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Volume 124, Issue 60

Gaming tournament provides way to de-stress Anthony Goelz Reporter

The International Student Resource Center held a FIFA Playstation Tournament where students were welcome to compete against each other in the popular professional soccer video game.

This is the second “FIFA” tournament that the International Student Research Center has put together, making this a fairly new event for ISU. The organization plans to host FIFA tournaments every two weeks, the few of which will take place on March 29, April 12 and April 26.

This tournament had a get together atmosphere where a few people came, played games and talked about various topics. According to organizers, the Feb. 15 event had a larger turnout with six participants and a few spectators.

Coordinators asked attendees for suggestions on how to improve the event.

The consensus was that the time of the ing out to different consoles or different event might have resulted in the low at- games, but right now this stage is really tendance. The event took place at noon our testing stage,” Hoang said. and went until 2 p.m. on Wednesday.

This concept of integration through The dates given are only for “FIFA 17” gaming is an interesting one. Many would tournaments. Organizers take an approach that inrevealed that there are volves sharing culture plans for other similar • Who: The International Student and celebrating differevents in the works. Two Resource Center ences, and while this is titles were mentioned: an important step, it only the popular fighting game • What: FIFA Playstation brings up the things that “Mortal Kombat X” and Tournament make people different. An the racing game “Blur.” event like this roots itself Mylinh Hoang, the • When: March 29, April 12 and in a common interest that graduate assistant for the April 26 draws people together International Student Redespite culture, politics source Center, spoke of • Where: Hulman Memorial Student etc. It brings the classic, if the goal for this event. “ I Union, Room 720 not overused, movie line hope to bridge the gap be“We’re not so different, tween domestic students you and I.” and international students,” Hoang said.

“What happened today was our end “We’re trying to gage what students goal. Where two students, regardless of show up to these tournaments and what who they are or where they are from, you games they prefer. We don’t mind branch- have one thing in common, and from that

Olympic icon visits ISU for Speaker Series Ian Bonner-Swedish

one thing you can find several things in common and just talk,” Hoang said.

She also said they want to try and “take away the stigma that ‘international students don’t speak English’ or that ‘international students don’t play video games,” Hoang explained.

Hoang also stressed that this program is not just for international students, but it is for everyone, and they are trying to get their name out to all students. “After the Commons, students don’t realize that there are nine floors to this building,” Hoang said.

“We really want this to be an open interaction between our different kinds of students, and gaming is just one of the things we’re trying to have them bond over. This floor (seventh floor HMSU) is for the students and any students.”

The remaining “FIFA 17” tournaments will take place on March 29, April 12 and April 26 in Hulman Memorial Student Union, Room 720.

Lawsuit over publishing ex-spy’s Trump dossier moves to federal court

Kevin G. Hall and David Goldstein McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS)

Reporter

Mary Lou Retten, gold medal gymnast, gave a speech this past Tuesday as part of the Indiana State University Speaker Series.

Retten was born in a small coal mining town in West Virginia. It was there that she witnessed Nadia, a gymnast in the Olympics.

From then on she knew gymnastics was her calling.

“I was seven years old when I took my first gymnastic class,” Retten said.

At age 14, Retten met Béla Károlyi, the coach that would turn her life into one of fame and high acclaim. Karolyi met with Retten’s parents to convince her to train at his gym in Houston, Texas in order to become an Olympic athlete.

It was there that she left her comfort zone. She no longer had the comforts of home. She lived Paige Carter | Indiana Statesman with a family and her competi- Mary Lou Retten, a gold metal gymnast, spoke to students about her life tive teammates in order to train experiences, and about what it took for her to accomplish her dreams. and make Olympic trials. The lodged into the kneecap, making from West Virginia and her knee work was rigorous.

In West Virginia she did two her leg stiff along with her liga- surgery. (The event) was a kind of inspiration; the door opens or three routines on the equip- ments being torn.

She was able to have surgery and take advantage of it,” Elson ment, but at Karolyi’s gym they did as many as 13 routines on done on the knee, and through said.

Breeanea Royer found a joy in the equipment. She trained rig- rehabilitation and continuation orously and was positioned as an of practice, she was prepared for being able to see her idol speak Alternate — she would substi- the Olympics. Her rival in the about her gymnastic experience. event was a Romanian.

Royer is a student and an astute the starter.

The Romanian scored a 9.9. In piring elite gymnast and found However, the opportunity came to her when her teammate order to win the gold Retten had Retton’s speech inspirational and strained a muscle and was un- to get a perfect 10, and she did personal in many aspects. so — twice.

“Well my sister did it first, so able to compete in the trials.

She overcame adversity and I thought it would be cool to do She made it through, and her chance at winning an Olympic went on to be featured on Sports it, so I tried it, and it was actually medal was only six months away. Illustrated, Sports Woman of pretty fun,” Royer said.

Royer found the most special In this time she won the the Year, Amateur athlete of the American Cup and a Japanese year and inducted into the hall moment to take away from the speech to be “when she got the gymnastics cup; however, a wall of fame.

Kathryn Elson, student at In- knee injury.” of seemingly unending bounds diana State, was one of the many Mary Retton currently travels erected in front of her. the country doing such speechWhile performing for a camp to attend the event.

“It was really nice. It started es, and her presence at Indiana at a YMCA in Kentucky, her knee pocked and became stiff. out with a video where she got State University has touched all The next day, they discovered her 10 points. She basically talk- who were able to hear her in the that a piece of her cartilage had ed about her experience coming Tilson Auditorium.

A defamation suit brought against online news site BuzzFeed for its publishing of an intelligence dossier that alleges Kremlin ties to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has been transferred to federal court.

The suit, brought by Cyprus-based tech mogul Aleksej Gubarev, was transferred Tuesday at BuzzFeed’s request from a local Florida court to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in Miami.

Gubarev’s defamation suit against BuzzFeed demanded a response by Feb. 28, which has been extended. Since the lawsuit was filed, BuzzFeed has redacted Gubarev’s name from the document and apologized.

“I have agreed to give them to March 24,” said Val Gurvits, an attorney with the Boston Law Group, which has represented Gubarev and his companies, XBT and Webzilla, for a decade.

Gurvits filed one of two suits on behalf of his client on Feb. 3, claiming BuzzFeed defamed Gubarev when the news site published a 35-page dossier of uncorroborated, explosive allegations compiled by a former British spy.

The dossier, which began as political opposition research, had been in the possession of McClatchy and several other news organizations, all of which had been working to corroborate allegations. One claimed that Gubarev and his companies were instrumental in the hacking of leaked Democratic Party emails that embarrassed Hillary Clinton and other Democrats.

XBT and Webzilla offer web hosting, storage and a number of other tech services. Gubarev runs his tech empire from Cyprus, although Webzilla is based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. BuzzFeed published the entire document shortly after CNN re-

ported on portions of it, and the salacious portions went viral.

At the time the document became public, Gubarev told McClatchy he had no idea why the British spy, later outed as former MI6 agent Christopher Steele, would link Gubarev’s name to the alleged Russian hacking ahead of U.S. elections.

The dossier claimed that Kremlin spies had coerced Gubarev because he had compromising information, something Gubarev flatly denied.

