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Volume 124, Issue 54

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Indiana State University will host the annual Jazz Fest on Saturday, Feb. 18 in the University Hall auditorium and the recital hall in the Landini Center for Preforming and Fine Arts.

State will be hosting annual Jazz Fest this weekend Anthony Goelz Reporter

The ISU Jazz Fest is “run and paid for by the Gamma Omega chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, with help from other ISU music students,” according to Nick Puchek, a senior music education student. Puchek is also an officer of the Gamma Omega Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and Collegiate Province Representative of Province 28.

“Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia is the world’s oldest and largest secret national fraternal society in music. Sinfonia was born on Oct. 6, 1898, at the New England Conservatory in Boston, when a group of 13 young men under the guidance of Ossian Everett Mills met ‘to consider the social life of the young men students of that institution (and) to devise ways and means by which

it might be improved.’ Sinfonia became a national fraternity on Oct. 6, 1900, with the admission of a group of men at the Broad Street Conservatory in Philadelphia,” according to sinfonia.org.

Jazz festivals are wonderful experiences for those with a love of jazz. These festivals can also provide a learning experience for high school students and the educators who run those programs. According to Puchek, there are “around 20 high schools/middle schools from all around Indiana,” that will be attending the festival. High schools and middle schools will not be the only the only people performing. Along with schools the “ISU Jazz Band and Victor Rendón is the guest artist,” Puchek said.

Victor Rendón is the founder of Victor Rendón & Bronx Conexión Latin-Jazz Big Band.

“Rendón is the director, as well

as the timbalero. He formed the ensemble in 2012 initially as a rehearsal band at Lehman College, where he is a percussion educator, and it has grown into a full-blown 20-piece orchestra capable of raising the roof.

This music was primarily intended for dancing, and the title track gets things moving with a mambo concoction spiced up with tinges of Cuban timba,” said James Nadal in a review of Rendón’s “True Flight” album on allaboutjazz.com.

The festival begins at 8 a.m. with visiting school groups performing until 11 a.m. At noon, the ISU Jazz Ensemble followed by the ISU Steele Band will perform. Following those performances, Victor Rendón and Pat Harbison will give clinics. “Jazz trumpeter Pat Harbison currently teaches jazz history and impro-

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Student suspended after filming teacher saying Trump’s election ‘an act of terrorism’ Roxana Kopetman

The Orange County Register (TNS)

COSTA MESA, Calif. — An Orange Coast College student who secretly videotaped his instructor making anti-Trump statements was suspended from school and told to write a letter of apology as well as a three-page essay about the incident.

The college suspended Caleb O’Neil for the current semester and the summer term, saying he violated a Coast Community College District policy prohibiting recording someone on district property without that person’s consent.

“It is my hope that this experience will lead you to truly think through your actions and the consequences of those actions when making decisions in the future,” Victoria Lugo, interim dean of students, wrote in a Feb. 9 letter to O’Neil, whose video clips of instructor Olga Perez Stable Cox in December went viral.

William Becker, an attorney representing O’Neil, said the sanctions are excessive and the student’s legal rights have been violated. O’Neil, 19, plans to appeal and can continue to attend classes during that process, Becker said.

“This is an attack by leftists in academia to protect the expressive rights of their radical instructors at the expense of the expressive rights of conservative students on campus,” said Becker, president of Freedom X, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving religious and conservative freedom of expression.

O’Neil, who campaigned for Trump, couldn’t be reached for comment on Tuesday.

Orange Coast College President Dennis Harkins had previously said his administration would investigate whether Cox’s comments were appropriate and within the context of what she teaches. Whether that has concluded is unclear. College spokesman Doug Bennett said this week that the school could not comment on personnel manners, and he declined to discuss investigations involving students, citing their privacy.

Three other students, all leaders with the school’s College Republicans, which posted the video clips, received letters saying there was insufficient evidence to proceed against them, said Joshua Recalde-Martinez, one of the three.

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ISU to bring French play to stage “Art” really is an inspiration for Indiana State University theater major Tristan Crutchfield.

The French play was the one of the first dramas to come to mind for the junior from Lafayette, Ind., when he had the opportunity to submit a production proposal this spring.

In 2015, Crutchfield submitted several proposals to theater faculty for plays he would like to direct in a studio-selected production, a smaller-scale show than main stage plays.

“It’s a nice thing for a student to be able to submit proposals, kind of like you would in the real world,” said Crutchfield, who has served as assistant director and directed several pieces off-campus.

“I had read the play last year before the proposal process, so it was in the back of my head and when I had the option of being a director, I wanted to select it.”

Written by French playwright Yasmina Reza, “Art” debuted in Paris in 1994. The comedy raises questions about art and friendship among long-time friends, Serge, Marc and Yvan. Serge buys a large, expensive, completely white painting, which horrifies Marc. Their differing opinions on what constitutes “art” puts a strain on their relationship. Caught in the middle of the conflict, their mutual

friend, Yvan, tries to appease both sides.

The original “Art” is based in France, while the student-produced version will take French influences, but “not necessarily go full-throttle into the French world.”

“We’re presenting French ideas. These are very blunt verbal conversations that Americans may not witness a lot of,” Crutchfield said. “A lot of times people may not be very blunt about their opinions on things, so this play demonstrates how the characters reach a deeper level of friendship because they are able to be so honest with each other, not just being nice to be accepted.

“It’s a nice play that dives into the internal relationships of friends, while exploring the concepts of what we perceive as art. The way we’re going about the production is by looking at perception and getting the multiple perspectives of the characters. With the set, we’re going slightly different than realistic. ‘Art’ takes more liberties but doesn’t go too much to the extreme.”

It is a play with rapid dialogue that Crutchfield knew he would want to act in if he weren’t directing.

“I know in my life I’ve witnessed con-

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Smithsonian scientist to speak on campus Feb. 17

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Potts, head of the Smithsonian Institution’s Human Origins Program, will discuss the environments effect on human evolution.

The head of the Smithsonian Institution’s Human Origins Program will discuss paleoanthropology and environmental effects on human evolution during the first Wittman Speaker Series talk Feb. 17 at Indiana State University.

Richard Potts, who also holds the Peter Buck Chair in Human Origins at the National Museum of Natural History and curates the Hall of Human Origins and the traveling exhibition at the Smithsonian Institute, “Exploring Human Origins,” has garnered attention for his ideas on how human evolution responded to environmental instability and the research it sparked in several scientific fields.

