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Bisexual awareness week kicked off last friday and will continue through Sept. 28.
ISU celebrates bisexual awareness week Kiara Dowell Reporter
Bisexual Awareness week kicked off Friday, Sept. 22 and runs through Sept. 28. Bisexual Awareness is a nationally celebrated week and was recently adopted by the university to celebrate the diversity of ISU students. “I think it is mainly important so we can actually shine a light on those who identify as bisexual,” said Radasia Blaylock, a graduate assistant of the LGBTQ resource center on campus. “I know we do focus on many things in the LGBTQ community. I think it is best that we actually do let our students on campus who identify as bisexual to let them know that we are there supporting them and that we have their back.” The LGBTQ Resource Center is located
on the seventh floor of the Hulman Memorial Student Union. It is open to everyone who needs a safe environment and to feel supported by fellow students who have similar interests. They have different organizations and programs that students can partake. “I know throughout our calendar we have events for Coming Out Black in the community, we have ones for Trans 101 and Trans Identity and Experiences, we definitely touch on every spectrum of LGBTQ community and we want to make sure each of them feel welcome,” Blaylock said. Spectrum is a group on campus where members of the LGBTQ+ community come together in a safe environment with other students who identify with the community. Many staff and students recommend Spectrum for students who want to
be in an inclusive environment. “We will be out there on the 23 at Dede Plaza from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., basically, giving students information about bisexuality, as well as some games that they can play to get them engaged,” Blaylock said. “Bisexual, even though it is part of the LGBTQ community, is one of the sexualities that gets overlooked or misrepresented,” sophomore Kaden Mendenhall said. Bisexual Awareness Week is a time to celebrate having an inclusive campus and celebrate differences. ISU wants to create a supportive environment where everyone feels included and welcome. Mendenhall explains why it is important to celebrate Bisexual Awareness Week. “It will inform people on what [being] bisexual means and get rid of the stereotype that is placed on bisexuals or what the me-
dia puts on bisexuals,” Mendenhall said. There are many sexualities that should be uncloaked. ISU as a whole can create a supportive campus for all. “When someone comes out as bisexual, listen to them,” said Aryn Suiter, a sophomore at ISU. “Don’t invalidate their sexuality and (do) actually try to understand. It’s important to be educated on bisexuality because all sexualities are valid. In addition, just because you don’t personally experience something doesn’t mean it is invaluable.” There are many places on campus where students can go to find a safe environment. The best choice would be the seventh floor of HMSU. It is an inclusive place where everyone is welcome. Go enjoy the festivities and programs they have to offer. Just sign in, and they will welcome you with open arms.
Mexico rescues continue; death toll reaches 274 By Patrick J. McDonnell, Andrea Castillo and Laura King Los Angeles Times (TNS)
Harry Minniear spoke at the 2014 March On Awards.
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Court date set for ISU aviation professor A.J. Goelz Reporter
A court hearing has been set for the Indiana State University professor charged with criminal recklessness. Harry Minniear, 61, is charged with criminal recklessness for pointing a handgun at a dog and threatening to shoot during an incident that occurred on Sept. 8. He will appear in court on Oct. 4. The Sept. 8 incident occurred when Minniear encountered two children walking a dog without a leash in the Harrison Woods subdivision. “The children said Minniear pulled out a handgun and pointed it at the dog, warning them to keep the dog away or he would shoot it,” according to an article by the Tribune-Star.
Minniear’s reasoning for his actions is that he has a heart transplant and that a bite from the dog could kill him. There is truth to this claim. After organ transplants, recipients are under immunosuppression to reduce the chances of organ rejection. This is because the body’s immune system can attack the transplanted organ, believing it to be a foreign object. This process also leaves the body vulnerable to infection. It is entirely possible that a dog bite could have killed Minniear. Although this was a possibility, the question that still remains is whether or not Minniear’s actions were justified. “Minniear is the chairman of the aviation technology program at ISU. The university declined to comment on this matter,” according to the Tribune-Star article.
PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR & MILITARY HISTORIAN
Scenes of desolation and rejoicing unspooled Thursday at the sites of buildings crumbled by Mexico’s deadly earthquake, which killed at least 274 people and galvanized heroic efforts to reach those trapped. But a parallel drama transpired as the government announced that there were no missing children in the ruins of a collapsed school — after the country was transfixed for a night and a day by reports of a 12-year-old girl feebly signaling to rescuers from under the rubble. Outrage ensued over what many Mexicans believed was a deliberate deception. On Thursday afternoon, the Mexican navy reported that there was no sign that any child was missing and alive in the rubble of the Enrique Rebsamen school on Mexico City’s south side, where at least 19 children and six adults had died. One more adult might still be trapped in the rubble, navy Undersecretary Angel Enrique Sarmiento said at a news conference. “All of the children are unfortunately dead,” he said, “or safe at home.” Mexico’s larger tragedy continued to unfold as rescuers in three states, bat-
“ F O L L OW T H E L E A D E R S : W H A T M I L I T A R Y H I S T O R Y TEACHES ABOUT BEING IN CHARGE”
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Refugio Gonzalez, 85, left, is comforted by volunteer Lety Rebollar, 19, of Mexico State, in a shelter holding 460 people displaced by the earthquake, at Deportivo Benito Juarez sports complex in Mexico City.