In an interview, his attorney said no one from U.S. law enforcement had before or since reached out to Gubarev.

“He’s made it clear he will open up his computers to any law enforcement agency in the United States that wants to take a look,” Gurvits said. “It is important to us to make it very, very clear to anyone that is listening that we want to clear their name.”

The attorney also clarified who is paying for the defamation suit.

“Gubarev is paying for everything,” said Gurvits. “He can certainly (afford) it. It is a $150 million company. It can afford to fight this fight.”

Defendants often seek to move cases from local courts to federal courts because of concerns about being “hometowned” by a presumably favorable local jury, said Joseph Little, a professor emeritus at the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida. That might be less of factor is this instance because — even though Webzilla is based in Florida — Gubarev is not a local businessman.

More likely, Little said, is that BuzzFeed wants the case to be heard in a federal court, which might be more current on constitutional issues, particularly since the First Amendment is likely to be central to the case.

A separate team of lawyers in Britain have brought a similar suit against Steele and his com-

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12th annual Ethics Conference informed students Claire Silcox Reporter

The 12th annual Ethics Conference took place on Wednesday, bringing Indiana State University students together to discuss and learn about ethical topics and issues. Guests of the conference included Marc Nichols as keynote speaker The Ethics Conference hosted three keynote speakers, one of whom was Marc Nichols, Rolls Royce legal counsel and director of Compliance-Americas, who spoke about ethics within the business realm and the rest of society.

Nichols titled his speech “Ethics in a Post Truth and Reality TV World.” He spoke about just that, the truth and reality television world that is today. He stated that he was not speaking on behalf of

Rolls Royce and that his speech was not just about business ethics.

On the topic of truth, Nichols mentioned the prominent issue of today — the 2016 election.

He made sure to let the audience members know that his speech was not intended to be a political statement, only that ethics is everywhere, especially in politics. Nichols brought up Hillary Clinton, with her emails causing mistrust, and Donald Trump and his statements against Clinton and other women.

He also talked about the mistrust some people have with the candidates of last year’s election but also of the reality television factor of his speech title.

Nicholas stated the fact that the United States now has a president that was once a reality television star that fired people almost every week on his show, but to

many of his supporters he is a smart businessman.

He questioned if one’s ethical decision making skills are corrupt, what would that do to one’s political decision making skills?

There were a ten other speakers talking about a variety of topics involving ethics. Along with the speakers there was also a four-person panel discussing the ethical ramifications of genetic testing.

With three separate breakout sessions and a luncheon keynote speech by Marc Nichols, the 2017 Ethics Conference drew in a crowd of a hundred plus guests that included students, faculty and others from different universities throughout the day.

Students came to the Hulman Memorial Student Union for ISU Communications and Marketing class requirements and to further One of the speakers for the Ethics Conference spoke in Dede I on themselves in the ethical decision making processes on Wednesday. Wednesday, educating the audience on a variety of topics.

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Bush’s daughter says she’s proud of Planned Parenthood

Friday, March. 3, 2017

Anna M. Tinsley Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TNS) Barbara Pierce Bush, daughter of former President George W. Bush, said Wednesday that she strongly supports Planned Parenthood despite continued Republican efforts to defund the group.

“I am very proud to stand with Planned Parenthood,” Bush told a crowd of around 1,000 people gathered at the annual Planned Parenthood luncheon in Fort Worth’s downtown Omni Hotel. “I am proud to stand with Planned Parenthood not only because women, regardless of where they are from, deserve to live dignified, healthy lives, (but) … because it’s a really good investment.

“We know that when women are healthy, their families and their children are healthier too.”

But Bush, whose father staunchly opposes abortion, did tell the crowd that she’s “a little bit frustrated that we are still making the case of why women’s health matters in 2017.”

Bush’s comments come as there is much at stake for Planned Parenthood, a group Texas officials continue working to defund. President Donald Trump has taken up the fight at the federal level, having signed an executive order in January barring federal funds from groups that promote abortion across the world.

As Bush spoke, more than a dozen protesters gathered outside the hotel to criticize the former first daughter for supporting Planned Parenthood.

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RReconstruction continues in a race to shore up the emergency spillway at Oroville Dam in Oroville, Calif. on Feb. 15.

Federal funding uncertain in Calif. flooding situation Sean Cockerham McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Experts say California’s Oroville Dam crisis demonstrates the life-anddeath urgency of federal spending to upgrade aging dams.

But there are doubts about whether President Donald Trump will agree.

California Natural Resources Secretary John Laird told the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Wednesday that further deterioration of the nation’s aging flood control and water infrastructure systems will put lives at risk.

He said the Oroville crisis, in which nearly 200,000 people were ordered to evacuate last month out of fear of catastrophic flooding, had brought necessary attention to the issues.

“We should use the opportunity presented by this situation to invest in existing infrastructure and fund innovative projects that leverage science to meet the challenge of extreme weather,” he said.

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif.,

brought up the flood vulnerability of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, the center of a bitter debate over whether water goes to farmers or wildlife.

“That seems to occupy a lot of the discussion about the Delta.

But I’m concerned about another point, which is that we may not have that debate if the infrastructure that supports the Delta is compromised,” Harris said.

Trump told Congress on Tuesday that he would ask for a $1 trillion package “financed through both public and private capital” to improve the nation’s infrastructure.

But administration officials and congressional leaders have indicated the focus is likely more on tax credits and public-private partnerships, such as toll roads, than on new federal investment.

Dams need federal dollars, Larry Larson, director emeritus of the Association of State Floodplain Managers, told the Senate committee Wednesday.

“Private financing will not suffice. We’re going to have to have substantial federal investment in this, as well as state and local investment,” Larson said.

Larson said the Oroville crisis, along with 80 failures of smaller dams in South Carolina over the past two years, should represent a wake-up call for the nation.

“Perhaps we were not far from a failure in Northern California that would have immediate flooding consequences for tens of thousands of people and left the state’s water supply vulnerable to severe shortage,” Larson testified.

Trump is light on specifics when discussing his infrastructure plan. So it’s not clear exactly what he has in mind and whether federal investment in dams will be part of it.

Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., said Trump’s speech to Congress on Tuesday night was “preciously short on how you pay for this, which is always the challenge: how to pay for stuff.”

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman John Barrasso, R-Wyo. said he was open to spending money on dams.

“I believe any infrastructure bill this committee develops should consider the need to modernize and maintain these

structures,” Barrasso said.

California Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday redirected $50 million and asked the state Legislature for an additional $387 million for immediate flood control and emergency response.

California Natural Resources Secretary Laird said the state’s longer-term flood control challenges included climate change and potential earthquakes.

A 1-foot sea level rise would cause the western Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to see a level of flooding every 10 years that usually would be once in 100 years.

“If there were a major seismic event and a number of these levees failed, salt water would actually drain from the San Francisco Bay into the Delta and you would have a real difficult time recovering farmland,” he said.

The area is the heart of a California agricultural industry that produces half the nation’s fruits and vegetables.

“It’s a huge ticket to do all the repair work that might need to be done,” Laird said.

