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ISU police are working with Terre Haute Police Department to stop out-of-control parties that have taken place in neighborhoods near campus.
Large parties cause ISU, local police to expand patrols Ashton Hensley Reporter
To contain out-of-control parties, combined patrols of the Indiana State University and Terre Haute police began this weekend. This new strategy was decided upon after the fourth out-of-control party this semester was busted on Sept. 17 at N. 8th street. The press release from Ryan Adamson of the Terre Haute police department said that there were 200 to 300 young adults present. “Once police arrived, individuals fled the area while some threw bottles at ISU and THPD squad cars,” Adamson said. John Plasse, the chief of the THPD, explained that this incident is still under in-
vestigation, and more information will be released later. Adamson explained that the ISUPD and the THPD met to discuss strategies to reduce shootings as well as the out-of-control parties. “Beginning this weekend, both departments will be conducting joint patrols in addition to regular patrols to prevent these large parties and related violence from occurring,” Adamson said. Adamson said that they will be looking out for the people who are hosting these kinds of parties that are a disturbance to neighbors and a danger to attendees. “The dangers of hosting these parties are
twofold,” said Plasse. “There are criminal penalties as well as civil penalties. Criminal penalties would include arrest, jail time, probation and fines. Civil penalties would include state and federal lawsuits that may be filed by any person injured at a party.” Plasse defined what an out-of-control party is and what could warrant a visit from the police. “Out-of-control parties would include, but not be limited to, those where individuals attending are behaving in a reckless manner, fighting and underage drinking are occurring, illegal drugs being used and attendees shooting at each other,” Plasse said. Plasse explained that the first joint patrols
conducted this weekend were successful in ensuring the safety of the community. “This is the first weekend since school has been back in session that we have not had a disturbance due to a fight and no shots were fired, as well as no shooting victims,” Plasse said. Plasse said that the ISUPD and the THPD work together on a daily basis backing each other up on calls and sharing information for investigations. “We have a long history of working well together on community issues to make Indiana State University and Terre Haute a safer place to live, go to school and raise a family,” Plasse said.
Organization discusses topic of food insecurity Ian Bonner-Swedish Reporter
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United Campus Ministries sponsors the campus food pantry.
Food insecurity affects many world-wide, but others might not realize how much of a problem it truly is. The United States has pushed to tackle this issue, but Bread for the World came to United Campus Ministries to speak with the local chapter on how it is at risk. Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program is a partial solution; it only covers some of the food needs of families, and the rest is supplemented with food pantries. The legislation currently in office, however, plans to eventually render the SNAP program obsolete. The current “resolution” is to cut $150 billion. Dave Miner, a grassroots leader with Bread for the World, is seriously concerned for the future of the impoverished. According
to Miner, there are 160,000 more people impoverished than when the recession started. Cutting the program would eliminate 10 million meals a year. Miner feels there are many opponents to the high budget, but they don’t see that people are not on SNAP because they wish to be. To call attention to the problem, he hopes that people will realize that it isn’t only adults that are using SNAP; it is kids. Often these families end up with nutritional shortcomings due to the partiality of SNAP. Miner came with the thought to urge members of the chapter to reach out to legislators such as Todd Young, Joe Donnelly and Larry Bucshon, but students can also contribute. Suggested ideas include writing to elected officials and more creative options, such as a flash mob or pub-
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New Graduate RN Hiring Fair Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017, 2-8 p.m. Professional Office Building, 3rd floor Be sure to apply online before you come! Just visit:
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Healthier, together. For more information contact, Healthcare Recruiter, Peg Hill, at 812.238.7241 or mhill@uhhg.org.
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Annual event offers students opportunities to learn about studying abroad.
Study Abroad Fair returns to campus A.J. Goelz Reporter
On Thursday, the Center for Global Engagement will be hosting their annual Study Abroad Fair in Dede II in the Hulman Memorial Student Union. The Study Abroad Fair is an event that happens every fall, according to Education Abroad Program Director Kristi Barley. “We have our partner schools, which we have a direct relationship with, and affiliate programs come from all over the world. We have, currently, 350 universities in 60 different countries,” Barley said. She added that not every school will be represented at the fair, but recruitment tables will be set up for these absent schools. There will be former study abroad students at the fair for students to speak to. “We have former study abroad students serving as our study abroad ambassadors. There’s nobody better, here on
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NEWS ‘Still a Muslim ban’ — opponents vow to
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John Wilder, background, welcomes Muslims to the United States at the Tom Bradley International Terminal of LAX.
Advocates for immigrants Monday condemned the latest incarnation of President Donald Trump’s travel ban, calling it an abuse of presidential authority and potentially unconstitutional, as they vowed to continue fighting the president’s travel restrictions. The new measure, which takes effect Oct. 18 and will apply indefinitely, bans entry by most citizens of Syria, Libya, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Chad and North Korea. It also imposes restrictions on a small number of citizens of Iraq and Venezuela. Sudan, whose nationals were previously blocked from coming to the U.S. under a prior temporary ban that expired Sunday, has been dropped off the list. Chad, Venezuela and North Korea are new entries.
