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Volume 125, Issue 14
Anna Bartley | Indiana Statesman
Students gathered for the event, Black Thought, discussing racial issues and situations incuding the recent event at Mills hall.
Black Thought leads discussion regarding Mills Incident Jada N. Holmes Reporter
Tension arose throughout several Indiana State University communities this week with the surfacing of disheartening photographs of a potentially racially motivated instance in Mills Hall. On Tuesday, the Charles E. Brown African-American Cultural Center responded with what was intended to serve as an immediate healing and discussion space for many. Black Thought, a forum frequently hosted in the cultural center by Assistant Director Valerie A. HartCraig, drew the attention of numerous students, staff, faculty and surrounding community members. In such a critical moment of campus controversy, the questions presented by individuals desperate for reassurance and resolution were as equally abundant as the population. Placed at the anterior of the lower level and thus the core of the conversation were University representatives as follows: Dean of University College Linda Maule, Dean of Students Andy Morgan, Associate Vice President of Inclusive Excellence Leah Reynolds, Director of the Charles E. Brown African-American Cultural Center Brice Yates, Executive Director of Residential Life Amanda Knerr, Associate Director of Residential Life Ardell Sanders, Communication professors Lori Henson and Jennifer Mullen, Christopher Olsen and Student Government Association President Tanner Smith. The presidents of minority student organizations were also placed strategically at the front of the audience, with representation from Phi Beta Sigma, NAACP, Black Student Union, B.O.M.B., Omega Psi Phi, Bless The Mic, Sisters Too, Zeta Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha Psi and various others. Reynolds, who had sent a mass email regarding the investigation and the objective of the Office of Equal Opportunity & Title IX, started the conversation. She assured the room that discrimination is not to be tolerated on this campus, and that efforts are continuously made to hold true to the university mission to remain persistent in upholding the value of inclusiveness, equity and diversity. Reynolds urged students to understand that investigation confidentiality must be acknowledged, respected and accepted during the diffusion processes. Students, grounded in emotional and logical discontentment, were not satisfied with the idea of such vital information being withheld, as it relates to the safety and wellbeing of the minority populations on campus. “How am I supposed to feel safe if I don’t know what happened?” was a question proposed.
The progression of the discussion revealed that this incident has not been the only racially motivated occurrence to take place this semester alone, and that authorities who have been notified have not approached these instances with the empathy, compassion, responsibility and awareness to combat them appropriately, especially Residence Life employees. Residential Life directors Knerr and Sanders stepped up to make students knowledgeable of the chain of command that they should report to about situations based on accessibility. Knerr spoke on the social justice educators that have been trained to confront problems of this caliber, especially as they occur in the dormitory halls. The presence of faculty and staff was a definite driving force in the transformation of a healing space into an informational and educational environment for faculty, student leadership and students to exchange both perspectives and resources. Henson and Mullen opened their arms to students who may be moved to utilize their professors as liaisons and classrooms as advocating platforms. Students seem to be unconfident and therefore reluctant to trust that these liaisons are genuinely appreciative of and invested in their causes and well-being at ISU. “I think we value deeply the opportunity to deal with real issues in the classroom. You are the best evaluators of whether your classroom is a safe place,” Maule said. Discussion proved to be intense as patrons lined up to confess their insights about issues they feel are relevant at ISU; one of those issues involved former senators in Student Government Association. Former African-American student senators briefly elaborated on what appeared to be discriminatory and inequitable practices within ISU’s student government association. Between the two former senators was senior Kayla Hogan, who has been unapologetic in her pursuit to enlighten many on the inconsistencies of this extensive student entity. Though SGA extends its hand as a liaison students can use to enforce change, Hogan feels that they have gradually strayed from serving students entirely. Hogan grew less attracted to the fact that the organization seemingly prioritizes structural adjustments and/or expansions over matters directly impacting Indiana State students. “When we had started the newer senate, and cabinet and all of that, I had dropped numbers saying that the minority within the senate was barely three percent. They took away what the textbook definition of diversity was,” Hogan said. Hogan stated that this observation was overridden with
“I think we value deeply the opportunity to deal with real issues in the classroom. You are the best evaluators of whether your classroom is a safe place,” -Dean Maule
Anna Bartley | Indiana Statesman
Dean Maule speaks infront of students, explaining the importance and value of dealing with real issues in and out of the classroom.
