March 1, 2017

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Volume 124, Issue 59

HMSU to see future updates in the spirit of ISU Cal Hart Reporter

There have been rumors surfacing at Indiana State University about a possible project to build a Starbucks in the Sycamore Lounge in HMSU in the near future.

Unfortunately the rumor is false, says Director of The Holman Memorial Student Union Mark Adkins.

When asked about the rumored project he said, “At this time, there are no set plans to put a Starbucks in the Sycamore Lounge. However, HMSU is always looking for new initiatives to improve the student experience.”

Although the rumored Starbucks project is false, there are some renovations and hopeful projects the HMSU staff want to do in the future.

“We have access to student affairs and student councils, and we had a long discussion about the different things they wanted to see,” Adkins said. “We also vis-

ited other student unions and asked what they wanted to see changed.”

Adkins also explained how in the past they had done work around HMSU with the lighting fixtures in certain areas such as Dede I and a major renovation to the seventh floor of HMSU. Adkins then discussed the work they are hoping to continue with the spirit of ISU within HMSU. “You might have noticed the branding we are doing on the walls in the Union.

We are trying to show more spirit of being at Indiana State with the murals and other things just so when people walk in, they really know they’re at ISU,” Adkins said.

Adkins then showed a list of repeated suggestions the students unions sent to him, which included a thoughts/idea/ phrase board, updating the Commons to more lounging spaces, converting the Sycamore Lounge into a more relaxing area and other ideas.

Although Adkins and his team are looking at this suggestion list seriously, there

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Students enjoy the relaxing recreation of the Sycamore Lounge in HMSU by playing pool.

are a few factors in the way.

“We have to think if we have the resources available to do it,” Adkins said.

“On top of that, are we even able to do it.

Some of the suggestions are unrealistic, so it is a matter of seeing, at the end of the

day, what we can really do.”

Adkins explained that he is hopeful to start on the projects soon and is always up for suggestions from students. Students are encouraged to email him suggestions on how to improve the HMSU experience.

Rec fitness event challenges students Law banning sex offenders from social media iffy Ian Bonner-Swedish Reporter

The Indiana State University Student Recreation Center will be hosting its annual fitness event, SRC 500, Thursday, March 2 at 5 p.m.

“This is basically the fittest of the fit — 10 stations, 50 reps, two levels. So they have a beginner level, and a more advance level. You get to do 500 reps total.

There is no time limit. It’s a pretty tough thing to do,” Theresa Ortega, administrative assistant for the Campus Recreation Department, said.

The multiple stations in the competition are what the students are competing in. There are multiple sections pertaining to students’ level of fitness. The White Division is the novice level, and the Blue Division for the more advanced participants.

The first station is the ropes station, where both divisions are required to perform waves. The second station is the box jumps.

In the White Division, participants are required to do step ups; in the Blue Division, however, participants are required to do jumps. The third station is Bent Rows. White Division participants must lift 25 pounds; Blue Division lifts 30. In the situp stations, the White Division is required to do crunches while the Blue Division performs full sit-ups. The sixth station requires participants to perform wall balls. The White Division must do such with a 10-pound ball while the Blue Division performs the task with a 20-pound ball. At the seventh station, the

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Michael Doyle

McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS)

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Classes hosted by the Student Recreation Center helped students prepare for the SRC 500 event, which is being held March 2 at 5 p.m.

Supreme Court justices on Monday cast doubt on a North Carolina law that bans registered sex offenders from using Facebook and other online social media.

Through their questions and statements, justices repeatedly voiced skepticism about the 2008 law now being challenged

by Durham, N.C., resident and convicted sex offender Lester G. Packingham Jr. A majority appeared ready to rule against the law.

“Does it limit free speech?”

Justice Stephen Breyer asked rhetorically.

“Dramatically,” he said.

Justice Elena Kagan was even more pointed, as she hammered North Carolina Senior Deputy Attorney General Robert C. Montgomery with observations about the omnipresence of social media in modern society.

“Everybody uses Twitter,” Kagan noted. “This has become a crucially important channel of political communication.”

Under North Carolina’s law, Kagan added, a registered sex offender “cannot go on the president’s Twitter account to see what the president is saying today.”

The North Carolina law forbids registered sex offenders from accessing “commercial social networking websites” that permit minors to become members. The law specifies what it means by “social networking,” to cover sites that allow communication among users and allow

creation of profiles that can include photos or names, among other requirements.

There are about 20,000 registered sex offenders in North Carolina. More than 1,000 cases have been prosecuted under the same state law violated by Packingham.

“These are some of the worst criminals,” Montgomery said, adding that “the law is enforceable and effective.”

Thirteen states have joined in a brief supporting North Carolina.

Many states have adopted variations on the legislation, which often gets challenged in court.

In 2014, for instance, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against a California law that required registered sex offenders to provide authorities with a “list of any and all internet identifiers established or used by the person.” The California Legislature revised the law last year to correct the First Amendment violations.

“These people are being cut out from a very large part of the marketplace of ideas,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said of North Carolina’s registered sex offenders.

When Montgomery likened the North Carolina law to a Supreme Court case in which justices upheld a ban on political speech outside polling places, Justice Anthony Kennedy brusquely dismissed the comparison, saying, “That does not help you at all.”

A 21-year-old college student at the time, Packingham was

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Olympians Phelps and Nelson push for more action against doping Alex Gangitano

CQ-Roll Call (TNS)

WASHINGTON — Olympic gold medalists Michael Phelps and Adam Nelson gave heartfelt pleas for Congress to help with the effort to eliminate doping in sports.

The athletes were witnesses on Tuesday at an Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing entitled “Ways to Improve and Strengthen the Anti-Doping System.”

Phelps, the most-medaled Olympic athlete, said he has spent years teaching children that if they believe in themselves, they can do anything.

“Looking back over my career, knowing how difficult it is to get to the highest level of sport, I can’t help but think how will the next generation of athletes know how to do it,” he said.

Nelson originally won silver in the shot put at the 2004 Summer Olympics, but was awarded the gold nine years later after Ukrainian Yuriy Bilonoh tested positive for doping.

He said he picked up his med-

al at the food court in the Atlanta airport, to which both Phelps and members of the subcommittee laughed.

“There is no small bit of irony in me losing a medal in this fashion,” he said “As an athlete, I rejected the notion that you needed drugs to compete.”

As he told his story, the members of the committee listened in both sadness and shock.

Nelson has been advocating for clean sport since 2012, but “those voices continue to fall on deaf ears,” he said.

“Athletes want action, not words,” he said. “You have to engage the athletes. We will stand with you as a partner if you empower us to do so.”

In his opening statements, Nelson showed his gold medal to the subcommittee and asked members to ”give meaning to my medal.”

“I’d like to take a moment right now to congratulate Mr. Nelson on his Olympic gold medal,” the subcommittee’s chairman Tim Murphy, R-Pa., said and all the congresspeople and audience clapped.

“Having that special moment,

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American Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps testifies to a House Commerce subcommittee hearing on the international anti-doping system on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017 in Washington, D.C.

I feel he deserves it,” Phelps said later about how Nelson received his medal.

Phelps said that throughout his career he did think that some athletes were using performance-enhancing drugs, and was sometimes correct.

But of his fellow U.S. swimmers, “I don’t think I ever felt that.”

“When I stand up in the U.S.,

I know we’re all clean,” he said.