Mark Zuckerberg built Facebook into a behemoth whose power he underestimates
The National Iranian American Council, decrying the open-ended nature of the directive, said the administration “has now taken steps to make its Muslim ban … permanent.” The new measure, it said in a statement, was “nothing but an extension of the same discriminatory policy first rolled out in January.” The White House order, which cites national security concerns and a global review of vetting procedures for entry to the U.S., calls for an indefinite ban on almost all travel to the U.S. by nationals of the seven countries, which include most that were targeted in Trump’s initial ban issued after he took office. The original order, which also included a 120-day halt to all refugee admissions, was blocked in federal courts and revised, and then was blocked again. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments over that travel ban on Oct. 10. It’s unclear how the newly revised ban
affects that case. On Sunday, the Department of Justice on asked justices to order both sides to submit briefs on the new ban. But while federal district court and appellate judges across the country derided the first two travel bans as violating the Constitution and immigration law, legal experts said Trump’s new measure would be harder to defeat. Federal courts would be “more likely to hold that this version of the travel ban is legal,” said Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration attorney and law professor at Cornell University. Yale-Loehr said the new ban addressed some of the successful legal challenges that brought down prior versions. “The proclamation goes into depth about how the administration conducted its survey of other countries’ identity management and informa-
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David Pierson Los Angeles Times(TNS) When it comes to business, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is undeniably a visionary. He made a big bet that paid off on photo-sharing app Instagram, charged full bore into mobile when others stood pat, and recognized early on the fortune that could be made in advertising by mining all aspects of his users’ lives down to the square footage of their homes. But Zuckerberg’s prescient skills seem to waver when the social and cultural intricacies of the real world leak onto his ubiquitous platform. Defensive at times, like when he initially disputed the premise fake news on Facebook may have influenced the 2016 election, Zuckerberg can come across as someone yet to realize the true power and scope of the platform he built. In just the last year, Facebook was caught off-guard when a report showed its advertising service allowed audiences to be targeted through offensive labels like “Jew Hater.” It first denied, then recognized, it was being exploited by Russian propagandists to influence the presidential campaign with fake news and paid ads. And it was slow to remove terrorist groups from its network as well as anticipate users would livestream murders and other acts of violence. A company optimized for digital engagement, it turns out, may not have been primed to deal with the darkest aspects of humanity and society. “They’re so good at being a business, but really bad at recognizing its role in society,” said Jennifer Stromer-Galley, an information studies professor at Syracuse University. “It is conceivable the company is so big and complex, there are dimensions and aspects of Facebook no one is paying attention to.” “That’s to the detriment of our democracy and our society,” Stromer-Galley continued. “If they can’t start getting on top of these problems, they’re going to start getting regulated.” Whether Facebook’s public problems are evidence of unintended consequences, shortsightedness or willful blindness is open to debate. But pressure on the company to get policy (and its algorithms) right will only mount now that it counts a quarter of the world’s population as its users, effectively turning the platform into a digital reflection of society. A company that started out in Zuckerberg’s dorm room as a “hot or not” program for fellow Harvard students is now being asked to pick sides in the deadly civil war in Myanmar, determine the difference between hate speech and political expression, and adapt its so-called
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Cassini project atmospheric scientist Andrew Ingersoll closes his eyes as team members gathered to watch the final minutes of telemetry on a screen before Cassini burns up in Saturn’s atmosphere.
Cassini ends its 20-year mission to Saturn with cheers, and even a few tears Deborah Netburn and Hailey Branson-Potts Los Angeles Times (TNS) They clapped, though they didn’t smile. But what did you expect? Cassini, their beloved spacecraft, was dead. Confirmation that the explorer had indeed vaporized as planned in the cloud tops of Saturn was received at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory just before 5 a.m. PDT Friday. “The signal from the spacecraft is gone, and in the next 45 seconds, so will be the spacecraft,” Earl Maize, Cassini’s program manager, told the two dozen people in the mission control room in La Canada Flintridge. “Congratulations to all of you. It has been an incredible mission, an incredible spacecraft, and you have been an incredible team.” He looked around at his colleagues, all wearing matching purple polo shirts embroidered with pictures of Cassini and Saturn. “Now I’m going to call this end of mission,” he said. “Project manager off the net.” And just like that, Cassini’s 20year voyage of exploration was over. There was hugging, of course, and some tears. Though people came
prepared with boxes of tissues, they mostly went unused. It was like being at a funeral for someone who had lived a long, full life and died peacefully in their sleep at the age of 103. “I thought I was going to be more sad about the spacecraft, but I’m not,” said Julie Webster, who has worked on Cassini for more than 20 years and served as the mission’s chief engineer. “It did everything we asked of it right until the very end. That’s all you could ever ask of anyone. It was perfect.” Cassini spent 13 years making jaw-dropping discoveries in the Saturn system, including the first confirmation that the moon Titan had seas of liquid methane on its surface and the revelation that geysers of water ice shoot off the moon Enceladus. These findings have revolutionized scientists’ understanding of how and where to look for life in the solar system and beyond. NASA extended Cassini’s original four-year mission twice. And even in the final seconds before it burned up like a shooting star, the spacecraft gallantly sent back new data from deeper in Saturn’s atmosphere than it had ever been before. “It was a superb machine in an amazing place, doing everything it
possibly could to reveal the mysteries and secrets of our solar system,” Maize said. More than 5,000 scientists, engineers and support staff from 17 countries worked on the Cassini mission in some capacity since its earliest stages of development in the 1980s. Members of this large extended family congregated on the California Institute of Technology campus in Pasadena early Friday to celebrate and mourn Cassini’s final moments together. On the lawn outside Beckman Auditorium, researchers greeted colleagues they hadn’t seen in years and reminisced about the mission. F. Michael Flasar, the principal investigator of Cassini’s Composite Infrared Spectrometer team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., poured glasses of Champagne. He has been working on Cassini for nearly three decades and watched the team grow and change as the years passed. “I like to say this is our claim to immortality,” he said of the mission. “We inspired a new generation, and they’re going to carry on.” John Barbara, who works on Cassini’s image science subsystem team
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California suspends medical license of former USC dean tied to drug use Paul Pringle and Adam Elmahrek Los Angeles Times(TNS) The Medical Board of California has suspended the license of former University of Southern California medical school dean Carmen Puliafito pending a final decision on his fitness to practice medicine. The medical board opened an inquiry into Puliafito after a Los Angeles Times investigation found that he regularly used methamphetamine and other drugs, including while serving as dean of the Keck School of Medicine. In an order issued by an administrative law judge, the state attorney general’s office, acting on behalf of the medical board, and Puliafito agreed to the suspension as an interim measure that will remain in force until the panel completes its probe and issues a decision. After the Times published its July 17 report on Puliafito’s drug use, USC barred him from seeing patients at university clinics and began the process to fire him from the staff of the Keck School of Medicine. Puliafito was dean of the school from 2007 until last year. An attorney for Puliafito, Peter Osinoff, said Monday that his client has not practiced medicine since the story was published.