Muslim in charge of 14,000 US soldiers’ spiritual needs Hannah Allam McClatchy Washington Bureau In January, Lt. Col. Khallid Shabazz received the call every Army chaplain dreams of, the call that validates years of intense study and hard work toward keeping the U.S. military in good spiritual health.

He was offered the job of chaplain for an entire division, an honor for anyone in his field but a milestone in his case. After a ceremony this summer, Shabazz will become the first Muslim division-level chaplain in the history of the U.S. military — a Muslim spiritual leader for more than 14,000 mostly Christian soldiers.

Shabazz, who’s dedicated his life to working across religious lines, found it hard to keep calm as he received the news at his desk on Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, Wash.

“I’m on the phone saying, ‘Thank you, I appreciate it. I’ll serve honorably,’ and then I hang up the phone and I’m jumping all around like a little kid,” Shabazz, 48, recalled in interviews in February. “I was running around the office saying, al hamdulillah, al hamdulillah, praise be to God!”

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Army Lt. Col. Khallid Shabazz prays five time a day as an Islamic chaplain at the Main Post Chapel.

To get a sense of what a long shot this might’ve seemed like to Shabazz, consider the numbers: He’s one of only 10 Muslim chaplains in the entire U.S. military; of the Army’s 1,400 or so chaplains, just five are Muslim.

“When you get the call saying you have been bestowed a division, the news is kind of like, unearthly,” Shabazz said. “The list is so small and it’s such a tough cut.”

With four months until the ceremony that will make him

chaplain of the Army’s 7th Infantry Division at Lewis-McChord, Shabazz has plenty of time to think about taking on such a visible role in an age of open anti-Muslim hostility. He’d like to think his transition will be as smooth as those of his Christian peers, but he knows that not everyone will welcome him as warmly as the senior officers who gave him a standing ovation when the news was announced at a meeting on base.

“For me, a regular old guy from Louisiana, I look to the heavens and say, ‘Why me?’” Shabazz said. “As the day gets closer, I’m sure I’ll have more anxiety and think about it more. I’m extremely proud to have been on this journey for 20 years and never would’ve imagined that I’d be chosen to be the first.”

“Islamic guy in a leadership position?” he said. “If I think about it too much, it’ll get overwhelming.”

Shabazz came into the world as Michael Barnes, born into a large Lutheran family in Alexandria, La., about three hours from New Orleans.

Faith was at the center of the household. His mother took the family to church three times a week and recited prayers with her children each night. Shabazz, a lifelong athlete with a 6-foot-5inch, 255-pound frame, had to study catechism before he could play football and basketball on Saturdays.

Other kids might’ve grumbled about such a rigorous worship schedule, but Shabazz said he didn’t mind — from an early age, he was taken with the spirit of friendship and service.

“I like people who have a commonality of purpose,” Shabazz said. “We loved each other. If people had rent problems or other problems, the church pulled us together to take care of those problems.”

After high school, Shabazz headed to Jarvis Christian College, a historically black college in the small town of Hawkins in eastern Texas. Upon graduation,

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11 senators call on Trump team to allow sale of recreational marijuana Rob Hotakainen McClatchy Washington Bureau

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Raft Hollingsworth III installs lights inside one of his greenhouses in Mason County. His family’s marijuana is sun-grown and cultivated with recycled water in greenhouses.

WASHINGTON — Eleven senators asked the Trump administration Thursday to allow states to tax and sell recreational marijuana.

The senators wrote a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, reminding him that President Donald Trump said on the campaign trail that the issue of legalization should be left up to states.

Eight states have legalized recreational marijuana. Washington state’s Democratic governor, Jay Inslee, has vowed to go to court if necessary to fight any plans by the Trump administration to shut down the state operations.

In their letter, the senators said states should be allowed to enforce their policies in “thoughtful, sensible” ways without federal interference, following the lead of former President Barack Obama’s Justice Department.

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska signed the letter, along with 10 Democrats: Washington state’s Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell; Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey of Massachusetts; Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley of Oregon; Brian Schatz of Hawaii; Catherine Cortez Mastro of Nevada; Cory Booker of New Jersey; and Michael Bennet of Colorado.

Fears of a pending crackdown are growing after Sessions said Tuesday that he was “dubious about marijuana.”

“States, you know, can pass whatever laws they choose, but I’m not sure we’re going to be a better, healthier nation if we have marijuana being sold at every corner grocery store,” he said in a speech at the winter meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General. “We’ll have to work our way through that.”

Sessions made his remarks only days after White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters that the Department of Justice would use the federal law banning marijuana to crack down on recreational pot sales while allowing states to regulate the drug for medical use.

“I do believe that you’ll see greater enforcement,” Spicer said.

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Steele is believed to be in hiding, fearing for his safety.

“What could he possibly be afraid of?” asked Gurvits.

Several high-level Russian officials have died since word began circulating about Steele’s reports.

One was a former KGB general who had worked closely with Igor Sechin, the powerful head of the state oil behemoth Rosneft.

Initial news reports in Russia on Dec. 26 said the general, Oleg Erovinkin, had been murdered in his car in an alley.

Later that day reports said he had died of a heart attack.

Erovinkin matched the profile of a source close to Sechin named in the Steele dossier.

“It’s important to make sure there’s a consistent and sustainable pro-life presence at events like this,” said Jillian Ferguson, a 23-year-old Students for Life of America member who drove in from Waco for the event. “We don’t want to leave Planned Parenthood unchallenged, especially with George W. Bush having left such a pro-life legacy.

“We don’t understand why Barbara Bush would go against that legacy.”

This Planned Parenthood chapter raised more than $400,000 Wednesday for local efforts, which officials say will help make sure people who need health care get it.

And officials stressed that they are continuing to diversify funding to make sure clinics that provide a variety of health services, including abortions, stay open.

“Health care is a right, not a privilege and not a … political statement,” Ken Lambrecht, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, said during the luncheon.

“We promise with your help, we are battle ready.”

ARMY FROM PAGE 2 he returned to Louisiana and began teaching biology to fifth-graders at an elementary school in his hometown. He said he wasn’t prepared for how despondent he became at seeing so many children whose growth was stymied by poverty or poor parenting; he struggled to accept that he couldn’t help them all.

After just six months, he quit.

At age 23, he decided to join the Army, thinking that it would help him mature and make him a better, stronger teacher afterward.

“I thought, ‘I’ll do 20 years in the military and then I’ll teach and coach,’” Shabazz said. “But I fell in love with the idea and the paradigm of the military.”

While stationed in Baumholder, Germany, Shabazz worked the motor pool with a Muslim soldier who annoyed other troops with his boasts about the virtues of Islam. Shabazz, who back then was still Christian, grew fed up and decided “to cut him down to size.” He challenged the Muslim to a public debate on the merits of their respective religions.

On the afternoon of the showdown, Shabazz recalled, about 30 soldiers filled a meeting room on base. Shabazz was ready to pounce, but the Muslim opponent “kind of blindsided me with some facts,” launching into a powerful, persuasive defense of his faith that put Islam in a whole new light.

Shabazz, stunned, was down for the count.

“It was all-out cognitive dissonance, depression and shame, honestly,” Shabazz said, recalling his feelings at that moment. “I

Bush, a 35-year-old New York philanthropist, has called Planned Parenthood an “exceptional organization.”