“Internationally, there has to be something done and like I said, it has to be done now.”

On the push to prevent doping, Phelps said, “This whole process takes a toll but it’s absolutely worth it to keep the sport clean and fair.”

The other witnesses were Travis Tygart, chief executive officer of the United States Anti-Dop-

ing Agency, Rob Koehler, deputy director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency, and Richard Budgett, medical and scientific director of the International Olympic Committee.

On Monday night, Phelps was spotted with Republican Sen. John Thune of South Dakota and a large group at The Oval Room.

They arrived about 7 p.m. and stayed for about two hours.

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Grandmother raises orphan, hopes for a break in lethal hit-and-run case Michael Doyle McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Bella Bulmer’s dad died in his Army barracks, killed by a stranger.

Her mother, Beth Bulmer, died almost exactly eight years later on a dark Tulare County road in California, the victim of a still-unsolved hit-and-run.

Now, the 55-year-old grandmother who’s raising Bella in California fights for veterans benefits while she hopes for a break in the case that haunts her.

“Bella is always asking me why she had to lose mommy and daddy,” said Anita Langdon, a Clovis-area resident who is Beth’s mother and Bella’s grandmother.

“It is so difficult to explain to an 8-year-old.”

Different mysteries cloud the deaths of each of Bella’s parents.

An Army court-martial, and eventual guilty plea, determined her father’s killer to be a fellow soldier, George D.B. MacDonald. Precisely why McDonald attacked the 23-year-old Rick Bulmer at Fort Benning, Ga., on the evening of May 18, 2008, though, defies explanation.

A paratrooper and Eagle Scout who was being groomed for West Point, MacDonald claimed up until his 2015 guilty plea that the smoking cessation drug Chantix had deeply disturbed him. He complained of morbid dreams and a sense of unreality, symptoms similar to those iden-

John Walker | Fresno Bee | TNS

The late Beth Bulmer and daughter Izzabella visited the grave of Rick Bulmer, Beth’s husband who was killed, at the Clovis Cemetery, in Calif., April 10, 2014. She was pregnant with Izzabella at the time of his death.

tified on a Chantix “black box” label required by the Food and Drug Administration starting in 2009.

The FDA dropped the black box warning on Chantix last December, following additional studies. After his guilty plea, entered after a military appeals court threw out his first conviction and life sentence and ordered a new trial, MacDonald was sentenced to 45 years. He could be released much earlier.

But while Rick Bulmer’s death

combines a known perpetrator with murky causation, the situation is reversed with his young widow. Investigators know the general circumstances of her death on the night of May 21, 2016. The identity of the pickup truck driver who struck her and kept moving is the puzzle.

“You could use the term ‘cold case,’” a Visalia-based California Highway Patrol spokesman, Officer Steve Beal, said in an interview. “There are not any leads at this point.”

Snapchat’s unprecedented real estate strategy could be tech’s new standard Nina Agrawal Los Angeles Times (TNS) A tech startup based in Los Angeles rather than Silicon Valley. A mobile app that built its appeal by deleting photos and messages. Vertical video in a widescreen world.

Snapchat, the popular photo and video messaging app, has broken the mold in many ways.

Now, with parent company Snap Inc.’s initial public stock offering only days away, it is poised to do so again.

Snap will begin trading on public markets without a designated headquarters, an anomaly in the tech world.

None of Snap’s peers — the 10 California-based technology companies with the biggest IPOs of the last 15 years — lacked a corporate headquarters when it went public.

Snap knows its strategy is unusual: The company listed its lack of a headquarters and spread-out West Los Angeles offices on its financial filings as a risk that could potentially harm its business and future revenue prospects.

“This diffuse structure may prevent us from fostering positive employee morale and encouraging social interaction among our employees and different business units,” the filing stated. “Moreover … we may be unable to adequately oversee employees and business functions.”

In an era when companies such as Google, Facebook and Apple have created an expectation that tech firms will offer sprawling corporate campuses

with gyms, chefs preparing organic food and massage services on site, Snap’s scattered layout could strengthen its brand as an outsider that challenges the status quo.

Or it could prove to be a liability that hinders innovation and productivity, experts say.

Snap has been a rebel from the start. In 2013, founder and Chief Executive Evan Spiegel left Palo Alto and set up shop in LA’s Venice Beach area, hoping to escape both Silicon Valley and corporate culture.

The company quickly outgrew its beachfront bungalow but chose to expand within Venice and nearby Marina del Rey rather than consolidate in a single location.

This strategy has some benefits. Snap, whose emphasis on secrecy extends beyond its self-destructing messages, always strives to surprise its users.

By isolating teams in separate facilities, it can limit those in the know about projects outside their own — potentially reducing the likelihood that details leak out.

Workers take shuttles or walk between offices, which some say has deepened their desire to volunteer locally. They can eat at beachside cafes and support local businesses, thanks to Snap vouchers.

And then there’s the aura.

“Venice is younger and grittier — more South of Market than Silicon Valley,” said Bryan Dunne, a commercial office broker in West LA, referring to a neighborhood in San Francisco.

But at the same time, “It’s extremely supply constrained and

there’s not that many large projects,” Dunne said.

For that reason, he said, tech giants such as Oracle Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. have generally chosen spaces where they have the ability to keep growing without relocating.

Consolidating office space into a single campus is beneficial for an obvious reason, said Sigal Barsade, a professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania: It brings people together.

A company’s culture is often set from the top down, Barsade said. Employees absorb it by observing company leaders and one another.

“It’s easier to maintain consistency in the messages that you’re sending in terms of culture when literally people are in the same location and it gives more opportunity to see the culture enacted,” Barsade said.

A strong culture, in turn, translates to improved morale and productivity. “People like to feel like they fit in and are part of something,” Barsade said. “You also know better what to do and how to do it.”

But companies can succeed without consolidating, she said.

“It’s not a fatal flaw. It just means that they have to be very, very conscious of how they’re going to (achieve) the cohesion, the transfer of norms and values, the transfer of knowledge” that you get from being in one place, she said.

Barsade pointed to Southwest Airlines, which has built a strong culture and a productive business despite having employees all over the country.

Beth Bulmer’s death at the age of 27 cast Langdon back into the familiar roles of caretaker as well as grieving mother. Langdon had previously lost a son, Mark Prettyman, in May 2005.

For Bella, whose formal name is Izzabella, more than the usual postmortem complications have ensued. Family dynamics can be tricky.

As Rick Bulmer’s mother Wendy Smith said last week, “Bella is blessed” to have cousins, uncles and others who want to be a part

of her life.

Starting last June, in Fresno County Superior Court, Langdon began the laborious process of becoming Bella’s legal guardian. Separately, the Department of Veterans Affairs required blood tests to prove Bella was Rick’s daughter, because he died before she was born. Langdon said she’s still waiting for the veterans’ payments that will go into a secured account for Bella’s later use.

“I have been trying for months to get Bella’s (veterans’) benefits,” Langdon said. “A lot of paperwork involved.”

Born in Fresno, Langdon’s daughter Beth attended Clovis High School.

“She was an amazingly sweet little girl,” Langdon said. “She was free-spirited and was always willing to help others.”

Beth was 19 years old and pregnant when her husband of about two months left for Army basic training, a lifelong dream for him. Two days after training formally began, Rick Bulmer returned to the barracks, apparently with a sore leg. He was sleeping when MacDonald attacked him with a knife.