“He hasn’t treated patients at all,” Osinoff said. “He has been in treatment.” The attorney declined to specify the type of treatment. A spokeswoman for the medical board said she could not provide other details about the inquiry. Julie Fellmeth, a former overseer of the medical board who is a staff attorney for the University of San Diego Center for Public Interest Law, said the panel’s investigation could take some time. If the board decides to punish Puliafito, it could revoke his license or reactivate it with certain restrictions, such as a requirement that he undergo drug and alcohol testing. Former and current USC administrators have said Keck employees complained about his drinking and that he was treated for alcoholism. Puliafito, who earned more than $1 million a year as head of Keck, could face consequences harsher than a licensing penalty. The agency conducting the investigation for the medical board has the authority to refer any evidence it finds of criminal conduct to local prosecutors. Saying he decided to pursue a job with a private firm, Puliafito, 66, abruptly resigned as dean in March 2016. He did not mention that, three weeks earlier, he was at the scene of a drug overdose of a young woman in a Pasadena hotel room regis-
tered to him. A tip about the overdose prompted the Times to investigate Puliafito. The newspaper found that, for at least 14 months during his tenure as dean, he led a second life of drug use and partying with a circle of much-younger addicts and criminals. That behavior continued in the months after he stepped down as dean. Throughout that period, USC did not respond to numerous Times inquiries about the circumstances of his resignation, including one last March about his presence at the overdose. USC allowed Puliafito to remain on the Keck staff and continue seeing patients. He also represented the school at medical-related events. After the story ran, a number of current and former Keck faculty and staff members said they had complained for years about Puliafito’s abusive behavior and heavy drinking. USC President C.L. Max Nikias has acknowledged that school administrators received complaints about Puliafito’s behavior. In a July 28 letter to the university community, Nikias said Puliafito resigned as dean after USC Provost Michael Quick confronted him about two complaints. At the time, Puliafito was a key witness in a high-stakes legal battle between USC
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John Wilder, background, welcomes Muslims to the United States at the Tom Bradley International Terminal of LAX.
and the University of California over an Alzheimer’s research program. USC poached the leader of the program from UC San Diego, and he brought with him
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indianastatesman.com FACEBOOK FROM PAGE 2 shown a penchant for mitigating controversies after they arise. “If we discover unintended consequences in the future, we will be unrelenting in identifying and fixing them as quickly as possible,” Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said in a blog post last week in response to the offensive categories for targeted advertising — a quirk the company says it has fixed. Experts say Silicon Valley companies are predisposed to break things first and apologize later, given their trade in cutting-edge technology and new business models. “One of the most com-
USC FROM PAGE 2 sini’s image science subsystem team at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, said it was the daily presence of the spacecraft that would leave the biggest hole. “I’m going to miss my morning routine of checking my email, drinking my coffee and seeing what Cassini’s been up to,” he said. “It’s been such a part of my life.” And although Cassini is gone, he knows its discoveries will be part of his 6-month-old son Leo’s life too. “As Leo gets older and sees images in his astronomy books, they’re going to be from Cassini,” he said. Based on models of Saturn’s atmosphere, the Cassini team expected that Earth would lose its connection with the spacecraft at 4:55:16 a.m. Pacific time. In reality,
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mon explanations we hear for the reactive responses, especially in the high-tech industry, centers around the novel and not-well-understood contexts arising from the creation and use of new technologies,” said Valerie Alexandra, a business professor at San Diego State. “Many argue that because the internet and social media platforms are relatively new and evolving contexts, there are still a lot of gray areas with regards to what is legal and illegal and what is ethical and unethical.” Still, Alexandra said Facebook could do more to envision how a company its size could cause harm. “Certainly, it’s a known problem that bigger com-
panies often face a problem of becoming slower and more reactive,” she said. “However, bringing over $27 billion in (ad) revenue in 2016, Facebook has a lot of resources to work with.” Facebook doesn’t have to do it alone. Sometimes it simply has to heed advice. The Washington Post reported Sunday that President Obama tried to caution Zuckerberg of the critical role his platform was playing in the spread of misinformation during the presidential campaign. Zuckerberg responded by telling Obama that fake news was not widespread on Facebook. The conversation reportedly took place just over a
week after Zuckerberg said the idea that Facebook and fake news influenced the election was “crazy.” Ten months later, Facebook is something of a poster child for the backlash in Washington against Silicon Valley, a region increasingly caught up in the nation’s culture wars as more Americans question the values coded into the algorithms they use each day. On Thursday, Facebook caved to pressure to release to Congress 3,000 ads it sold linked to a Russian propaganda operation that the company had resisted sharing. Calls are now growing louder to regulate Facebook like a media company rather than a platform,
a designation that shirks most legal liability for the content that appears on the social network. Some lawmakers are considering a bill that would require more transparency of political ads that run on Facebook. Facebook said it would disclose backers of political ads on its platform, much like what media companies are already required to do. “Not only will you have to disclose which page paid for an ad, but we will also make it so you can visit an advertiser’s page and see the ads they’re currently running to any audience on Facebook,” Zuckerberg said in a live broadcast last week. The move comes months
after political scientists said such transparency was critical for political accountability. Zuckerberg may need to push Facebook to hire more social scientists rather than engineers if he wants to avoid similar controversies in the future, said Sarah T. Roberts, a professor of information studies at UCLA. “There’s no lack of vision, no end to the creativity of top technology firms to generate revenue,” Roberts said. “But when it comes to the downside of technology, whether it’s foreign interference or other nefarious uses, their scope of the vision seems to be very much impeded.”