the notion that diversity is accounted for through variations in classification and fields of study within the senate, ultimately creating a sense of belittlement. This, to Hogan, manifested feelings alluding to a projected lack of respect for minority input. Wednesday evening the legislative branch of SGA held a meeting that was presented as a forum; no students beyond those who serve the entity were present. It had been suspected that former senators would arrive with the accompaniment of students to challenge the organization to inspire action relating to the Mills Hall incident. “It is not our place to take a stance until we have all of the facts. I will not be releasing a statement until I have all of the facts out of respect for all of those involved, as well as for the process while they’re going through that,” Smith said. It was suggested that more Town Hall meetings be held
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Chinese police academy students discuss U.S. justice system at Indiana State Two faculty and 18 soon-to-be graduates from a police academy in Hangzhou, China, developed a global perspective of the criminal justice system at Indiana State University in August. The students, who were connected with Indiana State through the Center for Global Engagement, toured the university in order to learn about an American university and about graduate programs. “Many times we are so used to teaching concepts to domestic students who have a foundation and a conceptual understanding of the criminal justice system and policing, but when students from other cultures come in they have a very different understanding based on their own life experience,” said Zachariah Mathew, associate director for the Center for Global Engagement. “This kind of experience helps faculty understand international students and their needs when it comes to teaching and learning, and it helps us create a path to global awareness through a classroom subject.” A few weeks after Lisa Decker, an Indiana State associate professor in the department of criminology and criminal justice, returned from leading a group of students to Croa-
tia this summer, she was back on campus coordinating the department of criminology and criminal justice’s programming for Chinese police academy student. “This visit allowed us to introduce police academy students to Indiana State and our criminology program since they are in a similar program in China,” Decker said. Decker, who leads the criminology department’s trips to Croatia and London, highly encourages study abroad and said faculty-led trips offer non-experienced student travelers a valuable opportunity to get their feet wet with the guidance. “I’ve taken students abroad who have never been on a plane,” she said. “For a student to get on a plane and go to a country where the primary language isn’t English, it helps them build confidence and lets them know they can do anything. Yes, it’s a faculty-led experience but once they get out there and see that it is doable, the sky is the limit.” Chinese police academy students were in the second international group to take classes on campus over the summer. Such international visits open up Indiana State to a
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Indiana State University Associate Professor of Criminology Lisa Decker, far right, assists a group of international students from a Chinese police academy as they work in a criminology lab during their visit to Indiana State in August.
NEWS Speaker Series hosted Rick Atkinson, a Page 2
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Pulitzer Prize winning journalist A.J. Goelz Reporter
Atkinson’s love and knowledge of history was put on display during his talk. He described the war as “the greatest self-inflicted catastrophe, which also happens to be the greatest war ever fought, and also the most consequential event of the twentieth century.” He focused some of his talk around the Normandy Invasion and D-Day. He spoke of the planning of the invasion in the way one would tell a story. He also talked about how America mustered up the mass amount of soldiers needed to fight in World War II. Atkinson said that the war ate up nearly one-third of the American gross domestic product. He explained how America lowered the
standard of physical fitness that one had to meet to be drafted. This was a way to amass the forces required for the war. Standards that were lowered were the amount of teeth the draftee needed, if they lacked external ears they could be drafted, soldiers could be missing fingers or be blind in one eye and they could be drafted. “At my graduation, I was handed a diploma and a gun,” a World War II veteran said. Atkinson has written multiple books on World War II. Atkinson’s “An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943” received the Pulitzer Prize and was acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal as “the best World War II battle narrative since Cornelius Ryan’s classics, ‘The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far’”, according to his biography on libera-
tiontrilogy.com. “An Army at Dawn” was the first book in his Liberation Trilogy. The other two volumes are “The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944” and “The Guns at Last Light: The War in Europe, 1944-1945.” “Atkinson is also the best-selling author of ‘The Long Gray Line,’ a narrative saga about the West Point class of 1966, and ‘Crusade,’ a narrative history of the Persian Gulf War. He also wrote ‘In the Company of Soldiers,’ an account of his time with General David H. Petraeus and the 101st Airborne Division during the invasion of Iraq in 2003,” according to liberationtrilogy.com. One of the most powerful lines Atkinson used in his talk was a quote from John Adams: “Power always thinks it has a good soul.”
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Rick Atkinson kicks off University Speaker Series.
Search for new university president progresses Ashton Hensley Reporter
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Just one example of the devastation caused by hurricane Maria, shown on Sept. 25, 2017. Nearly one week after hurricane Maria devastated the island of Puerto Rico, residents are still trying to get the basics of food, water, gas, and money from banks.