The loss hit Beth hard, but she met another man, with whom she had a son and to whom she was eventually engaged to be married. He could not be reached.

In a 2014 interview, Beth said

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Stock market climbed to record highs despite Trump uncertainty James F. Peltz (Los Angeles Times TNS) It’s often said the stock market hates uncertainty, so one might assume Wall Street would be very skittish about President Trump.

Far from it, at least for now.

Stock prices have continued setting record highs as investors brushed aside Trump’s controversial policy actions in his first month in office and the uncertainty about how his planned agenda of tax, regulation and trade reforms will play out, even though they see that pro-business agenda as bullish overall.

The gains have been broadbased, with sectors such as financials, consumer goods, technology and health care all advancing.

“This rally is lifting most of the boats, and that’s something we always like to see,” said John Bollinger, president of Bollinger Capital Management Inc. in Redondo Beach, Calif.

But warning lights are flashing about the market’s ability to sustain the trend, even setting aside the possibility of an unexpected move by the White House or a global event that could rattle investors, some analysts said.

For instance, stocks are getting increasingly rich by historical standards relative to profits.

The market inevitably will need to pull back, or “correct” itself as traders take profits, analysts said.

Analysts also believe a large part of any benefit from Trump’s plan to cut corporate tax rates and pare regulations already is “baked into” share prices.

“We are approaching the point of maximum optimism regarding (Washington) policy initia-

tives,” Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s market analysts warned in a recent note to clients.

For now, though, the market’s performance has been impressive by several measures as Wall Street extends its years-long bull run that mostly occurred during the Obama administration.

The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average has set record highs for 11 consecutive sessions — the latest was an 11.44-point gain to 20,821.76 on Friday — the first time that’s happened in 30 years.

The Dow set record highs for 12 consecutive sessions in early 1987. The last time the average rose 11 consecutive sessions overall was in late 1991 into early 1992.

The Dow has climbed 5.4 percent this year, and it has surged 13.6 percent since Trump was elected Nov. 8.

The benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500 index also hit an alltime high Friday of 2,367.34, and it’s up 10.6 percent since the election. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index reached a record high of 5,865.95 on Feb. 21.

At least four major factors are helping drive prices higher: rising corporate earnings, global economic growth, continued low interest rates and expectations that Trump’s call for tax and regulatory cuts could further swell earnings.

Trump, naturally, is delighted. “Stock market hits new high with longest winning streak in decades,” the president tweeted recently. “Great level of confidence and optimism — even be-

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Nominee to be top intelligence official expresses concern about Russia Del Quentin Wilber Tribune Washington Bureau (TNS) WASHINGTON — Dan Coats expressed concerns Tuesday about Russia’s “assertiveness in global affairs” at his confirmation hearing to be the nation’s top intelligence official, saying that the U.S. must address Moscow’s aggressiveness “with eyes wide open and a healthy degree of skepticism.”

If confirmed to lead the Office of Director of National Intelligence, Coats will find himself at the epicenter of the bitter squabble between President Donald Trump and the U.S. intelligence community about Russia’s efforts to influence the November elections.

The Senate Intelligence Committee, which is weighing Coats’

nomination, is leading an investigation into Russia’s election-related activities, including any potential contacts between its agents and associates of Trump or members of his campaign.

In his opening remarks, Coats also said he would focus on several other threats if confirmed: cyberspying; China’s “troubling” regional assertiveness, especially in the South China Sea; North Korea’s nuclear ambitions; and “radical Islamic terrorism.”

Coats, who stepped down from the Senate in January, is respected by members of both parties and is expected to win easy confirmation as head of the Office of Director of National Intelligence. The position, created after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, involves coordination of the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies.

Like several others in Trump’s Cabinet, the 73-year-old Coats may not see eye to eye with the president, however.

He has been a harsh critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and wanted the Obama administration to severely punish Moscow for annexing Crimea in 2014 and intervening in Ukraine. The Kremlin banned him from visiting the country several years ago.

Trump’s repeated praise for Putin has alarmed many in the intelligence community who see a resurgent Russia threatening U.S. interests in the Middle East, in Eastern Europe and in the Arctic.

Questions about Russia’s role in the U.S. presidential race have proved particularly awkward for the White House.

Albin Lohr-Jones | Sipa USA | TNS

Following his meeting with President-elect Donald Trump, Indiana Senator Dan Coats speaks briefly with the press at Trump Tower on Nov. 30, 2016 in New York, N.Y.

The FBI is investigating Russia’s effort to influence the 2016 election, and whether any

Trump associates had improper contacts with Russian officials

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indianastatesman.com SRC FROM PAGE 1 participants must jump rope. At the eighth station, participants must perform push-ups.

The White Division may do so with their knees on the ground. The Blue Division must do full, proper push-ups. The ninth station is for squats. The White Division com-

JUSTICE FROM PAGE 1 originally indicted in Cabarrus County on two counts of statutory rape of a 13-year-old. He subsequently pleaded guilty to a charge of taking indecent liberties with a child.

He was given a suspended sentence, placed on two years’ probation and required to register as a sex offender.

Packingham was off probation but still on the sex offender registry when he took to Facebook in April 2010 under an assumed name to celebrate the dismissal of a traffic ticket.

One North Carolina appeals court reversed his

ORPHAN FROM PAGE 2 she was sometimes too sad to do anything but take her daughter to school, but friends said she could also be an animal-loving bundle of energy.

“She was frenetic, always moving and on the go,” recalled Lacie Cates, who met Beth in Squaw Valley.

“She was a kind person, with a good sense of humor.”

A 14-page CHP Traffic Collision Report, obtained through a Public Records Act request, and a separate Tulare County Sheriff ’s Department report sum up what evidently occurred on Road 120 near Cutler on a clear, cool Saturday night last May. Beth was riding in a car with her fiance when the two got “involved in a ver-

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mits to doing only bodyweight squats, while the Blue Division squats with a 30-pound weight. At the 10th station, participants must do burpees.

The White Division only needs to perform half of a burpee, but the Blue must do the entire form.

Each station will be attended by volunteers. After doing 50 reps on each

station, students will have done 500 reps — hence the name SRC 500. Ortega assures that students who go all out will find it worthwhile.

“Basically they’re trying to do something that highlights a pretty high level of fitness and give bragging rights, and the scholarship is a nice thing too,” Ortega said.

There will be prize offered for those that finish first in the competition.

The scholarship amounts to $250. Many students participating in the event often feel unprepared for the big day. However, there are preparation classes that help the students get ready for the competition along with staying fit.

“We have an SRC 500

class on Wednesday at 6:30 to help students get ready,” Ortega said.

In Addition, students who feel too unprepared can attend it next year if they wish. The SRC 500 has been going strong the past three years, and has become one of the main fitness events for ISU. Although the competition includes many skills to

prepare for, it is a great experience for those wanting to try something new.

“It is free to students.

Other people can participate, but it’s about $10,” Ortega said.

Participants only need to fill out a registration form, and by doing so get a free t-shirt just by participating.

subsequent conviction, but the North Carolina Supreme Court restored the conviction and upheld the state law.

“This law only applies in the places where everything that happens is a First Amendment activity,” Packingham’s attorney David T. Goldberg told the justices.