The speaker series is funded with a contribution from Laura and Jim Wittman, alumni of the department of earth and envi-

ronmental systems who wanted to bring to campus guest lecturers focused on subjects such as archaeology, anthropology, liberal arts, current topics in science and student success.

“It’s a great gift to us and helps us bring in some more prominent speakers,” said Jim Speer, professor of geography and geology and coordinator for the Wittman Speaker Series. “Evolution and climate change are hot topics; we hope bringing Rick to campus will bring in an audience who wants to look at the evidence and discuss what we see as scientists.”

A committee of four was tasked with selecting a speaker focused on anthropology and archaeology. Potts was recommended as a speaker by Russell Stafford, professor of anthropology.

“I know paleoanthropology is a big topic that draws people in because we want to know where we come from,” Stafford said. “I heard Rick give a lecture a few years ago as part of a symposium about some of the work he’s done in Africa, and I know that he’s a good speaker.”

It also helps that Potts and Jeffery Stone, assistant professor of environmental geosciences, are currently working on a $5 million National Science Foundation project (the Human Sites and Paleo-lakes Drilling Project). Potts is exploring lakes in the Kenya area, while Stone examines lakes around Northern Africa to study human origin and how climate variability may have enhanced or created problems for humans as they evolved.

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Slaying victim had said Durst admitted to killing wife Marisa Gerber and James Queally Los Angeles Times (TNS)

LOS ANGELES — Before she was killed, writer Susan Berman said that Robert Durst confessed to killing his wife, a key witness in the real estate scion’s murder case testified Thursday.

Nathan “Nick” Chavin delivered the stunning testimony at a special hearing in the case against Durst, who is charged in the 2000 execution-style slaying of Berman inside her Benedict Canyon home.

Prosecutors allege that Durst killed Berman, his confidante, because he feared she was going to talk to detectives about the 1982 disappearance of his wife, Kathleen Durst.

“Susan said to me, ‘Bob killed Kathie,’” Chavin testified, adding that Berman told him the confession came from Durst himself.

Chavin, a longtime friend of both Durst and Berman, was hustled into court Wednesday as a “secret witness,” flanked by bodyguards.

While Durst’s trial in Berman’s murder is not likely to take place for at least another year, prosecutors had asked that Chavin testify early out of fear he might

be killed before trial.

Chavin’s testimony may prove crucial, as prosecutors contend Durst made the decision to kill Berman after learning she planned to speak with investigators in New York about Kathleen’s disappearance.

Asked why he hadn’t told police of the admission earlier, Chavin said that Berman had insisted they protect Durst.

“Kathie’s dead, we can’t do anything about it,” Chavin testified Berman told him. “We have to protect Bob.” During his testimony earlier in the week, Chavin — a New York advertising executive — said that Kathleen was afraid of her husband, even fearing he might physically harm her.

Despite that fear, he testified, she never said anything to indicate her husband had been physically violent with her.

A prosecutor also asked Chavin on Wednesday if he believed Durst was involved in his first wife’s disappearance at the time that she vanished.

“No,” Chavin, 72, said emphatically.

Chavin said that he was also a close confidante of Durst, even serving as groomsman at his wedding. Durst drasti-

cally changed the trajectory of Chavin’s career by asking him to do advertising for some of The Durst Organization’s holdings. The family-run company is among the firms that dominate the prime Manhattan real estate market.

Durst’s father, Seymour, became one of Chavin’s mentors.

Chavin testified that he has known Durst for nearly three decades.

Chavin often closed his eyes in court when speaking about Berman on Wednesday.

He described her as an exceedingly generous person — the type of friend, he said, who gave him a navy blazer worth about $400 after he moved to New York. She told him it was a musthave in work circles, knowing he was clueless about such things.

Chavin grew up in El Paso, Texas, worked for a while as a musician and received a master’s degree in creative writing from San Francisco State University.

He said he met Berman in the Bay Area in the late 1970s, soon before relocating to New York and getting work as a copywriter at an advertising agency.

Before long, the witness said, Berman introduced him to Durst, and the trio became close

Mark Boster | Los Angeles Times | TNS

New York real estate scion Robert Durst appears in the Los Angeles Superior Court Airport Branch on Jan. 6 for a pre-trial motions hearing.

friends.

He was also the former boss of Susan Giordano, a close friend of Durst who testified Monday morning.

Giordano, who routinely communicated with Durst even while he was jailed, said Durst had loaned her large sums of

money, and the two had discussed getting a “love nest” where they could live out the rest of their lives.

Giordano was in tears as she stepped off the stand Wednesday, while Durst simply stared forward, stoic.

Health advocates blast Trump proposals Snapchat company sets IPO to stabilize Obamacare marketplace targets: $3.7 billion windfall and $22 billion valuation T P ony

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McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS)

The Trump administration and new Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price are under fire over new proposed rules introduced Wednesday to help stabilize the troubled individual insurance market.

Health care advocates and congressional Democrats claim the proposals are a wish-listcome-true for the insurance industry and would weaken or reverse many important consumer protections of the Affordable Care Act. The rules, which would take effect in coverage year 2018, would cut the marketplace enrollment period in half from three months to 45 days — Nov. 1, 2017 through Dec. 15, 2017 — for coverage beginning Jan. 1, 2018.

The proposal would also lower the minimum coverage requirements for policies to be designated at the gold, silver, bronze and platinum metal levels. For example, bronze plans that must now cover no less than 60 percent of medical costs would be allowed to cover 56 percent to 62 percent of medical costs.

Silver plans covering at least 70 percent of costs, could cover 66 percent to 72 percent under the proposal.

“The provisions in this proposed rule aim to improve the health and stability of the Exchanges,” the 74-page proposal states. “They provide additional flexibility to issuers for plan designs, reduce regulatory burden, seek to improve the risk pool and lower premiums by reducing gaming and adverse selection and (incentivizing) con-

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sumers to maintain continuous coverage.”

Insurers were heartened by the moves to steady the Obamacare marketplaces, where insurers have faced higher-than-expected medical costs, lower enrollment and fewer young plan members to offset the cost of sicker, older plan members.

On Thursday, Humana announced plans to halt their marketplace coverage in 11 states next year as Congress decides how to repeal, repair or replace the troubled health law.

In a statement, Marilyn Tavenner, President and CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans, commended the Trump administration for seeking many of the changes that the trade group had championed.

“While we are reviewing the details, we support solutions that address key challenges in the individual market, promote affordability for consumers and give states and the private sector additional flexibility to meet the needs of consumers,” Tavenner’s statement said. “We appreciate

the administration’s efforts.”

Health care advocates like Debra Ness, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families, were less impressed.