The older of the twin daughters born to former President George W. Bush and Laura Bush didn’t wade into politics during her speech.

But she did note that she agreed to speak to Planned Parenthood back in October.

“I was under the assumption things would go differently,” she said, referring to the 2016 presidential election. “That’s not a political statement.

“I thought the cards were going to fall in a different way,” she said.

“And I could not be more happy that I said yes (to speaking at the Fort Worth luncheon) now.”

Bush has long political ties to Planned Parenthood.

It was her father who ousted the late Ann Richards from the Texas governor’s mansion in 1994. Before that, Richards drew national attention for her 1988 Democratic National Convention keynote speech in which she said, “Poor George. He can’t help it. He was born with a silver foot in his

thought I had a stronghold on the truth. And, for the first time, my confidence was shaken in who I was as a human being and what I believed.”

Shabazz began studying Islam on his own, determined to correct the lack of knowledge revealed in his debate with the Muslim soldier. He’d work all day and then stay up well past midnight paging through the Bible and the Quran. He described it as going into a “cubbyhole.”

After two years, Michael Barnes, the devout Christian reared in a Louisiana church, decided to convert to Islam, taking the name Khallid Shabazz to complete his transformation. He said that there had been no single tipping point in his thinking, just a deep identification with Islamic tenets, such as the lack of a clerical hierarchy and the emphasis on charity.

“One of my favorite passages in the Quran asks if the man who thinks and the man who does are the same,” Shabazz said.

“It’s the thinking component in Islam that really intrigued me. I am in control of my grace, and I don’t have to answer to the imam. I tell my congregation, ‘Listen, you have to do your own research.’”

Unsurprisingly, Shabazz’s conversion did not play well with his family in Louisiana, where he’s still known as “Michael.” He said it took years for them to accept the change, but now they tease him about praying on time and make him a special gumbo minus the pork sausage. Such conciliatory gestures, Shabazz said, must go both ways.

“I do still go to church with my family — that’s an important

mouth,” about Bush’s grandfather, George H.W. Bush.

Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, is the daughter of Ann Richards.

Outside, protesters carried signs that read “We don’t need Planned Parenthood” and “Planned Un-Parenthood,” as they hoped to draw attention to the fact they believe Bush shouldn’t speak in support of the organization.

“The Lord led me out here,” said Travis Land, a 40-year-old from Chico who stopped when he saw other protesters outside the Omni Hotel. “Jesus came to set these people free … from their sins.”

Each year, Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas hosts a wellknown speaker — from feminist icon Gloria Steinem to environmentalist activist Erin Brockovich — to come in to help raise money for local health care services.

This year it was Bush, who talked about her time in the White House when her grandfather and later her father served as president.

She joked about her family, saying she and her sister have always

part of reaching across the aisle,” he said. “It would be improper for me to disrespect something that instilled in me so much of who I am.”

Shabazz’s switch in faiths didn’t exactly go smoothly with the military, either. He had to write memos for even the smallest religious accommodation, such as time to perform the traditional Friday prayers. He’d fast during the holy month of Ramadan, though his schedule called for grueling work in the field. Ravenous by the end of the day, he’d come to the mess hall only to find pork chops. He’d raise concerns with his superiors from time to time, but made little headway.

“When you have an unknown there, sometimes the leadership kind of treats you unfairly because they’re not educated into what you’re doing,” Shabazz said.

“In defense of them, I didn’t explain it very well, either. I was growing. There were some tough days.”

On one of the toughest days, Shabazz was exhausted from a series of 12-hour shifts and hungry because of the lack of pork-free meals. Sitting outside on an M109 howitzer, he felt his frustration spill out in tears. Nobody’s here for me, he thought.

Maybe this organization is not for me.

A passing chaplain noticed Shabazz’s distress and stopped.

In an hourlong impromptu ministry session, the chaplain let Shabazz pour his heart out about his struggle to carve a space for himself in the military. After listening, Shabazz said, the chaplain mentioned that the Army had recently received its first

active-duty Muslim chaplain: Would that kind of path interest Shabazz?

“I’m telling you, it was like a revelation from God,” Shabazz recalled. “Once it came out of his mouth, I said, ‘That is my calling. That is what I want to do for the rest of my life.’”

Shabazz has now been in the Army for 26 years, 18 years as a chaplain. He’s been deployed seven times — including Iraq, Kosovo and a stint at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he was sent to advise commanders on religious issues after a string of scandals.

Over the years, a handful of people have refused to work with Shabazz because he’s Muslim. That doesn’t bother him — he lives by the chaplain’s motto of “perform or provide,” so if he can’t minister himself, he’ll recommend a chaplain of a different faith. But Christians who do agree to be seen by Shabazz are often surprised by his fluency in the Bible’s teachings, a vestige of his many years in the church.

“Because I have the language from my days as a Christian, I can give them Scriptures from the Bible, and that doesn’t violate my religion,” Shabazz said. “My job is not to convert anybody to Islam. God guides people. My only goal is to have people leave my office stronger than when they came in.”

Sometimes, though, soldiers do convert and turn to Shabazz for guidance as they enter Islam.

One of the most unusual conversions came just three months ago, Shabazz said. A master sergeant in the Special Forces — a man who’d come to no Friday prayers or study groups —

known they “came from a family of nerds.”

And she joked that having a mother who was a librarian meant that “it seemed sometimes the excitement would never end.”

But Bush said it was her exposure to the world with her parents that ultimately helped create her desire to found Global Health Corps, a nonprofit geared to help people fight for health equality in Africa and the United States.

She talked at length about the effort, noting that the group partners with other organizations overseas, including several Planned Parenthood branches, to “confront solvable health challenges,” Bush said.

“It is so exciting to know we have the tools to solve so many problems,” Bush told the crowd.

“We know this is just the beginning.”

Among those at the luncheon: former state Rep. Lon Burnam, D-Fort Worth; former Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns; Fort Worth City Councilwoman Ann Zedah; and Texas Wesleyan President Fred Slabach.

showed up, crying, to meet with Shabazz. He told the imam he was ready to take shahada, the modest ritual to officially accept Islam.

“He said, ‘I heard you’re a good chaplain. I’ve been thinking about Islam for about three years,’” Shabazz recalled. “I took him down to the mosque, he took shahada and I’ve never seen him again.”

Shabazz appreciates the historic aspect of his rise but views it all pragmatically: He immersed himself in studies, devoted himself to interfaith work and completed four master’s degrees and two doctorates. In other words, he earned it, his ascent proof of the old line that the military is a meritocracy — after all, where else could a Muslim get a high-profile job in a U.S. government institution these days?

But Shabazz knows, too, that there are sure to be bumps ahead, tests of how well the military can insulate itself from the cultural battles that have cleaved the nation in two. Two verses are at the forefront of his mind these days — one from the Quran, one from the Bible, both about how hatred of a people has no place among the faithful.

“Some of the challenges will be really changing perceptions, changing mindsets, showing that I am something other than what they see — the guy on TV, the boogeyman,” Shabazz said.

“I have a real opportunity to be an ambassador for the Army and for my religion.”