An instructor in the Stanford Law School’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Goldberg added that the North Carolina law “goes way too far” and “forecloses some of the most important channels of communication in our society.”

Several justices tried,

without apparent success, to see whether the law could be narrowed so as to avoid First Amendment problems.

Conservative Justice Samuel Alito, a staunch law-and-order supporter, sounded most likely to support the state’s law.

If the court ties 4-4, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruling would be upheld and the law would survive, but no national precedent would be set.

In keeping with his standard practice, Justice Clarence Thomas did not speak or ask questions during arguments.

A decision is expected by the end of June.

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a 23 percent increase from January 2016.

But corporate profits will need to keep growing to justify the higher stock prices. For instance, the price-to-earnings ratio of the stocks in the S&P 500 currently is 21.7 for the trailing 12 months, well above the historical average of 15.5, according to research firm Birinyi Associates.

That ratio drops to a more reasonable, if still frothy, 18.2 when looking at the S&P 500 earnings expected for the next 12 months, which might include the initial benefit of reduced tax rates, Birinyi

estimates.

Mnuchin said last week that the White House wants to overhaul the tax code by August, but it remains unclear whether the changes would apply to 2017 earnings.

Although details of Trump’s tax-cut plan have yet to be revealed, “the latest headlines out of Washington and actual earnings results have given us no reason to change our belief that policy changes may add meaningfully to earnings growth once implemented,” Burt White, chief investment officer of LPL Financial, said in a report last week.

bal altercation,” according to the sheriff ’s report.

“Upon pulling over,” the sheriff ’s report stated, Beth “exited the vehicle while smoking a cigarette as they argued.”

Then, while she was walking or standing in the southbound lane of Road 120, one-quarter mile south of Avenue 404, Bulmer was reported to be struck on her left side by a dark-colored truck heading north.

At 9:28 p.m., a CHP officer was dispatched to a report of a traffic collision with injuries.

About seven minutes later, a Dinuba Fire Department EMT who was on the scene pronounced Beth dead.

She was wearing a green dress, the Tulare County Sheriff ’s deputy reported.

She had two gold-plated rings on the index finger of her left hand.

CHP investigators reported speaking to three witnesses.

Their individual accounts span a little more than a page, but are blacked-out.

A headlight assembly recovered at the scene could not be traced, though investigators showed it to several local car dealers.

The CHP investigators attributed the accident to Beth having “placed herself in danger by walking in this dimly lit area.”

The driver who “fled the scene,” according to the CHP report, committed felony hit and run. This can result in a sentence of up to four years in state prison, if the mystery driver ever comes to light.

fore the tax plan rollout!”

New Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told CNBC last week that the stock market’s gains “absolutely” were a vote of confidence about the Trump administration’s efforts.

Fresh cash from investors keeps pouring into stocks.

Vanguard Group Inc., the giant mutual-fund operator known for its funds that track stock indexes, reported $27.5 billion in net cash inflows for its U.S.-based funds in January — a record one-month sum for the company and

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‘Moonlight’ wins best picture after botched announcement Steven Zeitchik

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

LOS ANGELES — The mood inside the Dolby Theatre was polite but distracted.

“La La Land” was poised to take the best picture Oscar — after months of major awards, a coronation more than a piece of news. Nominees from the musical seated in the back of the theater swept to the front during a commercial break, poised to join the filmmakers and stars on stage. Everyone else began checking their phones — consulting the baby sitter or their schedule of post-show parties.

But backstage, something wasn’t right.

As producers Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd had celebratory champagne glasses stacked nearby, a stagehand arrived from the curtains. “Oh my God,” she said. “(Presenter Warren Beatty) got the wrong envelope.”

In the botched handoff heard around the world, Brian Cullinan, the PricewaterhouseCoopers accountant who had given the actor the card, had messed up.

Instead of passing Beatty an envelope with the correct winner of “Moonlight,” he gave him a duplicate of the card naming Emma Stone lead actress winner.

The scene that played out Sunday night in various parts of the Dolby illustrates the underlying tenuousness of the Oscars process, relying not on computers but accountants, not on digitalization but a few pieces of paper crammed into an envelope.

Questions of responsibility were still being sorted through on Monday, although PwC quickly took the onus of blame from Beatty, his co-presenter Faye

Dunaway and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. But the Oscars blunder took no time reverberating through the Dolby compound, laying bare the ego, the sportsmanship and the humanity that can permeate Hollywood, sometimes all at once.

After the speakers from “La La Land” gave an acceptance speech for a movie that didn’t win, and those who seemed to lose staggered onto the stage as victors, the room erupted in chaos; it quieted only as Beatty took the microphone again to try to explain what happened. A moment later, as the agents, producers and other well-heeled insiders spilled chatteringly out of the theater, a dazed man stood in the aisle. He held an Oscar and seemed unsure of where to go.

Beatty, clearly shaken after he and Dunaway had presided over the wrong winner, disappeared down a hallway. “La La Land” co-star John Legend walked by, shaking his head. Host Jimmy Kimmel, fresh off his appearance onstage to self-deprecatingly close the show, came in and stood next to De Luca.

Casts and producers of both films, oddly commingling as they left the stage together, wandered past. Kimmel went to his dressing room. De Luca left the wings and walked through the hall toward his dressing room, which was across the hall from Kimmel’s. A man hugged him and asked if everything was OK. De Luca said: “It’s OK for some but not OK for others.

It’s not OK for the academy. But it was great live television.”

Moments later, Kimmel emerged from his dressing room preparing to head to the Governors Ball, the post-Oscar cer-

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Emma Stone, who won best actress, arrives at the 89th Academy Awards on Sunday at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood.

emony bash at a sprawling event space atop the Dolby. He stopped and explained that he had been about to go onstage and reprise his long-running bit about Matt Damon, this one involving a doughnut.

Then he saw chaos had broken out.

“There was a lot of nuttiness. It was kind of like a dispute over a boxing match. You didn’t know who won,” he recalled. “ ‘I think I have to go on stage,’ because otherwise our stage manager Gary (Natoli) was going to have to finesse it.”

Not far away in the Dolby lobby, the most veteran of the “La La” producers,

Marc Platt, was trying to process his own thoughts.

The theater-film hyphenate had been through something, well, slightly similar before: Heavily favored with “Wicked” to win the Tony for best musical in 2004, he lost to upstart “Avenue Q. As sympathizers approached Platt outside the Dolby, though, he tried to keep perspective. “Experience prepares you,” he later recalled. “I held an Oscar for two minutes, 43 seconds, and gave it back. It’s

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These two are making this hot DIY trend national Cristina Bolling

The Charlotte Observer (TNS)

PINEVILLE, N.C. — Hands reach for wine and sandpaper — in spirited proportions — on a recent Thursday night at Anders Ruff Workshop, in quaint downtown Pineville.

Ladies, many dressed for a night out, snap photos of each other wielding power drills and brushing stain onto wooden planks, and in a little more than an hour, they’ll hoist their finished products and take group selfies with their new personalized wooden signs or lazy susans. Most will instantly post on Facebook.

This is the hottest new DIY trend in Charlotte.

And the two women who launched this place, Maureen Anders and Adria Ruff, are powerhouses in the world of graphic design and DIY workshops — so much so that just nine months after opening this flagship location in Pineville, they now have licensees opening AR Workshops in 12 cities across the country, with four new locations from Boulder, Colo., to Alexandria, Va., just this month.