“While the proposed rule issued today by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) states that it aims to improve the health and stability of the exchanges and increase affordability for consumers, in reality it would do neither,” Ness said in a statement. “The hypocrisy is rich, given that the administration’s own actions have already been a destabilizing force, and given that the rule would shift more of the cost burden to consumers, make it more difficult for people to enroll in health coverage and put at risk people’s ability to access providers of their choice.”

To address insurers’ concerns about people using the special enrollment period to sign up for coverage only after they require medical care, the Trump admin-

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Snap Inc. set a starting price range of $14 to $16 per share for its initial public offering, which at the top end could value the Los Angeles technology company at more than $22 billion.

The IPO of the Snapchat mobile app developer is expected to be the largest ever for a Los Angeles firm and the biggest since Alibaba and Facebook.

The share prices, which were disclosed in a securities filing early Thursday, are nonbinding.

But they set the stage for Snap officials, led by Chief Executive Evan Spiegel, and investment bankers at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to hold discussions with investors around the world about their interest in betting on the nearly 6-year-old company. Scheduled gatherings include an event in London next Monday and New York City the day after.

The company started as a self-destructing photo messaging app, but has added features for texting, video sharing, money transfers and news to become the leading entertainment hub for 158 million daily users — most of them young adults.

Snap hopes to raise about $2.3 billion in cash from selling shares, which it would spend on hiring, taxes, technology, acquisitions, marketing and other efforts in the coming years.

Snap poached a top Instagram exec in 2014. But it ended in an expensive resignation.

Existing shareholders, a group that includes Spiegel and

co-founder Bobby Murphy, plan to sell holdings worth another $880 million. Other selling owners include chairman and early investor Michael Lynton and venture capital firms Benchmark, Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst and SV Angel.

And if the initial batch sells out, the company could offer another $246 million worth of shares and existing owners another $235 million, for a total sale of $3.7 billion for 230 million shares. Snap would have about 1.4 billion shares outstanding on a fully diluted basis.

But the size of the windfall depends on the final price per share. That’s unlikely to be determined earlier than March 1.

Social media giant Facebook Inc., which many investors and analysts view as Snap’s main competition, first proposed a pricing range of $28 to $35 for its shares before its IPO in 2012.

The company ultimately locked in a price of $38 and a valuation of $104 billion.

Though Snap’s IPO has generated great interest after a dearth of new listings last year, the company is playing it conservatively.

At the midpoint of its pricing range, Snap shares would cost close to what investors paid a year ago in the company’s most recent private fundraising. That means those investors may not realize a significant profit immediately.

Snap issued those shares for nearly $31, but in October, it gave each of its shareholders an extra share for every one they

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Trump skirts Russia issue, bashes media in freewheeling news conference Noah Bierman Tribune Washington Bureau (TNS) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that “nobody that I know of ” from his campaign contacted Russian agents or government officials before his election.

His denial was perhaps the most notable development in a lengthy news conference in which he berated the press and complained that he had “inherited a mess.”

Trump also defended his ousted national security adviser, Michael Flynn, saying that Flynn acted appropriately in discussing sanctions with Russia during the transition period. He said Flynn was asked to resign only because he misled Vice President Mike

Pence about those discussions.

“I fired him because of what he said to Mike Pence — very simple,” Trump said.

He said, “It certainly would have been OK with me” if Flynn discussed sanctions with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak when President Barack Obama was still in office.

“I didn’t direct him, but I would have directed him if he didn’t do it,” Trump said.

Flynn’s discussion of sanctions while another administration was still setting U.S. policy was seen as inappropriate, and possibly illegal.

Trump also promised to issue a new version of his travel ban next week, and he vowed it would withstand court scrutiny.

He complained that his many accomplishments were not being

recognized while insisting that his much-criticized early weeks in office were going smoothly. He even said his travel ban worked without a hitch, despite numerous problems at airports around the country.

Trump hedged when several reporters asked him to definitively state whether anyone in his campaign had contacted Russians before the election, saying repeatedly that he himself had no involvement with the Russian government. He also said that political controversy would make it hard to cut a wide-ranging deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but that he was nonetheless committed to trying.

The news conference was a

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a press conference in the East Room of the White House on Feb. 16, 2017 in Washington, D.C.

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tions, the three-member cast hit the road running with rehearsals.

“This is not the first production I’ve been a part of, but it is the first production I’ve had the honor to perform in. I couldn’t be more thrilled,” said senior theater major Miguel Lewis.

“The preparation for this production has been quite tedious, challenging, fun and sometimes tiring, but reminding myself that the end result will be phenomenal makes the process worthwhile.”

It’s a short process that requires the actors to memorize about 20 pages per week.

“That’s a lot and will test everybody’s skills, including mine,” Crutchfield said. “This is a big step between directing a small scale workshop/showcase, where it is just the actors, because you don’t deal with designers or a collaboration process.

These types of workshops you don’t usually have detailed lights or a big set. With main stage pieces, like this one, you are dealing with a production manager, stage manager and different designers all trying to align the collaborated ideas into one, cohesive idea.

“It’s been an experience and a learning process for me. I am glad I’ll be able to look back to it for the future when I go off and do things with acting and directing. It’s interesting to be in a spot where you have to rope in all of these different collaborating minds, then pick and choose and lead them toward a central idea.

It tests communication skills.”

The planning process, though, has led to some of Crutchfield’s favorite parts of bringing the production to life.

“The initial comeback of ideas from the designers and finding out where they took that inspi-

ration from the play,” he said.

“When you’re a director reading it, you can see it in your head and you can conceptualize the idea in your head, but once you hear everybody talking about it, it becomes 3-D in your mind, and you can see it playing out on stage and that part’s really exciting.”

The play will be performed 7:30 p.m. Feb. 22-Feb. 25 and 4 p.m. Feb. 26 in Dreiser Theater.

Tickets are $10 for general admission. Rush tickets (free) are only offered to students 90 minutes before the show.

Reservations are not accepted.

All general admission tickets can be purchased during the week of Feb. 20-Feb. 24 in the New Theater ticket office, which is open 12-4:30 p.m. and one hour before each performance.

“I work with microscopicalgae that are found in the lakes where early humans lived. They represent the environment that the lake was experiencing and we can use that to reconstruct the climate,” Stone said. “My information feeds into models for what was going on in the lake environment, which responds to changes in the climate. How these changes might have affect-

ed humans is what comes out of Rick’s association with this project. Rick has been really focused for a long time on how climate variability and stability might have influenced patterns in human development.”