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STATESMAN MOVIE REVIEW

‘A Cure for Wellness’ tangles horror and mystery Grace Harrah Features Editor

A decently new genre, psychological horror, has recently gained popularity in the film industry.

Movies such as “Shutter Island,” “Black Swan,” “Gone Girl” and even “Nightcrawler” have been labeled as psychological horror or psychological thriller films.

A new film, “A Cure for Wellness” is the most recent film to fit in the category.

From the trailer itself, it is hard to catch the exact plot, creating a mysterious curiosity for the audience.

Director Gore Verbinski has also made films such as “The Ring,” “The Lone Ranger” and the “Pirates of the Caribbean” series. Although this is the first time he has set in creating a psychological thriller, he did an amazing job seizing the dark and mysterious mood of this chilling movie.

The thrill goes from start to finish, making it hard to keep the eyes off of it.

The story follows Lockhart, an executive worker at New York City’s top investment company, who is asked to travel to Switzerland to retrieve the company’s CEO from a mysterious “wellness center.” Lockhart takes the offer and travels to the Swiss

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Alps, not expecting the mysterious yet frightening journey that is ahead of him.

He notices a strange routine, experiments and bizarre doctors that are unnaturally sedative. Lockhart meets a young girl, Hannah, and finds out she has been in

the facility for as long as she remembers, waiting for a “cure” and for her father to return. Although Lockhart finds the CEO, he does not wish to go back to New York and tries to convince Lockhart that he is not yet well.

Lockhart quickly realizes the facility practices unethical treatments toward the patients, manipulating them to stay in the facility for a cure that they do not ultimately need.

The main character Lockhart is played

by Dane DeHaan, famous for his role in “The Amazing Spiderman 2” and “Lincoln.” Mia Goth, an uprising actress who is married to Shia LaBeouf, plays Hannah. She also played a role in a recent film “Everest” and caught popularity for her uniqueness. The characters develop a romantic encounter, making this film not only for those interested in the thriller but a romantic storyline.

The mystery stretches throughout the film, as Lockhart slowly yet surely discovers the history of the wellness center and the oddity of the town. The secret slowly unveils, only to give the sense of thrill to the audience even further as the dots connect who Hannah really is and what the “cure” contains.

“A Cure for Wellness” is a new type of thriller that contains a storyline that makes the audience wonder in a mysterious and thrilling manner. It is a film not to miss with an oddly addictive storyline and a chilling outcome.

New ‘Beauty and the Beast’ to feature ‘exclusively gay moment’ Libby Hill

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

There’s more going on in Disney’s new “Beauty and the Beast” adaptation than meets the eye in the trailers.

In an interview with Attitude magazine, director Bill Condon spoke a little about the character of LeFou (Josh Gad) and his complicated feelings toward his best pal Gaston (Luke Evans).

“LeFou is somebody who on one day wants to be Gaston and on another day wants to kiss Gaston,” Condon said of the relationship.

“He’s confused about what he wants,” Condon continued. “It’s somebody who’s just realizing that he has these feelings. And Josh makes something really subtle and delicious out of it.

And that’s what has its payoff at the end, which I don’t want to give away. But it is a nice, exclusively gay moment in a Disney movie.”

Condon’s reveal is the second bit of recent news to suggest Disney is becoming more inclusive of LGBT representation.

On Feb. 23, Disney XD aired an episode of “Star vs. the Forces of Evil” titled “ Just Friends,” which featured the main characters attending a concert. When the charismatic boy band performs a romantic song, the venue full of concert-goers starts smooching, including several same-sex couples in the background.

The episode marked the first-ever same-sex kiss in a Disney cartoon.

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The stamps are sold to benefit the organization’s work of helping translate the Bible around the world.

Technology transforms ancient art of Bible translation Susan Jacobson

Orlando Sentinel (TNS)

ORLANDO, Fla. — For most of its 50 years, Florida’s Wycliffe Associates built offices, guesthouses, training centers and airport runways for volunteers who traveled to other countries to assist Bible translators.

But in the past two years, the nonprofit has transformed the way it goes about its mission.

Now, as it celebrates its golden anniversary, the organization’s ambitious goal is to have the Bible translated by 2025 into all of the estimated 7,000 languages spoken worldwide.

“The magic is really unlocking the potential of the local people and encouraging and supporting them as a team as they do the work,” President and Chief Executive Officer Bruce Smith said.

Through computer tablets, custom-designed software and desktop printers, Wycliffe Associates helps native speakers in their home countries translate and print copies in a fraction of the time it once took. The New Testament, for example, can be translated in a few months instead of the 25 or 30 years required when it was done by hand, printed elsewhere and then shipped, Smith said.

In 2014, Wycliffe Associates shifted from American to foreign translators working through their local churches. The nonprofit, using a new translation method, provides a version of the Bible free of copyright restrictions and translation tips for complicated sections. As a result, the book was translated into 600 languages in two years, with the goal of adding 400 more

this year.

“These people are the experts in their language and culture, and that’s what translation is about,” Smith said.

The backbone of Wycliffe Associates is its 7,000 volunteers worldwide. They serve in key management roles and also do a variety of jobs, including train other volunteers. Many are winter residents who live in an RV park on the campus during their stay.

“We want to give as many people as we can that opportunity to know about and accept Christ into their lives,” said Carlyle Kilmore, 78, a retired software developer from Rome, N.Y., who helped the ministry’s annual auction raise $65,000 this month.

A shared sense of purpose has nurtured friendships. The

women who work in the postage-stamp ministry, for example, toil side by side from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday, exhibiting the patience of Job as they sort thousands of donated stamps by color, type, year and whether they are canceled.

They recharge by taking weekend trips together and participating in social activities. Recently, they saw manatees at Blue Spring State Park in Volusia County and went to a play in Cocoa. On campus, they go to movies, potlucks, pizza and game nights — and, of course, prayer services.

Volunteers operate in 76 countries — including Southeast Asia, the South Pacific, Africa and South America — some where Christians are persecuted.

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Lorde is back with ‘Green Light’ — and heartbreak never sounded this good Gerrick D. Kennedy

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

After a week of teasing, Lorde is officially back.

On Thursday, the “Royals” singer debuted her single “Green Light,” along with its accompanying music video.

The comeback single, which she cowrote and co-produced with Jack Antonoff, sees Lorde in heartbreak mode — but not down and out over losing her lover.

Instead, the 20-year-old is joyously moving on from the drama and dancing away her heartache.

“But I hear sounds in my mind / Brandnew sounds in my mind… But honey, I’ll be seein’ you / Down every road,” she sings on the uptempo stomper.

“Green Light” is the first taste of her forthcoming sophomore album, “Melodrama,” the follow-up to her breakout debut, 2013’s “Pure Heroine.” Lorde and Antonoff produced the entire new record together.

During an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music’s Beats 1 radio, the singer said the song was about her first major heartbreak.

“It’s not something that I really am used to writing about,” she said. “It took me a while to be able to figure out how to write about that … And the song is really about those moments kind of immediately after your life changes and about all the silly little things that you gravitate toward.”

Lorde said the last year of transitioning into adulthood had inspired the forthcoming record, which is planned for a summer release.

