February 22, 2017

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Men walk in high heels for the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event. This year the event will be held on April 15 at j Gumbo’s, hosted by Inside Out.

Inside Out raises awareness of sexual violence Claire Silcox Reporter

Raising awareness about sexual violence and fighting against it, Inside Out meets on a weekly basis in the Hulman Memorial Student Union in room 227.

Inside Out, an Indiana State University organization, meets to discuss current issues of acts of sexual violence, how to help and how to raise better awareness across ISU’s campus.

The organization is also hosting the event Walk a Mile in Her Shoes. Walk a Mile in Her Shoes is their annual event, which will be hosted at J Gumbo’s on April 15. The event features

men wearing high heels and walking a mile.

The slogan for Walk a Mile in Her Shoes is “The international men’s march to stop rape, sexual assault and gender violence.”

Gabriel Fleck, Inside Out’s president, said that students can participate by creating groups.

“Students can make groups for the event as well and sponsor Inside Out, for $50, the team gets 10 t-shirts and helps to go to pay for free lunches for the first 100 people,” Fleck said.

Along with hosting events, Inside Out works to train other organizations such as sports teams, fraternities and sororities. The training consists of how

to help protect themselves and others from possible predators.

They work towards educating ISU students about topics involving sexual violence and continue to raise awareness on the subject.

To do so, they have three programs that they use including One Love Foundation, the Hunting Ground and Who Are You. One Love Foundation teaches the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships.

The Hunting Ground is a 2015 documentary about sexual assault on college campuses in the United States and the way in which it is handled by administrators.

Who Are You is a video made by a New Zealand multi-media campaign that includes a tool kit about bystander awareness and hints on how to know when to help.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, so Inside Out focuses their programs to this time of year.

“We have a faculty advisor, Al Perone, who is an Assistant Dean of Students for the Student Affairs Department. As of the moment, we have around 10 members,” Fleck said.

Meeting every Thursday evening at 8 p.m. in HMSU room 227, all are welcome to discuss the current issue of sexual violence and raising awareness about the subject.

One thing Congress agrees on: Vaccines work Bridget Bowman CQ-Roll Call TNS

A bipartisan group of lawmakers are stressing the need to highlight benefits of vaccines amid reports of local outbreaks of infectious diseases.

“The science is clear: FDA-licensed vaccines are proven to be safe and effective, and save the lives both of those who receive them and vulnerable individuals around them,” the lawmakers wrote in a Tuesday letter sent to their colleagues. “As Members of Congress, we have a critical role to play in supporting the availability and use of vaccines to protect Americans from deadly diseases.”

The leaders of each chamber’s health committees authored the letter, including Senate Health Education and Labor Pensions Chairman Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and ranking member Patty Murray, D-Wash. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., and ranking member Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael Burgess, R-Texas, and ranking member Gene Green, D-Texas, also wrote the letter.

The letter comes amid what the lawmakers described as “increasing trends around the country that have led to lower vaccination rates in some communities.”

The debate over vaccines seeped into last year’s presidential campaign with President Donald Trump linking vaccine to autism in children, a theory that has been widely debunked.

Trump appeared to bring up the connection again at a Feb. 14 education meeting.

“What’s going on with autism, when you look at the tremendous increases, it’s really — it’s such an incredible — is it really a horrible thing to watch the tremendous amount of increase.

Do you have any idea?” Trump asked a special education principal.

The principal replied with a statistic of the rate of autism diagnosis, and Trump replied, “Just amazing. Well, maybe we can do something.”

The Washington Post fact checker gave Trump’s claim that there has been an increase in autism “three Pinnochios,” signaling it was not true.

But the exchange was reminiscent of Trump’s earlier claims, and a reminder that he reportedly would ask Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a proponent of the theory that vaccines cause autism, to chair a vaccine commission.

But the people in charge of health policy on Capitol Hill are presenting a united front on the benefits of vaccines.

The lawmakers came together, writing in no uncertain terms, “Vaccines save lives.”

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La Casita Resource Center is just one of the several resources offered by Multicultural Services and Programs.

Multicultural service and programs open house MPS includes a wide array of programs, approximately 50, including movie nights, game nights and informational events. They also host stress reThe Indiana State Multicultural Services and lief events around finals.

“International movie night is a night where Programs is hosting an open house on Wednesday, movies in different languages are shown and the Feb. 22.

Mary Fisher, a junior undergraduate student is food to be eaten on that night corresponds with the culture. So if it is Korean movie night, there are leading the project.

“We want to introduce students to the floor, and Korean snacks, if it’s French movie night, there are remind students of the free study space with Net- French snacks,” Fisher said.

Students are also offered more flix and food, as well as get them than just fun and games. There is a involved in the programs,” Fisher • Who: Multicultural Services and lunchroom that offers the students said.

Programs a chance to meet with other interThey have a modest hope for the national students.

• What: Open house event’s turnout.

“Students can use the microwave; “We are hoping at least 50 peo- • When: Feb. 22 at 11 a.m. we have coffee and we make popple appear, but we’d love to have as corn for the students,” Fisher said.

• Where: 7th floor of Hulman many as possible,” Fisher said.

The Multicultural Services and It won’t just be a bland display of Memorial Student Union Programs also holds true to inthe rooms. During this time, there forming students about cultures will be plenty of activities for stuthrough the art of decoration. dents to partake in.

“The floor is decorated for holidays and cultural “Students can make keychains, stress balls out of balloons and flour, necklaces, draw in coloring events. For Valentine’s Day, the floor was decorated and we displayed how different cultures celebooks, eat food and make movies,” Fisher said.

There will also be giveaways for the event such as brate the holiday. Next month we will decorate for luggage tags, phone wallets, water bottles and adult Saint Patrick’s Day, and we will also do a spring theme,” Fisher said. coloring books.

MSP isn’t only a space to watch Netflix — they also offer other resources.

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Critically acclaimed ‘Spunk’ comes to Terre Haute Anthony Goelz Reporter

Starting last Friday and running through the weekend, “Spunk” will be performed at the Indiana Theater.

“Spunk” is “adapted for the stage from three short stories by Zora Neale Hurston.

Music by Chic Street Man. This critically acclaimed adaptation was originally developed at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and was first presented in New York as a co-production of the New York Shakespeare Festival and Crossroads Theater Company,” according to dramatists.com.

The first story is “Sweat”. “’Sweat’ tells

the story of a young washerwoman who is abused and betrayed by her estranged husband, and of her ultimate triumph over him,” according to dramatists.