Hurricane Maria may be US preview of climate-fueled migration Christopher Flavelle Bloomberg News (TNS) Hurricane Maria’s devastation of Puerto Rico may offer a preview for Americans of one of the most jarring potential consequences of global warming: the movement of large numbers of people pushed out of their homes by the effects of climate change. The storm, which destroyed houses, washed away roads and cut off power to the commonwealth’s 3.4 million residents, risks accelerating an exodus that’s already under way as people flee economic stagnation and rising taxes brought on by a fiscal and debt crisis. On Tuesday, Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello warned that without “unprecedented relief ” from the U.S. government, “thousands if not millions” of residents could leave the island for the mainland. That would strain housing and job markets in the cities that received those people, as well as local government services. In Puerto Rico, a further drop in population would make it harder to reverse its economic decline. The commonwealth declared bankruptcy in May and has stopped making payments
on much of its more than $70 billion in debt. Fewer residents would mean less economic activity, further reducing tax revenue and leaving officials even less able to repay Puerto Rico’s loans. Scientists say higher water and air temperatures, as well as rising sea levels, increase the intensity and destructive power of hurricanes, a trend that will continue as the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere increases. Researchers at the International Monetary Fund, in a report released Wednesday, looked at the links between extreme weather and emigration in more than 100 countries over three decades. They found that “a rise in temperature and greater incidence of weather-related disasters increase out-migration,” according to Petia Topalova, the IMF researcher and lead author of the report. It describes migration as an “adaptation strategy for households hurt by weather shocks” and predicts that “substantial migration flows, potentially spilling across country borders, could arise if climate change causes a significant rise in sea levels.” In some parts of the
world, that’s already happening. In Africa, climate change forced an estimated 1 million people to leave their homes in 2015; in the Pacific, the World Bank has urged Australia and New Zealand to open their doors to residents forced off small island nations such as Tuvalu and Kiribati. Even in Syria, internal migration sparked by a historic drought contributed to the civil war, which has added to the wave of people trying to enter Europe in recent years. Maria, which struck Puerto Rico last Wednesday, could expose the U.S. to a similar dynamic. The scale of destruction on the island, combined with its large population and Puerto Ricans’ legal right to move anywhere in the U.S., could prompt migration on a larger scale than other natural disasters. That raises questions about the country’s ability to handle such a movement of people. The housing market in those cities may not be able to accommodate that kind of influx, according to Jesse Keenan, an expert on climate adaptation at Harvard University. “Let’s say just 350,000 leave,” Keenan said. Of those, he added, “let’s say
just half end up in cities. It’s a major housing crisis. We don’t have that much slack in housing inventory.” Keenan used the example of New York, which has the largest concentration of Puerto Ricans outside of the island. The city’s traditionally Puerto Rican neighborhoods, where new arrivals might settle — East Harlem, Bushwick, parts of the Bronx — already have low vacancy rates and high rental costs, Keenan said. “The city of New York right now needs to set up a plan to house these people,” he said. If they’re forced to stay with friends or relatives, “you’re talking about housing being burdened by having too many people legally in the unit,” Keenan said, leading to fire risks, domestic strife and other problems. Large numbers of newcomers also would place “a tremendous burden on social service delivery, at least for a couple of years,” Keenan said. Topalova, the IMF researcher, said that people who leave Puerto Rico because of Maria may have a harder time finding their feet in their new homes. “Previous IMF work
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Upon President Bradley’s retirement announcement in the spring, the search committee began the process of finding a new president for Indiana State University. Teresa Du Bois Exline, the chief of staff in the Office of the President and Provost, explained that the committee began meeting in June when the Board of Trustees approved their position profile. “The Board is not seeking a transformational president, but rather [is] looking for someone who can build upon the tremendous success that the institution has accomplished in the past nine years and move forward with the implementation of the ‘There’s More to Blue’ strategic plan,” Exline said. The qualifications for a presidential candidate can be found in the Presidential Provost available on the ISU website. Qualifications include degree requirements as well as the candidate’s intentions. “A strong commitment to the University’s mission of being dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge while maintaining its longstanding commitment to inclusiveness, community and public service, and access to higher education,” the Presidential Provost said. After advertising the position, the recruitment process brought in over 70 candidates. Exline explained that initial interviews will be conducted with nine semi-finalists. “The search committee will then select three to four finalists who will be brought to campus for twoday interviews immediately following Homecoming, which will include several open sessions,” Exline said.
Following the on-campus interviews and reviewing the feedback from the interviews, the new president will be chosen. “The Board anticipates naming a new president prior to Thanksgiving,” Exline said. Exline said that they hope that the new president finds priority with the six goals of their strategic plan. “Student success, experiential learning and career readiness, community engagement and civic responsibility, distinctive programs and experiences, resources and institutional effectiveness and employee success,” Exline said., explaining the content of the strategic plan. Dr. Brendan Corcoran, an English professor, said that he hopes the new president looks beyond career readiness. “I’m looking for a president who affirms a commitment to the idea of a liberal arts education as opposed to simply job preparedness,” Corcoran said. Corcoran also said he would like to see a president who puts importance in preventing climate change. “I would like to see a president commit to university carbon neutrality, which is an aggressive effort to reduce the university’s carbon footprint, so we can be a part of the solution to the climate crisis as opposed to being contributors,” Corcoran said. Corcoran said he hopes the new president will build off of President Bradley’s success. Exline and the search committee are working to find the right president for ISU. “We hope the new president will thoroughly embrace the mission, vision and values of Indiana State and will work to advance our strategic goals,” Exline said.
STD rates hit another record high in the US Soumya Karlamangla Los Angeles Times (TNS) The number of Americans diagnosed with chlamydia, gonorrhea or syphilis reached a record high in 2016 for the second year in a row, with more than 2 million cases reported, according to federal data released Tuesday. Cases of these three sexually transmitted diseases have been increasing since 2014, reversing a downward trend that began in 2006. Health officials say the rates reflect decreasing condom usage, a lack of awareness about STDs among doctors and patients and a falling number of STD clinics. “Increases in STDs are a clear warning of a growing threat,” Dr. Jonathan Mermin, director of the
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention, said in a statement. “STDs are a persistent enemy, growing in number, and outpacing our ability to respond.” As the number of women with syphilis has jumped, so has the number of babies born with syphilis passed down from their mothers. Congenital syphilis, as it is known, can cause still births or permanent disabilities. Since 2012, the number of babies born with congenital syphilis nationwide nearly doubled, reaching 632 last year. Chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis are curable, but if left untreated they can cause infertility or other serious health problems. People may not get tested because they don’t have symp-
toms or don’t notice their symptoms, but then are still spreading the disease to others. Dr. Gail Bolan, director of the CDC’s division of STD prevention, said the increase in gonorrhea rates in 2016 was of particular concern as more strains become resistant to antibiotics. There were once several antibiotics that could cure the infection, but the bacteria have mutated and now it is harder to treat. “We’re down to our last class of antibiotics that we have available to treat gonorrhea,” Bolan said. “In the past, we just moved on to the next class of antibiotics, but we’re now on the edge. … We want to make sure we keep the threat of these potentially resistant strains at a low level.”