“I moved out of home and all of a sudden I was kind of figuring out ‘Who am I when I’m alone? Who am I when I’m doing things just for myself?’ And I feel like you can really hear that on this record,” she said. “There’s definitely moments where it’s like, ‘Oh, she really went there.’ “ Lorde will showcase some of the new material during her gig at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, slated for April 14-16 and April 21-23 in Indio.

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TECH FROM PAGE 4 Four translators were killed last year by suspected militants in the Middle East, who also destroyed equipment, Wycliffe Associates officials said.

They would not reveal the country the attack occurred in, saying it would endanger more lives.

“The nature of our work takes us into places that are risky,” Smith said. “There’s worse ways to lose your life.”

Wycliffe Associates was founded in 1967 by three men who saw that Bible translators were spending time on tasks such as constructing buildings and raising money — time that could better be accomplished by others working in support roles.

In 2015, the nonprofit received $41.1 million in contributions and other revenue and spent $27.6 million on translation-ministry programs, accord-

ing to its annual report.

It moved its headquarters from Southern California to Central Florida 13 years ago and shares a campus with Wycliffe Bible Translators, but the two are now separate.

To add to the potential confusion, there’s also a Wycliffe Global Alliance, which Wycliffe Associates withdrew from a year ago over translation disagreements.

All three groups were named for John Wycliffe, a 14th-century English theologian who, with help from his associates, was the first to translate the complete Bible into English.

“We have a God of love and we want to give people peace of mind that they are forgiven for their wrongdoing,” said Dia Terhaar, 71, who lives near Toronto and handles sales for the stamp ministry. “Once they learn about forgiveness and love, it can change their life, and it’s nice to be able to spread that message.”

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Fake news on the left Ann Friedman

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Environmental Protection Agency.

The arithmetic, again, doesn’t work: The combined budgets of State and EPA come to no more than $67 billion, so extracting $54 billion would be impractical.

And when White House officials said they’d target foreign aid, presumably figuring that would be a politically popular target, some leading Republicans revolted.

Sens. McCain, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Marco Rubio of Florida all said cutting foreign aid was a bad idea. “It would be a disaster,” Graham said. “It shows a lack of understanding of what it takes to win the war.”

Retired Gen. David Petraeus and 120 other generals and admirals even signed a letter defending the State Department budget. The letter quoted Gen. James Mattis, now Trump’s secretary of defense: “If you don’t fund the State Department fully, then I need to buy more ammunition.”

When Trump was asked about the proposal before his speech, he didn’t bother to defend its details, suggesting either that he didn’t know the specifics, or that it wasn’t a serious idea to begin with.

“I think the money is going to come from a revved up economy,” he said on Fox News. “If I can get (growth) up to 3 percent or maybe more, we have a whole different ball game.”

In the end, that’s the whole of Trump’s plan: cut taxes, eliminate regulations and pray for a boom. It would be nice if

Last fall, as Native American protesters gathered at Standing Rock to stop the completion of the Dakota Access pipeline, several of my friends “checked in” at the protest on Facebook.

They were nowhere near South Dakota. They had heard — through urgent posts by other friends who were not present either — that fake geo-tagging would protect protesters at the site from monitoring by law enforcement. NPR reported that more than a million people “checked in” at the protest camp, a digital version of the “I am Spartacus” strategy.

But the local sheriff ’s office told reporters that it hadn’t been monitoring protesters using Facebook geo-tags. And leaders of the protest said they had never asked far-flung allies to change their locations on social media.

The geo-tagging fad was a harmless way for people to express solidarity. It was also, arguably, part of a bigger problem with how information spreads online in the Trump era.

Fake news, as defined by the Columbia Journalism Review, is “misinformation crafted to influence public opinion or cull digital advertising dollars.” When researchers from Stanford and New York University analyzed misinformation that spread on social media during the 2016 campaign, they found that more fake news articles were pro-Donald Trump than pro-Hillary Clinton.

But in the months since the election, President Trump has made “fake news” his primary critique of any unfavorable coverage. The president applies the label to everything from independent polls finding scant support for his policies to leaked reports that his administration is in disarray.

If the term has been rendered meaningless, the underlying notion still holds up: People are too quick to share articles that confirm their beliefs. (In December, a Pew study found that 23 percent of U.S. adults had shared a made-up news story, either knowingly or not.) And despite liberals’ self-perception that we are more fact-oriented than your average Trump supporter, this is not a weakness limited to the right.

To spread misinformation, you don’t have to share a clicky headline from a dubious source.

Sometimes all you have to do is take a meme too seriously. Take, for example, a well-circulated animated GIF of Melania Trump during the inauguration ceremony. The clip shows her smiling while her husband is facing her, then dropping the smile as soon as he turns away.

For those of us who want to believe that even those closest to the president secretly hate him, the GIF was a balm. “This Melania Trump GIF is all of us,” crowed Cosmopolitan. The first lady’s perceived unhappiness became one of the more popular liberal memes of the week, with captions like, “Blink twice if you want us to save you.”

The joke faded faster than her smile when advocates for survivors of abuse published blog posts imploring us to take seriously the suggestion that domestic violence might be an issue in the White House. The blog Queerty claimed it had found “another candid video of Donald

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Recent speech masked reality of Trump’s unrealistic agenda Doyle McManus

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

President Trump boasted in his speech to Congress on Tuesday that he’s keeping the many campaign promises he made to voters, beginning with his pledges to boost economic growth and slash regulations on business.

“A new chapter of American greatness is now beginning,” he said. “Dying industries will come roaring back to life. … Our neglected inner cities will see a rebirth of hope, safety and opportunity. Above all else, we will keep our promises to the American people.”

But the president’s bravado masked a harsher reality: His agenda’s already in trouble, for the simple reason that it’s inconsistent and unrealistic.

It’s true that the president has kept several of his promises — the easy ones.

He’s signed, with a jagged flourish, dozens of executive actions. He’s told federal agencies to cut regulations (although few have actually been eliminated; it’s a time-consuming process).

He’s ordered a wave of deportations of undocumented immigrants. He’s pulled out of a trans-Pacific trade deal. He’s jawboned a handful of companies into preserving a handful of American jobs.

That, plus hints of lower tax rates to come, has been enough to send the stock market soaring — one of the achievements Trump claimed Tuesday evening.

But Trump’s most ambitious promises — a much longer list — are a long way from getting done.

Beyond deep cuts in taxes, he’s proposed a wall on the border with Mexico, a trillion dollars’ worth of infrastructure and better health insurance at lower prices. Also a balanced budget, all without cutting Social Security or Medicare.

Budgeteers from both parties say it’s impossible; the arithmetic simply doesn’t add up.

Republican leaders in Congress see little sign of a workable plan from the White House. They’re worried that Trump — who won’t acknowledge he can’t balance the budget without touching entitlements — will ultimately opt for deficit spending. (Trump neglected to mention balancing the budget Tuesday evening, as they must have noticed.) So they are reminding all comers that legislators are the ones who make decisions on tax cuts and spending bills.

Wary of charging into disaster, they have ignored Trump’s demands for quick action to replace President Obama’s healthcare law and are moving at their own predictably measured pace.

Lawmakers are also pushing back on an idea that should have been a gimme: Trump’s announcement this week that he will seek an increase of roughly 10 percent in defense spending.

