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Volume 125, Issue 48
Barnes and Noble along with other businesses in the downtown Terre Haute area participated in love themed First Friday with longer hours and activities .
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‘Love in Downtown’ themed First Friday Alexandria Truby Reporter The Barnes and Noble Café held a “Love in Downtown” themed First Friday event on Feb. 2 to “pull people together and emphasize all of what downtown has to offer.” First Fridays are held on the first Friday of each month at the Barnes and Noble bookstore from 5-7 p.m. Downtown Terre Haute has an initiative “to make downtown the booming
success it once was,” Café manager Ashley Mason said. The sponsors for the month are considered to be the central location for prize opportunities and map distribution, so attendees should be on the lookout. Prizes vary and are donations from around town. Past prizes have included T-shirts and gift certificates to restaurants. This month’s sponsor, Brooke’s Candy Co., brought chocolates from their shop
Students share their experiences after Hijiab experiment
and Programs All Weekend brought Valentine’s Day coloring pages and materials for making valentines. The 181st platoon helped spread the love to our troops with making cards. These additions accompanied free popcorn, Valentine’s Day inspired cookie decorating, and readings of two festive books. Businesses often hold free events and extend their hours to attract more people and to keep the party going but there are still issues with attracting large crowds.
“This month we only had about 30 people come but as you know it was super cold,” Mason said. She spoke about how attendance varies and how she believes that the location being on the outskirts plays into this. A normal turn out is around 50 people. “We try and advertise for the college students to come but we don’t seem to be very successful in getting them to participate as much as we would like,” Mason said.
Study Abroad Fair set for Feb 6 AJ Goelz Reporter
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Alyaa Malibari and 20 other students participated in the experiment.
Kiara Dowell Reporter Feb. 1 was World Hijab Day and Alyaa Malibari created an experiment to study how people react to women wearing the Hijab. A few women went to different places on and off campus to study people’s reaction to them. “We had two completed experiments, and one did half the experiment and will complete it later this week. Ray did the whole covering and she had a picture of two people whom she would interview other people and ask them what they think about the picture. In one hour,
she only had four people to respond to her. There were weird stares and comments. The second one was in a student environment, with people who were used to seeing people with the head covering. They were very happy and she had a very good experience. She didn’t feel like she was different. She would get comments like ‘you look beautiful’ and things like that,” Alyaa Malibari said. Graduate student Ray Blaylock wore the niqab to the mall for the social experiment. She had a piece of paper with one women wearing two different
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Spring 2018 RN Hiring Fair Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018, 3:30-8 p.m. Professional Office Building, 3rd floor
Any student that is on the fence about studying abroad should attend the Study Abroad Fair Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 3.p.m. in HMSU Dede III. The Study Abroad Fair is a chance for students to learn more about opportunities across the globe. According to the Education Abroad section of the Indiana State University website, students can further their education in countries such as Greece, England, Italy, Japan, Costa Rica and more. Students from all disciplines are welcome in the program. “All courses taken while studying abroad convert to transfer credit, which is awarded upon completion of the program based on a transcript issued from an accredited academic institution: either a foreign university or a school of record in the United States,” according to the website. It continues to say that “approved course lists are updated every semester and are a resource for researching course options abroad. However, it is strongly advised that you look at the course offerings found on the host university’s website, as it will have the most up to date listing of offering for your specific study abroad semester.” Some foreign universities offer courses that are not listed as approved courses. In this case, the website advises that “you will need to work with your Education Abroad Adviser and/or Academic Adviser to approve courses for ISU credit. Many advisers require the course syllabus or description when approving courses for credit transfer.
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The annual study abroad fair drew hundreds of curious students to its doors.
Please work with the Education Abroad office and your host university to get courses approved in a timely manner.” “To be eligible for ISU’s Study Abroad Program, you should have a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or above. Students with a GPA of 2.0 to 2.5 may apply for consideration with additional requirements,” according to the website. For those students with GPAs ranging from 2.0 to 2.5, the additional requirements are: meeting with an Education Abroad staff member to discuss what the student needs to do to be prepared academically, a recommendation letter from an academic advisor and a “one-page single-spaced personal statement
expressing your academic and personal interest, commitment to studying abroad, your choice of host institution and the course of study.” There are also other requirements that need to be met. They can all be found on the university’s website, along with the application for the study abroad program. The deadline for the Fall 2018 semester is May 1 and April 1 for the Summer 2018 session. The event’s page on the website says that “representatives from Financial Aid, Language Department, 21st Century Scholars, and more will be on hand to answer questions.” Along with free food, there will be a $1,000 scholarship drawing at the event.
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A jittery day after for LA school where gun went off in student’s backpack
Ruben Vives, Brittny Mejia, Sonali Kohli and Howard Blume Los Angeles Times (TNS)
At first, reports of gunshots at a Los Angeles middle school seemed likely to follow an all-too-familiar narrative: a young person opens fire on a campus with deadly consequences. Then a new story emerged, still harrowing but less grim — more of a cautionary tale about unintended consequences when children get their hands on guns. The account that began to fill out Friday was that a 12-year-old girl at Sal Castro Middle School had brought a gun in her backpack and that the gun had gone off, firing a single round that injured two students shortly after the start of the school day. “The physical evidence seems to support that it was discharged from within the backpack,” Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief Robert Ar-
cos said. The bullet first passed through the wrist of a 15-year-old girl, then struck the temple of a 15-year-old boy. Both were hospitalized and listed in fair condition Friday. The boy had more serious injuries and had arrived vomiting blood. Doctors said that he had been lucky and that they were optimistic about a full recovery. Two other students and one adult sustained minor injuries, but not from gunfire. They were treated and quickly released. Officers took the 12-year-old girl into custody at the scene and confiscated an unregistered semiautomatic pistol. Prosecutors charged her with one felony count of being a minor in possession of a firearm and a second felony count of having a weapon on school grounds. The girl is scheduled to be arraigned Monday. Key details that could have a bearing on how the
Al Seib | Los Angeles Times | TNS
Students reunite with families after two people were injured in a shooting at Sal Castro Middle School in Los Angeles on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018.
case is handled and on future public policy have yet to emerge. Police are still trying to determine how the girl
obtained the weapon and what prompted her to take it to the school. While they describe her family as cooperative, they say she has
an attorney and will not, at least for now, answer questions. After the gunfire, administrators locked down
the school, requiring students to remain all day in the classrooms they were in at the time. Some par-
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Bronx teacher sparks outrage for using Cellphone radiation not hazardous to your black students in slavery lesson Kerry Burke, Esha Ray and Ben Chapman New York Daily News (TNS)
Kids and parents say this Bronx teacher needs a lesson — in racism. Middle School 118 teacher Patricia Cummings shocked and traumatized children in her social studies classes when she singled out black students and told them to lie on the floor for a lesson on U.S. slavery — and then stepped on their backs to show them what slavery felt like, students and a staffer said.