Kim Hairston|Baltimore Sun|TNS
Research specialist Nicole Quinn of Johns Hopkins Medicine tests samples for sexually transmitted diseases.
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Grace Harrah | Indiana Statesman
Members of Alpha Chi Omega dressed in matching shirts to support domestic violence awareness at Touch Down in Her Shoes.
Miss Indiana speaks for a cause at ISU fundraising Grace Harrah Editor In Chief
Miss Indiana, Haley Begay, spoke at the fundraiser.
One of Indiana State University’s sororities, Alpha Chi Omega, hosted a fundraising event this past weekend to promote domestic violence awareness. The fundraiser was a flag football tournament, Touch Down in Her Shoes, which raised funds through the sign up of various Greek chapters. Eighteen total chapters competed for the final prize, including $200 for their own philanthropy and a paddle from the members of Alpha Chi Omega. The winning chapter to take home the award was Sigma Phi Epsilon. The donated proceeds and funds raised from the tournament went to the local CODA, Council of Domestic Abuse. The fundraising event welcomed Miss Indiana, Haley Begay, who recently returned from the 2017 Miss America pageant. Begay, whose personal platform is focused on domestic violence awareness, was more than excited to visit ISU and to support a cause she believes in. “This event was to raise money for women’s shelters, which is very near and dear to my heart,” Begay said.
The event brought her to Indiana State, where she had never visited before. “This is my first time here at ISU. It’s the perfect size school, and I’m really happy to be here to visit the school and for a good cause,” she said. Alpha Chi Omega organizes a philanthropy event every year that relates to domestic violence awareness. Nationwide, Alpha Chi Omega focuses on the issue and raises awareness along with funds to donate to organizations such as CODA locally and nationally. The ISU chapter works with the women’s shelter in Terre Haute and donates all of the funds they raise. Rachael Zaiger, a junior member of Alpha Chi Omega, was one of the many people that attended the event. “CODA helps [with] feeding the women and children, giving them shampoo, food and clothes,” Zaiger said. The popular food truck Twisted Fry was parked at the event. Zaiger explained the joy of hosting events such as Touch Down in Her Shoes and what it means to her sorority. “Every year we just want to spread the word about domestic abuse. It’s a thing that happens in every community, and it can be happening to anyone around you. I learned that from Alpha Chi,” Zaiger said.
Pi Kappa Phi undergo an all-nighter expereince A.J. Goelz Reporter Throughout this week, the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity has been holding a fundraising event near the fountain that came to a close this Friday morning. “We’re raising money for The Ability Experience, which is anybody with mental or physical disabilities and all ages, so all our proceeds go to that. It’s our own nationally owned organization,” said Mason Brown, philanthropy chair of Pi Kappa Psi. At a national level, brothers of the fraternity created The Ability Experience in 1977. The fundraiser finished this morning, and the fraternity has been out since 8 a.m. on Monday. “We sit up there for 100 consistent hours
throughout the week, so we are here all throughout the night. I was here last night from one to seven in the morning. It’s to represent how people with disabilities, they have to live with it, they consistently live with it, and we want to show that we’re here to support. We have to live with siting on the scaffold, no matter the conditions of the weather or anything,” Brown said. The money raised varies depending on location but usually brings in around 500 to 1500 dollars for The Ability Experience. “I think we’re at about around 750 dollars,” Brown said on Thursday. “Thank you to everyone that has donated from all the students, all the faculty that has stopped by and even just taken the time to listen about The Ability Experience. I know me and the whole chapter here at ISU really appreciate it,” he said.
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About the fraternity: • Mason Brown, left, is Pi Kappa Psi’s philanthropy chair. • Pi Kappa Psi brothers, top, participating in their chapter’s philanthropy event.
