents, and people get finicky when you mess with how they obtain these kinds of documents. But it would be really nice to know that the person next to me on the road won’t forget to check their blind spot and almost run me off the interstate.

Amid prayers after fatal Dallas police shooting, we’re reminded there’s no routine service call The Dallas Morning News (TNS) A single moment in a terrible day for Dallas police reminds us of what it means to be a cop.

Late Tuesday evening, with officers gathered at the hospital where two critically wounded colleagues fought for their lives, word came that the suspected gunman had been located.

Grieving officers abruptly ended their prayerful vigil, sprinted to their squad cars and sped away to do their jobs: Helping apprehend the suspect.

That’s what cops do. Not just in Dallas but in cities all across North Texas.

Many of those same officers got up before dawn this morning — with little sleep and heavy hearts — to devote another day to keeping their communities safe.

They reported to duty knowing that

officers Crystal Almeida and Rogelio Santander, both three-year veterans on the Dallas force, and a Home Depot employee, Scott Painter, remained in critical condition. Hours later, they learned that Santander died as the result of his injuries. (The Assist the Officer Foundation is accepting donations for the Almeida and Santander families at atodallasrelief. firstresponderprocessing.com.)

At least Dallas can breathe a little easier knowing that the suspected gunman, 29-year-old Armando Luis Juarez, is behind bars thanks to speedy police work Tuesday night.

The words “officer down” always shake a city and a police department. For Dallas police and residents, the July 7, 2016, tragedy — when a gunman opened fire on officers protecting downtown protesters, killing four Dallas cops and a DART officer — seems like only yesterday. Miraculously, prior to that awful night, the

city had gone almost seven years without a police officer killed in the line of duty.

The public endows cops with great responsibility, not to mention a weapon and live ammunition, and they must live up to that while performing a job essential to society: enforcing the law.

Too often, we read about police officers only when one makes a headline for breaking the public trust, for doing the wrong thing. But we can never forget that there are thousands upon thousands of exceptional officers for every cop who makes news for a questionable action.

Tuesday was a hard and scary day for the Dallas Police Department. A reminder that any service call can turn deadly.

That walking the beat requires exceptional courage. That the word “routine” simply doesn’t apply to police work.

North Texans were witnesses to that hard reality just a few months back when, in February, a Richardson police officer

was fatally shot after responding to a disturbance call. Officer David Sherrard was the first officer killed in the line of duty in that department’s history, and the first on-duty officer to be killed in Texas this year.

All of this brought to mind a letter published on our pages Monday about two other Dallas cops. It was a resident’s note of thanks for a small thing — while in the neighborhood on another call, the pair took time to assist an elderly widow with a balky garage door.

Words of gratitude like these show up regularly in our “Three Cheers” letters to the editor column. They are small examples of the day-to-day heroics of the men and women in blue who serve our city.

Our hearts and prayers remain with the victims of Tuesday night’s shooting and their families as well as with the entire Dallas Police Department.

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AIRLINES FROM PAGE 2 with disabilities by providing emotional support.”

Some fliers have taken advantage of that wiggle room, using companies that allow travelers to pay for the needed medical proof by taking cursory online questionnaires.

Recognition of a problem The U.S. Transportation Department has recognized the problem, asking a disability rights panel two years ago to hash out a compromise.

There was a consensus that something must be done to cull instances of untrained animals making it on board. But the group couldn’t come to an agreement, with some stakeholders worrying that fliers who rely upon well-trained comfort pets could be horned out.

The Transportation Department nevertheless plans to take a shot at rewriting the rules this year. Some carriers, such as Delta Air Lines, have started tightening rules on their own. And now Congress is involved, though any legislation remains a long way from becoming law.

“We’re taking an all-of-the-above approach,” Airlines for America senior vice

GMAIL FROM PAGE 2 trick users into clicking links that lead to phishing sites,” Li said. “The phishing link could then present a fake Google login page, to try and steal the user’s credentials.”

Simpson, a longtime critic of Google, said that even as the company offers privacy enhancements, it is still looking out for itself.

Last year, Google announced it would stop using or scanning any Gmail content to help it personalize ads.

Simpson said that was a good move — but that Google made it primarily because it already collects enough information about users to target them with ads in line with their interests, and using email content wasn’t even necessarily helping the company accomplish

president Sharon Pinkerton said this month, expressing support for all those avenues.

One approach, offered by Shuster, would make sure the Transportation Department tackles the issue. The House transportation chairman included that request in the “manager’s amendment” he’s submitted to a bill that would reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao would have 18 months to issue a rule that better defines “service animals” for the purposes of air travel and that develops “minimum standards for what is required for service and emotional support animals carried in aircraft cabins.”