Students said Cummings, who is white, conducted the lesson in multiple seventh-grade classes as part of a unit on the infamous Middle Passage, during which Africans were kidnapped and brought to America as part of the slave trade. Kids and adults in Cummings’ school, where the student body is 81 percent black and Hispanic and just 3 percent white, were horrified by the offensive lessons they said occurred roughly two weeks ago. “It was a lesson about slavery and the Triangle Trade,” said one of Cum-
mings’ students, who Kids and a staffer said asked to remain anony- Cummings was removed mous. from her post for a couple “She picked three of the of days following the inblack kids,” the boy said, cident but then returned and instructed them to get to class and was in school on the floor in front of the Thursday. class. “She said ‘You see However, the how it was to be a slave?’ $68,934-a-year teachShe said ‘How does it feel?’ er was reassigned later ” Thursday after the Daily When a girl on the floor News contacted the city made an uncomfortable Education Department joke and said she felt fine, about her slavery lesson. Cummings stepped on her Education Department back, the student said. spokesman Douglas Co“She put her foot on her hen said she is not working back and said ‘How does around kids anymore. it feel?’ ” the student said. “Ms. Cummings is being “ ‘See how it feels to be a slave?’ ” BRONX CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
Andrew Savulich | New York Daily News | TNS
Patricia Cummings, social studies teacher, leaving MS 118 in the Bronx, New York, on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018.
White House to dump nominee to head environmental council Elvina Nawaguna CQ-Roll Call (TNS)
The White House will withdraw the nomination of Kathleen Hartnett White, the former Texas environmental official named to lead the Council on Environmental Quality, a White House official said Sunday. Democrats and some Midwestern Republicans worried that Hartnett White’s previous comments calling the EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard unethical would lead to a weaker biofuels program. Her nomination was advanced by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on a party-line vote in Novem-
ber, but she was unable to gain enough Republican support for a floor vote. The Washington Post first reported the planned withdrawal Saturday. Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman John Barrasso of Wyoming, who has praised Hartnett White as having “broad” experience in environmental issues, did not respond to a request for comment. Hartnett White is a former member and commissioner of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The White House council coordinates federal environmental policy and actions among agencies and with states. At a Nov. 8 hearing before the committee, Hart-
nett White was pressed by senators of both parties on several past statements, including her defense of carbon dioxide emissions and rejection of climate change science. Democrats argued that her views were too “extreme” and that she had shown “disrespect” for science and environmental laws. The committee’s top Democrat, Thomas R. Carper of Delaware, threatened to try to block her confirmation. “My colleagues in Congress know well that I am one of the first to reach across the aisle to find reasonable, principled compromises, but in this case, it was abundantly clear very early on that heading up the Council
on Environmental Quality wasn’t the right job for Ms. White,” Carper said in a statement Saturday. Environmentalists, who had been alarmed by her nomination, celebrated the news. “Kathleen Hartnett White is a conspiracy theorist and anti-science extremist who would threaten public health as the White House’s top environmental adviser,” Sara Chieffo of the League of Conservation Voters, said in a statement. “This is a victory for science, and Trump would do well to listen to our voices and nominate someone who will put communities, not polluters, first.”
health, government scientists say Karen Kaplan
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
If you spend a lot of time on your mobile phone, you’ll be happy to learn that your habit isn’t hazardous to your health, according to a new government safety report. The findings, released Friday by the National Toxicology Program, reaffirm the agency’s previous research. “The reports don’t go much further than what we had reported earlier, and I have not changed the way I use a cellphone,” NTP senior scientist John Bucher said in a briefing. The new evidence is based on experiments with rats and mice that were exposed to radiofrequency radiation for as long as two years. The rodents were bathed in the radiation for 10 minutes at a time, followed by a 10-minute break, for about nine hours a day. The lowest level of radiation for rats was 1.5 watts per kilogram of body weight, which was equivalent to the maximum amount of exposure allowed for humans, the NTP said. At the high end, rats received 6 watts of radiation per kilogram of body weight. For mice, exposures ranged from 2.5 to 10 watts per kilogram of body weight. On the whole, the mice weathered the radiation just fine, with “little indication of health problems,” the NTP said in a statement. The rats didn’t fare quite so well. Both male and female rats exposed to radiation were more likely to experience cardiomyopathy, a disease that causes damage to heart tissue. In addition, male rats exposed to the highest levels of radiation had an increased incidence of malignant tumors in the tissue that covers nerves in the heart. These nerve sheath tumors, called schwannomas, were not seen in female rats. The researchers also reported that rats and mice exposed to radiofrequency
radiation developed more tumors in the brain, prostate, liver, pancreas, pituitary gland and adrenal gland. But they said they weren’t sure whether the radiation was responsible. Among non-cancer risks, rat pups had lower birth weights when their mothers were exposed to high levels of radiation during pregnancy and while they were nursing. However, the rats ultimately grew to normal size. Strikingly, the rats exposed to radiation lived longer than rats in an unexposed group that served as controls. The researchers were at a loss to explain this. Perhaps the radiation reduces inflammation, as is seen in a therapy called microwave diathermy, they said. Or it could just be chance. “It’s a complicated situation here,” Bucher said in the briefing. “We’re seeing both positive and negative effects in these animals.” Bucher also cautioned that the mice and rats in the study were exposed to far more radiation than humans experience through normal mobile phone use. “So, these findings should not be directly extrapolated to human cellphone usage,” he said in the statement. The experiments used the type of radiation emitted by 2G and 3G networks that handle voice calls and text messages in the U.S. NTP researchers did not test the newer 4G, 4G-LTE and 5G networks used for more data-intensive functions like video streaming. The report will be reviewed by a panel of outside experts in late March. Independent scientists were critical of claims in a previous NTP study that linked cellphone radiation with tumor risk in the hearts and possibly brains of male rats. The Food and Drug Administration asked the National Toxicology Program to study the potential effects of the radiation emitted by cellphones in 1999. Back then, little was known about how the increasingly ubiquitous de-