The American Democracy Project promotes civic engagement on campus Ian Bonner-Swedish Reporter It has been nine months since the presidential election, but that doesn’t mean that political involvement has stopped on campus. The American Democracy Project, a nonpartisan, nationwide initiative to promote civic engagement on college campuses headed by Shayla Bozdech, hoped to engage students to think about the political history unfolding before them. “We felt that there is a lot of value in taking the time to evaluate our government, and since it has been about nine months with our new government, it was a great opportunity for students to do that evaluation,” Bozdech said. The event was organized in an interactive format. Students sat around tables that showed Trump’s policies on the issues such as health care, the Supreme Court, the environment, immigration and other issues. Students were asked to grade Trump on his ability to
follow up with his policies and to grade how they feel about that policy. “We try to make our events very engaging,” Bozdech said. “So we always want students to be able to interact and partake in important discussions. We also know that many students feel more comfortable in smaller groups.” There is a bigger meaning outside of this event, however: a call to action. “We want students to realize the importance of evaluating our government,” Bozdech said. “If there is something we do or do not like, we have the responsibility as citizens to let our governments know how we feel.” This does not end with contacting leaders. The American Democracy Project hopes to increase civic engagement through encouragement to vote. “Voting is a large part of civic engagement,” Bozdech said. “We want students to be registered, know how to update that registration and anything else that can help them become responsible and active citizens” American Democracy Project uses TurboVote to get
students to register to vote According to Bozdech, the event had succeeded in its overall message to the students. ”Students probably learned that having negative personal feelings towards the president doesn’t necessarily mean the president is doing poorly on what he has promised,” Bozdech said. “Just like that, they might have learned that having positive feelings toward the president doesn’t necessarily mean the president is doing what he had promised, either. And that is exactly what we had hoped they would take away from the event.” The American Democracy Project does not plan to stop here. There will be more events occurring throughout the semester as well as opportunities to be involved in the organization. “Our next Pizza and Politics is on Nov. 7; however, we do have a Congress to Campus event on Oct. 9, where we will be hosting two former members of Congress,” said Bozdech. “Additionally, if anyone is interested in joining our affiliate student organization, STATE for
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About Jared Kushner’s email problem Doyle McManus
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
Will Democrats soon be chanting “lock them up?” Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-inlaw and close advisor, disclosed through his lawyer on Sunday that he has been using personal email for government business. He’s not the only one. Kushner’s emails were on a private server he shares with his wife, Ivanka Trump; she’s on the White House staff, too. Trump’s first White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, economic advisor Gary Cohn, policy aide Stephen Miller and former advisor Stephen Bannon have all used private email for official work as well. And there may be more. Wait: Isn’t that what Hillary Clinton did, hobbling her presidential campaign? Pretty much — and Trump’s still campaigning on it. Only last month, complaining about special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, he said: “What the prosecutors should be looking at are Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 deleted emails.” During the campaign, Trump and his allies insisted that Clinton’s use of a private email server was evidence that she was hiding something illicit. Now it turns out the First Family has a personal server, too. In New York, where Trump and Kushner grew up, there’s a word for that: chutzpah. But then, this is the same Trump who criticized his predecessor, Barack Obama, for playing too much golf — and who, when Obama urged the Washington Redskins to change their name, said the president should butt out of sports and “focus on his job.” Kushner’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, says it’s not as bad as it looks. (He’s a very good lawyer.) Lowell says
Kushner has forwarded all the “non-personal” emails on his server to his government account, to make them part of official government records. Lowell has not, however, responded to questions about whether any classified information made its way into Kushner’s emails or how secure the Javanka server is — two factors that were central to the charges against Clinton. Nor is it entirely clear from Lowell’s brief statement whether Kushner ever deleted emails he considered personal, another core piece of the GOP case against Clinton. This could turn out to be a tempest in a teapot. After all, the FBI found no evidence that Clinton had committed a crime, although then-Director James Comey scolded her for being “careless.” It’s not illegal for federal officials to use private email accounts for government business as long as they make sure no classified information leaks out, and as long as they put a copy of all their messages into official records. Kushner and his colleagues are entitled to the presumption of innocence — a presumption Clinton was never really given last year. Still, there’s no reason to cut Kushner much slack. He’s already compiled a record of what looks like carelessness, at best. When he joined the White House staff, he failed to disclose contacts with more than 100 foreign officials, including a secret meeting with the Russian ambassador. He had a conversation with the CEO of a Russian bank that was under U.S. sanctions at a time when his family real estate firm was looking desperately for loans. And he attended Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer who had
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Healthcare insanity ends in another debacle Zach Davis Columnist
Once again the Republican-controlled Congress failed to follow through on their mantra to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act. Their most recent attempt, the Graham-Cassidy bill, was met with more harsh criticisms, echoing concerns expressed in other recent attempts. They just don’t seem to quite grasp what citizens want and need in their healthcare. The idea was to basically reallocate money from Medicaid to states so they can spend it how they want to. Then, the rest of Medicaid’s funding would be cut slowly until it is gone completely, a motion which caused the killing blow to the bill. States that funded the program the most would see the greatest cuts, while others wouldn’t be affected as severely. Medicaid covers a significant portion of the population, and funding pales in comparison to other government expenditures, such as military funding. According to NPR, one in five Americans are covered under Medicaid, so removing
that coverage is simply insane. One of the horrible truths is that these people are using Medicaid because they can’t afford to cover all of their medical expenses, even though the majority try their best to. The most infuriating part of the bill is how they handle preexisting conditions. Or rather, how they don’t. In fact, the bill would allow states to waive the ACA requirement saying insurance companies cannot deny or raise prices for individuals with preexisting conditions. That means children born with chronic illnesses or genetic disorders could be denied coverage, or charged exorbitant rates. Because Senate Republicans wanted to pass the bill so badly, they decided they were going to have a vote long before the Congressional Budget Office would be able to assess its impact. Independent assessments determined that more than 20 million Americans would lose coverage, prompting uneasiness. Combined with the bill’s intentions, enough senators openly opposed the bill to cancel the vote. While this may have been a victory for the American people, Republicans are far from done with healthcare, and the most pessimistic outlook says they might try the same things again. But for now, we do know Donald Trump is taking a stab at it with the intention of signing an executive order in the future. According to Washington Post, Trump told reporters he’ll “probably be signing a very major executive order where people can go out, cross state lines, do lots of things and buy
their own health care.” For a man who complained about executive overreach in the past, Trump shows surprisingly little aversion to doing it himself and canceling something that Congress voted to pass. Healthcare and financial spending are issues for the legislative branch to cover, and our president shouldn’t try to deny them their job. These senators and representatives are voted in specifically to be the voice for their constituents, so they have the duty to speak and act with the best intent for those they represent. That is how the Constitution set things up, and to circumvent it is un-American. At this point we shouldn’t be looking for executive orders. Even further, Senate Republicans shouldn’t be trying the same things repeatedly while expecting a different outcome. These efforts are, by definition, insane. Instead, we should consider a plan that keeps protections for individuals with preexisting conditions and preserves Medicaid. Senator Bernie Sanders did just that. Even though his plan isn’t perfect, he introduced something different than the tired efforts that we’ve seen this year. That is what every senator should be doing right now. If we get more ideas then we can get more solutions, and maybe one day we can transform our healthcare into something that serves every American quickly and efficiently without making patients go bankrupt.