Potts has developed international collaborations among scientists interested in the ecological aspects of human evolution.

He leads excavations at early human sites in the East African Rift Valley, including the famous

hand axe site of Olorgesailie, Kenya, and Kanam near Lake Victoria, Kenya.

He also leads the team that recovered the first long sediment core drilled from an early human site in East Africa, and he has co-directed projects in southern and northern China that compare evidence of early human behavior and environments from East Africa to East Asia.

Potts joined the Smithsonian

in 1985 and has focused his research to piecing together the record of Earth’s environmental change and human adaptation.

His presentation will be at 4 p.m. room 012 of the Science Building. The event is sponsored by the Wittman Speaker Series and Indiana State’s department of earth and environmental systems. It is free and open to the public.

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owned, cutting the value of all in half.

The valuation may end up much higher in early March when a final price is set the day before shares begin trading for anyone to buy on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol SNAP. But Snap faces a cautious investment community that — after the struggles of Twitter — may be wary to bet on unprofitable startups such as Snap, which has only a short history of generating revenue. Snap had sales of $405 million last year, mostly from ads shown on Snapchat. But the company lost $515 million as it boosted spending on all facets of its business.

In addition, slowing user growth on the Snapchat messaging app has raised concerns.

And the company’s decision to offer no voting power with shares being offered in the IPO has drawn criticism from both existing and prospective shareholders. Spiegel and Murphy would each control about 44.4 percent of the company’s votes after the IPO, effectively giving them ultimate say in whether to take an acquisition offer, who sits on the board of directors and other matters.

Up to 7 percent of the shares being offered in the IPO are being reserved for friends of Snap executives, according to securities filings. The number of IPOs annually with such directed share programs has fallen to about 1 in 3 in recent years, with companies on average setting aside about 5 percent, according to data from market intelligence firm Ipreo.

istration plans to implement a pilot program to widen pre-enrollment screening from half to all applicants in the special enrollment period beginning in June 2017 in all states that use the HealthCare.gov marketplace.

Special enrollment periods extend the enrollment opportunities for people who lose or must adjust their coverage due to job

loss, relocation, childbirth or other qualifying events.

The administration expects 650,000 people to be subject to the enhanced screening, which the administration estimates will take 12 minutes apiece and cost more than $5.3 million to execute.

Consumers would be given 30 days to provide documentation under the Trump plan, during

which time their coverage would be “pending” and would not apply. Currently, people have up to 90 days to make a payment during which their coverage remains in effect.

“We anticipate that there would be a reduction in costs to issuers since they would not have to process any claims while the enrollments are ‘pended,’” the proposal said.

boasted of his television ratings and continued to take shots at Hillary Clinton.

“I won with news conferences,” he said, as if explaining why he chose to hold the impromptu news conference.

Trump, while relentlessly be-

moaning what he said was unfair coverage, nonetheless insisted that he was having a good time.

“Tomorrow, they will say, ‘Donald Trump rants and raves about the press,’” he said. “I’m not ranting and raving.”

FRENCH FROM PAGE 1 versations where you’re readily being backed into a corner and you’re fighting to get out of the corner,” he said. “Because of the small cast and less extravagant set, it will be easier to do in the time that we have and be more of a visual piece. The plan is to use an all-white set floating in an all-black world.

“We’re having the background colors be more neutral. The painting is all white and that’s the big controversy between the characters. It was so expensive and the two friends want to know why Serge bought it. We want the characters to be the color of the set and the focal point for the audience.”

Having read the play, Crutchfield presented his concept to the designers at their first design meeting late last year.

Following the Jan. 18 audi-

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TRUMP FROM PAGE 2 The news conference was a return to Trump’s more spontaneous public side that characterized his campaign. He sparred with the press, bragged about the size of his election victory,

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JAZZ FROM PAGE 1 visation and conducts ensembles at Indiana University. He has been on the faculty of the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Workshops since 1976.

Previously he taught trumpet and jazz at the University of Cincinnati,” according to his bio on allaboutjazz.com.

The reaming school groups perform from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Awards and the final concert will cap off the festival at 6:30 p.m.

The ISU Jazz Fest will take place Saturday.

Performances will take place at the University Hall auditorium and the recital hall in the Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts.

COLLEGE FROM PAGE 1 “I’m disgusted that they imposed such excessive sanctions against (O’Neil), especially when the student was just trying to document a case where he personally felt targeted by a faculty member and his student rights were violated,” said Recalde-Martinez, who founded the OCC College Republicans and served as its president until recent weeks.

To be allowed back in school, the letter says, O’Neil’s essay is to be three pages and double-spaced and must discuss why he videotaped the professor. Also, the essay is to cover his “thoughts and analysis” on why he decided to share the videos, what he thought would happen to Cox and “the impact of the video going ‘viral’ and the ensuing damage to Orange Coast College students, faculty and staff.”

O’Neil videotaped Cox as she called the election of Donald Trump “an act of terrorism” and declared that those “leading the assault are among us.”

O’Neil took the video to leaders from the school’s College Republicans, who, joined by attorney Shawn Steel, complained to the campus administration. A week later, saying they were frustrated that the administration had not acted on their concerns of a teacher using her classroom as a bully pulpit, the campus Republicans posted video clips online, where they quickly became national news.

The attention led Cox, 66, an instructor at the school for 42 years, to temporarily leave her home following an onslaught of angry, sometimes threatening mail.

In an interview with the Orange County Register last month, Cox said her comments to students — made in all of her three human sexuality classes — were meant to comfort those who were upset about the election of Trump and offer resources should students feel discriminated against.

As a gay Latina, Cox was frightened by Trump’s election.

Rob Schneiderman, president of the union that represents the district’s faculty, said he is satisfied that “there were some consequences and someone is being held responsible.”

Although, he added, “in this type of situation, nobody wins.”

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STATESMAN GAME REVIEW

‘Resident Evil 7’ sets itself apart from others in series Anthony Goelz Reporter

“Resident Evil 7: Biohazard” is the latest game in a historic franchise in the video game industry.

“Resident Evil 7,” released on Jan. 24, is a true return to form for the franchise. Not shying from its roots, the game returns to the survival horror style that made the franchise so popular.

The past few entries in the series attempted to relive the franchise of the slower paced horror DNA and replace with a more action focused style. Needless to say, hardcore fans of the series have been unhappy with the change.

“Resident Evil 7” seems to be an attempt on the part of Capcom to win back those fans.