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indianastatesman.com HIJIAB FROM PAGE 1 types of head coverings from different religions. “I dress in a full body Hijab, the only thing that was visible was my eyes. We went to the mall. The idea was to educate people on the culture of the Hijab that they are not just Muslim; people of other cultures wear the hijab. Everyone automatically assumed that I was Muslim or a terrorist. When we were at the mall, this woman stared at me and did the sharpest U-turn and she kept looking back and walking very fast.” There were different parts to the experiment. The first was the social experiment performed by four women who participated. The second was a table set up in the Hulman Memorial Student Union where
LA FROM PAGE 2 ents chose to pick up their children early; others waited to reunite at dismissal, which was closely supervised by a phalanx of police and school district employees. Though LA schools are typically safer than those in surrounding neighborhoods, violence has spilled over. Six people have died on or just outside campuses since 1993. Two earlier episodes also involved guns in backpacks. In 1993, a student died and another was wounded after being shot
BRONX FROM PAGE 2 reassigned away from students pending the outcome of the investigation,” Cohen said. “We are providing additional support and guidance to the school.” MS 118 Principal Giulia Cox declined to comment on Cummings’ actions. Cummings’ students said the lesson followed a showing of a video of slaves being beaten, tortured and thrown over the side of a ship.
Monday, Feb. 5, 2018 • Page 3 students were able to try on a Hijab and answer questions guessing which culture it belonged too. “We had a lot of good interaction. The last part was to wear the hijab. Students like you, they would pick their favorite frame and we would take pictures. That was a big part of Hijab day. I think we got a good number of people who came,” Malibari said. Many people were open to the idea of celebrating World Hijab Day and participated in the challenge, but there are others who were opposed the idea. “There were a large number of people who were so open and they came to learn about the head covering and the idea of the Hijab, but there were also people who were resistant to the idea. They didn’t want to see or comment. They were like
‘we know, but we don’t care.’ I saw this side also. It is okay, this is an educational institution and maybe people are afraid of knowing. We need to be willing to learn about other people’s culture.” Malibari said. Administrative Assistant, Martha Reed, wore the Hijab around her friends and watched how they reacted to her. Not everyone is open to the idea of covering one’s hair, which is something that they hope this experiment will change. “When I left to go home, someone asked ‘Is it really that cold that you have to put the scarf on?’ so then I explained what was going on. They were very receptive to it. Then I went to the store, two people that I have known for forty years asked me if it was cold outside so I told them and they immediately got really
cold towards me and one of my people that I know said ‘how could you do something so stupid?’ it really took me aback. I don’t believe that I will probably talk to that person anymore. Immediately after telling them, saying the word hijab, it was as if certain had fell,” Reed said. There will be a documentary created to help educate people about World Hijab Day. There will be videos, pictures, and testimonies from students and staff members who participated in the event. “We are all the same inside, we all have the same red/ blue blood, bones and a heart and the only difference is we come from different places, but some people don’t see it that way,” Reed said.
by a .357 magnum that another student was holding in his backpack. In 2011, two Gardena High students were injured when a gun inside a backpack discharged. The latter episode prompted school officials to require daily random checks of students and their belongings. The policy isn’t always followed. Some parents have called for stepped-up security, while some activists and students want searches discontinued entirely, saying they do more to undermine student trust than they do to enhance school security. Overall, officials seemed reassured enough that Thursday’s incident was isolated to resume a normal schedule Friday
at the Westlake school, just west of downtown. Students moved from class to class as usual. They ate their lunch. They had breaks. “They just had recess and kids were playing outside,” Pia Escudero, who directs crisis counseling and intervention services for L.A. Unified, said midmorning. “Many eyes are watching children.” Officials were concerned about school staff as well as students. Castro Principal Erick Mitchell announced that substitutes would be available for any teacher who felt unable or unwilling to work Friday. One person who accepted the offer was the teacher in the first-period science
classroom where the gun went off. Counseling for students and families had begun Thursday. On Friday, a team of 30 counselors descended on the school complex, which includes adjacent Belmont High and a parent center that serves both schools. Some parents and students needed reassurance. Guadalupe Segura placed her hand on her heart as she watched her daughter walk onto campus Friday morning. “I’m sad,” she said. “I’m bringing her here to the school alive, and I don’t know what will happen to her between now and when she comes home.”
“She had students lie on the floor,” said another kid who was in one of the lessons. “She was measuring the length and width to show how little space slaves had in the ship. It was strange.” Cummings has worked in city schools since 2016 and is also the MS 188 cheerleading coach, according to her LinkedIn profile. She refused to discuss her slavery lessons when a reporter approached her after school on Thursday. “Excuse me, I’m not
talking to anyone, no,” she said, when asked if she stepped on black students in her class. Cummings quotes both Nelson Mandela and Walt Disney on her class web page, which also bears the image of a bald eagle and an American flag. “Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again,” reads the Disney quote. Cummings’ ill-conceived lesson isn’t the first
time a city teacher has grabbed headlines for giving offensive instruction involving slavery. In 2013, two teachers from Manhattan Public School 59 taught a lesson that used killing and whipping slaves to teach subtraction and multiplication. Those teachers weren’t disciplined for their actions, but they did receive training in cultural sensitivity, Education Department officials said.