tling grinding fatigue and mountains of rubble, raced against time, keenly aware of ever-dwindling odds of finding people alive beneath the debris after Tuesday’s magnitude 7.1 temblor. The overall confirmed fatality count was expected to climb as more bodies were recovered. Rescuers at sites across the sprawling metropolis of Mexico City used search dogs and calls to the cellphones of those trapped to try to pinpoint the location of anyone who had survived two nights under the remains of damaged buildings. The harrowing rescue effort at the Enrique Rebsamen school had become
a social media sensation when news outlets began reporting intensively about the search for a trapped girl thought to be named “Frida Sofia.” By Thursday afternoon, authorities said that at least one boy or girl was believed to be alive in the wrecked building but that they were not sure of the child’s name. Then the navy’s announcement dashed any remaining hopes for small survivors. For many, the fate of one little boy or girl became a symbolic stand-in for a panorama of loss, either threatened or realized. Even for those without casualties in
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DeVos replaces Obama-era guidelines for handling sexual assault on campus Lauren Rosenblatt Tribune Washington Bureau (TNS)
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Education Sec. Betsy DeVos listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a strategic and policy discussion with CEOs.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Friday rescinded controversial Obama-era guidelines that had prodded colleges and universities to more aggressively — critics said too aggressively — investigate campus sexual assaults. The decision was not a surprise given DeVos’ past criticism of her predecessor’s policy. But it left women’s groups worried that victims of sexual assault will lose protections or face intimidation to remain silent. Supporters of DeVos said the change would lead to greater consideration of the rights of those accused of sexual assaults. The department said it was withdrawing the Obama administration’s policy — which had been spelled out in a 2011 letter — because of criticism that it placed too much pressure on school administrators, favored alleged victims and lacked due process for those accused. Obama’s Education secretary issued the guidelines
North Korea warns of ‘inevitable’ attack Barbara Demick and W.J. Hennigan Tribune Washington Bureau (TNS) North Korean foreign minister Ri Yong Ho warned Saturday that it is “inevitable” that his country will launch a missile toward the mainland United States in revenge for the insults President Donald Trump has directed at leader Kim Jong Un. “None other than Trump himself is on a suicide mission,” Ri said in a speech before the U.N. General Assembly — turning the tables on Trump’s accusation that Kim is suicidal. The insults make “our rocket’s visit to the entire U.S. mainland inevitable all the more.” On Tuesday, Trump had used the same forum to mock Kim as “Rocket Man” and warn that the U.S. would “totally destroy” North Korea if attacked. The mudslinging continued in the same vein in Ri’s speech. He taunted Trump as “President Evil” and called him a “mentally deranged person full of megalomania … who has turned the White House into a noisy marketplace full of crackling sounds.” Earlier in the day, the Pentagon announced that American bomber and fighter jets flew along North Korea’s eastern coastline in a predawn “show of force” that was closer to the rogue nation’s border than any other mission this century. Dana White, chief Pentagon spokeswoman, said in a statement Saturday
that U.S. B-1 bomber and F-15 fighter jets launched from airfields in the region and flew in international airspace over waters east of North Korea. “This mission is a demonstration of U.S. resolve and a clear message that the president has many military options to defeat any threat,” White said. “North Korea’s weapons program is a grave threat to the Asia-Pacific region and the entire international community.” The Pentagon issued several photos of the sleek fighter and bomber jets streaking across the darkened sky toward the Korean Peninsula. In his speech, which had been prepared in advance, Ri did not mention the flights, but he condemned tightened U.N. sanctions as “heinous and barbaric” and said they would not deter his country from developing nuclear weapons. “We are finally only a few steps away from the final gate of completion of the state nuclear force,” Ri said. Earlier in the week, Ri told reporters that North Korea could next conduct an atmospheric nuclear test over the Pacific — which would be a major escalation. All six of North Korea’s previous nuclear tests have been underground. No nation has conducted an atmospheric nuclear test since China in 1980. Although the hyperbolic volley of insults between the U.S. and North Korea leaders has been at times
under a federal law designed to prevent discrimination on the basis of sex and gender, known as Title IX, and indicated federal funding could be at risk if the department’s recommendations were not followed. “Those documents have led to the deprivation of rights for many students — both accused students denied fair process and victims denied an adequate resolution of their complaints,” the department’s acting assistant secretary for civil rights, Candice Jackson, said in a letter Friday. Advocates for victims complained that DeVos and the department had not spent enough time listening to survivors. “Survivors are now scared to utilize their schools’ process,” said Sage Carson, project manager for the advocacy organization Know Your IX. Carson, who is a survivor herself, said she would have dropped out of school after her assault if not for the Obama guidelines that ensured she didn’t have to see her respondent on campus. The decision to rescind those guidelines was alarming and made too quickly, she said.
Students come face to face with bats in their residential dorms in Hines Hall.
More than 50 students at Howard University in Washington protested former FBI Director James Comey’s convocation address to students Friday. After a delay, Comey delivered his speech and received a standing ovation. It was one of his few public appearances since he was fired by President Donald Trump in May. “Our country is going through one of those periods where we’re trying to figure out who we really are and what do we stand for,” Comey told the his-
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Bats make home in Hines hall
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Right on time for fall, bats have been utilizing buildings on campus to snuggle up into. Students and staff have witnessed these little creatures inside campus buildings and had various reactions. Late Thursday night on Sept. 20, Stephanie Bellovary, a sophomore here at ISU, and her floor mates, came face to face with a bat in Hines Hall. “I could hear something crawling above me in the ceiling tiles, and my first thought was that it must be a mouse or something,” said Bellovary. “The next thing I know, I hear screaming and shouting down the hall, ‘There’s a bat.’ I went next door to my floor mate’s room to see what was going on. Sure enough, there was a bat hanging by the ceiling tile. I was shocked but not
freaked out. I’m an animal lover.” Stephanie’s floor did the right thing by going to their RA to report the bat. “Eric had all of us evacuate the room, and he called some exterminator to come handle it,” said Bellovary. “He carefully grabbed the bat while wearing gloves and put it in a container to be released outside.” Bat researcher Tim Divoll explained some information about bats and why they get inside buildings. He has studied bats for ten years and is in his third year here at ISU working under Dr. Joy O’Keefe’s lab in the department of biology. He explained that the high buildings are perfect roost spots during the day. Roosting is when a bat hangs upside down. Tall, older buildings on campus, such as Hines, the science building and the HSMU, are the perfect
element for these mammals. In the fall time, bats are looking for warm, safe place to settle. They manage to get in through little cracks and crevices up high on the roofs of buildings. The reason a bat is found wandering inside is most likely because it has lost its way. “Bats use echolocation to get around,” said Divoll. “If a bat is in a room with no opening, the echolocation bounces off the walls, making it impossible to find a way out. All someone needs to do is open a door, preferably a window, and it will just fly out.” If the bat doesn’t make a move, it needs some guidance. Divoll explained what to do in this situation. “Just put on some gloves or use a towel to carefully place the bat in a box or a hat,” said Divoll. “Once outside, they need to crawl up before they fly. Or call the science department
torically black university. “It’s painful.” Before the event began, protesters shouted, “Get out James Comey! You’re not our homie!” Many waved fists and sang, “We Shall Not be Moved.” In response, Comey urged students to respect a back-and-forth dialogue. “I love the enthusiasm of the young folks. I just wish they would understand what a conversation is. A conversation is where you speak and I listen. And then I speak and you listen. And then we go back in forth,” he said. The demonstration was organized by the How-
ard University resistance movement, which formed last spring. “James Comey represents an institution diametrically opposed to the interests of Black people domestically and abroad,” the group said in a statement. In August, the university announced that Comey would deliver the convocation and five lectures on public policy during the school year. Comey said he would donate the $100,000 fee to a scholarship fund for students from foster homes. Comey is used to taking flak.