The game opens on Ethan, a man trying to find his wife, Mia, who had been missing for three years. Ethan receives an email supposedly from Mia, simply saying “Come find me,” and giving him the coordinates to a seemingly abandoned farm house in Louisiana. Ethan quickly realizes that things are much more sinister than they first appeared. Ethan comes face to face with the cannibalistic Baker family.

The first scene where players truly get to meet the Bakers, Ethan is tied to a chair in a dinner scene pulled straight from “Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”

Ethan is an unwilling participant in a dinner of human flesh and organs. In a way, the scene plays out almost comically. As the family sits and squabbles as families do, players are confronted with a sort of macabre circus, which ends with the father of the family, Jack, cutting/ripping his son Lucas’, arm off and attempting to force feed bits of it to Ethan.

Every scene in “Biohazard” is enhanced by the first-person perspective that the game utilizes. The series has historically used an over-the-shoulder third-person perspective. This switch to the new viewpoint restricts the peripheral view of the players. This instills a constant fear that there is something lurking just outside the boundaries of the camera.

Many are praising Capcom’s utilization of VR in “Resident Evil 7.” One of the best descriptions of the VR experience was made by Chloi Rad in her review for IGN. “My ‘Resident Evil 7’ experience was positive with and without the PlayStation VR. (I played about half in VR, and half without.) There were only a handful of sequences that I felt were designed specifically to take advantage of VR’s unique capabilities (any sequence when a character brought an unwanted object too close to my face), but I never felt like I was miss-

Cannon leaving ‘America’s Got Talent’ Libby Hill

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Actor and comedian Nick Cannon is leaving his longtime gig as host of the NBC reality show “America’s Got Talent” after allegedly being threatened with termination by network executives.

Cannon announced his departure via a 700-word Facebook post Monday, explaining how his decision comes after a dispute with NBC head honchos over jokes in his recent Showtime comedy special.

“Nick Cannon: Stand Up, Don’t Shoot” aired Friday night on the premium cable channel and featured a different Cannon than “AGT” audiences might be used to, with frequent uses of the N-word. The word even makes an appearance in a joke about how that evening NBC stood for “ N— Better C’mon.”

TMZ reported Friday that NBC executives learned about

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is a survival horror video game developed and published by Capcom.

ing out on anything substantial when playing in 2D,” Rad said.

The game’s narrative strings the player along, providing just enough to keep players moving on. This is somehow both a positive and a negative. While the story takes a back seat to the gameplay, it works perfectly, giving players just enough reason and motivation to explore the Baker estate.

As with past games in the series, “Biohazard” utilizes a semiopen environment for players to explore. In ways “Resident Evil 7” is similar to an action game.

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the content via Cannon’s appearance on “The Howard Stern Show” and stated that Cannon was nearly fired over the incident before the network decided against it.

“America’s Got Talent” is scheduled to begin filming Season 12 next month.

Representatives for NBC and Cannon did not immediately respond to the Los Angeles Times’ request for comment.

tive item. Mixing chemical fluid with gunpowder will create ammunition. This offers up a challenging conundrum. Do players make health items or bullets?

Depending on the situation, it could be the difference between life and death.

There is much more to talk about this game, but due to a limited word coun,t there is not much more details that can be added. “Resident Evil 7: Biohazard” is just a frighteningly good game. Though it is not without its faults, this game is a gem that truly shines.

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Nick Cannon at the 22nd Annual Critics’ Choice Awards.

It encourages players to explore, and there are tons of optional puzzles, collectables and other assorted items to be found.

Item management also makes its way back. Managing inventory is a crucial part of this game.

Not only is space limited, but once an item is dropped, it is lost into the ether. This prevents players from item managing by dropping items momentarily to pick up another item, use it and pick the original item back up.

There is also item combination.

By fusing herbs and chemical fluid, players will create a cura-

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It’s the news that some might think makes perfect sense: “American Horror Story” will tackle the 2016 presidential election.

During an appearance on Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live!” Wednesday night, “AHS” co-creator Ryan Murphy revealed that the next season of the popular FX horror anthology series would draw inspiration from the recent election that saw Donald Trump edge out former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

“The season … is going to be about the election we just went through,” Murphy said. “I think that will be interesting for a lot of people.”

When host Andy Cohen asked

whether there would be a character based on now-President Donald Trump in the series, Murphy replied: “Maybe.”

In January, “American Horror Story” was renewed for two more seasons. The sixth season of the anthology series, “Roanoke,” wrapped its run in November.

The seventh cycle, which begins shooting in June, does not yet have a title, Murphy said.

Murphy also discussed casting for the season of “American Crime Story,” which will delve into the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal, based on a book by Jeffrey Toobin (who wrote the source material for “People v. O.J. Simpson). Murphy said he doesn’t know whom he would cast as Hillary Clinton and that an unknown might be the way to go in casting the

role of Lewinsky. But Murphy did reveal he’s discussed with his Emmy-winning muse Sarah Paulson about the possibility of her playing Lewinsky confidant Linda Tripp.

“We’ll see if she would agree to do that,” he said.

As previously announced, seasons 2 and 3 of “American Crime Story” will be focused, respectively, on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the 1997 murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace. The Clinton-Lewinsky scandal would be explored in the fourth installment.

“I think our take on it is interesting. I don’t even think the Clintons need to be a huge part of that story. It’s about the birth of a specific movement in our country. That’s what we’re interested in.… We’re working on the scripts now.”

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More couples are skipping dinner and just doing drinks on dates.

Dinner dates being replaced with ‘just drinks’ Lindsay Weber

Chicago Tribune (TNS)

The iconic scene from Disney’s “Lady and the Tramp” paints the picture of finding true love over a shared meal. Two lives meeting at the center of a spaghetti noodle, and that’s amore!

But that was 1955. Fast forward to the Tinder age, when recent polls have shown that first dates over dinner are being replaced with simple public meetings over coffee.

Dating coach Patti Feinstein said she has a seen a large shift in first-date trends.

“You used to meet someone through friends or through someone from the neighborhood. Those were the days,” Feinstein said. “No matter where you go, everything now is like one big blind date, and no one likes that.”

Feinstein said there is so much misrepresentation on online dating sites that people don’t want to invest much time or money until they make sure the potential matches they are meeting are legitimate.

Fellow matchmaker Stef Safran sees the same shift.

“What’s disappointing to me is the casualness of dating in general,” said Safran. “I think that dinner on the first date is going to go away. I don’t think there’s a way around that. Nowadays, so many people are rejoining the dating market at different life stages. The expectation is just different.”

Safran said one of her rules for male clients is to avoid Saturday night dinner dates in favor of a weekend brunch instead.