Burr’s legislation, meanwhile, would take a more proscriptive approach.

It would “bar animals not currently recognized by the ADA, would not allow animals whose sole function is to provide comfort or emotional support, and would require that in order to qualify as a service animal a dog must be individually trained” to do disability related work or tasks.

The bill would also establish a criminal penalty for making misrepresentations about a service animal.

that goal. Before the change, if a friend sent a silly email, it would often produce bizarre related ads.

Integrating more features into Gmail keeps users on the Google product as long as possible, he said.

Confidential mode “is going to be presented by Google as all these wonderful features that customers are out there asking for, and that they’re meeting customer demand, and while some of that may be true, it’s necessary to remember it’s also all about maximizing ways people will be enticed to continue to stay on Google’s platform as much as possible so they can monetize your data, and when dealing with Google, one should never forget that,” Simpson said.

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Yet hard heads must prevail. The sunshine policy and the summits it produced make clear the dangers, rather than the opportunities, of engaging with North Korea. Kim Jongun will be quick to capitalize on his opponents’ ardent desire for a deal.

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Track and Field hits the road for Drake Relays Garrett Short Reporter

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Sean Manaea, ISU Alumni plays for the Houston Astros and made spotlight this past week when he threw the first no-hitter of the season.

ISU Baseball Alum Sean Manaea enters Spotlight Garrett Short Reporter

Indiana State baseball has had several dominant pitching performances this season.

Last week Triston Polley was named the Missouri Valley Conference Pitcher of the Week. This week Tyler Ward earned the award. However, neither Polley nor Ward have had the season that ISU baseball alum Sean Manaea has.

Manaea exploded onto the national stage last Saturday throwing the first no-hitter of the 2018 season against the league-leading Boston Red Sox. The 26-year-old was dominant striking out 10 bat-

ters and giving up two walks and allowing another baserunner on an error. Manaea’s gem was the first time Boston has been no-hit in 25 years and the first by an Oakland Athletic’s pitcher since 2010.

Manaea wasn’t given too much acknowledgement before his no-hitter but he certainly deserves to be feared when he is on the mound.

Standing at 6-foot-5, Manaea has been having an unbelievable year. The lefty is 3-2 this season with a 1.23 ERA which is the best in the American League among starters and the third-best in the majors.

The statistics show that Manaea is having a breakout

season in his third year in the MLB. The Valparaiso, Indiana native has allowed just five earned runs this season in five starts and over 36 innings pitched. Four of those earned runs have been homeruns.

Manaea has not made many mistakes this season and has been showcasing the skills that made him a first-round draft pick back in 2013.

If Manaea can continue to throw well he could be in for a major pay increase by the end of the season. He is on contract for $550,000 this season after signing a one-year deal prior to the start of the season. A solid season, even if he isn’t able to continue his

Cy Young-level of play, could mean a potential annual salary of more than $3 million or $4 million in the future for Manaea.

There is no telling how the rest of the season will go for the former Sycamore as pitchers can go through rough patches, but it looks like Oakland has found its new ace.

Manaea makes his first start since becoming a household name tonight against another high-powered lineup in the Houston Astros. The game starts at 8:10 p.m. EST in Houston.

The Indiana State track and field team competes in one of the nation’s biggest track meets this weekend as they visit Des Moines, Iowa for the 109th annual Drake Relays.

The Drake Relays are a staple of American track and field. The event was first held back in 1910 and since has grown a nationwide fandom and international attention. A part of ISU’s track and field history belongs at the Drake Relays. The Drake Relays is where ISU’s shuttle hurdle relay and men’s 10k records were achieved at.

This year the Sycamores are looking to compete with some of the best athletes in the world as athletes come from other countries to compete with the best in America. ISU has four athletes that are ranked in the top-50 in the NCAA competing in Des Moines this weekend. These include Taylor Austin (4th in 3,000-meter steeplechase), Brittany Neeley (800-meter), Daley Carter (40th in 110-meter hurdles) and Jaime Murtagh (19th in high jump).

Austin, Neeley, Carter and Murtagh as well as the rest of the ISU team will be competing with a long list of universities across the country including Purdue and Illinois. There will also be a slew of Olympians competing at the prestigious event.

Additionally, former Indiana State All-American John Mascari will be at the Drake Relays competing. Mascari will be running in the 10k, which he won back in 2013. Mascari’s best time in the 10k— roughly 6.2 miles— is just under 31 seconds slower than the all-time record at the Drake Relays.