This is followed by “Story in Harlem Slang”. This story is “told in 1940s Harlemese.” “Story in Harlem Slang” tells the “story of two street lotharios trying to outhustle each other and win the favor of — and a meal from — a domestic on her payday afternoon off,” according to dramatists.com.

The third and final bit is entitled “The Gilded Six Bits”. This, like the first one, is a story of love. “’The Gilded Six Bits,’ is a bittersweet story of an adoring husband’s betrayal by his loving but innocent wife,” according to dramatists.com.

Dramatists.com also details what is needed to perform this play.

“Spunk” has a small cast of just six actors, four men and two women.

“Spunk” has been called a musical, or a play with songs.

This play “Utilizing the blues, choral narrative and dance, the three tales focus on men and women trapped inside the ‘laughin’ kind of lovin’ kind of hurtin’ kind of pain that comes from being human,’” according to dramatists.com.

“In the 21 years between that premiere and that current revival of ‘Spunk’ at Court Theatre, the importance of Hurston as an observer of African-American life and a poet of its soul has only been fur-

ther cemented. There might not be the same Harlem Renaissance feelings about ‘Spunk,’ but there are still plenty of Hurston pleasures in the play.”

This is an excerpt from a review of “Spunk” on chicagotribune.com and written Chris Jones back in September of 2011.

Jeff Lorick is directing this production.

Tickets are currently available on ticketmaster.com for $18.

Tickets are also available ISU Hulman Center Box Office.

The play starts at 7:30 p.m. starting on Feb. 24 and will be running until Feb. 26 at the Indiana Theater on Ohio Street.

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Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017

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The spillway at Don Pedro Reservoir was opened Monday at 3 p.m. near La Grange, Calif.

Storm brings flooding to Northern Calif.

Liam Dillon, Louis Sahagun and Joseph Serna Los Angeles Times (TNS)

MODESTO, Calif. — Northern California was battered by another atmospheric river that produced record rainfall and wind gusts that reached 199 mph.

The dramatic gusts were recorded high in the Sierra Nevada, where Alpine Meadows had the 199-mph gust, according to the National Weather Service.

Biggs recorded 184 mph.

Several areas set new rainfall records for the day Monday, including San Jose (1.87 inches), San Francisco International Airport (2.16 inches) and Sacramento (1.74 inches).

More rain is falling Tuesday, but officials said Monday was expected to be the strongest part of the storm. It produced some flooding — but so far not the mass damage some had feared.

Water came gushing down the spillway at Don Pedro Dam in Stanislaus County on Monday afternoon, further proof — if any were needed — that this is a rainy season for the record books in much of California.

It was only the second time the spillway had been used, and the first time in 20 years, as officials sought to keep the Don Pedro Reservoir from overflowing.

Residents along the Tuolumne River were not forced to evacuate, but “we are strongly encouraging people to seek shelter and move to higher ground,” Stanis-

laus County Sheriff Adam Christianson said at a news conference. “Our No. 1 priority is the safety and security of the people here in Stanislaus County.”

The Don Pedro release came as much of the state’s northern half was being hit with a colossal drenching — expected to drop as much as 9 inches of rain in areas from Santa Cruz County along the coast to the Feather River Basin, far inland. People living along waterways braced for flash floods and evacuations.

It came on the heels of the crisis that developed just over a week ago at Oroville Dam, some 180 miles to the north.

Both spillways were damaged, and fears of catastrophic flooding prompted the evacuation of more than 100,000 people.

Pension money for Russian veterans escapes scrutiny as it flows into US Greg Gordon, Kevin G. Hall, David Goldstein McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS) Hundreds of thousands of dollars flow every month from Russia to its former soldiers living in the United States, usually unseen and unchecked.

But now U.S. investigators are examining whether this river of pension benefits intended for Russian military veterans is somehow mixed up in efforts to undermine last fall’s U.S. election and put Donald Trump in the White House.

Investigators have tried to determine if Russia’s Federal Security Service, the intelligence agency known as the FSB, funneled payments disguised as pension benefits to U.S.-based operatives who hacked top Democrats’ emails and took other measures to discredit Hillary Clinton.

“If you are the Russian FSB and you want to pay these hackers, you have to figure out how to make your payments in a way that won’t raise red flags,” said Peter Harrell, who served as a deputy assistant secretary of state for sanctions from 2012 to 2014.

“You want to hide them in a large volume of transactions.”

A former highly regarded British MI6 officer, Christopher Steele, first made the allegation as part of a series of reports, made public last month, after months of private spying on the Kremlin for political opponents of Trump. Much of Steele’s 35page dossier, quoting uncorroborated information from supposed high-level Kremlin sources, lays out a covert Russian plot to hack Democrats’ emails and take other steps to discredit Clinton and boost Trump. It says Trump aides knew of the operation at least as early as last June.

Steele is believed to have gone into hiding after an ex-KGB chief, whom some theorize was among his Kremlin sources, died under suspicious circumstances in Moscow.

Steele’s reports have added fuel to investigations

by Congress, the FBI and intelligence agencies.

But President Trump, facing questions about those and other Russia-related allegations in his first month in the White House, has dismissed the dossier as “garbage” and “fake news.” Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued similar denunciations.

While many of the dossier’s assertions may never be substantiated, media reports over the last two weeks about the timing of electronic intercepts of conversations by Trump aides with Russians have lent a measure of credibility to Steele and his reports. The purported scheme to mask payments as pension benefits could offer U.S. investigators one possible avenue for confirming a portion of Steele’s reports.

The dossier says diplomatic staff based in the United States were involved in recruiting and compensating Russian emigre hackers inside this country and other Russian operatives. Their payments, it said, were authorized by consular offices in cities such as New York and Washington and in Miami, where only an informal consular arrangement exists. Two sources told McClatchy that an informal working group of intelligence agencies are scrutinizing the pension system as part of the election plot.

McClatchy reported Feb. 14 that a senior diplomat in Russia’s embassy in Washington, identified in Steele’s dossier as having played a key role in coordinating the pension “ruse,” was under scrutiny by federal investigators when he left the United States last August, according to two sources familiar with the inquiry. Diplomat Mikhail Kalugin, now back in Moscow and out of investigators’ reach, has said he had been long scheduled to return home at that time and denied having any role in paying U.S. pro-Trump operatives.

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Turlock Irrigation District officials said Monday that the structural integrity of the Don Pedro dam and spillway were “not in question,” and that the amount of water being released would be far less than in 1997, when major flooding occurred.

Officials also said several other waterways were at major risk of flooding, including the Yolo Bypass, Clear Lake, and the Sacramento, Cosumnes, Mokelumne, Merced and Tuolumne rivers.