PHONE FROM PAGE 2 vices might impact human health. In the nearly 20 years since that request, hundreds of studies by scientists at the NTP and elsewhere have allowed the FDA to say with confidence that “the current safety limits for cellphone radiation remain acceptable for protecting the public health,” Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, director of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health,
said in a statement. “Even with frequent daily use by the vast majority of adults, we have not seen an increase in events like brain tumors,” he added. The FDA and the Federal Communications Commission share responsibility for regulating radiofrequency-emitting devices like wireless phones and televisions. The National Toxicology Program is based at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health.
FEATURES
Monday, Feb. 5, 2018
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In Minneapolis, Prince still reigns over Super Bowl LII Amy S. Rosenberg
The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)
Rose Schreiber of Shamong, N.J. flew here from Philadelphia this week but she had no intention of going to the Super Bowl. She was there for the music, to see friends perform. And this week, a lot of that has been about Prince, whose presence lives on in his hometown of Minneapolis. “If he were alive, he’d be ecstatic,” Schreiber said. “It’s his town. He’d be having a helluva lot of parties.” Prince’s exuberant performance in the Super Bowl XLI in Miami, in a literal pouring purple rain, arguably the best Super Bowl halftime show in history, plays on a loop at Paisley Park, in Chanhassen, just outside Minneapolis, where Prince’s recording studio has been turned in to a museum and shrine. Tours are booked this week and prices are rising through the weekend. Justin Timberlake performed there Thursday night in a private “listening show.” The New Power Generation, Prince’s backing band for many years, was performing outside at the Nicollet Mall Wednesday night amid Super Bowl festivities and have two more shows planned in town. Questlove is DJ’ing a Prince set Friday night at the Dakota jazz club (perhaps similar to the one he performed last summer at 58th and Baltimore in West Philly). On Wednesday at the Dakota, there was a family reunion of sorts, literally of the Family, a band formed by Prince in 1984 who debuted his “Nothing Compares 2 U” before Sinead O’Connor. Original band members Jellybean Johnson, Jerome Benton and Susannah Melvoin, were there, and Susannah’s twin sister
Chuck Fadely | Miami Herald | TNS
Prince performs during halftime at Super Bowl XLI in Miami, Fla in 2004.
Wendy, a guitarist in the Revolution, was pulled up on stage to play at the end. Super Bowl week in Minneapolis has been a beautiful and sad week for fans and friends of Prince, a Minneapolis native who died in April 2016. At Paisley Park, they’ll tell you Prince mostly liked to watched basketball, the Timberwolves and the WNBA’s Lynx, on a flat screen in the Little Kitchen at Paisley Park (when he wasn’t playing ping pong up in Studio B.) But he was a fan of the Vikings, whose purple colors may or may not have been ingrained on him as a child growing up in Minnesota. In any case, purple can evoke the Vikings or Prince in these parts, or both. For Andre Tippett, the NFL Hall of Famer with the New England Patriots,
Quinoa kale salad keeps healthful eating resolutions on track
this was a week for football of course, but also for touring Paisley Park, Prince’s recording studio just outside Minneapolis that has been turned into a museum and shrine. “You can’t be in Minneapolis and not want to capture a piece of Prince and his beautiful music,” said Tippett, a hard-core fan since his days at the University of Iowa. “It’s a shame he’s not with us. How sweet would that have been. He’d be having a party. I’m sure the NFL would have figured out how to involve him. What a shame. We lost something special.” In a particularly lovely moment, Tippett, wearing a Super Bowl ring, laid down some vocals for Raspberry Beret inside Studio B and took them home on a purple flash drive as a souvenir. This longtime Prince fan remembered the last time
How to make quinoa kale salad
Jill Wendholt Silva The Kansas City Star (TNS) If you’re looking for something to help you keep your New Year’s resolution to eat healthier, a kale salad is a good option. The sturdy green contains vitamins A and C, folic acid, calcium and iron. But there’s also another reason to sing kale’s praises: You can go ahead and dress The Kansas City Star’s Quinoa Kale Salad With Raisins and Almonds in advance to allow the kale to soften and the flavors to meld. Cooking tips: You could use any type of cooked quinoa that you have. We used Bob’s Red Mill tri-color for this recipe. Cook quinoa according to package directions. Toasting the almonds intensifies the
John Spicknall’s jazz trio to perform Mar. 18 John Spicknall’s Jazz Piano Trio adds saxophonist Randy Salman for “Jazz Standards Revisited” at 2 p.m. March 18 in the Boyce Recital Hall of the Richard Landini Center for Fine and Performing Arts. The trio consists of pianist John Spicknall, bassist Joe Deal and drummer Chris Parker. These musicians began working on arrangements of “Great American Song Book” repertory and jazz standards more than 10 years ago that continues to grow and develop. The band has often appeared backing up guest musicians at Indiana State, including performances with Bobby Shew, Jim Ketch and Jim Perry. The program is free and open to the public. Story courtesy of ISU Communications & Marketing
Minnesota hosted a Super Bowl, in 1993, when Prince turned up at the First Avenue nightclub for a surprise performance. A performance like that by Prince is one of many to win the hearts of locals, who awaited word of his legendary late-night appearances, usually made accessible to the people of the Twin Cities, including one after-party where he played for three hours for the 25 people who stayed long after Madonna had left. First Avenue is hosting a Purple Party Saturday night and a tribute to the Minneapolis sound. Prince sites like his favorite record store, The Electric Fetus, are another stop. In Minneapolis, Prince was family, people grew up with him. There’s no debate here whose halftime performance was the greatest of all time (apologies to any Philly fans partial to Bruce), and people here do not seem offended like some Prince fans about Timberlake renting out Paisley Park. The Muppets once did, too. Annette Schultz, who went to the Dakota to see fDeluxe, remembers in high school driving over to the purple house where Prince lived during the Purple Rain era, also in Chanhassen, where they assumed the place across the street was “old man Johnson’s farm,” referenced in the lyrics of Raspberry Beret. “It is completely weird without Prince,” Schultz said. “We glom onto any attachment to Prince.” Before the late show, a funk dance party which ended with an ethereal Nothing Compares 2 U, where at least one man could be seen wiping away tears, Jellybean Johnson put it this way: “I miss him, I love him, he made me famous. You know we’re just moving on, trying to keep his name out there.”