the scientists were able to stay in contact until 4:55:39. “The goal of the engineering team was to make the spacecraft last, and I think you saw this morning that we did,” Webster said. “We got almost 30 seconds longer than predicted.” Linda Spilker, project scientist for the mission at JPL, said that Cassini made Saturn as familiar to us as our own neighborhoods. “Now it’s a small, little world in a telescope again,” she said. “Those details of the rings, those tiny moons struggling to survive — those are all gone, until we go back.” Both Michael Watkins, JPL’s director, and Thomas Zurbuchen, head of NASA’s science mission directorate, pledged to return to the Saturn system. Titan and Enceladus have emerged as prime candidates in the search for life beyond Earth. Indeed, that’s why NASA
engineers steered Cassini into Saturn, where it was guaranteed to disintegrate without contaminating the moons. “With today’s end of the mission, we know that these worlds will remain pristine,” Zurbuchen said. “Not only did we do science here at the very end, but we protected science to be done in the future.” Maize said part of him can intellectualize that Cassini was a robot at the end of its serviceable life. But, of course, there is more to it than that. “It has been our companion and our dutiful servant for several decades,” he said. He finished his comments to the Cassini team — and the world — with this eulogy for the spacecraft. “This morning a lone explorer, a machine made by humankind, finished its mission 900 million miles away,” he said.
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challenge the travel restrictions as anti-Muslim. “This is still a Muslim ban — they simply added three additional countries,” said Becca Heller, director of the International Refugee Assistance Project, in a statement. The group is among those scheduled to argue against the ban in the Supreme Court. “Of those countries, Chad is majority Muslim, travel from North Korea is already basically frozen and the restrictions on Venezuela only affect government officials on
certain visas. You can’t get any more transparent than that,” Heller said. The National Immigration Law Center, another litigant in the Supreme Court case, tweeted on Sunday that “the original intent behind this always was an attempt to ban Muslims.” “Inflicting even more harm will do nothing to change the discriminatory intent behind this,” the organization wrote in another tweet. “It will simply cause more harm. #NoMuslimBanEver.”
er in which he places an Ecstasy pill in his mouth. The Times later published three of the images. The woman who overdosed at the Hotel Constance, Sarah Warren, now 22, said Puliafito was her constant companion in a relationship dominated by drug use. After she overdosed, paramedics took her to Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena. Warren said she woke up
six hours later, and Puliafito drove her back to the Constance, where they resumed using drugs. As part of his suspension, Puliafito is prohibited from prescribing medications. Warren and her younger brother, Charles, told the Times that Puliafito prescribed inhalers for them to soothe lungs made raw from smoking methamphetamine and marijuana.
from certain countries, not everyone from a given country. The proclamation includes North Korea and Venezuela, two non-Muslim-majority countries. And the new travel ban does not bar refugees from entering the United States,” he said. Opponents who have long argued that the ban is a fulfillment of the president’s campaign promise to stop all Muslim immigration into the U.S. said they would continue to
CALIFORNIA FROM PAGE 2 UC’s lawsuit against USC seeks at least $185 million in damages. The suit is ongoing. Puliafito and members of his drug-abusing group often captured their exploits in photos and videos. The newspaper reviewed scores of the images, including one showing Puliafito smoking what appeared to be methamphetamine and anoth-
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Desean Prentice, one of the founders of Twisted Fry, poses infront of the food truck. Right (from top): Signature burger, Dark Knight, Total Chaos Buffalo and Total Chaos Classic.
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Getting Twisted with Terre Haute’s popular mobile food experience Jada N. Holmes Reporter
Twisted Fry has taken the Indiana State University and Terre Haute community by storm with exceptional service and casual meals with chaotic flavor. Founded by two men who once called Indiana State University home, Desean Prentice and Devyn Mikell, Twisted Fry has prided itself on being Terre Haute’s original mobile food experience. Their main mission is to prevent drinking and driving by providing late night eaters with delicious dining at the perfect place and time. “What makes us special is the culture,”
Mikell said. “We make it a goal to interact with our customers and almost try to know them personally.” Customer engagement thrives as a result of this blossoming business prioritizing consumer input relating to content and products. “We take our feelings out of the equation,” Mikel said. “Our best strategies include giving a free meal or having a contest for free stuff. Also, just talking and getting to know people works just as well. We want to be human at the end of the day.” Twisted Fry supporters rave about the exciting entrees that this mobile monster provides, from items such as The Dark
Knight angus cheeseburger, Total Chaos buffalo fries or the Knockout Wings. It doesn’t hurt that the sweet taste of Deep Fried Oreos is served with powdered sugar, which is also a crowd favorite. Both co-founders Prentice and Mikell acknowledge that their collegiate educational backgrounds in accounting from Prentice and operations & supply chain management from Mikell has been of great assistance in network development and expansion. Mikell serves as the director of operations for Twisted Fry and Prentice as the director of finance. “We went from being on our way to pursuing a corporate career to taking on ownership,” Mikell said. “It’s changed our
lives a great deal in terms of learning, responsibility and personal growth.” Sept. 16 marked the first anniversary of Twisted Fry’s opening since its establishment in 2016, and the team celebrated by giving away free Deep Fried Oreos. Mikell marks the most enjoyable part of his Twisted Fry journey as getting to know co-founders and employees, and suggests that the community should expect to see another truck rolling out in the next year. Catch the Twisted Fry mobile truck on the move between the hours of 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Tuesdays at 7th and Elm, Thursdays at the Ballyhoo Tavern, Fridays at the Copper Bar and Saturdays on Wabash Avenue.