Rains were also pounding coastal areas. Flash-flood warnings were issued for parts of Big Sur, parts of Sonoma County and San Benito County and communities in the hills above Santa Cruz. Flight delays were hitting San Francisco International Airport.

South of San Jose, Coyote Creek was at risk of exceeding flood levels at Edenvale.

Monday night, rising floodwaters prompted Lake County authorities to order some residents of Lakeport to leave their homes, and San Joaquin County officials ordered evacuations following a levee breach along the San Joaquin River.

Residents living along the Tuolumne River in Modesto were continuing to prepare for rising floodwaters Tuesday morning.

Dylan Douglas Hamlin, 21, was spending the morning packing his remaining belongings to leave the Driftwood Mobile Home Park in Modesto, which sits along the riverbanks.

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It’s easy for the government to read your old emails Lindsay Wise and Alex Daugherty McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS) For more than 30 years, a little-known loophole in federal law has allowed the government to read Americans’ emails without a warrant, as long as the messages are more than six months old.

Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives, who rarely agree on anything, have unified behind a bill to close that loophole. It sailed through the House unanimously earlier this month by voice vote.

Yet the bill’s chances of becoming law are bleak.

It faces daunting roadblocks in the Senate, where changes sought by Jeff Sessions, who until recently was a U.S. senator and is now attorney general, and Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas have killed the bill in the past.

Donald Trump’s ascendency as a “law and order” president — and his appointment of Sessions, a former prosecutor, as his top law enforcement officer — has eroded enthusiasm for the bill among Republican senators who aren’t eager to cross the new administration.

The Department of Justice did not respond to multiple phone calls and emails requesting comment from Sessions. The White House said it would not com-

ment on a bill before it passed the Senate.

The privacy issue pits the ruling party’s civil libertarian wing against its law-and-order wing.

And the libertarians might not have the pull needed — not even with GOP senators who previously co-sponsored the bill — to get it across the Senate’s finish line.

The legislation’s dire prospects infuriate privacy advocates.

They say it is far past time for Congress to close the loophole.

“This is an idea whose time has come,” said Jason Pye, director of legislative affairs for FreedomWorks, a libertarian-leaning conservative advocacy group that supports the bill. “It’s just one of those situations now for senators to let it go to the floor, let it go though unabated.”

Ambiguous language in a 1986 law created the loophole by extending Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure only to electronic communications sent or received fewer than 180 days earlier.

That law enabled the government to treat old emails and other electronic correspondence as “abandoned information.” Because of that status, the thinking went, there was no expectation of privacy, meaning the messages could be searched and seized

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Suspect in Calif. officer killing had cycled in and out of jail, records show Richard Winton Los Angeles Times (TNS) LOS ANGELES — The gang member accused of killing a Whittier police officer Monday had cycled in and out of jail for repeatedly violating the terms of his release, records show.

Sheriff ’s Homicide Capt. Steve Katz on Tuesday identified the suspect as Michael C. Mejia, 26, a career criminal with a history of drugs and violence. Mejia has a “history of control problems,” Katz said.

Mejia is suspected of killing Whittier Police Officer Keith Boyer and wounding another officer in a shootout after a crash involving a stolen vehicle.

Court records show that Mejia was sentenced in 2010 to four years in state prison for robbery and was convicted in July 2014 of grand theft auto and attempt-

ing to steal a vehicle. He was given another two-year sentence.

Mejia, who was shot by officers in the deadly gunfight that claimed Boyer’s life and left Officer Patrick Hazell wounded, has been arrested and jailed for short stints several times since July.

State officials said he was on probation and under supervision of the L.A. County Probation Department.

In July, he violated terms of his release and got 10 days in jail. He was arrested again in September after authorities moved to revoke his community supervision.

He was arrested in January for again violating the terms of his release and sentenced to a combined 40 days in jail. But he was out again after 10 days, records show. Then, Feb. 2 he was arrested by East L.A. sheriff ’s deputies for violating his release terms and “flash incarcerated.”

Mejia was sentenced to 10 days and released Feb. 11. On Monday, before his run-in with Whittier police, he allegedly went on a deadly rampage that began at an East L.A. home, where authorities suspect Mejia in the fatal shooting of a man believed to be his 46-year-old cousin, Ray Torres. Mejia then allegedly stole his car.

Whittier Police Chief Jeff Piper said Mejia is an example of how statewide efforts to reduce incarceration of certain criminals can have tragic consequences.

“We need to wake up. Enough is enough,” Piper said at an emotional news conference Monday, the day Boyer was killed. “This is a senseless, senseless tragedy that did not need to be.”

Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell pointed to three measures enacted in the last sev-

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Downey police officers pay their respects at a makeshift memorial for slain Whittier police officer Keith Boyer on Feb. 21 in Whittier, Calif.

en years — Propositions 47 and 57 and Assembly Bill 109 — that he said have led to the release of too many criminals without creating a proper safety net of mental health, drug rehabilitation and other services.

“We’re putting people back on the street that aren’t ready to be back on the street,” McDonnell said. He said the county jail system he runs, the largest in the

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Each room has its own cultural theme as well. For instance, La Casita, is a room connected to the HLA and is themed after Latin culture. The International room hopes to represent its international students. The LGBTQ room offers itself as a safe space for students within the community. There is also a Women’s Resource Center.

MSP is located on the 7th floor of HMSU and it is open to students Monday through Thursday 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. and Friday from 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

In early 2015, the Kremlin, its intelligence agencies and Russian banks faced a worsening predicament. President Barack Obama had imposed a series of sanctions to punish Russia, its banks and a long list of individuals and Russian institutions over Moscow’s support for separatists who seized control of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula.

While the sanctions were tightened in the summer of 2015 to prohibit large Russian banks from doing business in the United States, money transfers were still permitted. But Russian banks might have shied from wiring money for the FSB for fear of further sanctions, said Harrell, now a senior fellow for the Washington think tank Center for a New American Security.

By using the existing stream of relatively modest payments to thousands of Russian emigres, it “would be pretty easy to layer some illicit payments to hackers,” he said.

The simplest way to move funds, Harrell said, would be to wire them through Western Union, where there is less of a

STORM FROM PAGE 2 “We lost all of our stuff, man,” Hamlin said. “We lost our clothes, our shoes.”

Hamlin hoped to drive the trailer to higher ground, as emergency officials are expecting the river alongside the mobile home park to rise to 60 feet by mid-afternoon, as a result of the Don Pedro Dam spillway release.

Katie Whitley, who manages the mobile home park, said residents nearest the river have been moving their trailers out since the start of the weekend.