Tammy Ljungblad | Kansas City Star | TNS
Quinoa Kale Salad With Raisins and Almonds can be dressed in advanced to allow time for the kale to soften and flavors to meld.
flavor. To toast the almonds, spread in a single layer on a baking sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 5 to 7 minutes or until lightly toasted.
Makes 8 servings Dressing: 1 clove garlic, minced 1 small shallot, minced 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 2 tablespoons honey 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil Salt and pepper to taste Salad: 6 cups Tuscan kale, ribs removed 3 cups romaine 1 cup tri-color cooked quinoa 1/2 cup golden raisins 1/4 cup toasted sliced almonds
Combine all the dressing ingredients in a small bowl and whisk until well blended. Set aside and allow the dressing flavor to meld and the shallots to soften for at least 10 minutes. Tear the kale and romaine into bitesize pieces and place in a salad bowl. Add quinoa, raisins and almonds and toss gently. Drizzle the salad dressing over the salad and toss to combine. Per serving: 193 calories (45 percent from fat), 10 g total fat (1 g saturated), no cholesterol, 24 g carbohydrates, 4 g protein, 35 mg sodium, 3 g dietary fiber. Recipe developed exclusively for The Star by professional home economists Kathy Moore and Roxanne Wyss.
Recording Academy will launch investigation into Grammy gender bias Randy Lewis Los Angeles Times (TNS) The Recording Academy will launch an independent investigation of the organization’s policies and practices “to overcome the explicit barriers and unconscious biases that impede female advancement in the music community,” the academy said Thursday. The announcement is further response to Sunday’s male-centric Grammy Awards show and Academy President and CEO Neil Portnow’s subsequent remark during a press conference suggesting it was the responsibility of women to “step up.” “After hearing from many friends and colleagues,” Portnow said in a statement issued Thursday, “I understand the hurt that my poor choice of words following last Sunday’s Grammy telecast has caused. “I also now realize that it’s about more than just my words,” he said. “Because those words, while not reflective of my beliefs, echo the real experience of too many women. I’d like to help make that right.” As part of the exploration of such biases and barriers, Portnow said, “We will also place ourselves under a microscope and tackle whatever truths are revealed. “I appreciate that the issue of gender bias needs to be addressed in our industry, and
Lionel Hahn | Abaca Press | TNS
Neil Portnow attends the Clive Davis and Recording Academy Pre-Grammy Gala and Grammy Salute to Industry Icons Honoring Jay-Z on January in New York City.
share in the urgency to attack it head on,” he said. “We as an organization, and I as its leader, pledge our commitment to doing that. We will share more information about the steps we are taking in the coming weeks.” A recent University of Southern Califor-
nia study showed that from 2013 to 2018, only 9.3 percent of Grammy nominations had gone to women, while 90.7 percent recognized male performers, producers, songwriters and engineers. Responding Sunday to a question about the on-camera awards also favoring male recipients so heavily, Portnow said, “I think it has to begin with women who have the creativity in their hearts and their souls, who want to be musicians, who want to be engineers, who want to be producers, who want to be part of the industry on an executive level — to step up, because I think they would be welcome.” The comment was met with an outcry from women and men in the music community, and Portnow apologized the following day saying, “Regrettably, I used two words, ‘step up,’ that, when taken out of context, do not convey my beliefs and the point I was trying to make. “Our industry must recognize that women who dream of careers in music face barriers that men have never faced,” Portnow said. “We must actively work to eliminate these barriers and encourage women to live their dreams and express their passion and creativity through music. We must welcome, mentor and empower them. Our community will be richer for it.”
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OPINION
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Deal with the debt limit, minus the drama Jonathan Bernstein Bloomberg View (TNS) Neither party should mess with the debt limit, which now has to be raised in March or else the government might default. It was wrong of Republicans to use the debt limit as ransom during Barack Obama’s presidency; it would be wrong of Democrats to do it now. Mostly. Here’s the problem: There are quite a few House Republicans who simply will not vote for raising the debt limit. That’s fine when their party is in the minority; it’s not unreasonable to force the majority to provide the votes for what is thought to be an unpopular measure. It’s not so fine when their party is in the majority. With appropriations, it’s a bit different. When radical conservatives refuse to vote for spending bills, that has the effect of giving Democrats leverage; Republicans need their votes, so Democrats can make policy demands. Fair enough. With the debt limit, however, it’s irresponsible to insist on policy concessions in return for the responsible vote. But it’s hardly reasonable to expect Democrats to always vote for the debt limit (and be attacked for it in campaign ads), especially since Republicans happen to be the party of high federal budget deficits. The obvious solution — and I’m not the first to say this — is for Democrats to only make one demand: Eliminate the debt limit. It’s good policy, it’s a responsible “ask” in return
for their votes, it’s even been endorsed by President Donald Trump — and if Republican radicals don’t like it, they’re free to retain the debt limit by, well, voting for it. I should clarify a bit: While using the threat of default to blackmail everyone into granting their demands was a new and irresponsible tactic used by Republicans during the Obama administration, the idea that congressional leadership should add some sweeteners to debt-limit increases isn’t new. In other words, while it’s bad news for members of Congress to demand, say, disaster relief or they won’t support a needed debt-limit increase, it’s perfectly fine to ask that disaster relief, which was going to pass anyway, be added to the debt-limit bill so that they have an excuse for supporting it. (Assuming, that is, that Republicans don’t add disaster relief to the bill keeping government funded beyond Feb. 8.) Republicans — you remember, the party with majorities and control of what gets voted on in both chambers of Congress — shouldn’t save this until the last moment. Over the next week, the urgent task is progress on government spending bills and, if possible, a deal on immigration. After that, however, they should move straight to the debt limit. They’re going to have to raise it sooner or later, so might as well get it over with as soon as possible, with as little drama as they can manage.