Artist of the Week: Wesley Armstrong Alexandria Truby Reporter
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The Artist Our first artist of the week is visual editor Wesley Armstrong. He tends to take photos of architecture, nature, reflections, cars and sunsets. He has been taking portraits of people recently, which he says is a “thrill.” His relationship with art stems from seeing beyond what is physically in front of him and creatig a new image that better expresses what he sees and interprets The Creation When asked about how he creates his art, he makes it sound similar to having an instinctual trait. “I simply live about my life, follow my gut and allow it to lead me where I need to go. While exploring, I take out my phone and capture what I imagine is there.” From there, what he sees in the captured moment sounds as if he uses an extra sense that helps him comprehend the world around him. “After every photo is taken there are certain characteristics which override my reality. These characteristics are tones or shapes that are significant in the moment. Every time I come back and look at that photo again, it’s all I see.” The Expression Art is a form of expressing the self by showing the ideas and images that come
to the individual’s mind to the rest of the world. No two people experience the world in the same way, but they do experience it by means of the same senses. Art enables the creator to alter what is seen to what could be seen, or what is imagined, and construct a new experience for the senses. “I express myself through the perspectives I give to the viewer of my photos. My perspective is different from anyone else, just like each person is different. We can’t help but express ourselves every moment. It just depends what we do with these moments. I take pictures,” Armstrong said. The Interaction In viewing photos, the audience may tend to forget that there is a person behind the camera and merely focus on the subject. However, Wesley’s experiences with photography have increased his ability to connect with others. His goals with this avenue are not selfish but rather focused on others. “Taking pictures has sure helped me, but the real goal in anything anyone does is to inspire others to do what they want. Showing others anything you want to do is possible and closer than you believe has helped me more than anything. It lights me up when I receive a compliment and someone says my photos give them inspiration,” he said. To see a wider collection of Wesley’s art and photos, check out his Instagram page @wesley_armstrong.
Film director’s work inspired by Van Gogh’s art Rick Bentley
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Director Dorota Kobiela started her career making animated films with a series of shorts. While she was working on projects like “Little Postman” or “Chopin’s Drawings” in 2011, something inside her keep pulling together her two greatest passions: making movies and the works of Dutch impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. She finally gave into this constantly growing desire and decided her next short film, “Loving Vincent,” would be a look at van Gogh as shown through a unique way of using his paintings. A lot of the groundwork had been done because Kobiela had been a fan of van Gogh’s work all her life even to the point of doing her college thesis on the artist. One of the things that captivated her was that it wasn’t until van Gogh had
turned 28 that he decided to become an artist. In the brief span of just around a decade, he created an artistic legacy that made him one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art. “He decided to become an artist to communicate with people, which he couldn’t really do with words,” Kobiela says. “But, he communicated so beautifully with his paintings. He was an extremely courageous artist and revolutionary. He was a person who worked very methodically and hard. “It was incredible how in eight years he went from an amateur to one of the most celebrated and most important painters of modern art. That was incredibly inspiring to me.” A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, her plan was to hand paint every single frame of the short film to match the visuals van Gogh presented through his more than 2,100 works. Kobiela was forced to adjust her plans when the proj-
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ect went from a short to a feature length looks at events after the death of van Gogh production. The only way she would be in 1890 as visualized through the blending able to tell the story in 65,000 hand-paint- of some of the artist’s greatest works. ed frames was to bring on a small army of 125 artists. The result is a feature film that SEE VAN GOGH, PAGE 5
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VAN GOGH FROM PAGE 4 Selecting the right van Gogh works as the artistic foundation for the story was a monumental task. “There were so many of Vincent’s paintings that we didn’t get to use,” Kobiela says. “We had several versions of the script and each one was different because of the amount of story we told about Vincent’s life and the paintings we would use. “The first version of the film had a lot of the Dutch period of Vincent’s work but didn’t use them. We also had a lot of fantastic characters that we had to cut out of the script. We just couldn’t use everything.” The army of artists would start with a painting like “The Starry Night” and use
it as the style for a scene. They would not only create every element in the scene in van Gogh’s style but also paint in the actors. Animators over the years have used a process known as rotoscoping to turn an actor’s work into an animated character. In the case of “Loving Vincent,” the artists used film of the actors who performed the script in a green screen environment as a reference to paint each performer into the scene one frame at a time. “The process ended up being stop-motion animation using paint and canvas,” Kobiela says. The only moments in the film that aren’t entirely based on one of van Gogh’s works are the transition scenes. Kobiela guided her artists to find the way to blend sequences based on works from different
periods in Van Gogh’s life to make the film as fluid as possible. There were also times when the artists had to modify van Gogh’s work because the shape of his canvas didn’t match the dimensions of a film frame. All of this was used to tell the story of events in France during the summer of 1891. Armand Roulin (Douglas Booth) is given a letter that Vincent penned just before his death, by his father, Postman Joseph Roulin (Chris O’Dowd). The letter is to be hand delivered to Theo van Gogh, Vincent’s brother. But once Roulin discovers Theo has also died, he begins looking into the final days and suicide of van Gogh. Making sure this story was told close to van Gogh’s visual style came with a lot of
unforeseen problems. The artists had to deal with the broad range of colors van Gogh used in his works and matching some of the hues was not easy. “There were paintings where it was quite challenging to find a particular shade of blue, for example. With a painting like ‘Starry Night’ we tried combinations of Russian Blue and Cobalt but it was particularly hard to find that shade,” Kobiela says. “And then with “The Night Café’ there are a very particular shade of red and yellow all around. “We also had the challenge of re-imagining Vincent because the tone of the film is very bright and very colorful but all his life, his story is kind of dark especially in our film.”