Residents had fled about 15 of the park’s 74 spaces by early Tuesday, she said.

“We’re just holding our own,” Whitley said. “That’s what we have to do. You just have to hope for the best. But you can expect it when you live on the river.”

Stanislaus County sheriff ’s deputies were at the park Tuesday morning, and have been notifying residents and others living nearby of the flood risk and potential power outages, said department spokesman Sgt. Anthony Bejaran.

EMAILS FROM PAGE 2 without a warrant.

The loophole applies to texts, photos and other digital documents, not just emails. Deleted files are fair game, as long as copies exist on a third-party server.

Opened emails also could lack protection.

Privacy advocates and tech firms have lobbied for years to fix the 1986 law. The Email Privacy Act, sponsored by Republican Rep. Kevin Yoder of Kansas, would require government agencies to obtain search warrants based on probable cause to look at the content of electronic communications more than six months old. The bill also would require warrants for opened emails.

Last year, the bill passed the House by 419-0. This year, on Feb. 6, it passed the House again by voice vote using a fast-track parliamentary maneuver usually reserved for the naming of post offices and other noncontroversial resolutions.

The legislation is endorsed by a wide array of groups across the political spectrum, from Her-

SUSPECT FROM PAGE 2 nation, has become a “default state prison.”

Sheriff ’s officials have long criticized Proposition 47, which was approved by voters in 2014 and downgraded some drug and property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.

They say AB 109 — which moved state prisoners to local lockups — has pushed lower-level offenders out of custody and onto the streets, offering little deterrent against committing new crimes. itage Action on the right to the American Civil Liberties Union on the left.

“I’ve joked this is the bill that can bring America together,” Yoder said.

Yoder points out that the world has changed since 1986, when only about 10 million people used email and service providers offered limited digital storage space.

In 2017, few Americans would think twice about leaving emails for more than 180 days or putting documents in digital storage, whether in Dropbox or iCloud, he said. They would assume a reasonable expectation of privacy.

“Ask any five Americans in the street,” Yoder said. “Do you think the government has the right to read your emails without probable cause anytime they want to?

And nobody agrees with that.”

Law enforcement agencies have pushed back. They argue that Yoder’s bill would make it harder for investigators to obtain “digital evidence,” which is increasingly important in criminal cases.

In the physical world, as op-

paper trail than if the hacker opened a bank account. But the pensioners also could have acted as intermediaries, he said.

A pensioner could have cut a deal with the FSB that left no trail for investigators, Harrell said. “He says, ‘OK, I’ll give my cash to this hacker. You give my brother in Moscow $2,500 a month.” Or the pensioner could earn a monthly fee for simply turning over his pension money to the operative, he said.

Harrell worked with the Treasury Department and intelligence agencies to craft financial sanctions that sought to thwart bad actors such as Iran and North Korea and also change the behavior of more powerful world players, including Russia.

Louise Shelley, director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center at George Mason University in suburban Washington, said the pension system would be an attractive option for the Russian FSB amid the current sanctions.

“You want to hide the illicit in your legal financial flows,” said Shelley, who is an expert on Russian money laundering. “You’re looking for points that aren’t go-

ing to arouse suspicion.”

The tougher sanctions on Russian banks and limits on lending to some key Russian energy conglomerates date to 2012 and have targeted many of Putin’s closest associates and financial institutions.

But as a result of the sanctions and similar actions by European nations, most Western banks scrutinized even routine Russian transactions.

Couldn’t the Russians have just moved stacks of cash via a “diplomatic pouch,” which is immune from searches by government authorities?

Yes, but delivering the cash could be risky, especially if the Russian operatives were geographically scattered.

“The last couple of years the Russian diplomats have been under pretty heavy surveillance in the United States, so you wouldn’t want the physical contact,” Harrell said.

Nikolay Lakhonin, a spokesman for the Russian Embassy in Washington, declined a request to discuss how pension payments are distributed in the United States.

He provided a statement from

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova that dismissed the dossier as “mind-boggling heresies” and “simply unbearable nonsense.”

Nor would the U.S. Embassy in Moscow answer questions about the pensions.

In late 2014, the Russian pension agency estimated that the government was sending benefits to 259,000 emigres in the United States, Israel and numerous other countries around the globe.

Tass, the Russian news agency, reported in 2015 that the average pension paid to Russians who served in wars was $546 per month.

McClatchy reached several Russian pensioners living in the United States. Through interpreters, they said they were required to establish proof with consular officials of their Russian heritage to qualify for benefits, which usually arrived every three months.

They generally gave someone in Russia power of attorney, and their Russian contact then sent the money through a bank wire transfer or Western Union.

Proposition 57, which passed last year, changed California’s “three strikes” rule and made sentencing more flexible, allowing some prisoners who wouldn’t normally have been eligible for early parole to be considered for release.

It was unclear if Mejia’s releases were related to any of the measures.

In Los Angeles County, the jail population has decreased, from 18,500 inmates just before Proposition 47 passed to about 16,500 inmates in November. Narcotics

arrests have dropped, with busy police officers deciding that the time needed to process a case is not worth it.

The result, some law enforcement officials say, is that more criminals are now on the streets instead of in jail and are not receiving the drug and mental health treatment the measure had promised. Without the threat of a felony prosecution, they say, defendants are less likely to choose treatment as an alternative to serving time.

But supporters of Proposition

47 dispute the theory that crime increases are connected to the measure. Misdemeanors can still result in sentences of up to a year in jail, and it is up to police officers and prosecutors to enforce those penalties, Michael Romano, a lecturer at Stanford Law School, told the Los Angeles Times in December.

“The idea that Proposition 47 has been responsible for an increase in crime in California over the past year or two is fake news, as far as I’m concerned,” he said.

posed to the digital, the general rule is that authorities have to have a warrant for any search or seizure.

There are exceptions. “If somebody’s life is in danger, there’s emergency aid exemptions,” said Steven Cook, president of the National Association of Assistant U.S. Attorneys. The association and other law enforcement groups want to add an emergency exemption to Yoder’s bill.

Such exemptions typically apply to law enforcement officers who enter a private residence without a warrant to rescue someone from a fire or because they hear screams for help.

In the digital world, law enforcement can’t just break into a third-party server provider such as Google and Facebook to get customers’ emails, even in an emergency.

The 1986 law lets them seek electronic communications without a warrant, but they need cooperation from third-party service providers like Google and Facebook, who have discretion over whether to provide a customer’s information to law enforcement in the absence of

due process.

The status quo is that tech companies don’t comply unless they have a good-faith belief that someone could die or be seriously harmed. So far, courts have generally agreed with this approach, and federal agencies testified before Congress in recent years that it is policy not to take advantage of the loophole.