Democrats attacked him last year when he led an FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was secretary of state, and then reopened the investigation 11 days before the November election. No charges were filed against Clinton. Trump then attacked Comey, and ultimately fired him, for pursuing an FBI investigation into Russian meddling in the election. The dismissal ultimately led to appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, who has significantly expanded the investigation.
Former FBI Director James Comey testifies during a U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on Thursday, June 8, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
Pearl Bisesi Reporter
Protesters disrupt Comey’s speech at Howard University
Colleen Shalby Los Angeles Times (TNS)
The department released a new, temporary question-and-answer statement, replacing one issued by the Obama administration in 2014, to advise colleges and universities about how their responsibilities have changed. It emphasizes providing the same information, rights and opportunities to both parties in a sexual assault investigation. David P. Shapiro, a San Diego-based criminal defense attorney who has advocated for people accused of sexual assault, said he welcomed the changes as a way to consider everyone’s rights equally. “In order to beef up the protections for the accused, it doesn’t need to be at the expense of the accuser,” he said. Among other things, the new guidelines allow schools to facilitate an informal resolution process if both parties agree, rather than adjudicate every case, as previously required. The letter also rescinds any suggested timeline for investigations. The former guidance recommended
and one of us will take care of it.” Divoll explained that the bats that are rescued on campus are tagged with a band on their wing. Due to this tracking method, Divoll has noticed that it is not often that they find the same bats getting stuck in buildings. Divoll further explained this indicates that they are quite intelligent and remember where to avoid. The only danger when handling a bat is the potential of getting bitten. He explained that bats can carry rabies. This is why no one, not even specialists, should handle them without a barrier. Lucky for those who are not intrigued by these creatures, we will not see them by the time winter comes around. Bats go into hibernation, like bears and many other mammals.
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indianastatesman.com MEXICO FROM PAGE 1 their circle of family and friends, widely shared news of the rescue effort at the school provided a national commonality after the quake had robbed so many of any sense of safety and normality. Outside quake-wrecked buildings, successful rescues heartened everyone. Cheers erupted overnight at the site of a collapsed multistory office building in Mexico City’s Condesa neighborhood where rescuers pulled three people alive from the rubble, witnesses said. More were believed still trapped, authorities said. Shows of solidarity were everywhere. On Thursday
DEVOS FROM PAGE 2 schools reach a decision in about 60 days, something critics said put too much pressure on administrators, particularly in cases that involved scant or conflicting evidence. The guidelines still require each school to have a coordinator and to report all incidents of sexual assault. And the new guidance gives schools more flexibility in deciding what standard of evidence to apply in investigations. The previous guidelines suggested using a “preponderance of evidence,” meaning that decision-makers must only be more than 50 percent sure that an assault occurred. Critics said a higher standard should be used, such as “clear and convincing evidence” of an assault, which will now be an option. The guidelines also
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morning, volunteers armed with shovels lined up near the rescue site to relieve those who had been moving rubble all night. Other volunteers handed out coffee, sandwiches and chilaquiles — a popular Mexican breakfast dish — to dust-covered rescuers. A continual stream of cars pulled up at makeshift donation centers: ordinary people dropping off food, water, gloves, hard hats and protective face masks. President Enrique Pena Nieto, who has declared three days of national mourning, on Thursday paid a hospital visit to those injured in the quake. An elite team of disaster experts, including an
urban search and rescue team from the Los Angeles County Fire Department, landed in Mexico City to aid in relief efforts. The U.S. Agency for International Development reported the arrival of its Disaster Assistance Response Team, along with more than 60 firefighters and five highly trained dogs. The USAID team, requested by the Mexican government, will conduct damage assessments, search for victims and coordinate with local authorities and aid groups to bring assistance to those most affected. As dawn broke, rescue efforts pushed ahead in neighborhoods rich and poor. Hours earlier, in Condesa,
a woman’s faint voice could hardly be heard under a pile of rubble that had been her second-story apartment. Rescuers thought there could be up to four people under the collapsed ruins. Standing atop the building’s remains on Wednesday night, firefighters, soldiers and volunteers peeled back entire floors in slices, digging past people’s belongings: books, blankets, clothes, an ironing board. Couches and pillows went flying. The rescuers demanded silence. One of them stuck his head down into the void, calling for anyone there to answer if possible. But it was still too loud. Generators and vehicles were turned
off. Small chatter subsided. “We need absolute silence,” the worker said. “Please.” From a few dozen yards away, the voice sounded like a whisper. The rescuers waited. The trapped woman called to them again. People stood still, captivated. Some of them wept. A woman broke the silence, yelling over a megaphone: “She is Lorna. She’s on the second floor.” The woman said Lorna’s family was trying to call her. Seconds later, a phone chimed from inside the pile. After Lorna spoke, the workers quickened their pace, passing buckets of concrete down lines of volunteers to a truck for dis-
posal. A storm had come into the city around 7:30 p.m., pummeling the site with rain for several minutes. Thunder crackled, and lightning flashed. Later in the evening, a woman was pulled from the rubble along with two bodies. The woman was transported to a hospital. It was unclear if it was Lorna. At 5 a.m., rescuers recovered another body from the building: that of Gabriela Jaen Pimienta, 44 — found hugging her Chihuahua, also dead. She had lived on the fifth floor with her husband and daughter, who both survived the earthquake, said relatives who had kept a day-and-night vigil.
make the appeals process more flexible, allowing schools to decide if they will offer the option to appeal to both parties involved or just to the person who has been accused. “If a survivor goes through a process and feels the outcome is unjust, they don’t have any options,” said Neena Chaudhry, director of education and senior counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. Although the department rescinded existing guidelines, schools are still able to use their system in place if they choose, and it is expected many will. Chaudhry said that is the “most legally sound way to move forward” since the laws behind the original guidance are still in place. Advocates are hopeful student activism, which is largely credited with putting pressure on the Obama administration to more strongly enforce pro-
tections for survivors, will encourage schools to continue following the 2011 guidance on a voluntary basis. Some of those accused of sexual assaults have complained that the system was stacked against them, often leading to disciplinary action or even expulsion. Robert Shibley, executive director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which advocates for people accused of sexual assault, said the new guidelines were more “conscious” of due-process rights than previously. It gives more freedom to colleges, he said, to focus on being fair to all students. “Colleges should be accountable to their students and faculty members, and justify — if they’re going to deny someone a protection — why it’s better that they shouldn’t have that protection,” he said.