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GOP needs to start working with Dems on worthy health care bill Michael R. Bloomberg Bloomberg View (TNS)
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Trump administration looks to limit rights for LGBT people
Zach Davis Columnist
Sexuality is a personal issue. It shouldn’t matter to anybody outside the confines of your relationship, regardless of your sexual orientation. Simply put, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t affect anybody else, and as long as all parties consent, it doesn’t hurt a single soul. Even more, people who identify as straight, gay and other orientations contribute to society by buying and selling goods, maintaining jobs and paying taxes. But they can’t do that if the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determines that employers can hire and fire individuals for not being the “correct” sexual orientation. Donald Zarda worked at Altitude Express Inc. when he told a customer that he was gay, resulting in the company firing him after said customer filed a complaint. The case has made several court runs, with two courts dismissing it and one court in Chicago agreeing that sexual orientation is covered under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. We need to consult with what the law says in this case. Title VII makes it strictly illegal for employers “to exclude or to expel from its membership, or otherwise to discriminate against, any individual because of his race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” While sexual orientation is not explicitly stated here, the spirit of the act suggests that it should be.
Donald Trump’s administration disagrees, though, and they are making it clear to the court. The Department of Justice said in a statement that “the sole question here is whether, as a matter of law, Title VII reaches sexual orientation discrimination,” according to multiple news sites, and “it does not…Any efforts to amend Title VII’s scope should be directed to Congress rather than the courts.” The issue is that the DoJ is technically correct. The current language of Title VII does not explicitly say that sexual orientation cannot be discriminated against. However, the issue stretches beyond the technical aspect. The courts have a large say regarding laws that are passed. Here they get to decide whether or not gay people are covered under Title VII, and if it is constitutional to discriminate against them. The court isn’t aiming to change the scope but rather assess the scope for accuracy and constitutionality. Still, though, sexual orientation should be covered under Title VII for one simple reason: it is as much of a choice as the chromosomes that make you biologically male or female. If it weren’t, gay conversion therapy would be unquestionably effective and moral. But psychology journals have been posing questions about the ethics of gay conversion for decades, and no definitive evidence shows that it works. Further, studies show that it actually has an adverse effect on the mental health of those who undergo the therapy. The fact that sexual orientation isn’t a choice should immediately include it under Title VII. If we can’t control it, discriminating against it is senseless and seemingly immoral. We can’t even discriminate based on things we have the
freedom to choose, such as our religion – so why exclude a non-optional trait? It has the potential to affect straight individuals as much as others because heterosexuality is a sexual orientation. I vehemently doubt that the Trump administration would exclude sexual orientation under Title VII if straight people were being fired for being straight, something which could happen if sexual orientation is not protected. Aside from the issue of whether or not homosexuality is moral or a choice, this contradicts what Trump claimed to support for many years. During the election in June 2016, Trump responded to a terror attack on the LGBT community with a tweet, saying, “Thank you to the LGBT community! I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs.” Even more, upon accepting his nomination on July 21, 2016, he swore “As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBT citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology,” according to ABC News. This isn’t fighting for LGBT people. This is a blatant attack instead. It might not be from a foreign ideology, but that doesn’t matter. An attack from home is just as bad – and perhaps even worse. The foreign ideologies that want to take away LGBT rights are at least honest about it, but the attack from home feels like a stab in the back. The community was promised our president would protect them, but instead he is allowing his administration to do the exact opposite. It is understandable why so many feel lied to and betrayed when our administration can’t keep the promises made over a year ago.