“One thing I definitely notice is that, since people go on so many first dates that do not

lead to second dates, it can be extremely costly,” Safran said.

“I have also noticed that due to the nature of people always being connected to their friends or their job during the week, I have started suggesting weekend brunch dates that allow for clients to be more relaxed and less connected, with a more structured timeline. Dates can always be extended, but it’s hard to shorten them.”

Brittany Lee, 32, of Chicago, is no stranger to online dating. She takes a practical approach to her first dates: “Drinks! Dinner is certainly an option, but it’s likely you’ve met the person on a dating app, so I’d keep it simple,” said Lee. “If you’ve met them through a friend or in person somewhere before and had an actual con

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indianastatesman.com DINNER FROM PAGE 4 versation, dinner might stand a chance, but this is the world we live in. I say grab dinner on the second date.”

Lee said technology has made dating more efficient.

“You could probably see every movie playing in a theater by Saturday, but who has the time?”

Lee said. “Clearly technology has changed the name of the game.

Friday, Feb. 17 2017 • Page 5 We live in a fast-paced world, so coffee or drinks just work better.”

Feinstein said quick, interview-like dates are more of the norm now.

“A lot of them aren’t even 20 minutes. They’re more like five minutes, if you can even get past that. It’s about saving time and money,” Feinstein said.

Dating can be tough, regardless of the venue. Lee’s advice?

“Just keep swimming!”

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Trump’s ‘house cleaning’ will hurt most Americans Daylin Leach

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An Analysis of the Modern “SJW” Sinclair Jones Columnist

In today’s fast paced, technologically advanced world, social media can be a valuable source of information as well as entertainment. Being a part of the “Digital Information Generation,” most of my friends and I have accounts on multiple social networking sites including Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

Though the World Wide Web can bring a cornucopia of information to users with the simple click of a mouse, cyber-conflict can occur when opinions differ on controversial topics.

My generation has been described as overly sensitive in how we respond to such conflict, with the term “social justice warrior” used to describe those who are “easily offended” by political incorrectness as well as micro-ag-

gressions and hate speech.

I myself have been called a “SJW” a number of times whilst expressing my opinions on various controversial issues. Though this term often carries a negative connotation, I have a differing view; why defend myself against something that isn’t offensive?

This is to say I don’t mind this term because, technically speaking, it describes me well: someone willing to intervene on the behalf of others whose basic social and economic needs are not being met by society or whose basic human rights are being violated. It’s almost as if the term “social justice warrior” is a fancy way of describing the actions and motives a decent human being. So why do SJW’s have such a bad rap?

As important as law and order are in a society, our rights as human beings are held in high regard. These rights have been stripped from various groups of people throughout history and because of this, when we feel that our rights are being threatened or violated, the situation can escalate quickly.

Often times while scrolling through my Twitter timeline I

can find cases where one person has said something that those who identify in certain groups may find offensive (a racial slur, for example) and are not only bewildered, but offended when a “SJW” shows up in their mentions. After all, isn’t it their right to say whatever comes to mind, regardless of who it could be putting down? Maybe. But it just astonishes me how closely some cling to their right to be jerks.

Just because you can say something doesn’t mean you should.

Just because you’re mad doesn’t mean you can say whatever you want; that is a childish way of thinking.

Stereotyping or bashing certain genders, races, religions, cultures, mental and emotional disorders and so forth is wrong; you don’t need a Master’s degree or a calculator to figure that one out. My question is why are SJW’s met with such animosity and backlash simply for having the guts to call someone on their actions? Why is standing up for something so taboo in today’s society?

I believe this question can be answered in one word: humanity. Time and technology have

dulled our basic human instinct to care for one another. We as a society are so desensitized to the ever-present consequences of hate, intolerance and ignorance.

It’s 2017, and I guess they might as well start printing “Every man for himself ” on the back of $100 bills because after the presidential election, it is clear that we are divided as a nation and in desperate need of an intervention, extraterrestrial or otherwise.

So the way I see it, Social Justice Warriors or do-gooders or just decent human beings may be an endangered species. Standing up for the oppressed, disenfranchised and ignored is no longer common practice. That empathy and compassion is what separates us from other animal species so why are we fighting so hard against these instincts? The reasons are many.

All I know for certain is that no cause is lost if there is one fool still left to fight for it (Lord of the Rings is cinematic genius, by the way) and if being a nice person is foolish, I will be that fool.

All I can do is pray that I’m not the only one. For now, the fight goes on.

During presidential campaigns, candidates make lots of promises regarding what they will do if elected.

Donald Trump was no exception, even if his promises were odder and more indecipherable than most.

For example, whereas the other candidates put forth specific plans for boosting the economy, Trump mostly just promised he would do things that were “tremendous,” “classy” and “huge.”

He assured us that “everybody will love” his plans and that they would miraculously end ideological disagreements in this country.

But given the lack of Trump’s specificity, or even coherence, it is difficult to speculate what a promise from him actually means.

In terms of government reform, he has promised to “drain the swamp,” which, based on the appointments he’s made since entering the White House, apparently means he intends to drain the swamp directly into his Cabinet room.

Similarly, Trump has also promised to “clean house” at some of the major federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Again, it is difficult to know what this will mean until we see how it fully unfolds. But if Trump’s transition and first weeks in office are any indication, this house cleaning will be very bad for America.

It’s important to note that federal agencies weren’t established for kicks and giggles. They were created to protect us from predatory private interests and to address very real problems.

The EPA, for example, was created to protect us from corporate pollution and ensure that our air and water are clean.

More recently, it inherited the critical mission of leading the fight against climate change.

The Department of Health and Human Services is responsible for our social safety net.

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Regulatory red tape is strangling economic growth William F. Shughart II

Tribune News Service (TNS)

As President Donald Trump has noted, a surefire way to restore the competitive edge America once enjoyed would involve cleaning out the executive branch’s Augean stables from which heavy-handed regulations have been issued at an increasing pace for decades.

Complying with regulations now costs individuals and businesses both large and small about $4 trillion every year, according to economists at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center. That’s about $13,000 per person.

Money spent keeping records, hiring regulatory compliance officers, and dealing with the bureaucrats who promulgate and enforce these regulations — which affect nearly every aspect of daily life — is money not

available for families to spend on their own needs. Indeed, it’s money businesses don’t have to invest in buildings, equipment and jobs.

Regulations are like a tax on economic activity. And they’re a regressive one, at that, meaning they fall most heavily on low-income households and small businesses.