The vibe is farmhouse chic: If it feels like HGTV’s Joanna Gaines (from “Fixer Upper” fame) designed it, that’s on purpose. Heavy canvas artist dropcloths serve as curtains. Canvas aprons hang on hooks that are upside-down hammers

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AR Workshop in Pineville, N.C. is the creation of Maureen Anders and Adria Ruff. Both are graphic designers who lead groups in making crafts out of wood and canvas.

painted the muted teal that is the workshop’s signature color.

Anders and Ruff are on-trend graphic designers and astute entrepreneurs to be sure, but it’s their keen sense of knowing how people want to feel while being crafty that might be key to this chapter of their

success.

It was seven years ago in the halls of their kids’ preschool that Anders and Ruff struck up a conversation and quickly keyed on what they had in common.

Both had design backgrounds (Ruff in fashion, photography and graphic design,

Anders in engineering and art) and small entrepreneurial design businesses they’d been nurturing while raising their young kids. After just a few playdates in their Fort Mill homes, they decided to launch an online graphic design business together.

No consultants were called, no marketing managers hired. The two settled on the name Anders Ruff because it was alphabetical and non-specific.

They started by designing party goods they could sell on etsy — but instead of customers buying the actual paper items, they pay a fee to download PDFs of Anders Ruff designs, then print those onto invitations, signs, banners and more.

Ruff and Anders launched a blog and posted photos of their kids’ parties. Etsy sales and blog traffic were so good that they launched their own e-commerce site, andersruff.com.

Soon, they were creating party photo shoots for their blog and getting high-profile jobs.

Tennis pro Venus Williams hired the pair to create paper goods for the launch of her clothing line, and Better Homes & Gardens Magazine called, asking them to create and style a multi-page spread for their special Halloween edition. (They’ve continued to do that spread for the maga-

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She’s the Zeshan Bagewadi has a sonic message of inclusion First art exhibition Aaron Cohen

Chicago Tribune (TNS)

Anthony Goelz Reporter

The Center for Global engagement is holding the “She’s the First” Art Exhibition and Silent Auction on March 1 to March 8.

The Center for Global Engagement has asked students, faculty, student organizations and departments to create works of art to celebrate International Women’s Day, which is on March 8. All submissions will be displayed in the Hulman Memorial Student Union. The goal of the artists is to create a piece of art with the theme “She’s The First” to the “She’s the First” Art Exhibition and silent auction.

Paintings may not be the only art medium on display. “Any medium is welcome — paint, glitter, bedazzle, stencil, collage, etc. Artists who wish to work in other mediums (photography, ceramics, etc.) may do so,” according to the website. Any

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When President Donald Trump announced a ban on immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim nations, singer Zeshan Bagewadi had already prepared a response. Bagewadi — who usually performs as Zeshan B — recently recorded a version of George Perkins’ 1970 rhythm and blues hit, “Cryin’ in the Streets.” Perkins’ song addressed civil rights and, 47 years later, Bagewadi delivered his take on its message.

His version’s video moves from footage of Martin Luther King Jr. to clips of demonstrations for Black Lives Matter and against Trump. Bagewadi’s performance also makes an inclusive statement. An opera-trained soul singer, his ululations derive from South Asian ghazal and qawwali traditions. And in one scene Bagewadi chants while sitting on Islamic prayer rugs.

“I’ve always felt that our people — Indian- and Pakistani-Americans — need to incorporate the pain of those who paved the path for us: black people, Hispanics, Native Americans,” Bagewadi said at a Puerto Rican restaurant in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood. “With the rise of Trump, we’re being targeted and our livelihoods are being threatened. So now it’s like, ‘You guys have to get your act together and we need to unite with these groups.’”

Bagewadi’s music embraces that kind of

coalition. His parents worked for a social service organization in Mumbai after his father had reported on the American civil rights movement and absorbed its real-time R & B soundtrack. Anti-Muslim violence in India during the 1980s forced them to immigrate and they settled in the Chicago suburb of Villa Park. They brought their empathies and listening preferences with them.

“Dad would pick me up from school, this Indian immigrant dad, playing Curtis Mayfield,” Bagewadi said. “He would say, ‘Curtis was from Chicago; he grew up in the projects.’ It filled me with a sense of pride being from here.”

At home, the family also listened to Indian folk music as well as popular Bollywood film scores and their Pakistani equivalents, called “Lollywood” (from the city Lahore).

Religious sounds became equally crucial.

Bagewadi remembers his first performance was reciting passages from the Koran at his Islamic elementary school. Later, he sang in the Glenbard East High School gospel choir.

Ties between faiths have always resonated with him. So has the legacy of R & B singers who started in churches.

“Spiritual music spoke of something celestial, otherworldly — and the real beautiful thing is when you hear artists who matriculate from those channels sing secular music but bring that aspect of it to the table,” Bagewadi said. “I’ve always tried to do that in my singing.”

Just before Bagewadi began studying opera at Northwestern University, his father gave him an Indian harmonium, the country’s traditional reed organ. Afterward, he adjusted the instrument, including adding an electric pickup and emphasizing big soul chords rather than just melodic lines. Bagewadi brought that harmonium to Memphis last year where he recorded “Vetted” (Minty Fresh), which will be released in April. Those sessions took an educational turn since he worked alongside such R & B veterans as arranger Lester Snell (he was a keyboardist on Isaac Hayes’ “Shaft”).

“I was so intimidated by Lester, but he was so open,” Bagewadi said. “He took me to task and I learned how to groove. I used to sing with more of an Indian style, and when I sing in English, I go crazy. He’d say, ‘That’s good, but let’s channel that in the right direction.’”

Since Bagewadi also sings this inherently American music in Urdu, the language combinations posed another challenge. Ultimately, these contrasts convey their own meaning.

“Urdu has explosive consonants, and the difficult thing is how do you sing that and make it sound beautiful? R & B informs my singing in Urdu because it sounds cooler when you put these consonants or stresses on the groove rather than floating in space.

That’s what’s fun in learning how to sing in different languages. They all inform each other.”

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DIY FROM PAGE 4 zine every year for the last six years.)

“They found us,” Anders said. “Every time I’d try to reach out to people, nothing would happen. But then, we just kept putting good stuff out there, and we’d get noticed.”

Ruff recalls: “We were watching ‘The Bachelorette’ the season (Charlottean) Emily Maynard was on, and sure enough, she ordered invitations for her daughter’s party from us. We asked, ‘Do you need help with her party?’ and we styled her whole party with the ‘glam camping’ theme.”

Anders and Ruff were hired by Universal and Sony to create downloadable printables for the DVD launches of movies including “Bridesmaids,” “Angry Birds,” “One Direction” and “Hop.” (They created a buffet of items people could print out to decorate their homes for home-viewing parties.)

Even with national attention, about two years ago the printables market was becoming saturated by free downloads, and Anders Ruff sales started to slide. But the women’s blog traffic stayed strong – a sign to them that the craft/DIY market was still healthy.

The pair had worked long distance for a couple of years (Anders’ husband got a job in Milwaukee, so the family moved) and the moment Anders’ family moved back in August 2015, she and Ruff began scouting locations for a craft workshop.

If painting-and-wine businesses and

EXHIBITION FROM PAGE 4 non-submitted pieces must be turned into the Center for Global Engagement in Gillum Hall today by 4:30 p.m.