“It was good to see the department give some guidance as to individual due process protections.” The revised guidelines are only temporary, as the department collects comment from the public and continues to meet with groups from all sides of the debate before issuing final guidance after the formal review period. The 2011 and 2014 guidance did not go through a notice and comment process, which many say led to confusion about how to properly follow the suggestions. Echoing what she said at a conference earlier this month to announce the formal review process, DeVos said in a statement Friday: “The era of rule by letter is over.” ——— (Los Angeles Times staff writers Teresa Watanabe and Rosanna Xia in Los Angeles contributed
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“I’m nervous,” said Sue Mi Terry, a former CIA Korea analyst. “Kim Jong Un is known to be paranoid and thin-skinned.” She said Trump has laid down his challenge in a way that will make it difficult for the North Koreans to back down. “I’m a hard-liner too when it comes to North Korea,” she added, “but you have to give them a way out. There is no path. This is a dangerous game to be playing.” ——— (Demick is a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times and Hennigan is a staff writer for the Tribune Washington Bureau)
comical — the stilted North Korean rhetoric is easy to ridicule — the exchange is setting nerves on edge. Kim Jong Un this week took to North Korean television to deliver a denunciation of Trump, whom he called a “dotard.” Trump tweeted a fresh attack against Kim on Friday night, calling him a “madman who doesn’t mind starving or killing his people.” The Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, complained that Trump and Kim are behaving like “children in a kindergarten.”
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle is finally out A.J. Goelz Reporter
The long awaited “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” has finally been released. This film is the sequel to the 2014 hit “Kingsman: The Secret Service.” “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” hits the ground running. The opening scene is an action scene, and an intense one at that. Eggsy, played by Taron Egerton, is confronted outside the tailor shop by failed Kingsman recruit Charlie Hesketh, played by Edward Holcroft. Eggsy is forced into the back of a taxi where a fight between the two breaks out. As with every fight in this film, this fight is perfectly choreographed, the music is coordinated perfectly and is shot perfectly. Slow motion is overused quite a bit in this film, but this is a minor issue. With the help of Merlin, played by Mark Strong, Eggsy is able to get away unscathed but is unaware that Charlie was able to gain access to the Kingsman system. It is soon revealed that Charlie is working for the drug lord Poppy Adams, played by Julianne Moore. Using the information gained from the Kingsman sys-
Research exhibits the history of international students
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Taron Egerton stars in Twentieth Century Fox’s “Kingsman: The Golden Circle,” also starring Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Channing Tatum, Mark Strong, Elton John, Halle Berry and Jeff Bridges.
tem, Poppy launches missiles at all Kingsman residences and their headquarters. The only Kingsman agents to survive are Eggsy and Merlin. They soon discover the existence of a similar organization to
the Kingsman in America, the Statesman. With the Statesman’s help, Eggsy embarks on a mission to save the world that is filled with betrayal, loss and the return of an old friend.
The film has a much deeper narrative than its predecessor. The first film was structured well and made perfect sense, but was more about the action than making an emotional connection. “The Golden Circle” mixes the two sides. At its base, “The Golden Circle” is still an action movie, but finds a way to tell a complex narrative. This is something that is lacking in most action films. The film has an interesting pace. It starts sprinting right out the gate. There is no preamble, it just kicks off with a fight from the start before slowing down. In most cases, the films’ pace grows steadily before reaching its climax, then slows down a little at the end. “The Golden Circle” finds a way to speed up and slow down its pace at will and never feels uneven. This could be because the film does not waste a single scene. Every scene fills out the plot or adds to the characters, new and old. The first film was a spoof of classic spy flicks, more specifically the Bond films. “The Golden Circle” takes a step beyond that by finding its own voice. The film has heart and a Scottish man singing “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” What could beat that?
Ian Bonner-Swedish Reporter
The history of the international student population at ISU is being researched to show the university’s commitment to diversity and inclusion. Research assistant in the history department, Crystal Reynolds, hopes to ensure the history of international students is not taken for granted. Reynolds’s research will be shown in kiosk-like panels sponsored in part by ISU’s Sesquicentennial Committee detailing the history of diversity at Indiana State University. With the help of Kinsey Norman, student graphic designer for Multimedia Services, a kiosk highlighting the history of ISU’s international students and their stories that is currently on display at ISU’s library. Reynolds’s interest in international students began with a photo taken in 1954. The photo showed rows of international students. Many of these students came from Hawaii before it became a state. Yusuf Qutub, a Middle Eastern student in the photo, founded ISU’s International Relations Club. Reynolds had the opportunity to reach out to nearly everyone in the photo, and she is determined to show the stories of these students and ISU’s diverse history. “It was just a picture,” Reynolds said. “No words, no names. I was researching something else and I thought, ‘who are these people? Why were they there?’ So I found out their names and I talked to them and that’s what sparked my interest in the international experience at State.” The project to reveal the history of international students at ISU became a four-year journey that is sure to be of high reward to the community. Reynolds plans to continue as she has only scratched the surface. “What the history says is that we have been in the business of educating all, and we continue to do that,” Reynolds said. “We have proven that we have a really good education at an affordable price, and we are welcoming everybody. Asians and Middle Easterners—especially Middle Easterners—they can
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Minnesota professor explores link between philosophy and Lego Richard Chin
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (TNS)
All in all, it’s not just another brick in the toy chest. At least that’s the conclusion you might reach after reading a new book coedited by University of Minnesota philosophy professor Roy T. Cook titled “LEGO and Philosophy: Constructing Reality Brick by Brick.” Cook and co-editor Sondra Bacharach, a senior lecturer in philosophy at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, recruited a bunch of other deep thinkers to write about issues raised by the venerable plastic building blocks. Nearly 100 people responded to the call for essays, 21 of which are in the book. The essayists, many of them fellow philosophy professors, dove into issues about Lego and gender stereotypes, Lego and ethics, Lego and the nature of impermanence, Lego and German philosopher Martin Heidegger, Lego and autonomy and the human individual (Lego my ego?). Cook was the right man to edit the book because, while his day job involves thinking about the philosophical facets of paradoxes, in his free time, he’s a Lego master builder with a collection of more than 3 million Lego pieces in his Minneapolis home. He was commissioned to do large-scale Lego models of the Minnesota State Capitol and the Cathedral of St. Paul. He built a 45,000-piece Lego version of the Split Rock Lighthouse that is on display at that site on the North Shore. Cook said “it took a good bit of convincing” to get publisher John Wiley & Sons to accept
Aaron Lavinsky | Minneapolis Star Tribune | TNS
Roy Cook holds two Lego figurines, which he says “show the complex representations of blackness in Lego.” The Lego on the left shows a “black skin tone in a world where their (skin tones) are all the same,” he said at the University of Minnesota.