But tech companies and privacy advocates want that policy to be made law, especially now that the Trump administration is in charge.

When Yoder’s bill passed the House earlier this month, eight law enforcement organizations representing federal, state and local prosecutors, police chiefs, directors of criminal investigative agencies and rank and file officers, signed a letter opposing it. They sent it to Cornyn, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and other influential lawmakers.

The law enforcement community found powerful allies in the Senate when the bill came up for consideration in the Judiciary Committee last June: Sessions and Cornyn.

Sessions, a former federal prosecutor, wanted a change in Yoder’s plan that would require service providers to turn over emails or other customer records to a government agency without a warrant in an emergency. In Sessions’ proposal, investigators simply would have to certify “under penalty of perjury” that they needed the information to prevent “death or serious injury.”

Cornyn was an original co-sponsor of the bill. He said he didn’t object to closing the loophole to protect six-month-old email content from warrantless search and seizure. But he also wanted to expand the 1986 law to give the Federal Bureau of Investigation access to Americans’ browser histories and other electronic metadata, such as email logs, without a warrant.

That change, identified as a top priority by FBI Director James Comey during the administration of President Barack Obama, would let the FBI obtain such data in counterterrorism investigations using an administrative subpoena called a national security letter, which typically is accompanied by a gag order.

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Cunningham Library event showcases ISU faculty and staff work Erica Garnes Reporter

towards staff, part of the event is dedicated to showing off student’s work.

“Students are nominated by a professor to submit a work that was submitted in a 2016 course,” Middleton said.

An award of $1,000 will be given to one undergraduate and $1,500 award for one graduate student. In addition to their awards, their research paper will be added to Sycamore Scholars, ISU’s digital repository. This year, there are 22 papers from a variety of disciplines.

The event is a chance to see something different from your professor. The event begins at 3 p.m. Light refreshments will be served prior to the event, beginning at 2:30 p.m.

Middleton said that the event is inspiring not only for the staff involved, but the students as well.

“It is very inspiring to hear them talk about their books; as part of the event we ISU Communications & Marketing give each faculty member a plaque and The “Authors and Artists” program will be hosting an event in the library on they are invited to say a few words,” MidWednesday, showing both written and artistic material from ISU faculty and staff. dleton said.

The “Authors and Artists” program will be hosting an event in the library on Wednesday. This event showcases written and artistic material of ISU faculty and staff, which allows students to see their professors in a different light.

The event is being held to celebrate the publication of books and certain artistic creations by campus faculty. Dara Middleton, ISU’s library event coordinators, handles all event logistics. Middleton spoke about welcoming everyone to see the achievements of others and what all to expect at the event.

“Students are used to seeing the faculty as teachers; if they attend this event, they can see them as scholars and writers,” Middleton said.

Some of this year’s honorees include education leaders, English and history professors. All faculties could be apart as long as their work followed specific guidelines that were held for the categories. calendar year. For artistic work, the work other exhibitions.

As an author, the individual’s book has cannot have been created for a class or Although this particular event is aimed to have been published within the last

Film series seeks to share cultures Adrienne Morris Reporter

Throughout the year, Indiana State University highlights the different cultures that fill the ISU community with many culturally-based activities. One way ISU maintains international inclusion is by hosting the International Film Series.

The International Film Series showcases a different international film every other Wednesday. It is a way for students and faculty to increase their awareness on films and cultures from around the world.

Mylinh Hoang, a graduate assistant, said that the event is to create conversations of those attending.

“The purpose is to encourage students, both domestic and international, to spend time in the resource center watching films that encourage dialogue,” Hoang said.

• Who: Multicultural Services and Programs • What: International Film Series • When: Feb. 22 at 6:30 p.m • Where: Room 720, Hulman Memorial Student Union Many ISU students are not always exposed to films that are from different cultures and in different languages. The International Film Series grants ISU students with the option of gaining more information.

“The films are in a different language and revolve around a new culture. This gives students a chance to talk about the culture and language if it is something they are familiar with,” Hoang said.

In order to add on to the inclusive experience that the International Film Series already offers, the event will also provide food that is relevant to the movie that is being shown.

“We also provide international snacks from the country introduced in the movie to incentivize students to come to the program and learn about the country,” Hoang said.

The event also hopes to encourage people to learn more about their ISU peers and connect them to one another via watching internationally-based films.

“It helps bridge the gap between domestic and international students that attend Indiana State,” Hoang said.

The International Film Series will allow people to view the international films every other Wednesday. A showing will take place Feb. 22 at 6:30 p.m. in room 720 of the Hulman Memorial Student Union.

It’s no wonder our smartphone feels like an extension of our mind and body.

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Look, you already know why you shouldn’t be on your phone so much. There’s even evidence that people ages 18 to 24 send more than 100 daily text messages and check their cellphones about 60 times per day.

So if you account for eight hours of daily sleep, that means that, on average, you check your phone nearly every 15 minutes and send more than six texts per hour.

This makes me wonder: How on earth do we get anything done? And can we really keep it up without impacting our health, from our mental alertness to our real-life engagements … not to mention our ability to exist anxiety free without our fingers wrapped around a smartphone?

Social media addiction is a trending topic; our inbox dependence feels like the foundation of our career.

There’s an app for everything — from seeking S.O.s to buying burritos to mellowing out with meditation. It’s no wonder our smartphone feels like an extension of our mind and body. But it’s not. Here are six ways to stay sane and centered … and enjoy life in living color.

1. ENJOY YOUR ERRANDS. As a productivity addict, I love using wait times at the bank, Walgreens and Trader Joe’s to write emails. But at least once a day, when I walk my dog, post a letter, pick up a bottle

of pinot or even nip out for a mani, I leave my phone on charge.

As soon as I step out sans phone, I notice the smell of the air, the light of the sky, the hilarity of my dog sniffing every tiny thing on the ground… and I feel the delicious sensation of my body just loosening up. It feels good. Your inbox can survive without you for 30 minutes, I promise.

The worst that can happen is you miss an Instagrammable moment. You’ll live. And yep — you’ll actually be living, not just documenting. Enjoy it.

2. GO PUSH-FREE. Yup, you can lose all those buzzing, useless notifications that distract you every few minutes. Aside from texts and calendar reminders, I no longer get any of these. I have to proactively check my apps to see if I’ve received an email, a tweet, a Whatsapp message, a friend request or an alert about someone sharing something lame on LinkedIn. This means I see stuff I don’t really care about maybe just once per day. It’s liberating.

The world can wait — I’m enjoying my tea.