All proceeds raised by this silent auction will be donated to the international charity organization She’s The First, which provides scholarships to girls in low-income countries, fostering first-generation graduates and cultivating the next generation of global leaders.

She’s The First mobilizes students and young professionals to join the movement for quality, equal education.

Every year on March 8, International Women’s Day is held.

“International Women’s Day has been observed since in the early 1900’s — a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies.

It was not until 1975 that the United Nations celebrated International Women’s Day.

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AR Workshop owners/creators Maureen Anders, left, and Adria Ruff, right, at their Pineville, N.C. location.

pottery painting remain successful, they figured, so could a boutique painted-wood workshop. After all, wooden signs sell well in stores and boutiques, and customers would enjoy the mix of socializing and creating items they semi-design themselves.

“I think there’s a lot of gratification that

comes from doing it yourself,” Anders says. “They hang it on the wall and they’re constantly reminded, ‘I really truly made that myself.’ That satisfaction of making it yourself is way better than going out and buying it in the store. It makes people feel good.”

The former billiard hall in downtown

Then in December 1977, the General Assembly adopted a resolution proclaiming a United Nations Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace to be observed on any day of the year by Member States, in accordance with their historical and national traditions,” according to the website.

International Women’s Day celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women and encourages gender equality.

According to the website, the theme for International Women’s Day 2017 is #BeBoldForChange.

Call on the masses or call on yourself to help forge a better working, more gender inclusive world.

The funds raised from the silent auction will go toward the scholarships that will help girls in low-income countries.

“She’s the First” event will raise scholarships to the Submitted; pieces will be available for viewing starting March 1 and will be up until March 8 in the Hulman Memorial Student Union.

OSCARS FROM PAGE 4 a big bummer — you feel stung by a bee — but you come out the other side.”

He sought to convey that perspective to younger “La La” filmmakers.

Not all seemed as willing to accept it, at least in public. In the news-conference room at the adjoining Renaissance Hotel, Damien Chazelle, who directed “La La” and had just become the youngest director winner in Oscar history, was a no-show, as he was at many post-Oscars events throughout the evening.

That left Stone to face the media music.

She raised a question: “I also was holding my best actress in a leading role card, so I’m not sure what that was. Whatever story you’re hearing.” It was taken by some as the suggestion of a conspiracy theory. But she said she “loved” “Moonlight” and, in any event, at that moment she clearly didn’t know the Oscars’ system — duplicate envelopes held by Cullinan and colleague Martha Ruiz, both as a redundancy and to allow presenters to

Pineville was dark and dingy, but the pair saw potential. They agreed that everything inside would be DIY, from the giant rolling work tables (built by Ruff ’s husband, Matt) to the handsome wood bar (also built by Matt), the hand-painted metal pendant lights and the wooden sawhorse table that holds big rolls of craft paper.

They launched in June 2016 and filled their first classes with friends, with the hope word would get out and business would snowball.

Now, it’s a buzzing girls’-night-out spot, as well as a venue for children’s birthday parties, church group outings, couples date nights and mom-and-daughter activities. Most planks and lazy susans cost around $65; painted pillows are $40 and there are lettering classes for $65, among other offerings.

This month, there are 46 workshops at the Pineville location alone, which holds 30. Anders and Ruff say they field requests for licensees weekly.

Wood and canvas projects remain their most popular, and they’re constantly expanding and refining their choices for customers. At a wedding show last month, they showcased signs and wood products for farmhouse-style weddings and items that can be given as gifts — giant signs to put over a couple’s bed, customized with a lyric to their wedding song, for example.

They know farmhouse chic won’t be in forever, and that painting wood signs will one day be replaced with another new trend. be handed them from either side of the stage. “Is that the craziest Oscar moment of all time? Cool, we made history. Craziest moment,” Stone said.

Shortly after, the “Moonlight” crew came in, “Moonlight” director and co-writer Barry Jenkins still trying to make sense of what he saw.

“I noticed the commotion that was happening and thought something strange had occurred. I’m sure everybody saw my face,” he said. “It made a very special feeling even more special … but not in the way I expected.”

Inside, Hollywood’s elite were talking and asking questions. How did pollsters get it so wrong, especially after a year of Trump and Brexit?

Maybe one question prevailed above all: How would the people in the room react if they were in the “La La Land” position?

“I’d like to think I’d stand up there and be very tough,” said “Arrival” executive producer Glen Basner. “Then I’d go home and cry.”

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Trump plays with fire by taunting foreign nations

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Dahleen Glanton

Chicago Tribune (TNS)

The majority of Americans don’t like the way President Donald Trump is running the country. That’s probably an understatement.

Trump has a 43.7 percent approval rating, according to an average of polls compiled by Real Clear Politics. It’s the lowest of any U.S. president this early in his administration since 1953.

And it keeps going lower.

The only thing that could get Trump out of this slump is a war. I’m not saying that’s what the president wants, but I fear it could be where we’re headed.

Wars have a way of pulling the country together, with everyone scrambling to line up behind our leader. Take former President George W. Bush. His overall job approval rating skyrocketed 13 points to 71 percent after launching the Iraq war in 2003, according to Gallup polls.

The same thing happened with his dad. President George H.W. Bush saw his job approval rating jump to 18 points to 82 percent after the start of the Persian Gulf war in 1991, Gallup found.

There have been plenty of presidents with whom I disagreed on their policies. But Trump is another matter. Many Americans, including myself, are afraid of the man.

This week, we learned that Trump plans to ask for a $54 billion increase in defense spending.

Why so much, and why now?

Does the president have something up his sleeve that the American people don’t know about? Is there an imminent threat that he’s keeping from us?

Trump doesn’t have the patience to avert a nuclear war as President John F. Kennedy did during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.

He certainly does not have the diplomacy of former President Jimmy Carter, who took it upon himself to step in and avert a crisis between the U.S. and North Korea over nuclear arms in 1994.

While most Americans don’t follow the government’s day-to-day dealings with foreign countries, we do pay attention to Trump’s Twitter account. And we know childish bullying when we see it.

If anything, Trump has done more to provoke these volatile countries than try to improve our fragile relationships with them.

His careless declarations regarding Iran, North Korea, China or any other country he doesn’t respect have put Americans in danger and are making our allies uneasy.

While Trump insists that the Iran nuclear deal is “really, really bad,” he seems to have sensibly backed off his campaign promise to tear it up, at least for now.

But his constant taunting of the Middle Eastern nation on Twitter, including a tweet describing Iran as “#1 in terror” and another claiming that “Iran is playing with fire,” is another way of saying, “I dare you!”

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Copies of the Jewsish Bible and the Quran sit next to each other on a bookshelf in the Mosaic on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016.

The Mosaic is a prayer room in Duke’s Keohane dorm, open for prayer and meditation by students of all faiths.

Religious profiling is the wrong path to take

Zach Davis Columnist

Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, many Americans have lived in fear, which seems to exist simply because many people just don’t understand. They fear the unknown. Many don’t understand the motives of the attack, while others do but don’t see the logic. Being so confused, people naturally place blame on what is left or what they can observe: religion, race and nationality.

Many people bought copies of the Quran after the attacks to understand the motives of these individuals who did such terrible things in the name of Islam. A lot of people took the wrong direction and held Islam accountable to all the horrible actions committed by an extreme group of people, effectively placing a scarlet letter on all who have that religion in common.