It’s possible for a bad political process to yield a good result. There’s even a saying for it — the one comparing making laws to making sausages. In the case of the latest Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, however, the process and substance have both been inexcusably reckless. Now that Republican senators’ last-gasp effort appears to be dead, it’s time to go back to the beginning — and to let Democrats join the process. Monday brought the sole scheduled public hearing on the GrahamCassidy health-care bill in the Senate, which means Congress is applying roughly the same level of care and scrutiny to revolutionizing the healthcare system as it generally brings to renaming a post office. Republican leaders want to pass a bill before Saturday, when the current fiscal year expires — and with it, authority for a reconciliation process enabling them to avoid a Democratic filibuster. They have spent the past week frantically tinkering with the draft in hopes of winning 50 votes, which seems increasingly unlikely after a third Republican senator, Susan Collins of Maine, vowed to vote against the bill — for good reasons. Graham-Cassidy would eliminate many consumer protections of the Affordable Care Act, including requirements that insurance plans cover a list of essential benefits and preventive services. It appears to leave patients with pre-existing conditions vulnerable to drastic increases in the cost of their insurance. It would cut tens of billions in federal funding in the coming decade, possibly followed by hundreds of billions in cuts after 10 years. It would dispense
that reduced amount in the form of block grants to states, which would be able to spend those funds in ways that don’t necessarily benefit patients. The proposal is opposed by almost every group with a stake in American health care: hospitals, insurers, doctors, nurses, and — most importantly — patients. Meanwhile, most health-care economists are either appalled, baffled or both. The Congressional Budget Office hasn’t had time to fully analyze the bill and estimate its fiscal impact, but on Monday the CBO said it would result in loss of insurance for “millions.” Meanwhile, a bipartisan health-care bill with the goal of improving the existing law has languished in the Senate. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, a Republican, and Patty Murray of Washington, a Democrat, had been working on a compromise to give states more flexibility in administering Obamacare in exchange for bolstering state healthinsurance exchanges, which in some states were under duress even before President Donald Trump’s campaign to undermine them began earlier this year. Alexander said last week that he and Murray were abandoning the effort, since they were unable to build the “necessary consensus.” It’s hard to build consensus on repairing a law when at the same time the majority party’s leaders are still bent on destroying it. If Republicans are genuinely committed to an ideological alternative to Obamacare, they should write a plan worthy of their constituents, vet it through public hearings and open debate, and bring it to a vote next year. They are in power; that’s their prerogative. Given that they have had seven years to come up with such an alternative without
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Inflaming racial tensions is what Trump is trying to do Albert R. Hunt
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Donald Trump’s ongoing fight with professional athletes has one purpose: to inflame racial tensions. The president says his demand that National Football League owners fire those players who protest racial injustice by kneeling during the pre-game national anthem is about patriotism and respect for the flag. That claim is rejected not only by the NFL, but by Trump’s history on the topic and by the context. It was at a campaign rally in Alabama where the president told NFL coaches to get the “son of a bitch” off the field if the player kneels and to fire him from the team. It is no coincidence that most of the protesters are African-Americans; about 70 percent of NFL players are black. There is a long tradition of some black athletes
protesting injustices, notably Muhammad Ali and two Olympic sprinters in the 1960s. Trump’s event in Alabama was to support Republican Sen. Luther Strange, who faces a tough challenge in Tuesday’s primary where almost all the voters will be white. Trump has a history of playing the race card, which may fuel some of his support among white working-class voters. For years, he led the absurd charge that Barack Obama, the first AfricanAmerican president, wasn’t born in the United States, and last year he called a judge unqualified because his parents were from Mexico. In August, he refused to draw any distinction between the white nationalists and neo-Nazis who caused violence, including a death, in Charlottesville, Va., and the people protesting against them. After strong objections from Republicans,
and even from some members of his own administration, he seemed to back down, but then he doubled back on his initial sentiment. He’s also in a feud with the Golden State Warriors, canceling the customary visit of the National Basketball Association’s championship team to the White House. This was after star player Stephen Curry wondered whether he’d want to attend, given Trump’s divisiveness on race. Other stars in the NBA — which is about 75 percent African-American — weighed in. Especially vehement was Lebron James, who called Trump a “bum.” Trump’s insistence that the NFL flap is about respect for patriotism rings hollow given his penchant for duplicity on that count, too. During the presidential campaign, when he pulled out of an Iowa debate, he said that instead he would raise $6 million for military veterans, including $1 million of his personal money.
Months later, news reports revealed he had not raised that $6 million and given none personally. Trump quickly wrote some checks the same day the article appeared. He also belittled the war-hero stature of Sen. John McCain, who as a Navy pilot during the Vietnam War was shot down and spent five and a half years as a prisoner of war. “I like people who weren’t captured,” Trump said. Trump himself evaded the Vietnam War, he said, when he got a doctor’s report that he had “bone spurs” in his heels. He added later that this condition was only temporary and that he couldn’t remember the name of the doctor. But he once explained that avoiding sexually transmitted diseases in the 1960s and ’70s was “my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave soldier.”
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Volleyball team takes on Missouri State and Southern Illinois on the road this weekend.
Sycamores looking to win two more in the MVC end. Edelen also leads the team in dig percentage a set, with a whopping 4.44. As the Sycamores are struggling a bit this year, the team has started off their conference play with big confidence, winning their first two matches against Evansville and Bradley. With both games being played here at ISU, the team is going on the road for the first time to play other conference opponents. Junior outside hitter Laura Gross leads the Sycamores in kills (200), points (218.0) and is tied for the lead in sets played (57). Senior Rachel Griffin leads the Sycamores in assists with 566. With the Bears being on a four-game winning streak and the game being played at their home arena, the Sycamores are certainly underdogs. The Bears might end up being the Sycamores biggest challenge this season, especially with the Bears defeating No. 20 ranked Ohio State earlier this season. Both MSU and SIU are good programs that the Sycamores will need to bring full intensity if they would want to come back to Terre Haute with two more wins their column. A win against the Missouri State Bears will surely put the Sycamores on the map and be a high mark for their up and down season. First serve will begin Friday at 8 p.m. and on Saturday at 8 p.m.