the idea of a book about Lego in its Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series. But he and Bacharach argue that, strictly speaking, Lego isn’t a toy. It’s a physical and storytelling medium. Yes, the pieces can be used to build a toy. But people also have used the bricks to assemble desks, make full-sized houses, even create a prosthetic leg. The plastic bricks are “a medium through which ideas can be expressed,” according to one essay in the book. And those plastic bricks have built the world’s largest toy manufacturer, a “transgen-
erational multimedia empire” spanning animated television shows, feature films, theme parks, adult fan conventions, an educational robotics program, team-building workshops for businesses, a clothing line and an endowed professorship at Cambridge University. The Lego world is an idealistic place where everything seems awesome, “a fundamentally optimistic medium,” where the name of the company comes from the Danish words meaning “play well,” according to Cook and his fellow philosophers.
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How to make the best brownies ever Noelle Carter
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
There’s nothing like the sight of a freshly baked batch of brownies. And not just for those of us with a sweet tooth. Most people — well, the fun ones — are brownie fans, which is why we see them everywhere, from potlucks to office parties, birthdays to school lunches. Rich to the hilt and unapologetically messy, a great brownie is savored slowly, with your eyes closed. And while there may be no such thing as a “bad” brownie, the best ones are truly memorable. Chocolate, butter, sugar, flour and eggs, mixed together and baked in a pan. Simple as they may appear, there is a definite chemistry behind a great brownie recipe. “When we teach brownies, we always talk about listening and paying attention to the recipe,” says Clemence Gossett, co-owner of
the Gourmandise School of Sweets & Savories in Santa Monica. The ratio of each component, the quality of ingredients, and the method by which they are combined and baked can make a good brownie even better. Over the last few weeks, I tested close to a dozen brownie recipes from a variety of sources both old and new. Some recipes call for chocolate, others use cocoa powder — and still others incorporate both. And while recipes vary in the amounts of butter and sugar they use, one of the biggest variables is flour, with older recipes calling for a larger ratio of flour to other ingredients, making for a more “cake-like” brownie. Newer recipes have reduced flour, some to the point of almost eliminating it, resulting in more fudge-like brownies. CHOCOLATE RULES For award-winning cookbook author and baker Alice Medrich,
it’s all about the chocolate. “Most recipes, if you go back and look at older American cookbooks, it’s all unsweetened chocolate,” says Medrich, a longtime chocolate authority and widely credited with introducing the chocolate truffle to the United States. “That’s what we had in the grocery store when I was growing up. Even if there was a bar of semisweet out there, nobody made brownies out of it.” Medrich credits much of the brownie evolution to the increased availability of different kinds and percentages of chocolate in the ‘90s. And as variety improved, so did the quality of chocolate. Medrich notes that her cookbook, “Bittersweet,” was the first of its kind to discuss chocolate percentages, how to use them, and their effect in recipes. “I wanted to celebrate all those choices,” she says. “Bittersweet” includes several recipes for brownies including some that use unsweetened, bittersweet and
semisweet chocolates. While changing the type of chocolate will affect the chemistry of delicate dishes such as a chocolate mousse, brownies are much more forgiving. “It’s going to affect the sweetness of the brownie,” she says. “But brownies are not so finicky that you still won’t get something edible and maybe even delicious.” When it comes to a chocolate bar versus chips, the two are not interchangeable. Chocolate chips have extra wax added to them so they hold their shape during baking and they won’t make for a smooth and even chocolate if substituted for bar chocolate. People used to think that cocoa brownies were second-rate because cocoa wasn’t as luxurious or wonderful as chocolate, Medrich notes. But if you have the right recipe, a cocoa brownie can be fantas-
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indianastatesman.com LEGO FROM PAGE 4 The company doesn’t shy away from politics. Lego farm sets are environmentally friendly and vegetarian, where slaughterhouses, “concentrated animal feeding operations,” “toxic lagoons of feces” and “impoverished immigrant farmworkers” do not exist. Lego has avoided depicting guns or other modern weaponry in its kits. And it was one of the first toymakers to promote gender equality, according to an essay co-authored by Bacharach. “The urge to create is equally strong in all children. Boys and
Monday, Sept. 25, 2017 • Page 5 girls,” it said in a 1974 pamphlet. In 2014, it launched a Lego set featuring female scientist figurines. Yet, some Lego sets have been criticized for promoting gender stereotypes of girls and women. And the company was bashed in a viral Greenpeace video for links to the Shell oil company. “We really seem to hold Lego to a higher standard,” Cook said. In his essay for the book, Cook takes on the thorny issue of race. Lego created a “racially idealized” world when it issued its “minifigures” in 1978, where every figure had a smiley face and bright yellow skin.
“Race (as well as gender and other differences) was erased via the creation of a uniformly bright-yellow-skinned world where minifigures could not be distinguished or discriminated against based on the color of their ABS plastic skins. Or, at least, that was the intention,” according to Cook. Things started to get more complicated in 1999, when Lego produced a “Star Wars” licensed theme set. Fans noticed that there wasn’t a Lando Calrissian minifigure. Billy Dee Williams, an African-American actor, played that character.
HISTORY FROM PAGE 4 come here and be treated fairly. That’s not true everywhere. There are some schools that are not as accepting or as welcoming of international students. We are welcoming and offer an affordable college with great professors.” After this stage of her project, Reynolds plans to release the history of Hispanic and Latino students at ISU on Oct. 11 at a panel presentation from 2 to 4 p.m. in the library. Reynolds said they are hosting this event during a time where the national dialogue has been negative towards Hispanics and Latinos.
Reynolds wrote a book on the Asian and African American history at ISU. It is available through the author. Reynolds is currently a researcher and contributor for the History of ISU Book Project with Dr. Dan Clark. Reynolds’ work does not begin and end with her. Reynolds has high hopes that the future begins with students, and that the students will never let the history of ISU fall into obscurity. “ Don’t take the school, or the education, or the experience for granted. You’re in a really good place. You’re in a place that has a history of progressiveness and diversity,” Reynolds said.