The $54-billion jump the president proposed was only a little more than Obama had projected, and well below the numbers sought by defense hawks like Sen. John McCain of Arizona.

But the White House immediately ran into trouble by suggesting it would pay for the defense hike by exacting deep cuts from the State Department and the

Fewer rules means less and less late abortions Ann Friedman

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

In my experience as an OB-GYN, when women decide to end a pregnancy, they want to obtain an abortion quickly. One good reason is the simple fact that early abortion is associated with a lower risk of medical complications compared to later abortion. In many settings, however, women face barriers accessing early care, ranging from mandatory waiting periods to difficulty putting the money together to pay for the procedure.

Texas is an unfortunate illustration of how restrictions on access can force women to obtain abortion later in pregnancy. In 2013, the Legislature there passed one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation. More than half of the state’s clinics closed, forcing women living outside of the biggest cities to travel farther to access care and increasing the wait times at the clinics that stayed open. In the year following the law’s implementation, second-trimester abortion increased 27 percent.

Women seeking an abortion said it took time to find an open clinic, arrange for days off from work and set up affordable transportation, all of which contributed to delays in obtaining care.

One way to help women access termination services early in pregnancy is through medication abortion. This type of abortion involves the use of two drugs, mifepris-

tone and misoprostol, to end a pregnancy up to 10 weeks’ gestation. An article published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine (whose lead author was Elizabeth Raymond) explains how overregulation by the Food and Drug Administration is restricting access to medication abortion. Ever since mifepristone — which is also known as the abortion pill, or RU-486 — was approved by the FDA in 2000, the medication has been burdened by an extra layer of regulatory scrutiny that has limited the way it can be distributed.

Unlike most other drugs, mifepristone may only be dispensed at a doctor’s office or a hospital. A doctor or nurse practitioner who wants to provide medication abortion has to register with the drug’s distributor and stock the medication in his or her office. At a minimum, this process is burdensome for clinicians, and it discourages them from making these abortions available to patients.

Given how common violence is against abortion providers, doctors may not want to get on the drug distributor’s list. Writing a prescription, as doctors do for just about all other drugs, is a simpler process.

The ostensible reason for these hurdles is patient safety.

But after close to 17 years of experience with mifepristone in the United States, its extensive, positive safety record supports the removal of such restrictions. The drug can be prescribed by clinicians and dispensed in pharmacies without increasing risks for patients.

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Just as less access in Texas was associated with an increase in later abortions, research shows that more access leads to earlier ones. In Iowa, an innovative program was started in 2008 to provide medication abortion using telemedicine. State law in Iowa mandates that only a physician can provide an abortion, and there are just a handful of doctors who offer the service. Telemedicine extends their reach.

Women can visit a clinic close to them, where they will get an ultrasound and obtain any necessary blood tests.

They then video-consult with the providing doctor, who reviews the clinical information and determines if medication abortion is appropriate. Through a telepharmacy system, the doctor can then remotely open a lockbox at the clinic and dispense the drugs. In the two years after telemedicine was introduced in Iowa, there was a significant increase in medication abortion — particularly among women living in rural areas of the state — and a significant reduction in second-trimester abortion.

Some people have voiced concerns that making abortion easier to access will increase the abortion rate. But that was not the case in Iowa. After the introduction of telemedicine, the abortion rate continued to decline statewide, probably because the state also invested in a program to improve access to the most effective contra-

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indianastatesman.com FAKE NEWS FROM PAGE 6 Trump treating Melania like crap.” An online joke had become a pretty serious story — and allegation — with scant evidence to back it up.

A few sites, including Media-ite, posted the inauguration coverage in full, which placed the short viral clip in context. It appears the smile drops quickly from Melania Trump’s face because the GIF was captured during a prayer — not exactly a moment for joking around on the dais. But the corrective was lost in a deluge of memes.

No one shared it in my feed.

I found it only because I went looking for it.

Was the Melania Trump smiling meme fake news?

Probably not as most on the left would define it because no one intended to mislead the public or drive clicks to a single website. But political wishful thinking carried the story past the point of absurdity.

Memes aren’t the only unlikely way that alternative facts circulate in liberal circles. Like our counterparts on the right, those of us on the left don’t always trust established journalistic institutions to cover certain issues thoroughly — especially when it comes to marginalized people who aren’t likely to be perceived as potential advertisers or subscribers. Groups including

Friday, March. 3, 2017 • Page 7 Native American activists, transgender teens and immigrants in the country illegally have long relied heavily on word of mouth for information.

When immigration officers stepped up enforcement efforts, resulting in raids across the country, gossip spread across social media faster than journalists were able to confirm or debunk it. “Reports of ICE #raids and #checkpoints NEED TO COME WITH PICTURES OR FACEBOOK LIVE,” tweeted Fusion immigration reporter Jorge Rivas. “Rumors are spreading and it’s causing even more anxiety.”

The root cause of left-wing rumor-mongering is fairly obvious. When the front-page headlines sound like conspiracy theories and plot lines from “House of Cards,” it’s easy to conflate unsourced rants on blogs and in public forums with reported facts.

And Cognitive scientists have found that it’s much harder for us to skeptically assess stories that confirm our beliefs rather than challenge our view of the world.

Fake news isn’t just a problem that afflicts others. The burden falls on all of us to read news items critically before we share them — no matter what our political persuasion or how pure our intentions.

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ceptive methods.

As the New England Journal article points out, if the regulatory restrictions on mifepristone were removed, more clinicians would provide medication abortion and make use of new ways of providing it. Telemedicine in particular would expand, and prescriptions could be picked up at a local pharmacy or ordered by mail so that women could have a private abortion without traveling long distances to a providing doctor and clinic.

In the United States, 39 percent of women of reproductive age live in a county without an abortion provider. Proactive policies aimed at improving their access to abortion seem unlikely to gain traction in the current political climate. But adding hurdles that force women to obtain an abortion later in pregnancy — or to seek out options on their own, such as online medications of unknown quality — is bad for women’s health.

The FDA can unburden medication abortion from outdated overregulation and allow pharmacy dispensing of mifepristone, a move that would help more women obtain care as soon as they have made their decision to terminate a pregnancy.

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It’s not a knock on Trump that he hasn’t delivered on his biggest promises; his presidency is still only in its fifth week.

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Baseball team hopes for promising season Andrew Doran Reporter

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Indiana State University softball team will hit the field this weekend for the Red & Black Tournament.

Sycamores return to Bluegrass State for Red & Black Tournament Tyler Wooten

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Indiana State Softball will hit its third of four non-conference tournaments this weekend with a return trip to the Bluegrass State for the Red & Black Tournament, hosted by Louisville from March 3-5.

Following a 3-1 trip to Western Kentucky last weekend for the WKU Hilltopper Spring Fling, the Sycamores (5-4) will take on host Louisville in addition to both Bowling Green and Wisconsin-Green Bay. Action will start for ISU vs. Bowling Green at 10 a.m. on Friday (March 3), followed immediately by a contest vs. Louisville at 12:30 p.m. live on ACC Network Extra (as well

as ESPN3/WatchESPN). Day Two on Saturday (March 4) will start against UW-Green Bay at 10 a.m. before a nightcap against Bowling Green at 5:30 p.m. The Sycamores will close out with the fourth and final meeting with Louisville this season on Sunday (March 5) at 12:30 p.m.