The Drake Relays are one of the last meets for the ISU track and field team before the MVC Outdoor Championships.

The championships, which are held at the Gibson Track in Terre Haute, are two weeks away. Next weekend they make the short drive to Bloomington to take part in the Billy Hayes Invitational at Indiana University. ISU’s athletes have just two meets left before they are competing for a chance to move on and be an NCAA Qualifier.

Softball travels To Missouri for weekend series Sherrod Reed Reporter

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Jake Means covered third while Indiana State lead to 3-0.

Sycamores baseball defeat Ball State 10-6 Jay Adkins Reporter

The 19-17 Indiana State University Sycamores baseball team came into Wednesday’s game looking to break their twogame skid on the road against the 19-19 Ball State University Cardinals. The Sycamores accomplished that in a gritty 10-6 win in Muncie.

After a scoreless first inning, the Sycamores would strike first in the second after sophomore catcher Max Wright grounded out to second base, which allowed junior infielder Jarrod Watkins to score.

With junior infielder Jake Means covering third and junior outfielder Luke Fegen covering third, junior infielder Clay Dungan would single up the middle, allowing them to score and pushing Indiana State’s lead to 3-0.

Redshirt senior Dane Giesler and junior outfielder CJ Huntley would both score in the third

after Jarrod Watkins reached on a reaching error. Watkins would eventually score on an unearned run in the third.

While the Sycamores were sitting with a comfortable lead, The Cardinals would finally score in the third on an unearned run by senior shortstop Justin Kirkpatrick.

Both teams would go scoreless in the fourth and fifth innings.

The Sycamores would continue their scoring spree in the sixth after Clay Dungan scored on a single to centerfield by CJ Huntley.

CJ Huntley would himself score in the third after Dane Giesler homered to right centerfield.

With that homerun, Giesler pushed the lead to 9-1 and upped his homeruns on the season to a team-leading 10.

The Cardinals would answer back after Jeff Riedel tripled down right field, allowing junior catcher Chase Sebby to score, making the score 9-2 by the end of the sixth

inning.

Indiana State would score once more in the seventh after Luke Fegen scored on a wild pitch.

The Cardinals would score four more times in the last two innings, but it was too little, too late as Indiana State would defeat Ball State with a final score of 10-6.

One of the strongest performances of the game came from redshirt senior left-handed pitcher Weston Rivers, who struck out two Cardinals while only allowing one hit and an unearned run to improve to 2-0 on the season so far.

With this win, the Sycamores move to 20-17 on the season and will look to continue winning when they travel to the Louisville, Kentucky to face off against another Cardinal team: the University of Louisville Cardinals. The game starts at 6:00 p.m. and is the first part of a weekend-long triple-header against the University of Louisville.

Indiana State’s softball team has a series against Missouri State beginning on Saturday, April 28.

Missouri has won six of their seven latest games and has captured four straight Valley series. They had an eventful victory over Loyola last weekend in Chicago as MSU’s senior pitcher, Holly Kelley, struck out seven Loyola hitters in a three-hit shutout performance, which ultimately pushed the Bears into their much earned victory over the Ramblers. Bears head coach, Holly Hesse, rightfully sung praises of her starting pitcher, stating that, “[Kelley] did a good job of keeping them off balance today and gave us an opportunity to win.”

Even so, as commendable as Missouri’s performances have been, the Sycamores have also been playing well; beating the University of Evansville 6-1 on April 25. During that game, Indiana State scored every inning and remained very efficient at the plate while also displaying a stable defense.

Shaye Barton was named player of the game as she

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Kylie Stobe had five strikeouts during the past game.

not only took a hit from a pitch, but also went 2-for3 at the plate and managed several assists and impressive plays.

The Sycamores do not seem all that shook by MSU’s key performance games and actually appear to be fueled by the challenge ahead. Kylie Stober from Indiana State had five strikeouts in their last game alone, while her teammate Leslie Sims holds a sixth all-time record at ISU with 41 stolen bases.

Indiana is currently in sole possession of third place in Missouri Valley Conference, however with

end of the season on the horizon, the battle to try and keep progressing from that seed will certainly be a challenge.

Playing away at Killian Stadium this weekend, the Sycamores will have to show up focused and ready to perform. This series will feel something like a clash of titans as both teams have proven that they possess star players that are competent factors on and around the diamond.

The first pitch is scheduled to be thrown at 1 p.m. and will be broadcasted on The Valley on ESPN 3.