TRIPLE-CHOCOLATE BROWNIES
1 hour, plus chilling and cooling times. Makes about 3 dozen brownies. 1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) butter 2 cups (14 ounces) granulated sugar 1 1/3 cups (4 1/4 ounces) cocoa 2 ounces cream cheese, cut into small pieces 4 eggs 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup (4 1/4 ounces) flour 8 ounces chopped bittersweet chocolate, divided 1 1/3 cups coarsely chopped toasted walnuts (optional) 2 tablespoons powdered sugar 1/4 cup heavy cream, warmed 1. Line a 13-inch by 9-inch baking pan with foil. Lightly grease the foil. Triple-Chocolate Brownies.
BROWNIE FROM PAGE 4 tic, “partly because of the cocoa, and partly because of the drama of the crustiness on top and the gooey center.” If there is leavening in the recipe, the type of cocoa matters (baking soda requires natural cocoa). Otherwise, use any type of cocoa you want. If you make two batches of the same brownie, one using Dutch process and one with a natural cocoa, the Dutch process might look more appealing because it’s darker. The natural will appear lighter and slightly more reddish. “But close your eyes and taste,” says Medrich. “I personally think the one with natural cocoa will have a lot more ‘chocolate’ flavor, but the room may divide.”
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Also keep in mind that you can’t just substitute cocoa powder for bar chocolate. Bar chocolate includes cocoa butter and sugar, whereas cocoa powder does not. You’ll find cocoa-based brownie recipes tend to have much more butter and sugar to compensate for this. “One other thing I find really helpful is that I never use vanilla extract in my brownies,” says Gossett. “I don’t do that in my cookies either.” All chocolate, except for cocoa powder, contains vanilla, Gossett explains. When you add vanilla extract, you get vanilla in both the batter or dough, as well as the chocolate, which mutes the chocolate flavor. “In brownies, you really want the flavor of chocolate to pop,” she says.
2. In a heavy-bottom saucepan, combine the butter and sugar over low heat, stirring frequently until the butter is fully melted to form a smooth syrup. Stir in the cocoa and remove from heat. 3. Remove the mixture to a large bowl. Stir in the cream cheese, pressing any bits against the bowl to smooth them out and incorporate into the mixture. Add the eggs, one at a time, until fully combined, then stir in the salt. Add the flour and stir vigorously until the flour is fully incorporated and pulls away from the sides of the bowl. 4. Stir in 6 ounces chopped chocolate, along with the nuts, if using. Spread the mixture into the prepared pan. Cover and refrigerate until well-chilled, preferably overnight, before baking. 5. Heat the oven to 325 degrees and place a rack on the lower third of the oven. Uncover the brownies and bake just until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out slightly moist, 35 to 40 minutes. Remove from heat and cool completely on a rack. 6. Remove the foil-lined brownies from the pan and spread the foil out on all sides to form a border around the brownies (this will keep your countertop clean as you decorate). Lightly cover the cooled brownies with powdered sugar. 7. Over a double boiler, or using a microwave-safe container, melt the remaining 2 ounces chocolate. Stir in the cream to form a ganache. Place the ganache in a piping bag, or a sealable plastic bag with one of the corners snipped off, and drizzle the ganache over the brownies. Cut and serve immediately. The brownies will keep, covered and refrigerated, for up to 1 week.
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Tax bill movement detected, can Republicans get something done? Jonathan Bernstein Bloomberg View (TNS)
Tuesday was a busy day for the upcoming tax bill, but Republicans are moving in different directions, so it’s hard to say whether it moved forward or backward. Senate budget committee Republicans moved closer to agreeing to the tax provisions of a budget resolution. In order to use reconciliation procedures and therefore need only a simple majority in the Senate, Republicans will have to pass their months-overdue budget. Without it, 60 votes would be needed to defeat a filibuster. So movement on a budget resolution is progress toward a Republican-only bill, which presumably would be more of a tax cut than reform. But the Trump administration began expressing support for a bipartisan bill, signaling the White House may change course and oppose any cuts for wealthy taxpayers, including backing off from the elimination of the estate tax. A bipartisan bill wouldn’t necessarily be tax reform — it could just be a middle-class tax cut. But any real reform would almost have to be bipartisan. Meanwhile, some Republican fundraisers are reported to be making passage of tax and health care bills as conditions for big money funding of Republican 2018 campaigns. It isn’t clear exactly what kind of tax bill would make donors happy, but it would be surprising if rich donors were happy without sharing in tax cuts. The starting point for all of this is the same for every administration: tax reform is hard, tax cuts are easy. Tax reform — eliminating tax preferences in exchange for lower overall rates — is extremely difficult because it balances very visible harm for a relatively small number of people with small, hardto-see benefits spread out over everyone. The benefit of tax reform, at least in
theory, is that a more efficient tax code will both save on the dead loss of tax preparation, and more generally will produce slightly better economic growth. That’s a big deal, if true, but it’s also almost invisible. On the other hand, the costs are concentrated and obvious. For example, eliminating the deduction for state and local taxes is a large, tangible blow to those in high-taxation states; eliminating the mortgage interest deduction is a large, tangible blow to homeowners, and so on. Not to mention the tax preparation industry, which of course has its own force of lobbyists! If there’s one thing that the American Madisonian political system is good at doing, it’s protecting intense minorities — especially those with political resources — from indifferent majorities. Tax cuts, on the other hand, are relatively easy because they produce visible benefits to people while any costs remain theoretical and hidden. Indeed, Republicans argue that there are no costs to tax cuts. Whether that is true or not, however, it remains the case that even when cuts don’t poll well there will still be a relatively intense minority — those getting substantial tax relief — who will favor the cuts. Even if tax cuts poll badly, it’s unlikely any majority against cuts would be fully engaged. People flood congressional phone lines when they are afraid of personally losing something (such as their own health care coverage, as has been the case during the Obamacare repeal saga), not when they fear that someone else will get something. The complication here is that Democrats oppose tax cuts, because few of their constituents believe they would benefit. That forces the Republican majority to either pass cuts using reconciliation or commit to real tax reform. The latter,
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From left, San Francisco 49ers’ Eli Harold (58), quarterback Colin Kaepernick (7) and Eric Reid (35) kneel during the national anthem before their NFL game against the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016 in Santa Clara, Calif.