Interestingly, though, that same set of factors were used by those who attacked us. They viewed us as dangerous because of our lifestyle, nationality and take on religion. Tensions were high and they viewed us as a threat – and some still do. Of course we know that

not all of us are dangerous, even though we have a few extreme members who rape, murder and pillage still; they work alone and don’t represent the rest of us.

Sadly, it seems we can make that distinction for ourselves, but many people have trouble making that distinction when it comes to other groups of people. That leads them to assume that everyone who shares a specific trait is the same, even if that assumption isn’t true.

We have examples of this in the past: we rounded up all the people with different skin colors when slavery was legal; we incarcerated people who looked like the enemy in World War II; and we do it with the Middle East.

It is called profiling, and it can lead to some disheartening situations like terrorist attacks. It isn’t helpful, or even wise, to assume that everyone that shares a trait is the same. It causes good people to get pushed away, and irrational people get angry. Ultimately, we create a divide that is doomed to become violent – just like we see in our country today.

Look at how we have handled relations with the Middle East. We have banned a bunch of innocent people out of fear that they have something in common with the bad ones. We continue to ostracize those that are different, and we are making ourselves out to be an enemy to those we simply don’t understand.

Ideally everybody would read this article and the guilty parties would stop doing it, but that isn’t reasonable. What

is reasonable is to become more educated on the topics we discuss and the demographics we don’t know. It is hard to weed out the reliable sources from the bad ones, but Harvard University has you covered.

In 2015, the Religious Literacy Project was launched to combat religious profiling by educating the public on five of the largest religions in the world: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism. A series of courses were offered in 2016 to the general public, and the website is still up. It tackles large topics, such as what the Torah is and how Hinduism evolved. These resources are invaluable to anybody who wants to learn more about these religions.

Naturally, you are welcome to read the texts in each religion. It is important to note that each text needs to be read differently, since every religion has a different tradition that greatly affects the meaning of the texts. That is why it is a good idea to seek out scholars of these religions. They have studied these texts and the traditions enough to understand the subject matter.

Whatever method you choose, it is important to understand religions and stop using them to profile individuals.

Profiling others out of fear, ignorant of what we don’t understand, is simply too dangerous to do. We have landed ourselves in a mess doing that up until now; it is time we tried something different.

Bomb threats appear to be low on Trump’s agenda Jonathan Bernstein

Bloomberg View (TNS)

Another round of bomb threats on Jewish Community Centers and Jewish schools was reported Monday.

While fortunately none of the threats so far has turned into a real bombing, the dozens of threats are shaking up the Jewish community, along with the desecration of Jewish cemeteries in Kansas City and Philadelphia.

Donald Trump hasn’t paid much public attention to this, for whatever reason. Whether that’s offensive in some abstract sense is a question I’ll leave to others for now.

Good presidential leadership, however, requires more than just managing to make adequate public statements. If we assume he’s been as indifferent to the bomb threats in private as he has been in public, he’s taking a big risk.

Suppose, after all these warnings, that people are eventually killed in an attack.

People are going to ask: What was the president doing about it all these weeks? And Trump bet-

ter have an answer for that question.

Can presidents make a difference? Absolutely. One of the best examples we have is the “millennium” terrorist plot, in which the Bill Clinton administration picked up rumors of a major attack coming.

Clinton focused the executive branch on the potential attack by insisting that department secretaries and others at the top of relevant agencies report to him daily about what they had done to prevent terrorism — which meant that they in turn pushed the bureaucracy below them to come up with something new and impressive-sounding to report.

Of course, a president cannot use that tactic, at that level, all the time. And without presidential pressure, the bureaucracy won’t necessarily do anything about a problem that comes to the president’s attention.

Richard Neustadt quotes one of Franklin Roosevelt’s aides about how Cabinet secretaries typically respond: “Half of a president’s sugges-

tions, which theoretically carry the weight of orders, can be safely forgotten by a Cabinet member.

And if the president asks about a suggestion a second time, he can be told that it is being investigated. If he asks a third time, a wise Cabinet officer will give him at least part of what he suggests, but only occasionally, except about the most important matters, do presidents ever get around to asking three times.”

“Three times” might not literally always be the case, but we can use it to stand for the basic fact that the executive branch won’t always automatically do what the president asks.

It requires active engagement from the White House, and (for best results) from the president himself.

It’s not an exaggeration to say that a big part of being president is knowing which things are worth asking about three times.

We don’t know everything that’s happening, but there’s no evidence so far that Trump is even vaguely aware that such crucial decisions must be made at all.

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How can a president decide which emerging challenges need attention and resources?

One question the president must ask himself is how high he wants something to be on his agenda. Pushing an agency or multiple agencies on one thing uses resources (theirs and his own) that therefore can’t be used for other priorities.

Something new that comes along, then, might distract from items the president’s supporters expect him to focus on.

That’s a cost, especially for a new president who has promised swift changes on everything from immigration and trade to national security and infrastructure.

Another question, however, is about the risks for ignoring something. Should an actual attack follow, organized groups, the media, and perhaps even Congress will ask tough questions about what exactly the federal government did in response to the threats we’ve seen so far.

If the answer is that the president did little or nothing, it will be a scandal, perhaps a major one.

In order to balance those things, presidents need to be expert at gathering clues from the various sources of information available to them — which is one reason why good leadership requires absorbing as much information, from as many good sources, as possible.

The need to have well-honed political instincts, too, to calibrate the various costs and risks (and benefits) involved. They obviously need, too, to have a good sense of their own preferred agenda and how much persuasion relevant departments and agencies will need to keep that agenda moving forward.

In other words, the question of whether and how often to ask three times isn’t an easy one at all in many cases.

But it sure seems to me that this is a case in which the risks of inaction to the president (not to mention, of course, the affected communities) are unusually high.

Perhaps Trump is more active behind the scenes than he’s willing to be in public, but if not, what is he waiting for?

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Some of the emails embarrassed senior Democrats and proved a distraction to Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

The report concluded that Russian intelligence agencies sought to undermine Clinton’s campaign because senior Russian officials had developed a “clear preference” for Trump.

Trump and members of his administration have pushed back on the report and any suggestion

that his campaign colluded with the Russians. Trump said Tuesday that he hadn’t “called Russia in 10 years.”

On Feb. 13, Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Flynn, was forced to resign after he acknowledged misleading Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations in December with the Russian ambassador to Washington about sanctions on Russia.

In January, when North Korea’s Kim Jong Un announced that his country was in the final stage of test-launching a ballistic missile that could be capable of reaching the U.S. West Coast, Trump tweeted, “It won’t happen.”

Well, guess what? A month later, North Korea test-launched a ballistic missile. But it was also a test of our new president, the

way children sometimes test their parents.

Trump’s response was like an inexperienced mother saying to a defiant child, “Just wait until your father gets home!”

Obviously, tough talk isn’t enough when dealing with dictators or terrorists, for that matter.

We are sadly mistaken if we don’t think our adversaries aren’t taking notes. They are always looking for an opening to slip in and bring our country to its

knees.

We can’t trust Iran or North Korea to do the right thing, but the world is doomed if the U.S. president doesn’t know how to be the adult in the room.

If President Trump doesn’t stay off Twitter, we could end up in a nuclear war.

And if that happens, no amount of money poured into our military would be enough to save us.