3. KICK IT OLD SCHOOL. When was the last time you bought an actual book, put your feet up and dove on in?

The same goes for a magazine or the paper.

Instead of scrolling or swiping on a Sunday morning, why not grasp something real — in ink? Sometimes there’s no substitute for paper.

4. SWEAT.

As much as it pains me to admit that exercise has yet another benefit — I prefer anything, even cleaning my oven, to working out! — the one thing I really appreciate about spin class is the “no phones allowed” policy.

This gives me 45 minutes of undisturbed Me Time, no exceptions. It feels almost naughty and indulgent to be unreachable, even if only for a little while.

I use this time to repeat my affirmations and visualize achieving my goals, instead of checking my texts and Facebook updates.

5. GIVE YOURSELF A CURFEW. I opt for an “electronic sundown,” which is when you put all your devices away an hour before bed. You’ll probably sleep better too!

Do some stretches. Light some candles.

Journal. Talk to your spouse or roommate.

Meditate. Have sex. There’s so much more to life than stuff involving a screen.

6. BUY AN ALARM CLOCK. They are $10. If nothing else, let the first minutes of your day be phone-free. Actually taste your coffee. Set an intention for the next 24 hours. Breathe. It’s a major win if you’ve just started the morning with no external influence.

What will you do this week to let go of your device for a bit and inject some you time into your life? Don’t stress; you’re not breaking up with your phone.

You’re just taking some time away from each other. And all relationships benefit from a little space.

You may have to give up some pleasure to live longer Ana Veciana-Suarez Miami Herald (TNS)

Want to slow aging? You might want to ditch the moisturizer and eat less.

Scientists at Brigham Young University have published research that show cutting calories affects aging inside a cell.

They found that ribosomes — the cell’s protein maker — slow down when calories were cut and that, in turn, this calorie-restriction led to longer, healthier lives in mice.

“When you restrict calorie consumption, there’s almost a linear increase in lifespan,” Brigham Young University biochemistry professor and senior author John Price told Science Daily. “We inferred that the restriction caused real biochemical changes that slowed down the rate of aging.”

The research, published in Molecular &

Cellular Proteomics, includes the study of two groups of mice, one with unlimited access to food, the other restricted to consume 35 percent fewer calories, but still receiving all the necessary nutrients for survival.

Ribosomes slowed down in the group on a restricted diet, apparently slowing the cellular process of aging as well. The calorie-restricted mice were also more energetic.

“The ribosome is a very complex machine, sort of like your car, and it periodically needs maintenance to replace the parts that wear out the fastest,” Price said. “When tires wear out, you don’t throw the whole car away and buy new ones. It’s cheaper to replace the tires.”

Other studies have shown a connection between fewer calories and longer lifespan, but the Brigham Young team is “the first to show that general protein synthesis slows down and to recognize the ribosome’s role in facil-

itating those youth-extending biochemical changes.”

Ribosomes use about 10 to 20 percent of a cell’s total energy to build the proteins that allow the cell to function.

When ribosomes slow down at their jobs, it gives them more time to repair themselves.

Before you begin cutting back on your meal portions, however, consider this: Researchers warn that calorie-restriction as a fountain of youth hasn’t been tested in humans and results in mice don’t always translate to our species.

“Food isn’t just material to be burned — it’s a signal that tells our body and cells how to respond,” Price said. “We’re getting down to the mechanisms of aging, which may help us make more educated decisions about what we eat.”

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Looking back with shame Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Seventy-five years ago, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, declaring parts of the United States to be military zones from which particular groups of people could be “excluded” for security reasons. The order set the stage for the relocation and internment, beginning the following month, of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom were American citizens living on the West Coast.

To our lasting shame, here’s what the Los Angeles Times editorial page had to say about the matter at the time: “This is war. And in wartime, the preservation of the nation becomes the first duty. Everything must be subordinated to that. Every necessary precaution must be taken to insure reasonable safety from spies and saboteurs so that our armed forces can function adequately and our industrial machinery may continue to work free from peril.”

And this: “The time has come to realize that the rigors of war demand proper detention of Japanese and their immediate removal from the most acute danger spots. It is not a pleasant task. But it must be done and done now. There is no safe alternative.”

And this, a year or so later, when some people were calling for the release of those who had been interned: “As a race, the Japanese have made for themselves a record for conscienceless treachery unsurpassed in history. Whatever small theoretical advantages there might be in releasing those under restraint in this country would be enormously outweighed by the risks involved.”

That was another time, and another Times. This newspaper has long since reversed itself on the subject. Not only was some of our reasoning explicitly racist, but in our desperate attempts to sound rational — by supposedly balancing the twin imperatives of security and liberty in the midst of World War II — we exaggerated the severity of the threat while failing to acknowledge the significance of revoking the most fundamental rights of American citizens based solely on their ancestry. In the 1980s, the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians found there had been no military justification for the exclusion and noted that no Japanese Americans had been convicted of spying or sabotage. The incarceration was a “grave injustice,” the congressional commission concluded.

Korematsu v. United States, the 1944 Supreme Court decision that found Executive Order 9066 to be constitutional, has never been officially overturned, but it is widely viewed as odious and discredited, and in 1988, President Clinton awarded its plaintiff, Fred Korematsu, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

The original executive order, signed by President Roosevelt, and many other artifacts of the period are currently on display in an exhibit titled “Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066” at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo.

Strange things happen in times of turmoil, hysteria and populist anger. Given what we wrote in 1942, the 75th anniversary is a time for The Times editorial board to exercise some humility and to reflect on how we reach our positions on the passionate issues of the day. Here’s one obvi-

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A bumblebee gathers pollen from lantana flowers on the State Capitol grounds in Raleigh, N.C., in a September 2015 file image. Lantana offers many color choices, and the vibrant tones of red, orange and pink are especially beautiful.

White House memo might endanger bees’ endangered status

Zach Davis Columnist

Last year we came to a rather depressing conclusion: the bees are disappearing.

The consensus was so strong that the Rusty Patched Bumblebee got approval to be added to the endangered species list.

Bees are an important factor in our environment by pollenating plants, which allows flowers and crops to reproduce. This is necessary for plants to survive; without bees we wouldn’t be able to enjoy many of our flowery friends for very long.

Unfortunately, we will have to wait a little while longer before we can say the bees will be protected.

Due to a Jan. 20 memo from the president’s desk, the Fish and Wildlife Service had to postpone adding the bee to the endangered species list for now. The

memo halted all federal regulations for 60 days until they are reviewed, facts and all.

There is the potential that the White House could stand in the bees’ way to the list, but that is unlikely since the decision involved a lot of scientific backing and a lot of public inclusion.