Jay Adkins Reporter
The Indiana State Sycamores volleyball team will compete in two games this upcoming weekend. On Friday, the team will travel to Missouri State University for one game, and on Saturday will head to Southern Illinois University. The Bears are coming off a four-game winning streak, including wins against Tennessee State, Illinois State, Bradley and Loyola. MSU this season so far, hold an astonishing record of 11-5, 3-0 in the MVC. Senior outside hitter Lily Johnson has been the head of the team and leading them to success. Johnson leads the Bears in kills with 271, digs (216), serves (21) and blocks (9). The Bears have been creating their success through these two key players in every match of the season so far. The Salukis of Southern Illinois have not been the best this season. In just 14 games on the year, SIU is going into this weekend with a record 3-11 but winning two of three conferences games played so far. On the defensive side, senior Ashley Edelen has been getting the job done for the Salukis. Edelen leads the team in digs, recording 231 on the season going into the week-
Magic Johnson: Trump should address issues athletes are protesting, not the protests Tania Ganguli
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Los Angeles Lakers President of Basketball Operations Magic Johnson felt two very distinct emotions when watching President Donald Trump battle NFL teams and the Golden State Warriors this weekend. He felt disappointed and proud. He was disappointed that the president was focusing on athletes engaging in protests, rather than the issues they were protesting. He was proud to see NFL owners and coaches back their players’ rights to protest. He was also proud to see NBA teams stand by the Warriors, whose star point guard Stephen Curry said he did not want to go to the White House. “We have bigger problems in our country than to worry about people who are exercising their freedom of speech,” Johnson said. “North Korea is a big problem. Job creation is a major problem. Making sure that our schools are better. I could just keep going. These are things he should be concentrating on. We elected him to concentrate on those things. What I’m disappointed at is the fact that these young men who are saying hey there’s problems in our community in urban America and nobody’s looking to address these issues and problems. That’s what Colin (Kaepernick) was not standing up for the national anthem for. Because he wanted the shootings in our community (to stop), he wanted better books and computers in our schools. All these players are exercising their right and I think the president should be really focusing in on the issues at hand of our country and of
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Magic Johnson, the Lakers’ president of basketball operations, talks with reporters during Lakers media day activities at the team’s new training facility
the people who live in our beautiful country and not those who are saying hey this is my right to do what I’m doing.” Over the weekend, Trump said in a speech that owners should fire players who protested racial inequality and police brutality during the national anthem. Kaepernick, who is unemployed, began the protests while he played for the San Francisco 49ers. Such protests were not widespread in the NFL for most of this season, but after Trump’s comments, every game played on Sunday featured players kneeling, sitting or locking arms during the national anthem. Some teams remained in the locker room and declined to participate in the ritual. Some owners and coaches also joined their players in locking arms. “I was so proud of the owners and coaches who were backing the players in the NFL,” Johnson said. “I was also proud of all of us, from commissioner Adam Silver to all of us who backed Golden State. Because it was important to say hey we back Golden State 150 percent and this is the decision they made
well I guess the president made it for them. We gotta move on past this and get the country headed in the right direction. That’s it.” The Lakers locked arms during the national anthem for most of last season. They will meet as a team to decide what they want to do. In the past, Lakers coach Luke Walton has encouraged his players to make a decision together and do something as a team if they’d like to make a statement. “We stand for the absolute protection of the First Amendment rights that the constitution gives all of us as individuals and as citizens of this great democracy,” Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka said. “We want to create a forum here where our players can express their views and respectfully be listened to and heard. That’s a culture we want to develop here. In terms of how our players will address the issues at hand, that’s going to be a player decision. I’m sure Luke is going to address those issues in the locker room and then come up with a plan that best fits that group of young men and we’ll support that.”
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Junior forward Katie Wells (5) scored two goals against Chicago State this season.
Soccer team off to face Missouri State Ciara Lebron Reporter
Indiana State University’s soccer team will be playing Missouri State University this Thursday. The game will be held here in Terre Haute at Memorial Stadium at 7:00pm. After this weekend, the Sycamores are now 5-4-1 on the season and they are planning to keep up the good pace they have going on. Indiana State is planning on taking home a win this Thursday. Missouri State is currently 4-8 in the 2017 season. Both of these teams are looking for a successful win to add on to their record. Indiana State is looking for a great crowd of fans to cheer them on. This past weekend Missouri State played a strong, tough match against Valparaiso. They played great offense and defense throughout the entire game. In the last 30 seconds of the game Valparaiso scored a goal to win the match against Missouri State. The goal made from Valparaiso was by Kelsey Jahn, a junior mid-fielder. Missouri State is a well-rounded team with a lot of positive energy. In their 2016 season, their overall record was 5-8-4 and their MVC record was 1-3-2, finished seventh in the tournament. They have seven starters returning with nine newcomers joining them this season. Their coach, Rob Brewer, is coaching his 22nd season and led the team to the MVC tournament 19 times. He coached the first player in program history that got drafted by FC Kansas City. Four females from the team had received MVC All-Conference and
one received MVC All-Freshman team. The player to keep an eye for from Missouri State is Mary Disidore, a senior mid-fielder. Last season she finished first on the team with the most shots taken and received All-MVC First team. She has also received MVC Commissioner’s Academic Excellence Award three years in a row. So far this season, she has scored four goals and two assists Indiana State played a good game this past weekend against Chicago State University. They had an easy win against Chicago State with a score of 6-2. Indiana State started off the match at a slow pace and did not know what they should do. After a while of playing, the Sycamores found a rhythm and kept it going the whole match to earn the win. Casidy Simonis scored the final goal for the Sycamores to add on to their score for the win. They played a great match with a strong defense. Indiana State’s Katie Wells, a junior forward, is the player to watch at the match this Thursday. Last season, she was First Team All-MVC and a Scholar Athlete. She led the team in points last season scoring 19 and had a .667 shots-on-goal percentage. This year so far, her best match was against Chicago State University. She scored two goals and had four shots on goal. Indiana State and Missouri State is looking to be playing a well-rounded game. Indiana State is looking to add a win to their conference and to play a great game. They are looking to start off the game with a good pace and a set rhythm.