Trump tackles pro football
Joe Lippard
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President Donald Trump seems to have been busy this weekend tackling the terrible foe of professional football. It started last Friday when Trump was giving a speech at a rally for Alabama Senate candidate Luther Strange. During his speech, he turned to the topic of pro football, saying, “Luther and I and everyone in this arena tonight are unified by the same great American values. We’re proud of our country. We respect our flag. Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a b---- off the field right now, out, he’s fired, he’s fired.’” He then said that any NFL team owner who fired any players who dared to kneel during the anthem would “be the most popular person for a week, they’ll be the most popular person in this country because that’s a total disrespect of our heritage, that’s a total disrespect of everything that we stand for, OK? Everything that we stand for.” He then went on a tirade against football referees, saying that they were “ruining the game” before saying that players
who kneeled during the anthem were “hurting the game more than that.” On Sunday Trump tweeted, “If NFL fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag & Country, you will see change take place fast. Fire or suspend!” First of all, I vehemently disagree with the president straight up telling owners of private franchises who to fire. The president has no business doing that, in my opinion. I feel like people would have been upset had Obama suggested the same thing. On top of that, the First Amendment gives citizens the right to free speech and the right to protest. The President of the United States is calling for people exercising their First Amendment rights to be punished for exercising those rights. Trump has previously said that he “loves” the First Amendment. At the Conservative Political Actions Conference in February, Trump said, “I love the First Amendment. Nobody loves it better than me. Nobody. I mean, who uses it more than I do?” On Jan. 22, Trump tweeted, “Peaceful protests are a hallmark of our democracy. Even if I don’t always agree, I recognize the rights of people to express their views.” It would appear that his position on this has changed. The NFL released a statement in response to Trump’s comments, saying, “Divisive comments like these demonstrate an unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL, our great game and all of our players, and a failure to understand the overwhelming force for good our clubs
and players represent in our communities.” The NFL Players Association said that it “will never back down” from protecting NFL players who protest. Finally, on Sunday, at the game between the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Baltimore Ravens, multiple players knelt during the national anthem. Others, including Jaguars owner Shad Khan, locked arms in solidarity as well. I have to commend the people from both teams who showed solidarity with their teammates. I’m sure it couldn’t have been easy after the president had levied so many complaints against them, even with their organization’s support. I don’t even think that kneeling during the anthem is even disrespectful. They aren’t causing a commotion. They aren’t flagrantly screaming that they hate America. They’re quietly kneeling (something many people loved Tim Tebow for when he would pray after touchdowns) when the common convention is to stand. Unconventionality isn’t disrespect. At this point, I think that players kneeling to protest during the anthem has evolved from a protest against police brutality into a protest against a man who has disrespected them. I don’t necessarily disagree with either one. Police brutality is something that I would protest as well. And this particular instance is one of the current president trying to force a political position on an entire organization by forcing them to stand for the anthem, and in that process taking away their freedom to protest. I simply think that is wrong.
The three types of single-payer ‘concern trolls’ Adam H. Johnson
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
With momentum building for single-payer health care among Democratic voters and a growing number of 2020 hopefuls, Sen. Bernie Sanders unveiled a “Medicare for All” bill last week. Immediately, a number of pundits denounced the legislation as an “unrealistic” “bloated” “disaster” full of “magic math.” Some of the naysayers are conservatives who simply abhor “big government.” Some have perfectly valid reasons to question the merits of single payer in general or Sanders’ methods in particular. Yet others claim they support universal health care in theory (one day, perhaps) but cannot do so now because of a “concern.” They are “concern trolls” — broadly defined as “a person who disingenuously expresses concern about an issue with the intention of undermining or derailing genuine discussion.” —The nuance troll: ‘We need more de-
tails!’ Less than 24 hours after the bill’s introduction, New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait lamented that the bill gets America “zero percent” closer to single payer. While saying he agrees with single payer in theory, he insisted that the 155 million Americans who already have health care represent an insuperable barrier, and that the issue of how to move them all to a government-run system “is not a detail to be worked out. It is the entire problem.” As he noted, Lyndon Johnson failed and Hillary Clinton failed and Barack Obama failed to undo the private system. So why bother? It’s too hard; everyone go home. Nuance trolling is argument by way of tautology, an attempt to pass off power-serving defeatism as savvy pragmatism. Nuance trolls simply cannot envision a bold legislative movement to alter the system. Even if Sanders did lay out how a single-payer transition would work in a technical sense, nuance trolls would find
other nits to pick. Where would the money come from? How would you manage all the corporations disturbed? There’s always some essential detail that needs solving before Senate Democrats earn the right to support a bold policy. And if the demand for nuance seems reasonable enough, consider that pundits rarely require it when it comes to military interventions — Chait and others set this issue aside when it came to invading Iraq in 2003, for instance. The idea at the time was: This is an urgent threat, we will rush to solve it and sort out the details later. With an estimated 45,000 people dying a year because of a lack of health care and almost half of the money raised on GoFundMe used to pay medical bills, we must ask: How is this crisis any less urgent? — The deficit troll: ‘How do you pay for it?’ Of all the water-muddying tactics, this one is the easiest to set aside. Deficit scare-mongering is used, almost exclu-
sively, as a bludgeon to smear progressive policy proposals. When it comes to launching wars or bailing out banks, these fears vanish. Articles in The Washington Post, Vox and Think Progress all asked how Sanders’ single-payer bill would be “paid for,” yet not a single one of those outlets asked the same question the day after the Senate signed a $700 billion military spending bill, an increase of roughly 13 percent from 2017. (That $80 billion increase alone could cover 2017-2018 tuition for every student at a 4-year state university in the country.) Money for war is magically always there; money for health care must be counted bean by bean. — The feasibility troll: ‘What about the GOP?’ Many pundits seem to believe that leftist politicians must pre-emptively agree internally to some assumed compromise that is “practical” even before attempting
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TROLLS FROM PAGE 6 to change the conversation, much less the law. Thus feasibility trolls argue that GOP opposition to government-run health insurance renders futile any such proposal. That’s ahistorical. Maximalist demands aren’t all or nothing, they’re about establishing broad moral goals that people can rally around. Indeed, the tea party movement pro-
vided a clear counterexample to conventional wisdom. It routinely held “unrealistic” positions such as shutting down the entire U.S. government and establishing a 14.5 percent flat tax, but nonetheless went on to help the GOP net 900 seats nationwide as well as the White House and both houses of Congress. To have seen this play out and still conclude that maximalism can’t work is perplexing. Progressives lose nothing by
tivists in the South risked going “too far, too fast.” Give it more time. We need more details. Who will pay for it? All meaningful changes to society have been met with these types of objections. But the game of politics isn’t won by waiting for the ideal. Its most successful actors establish a moral goal and fight for it until reality catches up to them.