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Devin Nunes listens to testimony before the House Permanent Select Commitee on Intelligence related to the Russian cyber attack and investigations into wiretapping, on Capitol Hill on March 20, 2017, in Washington, D.C.
Nunes Memo Released to Sad Fanfare Joe Lippard
Opinions Editor
It would appear that the FBI and Department of Justice are under attack. House Republicans approved, against the wishes of both agencies, the release a memo authored by Republican Representative Devin Nunes that alleged abuse of the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act by the FBI. The Nunes Memo charges that the FBI and DOJ obtained a FISA warrant to investigate Trump
campaign advisor Carter Page a month after he left the Trump campaign; they conveniently leave out the date when Page actually left the campaign. The memo then alleges that the FBI used the now-infamous dossier compiled by Christopher Steele as its main justification for the initial FISA warrant. The memo claims that the Steele Dossier was funded entirely by the Democratic National Committee and that Steele was supposedly compromised by Democrats because they paid him. Page, the memo says, maintained contact with the DOJ after being terminated as a source at the FBI, telling the Associate Deputy Attorney General that he “was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected.”
The Nunes Memo then takes the words of former FBI Director James Comey out of context to claim that the entire Steele Dossier was “salacious and unverified” even when they applied for the FISA warrant. The memo closes by alleging “there is no evidence of any cooperation or conspiracy between Page and [former Trump advisor George] Papadopoulos.” As I’m sure it’s obvious, the memo doesn’t tell the whole story. For one thing, it is somewhat disingenuous on the origins of the Steele Dossier. According to the New York Times, a very wealthy conservative donor to Marco Rubio first contacted Fusion GPS, the company who Steele worked for, to conduct opposition research on then-candidate Trump. After the donor stopped
the investigations near the end of the Republican primary, the DNC contracted the same company to do the same thing. For another thing, as I said, the memo took former FBI Director Comey’s testimony way out of context. The memo claimed that the entire Steele Dossier was “unverified and salacious,” when that is not the case. In his testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee last year, Republican Senator Susan Collins asked former Director Comey, “Did you limit that statement [that Trump wasn’t under investigation] to counterintelligence invest — investigations, or were you talking about any FBI investigation?”
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Why Valentine’s Day does not need to be special
Rachel Modi Columnist
As we get closer to the most loved or most dreaded holiday of the year, we’re eating with a loved one or eating our emotions away. Valentine’s Day becomes a bit more meaningful and genuine as we become older, because instead of dedicating it to a two-month relationship in high school, we’re dedicating a day to someone we may want to spend our whole life with. Besides the lucky ones who happily
marry their high school sweetheart, most of us are starting over or are in our first serious relationship. The typical dream of meeting “the one” in college keeps most of us fishing in the sea, patiently waiting for our hooks to be caught. Then finally when that line is pulled on, we move into the honeymoon phase. The period when you can’t stop thinking about this person and you somehow connect everything back to them. They even make their way up to be your number one friend on Snapchat. The one who your friends know so much about because you end up always bringing them up in conversation. If you’re fortunate enough, this lover goes to the same school as you, but if you’re unfortunate, this lover lives at home or somewhere else which tends to make
things a bit complicated. Distance can be a bearable concept for some couples, but others may experience separation anxiety and end up constantly missing the one they want to spend every second with. Everyone’s different. However, as we get older this may become a real experience. This leads to trying to figure out who drives to whom every other weekend or maybe not even seeing them for a whole month. Thus, thinking about Valentine’s Day coming up, this day may be even more special to share. But the real question is why do we have a specific date dedicated to our significant other? Shouldn’t we be appreciative of our significant other throughout the entire year instead of one specific day? Valentine’s Day is one of the biggest marketing
scams on the list next to Christmas and Black Friday. Walking into almost every store, the theme changes from green trees and bells to pink and hearts. It almost makes you feel guilty if you don’t buy your lover something. Your wallet, once again, becomes an empty hole. Valentine’s Day shouldn’t be about the materialistic items of affection, but the small things. It should be about the person that makes you smile when they are happy. It should be about the person who goes out of the way to make you happy. Yes, the teddy bear may add a couple brownie points, but it’s the thought that counts. Measuring love shouldn’t be counted by how many roses and boxes of chocolates you get, but by the words and the moments you spend together. It’s unreasonable for it to
be a day to compete with other couples to prove how much you love each other. Not to be a Debby downer, but Valentine’s Day gets a lot more hype that it should. The pressure put on someone, in a relationship or not, seems unnecessary. This holiday doesn’t always have to be the day to remind the half of us who are single for life because it can also be a day to celebrate the love between friends. It can be the day to dress up and go out to eat with your best friends, or to chill and stay in. Or better yet, it’s a day to treat yourself, which should be everyday anyway, whether it’s getting your nails done or watching Netflix all night long. However you want to spend Feb. 14, celebrating it with loved ones or ignoring the holiday in general, remember it’s just another day.
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indianastatesman.com SCOTT FROM PAGE 8 and then again from Tyreke Key with 12.6 seconds remaining to knot the game at 33. Scott led the way at the break with 10 points and also led with six rebounds. The Panthers scored first out of the half, but Barnes countered with a pass inside to Brandon Murphy to tie the game at 35. After UNI retook a two-point lead, Davis scored on consecutive possessions the first of a jumper and then on a second chance bucket as the clock ticked under the 18-minute mark as ISU regained the lead at 39-37. Leading by a point, Clayton Hughes used a nifty up and under move
AUSTIN FROM PAGE 8 Midwest Classic also found success. Kim Jackson and Emily Brady led the way in the pole vault for the women, posting marks of 3.67m (12-00.50) and 3.52m (11-06.50) for first and second-place. Jackson is still first in the conference and Brady is third. Elsewhere for the women, Emily Robertson won the 60-meter hurdles with a new personal-best time of 8.92, just behind 10th in the MVC. Michaela Ward also earned a victory in the women’s 3K at 10:11.05.