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off the season sweep. Drake will undoubtedly be trying to pull off the upset while Bradley hopes that the third time is a charm.

On Friday the quarterfinal round will commence. No. 1 seed Illinois State will face the winner of the 8/9 game at 1 p.m.

No. 4 seed Southern Illinois will take on Loyola at 2:30.

No. 2 seed Wichita State will take on the winner of the 7/10 matchup.

The No. 3 seed Northern Iowa will conclude the festivities on Friday evening when they take on No. 6 seed Missouri State.

The semifinal games will be at 3:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Saturday, and the championship game will tip off at 2 p.m. on Sunday.

holding both Loyola and Missouri State to under 60 points in a game. However, they also allowed an absurd 109 points against Wichita State.

For both of these teams it is a loss-and-go-home scenario.

ISU will need to focus on getting good looks to win Thursday, especially from Scott and senior Matt Van Scyoc. These two have proven to be catalysts all season long. On any given night they can both score 15, or barely score five. Consistency is what the Sycamores need to make a Cinderella story a reality at Arch Madness.

The winner of this game will play No. 1 seed Illinois State Friday at 1 p.m.

to come out with a win.

Sycamore players Wendi Bibbins and Rhagen Smith are both coming off good games played against conference rival Wichita State.

Bibbins carried the team with 12 points and Smith ending the game with nine points on the night.

Indiana State is looking to bounce back and end the season with two more wins.

The Sycamores will pay SIU at 7 p.m. Thursday.

The game can be heard on the radio at WIBQ 1230.

On Saturday ISU will play Evansville at 2 p.m. Both games will be hosted at the Hulman Center.

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James Clapper, then director of national intelligence, issued a declassified report Jan. 6 that concluded Putin’s government had ordered “an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. presidential election.”

The Russian operation included hacking Democratic National Committee computers and leaking thousands of emails to

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MVC TOURNAMENT

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Brenton Scott goes up for the shot at last years MVC Championship in St. Louis.

Arch Madness kicks off this weekend Austin Vanlandingham Reporter

The State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Tournament will kick off Thursday evening.

The 2017 State Farm MVC Tournament will return to St. Louis for the 27th consecutive season, and this year’s tourney marks the 41st conference championship.

For the first time in the MVC’s history, the conference had co-champions with identical 17-1 conference re-

cords. Illinois State edged out Wichita State for the number one seed through tiebreaker guidelines.

The winner of the State Farm MVC Tournament receives an automatic bid to represent the MVC in the NCCA Tournament. In four of the last five seasons, the league has sent multiple teams to the Big Dance. In that span those teams have produced a respectable 13-9 record, which ranks fourth behind powerhouse conferences, SEC, ACC and Big Ten. This year three pairs of teams that

faced each other on the last day of the regular season will meet in their first games at the MVC Tournament. Out of the 13 times this has occurred, the winner of the regular season matchup has won the first tournament meeting eight times. Northern Iowa are coming off back-to-back tournament titles and will look to capture their third in as many seasons.

On Thursday March 2 the festivities will get going with the #8 seed Evansville will take on the No. 9 seed Indiana State. These two squared off in

Men begin MVC tourney against Evansville Reporter

The Indiana State men’s basketball team will begin the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament Thursday against Evansville in St. Louis at 7 p.m.

The Sycamores played the Purple Aces in their last regular season game this past Saturday, suffering a 65-63 loss in Evansville.

The two teams split the season series with a game apiece. Thursday should be a competitive game, as the previous two matchups were decided by only three total points.

In the first contest between these two teams, the Sycamores and Brenton Scott needed overtime to pull off an 85-84 win in the Hulman Center.

Scott finished with 22 points, only trailing UE’s senior Jaylon Brown who poured in 25 while going 16-of-16 from the charity stripe. Both teams’ offenses were rolling in what was an offensive showcase.

The second game between these Highway 41 rivals was much different. The teams combined for only four makes from behind the arc. Brown exploded again in this one with 24 points and eight rebounds.

The Sycamores and the Purple Aces both managed to win in their home arenas, but they will be playing on a neutral court to-

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

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the season finale and the Purple Aces squeaked out a narrow 65-63 victory.

Indiana State won the first meeting of the season in an overtime thriller 8584. Both of these teams are familiar with each other and should prove to be an interesting matchup.

Following the Evansville-Indiana State contest, the No. 7 seed Bradley will square off against No. 10 seed Drake. Bradley defeated Drake both times they faced each other, pulling

morrow in the Scottrade Center.

ISU will be looking for revenge in the rubber match, as Evansville defeated Greg Lansing’s team last year in the MVC Tournament.

The elite players on both of these teams were recognized earlier this week.

On Tuesday the MVC All-Conference teams were announced. Brown was awarded a spot on the Second-Team, while Scott represented the Sycamores on the conference’s Third-Team.

Indiana State will need to focus on their defensive rotations going into Arch Madness.

Purple Aces head coach Marty Simmons is all about motion. Evansville sets all types of screen, especially flex screens to isolate Brown and Ryan Taylor on the wings. The two guards are a dynamic duo, pulling up from the wings or driving to the bucket, and are always locked in at the free throw line shooting 86 percent each.

Evansville poses a problem against teams because Brown and Taylor combine for 25 PPG. While the offensive output has been relatively consistent from Brown and Taylor, Evansville’s defense has been anything but.

The Purple Aces have shown signs of dominance on their defensive end this season,

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ISU looks for a comeback against Southern Illinois Andrew Doran Reporter

The women’s basketball team is looking to make a comeback and end the season in good standing. With the team losing the last nine of 11 games played, the Sycamores are looking to take these last two games of the regular season playing against Southern Illinois University March 2, and Evansville University this coming Saturday.

The Southern Illinois University Salukis are coming into town on a current two-game winning streak. The Salukis are currently 14-13, 8-8 MVC and have been losing more on the road than at home this year. The Salukis are 4-2 in their last six games— big wins against Northern Iowa University and at Wichita State University.

The Salukis in their last game against Bradley University won 69-63. Senior guard Carlie Corrigan had carried the Salukis in their win as she had 15 points and one assist throughout the matchup. Along with Carrigan’s 15-point game, she went 3-4 from beyond the arc.

Alongside Corrigan, there were three other players for the Salukis that had 10 plus points in the game. Senior point guard Rishonda Napier had a game for herself. Napier had a total of 10 points,

seven assists and one block on the game.

Napier played 31 minutes in the game to get the win for the Salukis at home against Bradley. In the previous game against Illinois State, Napier scored 13 and gave herself an assist in the win.

Another key player the Sycamores are going to have to defend well is junior Kylie Giebelhausen. In the game against the Braves, she shot 5-12, giving herself 12 points and one assist playing 39 minutes of the game. In the game prior to Bradley’s, she put up 18 points and got a steal during the game.

The Salukis shot exceptionally well as a whole against the Braves, ending the game with 45.6 percent of shots made.

The women down low for the Salukis were great as they put up 30 points down in the paint. As well as second chance scoring opportunities, SIU was great in the rebounding aspect as they were able to put up nine points after rebounding the ball. The bench put a great fourths effort in as they had 12 points off the bench.

The last time Indiana State and Southern Illinois University had played was back in early January. The game led the Sycamores to win, having a score of 6853. If Indiana State can uphold these three key players from SIU they should be able

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