The Sycamores and Cardinals have gone toe-to-toe in two games already this season following to narrow contests at the season-opening UNLV Sportco Kick Off Classic out in Las Vegas.

There, the Sycamores fell 6-5 in a nine-inning loss and then again by one-run in a 1-0 loss in the tournament finale for ISU. Indiana State is coming off a very impressive weekend offensive at WKU, though. The Syca-

mores scored 36 runs on 42 hits in four games — one of which was a five-inning shutout loss to Western Kentucky. At WKU, the Sycamores slugged .552 as a team and belted out four total homers (including two grand slams). Leading the way were sophomore Brooke Mann (5-10, 2 HR, 9 RBI, 1.100 slugging) and sophomore Gabi Carter (5-13, 3 2B, 1 GS, 7 RBI, .846 slugging).

Freshman Leslie Sims added a grand slam of her own, an inside-the-park shot that helped push the Sycamores to a 4-2 win over Wright State. In ISU’s other two wins it scored 15 and 17 runs in wins over IUPUI and Austin Peay, respectively.

First pitch against Bowling Green is scheduled for 10 a.m.

The Indiana State baseball team is just two weeks into the season. Exciting for many reasons — new talent to the team, returning players getting better and a coach that is excited to get the team running on horses. This coming weekend the Sycamores will travel Utah Valley University where they will play a four game series over the course of the weekend.

While the Sycamores are 3-4, 0-0 MVC with only being two weeks, the team has showed that when each player on the roster is doing their part, they can win.

With the losses coming from Illinois State, which was the season opener, and against Mississippi State, the Sycamores can and should uphold when it comes to conference play.

Utah Valley University is currently 1-6 thus far on the season.

Even though we are two weeks in, the Wolverines have losses to conference rivals Wichita State.

The Wolverines are going into Friday’s game on a three game losing streak, in hopes to end the streak and turn their early on record around.

So far for the Wolverines, junior infielder Trevor Peterson seems to be the only one finding it for the team at the plate. In seven games played and started, Peterson is currently hitting .423 and is slugging .462 from the plate. Peterson also has recorded only two RBIs on the year and has only been walked one time thus far. In the field, Peterson has been great having two assists already and no errors.

Freshman outfielder from California, Jake Berry, has been a

standout for only playing in his first career games for the Wolverines. Berry is hitting relatively well for being a freshman starter, as he is currently .273 at the plate with two doubles and five RBIs so far. Berry is also slugging .364 and has been walked once. Berry in the field has also been good, as he has no errors on the season.

The pitching staff for the Wolverines has not been all that great for them. Only freshman Paxton Schultz and junior Jackson Cofer have been putting innings for the team. Paxton has started one time this year and in that game he had a solid day on the mound.

Paxton went 5.0 innings, giving up seven hits and having 2 ER. He did end up striking out six while facing 21 batters.

Cofer has started in two games this season for the Wolverines.

In his first outing he went 5.0 innings, only giving up 4 ER on six hits. In Cofer’s second start of the season he went deeper into the game pitching 6.2 innings. He did give up seven hits but only having two earned to give his team the win against UC Davis.

The Sycamores will most likely see Paxton and Cofer this coming weekend, with both of them being on rest for a couple days since their last outings.

Indiana State is coming off a big win against Marist on this past Sunday. Senior catcher Dominic Bifano has had a hot bat this season and is carrying the Sycamores with a .421 batting average. Both Bifano and CJ Huntley need to keep the bats alive this weekend in order to come back with four wins on the record.

First pitch Friday night will be at 7 p.m. in Orem, Utah. The game can be viewed on Utah Valley All Access online.

Women’s basketball to host Evansville Garrett Short Reporter

The Evansville Purple Aces visit the Hulman Center Saturday at 2 p.m. to take on the Indiana State women’s basketball team.

Struggling as of late, the women head into Thursday’s matchup against Southern Illinois on a four-game losing streak.

Southern Illinois and Evansville are the squad’s last two regular season games before heading to Moline, Ill. for the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament.

Momentum isn’t the only reason the remaining games are important for head coach Joey Wells and his team. A battle of seeding has emerged the last half of the MVC regular season.

Currently the sixth seed, the ISU women are on thin ice. If they lose to Evansville, the Sycamores could swap the sixth and seventh spots with the Purple Aces, forcing them into a play-in game on the first day of the tournament.

Evansville has improved since last season, in which they only won three total games, one being a conference game against Bradley. That poor record led to a last place finish in conference and resulted in Matt Ruffing being named the interim head coach in March of 2016. That move was made permanent this past December. In Ruffing’s first season at the helm, UE has won six conference games, including three straight.

Momentum surely seems to

be on Evansville’s side, as does history. In late December, the Purple Aces shut down ISU in a convincing 57-41 win. The Sycamores were unable to score over 15 points in a single quarter on their way to shooting a measly 26 percent. No one performed effectively on the offensive end in that game except for two players. Unluckily for ISU, both players were wearing Evansville jerseys.

Senior guards Camary Williams and Sara Dickey combined for 41 points. Williams tied her career-high in points with 25 and was one rebound shy of a double-double.

Coach Wells will need to plan to stop at least one of these stars.

Williams may be the better bet, as Dickey ranks eighth all-time in MVC career points with over 2,000. She needs 14 more points to catapult herself into sole possession of the seventh spot on the list. As a two-time All-MVC First-Team member, she is a threat every time she steps on the hardwood.

The Sycamores were picked to finish in sixth place in the conference this season, and it looks like coach Wells would be satisfied with that seed. Being one of three teams with sixth wins, ISU could drop a few spots with a loss in their final two games. Energy and health are vital in the postseason, so being able to skip the play-in games would be huge for the struggling Sycamores at Hoops in the Heartland next weekend.

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Marissa Uradomo, Indiana State University golfer, is named golfer of the week by the MVC.

Marissa Uradomo named MVC Golfer Of The Week Ace Hunt

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Indiana State senior Marissa Uradomo has been named the Missouri Valley Conference Women’s Golfer Of The Week today (March 1) by the league office. Uradomo helped the Sycamores to a solid finish in the Flight Championship of the Edwin Watts / Kiawah Island Classic. This is the seventh time in Uradomo’s career that she has

taken the league’s top weekly honor.

Indiana State wrapped up play in the 2017 Edwin Watts / Kiawah Island Classic on Tuesday as senior Marissa Uradomo fired a one-under par round of 71 to lead the way for the Sycamores.

Uradomo was the low individual in the flight championship (teams ranked 23 and higher after the first two rounds of play) as she followed up rounds of 78 and 70 with a final round of

71, which gave her a 219 for the three rounds.

She finished tied for 17th in the individual field, which was made up of over 200 golfers. Six Top 100 teams competed in the field.

Indiana State finished in a tie for 31st overall and in a tie for ninth in the Flight Championship.

The Sycamores returns to action on March 13-14 when they take part in the Bradley Spring Break Invitational in Dallas, Texas.