Republicans have tough choices for tax reform Ramesh Ponnuru
Bloomberg View (TNS)
Tax reform offers Republicans the chance to accomplish several objectives at once: promoting economic growth, providing middle-class tax relief, simplifying the tax code, and — rising in importance — showing that they are capable of getting something done. They now have a “framework” for legislation. It includes many useful and productive steps, especially in the area of business taxation, where it makes the U.S. a more attractive place to invest for Americans and foreigners alike. As they move from the framework to an actual bill, though, Republicans will have to contend with four political problems, some of which are also substantive problems. These issues largely arise from changes to the tax code for individuals. The Republican bill could fail to cut middle-class taxes, or it might even raise them for many families. It could alienate
too many blue-state Republicans to pass. It could increase the deficit enormously. And it could cut taxes for the rich too much. It may be possible to overcome these obstacles while keeping the framework — but not without paying a price. The political problem Republican legislators need to fix most urgently is that their outline leaves the impact of tax reform on middle-class families unclear. It commits to a big expansion of the standard deduction, which would be $12,000 for singles and $24,000 for families. It endorses a “significant” increase in the child credit. But it also abolishes the personal exemptions and raises the tax on the first $9,300 of taxable income from 10 to 12 percent. The net effect of this change depends on how much the child credit is expanded. If it rises by less than $1,000, a lot of middleclass families will see a tax increase. In that case it will also be hard to label the tax plan “pro-family,” as Republicans
usually want to do, since it will mean that tax relief per child will actually shrink. Doubling the child credit, and making it apply against payroll taxes, would solve this problem. It would also help with the second problem: Republican congressmen from high-tax states whose constituents would lose from the abolition of the deduction for state and local taxes. A bigger child credit would compensate a lot of these congressmen’s constituents for losing that deduction. But a bigger child credit would also make the third problem, the deficit, bigger. The Republican framework creates some room for solving that one. It cuts the top tax rate to 35 percent, but mentions that a surtax might be imposed on “the highestincome taxpayers” to make the reformed code more progressive. That would also be a way to keep the deficit from rising too much. Another way, also consistent with the framework, would be to have the 35 percent rate kick in at a relatively low level, so it applies to a larger share of the
income of upper-end tax payers. Beyond that, Republicans might have to scale back some of their tax cuts. They could bring the corporate rate to 25 percent instead of 20; tax pass-through businesses at 30 instead of 25 percent; or leave the top tax rate at 39.6 percent. These steps would also reduce the power of the “tax cut for the rich” charge against Republicans. Republicans won’t want to do any of those things. But they are probably going to have to choose. And it can’t be middle-class interests that they sacrifice, even though some Republicans consider broad-based tax relief a distraction from the imperative of promoting economic growth. A tax reform that leaves out the middle class while cutting taxes for the rich won’t just be unbalanced. It will be unviable, too. A bill that fails won’t do anything for the economy, or for Republicans.
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indianastatesman.com U.S FROM PAGE 2 leave,” Keenan said. Of those, he added, “let’s say just half end up in cities. It’s a major housing crisis. We don’t have that much slack in housing inventory.” Keenan used the example of New York, which has the largest concentration of Puerto Ricans outside of the island. The city’s traditionally Puerto Rican neighborhoods, where new arrivals might settle — East Harlem, Bushwick, parts of the Bronx — already have low vacancy rates and high rental costs, Keenan said.
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“The city of New York right now needs to set up a plan to house these people,” he said. If they’re forced to stay with friends or relatives, “you’re talking about housing being burdened by having too many people legally in the unit,” Keenan said, leading to fire risks, domestic strife and other problems. Large numbers of newcomers also would place “a tremendous burden on social service delivery, at least for a couple of years,” Keenan said. Topalova, the IMF researcher, said that people
STUDY FROM PAGE 1 new market of students. “China is a place where rankings are a big factor in where students will attend college, so if an institution doesn’t meet the standards of whatever their personal rankings
who leave Puerto Rico because of Maria may have a harder time finding their feet in their new homes. “Previous IMF work suggests that people who were forced to depart their home country due to various events outside their control may be different, in terms of demographics and skills, than economic migrants,” she said. “They may face greater challenges integrating in the job market relative to economic migrants who — by definition — chose their destination to maximize employment
are than we need an opportunity like this for international students to see what we have to offer,” Mathew said. “Once the stdents were here, they were amazed by our facilities and they got a better image of the institution and all it has to offer.”