It wasn’t an executive order made behind closed doors, and its intentions are perfectly clear.

That means that overturning the decision will probably be met with a lot of controversy – rightly so.

The potential for a problem comes with the current administration’s approach to science.

They are known to dismiss scientific findings as they please, treating objective facts as though they are simple opinions. If they do that with the bees, their endangered status might be in danger as well.

The American Farm Bureau Federation argues that the bees shouldn’t go on the endangered list merely because it causes problems for farmers, causing what they consider to be “far-reaching regulatory burdens.”

The current administration has shown that they prioritize

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ment is to create a replacement as they die out.

We know that we can’t recreate nature exactly, which is why we don’t have perfect prosthetic limbs yet. We really don’t need to, though. Nature has gifted us with everything we need, from water to drink all the way to ingredients for medications. We shouldn’t be trying to compete with nature, but living in a way that betters our lives while still preserving nature.

We shouldn’t be concerning ourselves with a replacement yet, nor should we ever have to.

We have a solution staring us in the face: take steps to protect the bees, including adding species to the endangered list as necessary, and educate ourselves on how to preserve them in the future.

All there is to do is sit and wait for a move to be made, and hopefully the current administration doesn’t step in the way of protecting bees.

It would be worth it even if we only protect them to keep plants we use on a regular basis. The delay should stay just that – a delay.

In March, I hope to see the bees where they belong: on the endangered species list.

How can we put an end to the cycle of obstruction?

Jon Huntsman and Joe Lieberman Los Angeles Times (TNS)

“No” is a word used too often by legislators. Faced with a tough vote, it’s easy to explain why you’re holding out for a different, better, competing idea.

Maybe you object to a single provision. Maybe you hope that a more perfect bill will emerge after the next election. A “no” today protects you from having to take responsibility for controversial decisions tomorrow.

The problem, of course, is that our form of governance requires give and take, and solving big problems necessarily requires leaders to take political risks.

The Constitution guarantees that competing interests have a role in crafting legislation.

And for more than two centuries — except for the Civil War

— Americans have showed that collaboration works best in the service of perfecting the union.

Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill.

Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich. Bipartisan cooperation has sustained American peace and prosperity.

That tradition, and with it our democracy, is now at risk.

We’re hardly the first to decry the rampant polarization and partisanship in Washington and across the country. But the anger and alienation that began under President George W. Bush and worsened under President Obama has reached a fever pitch early in the Trump administration, and has us both asking — though from different parties — the same question: How can this possibly end well for the U.S.? Obstruction worked well enough for Republican politicians under Obama; they now control the executive and legislative branches. It may

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business interests over the environment, evident with the approval of the Dakota Access pipeline and climate change, so if they decide to favor the farming industry, the bees could remain in peril.

The greatest irony about the federation’s complaint is that bees pollenate plants. Without bees, plants don’t get pollenated, which means crops can’t survive, leaving nothing to farm.

These farmers are so worried about their incomes that they want to put one of their greatest assets in danger to make things a little easier.

There is little that suggests that the endangered status of the bees is going to be changed, but concern still exists. That concern is heightened by Japanese researchers who figured out how to pollinate plants using miniature drones. The drones have not been made practical yet, but the concept is proven, which is scary alone.

If people see bees as replaceable by drones, they won’t have as much motivation to save bees who are literally biologically programmed to do this task.

Nature selected these creatures to be pollinators, and our repay-

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work well enough for Democratic politicians under Trump; perhaps they’ll take back the executive and legislative branches. But what then? Won’t the cycle just continue?

With every denunciation and caustic tweet from Capitol Hill and the White House, the possibility of substantive progress on critical issues — like putting Americans to work, fixing our tax code or rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure — grows more distant.

Both sides seem to believe that if they stand firm, yelling “no” with sufficient fervor, the opposition will eventually back down — or lose so many seats that their opinions won’t matter. Many voters, apparently, endorse this approach, taking to the streets and storming town halls to encourage ideological purity. At a moment of fantastic possibility, when technological, scientific and medical advances

offer to make life better for everyone, our political system has degenerated into dysfunction.

There is one way out of this mess. Somehow, someway, leaders need to stand up and say, “Enough.” They need to confront the angriest and most intransigent voices in their own party and say: “Your politics of division and anger is getting America nowhere. Either help find a solution or get out of the way.”

We can’t take our democracy for granted. We can’t assume there is no cost to the bitter partisanship that is turning into tribalism.

It’s both odd and heartening that, despite the bickering in Washington, the substantive challenges facing the United States are not unsolvable. Policy ideas abound that could help create jobs, balance the budget, secure retirements and achieve

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as they were earlier in the season, the Hawks are beginning to dominate games again.

“We’ve been a team in the past where we can get a lead, we can shut them down in the third and we can kind of build off opportunities if they’re trying to create too much,” Kane said. “It seems like we’re controlling the play, sustaining pressure, getting chances, so it’ll be a big game once again on Tuesday, a good test for us.”

ous conclusion: Even in times of stress and fear, we need to keep a firm grip on our core values and bedrock principles.

For Americans more generally, the mistreatment of innocent Japanese people and Japanese Americans (and thousands of Germans and Italians as well) during the war is particularly relevant as a new administration in Washington stokes fears of a surge in nationalism and xenophobia — rejecting humanitar-

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that some in Congress are ready to rise above the partisan mud and start focusing on doing the people’s business. This month saw the formation of a Problem Solvers Caucus in the House with “nearly 40 members from both sides of the aisle (who) will be fighting for common sense principles that impact all Americans.”

One of the greatest accomplishments of American democracy, is that throughout our history, the nation’s leaders have

energy security — ideas supported by majorities of the American people in nationwide polling.

Just for example, 74 percent of Americans want to enforce current tax laws to close the $400 billion annual gap between legally owed taxes and taxes paid.

And 83 percent want to modernize the electric grid. There is common ground out there, if only our leaders would look for it.

There’s even a hopeful sign

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Indiana State University men’s basketball team gears up to face off and host University of Nothern Iowa on Wednesday night at 7 p.m. in the Hulman Center

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Men’s basketball faces UNI for senior night Garrett Short Reporter

The Indiana State men’s basketball team hosts the University of Northern Iowa Wednesday night at 7 p.m.

UNI had a sub-par start to this season, just a year removed from winning the Missouri Valley Conference tournament. A seven game losing streak painted a glum picture of the 2016-17 season for the Panthers early on. But the team has rebounded, winning nine of their last 11 games. This hot streak has propelled the team into the third spot in the conference standings.