Suppose a new safety regulation for cars and trucks — requiring all new vehicles to be equipped with backup cameras, for example — adds $500 to the cost of every vehicle sold. Most of the added cost will be passed onto consumers in the form of higher prices.

Who is more hurt by the price increase: the government bureaucrat making $131,000 a year, or an apprentice electrician earning $30,000 annually?

Most regulations are one-sizefits all. The anti-money laundering provisions of the Patriot

Act, passed shortly after 9/11, required all financial institutions to adopt procedures and internal controls to prevent money from ending up in the hands of terrorist groups.

Because the costs of complying with that law essentially were the same for a hometown bank as for a big Wall Street bank, some 3,000 small financial institutions were forced to shut their doors or merge with larger competitors over the following few years.

So-called midnight regulations are another growing problem. That term refers to rules issued by an outgoing administration between Election Day and Inauguration Day. Every president since Ronald Reagan has signed executive orders requiring government agencies issuing major regulations to conduct cost-benefit analyses prior to finalizing them.

Midnight regulations, however, are rushed through the review

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One shouldn’t put much faith in regulations issued less hastily, as federal agencies routinely overstate the benefits and understate the costs of the rules they issue.

A district court judge recently reprimanded the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to comply with a requirement that it estimate the number of jobs that would be lost as the result of new regulations.

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy responded by saying producing such estimates is of “limited utility.”

To whom, one wonders?

The EPA’s proposed Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, or MATS, was sold as a public health measure that would cut mercury and acid gas emissions from coal mines and power plants.

The rule, while promising annual benefits of $4-6 million, will cost electric utilities almost $10 billion per year — a cost that will be passed on to customers.

Unless cancelled, MATS will help fulfill President Barack Obama’s goal of shutting down America’s coal industry and will inflict deep economic pain on states like Wyoming, West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois and Pennsylvania.

Trump has called for a twofor-one policy requiring the elimination of two existing regulations for every new rule issued.

Because not all rules impact the economy equally, the policy will require careful and thoughtful implementation. It’s a good starting point.

But there’s much more to be done. Pruning back the regulatory state will go a long way toward energizing the economy.

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TRUMP FROM PAGE 6 The National Transportation Safety Board — another Trump target — ensures that our highways, rails and skies are safe for travelers.

So far, Trump has seemingly picked Cabinet members based on how aggressively they have opposed the very missions they are being hired to carry out.

EPA secretary-designate Scott Pruitt is a conspiracy theorist and climate-change denier who has spent his professional career suing the very agency he has been nominated to head.

Tom Price, now the head of HHS, is a fierce critic of Obamacare and is openly hostile to the social safety net. And Ben Carson, the HUD nominee,

Friday, Feb. 17 2017 • Page 7 has in his lifetime paid as much attention to housing issues as Mick Jagger has to magnesium extraction.

We’ve already heard talk from administration officials about slashed budgets and massive layoffs.

Further, we’ve heard the Cabinet picks and relevant transition officials disparage federal agencies that were created to protect the American people.

Given all of this, it is difficult to see how Trump’s efforts to clean house will do anything but result in a dirtier, more unfair, more inequitable, less safe and less free America.

This push is among the most disturbing of Trump’s early actions. And that is truly saying something.

UCONN FROM PAGE 8 South Carolina took an early 24-22 lead. After a basket by Williams, Davis hit a 3-pointer to give the Gamecocks a 27-24 lead.

But Williams scored off a steal and Collier converted a basket off a pass from Dangerfield through traffic in the paint.

South Carolina regained the lead on a drive by Allisha Gray and there was an opportunity to extend it when a Samuelson turnover led to a break. But Chong took charge, setting up a UConn run.

Collier hit a 3-pointer, Williams hit a jumper and Collier scored off a steal as the half ended. The crowd was on its feet as the Huskies left the court with a 35-29 lead, despite a scoreless 20 minutes from their leading scorer and some inconsistent play through the half.

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ISU mens basketball fell to Loyola, 64-46 on Wednesday night while on the road, which ended their three-game winning streak.

Indiana State suffers a tough road loss at Loyola Austin Vanlandingham Reporter

The Indiana State Sycamores were on the road Wednesday night, and they fell to the Loyola Ramblers 6446. The Sycamores had won their last three of four games entering the matchup against Loyola. On the season, Indiana State is now 10-17 and 4-11 in conference play. Loyola snapped their four-game losing skid with their victory on Wednesday, moving them to 17-11 overall and 7-8 in the Missouri Valley Conference. The Ramblers also completed the season sweep of the Sycamores and have won three straight against ISU, going back to last season.

Sophomore Emondre Rickman has continued his stretch of excellent play. Rickman scored the first points

of the game for the Sycamores. It’s evident that his play is starting to mature, especially in the last four games.

In this four game span, Rickman has averaged nine points, with eight rebounds in four blocks.

Laquarious Paige carried his solid performance against Drake into the game on Wednesday. He was successful penetrating and creating opportunities. He quickly picked up five points in the game’s opening minutes.

Paige and senior forward T.J. Bell led the Sycamores in scoring with 10 points apiece.

Indiana State was leading early in the first half, but at the 16:34 mark, Loyola began to gain momentum.

Aundre Jackson was one of the early producers for the Ramblers, scoring seven points in the opening minutes.

Jackson led the Ramblers in scoring

with 18. Donte Ingram hit a pair of threes that furthered the Loyola run.

Ingram finished the game with 15 points, going 6-9 from three-point range.

The first half was a low scoring affair, with the score sitting at 24-20 when the teams went into the locker room. Milton Doyle, who has been a key player for Loyola this season, was a non-factor in the first half. He got into foul trouble early and only registered seven minutes in the first half.

Doyle had a solid second half, finishing the game with 12. The Ramblers used the three ball to pull away in the second half. Aundre Jackson and Clayton Custer’s deadly three-point stretched the lead to 12 with about 10 minutes left to play. Loyola displayed their effective ball movement that helped them defeat Indiana State in

their previous meeting.

The Sycamores were ice cold shooting the ball. They shot 9-24 from the field in the first half, and it didn’t get much better in the second, shooting 9-25. Indiana State finished the game with a 31.7 shooting percentage.

Brenton Scott, who is Indiana State’s leading scorer, averaging 17 points per game, struggled shooting the ball all night.

Scott just couldn’t seem find the bottom of the net, scoring his first and only points with about five minutes left in play. The Sycamores had trouble making shots in their first meeting with Loyola, and it proved to be costly once again.

What’s next for the Sycamores? Indiana State will return home to take on Southern Illinois on Saturday, Feb. 19 at 4 p.m.