Monday, Feb. 5, 2018 • Page 7 to stake the Sycamores to a 4542 lead. The Panthers cut the advantage down to a point, but Davis answered with his seventh point of the second half as he drained a 3-pointer at the 13:29 mark to run the cushion out to 48-44. UNI scored inside twice in a row, but the Sycamore lead continued to grow as they got consecutive trifectas from Scott and Hughes for a six-point lead at 54-48 with 11:57 remaining. Indiana State returns home for the first of two home games in a row when they host Missouri State on Tuesday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. (ET) inside Hulman Center.
The men had multiple strong performances, including Nick Schultz in the high jump where he came away victorious after posting a mark of 2.01m (607.00) and he now has the sixth overall mark in the MVC. Freshman Cale Kilian had his best performance as a Sycamore in the mile run. Kilian was victorious in the event with a time of 4:19.96. ISU will be back in action next weekend, Friday, Feb. 9 and Saturday, Feb. 10 for the Music City Challenge at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.
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SYCAMORE FROM PAGE 8 push Wentland into double figures for the first time this season. “There was something about today where I felt like it was going to be my night,” Wentland said. “Everyone is always harping on me to shoot. I think a lot of it was taking the open shots, being comfortable and being confident.” Wentland’s big game wasn’t all from her, however. Indiana State recorded a season-high 16 assists against Division I competition Friday evening, including an assist on all seven of Wentland’s field goals. And the Sycamores refused to back down. Indiana State outscored Evansville in every quarter, a first against a Division I opponent this year. “That’s something we talk about in the huddle at the end of each quarter, that we need to win the next quarter,” Keister
NUNOE FROM PAGE 6 Comey replied, “I didn’t use the term counterintelligence. I was briefing him about salacious and unverified material. It was in a context of that that he had a strong and defensive reaction about that not being true.” Never once did Comey say that the entire Steele Dossier was “unverified” or “salacious.” He merely said that he told Trump about some information that he had that they hadn’t verified. Later in his testimony, Comey also said that Trump contacted him after denying the unverified allegations to deny them again. “He just wanted to reiterate his rejection of that allegation and talk about— he’d thought about it more,” Comey testified. “And why he thought it wasn’t true. The verified — unverified and salacious parts.” In his testimony Comey made
said. “We were obviously able to do that tonight. Our kids did a lot of good things. We had to fight for everything. It wasn’t always pretty and it is nice to win a game like that.” And while the Sycamores struggled from the field, that just fueled the team’s fire on the defensive end of the court. Indiana State registered 12 steals and blocked seven shots, forcing Evansville into 19 turnovers. Despite a cold stretch in the fourth quarter, that defense didn’t allow the margin to drop below seven. “Our mindset is definitely changed,” said Keister. “The winning part has obviously helped that. We’ve had some success, we’re starting to get some wins under our belt and when you get that feeling then it changes your whole mindset. Hopefully we can continue to do that.” Tierra Webb added 11 points and was a perfect 4 of 4 from the free throw line in the fourth
quarter and Ashley Taia added 10 points. Wendi Bibbins led the Trees with 10 rebounds while getting credit for three blocks and three steals. Evansville was led by Kerri Gasper’s double-double with 26 points and 10 rebounds while Kelsi Scott added 10 points and 13 rebounds. The Purple Aces dropped their 12th straight game while Indiana State claimed its third road win in three tries. “We’ve had three straight games on the road and are just thrilled that we were able to get out of here alive tonight,” Keister said. “Evansville played hard, they played tough. It could have been easy for them to lay down because of some of their recent games and injuries but they made it really hard on us. We didn’t play always so pretty but the final score is the thing that matters.”
it clear that only parts of their intelligence was “unverified and salacious,” not all of it. Another issue with the Nunes Memo is its assertion that the FBI used the Steele Dossier as a key piece of information to obtain its initial FISA warrant. However, this is tricky wording. In 2013, Russian foreign intelligence agents contacted Page, according to the New York Times. Page provided an agent of Russia’s intelligence agency, the S.V.R., with documents about an energy business he had founded. What’s more, in addition to working with Russian intelligence agents, U.S. officials told CNN that there had been a surveillance warrant out on Carter Page since 2014, long before Donald Trump even began to campaign for election in 2016. On top of all this, the memo’s assertion that the Steele Dossier was a central piece of evidence
to obtain the FISA warrant falls a little flat. Acording to CNN, sources say that Comey didn’t mention the Steele Dossier as an important piece of information in all of his meetings. If the Steele Dossier were as important and foundational to obtaining a FISA warrant, Comey would have likely mentioned it in most of his briefings and meetings. All in all, the much-anticipated Nunes Memo has turned out to be a dud. The big bombshell that supposedly discredits the FBI and DOJ and shows that they’re biased against Trump is that they used legitimate opposition research contracted by Americans to continue an investigation on a man who was known to have contact with actual Russian spies. These are the kinds of people who we should want the FBI investigating. I honestly don’t see the issue here.
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Brenton Scott (4) scored 20 points for the game, moving him into fourth place on the ISU all time scoring list.