A large part of their recent suc-

cess has been due to the team’s defensive prowess. UNI allows just 64 PPG. The Sycamores have struggled at times on the defensive end of the floor, giving up 73.1 PPG. In this season’s first matchup between these two teams, UNI won 65-60 in Cedar Falls. Brenton Scott led the way for the Sycamores with 16 points. Sophomore Emondre Rickman added 12 of his own. A 24 point outburst from ISU’s bench helped make up for senior Matt Van Scyoc’s scoreless game. Inefficient shooting from the Sycamores combined with 38 second-half points for UNI led to a Panther’s victory.

UNI lost numerous key players after a successful campaign last year, losing three players who scored over 10 PPG. Several players have stepped up this year, including Jeremy Morgan and Jordan Ashton. These two seniors have led by example, both shooting over 40 percent from the field.

The player to watch will be Morgan, who is a well-rounded, dynamic guard. His basketball IQ is through the roof. Last season he led the MVC in steals per game (1.9), while putting over 11 PPG on the stat sheet. His game has evolved this year, currently pouring in over 15 PPG. He can score from anywhere on

Is Revis’ off-field incident the end of his time with Jets?

Bob Glauber

Newsday (TNS)

It is too soon to know how the case against Darrelle Revis will be adjudicated after Thursday’s announcement that he faces charges including robbery, terroristic threats, conspiracy and aggravated assault in connection with an early-morning fight in Pittsburgh on Sunday.

But it’s not too soon to wonder if this will hasten the departure of the 31-year-old cornerback from the Jets.

Even before reports about the fight surfaced and the charges were announced by Pittsburgh police, Revis was on thin ice. He is coming off the worst season of his career and has openly conceded that his body is beginning to betray him.

Now that he faces an assortment of charges stemming from an incident in which two men were knocked unconscious, the Jets may have reached the tipping point in deciding what to do with him moving forward.

These are some serious charges leveled at Revis, and while it remains to be seen whether he will be found guilty of any or all of them, the fact that he now is embroiled in what could be a lengthy legal process does not bode well.

We may get a more

definitive idea of exactly how the Jets will handle his situation by March 10, the date Revis is due a $2-million roster bonus as part of the five-year, $70 million contract he signed before the 2015 season.

If the Jets decide that his physical decline and the added complication of his legal problems are not worth continuing with him, they could decide not to pay the money next month and thus end Revis’ second run here.

And who could blame them?

If he does stay with the Jets, Revis, who has outlived his usefulness as a shutdown cornerback, might be asked to make the transition to safety.

But if that does happen, who knows if Revis, who has played his entire career at cornerback, can be a viable option there?

Other great cornerbacks have morphed into terrific safeties — Rod Woodson, Charles Woodson and Ronnie Lott are three of the best examples — but there are no guarantees that Revis can play at a similar level.

In fact, it seems like more of a crapshoot to move him now.

Revis was symptomatic of a roster that got old in a hurry, and with a major re-do in order for a team coming off a 5-11 season, the aging corner-

back doesn’t fit in with a team needing to get younger in the defensive backfield.

That he faces charges and sought medical attention after Sunday’s fight don’t augur well for a player in such a tenuous situation to begin with.

Again, we make no assumptions about whether he will face legal consequences in connection with what happened. But the NFL’s brand of justice is much more open-ended than the legal system, and even if Revis is absolved of any and all charges, the league reserves the right to discipline him under its personal-conduct policy.

Commissioner Roger Goodell has wide latitude in dispensing punishment for players who face charges, and guilt or innocence in a court of law doesn’t necessarily determine whether he acts. That means there is a very real possibility that Revis will face a suspension.

It’s impossible to know how Goodell might act, given that there might not be a final resolution of the case for at least several weeks, if not longer.

But given all the circumstances surrounding Revis — both on and off the field — it won’t be a surprise if he has played his final game for the Jets.

the court, but if forced to stay outside, his shooting percentage will stop. The loss of a few seniors has decreased the potency of UNI’s offense, but Morgan is a time-bomb ready to go off on the court.

Both of these two teams have suffered some disappointing losses. For UNI, a slow start to conference resulted in ugly, double-digit losses to Bradley and Evansville. But their worst MVC loss came at the hands of Wichita State last Saturday. In a 73-44 loss on the road, the Shockers got too many open jump shots.

Fouls were also a problem for UNI, sending Wichita State to the charity stripe where they hit

20 of 23.

A huge aspect of tonight’s game will be the battle on the glass. Both UNI and ISU get outrebounded on average. This has posed a big problem for the Panthers, who average a lackluster 29.8 RPG. Both of these teams are outliers in the fact that they are led by guards in rebounding numbers. Both Jeremy Morgan and senior Everett Clemons don’t just handle the ball for their teams, but chase it down after misses.

The Sycamores are 7-6 inside the Hulman Center this season.

Home-court advantage could play affect in this game between two defensive-minded teams.

Blackhawks are hot, but still cannot catch Wild Chris Hine

Chicago Tribune (TNS)

MINNEAPOLIS — Before the Blackhawks faced the Wild on Feb. 8, winger Patrick Kane called it “the biggest game” of the Hawks’ season.

Now that they are meeting again just 13 days later in St. Paul, Minn., what does Kane have to say?

“You could probably say the same thing once again,” he said. “These are huge games. Especially when, if you’re looking at the standings, they’re way out in front of us.”

The Hawks had hoped that their recent 4-3 overtime victory against the Wild could help them gain ground in the Central Division standings.

The Hawks have been playing their best hockey of the season and have won six of their last seven. But what’s frustrating for the Hawks is they haven’t gained any ground on the Wild, who have won six of their last eight and are seven points ahead of the Hawks.

“We just have to keep playing well,” winger Ryan Hartman said. “They’ve been playing really well since I don’t know

when, a long time. … Win your games when you can and the rest will sort itself out.”

That’s the attitude the Hawks are likely to have for the rest of the season. As long as they continue to play like they have, where they finish in the standings won’t matter so much. The Hawks advanced to the Western Conference finals in 2014 and won a Stanley Cup in 2015 after finishing third in the Central.

“They’ve had an amazing run. Give them credit,” coach Joel Quenneville said of the Wild. “I know we played pretty well last time and we’re going to have to be even better going into this game. … Hopefully we can try to close the gap.”

The schedules for both teams amp up in March, giving the Hawks a chance to make a move.

Over the last seven games, the Hawks have done a better job of possessing the puck, playing tighter defense and getting contributions from all four lines, like on Sunday, when each line had at least one goal in a 5-1 victory against the Sabres.

Instead of clawing their way to victories

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