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THOUGHT FROM PAGE 1 that stimulate discomfort throughout our diverse institution, and Morgan encouraged this through an account of what had been illuminated at Black Thought. “A lot of times when we talk about diversity, we always think of skin color. That’s obvious; we see that,” Morgan said. “When we have those differences, sometimes we forget to have these conversations.” The Office of Inclusive Excellence, Residential Life, Student Government Association and even Public Safety hope to collaborate in an attempt to redevelop training opportunities that will aid in the progression of how the university and residential halls deal with
EMAIL FROM PAGE 4 promised to deliver dirt on Clinton. He’s earned the scrutiny he’s getting from Mueller’s investigators. He’d better hope Mueller is more lenient than his father-in-law was toward Clinton, especially if it turns out that he discarded any messages. “She deleted the emails,” Trump said during the campaign. “She has to go to jail.” If Kushner has learned from Clinton’s example, he’ll want to come clean, and fast. If you want to claim you made an
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stimulating a connection with students by implementing future events and discussions to tackle and dissect the issues that arise in reference to tonight’s conversations and come up with a solution respectfully and promptly within the student body,” Suggs said. Many are hopeful that from this point, relations will improve in order to maneuver through the chaotic avenue we know as racism, inequality and discrimination. University students should expect many more conversations such as the one that took place at Black Thought, and for student leaders to be of assistance to them through unstable circumstances.
innocent mistake, that’s the only way to make it credible. (Clinton, who rebelled against admitting error, usually fessed up only an inch at a time.) Kushner’s record on disclosure up to now hasn’t met that test. He acknowledged his campaign and transition meetings with the Russians only after they were disclosed by others. Meanwhile, here’s a hypocrisy test for the rest of us: If you thought Clinton’s emails were a scandal last year, can you argue now that Kushner’s private server is nobody
else’s business? And if you thought Clinton’s emails were no big deal, are you willing to give the president’s son-in-law the benefit of the doubt as well? The verdict of Richard Painter, a frequent Trump critic who was ethics chief in President George W. Bush’s White House, looks about right: “Stupid, but not criminal.” But stupidity and incompetence matter. In high enough places, in large enough quantities, they can bring down a presidency.
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ISU football starts conference at Illinois State Garrett Short Reporter
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Curt Mallory, head coach of the ISU football team.
The Indiana State football team kicks off the conference season with a game at No. 8 Illinois State on Saturday. Coming into this game, these teams have had very different seasons thus far. Indiana State has struggled to a 0-3 start, although they are about 10 seconds of execution away from being 2-1. On the other hand, Illinois State has cruised to a 3-0 start in dominant fashion. The Redbirds have been clicking on all cylinders, scoring over 40 points per game. The Sycamore defense has their work cut out for them to start their MVFC schedule. “They’re probably the most balanced team we’ve played, both throwing the football and running the ball,” said head coach Curt Mallory. “But we feel good about our defense, and we feel good about the way we’ve been improving from week to week.” The improvement has been easy to see on the offensive side of the ball. The team’s ability to throw the football has grown exponentially since
game one against Eastern Illinois. A large part of that success may be due to the rapid growth of redshirt freshman Cade Sparks. The quarterback had a slow start to the season, slinging just one touchdown in the first two games while sharing snaps with redshirt junior Isaac Harker. However, Sparks had a breakthrough game against No. 19 Liberty two weeks ago. He threw for over 400 yards and two touchdowns and was named MVFC Newcomer of the Week. Mallory has been happy with the steps that Sparks has taken in just his second season in Terre Haute. “We’ve seen improvement taking care of the football; not turning the ball over, but yet having some big plays and capitalizing on those,” Mallory said. Sparks will likely need a repeat performance for the Sycamores to keep pace with Illinois State’s high-octane offense. The Redbirds are a team that does a lot of their damage on the ground. The team is led by a duo of sophomore running backs. Markel Smith and James Robinson split the carries in the backfield, but both have over
200-plus yards in 2017. They are one of the most efficient running teams that the Sycamores will play. Smith averages 7.4 yards per carry and Robinson averages 6.1 yards per carry. The two combine for seven of the team’s 14 offensive touchdowns. Behind Illinois State’s stellar offensive line is junior quarterback Jake Kolbe. Kolbe is entering his third season for the Redbirds, and his experience shows. Although the QB doesn’t put up staggering numbers, he manages the game well and has only thrown one interception this season but has five total touchdowns. He has only been sacked three times this season. Indiana State is still looking for their first win under Mallory. A win this weekend would be huge for multiple reasons. It would finally mean a check in the win column as well as starting the conference season 1-0. It would also provide substantial momentum heading into a tough home matchup against MVFC powerhouse North Dakota State next Saturday. Kickoff this Saturday is at 7:30 pm Eastern Time. The game can be viewed on ESPN3.