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BILL FROM PAGE 6 of course, is an unappealing option because it would mean a lot of work with little incentive to do so and a real chance of failure. So it’s no surprise that Senate Budget Committee Republicans are heading toward large tax cuts. And yet, easy as it is, we’ve seen these Republicans attempt to legislate before, and it wasn’t pretty. Consider their ongoing fiasco with health care. Or, for that matter, their inability to pass a budget resolution back in the spring, when it was due. After all, this is so far a historically unproductive Congress given the partisan context of a newly unified government. That’s where the White House contribution is particularly unhelpful. If they’re basically passing large tax cuts — and that’s certainly what the donors want — then it’s going to include at least something for the rich. Indeed, for most Republicans, that’s the whole point! Whether because they just want to reward their supporters, or because they sincerely believe that tax relief for rich people (directly, or through corporate tax cuts) is best for everyone. Congressional Republicans will probably treat the White House as a paper tiger, and just assume that Trump will sign whatever tax cut Republicans place on his desk. That’s probably a fairly safe assumption. But whether they can actually get this done? That’s anyone’s guess.
setting bold targets right out of the gate. Why not make every Republican lawmaker go back to his or her constituents in 2018 and explain opposition to free health care? Force the issue, shift the debate, just as the far right has been doing for years. President Eisenhower — an early practitioner of concern trolling — told the New York Times in 1957 that he supported integration “in principle” but said ac-
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Aaron Hernandez found to have CTE and early brain atrophy Nathan Fenno
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Tight end Aaron Hernandez (81) of the New England Patriots scores on the opening drive of the second half in Super Bowl XLVI against the New York Giants at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Ind. Hernandez was found hanged in his prison cell Wednesday morning, officials said.
Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, who killed himself in April while serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, has been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, Boston University’s CTE Center announced Thursday. Hernandez died at age 27 and is one of the youngest former NFL players known to have the devastating neurodegenerative disease. Led by Dr. Ann McKee, the center found that Hernandez had Stage 3 CTE. Stage 4 is the most serious. A post-mortem examination also found that he had “early brain atrophy” and “large perforations” on a central membrane in his brain.
The disease is associated with “aggressiveness, impulsivity, depression, memory loss and other cognitive changes,” the center said. Hernandez was convicted in 2015 in the murder of Odin Lloyd. In 2017, he was acquitted in a double-homicide case. Five days after that, he hung himself in his prison cell. A study published earlier this year in the Journal of the American Medical Association found 110 of 111 brains of former NFL players studied showed signs of CTE. Pro Football Hall of Famers Frank Gifford, Junior Seau and Mike Webster are among the former players to be diagnosed with the disease. CTE can only be definitively diagnosed after death. Hernandez played 38 regular-season games over three seasons for the Patriots.
Former Dodger Raul Mondesi sentenced to eight years in Dominican prison Bill Shaikin
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
In 2009, when Raul Mondesi was running for mayor of his Dominican Republic hometown of San Cristobal, his appeal to voters appeared to center on his fame as a former Dodgers star. In a visit to San Cristobal during the campaign, Times staff writer Kevin Baxter wrote of Mondesi: “The closest he comes to a campaign pledge is repeating a desire to build a basketball court in every neighborhood.” The story is worth a read, because Mondesi is neither the first nor the last politician to capitalize on fame and fortune with little grasp of complex issues and how to solve them. We can say this much: Mondesi was elected, and his political life did not end well. On Wednesday, Mondesi was sentenced to eight years in prison and fined 60 million pesos (approximately $1.3 million) for corruption, including the misuse of 300 million pesos in public funds, according to Dominican news reports. Mondesi also was prohibited from holding public office for 10 years. His
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six-year term as mayor expired last year; he had been under house arrest since February. Mondesi, 46, played 13 years in the major leagues, the first seven with the Dodgers. He won the National League rookie of the year award in 1994, an outfielder with the ability to hit for average and power, blessed with speed and an
exceptionally strong arm. He was a two-time Gold Glove winner. He played 1,525 games in the major leagues but never appeared in the World Series. His son, Raul Jr., an infielder with the Kansas City Royals, was the first player to make his major league debut in the World Series.
Sycamores outlasts Purple Aces in back-and-forth 5-set thriller Jay Adkins Reporter
In the Missouri Valley Conference opener, the Indiana State Sycamores defeated the Evansville Purple Aces in the most intense and exciting game so far this season. Both teams came into the match with losing streaks and were looking to prove themselves. The game was a backand-forth affair all day, with no team winning consecutive sets. Evansville got out to an early lead, winning the first set 31-29. Indiana State followed that up by coming back and winning the second set 2516. The Purple Aces would end up winning the third set 25-9 and looked like they were well on their way to winning to the fourth set when junior outside hitter Laura Gross caught fire and led the Sycamores to a furious comeback in the fourth set, with Indiana State win-
ning the set 25-23. The fifth and final set would end up being the most intense of them all, drawing many passionate and spirited responses from the crowd in the bleachers. Players from both teams were going all out and putting their bodies on the line, diving onto the hardwood floor and nearly crashing into their benches. At the end of it all, the Indiana State Sycamores ended up sliding past the Evansville Purple Aces in the fifth set 16-14 and winning the match 3-2. Laura Gross led the Sycamores with 16 kills and 20 digs in the game while also recording her ninth double-double of the season. Sophomore middle blocker Cassie Kawa was second in kills for Indiana State, finishing with 11 kills on 23 swings for an efficient .348 attacking percentage. The Sycamores also had solid contributions from freshman outside hitter Nikkie White (9 kills, 5
digs), senior outside hitter Sarah Peterson (8 kills, 12 digs), sophomore middle hitter Alex Toombes (5 kills), and senior setter Rachel Griffin (48 assists). Although they fell short, The Purple Aces got a double-double performance out of sophomore outside hitter Rachel Tam (18 kills, 11 digs) while also getting significant contributions from senior middle blocker Cathy Schreiber (19 kills, 3 digs), junior right side hitter/outside hitter Rocio Fortuny (12 kills, 4 digs) and freshman right side hitter/middle blocker Adeline Payne (6 kills, 2 digs). The Purple Aces move to 6-7 on the season (0-1 in MVC) and face the Illinois State Redbirds at home on Monday, while the Indiana State Sycamores move to 3-10 on the season (1-0 in MVC) and look to continue winning when they face the 7-9 Bradley Braves at the ISU arena on Monday. The game starts at 7 p.m.