Brenton Scott
Leading Sycamores to gutsy road win over Northern Iowa Ace Hunt
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Indiana State has been the most successful team in terms of earning road league wins inside the McLeod Center and the Sycamores made it a league-best five with a gutsy 77-66 win over Northern Iowa in front of 4.564 fans. ISU made three victories in a row over the Panthers and improved to 11-13, 6-6 MVC while UNI fell to 11-13, 4-8 MVC. The win was the third in a row over the Panthers and gave the Sycamores their 79th MVC and MVC Tournament win over the last eight years -- third most among the current league membership. Brenton Scott drained a his-
toric 3-pointer at the 4:18 mark one that gave him 20 points for the game and 1,673 for his career which moved him into fourth place on the ISU all-time scoring list ahead of the great Butch Wade. Scott’s triple also stretched the Indiana State advantage out to 67-57. Barnes was fouled with 1:28 remaining in the game and hit the Sycamores’ first two free throw attempts after halftime for the 71-61 lead. In addition to his team-high 20 points, Scott also led the way with 10 rebounds for his second career double-double. Barnes went a perfect 8-of-8 from the free throw line in the game to give him 13 points which makes it 19 games in a row in double figures for the Sycamores. ISU hit 26-of-50 from the field
(52 percent) and connected on 10 3-pointers. ISU finished the game 15-of-17 from the free throw line and held a 31-24 edge in the rebounding battle. Devin Thomas hit a corner trifecta with just over 10 minutes remaining in the game to run the Sycamore lead out to 5750. Indiana State hit 10 of their first 14 shots after halftime (71.4 percent) to open up a cushion. After an empty possession for each team, Thomas connected again from long range -- this time from the top of the key at the 9:07 mark which pushed the advantage out to 60-52. Murphy was whistled for a loose ball foul and allowed the Panthers to hit one free throw but he got it back on the offensive end with a sweet move to the rim to stretch the
lead out to 62-53. After a driving lay-up by UNI’s Pickford, Scott answered with his 17th point of the game a driving lay-up of his own for the 64-55 lead. The Sycamores were feeling it early as six of their first nine shots included a triple from Brenton Scott on the opening possession as well as another from freshman Clayton Hughes at the 13:23 mark to stake Indiana State to an early 16-6 lead. The Panthers countered with the next nine points while the Sycamores went scoreless for just over three minutes. Jordan Barnes ended the string with a trifecta at the 10:08 mark which established a four-point lead at 19-15. The margin stayed near the mark until the Panthers used a 3-pointer from Klint Carlson
Sycamores stand tall in 66-57 win at Evansville Patrick Walsh
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The most unselfish player on Indiana State’s roster seemingly made it all about her from the very start Friday evening. Regan Wentland scored a career-high 18 points, registered two blocks and was a perfect 3-for-3 from downtown as Indiana State (8-13, 6-4 Missouri Valley) won its fifth consecutive game with a 66-57 victory at Meeks Fieldhouse. It was an impressive – and important – performance from the junior guard who was on fire while her teammates struggled to click offensively. “She is a kid that is so unselfish for our team, does so many little things and has a big impact on the game without scoring,” Indiana State interim coach Josh Keister said. “You could see in practice recently she has been gaining confidence in shooting the ball from the 3-point line. It came at a great time for us to-
night, when we were struggling offensively.” Despite the fact that three other Sycamores reached double figures, including 16 points from the reigning Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Week, Ashli O’Neal, the Sycamores seemed out of sync. Indiana State shot 36.7 percent from the field but only shot 29.4 percent not including Wentland’s 7-for-9 performance. Numbers like that would make a coach cringe and force a team to feel added pressure. Yet Keister was all smiles and the Sycamores have never looked more relaxed in a fourth quarter this season. Indiana State held Evansville (3-18, 0-10) at bay, even when the hosts refused to back down. But sometimes, even when things aren’t going your way, confidence level can counteract being out of sync. It was confidence that helped
Taylor Austin was one of the five sycamroes that claimed victory at IWU.
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Taylor Austin broke the wom-
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Taylor Austin breaks the 3K school record at Meyo Invite Five victories at IWU Midwest Classic for Sycamores
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Regan Wentland (30), scored a career high with 18 points in the game.
to cut the Sycamore lead down to one but Tyreke Key was left open in the corner for a trifecta as the clock ticked down towards the six minute mark for the 2622 cushion. UNI tied the game on a conventional 3-point play by Austin Phyfe but Bronson Kessinger answered with a turn around jumper at the 4:58 mark to regain a 28-26 lead. But the Panthers continued to heat up with an emphasis on the inside game which opened up Spencer Haldeman for a trifecta with 3:21 remaining which gave the Panthers their first lead of the game at 3128. Down four points, the Sycamores got a pair of free throws in the bonus from Brenton Scott
four other Sycamores recorded top-10 performances on a stellar day two of the Meyo Invite at Notre Dame, while five Sycamores claimed victory at IWU. “We had a lot of positives this weekend,” head coach Angela Martin said. “The men had several improvements on the best list for the first time this year. We are starting to put things together and making confident moves. I am very proud of how our athletes competed to win their heats. With all the highlights, Taylor Austin probably had the performance of the meet with her school record in the 3K.” After competing in the mile all season (she leads the MVC), Austin made the transition to the 3K on Saturday. Competing in the invitational section with some of the nation’s best, Austin ran the fastest time in school
history by 12 seconds at 9:23.58, overtaking Brooke Moore’s time of 9:35.60 from last year. With her time, she now leads the Valley and enters the top-50 nationally at 36th. The day at Notre Dame started off strong in the men’s 3K with Ryan Cash storming across the finish line at 8:14.59, overtaking his competition on the last lap for a first-place finish. Cash’s time inserted him into the top10 in ISU history, coming in at fifth. He now sits at third in the MVC. Following Cash, Imani Davis picked up a fifth-place finish in the 400-meter dash with a time of 55.97, just .47 away from first, and she is now eighth in Indiana State history. She is currently sixth in the Missouri Valley. Brittany Neeley pushed down on the gas pedal during the women’s 800-meter run. She finished 10th overall and second in her heat, but she recorded a new career-best in the event at 2:09.45. That time moved her up
to fifth all-time at ISU and she owns the second-best time in the conference. The fifth top-10 performance of the day came from Scott Schreiber. Schreiber took part in the long jump for the Sycamores and competed well, finishing third with an impressive mark of 7.38m (24-02.50) which is a new indoor personal-best. His mark also inserted him into the top-10 in school history where he is tied for ninth and he now leads the Missouri Valley. The tradition of ‘Hurdle U’ was upheld Saturday as Daley Carter took home the Meyo Invite 60-meter hurdles championship. Carter claimed victory with a time of 7.92, edging out MVC rival Kentre Patterson by .03. His time of 7.87 from the Terre Haute Double Dual is still second in the conference and 26th in the country. The Sycamores that traveled to Indiana Wesleyan for the IWU
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