UConn wins No. 100 with Men look to bounce a comfortable margin back after weekend loss Paul Doyle

The Hartford Courant (TNS)

The outcome of the 100th consecutive win was like many of the 99 before, a comfortable margin of victory for the best team in the country.

But on Monday night, the UConn women’s basketball team overcame a formidable visitor as it reached yet another milestone. South Carolina, ranked sixth in the country, gave UConn all it could handle throughout a pressure-packed 40 minutes.

UConn, though, did what it has done all season and for the past two years.

Leading scorer Katie Lou Samuelson may have struggled with her shot, but Gabby Williams stepped up and seized control of the game.

Williams scored a career-high 26 points and had 14 rebounds, lifting UConn to a 66-55 victory. The No. 1 ranked Huskies haven’t lost since Nov. 17, 2014.

UConn entered this season with a 75-game winning streak that was supposed to end early. The difficult nonconference schedule would seemingly end the streak, as UConn was reloading with a young roster.

Instead, the Huskies have passed one test after another. The win was the ninth against a ranked opponent as UConn (25-0) knocked off another team with national title aspirations.

Williams, the dynamic forward/guard, was the best player on the court.

But Napheesa Collier (18 points, nine rebounds) was also a difference-maker, as was freshman guard Crystal Dangerfield (seven assists).

The Huskies had a sixpoint lead at halftime, but South Carolina scored the first four points of the second half as UConn missed its first five shots. The Hus-

kies’ first basket of the second half was the first basket of the game by Samuelson, who hit a jumper 3:07 into the second half.

After a South Carolina basket, Saniya Chong converted a three-point play to give UConn a 40-35 lead.

And after the Gamecocks cut the lead to three on a basket by Alaina Coates, UConn reeled off six unanswered points.

Williams scored off a pass from Dangerfield and added another basket on a layup before finding Samuelson under the hoop with a quick pass that led to a basket. Tyasha Harris scored on a runner for South Carolina, but Collier took over the final minute of the third quarter.

Collier scored on a layup, battled for a defensive rebound off a miss by Kaela Davis, gathering the ball and pulling it from two defenders. She started a break with an outlet pass and wound up on the receiving end of a pass from Chong, converting a layup and drawing a foul with four seconds left. She hit the free throw and UConn was suddenly ahead 51-39 with 10 minutes left.

But South Carolina began the fourth quarter with a three-pointer by Harris, a signal the Gamecocks were not fading. UConn, though, answered when Samuelson grabbed a rebound off a Williams miss and drew a foul, converting a pair of foul shots.

The Huskies continued to extend the lead as Williams stepped up. She scored six consecutive points on a basket and four free throws, giving UConn a 61-49 lead midway through the fourth quarter.

With 4:22 left in the game, Kia Nurse hit her first basket of the game. It was a three-pointer that ex-

tended UConn’s lead to 16 points. The crowd erupted.

Really, the crowd was loud and lively from before the tip, cheering as one ex-Husky after another appeared on the video board. Breanna Stewart, Morgan Tuck, Sue Bird, Maya Moore, Tina Charles and others sat behind the bench, adding to the atmosphere.

Make no mistake: This was a celebration of the program. The anticipation of the 100th victory turned the nationally televised game into a party.

But the crowd had moments of anguish in the first half, as South Carolina went toe-to-toe with the Huskies. With Samuelson missing shots, the UConn offense struggled to get on track.

Samuelson, UConn’s leading scorer, missed all seven shots she attempted in the first half. She was 0-for-3 on 3-pointers and appeared out of sorts, throwing up air balls and playing tentatively. Samuelson missed two practices last week as she dealt with an illness, but she played Saturday against SMU and delivered 23 points in the victory.

But with Samuelson struggling, the Huskies found other sources. Williams proved to be a difficult matchup for South Carolina center Coates, who simply could not keep up with the athletic and quick UConn junior.

Williams had 16 points and nine rebounds in the half. As UConn took a 1916 lead in the first quarter, Williams had 10 points and made four of six shots.

UConn was eight of 18 shooting in the quarter, but the Huskies made four of their last six attempts.

In the second quarter,

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Andrew Doran Reporter

The Indiana State basketball team is coming back home this coming Sunday as they match up against Southern Illinois University. The Sycamores will look to bounce back after Wednesday’s tough loss at Loyola University.

The Southern Illinois University Salukis are coming to Terre Haute with a three game losing streak.

With the losses against Wichita State, Evansville University and University of Northern Iowa, the Salukis are trying to break the losing streak as they come to the Hulman Center.

The Salukis are currently 14-14, 7-8 MVC with an away record of 4-8. The Salukis are not necessarily an upscale team, but on the road, they have not been at their best.

Southern Illinois is very dependent on its leading scorer senior guard Mike Rodriguez. Rodriguez is coming into Sunday’s game averaging 12.9 points per game and leading the Salukis in minutes played as well with 32.5 per game. In their last game against Wichita State, Rodriguez had a total of 15 points, only shooting 4-11 shots taken. He was backed by his free throws hitting 7-8 from the line.

In the same game against the Shockers, senior forward Sean O’Brien put up 14 points for the Salukis. O’Brien is also a key player for the Salukis as he averages 12.3 points per game.

O’Brien is also very good down low in the paint as he is shooting above .500.

His field goal percentage going into

Sunday’s game is sitting at .512 on the year. While O’Brien is a key component to the Salukis, he will rarely shoot beyond the arc as he has only made seven of the 39 he has taken.

Junior forward Thik Bol is another key component for the Salukis. Bol had the highest percentage of field goals made with .532 shooting average. With Bol being 6 feet 8 inches tall, he is almost unstoppable down low with his height and shooting average combined. Indiana State will have to bring their big men to the court and play good defense if they want a shot at stopping Bol and getting the win.

Indiana State, in their last five games, are 3-2, coming off big wins against Drake University and Bradley University. They had a tough loss against Loyola with a score of 64-46 favoring the Ramblers.

In the last few games, junior guard Brenton Scott has been good all around the court. Right now he is shooting .384 on the season and beyond the arc with a percentage of .362. Scott needs to keep the momentum up for the Sycamores if they want to end the season on a good note. Indiana State only has three games left on the season.

Taking on SIU this weekend, University of Northern Iowa next Wednesday in the Hulman Center and Evansville University on the road to end the season.

Tip off on Sunday Feb. 19 against Southern Illinois University will begin at 4 p.m. in the Hulman Center.

The game can viewed on The Valley ESPN3 and The River 98.5 FM.