Cross Country heads to Notre Dame for Joe Piane Invite on Friday The Indiana State men’s and women’s cross country teams will head to South Bend, Ind., to compete at the Joe Piane Invitational on Friday, Sept. 28. The races, which will be held at Burke Golf Course, begin for the Sycamores at 2:30 p.m. (ET) with a combined men and women’s open race. The Women’s Gold Division Race begins at 3:15 pm and will be followed by the Men’s Gold Division Race at 4 p.m. “The Joe Piane Invitational typically serves as our midterm exam to see our progress from combining 12 weeks of summer training with six weeks of fall training and find out where we stand versus very tough competition,” head coach Kyle Walsh said. “We are a month from the MVC Championships so it’s time to progress in our racing, and I feel the men’s and women’s teams feel strong and confident heading into the stiff competition at Notre Dame.” The men’s race will feature 21 Division I programs, as the Sycamores enter the race at No. 13 in the latest Great Lakes Regional rankings released on Sept. 25. Besides the
Sycamores, there will be five other regionally ranked schools, as well as Division III No. 1, Calvin College competing. At their previous outing, Indiana State finished second at the Indiana Intercollegiates, finishing behind only Purdue. Junior Akis Medrano led the way for the men, with a sixth-place finish at 25:53.2, and Seth Cousins followed, finishing 10th with a time of 26:32.7. Corey Alfredson was the only other Sycamore in the top 20, crossing the finish line at 27:05.1 and finishing 17th. “We get to go up against five regionally ranked opponents as well as many strong programs flying in from around the country. The men and women will look to finish towards the top of the meet and improve upon our seventh and ninth place finishes last year,” Walsh said. The women enter the competition as No. 13 in the Great Lakes Region and also compete with five other regionally ranked opponents. At the Indiana Intercollegiates two weeks ago, the Sycamores pulled off a second-place performance behind five top-15 performances. Leading the way was senior Taylor Austin,
who placed second overall at 22:25.00 and sophomore Alli Workman also earned a top-five finish, crossing the line in fifth at 22:37.5. The Sycamore women topped in-state rivals Indiana and Ball State, falling only to Purdue. “Double duos consisting of Akis Medrano and Seth Cousins, and Taylor Austin and Alli Workman look to lead our squads for the third meet in a row,” Walsh said. “They’ve looked extremely strong through our hardest training block of time and I’m excited to watch them push towards the front pack at Notre Dame.” The events begin at 1 p.m. (ET) with the Women’s Blue Division Race and continues with the Men’s Blue Division Race at 1:45 p.m. Following the open race will be the Gold Division, starting with the women at 3:15 p.m. and ending with the men at 4 p.m. For the latest information on the Sycamore Track and Field team, make sure to check out GoSycamores.com. You can also find the team on social media including Facebook and Twitter. Story by ISU Athletic Media Relations.
Katie Wells eyes the ball as she leads the team.
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Soccer hosts UMKC Sunday Garrett Short Reporter
The Indiana State women’s soccer team hosts Missouri-Kansas City on Sunday for a non-conference game. The Sycamores come into the weekend with a 5-4-1 record, but just had a conference game yesterday against Missouri State. UMKC comes into the weekend with a record of 4-5-1 and have won two straight matches. The Kangaroos have a game at MVC opponent Illinois State tonight before making their way to Terre Haute. UMKC is a part of the Western Athletic Conference. Indiana State has faired well against teams in WAC, defeating Chicago State 6-2 last weekend. In that game, the Sycamores were led by junior forward Katie Wells in the offensive end. Wells has continued a successful career in 2017 tallying six goals, including four goals in her last three games. Wells has had a lot of help this far this season. Junior midfielder Caitlyn Eddy has been everything ISU could have hoped for since transferring in from Arkansas-Little Rock. She leads the team with five assists and has been key for ISU in controlling the midfield. Wells and Eddy will be going against another formidable midfield-forward combination on Sunday. UMKC’s forward Kelsey Mothershead and midfielder Lexie Howard have been dominant this season.
The juniors carry most of the offense for the Kangaroos. Each player has recorded three assists while Howard has six goals and Mothershead has scored three. Two goalkeepers have earned time in the net for UMKC. Junior Anna Lillig has earned most of the playing time. She has posted a .750 save percentage between the pipes and recorded her third shutout in her last game two weeks ago. The only keeper that has seen time for UMKC has been sophomore Erin Roth. Although she has played less overall in 2017 than Lillig, she has put up better numbers. Roth has allowed three goals to Lillig’s 10 and allows just 0.8 goals a game compared to Lillig’s 1.54 goals against average. Defense has always been the focus for Indiana State while under the direction of second year head coach Julie Hanley. She stresses the importance of her two middle defenders senior Kasey Wallace and junior Katie Sullivan. Wallace and Sullivan, as well as the rest of the defensive unit, will have their hands full on Sunday. The Kangaroos have had a strong season in the offensive third, as the team is outshooting their opponents and have a higher shot on goal percentage than the teams they play. The game against UMKC will be the last non-conference game of the season for ISU. Next up for the team will be a game on the road against Drake next Friday.